LOST Experience: Mental Health Appeal Hacked
DISCLAIMER: First of all, I would like to note that this information was acquired by means of a non-ARG related hack. As such, this information is not yet verified as officially pertaining to the LOST Experience.
On June 12, changes were made to the Mental Health Appeal page, but no one was able to find the password to access the hack. Thankfully, an enterprising ARG gamer “Hacked the Hack” and gained access though the following direct link.
http://thehansofoundation.org/swf/extra/mha.swf?playDirect=true
The first thing that you you will see is a computer terminal.
By clicking on the terminal, the following document appears.
After you’ve finished reading the document, you can proceed by clicking anywhere on the document.
Next, some words appear on the terminal explaining that you will be playing a Simon type memory game. The computer will flash one of the symbols/colored screens shown below, and you will have to play them back by clicking on the corresponding colored keys on the terminal.
As you proceed through the game levels, words will periodically appear on the screen (Words appear after turns 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42), revealing the meaning of the D.H.A.R.M.A. acronym.
D.H.A.R.M.A.: Department of Heuristics And Research on Material Applications
Heuristic: heu·ris·tic (hy-rstk)
ETYMOLOGY:
Originally derived from the Greek “heurisko” (ευρίσκω, the verb from which Archimedes’s famous exclamation of “eureka” was derived), which roughly means “I found”.
ADJECTIVE:
1. Of or relating to a usually speculative formulation serving as a guide in the investigation or solution of a problem: “The historian discovers the past by the judicious use of such a heuristic device as the ‘ideal type’” (Karl J. Weintraub).
2. Of or constituting an educational method in which learning takes place through discoveries that result from investigations made by the student.
3. Computer Science Relating to or using a problem-solving technique in which the most appropriate solution of several found by alternative methods is selected at successive stages of a program for use in the next step of the program.
NOUN:
A heuristic method or process.
heuristics (used with a sing. verb) The study and application of heuristic methods and processes.
UPDATE:
The key to the password for the Mental Health Appeal is in Persephone’s latest message, “Timeless Together”. As instructed by the clue, the anagram is found by removing the dates (Timeless), and combining the names of all the hole images (Together).
q9als2002
t9agen75
u8egnce86
1. Remove the dates (2002, 75, 86) which gives us: q9als t9agen u8egence
2. Now do an alpha-numberic exchange for the numbers in the sequence.
(8 = h, 9 = i), which now gives us: qials tiagen uhegence
3. Finally, we work the anagram to find the password:
qials tiagen uhegence = “light sequence again”
Enter the password into the Mental Health Appeal login box, and the hidden page will open.
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