What's in the Box?!

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Posted on 3 April 2015
==Puzzle==
There is a picture of a box with these letters:
 CW
 --
 RACTEFABQE
 FTEDBBIHXX
 BKMLTSIJVO
 39CHABOFKP
 RSSHIFPEDH
 YEFAATXNQE
Hint 1
There are three steps. The letters "CW" are a clue to the first.
Hint 2
Notice words that might be formed if things were shfited around.
Solution
Start by dividing the original letters into four quadrants and move each quadrant clockwise one position:
 39CHA RACTE
 RSSHI FTEDB
 YEFAA BKMLT
 +
 BOFKP FABQE
 FPEDH BIHXX
 TXNQE SIJVO
This gives you the phrase "39 characters shifted by" and the remaining letters:
 EFAABKMLTBOFKPFABQEFPEDHBIHXXTXNQESIJVO
These are encoded with a Ceaser Cipher where each letter was shifted. Use a Ceaser Cipher Decoder such as this one to Decipher the characters encoded with a right shift of 23 to get:
 HIDDENPOWERINSIDETHISHGKELKAAWAQTHVLMYR
Which leads to the phrase "hidden power inside THIS" and some additional letters that can be encoded using a Vigenère Cipher.  The key is "THIS". But note that if you rotate the original letter quadrants backwards (counter-clockwise), by 3, that matches the number of steps to get to the solution of this challenge and the number of letter positions that the letters in the Ceaser Cipher would be rotated if they had been encoded by rotating backwards (left). So you also have to decode the Vigenère Cipher as if it had been encoded backwards.  For a Vigenère Cipher the backwards equivalent key for "THIS" is "HTSI".
Use a Vigenère Cipher decryption tool such as this one to Decrypt the letters "HGKELKAAWAQTHVLMYR" using the key "HTSI" to get "ANSWERISPHYLACTERY".
The answer is stl.la/phylactery .
==Reward==
The Recruitment Video
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