CCBC 13
| CCBC 13 | |
|---|---|
 The CCBC 13 Logo | |
| Running Team | simplicissimus |
| No. of Registered Teams | 1521 |
| Winning Team | 喵喵喵 (Miao Miao Miao)(CCBC-13) 闲散解谜！(Laid-back Puzzling)(CCBC-14) |
| 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 |
| Wrapup Link | Link |
| CCBC Chronology | |
Cipher & Code Breaking Competition (CCBC) 13 was the 13th iteration of CCBC, a Chinese puzzle hunt since 2008. This hunt was organized by Cipherpuzzles and written by simplicissimus, the winning team of CCBC 12.
Click to revealThe hunt has two parts, CCBC 13 and CCBC 14. 266 teams finished CCBC 13, while 129 teams solved the final meta "CCBC 13-14" and finished CCBC 14.
Plot[edit | edit source]
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.
After solving the meta of CCBC-14, solvers found that the two planets merged and formed a shape like Double Planetoid by M.C. Escher. Teams gathered energy from these two planets in order to make them stable again. They found the final answer: platonic love in the depth of starry sky. In particular, the hunt finished just before the Double Seventh Festival (the equivalent of 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[edit | edit source]
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.
小行星数据库 (Asteroid Database)[edit | edit source]
This round contains 88 fairly simple "small puzzles" without titles, which are later used in the puzzle "宇宙航线".
CCBC-13[edit | edit source]
- 一道好题 (A Wonderful Puzzle) (c)
- 诗词朗诵 (Read these Poems) (C)
- 各色人等 (Colorful Characters) (c)
- 提词卡 (Cue Cards) (C)
- 红色的世界 (The Red World)
- 看图说话 (Show & Tell) (c)
- 汉字方阵 (Chinese Char Matrix) (C)
- 小纸条 (Paper Slips)
- 宇宙航线 (Spacelines)
- 成语考试 (The Idiom Exam) (C)
- 圈圈圆圆圈圈 (assORT the CIRcle5) (c)
- 提交记录 (Guess Log)
- 凑词爆猜 (Crudely Choose, Boldly Conjecture)
- 翻译官 (The Translator)
- 单选题 (Multiple Choice) (c)
- 一笑如风 (Smile Like a Breeze) (c)
- Meta: CCBC-13
CCBC-14[edit | edit source]
- 无字天书 (Wordless) (c)
- 神奇宝贝在哪里 (Pocket Monsters and Where to Find Them) (c)
- 十重塔 (DecaTowers) (C)
- 奇怪的游戏 (Strange Games)
- 六角花园 (Hexagon Garden)
- 元宇宙 (Meta: Verse)
- 三维国 (Spaceland)
- 五彩斑斓的黑白 (Dim in Hue)
- 花卉培育 (Flower Fostering) (C)
- 星穹铁道 (Star Rail)
- 爬格子 (Climb the Grid)
- 燃烧吧！小宇宙 (Burn your Cosmo!)
- 何日君再来 (Ouroboros)
- 梅开二度 (Puzzle Open Twice)
- 大蜜蜂 (Bees)
- 邮票传情 (Love in Stamps)
- Meta: Morphosis III (c)
CCBC-1314[edit | edit source]
- Final Meta: CCBC-1314 (C)
Reviews and Write Ups[edit | edit source]
From simplicissimus[edit | edit source]
From others[edit | edit source]
- panther / とうがん - CCBC1314 队伍完赛总结~
- Team 萨卡萨卡班班木镐镐 (Sakasakabanban pickpickaxe) - CCBC 13/14 Write Up
