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The word under secret means something. What does it mean? (Find the secret message.)

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Quark
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    The puzzle is good (+1 from me), but the presentation could be a bit better. It actually turned me away from it at first glance. Maybe it is worth spending a bit more time on creating the images for puzzles... – BmyGuest Jan 08 '15 at 11:14
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    It would be arguably easier for me to make "nicer looking" images but I like imagining the scenario of a "childish" image hanging on a popular wall where no one pays attention to it, yet it contains the secret to a treasure. I see your point though and will consider making some polished image puzzles in the future. – Quark Jan 08 '15 at 17:14

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The solution is:

gibberish

These were my steps to find the answer - first, I:

Got the RGB ASCII values for every color.
These were, For the word secret:
31 41 59, 26 53 58, 97 93 23, 84 62 64, 33 83 27, 13 37 0
For the text at the bottom:
22 9 7 5 14 5 18 5 20 (Only the 'red' bit of the color had a value other than zero).

Then, by realizing that:

The numbers for the top section correspond to the value of PI

And that:

The numbers 22 9 7 5 14 5 18 5 20 when turned into letters, A=1, Z=26 correspond to VIGENERE(T)

You find that:

That vqqjtzxaw decoded via the Vigenere cipher with a key of PI yields gibberish.

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  • Wow that was fast, now I know I can make them less obvious. I was going to do something with the last letter (the 13 37 0 aren't pi) but thought it'd be getting too hard. I left the extra "T" though to "disguise" the cipher name. – Quark Jan 08 '15 at 04:00
  • 90 mins... that was relatively quick... +1! – Omega Krypton May 14 '19 at 14:03