Chris Ruggieri (Neocount Phoenix)

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Name: Art
Hint: Can you find the flag?
Base Points: Easy - Retired [0]
Rated Difficulty:
dm0n
Creator: hexp

As usual, download the file and check the hint. The file on this one is a weird spiral of colored blocks and the hint is simply:

This one was a doozy for me. I had never seem a programming language based on shades of color blocks. I'm not going to lie, I checked the Forums and got a nudge from someone that had completed it. The nudge was Esoteric Programming Languages. Wait....WHAT?? How is this a program? So I hop over to:

https://esolangs.org/wiki/Language_list

Hours of digging through languages, I finally stumble across Piet. It fits the bill perfectly. So, I use an Online Piet Compiler called nPiet at:

https://www.bertnase.de/npiet/npiet-execute.php

I upload the image and execute. Miraculously, it actually IS a program.

Hunh! Who knew color blocks could be used as a program.