VLD’s Puzzles -- Solved?
Okay, as I’m sure most of you know, Voltron has been very cryptic the past couple of days. There was the Tweet in binary yesterday (7/8/18), which I missed because I think it got deleted, but I managed to get a screenshot of it from someone.
This, when translated to text, reads “KURON”. So this may be hinting that Project Kuron is not quite gone yet. After all, all of those Shiro clones fell somewhere. Who knows what happened to them? And I think it’s safe to say there’s a good chance Haggar/Honerva is going to be our season 7 villain.
Then, there was a video released on the same day (7/8/18) with highlights from the season 6 episode “Monsters and Mana” (a personal favorite of mine), and a QR code flashed in the middle of it. The QR code translated to a link, which led to an image.
I’ve seen people tearing their hair out trying to figure this out, and a lot of people have a lot of theories. I spent the past hour or so trying to solve this puzzle, and while my solution may not be the solution, I’d like to share it.
So, my approach was to take the title of each of the three episodes and take the first X letters of them, based on the numbers at the bottom of the box. So I ended up with:
“RETURN to the Balmera” (I’ve seen a lot of people say “Crystal Venom” is the ninth episode of season 1, but technically episode 1 of season 1 was three episodes so I went with what was listed as the technical episode 9)
“BEGIN The Blitz”
“OMEGA Shield”
Now, I at first thought the symbol in the middle was a minus sign, and I was confused. I was also really confused about the random T from “Begin the Blitz”. But then I put it all next to each other:
RETURN TO BEGIN T-OMEGA
It was a T minus! It’s a countdown! But omega is a letter, not a number. And omega doesn’t have a set value in math as far as I could tell. But omega is the 24th letter of the Greek alphabet, so:
RETURN TO BEGIN T-24
“Return to begin T minus 24″
T minus 24? Could that mean 24 days? I doubt it’s 24 hours, but again, who knows? But let’s stick to the more realistic 24 days. Is this a hint to the release date of season 7? We know that the first episode is premiering at SDCC, which is July 20th, so this would put the release date at 24 days from July 8th, which is August 1st. But that’s a Wednesday, and Voltron typically premieres on Fridays. Maybe it’s a trailer date? Or maybe they’re hinting to the week of? It would be odd to get a trailer after the first episode has premiered but we just have to wait and see.
Who knows. I just wanted to share, since I’m satisfied that I found a solution that seems to make some sense. Thanks for reading!
BONUS: Josh Keaton released a video of himself today (7/9/18) with cookies that said “471″ on them, and people have been trying to figure out what it means. My top two theories I’ve seen are that he’s hinting to something 471 hours away, which would be July 28th, which is Lance’s birthday. So maybe something will happen on that day. Or he’s celebrating “for 7-1″, or for the first episode of season 7 which is premiering before the others.
ALSO BONUS: If we went with “Crystal Venom” being the ninth episode of season 1, we’d end up with “Crystal Vbegin T-24″, which is why I don’t think they meant “Crystal Venom” as the referenced episode.
ALSO ALSO BONUS: I absolutely love the little Pidge in the corner. Because you know what the crew did? They left the math to Pidge.