Game Theory: Gamers Will NEVER Solve This Mystery! (Accounting Plus Zoo Level)

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hello please and welcome please to game theory today I'm covering one of the deepest most complex most fascinating mysteries in the history of modern gaming that literally no one has ever heard of the zoo level that may or may not be hidden inside the game accounting plus a vr adventure that I'm sure very few of you have seen playing on YouTube and even fewer of you have experienced for yourself firsthand so before we get to unraveling this twisted mystery inside this even more twisted game let me first tell you that this is something that you can and probably should experience for yourself firsthand in VR what do you do if you don't have a top-of-the-line cutting-edge VR headset you say well funny you should ask since right now is your chance to win one thanks in part to a generous sponsorship on today's episode by oculus rift they are giving me the chance right now to gift a rift to you guys for a chance to win an oculus rift bundle of your own leave a comment on this video and that's it that is literally all you need to do every comment between now and December 22nd counts as an entry longshore thought-provoking not you can simply say fart and boom right there that's an entry for you so it's time to finally make those firsts count I'll be announcing the winner shortly before Christmas via the community tab so make sure that you're subscribed to get notified of when you win and if you don't win they're even more giveaways happening on the oculus rift social channels between now and Christmas or you could just buy one there $50 off on oculus comm and amazon.com for a limited time beg borrow steal whatever you gotta do just get one if not for yourself then at least for my sake because as you'll see by the end of today's episode I need all the help I can get when covering this game so what's the deal with accounting plus well accounting plus is a VR title made by the designer of the Stanley parable William Pugh and squanch games a company co-founded by Justin roiland executive producer of Rick and Morty so this is a powerhouse duo behind this game and I also bring up Rick and Morty not just to provide context but also because the connection with that series runs deep throughout accounting plus I mean sure the game has the show's signature crass style of improv humor I eat everything and I don't poop for a day and you caught me on the day that I pooped so I'm finally exhausted today and I sat down I pet some stuff that I like stuffed animals that I collect but what are the first major choices that you have to make the game is picking your favorite of three Rick and Morty memes three Rick to me and we're told that the choice game spoiler alert it doesn't the actual gameplay of accounting plus though is reminiscent of the interdimensional cable episodes of Rick and Morty lots of random scenes with very little connective tissue you begin as an accountant in an office doing a special VR experiment designed to make accounting far more efficient because of the way time works in virtual reality which like dreams in the movie Inception moves faster the further down you go almost immediately go off track when you put on your headset in your office and you'll wind up in a park getting a very brand unfriendly greeting from the guy living in the tree the aptly named tree guy upon realizing the error your bosses tell you to escape in any way that you can instead you put on another VR headset and descend deeper into the madness you continue to go deeper and deeper into virtual realities joining a gang after drinking some adult beverages slaughtering the king of VR with his own knife and then putting his heart which itself is a VR headset unto your face to go into his stomach play some xyla bones and then either enter a secret level again in his stomach to summon Satan where else drink some stomach acid to kill your virtual self and start ascending back up through the layers of reality including a courtroom a car chase the burning remains of tree guys Park before finally winding up back in your office Oh like I said it is a very very random game now if that all sounds like it makes no sense and you have no idea where or why a zoo level would fit into this story well don't worry you're not alone the zoo level meta mystery is almost entirely separate from the main games narrative you see the zoo level conspiracy began in the first-ever trailer released for accounting plus way back in 2017 during the video game awards at the end of the trailer we see a clown pop out of a back alley telling players to not forget about him with zoo level clearly marked on a sign near him after it played the show's host Jeff Healey specifically asked roiland and Pugh about the level this was their response I heard there's a secret zoo level oh yeah a lot of work for a very small sliver of the fans that we'll be able to find it incredibly difficult to find all kinds of stuff good luck finding it though seems like they're making a pretty big deal about this thing a few days later the zoo level is mentioned again this time at the end of the game's official launch trailer here there's a long disclaimer that flashes by far too fast to read without going frame-by-frame but if you do it explicitly says this does not ship with controllers does ship with a secret zoo level which is hard to find and was that zoo level ever found would I be doing a theory about it if it was obviously not but is it because it is indeed difficult to find or is it because it doesn't exist at all well in the actual content of the game hints to the zoo level are everywhere probably the first time 99% of players are gonna be exposed to this mystery as in the climactic car chase level where a newspaper is plastered on the front windshield featuring an article front and center straight up firming the level or at least claiming to confirm it elsewhere in the van there are cryptic messages from a character named ass who apparently hosts a show at the secret zoo level later in one of the game's secret areas that unlocks after a first playthrough here met by the crusty desk woman June behind her is a wall of monitors one of which contains all the original levels in the game and wouldn't you know it but Zoo is they're listed as level 9 then in the game's opening tutorial section there's a device called the level loader which allows you to insert retro cartridges to skip to the levels that you've already visited oh yeah and sometimes the machine is bleeding and printing out urgent help messages because why not another thing that makes zero Lix of sense in this absurd game anyway after completing the game and finding the alternate pathways through the various secret levels to cartridge slots are left open it would make sense for one of them to be the zoo level right here's the kicker we know for a fact where that cartridge exists again after completing certain requirements in the game a secret level cartridge can be found laying on the ground not too far from the level loader it's just out of bounds from where you can reach but by boundary breaking it's clear that it is for the zoo level to this day no means of actually interacting with that cartridge have been figured out it just lays there haunting us forever out of reach or maybe not on breach but forever unable to be interactive now while others at this point might just write all this off as one epic troll I'm not sure that it is there's just too much evidence out there