Kākācon #4 · New Zealand · 2022

Kākācon 2022 Sticker Badge Challenge

Second sticker-backed Kākācon puzzle trail

The organizer walkthrough for Kākācon 2022 documents the second Kākācon badge challenge, again using the back of the event sticker as the puzzle entry point.

Kākācon New Zealand Wellington Sticker Badge Badge Challenge Puzzle Zealandia Oceania

EventKākācon #4

SeriesKākācon

LocationZealandia, Wellington

CountryNew Zealand

People

Authors & Credits

2022 sticker designer

Pepper Raccoon

The official Kākācon art page credits Pepper Raccoon as designer of the Kākācon #4 2022 sticker used as the badge-challenge entry artifact.

Source

Kākācon runner and badge-challenge walkthrough author

Karit

Karit published the 2022 Kākācon badge challenge walkthrough and is identified on the Kākācon site as the runner/contact for the event.

Source

Why It Mattered

It shows the Kākācon sticker challenge becoming a repeat annual identity-and-puzzle artifact while keeping the record honest about the non-electronic medium.

Hardware

The source trail proves a physical sticker with backing-paper challenge text. It does not document an electronic PCB, microcontroller, battery, display, radio, NFC, or firmware.

Software & Apps

The 2022 challenge used printed URL reconstruction, web pages, image clues, and substitution-cipher solving, but no badge firmware is documented.

Lore

The 2022 walkthrough explicitly describes this as the second year of doing a Kākācon badge challenge and keeps the puzzle tied to the sticker artifact and Zealandia theme.

Lifecycle

Add-ons & Upgrades

printed puzzle surface source-backed

Sticker backing-paper entry point

The 2022 walkthrough says the second Kākācon badge challenge again started from text printed on the back of the sticker.

Compatibility: Kākācon 2022 Sticker Badge Challenge

Source

web puzzle path source-backed

Bird-image cipher trail

The 2022 challenge used URL reconstruction, repeated bird-image clues, and substitution solving after the sticker entry point.

Compatibility: Kākācon 2022 Sticker Badge Challenge

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Operational history

Issues & Camp Impact

challenge-archive caveat note

The walkthrough documents the solved path, but this pass does not preserve all original challenge pages, images, or server state.

The catalogue summarizes the puzzle structure while avoiding claims that the live challenge infrastructure remains complete.

Confidence: organizer walkthrough
Status: partial public reconstruction
Timeframe: 2022 badge challenge pass
Source note: 2022 Kākācon badge challenge walkthrough.

missing rights-cleared image note

No Kākācon 2022 sticker image is published because the recovered page images have not been paired with explicit reuse rights, attribution, and processing notes.

The record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying blog or art-page images without complete provenance.

Confidence: local project policy
Status: needs licensed original replacement
Timeframe: current catalogue build
Source note: badge.gallery image policy, Kākācon art page, and 2022 walkthrough.

sticker-badge classification note