Coding Challenge: Mystery in the Forgotten Library

Deep within the abandoned library, a long-lost mystery awaits. Strange books line the dusty shelves, their pages filled with cryptic messages, secret codes, and hidden clues. As Detective Foxglove’s trusted sidekick, your task is to crack the library’s ancient puzzles and uncover the truth buried within its forgotten tomes.

This is no ordinary challenge—each puzzle will test your coding skills, logic, and speed. Can you decipher the encrypted messages, break the ciphers, and input the right sequences before time runs out? Only the sharpest minds will piece together the final mystery.

🔍 Four Unique Challenges:

• The Shifting Script – Decrypt a classic Caesar cipher to reveal a lost secret.
• The Reader's Code – Solve a monoalphabetic substitution cipher, where the alphabet has been shuffled.
• The Vault of a Thousand Keys – Crack a brute-force password lock and access hidden knowledge.
• The Living Library – Books change colors every 2 seconds—your program must keep up and enter the correct sequence in real-time!

💻Use a programming language of your choice and a suitable keyboard simulation library (such as pyautogui) to crack these codes! Share your finished puzzle or how far you got in the Wannibe World Discord Server! Also share and discuss code and solutions there, but please DO NOT share answers! For educational purposes and our entertainment, please avoid using online tools to find the answer. These problems are for you to test your own problem-solving skills!

⚠️ Reminder: We only use these tools and techniques for ethical purposes and for own educational use. Unauthorized use outside this challenge is strictly discouraged.

Credits:

Game/challenge design: Manisha, Finn

Programming: Finn

Art: Manisha (most are tweaked existing assets), Laura (all Foxglove related art)

Music: Jazz Noir Detective Music | Royalty Free | Talekeeper Music