CCBC 13
| CCBC 13 | |
|---|---|
 The CCBC 13 Logo | |
| Running Team | simplicissimus |
| No. of Registered Teams | 1521 |
| Winning Team | 闲散解谜！(Xiansan Puzzle-solving) |
| No. of Rounds | 4 |
| No. of Puzzles (Feeders and Metas) | 123 |
| Timeframe and Location | |
| Location | Online |
| Start Time | August 11 2023 20:00 CST |
| Finishing Time (Winning Team) | August 13 2023 18:31 CST |
| Official End Time | August 20 2023 20:00 CST |
| Links | |
| Hunt Link | Link |
| CCBC Chronology | |
Cipher & Code Breaking Competition (CCBC) 13 was the 13th iteration of CCBC, a Chinese puzzle hunt. This hunt was organized by Cipherpuzzles and written by simplicissimus, the winning team of CCBC 12.
Plot
Teams started the hunt as cosmic explorers in an organization called Center for Cosmic Boundary Cartography, and discovered a strange galaxy, but their spaceship ran out of energy in its asteroid belt. They had to land on the asteroids to gather energy from a mineral named Puzzlium. After solving some puzzles in the Asteroid Belt, solvers discovered a new tetrahedron-shaped planet and named it CCBC-13. Click to revealAfter solving the meta of CCBC-13, solvers discovered that CCBC-13 was not a single planet, but a double-planet system, and discovered another tetrahedron-shaped planet CCBC-14 near it. After solving the meta of CCBC-14, solvers found that the two planets merged and formed a shape like *Double Planetoid* by Escher. Finally, teams gathered energy from these two planets and made them stable again. They found the final answer: platonic love in the depth of starry sky. Notice that the hunt finished just before the Double Seventh Festival (Valentine's Day in China), and "1314" sounds like "(Love you) all my life" in Chinese and is considered a classic word for lovers.
Structure and list of puzzles
CCBC 13 featured 4 rounds and 123 puzzles (88 "small puzzles", 32 "normal puzzles", 3 metas) in total. Puzzles marked (c) require some Chinese knowledge apart from simple translation, puzzles marked (C) require a lot of Chinese knowledge.
小行星带(Asteroid Belt)
This round contains 88 fairly simple "small puzzles" without titles. Click to revealThey correspond to 88 constellations in the night sky.
CCBC-13
- 一道好题(A Good Puzzle) (c)
- 诗词朗诵(Poem Recitation) (C)
- 各色人等(Colorful Persons) (c)
- 提词卡(The Cue Card) (C)
- 红色的世界(The Red World)
- 看图说话(Watch & Speak) (c)
- 汉字方阵(Chinese Char Matrix) (C)
- 小纸条(The Strips)
- 宇宙航线(The Spacelines)
- 成语考试(The Idiom Exam) (C)
- 圈圈圆圆圈圈(assORT the CIRcle5) (c)
- 提交记录(The Submits)
- 凑词爆猜(Search & Guess)
- 翻译官(The Translator)
- 单选题(Multiple Choices) (c)
- 一笑如风(Smile Like a Breeze) (c)
- Meta: CCBC-13
Write-ups (in Chinese)
From simplicissimus
From others
- Team 萨卡萨卡班班木镐镐 (Sakasakabanban pickpickaxe) - CCBC 13/14 Write Up
