While ARGFest is ostensibly a conference about alternate reality games and transmedia storytelling, collaborative puzzle solving is often a hallmark of the yearly conference. Stitch Media designed the following puzzle to test the wits and patience of conference attendees between sessions.

By Michael Andersen, originally posted at ARGNet

ARGFest is a yearly gathering of transmedia players, designers, and enthusiasts that has been going on for almost ten years. And while the gathering is now dominated by the series of panels and presentation that make up the conference, every year offers ample opportunities for attendees to settle down and tackle perplexing puzzles as a group. Often, the most challenging part is finding the puzzles in the first place.

Stitch Media hid the following puzzle in the ARGFest program, leaving attendees perplexed under an ever-increasing stack of annotated programs. After receiving a number of hints from Evan Jones at Stitch Media, a few players managed to break the code and make their way into the Winner’s Circle. Do you have what it takes to do the same? We’ll release the full explanation for the solution after ARGFest coverage is completed . . . until then, see if you can figure it out yourself!

You may find a higher resolution EPS version of the puzzle helpful as you’re working through the solve. Still not getting it? Below are the tips tweeted over the course of the conference.

Tip 1 | Tip 2 | Tip 3 | Tip 4 | Tip 5 | Tip 6