Welcome to CyCom

Your first flag

Welcome to CyCom. This first challenge teaches the most important CTF skill: reading carefully.

Every challenge hides a flag: a secret string you paste into the Submit box. A flag always looks like this pattern:

MXC { words_joined_with_underscores }

(written without the spaces). The real flag is never shown whole. You build it from three pieces.

Piece 1, the words. Join these four words with underscores, all lowercase:

welcome  to  the  hunt

Piece 2, the suffix. Join these two blocks into one four-character suffix (first block, then second):

vw

l2

Piece 3, put it together: MXC, an opening curly brace, the joined words, one more underscore, the suffix, and a closing curly brace.

Careful: the words alone are not enough. Forgetting the suffix is the most common mistake on this challenge.