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Cipher Hunt was an international scavenger hunt for the real-life statue of Bill Cipher, the antagonist of the animated series Gravity Falls. The hunt involved decoding clues hidden in various locations and ended in Reedsport, Oregon, where the statue was found and later relocated.
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- Creation
- Rules
- The Hunt
- Aftermath
- Bradley
- Trivia
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Cipher Hunt was an ARG (alternate reality game) about Gravity Falls, created by series creator Alex Hirsch. The goal of the entire game was to find an actual statue of Bill Cipher, briefly glimpsed in the series finale, by retrieving and decoding clues hidden in various locations around the world. The first ones to the statue received a prize, thou...
In the Gravity Falls behind the scenes documentary One Crazy Summer, which was included as a special feature in the Gravity Falls: The Complete Series collector's edition DVD box set released by Shout! Factory, series creator Alex Hirsch discussed the origins of the Cipher Hunt. As Gravity Falls is a show about mystery, Hirsch wanted to give fans o...
According to Hirsch, the official rules to Cipher Hunt were as follows:
•This is an unofficial fan tribute treasure hunt made just by Alex Hirsch! It has no affiliation with any company!
•No trespassing/vandalism. Everything is in a public place. Be respectful of your surroundings! Don't be a dummy!
•Be careful - you search at your own risk! Like Pokémon Go, keep an eye out for Gyarados!
The Beginning
Fans theorized that there was a real-life statue of Bill Cipher exists somewhere in the world based on of the end of the series' final episode, "Weirdmageddon 3: Take Back The Falls," which contains both a clip of a real Bill statue surrounded by a wooded area and an encoded riddle hinting at the presence of buried treasure "deep within the woods" and a statue "beyond the rusty gates". Alex Hirsch and the team behind Gravity Falls did not talk about the presence of a statue in the months following the end of the show until the silence was broken on July 20th, 2016. On that date, Hirsch tweeted "Are you guys ready?" and then proceeded to begin the game with a tweet containing the words "Let the games begin #FLSKHUKXQW" and the image shown above. The image contained several cryptograms and clues. Hirsch also posted the rules of the hunt on Twitter, which clarified that the hunt was an unofficial self-made fan tribute, unaffiliated with any company, including The Walt Disney Company. He also asked fans to be careful and to avoid trespassing and/or vandalism, since most of the clues' locations were in public areas. Fans utilized social media outlets such as Twitter, Tumblr, Periscope, and Reddit to communicate and share their findings. •After shifting the phrase "#FLSKHUKXQW" three letters back, the text reads "#CIPHERHUNT." •The text above the Bill statue reads: After shifting the message three letters back, the text reads: •The numbers above the Bill statue read "8-15-10-19-5." After putting the message through A1Z26, Atbash and shifting it three letters back, the text reads "PINES." •The text below the Bill statue reads:
St. Petersburg, Russia
Decoding the red letters placed across both sets of cryptograms creates the word "RUSSIA," hinting at the location of the first clue. The diagram at the middle left of the image was recognized by Russian fans as an architectural plan of the Kazan Cathedral in Saint Petersburg, which Hirsch most likely visited during his trip to St. Petersburg to attend Big Fest Russia in April 2016. The diagram at the middle right shows exactly where in the Cathedral it can be found. Using this image, the first clue was successfully found. The text on the clue decodes to: This points to the second clue being located in Japan, which uses yen as currency.
Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
The exact location of the second clue is inside the Kanda Myojin Shrine, which Hirsch visited during his trip to Japan in February 2016. On the back of one of the emas inside the shrine was a scimitar and crescent with an encrypted message. The text on the clue decodes to: This points to third clue being located at 400 Ponce de Leon Ave NE, Atlanta, Georgia, as Juan Ponce de León was a hunter of the Fountain of Youth in a form of a missing poster titled LOST.
Entering "RETURNBACKWARDS" as a username and "TOTHEPASTAGAINTHREE" as a password on themysteryofgravityfalls.com/pilot will let users watch the unaired pilot of Gravity Falls. It is a prototype of "Tourist Trapped" with a radically different art style and some altered dialogue and scenes.
On August 3, the statue and its treasure were taken by local authorities because of a property conflict: the apparent proprietor had authorized Alex to place the statue, but there was another person claiming ownership of the land where it was located. The hat was broken off in the process, though it had already sustained damage. The police ended up temporarily holding the statue, its broken off hat, and the treasure box for Alex, while he arranged for it to be moved somewhere else. While at the police station, the statue's hat was stolen by a fan who claimed it was theirs. Alex put out a now deleted tweet asking the fan to return the hat, but no one ever came forward with it. By August 5, the statue ended up in Bicentennial Park, in Reedsport, Oregon. It was bolted to the top of a tree above the ground to prevent people from stealing it. The treasure box was located beneath the statue. Fans continued to visit Bill.
On August 15, Alex called for volunteers to move the statue via truck to a new location. Three days later, on the 18th, Bill had been removed from Bicentennial Park with a sign in his place that read "BILL WAS HERE" in Bill's substitution cipher. The other side of the sign contained a stylized image of Bill. On August 19 (around twelve hours after the discovery of the sign), Twitter user @Knarkill34 tweeted that they had moved Bill to an undisclosed location, but provided pictures.
