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The Venus Puzzle Solved at Adobe | Oakland News
Adobe’s HQ in San Jose hides a three-year-old art puzzle: four spinning circles broadcasting a secret message. Designed by Ben Rubin to be unsolvable by its creator, the installation cycles through 256 combos every 7.2 seconds. After decades of semaphore art—once transmitting a Pynchon novel, then Armstrong’s moon quote—this latest one revealed Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus,” cracked by engineer Brian Vincent after months of analysis. Now Adobe’s ready for round four: solve the next puzzle and win a two-year Creative Cloud subscription and instant fame. Listen in comfort:Get a discount on a…
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