1. imaginaryctf 2025
imaginaryctf 2025 — ctftime
ctftime.org
writeups — gitbook
thienguen.gitbook.io
Fri, 05 Sept. 2025, 12:00 PDT — Sun, 07 Sept. 2025, 12:00 PDT
this past friday, a couple of my friends and I were playing imaginaryctf. I decided to jump in and see if I could do something. I was not available for the entire competition — sadly — so big kudos to my teammates; it was chaotic, yet they still managed to solve those harder challenges.
you will find my solutions for web, misc, and some attempts at other categories, including my post-competition upsolve of the codenames-2 challenge. Me sad that I could have nabbed this one during the actual event — but with the eyes of 20/20 hindsight: I got bamboozled, misled, Pinesol-twink level of brain damaged. Overall, I think this ctf sh was very well organized, with well-designed challenges, and the team behind it definitely knows what they are doing. 10/10 would do it again next year, and again, and again. Truly unemployed activities..