that should add up to something and just doesn't on December 19 2017 the games first launched crows crows crows the other development team behind accounting plus sent out a newsletter that contained a hidden code along the bottom decrypting that message using a base 32 converter resulted in the following message look further down the zoo level is inside all of us three three three nine one two four one bad number at the end seemed suspicious but at the time there wasn't anything that could be done with it but two months later the crows crows crows YouTube channel started uploading songs and via counting to a soundtrack one of them titled life bringer actually had an unusual string of texts written into its description /x RL you be my arm that had to mean something right well after testing out a variety of different decoding methods it was eventually discovered that you needed to use a lot 13 substitution code basically it's just shorthand for rotate by 13 places replace each letter with the letter 13 letters after it doing that yielded the new phrase flash keyhole visiting crows crows crows dot-com / keyhole led to a bright yellow web page with an image of animals on it what that should look pretty darn familiar it's the same texture that's on the zoo level cartridge that's hidden inside the game clearly US zoo hunters were getting close clicking on the picture starts a download of a zip file named animals dot zip a password-protected archive but where would you find the password to unlock this thing you guessed it the number sequence from earlier three three three nine one two one with archive unlocked inside you find a single mp3 named paneer ger Navin gonna be German Swedish or could it be another Rob 13 cipher this time if you unscramble the name you get yourself save the animals' mp3 playing the file this is what you hear what any of that means no one knows for the entirety of this year this has been the dead end speaking the codes and musical clues that have required extended weights to pay off almost exactly a year ago on December 28th 2017 yet another crows crows crows email went out containing a link to a music video called who's that in the tree a reference to accounting plus his signature character the tree guy who's so featured in the video the clown from that very first trailer who comes from the zoo level so clearly this was a great opportunity for them to hide more markers leading us to this elusive level and true to form the email contained yet another secret code this time it wasn't rot13 that saved the day but rather alt codes with each number relating to what you type in when you hold the Alt key to get yourself certain pieces of text converting each of these numbers using an alt code key yielded the following result still not something that seems all that useful though right except it was a code within another code the final conversion of that string using base64 yields the following message deeper search clown-ass password what this means and where or how it's used is still another dead end so I had a few hypotheses we already know that both the clown character and the character named ass are connected to the zoo level but what if that code isn't referencing two separate characters and instead is referencing one characters um you know Heinicke that may seem crazy but earlier in the game it's established that one of the VR headsets you have to wear to progress the game forward is in a gang members bot so you know while a password stuck in a clown's anal cavity seems unlikely it's not as unlikely in this particular game and wouldn't you know it the clown is indeed hidden in the game in the latest update to accounting plus a new level was added the waterpark level which despite its name is not about really a waterpark it's instead entirely dedicated to the zoo level conspiracy and who should we meet in that room other than our chain-smoking friend the cloud rolling around in his chair explaining the various components of this massive Arg mystery and when he rolled his chair in my general vicinity I you know he rolled near my boundaries and I crossed all personal boundaries and stuck my head up there alas no clown ass password but we're still not done that deeper search clue was hidden as a part of crows crows crows annual holiday event raps giving where they give out raps to those they care about each and every year on December 28th which means that we're coming due for yet another clue in just a few days so presumably there could be some follow-up clues to all this on their website as a part of this year's reps giving celebration so when it comes to the zoo level conspiracy we have ourselves two major loose threads an mp3 file and a password and that's just the beginning there is way more to this story than I've been able to talk about today including even more hidden codes as well as my own explorations deep into this game and I mean really deep maybe not as deep as my head went into the clown's hoo-ha but still very deep things happening around this game all things that I'm gonna cover in my next episode on this game because I think I know the truth about the zoo level but in order to get there it's gonna require a whole nother episode covering a heck of a lot more of this mystery suffice it to say the mystery surrounding this supposedly truly has it all well it almost has it all the only thing it doesn't have is more people talking about it and working to solve it accounting Plus is still an underground title which means the small Reddit and discord communities that are working on this thing just don't have the manpower to work through all the clues and possible solutions we just need more brains working on this with more diverse skills than we currently have one who can translate the save the animals' mp3 file ensure the note progression that you hear and there leads to something maybe you need to play it on the sila bones and game maybe the letter progression of the notes spells something I don't know maybe it has to do with animal sounds II hear throughout that audio file again I'm not sure I'm constantly hopping into the VR headset and out to test out new hypotheses that I have I'd love to have more people actively testing out their own thoughts and all of this is why again I remind you about the oculus rift as our sponsor for this episode I just need more people playing exploring and talking about this game so we can solve it together and 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things on the Xylo bones as I've been recording this I had a couple more ideas popping in my head so I'm off to practice my xylophone skills but in the meantime though remember that's just a theory Oh game theory thanks for watching hey you want to watch theories on more awesome VR games if you're in the mood for some spooky VR theories well then click the boxes you see on screen on the Left you'll see super hot and the illuminati level conspiracies that are hidden inside that one or if you're in the mood for some murder check out the box to the right learn about the serial killer dog in duck season and one final reminder make sure you subscribe so that way when I announce the winners of the gift the rift giveaway you know whether you won or lost cuz nothing would suck more than you winning an awesome piece of equipment like this and then not seeing that notification come through I know a lot of these sorts of contests say like you gotta subscribe to him don't play that way I think a 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Channel: The Game Theorists