On August 20, several fans discovered that Bill's new location was Confusion Hill. Bill acquired a new hat within a week, and the treasure box was not transported to Confusion Hill.
Bill and the Puzzle are now both housed at Confusion Hill, along with a new treasure box for anyone who wishes to seek him out. The new treasure box is located behind the counter at the gift shop and can be viewed at request. The box contains a message congratulating fans on finding Bill and encourages fans to take and leave treasures for future fans' pilgrimages so there's always something for someone on their own Cipher Hunt. In September 2016, the treasure box was replaced with a newer larger treasure box to hold all the items that fans had since left that could no longer fit in the previous box. It also contains a log book for fans to document their name, date they "found Bill", and where they traveled from.
The promised reveal of deleted scenes from Gravity Falls was fulfilled on the Collector's Edition Discs released by Shout! Factory.
Although @shadow_wolfwind who got the mayor sash is the official person to have found the Bill Cipher statue, opening the treasure chest reveals Stan Bucks that have been signed by a person named Bradley Pic who found it on July 12th, making him the actual first person to find it. During an appearance on the Mystery Shack Lookback Podcast in 2022, Alex Hirsch revealed the full story behind what happened and how Bradley's name ended up in the chest.
Bradley was a resident of Reedsport, Oregon who one day, accidentally found the statue while going out of a walk. According to Alex, this was shortly after he had placed the statue there as Gravity Falls had not even ended. Luckily, Bradley had never heard of the show, but posted an image of the statue to an unsolved mysteries Sub Reddit. The post didn't gain much attention. However, the person behind the @TheMysteryofGF Twitter page managed to find the post, and being in the know about the Cipher Hunt, contacted Alex about it.
Knowing the hunt could be ruined if the post was found by fans, Alex was able to get in touch with Bradley and informed him about what the statue was and asked him to take the post down. In exchange for taking it down and his silence about the statue, Alex paid Bradley $100, gave him a prize and let him take the credit for finding the statue after Cipher Hunt was over.
Prior to the hunt starting but after being paid off by Alex, Bradley returned to the statue, dug up the treasure chest, signed his name on the money inside it and left a text file named Hi.txt which contains the link to his Twitter account on the USB drive. He would later upload a video of him finding the statue to help answer questions fans had about why his name and link to his Twitter account were in the treasure, however the full story would not be revealed until 2022 by Alex.
•Several of the locations for clues have been tied to religion — the cathedral in Russia, the shrines in Japan and Georgia, and the paintings of nuns in Rhode Island.
•Several of the locations for clues have been tied to Gravity Falls — the Eye of Providence-shaped building in Century City, the post office near the House of Pies (the House of Pies being the place where Alex Hirsch thought of the name "Gravity Falls"), and Confusion Hill, which is a tourist trap similar to the Mystery Shack.
•The first few locations of the Cipher Hunt, when connected together, make a Big Dipper, aka Dipper's birthmark.
•When hunters tried to decode the CSSSA code with the A1Z26 cipher, it led to the middle of the Bermuda Triangle.
•Alex Hirsch took a picture of himself posing next to the statue eight months before Cipher Hunt began.
•The girl who was the first to find the treasure took the "Mayor of Gravity Falls" sash to Farewell to the Falls: A Gravity Falls Art Show where Alex signed it and wrote "You are now canon" on it.
Cipher Hunt was an ARG created by Alex Hirsch to find a real statue of Bill Cipher, the main antagonist of Gravity Falls. The hunt involved decoding clues hidden in various locations around the world and ended in Reedsport, Oregon, where the statue was installed.
3 de ago. de 2016 · After a global scavenger hunt, fans discovered the statue of the triangle dream demon in Reedsport, Oregon, the state of the fictional town of Gravity Falls. The statue was a treasure trove of rewards, including a USB with a message from Grunkle Stan and a letter from Alex Hirsch.
20 de mai. de 2021 · The hunt ultimately ended in Reedsport, Oregon, where competing fans finally recovered the real-life Bill Cipher statue. Later, someone discovered that a treasure box buried near the statue's feet. In it they found a range of loot, the most important piece of which was a USB drive.
10 de fev. de 2023 · A estátua do Bill Cipher, personagem principal da série de desenhos animados Gravity Falls, não existe na vida real. No entanto, os fãs podem visitar o Monumento do Mistério em Boring, Oregon para ver uma réplica tridimensional desta figura icônica.
3 de ago. de 2016 · Fans solved the final mystery of the cartoon Gravity Falls by finding a statue of the villain Bill Cipher in an undisclosed wooded area. The statue was buried with a treasure chest, a note, a sketch and a USB drive that may reveal more secrets.
23 de abr. de 2019 · Watch Alex Hirsch, the creator of Gravity Falls, explain the meaning behind the Bill Cipher statue and the Cipher Hunt event. He reveals why he did it as a farewell to the show and a thank you to the fans.
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