Mr. Robot — Season_4.0 ARG

Alternate reality game · 2019–2020 · Puzzle design

Mr. Robot — Season_4.0 ARG

I designed all the post-finale puzzles and progression for Mr. Robot’s Season_4.0 ARG, which won the 2020 Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Interactive Extension of a Linear Program. The brief: three weeks to design a challenge that would take 5,000 people three months to solve.

Puzzles included cracking a random number generator, recovering a message written along the edge of a shuffled deck of cards, and my favorite, extracting a message from an irrational number.

A very large flowchart wiring together every puzzle, cipher and dead end in the game — The community’s map of the post-finale puzzles, solutions, and dead ends