On June 1st, I received this cryptic message:

Subject: URGENT Message: INCOMING TRANSMISSION DESIGNATION: A.R.B.I.T.R.A.R.Y.

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Agent [REDACTED] (Alias: SCRU),

The mission has been compromised. I am being followed. The data has been split for my protection. Half can be found here: [REDACTED IMGUR LINK] The other half has been hidden. Last known coordinates: [REDACTED] Check the pipe. I will be on the watch for any updates.

If you require assistance, contact HQ at: [REDACTED]

Good luck.

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END TRANSMISSION

I had no idea what this could be, but upon checking out the coordinates and images my match had given me, I knew it had something to do with Griffith Park, and a number of coded phrases in morse, braille, and binary.

With my match's help and a little time and some company, I made my way to Griffith Park, my favorite place to hike in Los Angeles (and I LOVE to hike), to a busy trail by the observatory to go searching for the second half of the code.

We found it hidden in a drain pipe in a ditch, covered in chaperral. On a piece of folded up paper in a purple cannister were three more coded phrases, and my mission, which simply read:

LIGHT THE FIRE.

I sat down and figured out the codes, which were in Morse, Braille, Binary, Replacement Cipher, Pigpen Cipher, and Base64. It took me a little while, I'll admit, and then it took me a while longer to figure out what my mission meant.

And then even longer to figure out where to put the codes.

In the end, it turned out the two halves went snuggly together to make 3 Amazon Kindle codes for gifted books! All ones I haven't read either and can't wait to start. I am 100% thrilled with this incredibly thoughtful gift, which included hiking, Griffith Park, books, and adventure, my favorite things in the world.

Match, you are amazing. This is my best RedditGifts experience to date. I don't know how to thank you enough, I'm seriously in tears. I wish I could rate this gift "9,000 -- most incredible gift ever."