Ethan Haas Was Right

This page is a compilation of information found in connection to the ARG, EHWR, and possible connections to the Paramount-produced movie known by its working name of 'Cloverfield'.

On ethanhaaswasright.com visitors are treated to a series of Flash puzzles, all to do with a giant sphere that changes shape as you solve each one. Behind the sphere, a city skyline (full of skyscrapers) at night is visible. Again, as you complete the puzzles, the image changes, progressively destroying the city. Overhead, a few stars appear— more as the puzzles are solved. (The leftmost and rightmost star are available from the beginning. The left one, which is glowing blue, will activate your mail program with the address filled in; sending an email to this address will result in an automated reply giving several tips on how to solve the puzzles. The right one, when hovered over, will display 26 symbols that correspond to the alphabet and will be required in two of the puzzles.) Solving puzzles will also treat visitors to videos that are somewhat damaged and difficult to comprehend.

Puzzle 1
The first puzzle is a memory game, and multiple triangular tiles will appear upon the sphere. Pressing any of them will prompt the sphere to indicate 7 tiles in a specific order. To complete this puzzle, the visitor must press the first 5 of these tiles in order. Pressing an incorrect tile will result in the sphere demonstrating the order for you again.

Puzzle 2
The second puzzle is the first to use the new alphabet. There are three spinning rings— two vertical, one horizontal. They can be spun by clicking and dragging the individual rings. Four characters in total can be displayed at any point in time, one each from the vertical rings, and two from the horizontal.

The vertical rings have all 26 letters on them, and both start at 'A'. The horizontal ring has 15 sets of two letters each. The two vertical rings must be set to 'H' and 'A', whilst the horizontal ring must be set to 'AS' (the 6th set on the left). Consulting the reference that appears when the mouse is hovered over the rightmost star in the skyline can help decipher which symbols need to be in place. (The password here is 'HAAS'.)

Puzzle 3
The third puzzle is similar to Chinese Checkers, in that you have a rhomboidal grid, and must skip pieces over each other to remove pieces. The objective is to remove all but one light on the grid in this fashion.

Assuming each row of the grid corresponds to a letter, with numbers on each spot in the row (i.e., the top row has 1 spot- a1; the row beneath it, with 2 spots, has b1 and b2; the next row is c1, c2, c3; d1, d2, d3, d4; e1, e2, e3; f1, f2; g1)— one possible solution is as follows:

1. e1 jumps f1 to land on g1 2. d3 jumps e2 to land on f1 3. g1 jumps f1 to land on e1 4. d1 jumps d2 to land on d3 5. b2 jumps c2 to land on d2 6. d4 jumps c3 to land on b2 7. a1 jumps b2 to land on c3 8. e3 jumps d3 to land on c2 9. b1 jumps c2 to land on d3 10. c1 jumps d2 to land on e2 11. e1 jumps e2 to land on e3 12. c3 jumps d3 to land on e2 13. e3 jumps e2 to land on e1

Puzzle 4
The fourth puzzle is controlled by the arrow keys. Specifically, the arrow keys control the blue orb, whilst the green orbs will move in other directions, albeit in tandem with the blue. The object here is to get all three green orbs onto the gear-like platforms, at the same time. The square blocks above the top two are impassable. None of the orbs will move if the blue orb is blocked, but can move if only green orbs are blocked.

One solution was revealed in the hint email received from the website: ↑ ← ↓ ↓ ← → ↑ → ↑ ← ←

NOTE: These are the directions the orbs must move. However, the orbs will only move in any given direction if they are already facing in that direction. If they are not facing in that direction, one tap of an arrow key will turn them in that direction, and the second will move them. Note, then, that the keystrokes necessary to complete this puzzle are actually: ↑↑ ←← ↓↓ ↓ ←← →→ ↑↑ →→ ↑ ↑ ←← ← (turn up, move up, turn left, move left, turn down, move down, move down, turn left, move left, turn right, move right, turn up, move up, turn right, move right, turn up, move up, turn left, move left, move left)

Puzzle 5
The fifth and final puzzle is similar to the second, in that is uses the alternate alphabet and requires a password to complete. It offers twenty tiles, two rows of ten, each with a character on it. Clicking any tile will change it to the next in the alphabet.

Starting positions of the tiles are: LCTHOFSENE ETSOEOLAHT

Above these tiles, sets of four characters will flash. The corresponding sets of letters are:

1. BNSN 2. EITD 3. ENIE 4. HIGE 5. TGNH

In the video between puzzles 4 and 5, a number (54312) flashed. If we reorder the blocks according to this, we get:

1. T G N H 2. H I G E 3. E N  I  E 4. B N S  N 5. E I   T D

Read from top to bottom, left to right, it provides the message "The beginning is the end", quoted from the fourth video. Adjusting the tiles below to read:

THEBEGINNI NGISTHEEND

will complete the puzzle.

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Cloverfield Connection
Many have speculated that EHWR is connected to the Paramount-produced movie known by the production name of 'Cloverfield'. This claim is currently unauthenticated, but is supported by the similar themes of the ARG and the trailer; as well, Paramount has removed videos of the Cloverfield trailer, as well as videos concerning EHWR, suggesting that they have legal rights to both, and leading many ARG players to believe the two are connected.