It was 6 September outside and suddenly a message came to “Chat for coders” - “Will there be pizza for a programmer’s day?”. Oh yeah, soon our holiday, I thought! But it will be boring to eat pizza and go to work ... I decided to create a chat with our HR-manager and superiors, said that eating pizza like in any other holiday is boring and typical for most holidays, they say you need to do something unusual. But since our bosses are very busy, because of multitasking, and the HR manager has a lot of interviews, I decided to take everything into my own hands. And it came to mind - "Why not do the quest game?"
Everyone supported me and I started working on the game. Initially, they wanted to make a quest with gifts, but many people don’t know what to give, and finally, after consulting, decided to hide the pizza.
But how to make it so that it does not seem stupid and it was fun and interesting? We need an evil character, as you remember in the children's matinee there was Baba Yaga who spoiled the holiday, and hackers have become this evil character, because in open projects there is always a struggle between developers and hackers. ')
And then the thought came to record a video in which hackers stole a holiday (pizza) and to find it you need to complete tasks that lead to the key with the room in which the long-awaited pizza is locked.
And so on September 13, at about 10 o'clock, programmers began to worry where was the promised pizza? They promised ... In the meantime, we were preparing for the quest in full, by the way, we hid the main part of the tips on September 12 and even had to drive some hardworking and curious programmers home.
So, we are at the ready time of 11, gathering everyone in a meeting, handing out to each of them a multicolored leaf. And we explain that in your hand you have a leaf of green, blue and red and now you can divide into teams, then turn off the light and turn on the video.
After a bit of thinking one cries out on emotions - “I understood!” And everyone is running after him. The first quest leads to the tennis table on which we secured colored leaves with a QR code that open the photo to the next prompts.
At 3 photos were pasted different leaves with the phrase: Red - “Herman never used CD-ROM” Green - “Vladimir never used CD-ROM” Blue - “Nikita never used CD-ROM”
By the way, all these programmers were on vacation and as you understood the tip led to their CD-ROMs. Further the hint said that we captured your site and the link to it. Opening they saw it.
Below there is a hint that - "Web developer is head of everything HEAD ..." This is a hint that you need to open the code inspector and delve into it.
Web developers understood the hint and she led to the employee's desk where the inscription was - "Take the task and don't forget to put the status in work # 3333"
By the way for planning and setting of tasks we use Redmine. Write in the comments what you use at work
In general, when they opened the task they saw the text “Good developers fill out a work sheet every day. And then they go to work drinking coffee from a new coffee machine. This tip leads to a coffee machine. The following hint was posted there.
>>>PRINT "BIG BROTHER"
(reference to the main printer which is called “Brother”)
I put another hint on the printer
Under the kitchen table I hid another clue on it was written - " Server not found! ".
The teams all rushed to the server room, but it was closed and they were already at a loss wanting to open it when I stopped them and said that we have more than one server room and then the whole crowd rushed to the floor below where another hint was waiting for them.
This link ( https://vk.cc/8t2s1X ) leads to the google docks where the encrypted message was.
By the way, write in the comments the name of the person - who solved the riddle
And so the key lay under the pot with the inscription - “Run to the server room and save our holiday!” Meanwhile, I’m with the HR manager, Olga was waiting for them on the spot with crackers. (By the way, if you take the crackers, then take the spirals, since there is a lot of garbage from them)
A little photo - as it was!
In general, the holiday was a success, everyone was delighted and everyone loved it. Arrange holidays, make people happy!