For All Of You Gamer's Out There,

here is a puzzle,

all you have to do is solve the mystery that surrounds these images, these are some of the texts of the Indus civilization which existed 4,000 years ago in modern-day Pakistan and northwest India, from this culture, archaeologists have recovered several thousand short inscriptions, most with just 4 or 5 signs,there is no consensus on how to read them, although dozens of speculative decipherments have been proposed over the past century, complicating efforts, the underlying language the script is tied to is disputed, and there are complex modern-day political ramifications to the question, rival ethnic groups claim to descend from this once-great civilization and knowing its language would help cement cultural ties, hence the reported threats to scholars immersed in the matter, here is the thing, no one can read them, but here is a small incentive for you to try, since 2004, there’s even been a standing $10,000 prize for anyone who discovers an Indus text over 50 characters, offered by an anonymous donor and valid through the lifetime of historian Steve Farmer, a vocal opponent of the view that the Indus civilization was literate, well I have tried to win, but alas my little grey cells were not up to it!