Little bits of food

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You will come across a question.

Answer it.

Hi, welcome to Puzzling! Questions like these, where the solving strategy is not explicitly given, are usually tagged [enigmatic-puzzles]. I've added the tag for you. — Deusovi, May 06 '16 at 03:47

ffao · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-06T06:40:22.280

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The answer is

Chicago

Following Dan Russell's partial answer:

Taking the 2 least significant bits of each pixel, I get this image:

Thanks to @f'' in the comments, the interpretation of this is:

Those are pictures of a clipboard, a bin and Kim Dotcom, forming pastebin.com.
Accessing http://pastebin.com/L0szeSrH we see the question "What city?" and a picture of a track which appears to be located in Chicago, more specifically the UIC-Halsted station.

edited May 06 '16 at 06:40

answered May 06 '16 at 05:18

ffao

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Nicely done. Any ideas about the initial bready picture? Random/relevant? – Dan Russell May 06 '16 at 06:06
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@DanRussell They're "little bits" of food, get it? – ffao May 06 '16 at 06:49
In retrospect: duh. Remind me not to post things at 2 am. – Dan Russell May 07 '16 at 01:38
Out of interest: how do you extract the low bits of the pixels? – Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine May 07 '16 at 10:08
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@PeterLeFanuLumsdaine I used the Python Imaging Library: http://pastebin.com/zXM5HQSn – ffao May 08 '16 at 06:51

score 14 · Answer 2 · answered May 06 '16 at 03:44

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Partial answer. By:

Dropping the brightness of the image way down, you get:

So there's definitely a dude in there... (What has two thumbs and loves toast? This guy!) But I don't think that's enough, and given the tag I don't think I have the expertise to go further.

answered May 06 '16 at 03:44

Dan Russell

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I'll have to keep this trick in mind for detecting such tricks in the future ... – Joshua May 06 '16 at 21:15

Little bits of food

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