#Miscellaneous
Many challenges in CTFs will be completely random and unprecedented, requiring simply logic, knowledge, and patience to be solved. There is no sure-fire way to prepare for these, but as you complete more CTFs you will be able to recognize and hopefully have more clues as to how to solve them.
###Examples
In recent CTFs the sheer variety of miscellaneous tasks has been highly exemplified, for example:
- In the Sochi Olympic CTF 2014, there was a low-point miscellaneous challenge which only provided a jumbled string of words. Instead of being a typical crypto challenge, the answer required competitors to draw out the word SOCHI on their keyboards.
- RuCTF had a challenge which presented a single picture of shredded strips of paper jumpled up in a random order. The best way of solving this was by hand! No computer knowledge was even needed for its completion, only patience and a good eye.
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