Views: 3,163,680

Rating: 4.9172955 out of 5

Keywords: accounting+, accounting plus, zoo level, rick and morty, accounting +, accounting zoo level, accounting game, accounting plus game, accounting+ game, accounting vr, accounting plus zoo level, secret zoo, accounting secret zoo, accounting zoo, accounting plus secrets, accounting plus vr, rick and morty vr, rick and morty game, vr, vr game, Oculus, HTC Vive, vive, justin roiland, arg, mystery, secret level, game theory, game theorists, matpat, game theory accounting plus

Id: U2gCtB20bag

Length: 17min 44sec (1064 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 18 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/Bristlethorn13]

I may have a lead on the zoo level. In the spaceship sector three level, one of the screens shows zoo level access and there is code written. Good luck!

[u/ThatOneDutchGuy_99]

Have you tried to convert the mp3 file into a png or something like that to maybe get a secret QR code like you did in that doki doki video

[u/scribbane]

Save the Animals immediately reminded me of GDQ and the donation goal to save/kill the animals. Maybe it has a connection there. Maybe a speed run that has those sounds in it? Possibly a stretch because how would you even determine which run, but it's just a thought.

[u/Adimelo]

An you try playing the xylaphone keys in the mp3 on the bone xylaphone? Maybe separate that sequence out of the animal noises so you can see what keys are being pressed...

[u/TrubbishForMayor]

"Save the animals". Rather than zoo animals, could this be referring to the animals from the gang that die in the police chase level?

[u/x0rang3x]

I can write down the notes which are being played in that mp3. The only problem is that a note can be called two ways: e.g. dis is equivalent to es. Anyway, there are in total 25 notes being played. According to the drums rhythm on the background, the measure is 3/4. That means we can divide all notes in four groups. here is the sequence:
F es g as b c
E gis dis fis ais h
Des es f ges b des es
A h e gis h a
But again, each note name can be swapped for alternate one. And also, these names are European, in US notes are called e-flat, d-sharp etc.
I’m not sure if that’s what is decoded there, but since I can tell you what those notes are, why not to give it a try :)

[u/loyal_achades]

Could "Save the Animals" potentially be a Metroid reference? Save the animals/Kill the animals comes up all the time in Metroid speedrunning and is often a donation category at events like GDQ

[u/PinballWizard_97]

Hey guys I'm a musician and I just heard the savetheanimals mp3. Here's my transcription of the notes. The problem with musical notation is that one note can be called C# or Db and it would be the same sound, roughly speaking. So I chose to only use flats because I don't know how sharps (#) could be used on a code Here's the notes F Eb G Ab Bb C E Ab Eb Gb Bb B Db Eb F Gb Bb Db Eb B E Ab B A

[u/polaroid_ninja]

Just a thought that I have no way/time to test out: do the sounds in the clip represent something on the black/yellow image? Like by tracing a line between the animals in the image based on when they make a sound in the clip it might draw another piece of the puzzle.

Fun ARG, wish I could take a more active part :)