Project:Secret Token Game

Exact name	Secret Token Game
Description	WHY2025 Secret Token Game
Has website	https://tokens.why2025.org/
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Tags	Secret Token Game, Secret Tokens, CTF
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WHY2025 will have a Secret Token Game, just like we had on MCH2022, but even more awesome this time. The Secret Token Game is a game where visitors of WHY2025 can find hidden tokens all over the WHY2025 campsite, digital systems, websites, or just a random place related to WHY2025. These tokens can be found in plaintext, may be part of a puzzle, or can be encoded or obfuscated.

The Secret Token challenge is a scavenger hunt kind of game which has been inspired by the Bornhack secret token game. For MCH2022 we decided to create our own version of this game (https://mch2022.org/#/Blog/ctf-secret-tokens-statistics) and now we bring it back for WHY2025. Participants are invited to try to find as many tokens as possible and try to get the high-score on the scoreboard.

All of the tokens match the following format: secret{<[A-Za-z0-9]{4,64}>}, for example: secret{ThisOneIsOnTheWiki}.

During WHY2025 the Secret Tokens that you found can be submitted at https://tokens.why2025.org/.

Examples from MCH2022

Secret Token in one of the MCH2022 flags:

Secret Token on the parking card:

Secret Tokens in mini puzzles on MCH2022:

Contributing Secret Tokens

The overall organisation of the Secret Token Game is in the hands of Team:CTF but tokens are and can be created and hidden by all of the orga teams and villages.

One of the goals of the Secret Token Game this time is to have players visit multiple locations on the field, and to get to know the teams who make this event possible. This time we will try to hide most of the tokens behind a mini puzzle or game. Team:CTF will work with the other orga teams to create mini puzzles inspired by each of the teams. We provide templates to create puzzles, you can find these templates below.

We are hereby inviting all of the orga teams, villages or even individuals to join the Secret Token Game as a contributor. If you can think of a nice, entertaining or cool way to add a Secret Token to the game we invite you to submit the tokens via the following form: https://token.why2025.org/submit-token

Please do note that we will check each of the submissions to see if the submitted tokens fit the overall challenge.

Secret Token Game Puzzle Templates

We provide the following templates which can be used to create Secret Token Game puzzles. These templates are provided in portrait and landscape mode, and are provided in Office, PDF and Open Document format.

Portrait templates: