People Who Created a Puzzle Almost Nobody Could Finish 😳

People Who Created a Puzzle Almost Nobody Could Finish 😳 Cicada 3301 😳 this is Cicada 3301 and nobody has proven who was behind it back in January, 2012 a black image appeared on 4chan claiming to search for highly intelligent individuals Hello. We are looking for highly intelligent individuals. To find them, we have devised a test. There is a message hidden in this image. Find it, and it will lead you on the road to finding us. We look forward to meeting the few that will make it all the way through. Good luck. a secret message was hidden inside most people saw nothing but code breakers uncovered data buried in the image it LED to ancient ciphers a telephone number and finally a countdown when the timer reached zero the puzzle escaped the internet GPS coordinates appeared for locations across five countries solvers rushed there and found posters on street lights each displaying a cicada and a QR code scanning them unlocked harder puzzles involving books music prime numbers and the dark web only the fastest solvers reached a private page then it disappeared leaving one message we want the best not the followers "We wont the best, not the followers. Thus, the first few there will receive the prize." we want the best not the followers a year later eturned with another test then it returned again in 2014 some solvers claimed they finished and were contacted privately but nobody revealed who recruited them or what happened next eventually Cicada went silent more than a decade later the internet still cannot answer one question who was Cicada 3301 actually looking for