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British Color
Colour
British Racing Green, clearly, should be accepted.
I was so sure it was british racing green!
For "Roman XV" I've entered "Arabic 15" and got rejected.

"15" was accepted, though. Manual password guessing is not much fun - reminds me of school too much.

Yeah, and it takes "prime numbers" but not "primes". Kind of annoying.
"ramanujan" was pretty pretentious
That's the one that confused me.
It taking "ramanujan" and not "ramanujan-hardy" put me off it
Ah. That explains where I got stuck.
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struggling on this one.. (not morse code)

count them
still not getting it, tried 4.6692 and 46692

e: got it, thanks!

It's a mathematical constant. Answer is Feigenbaum.
Gah! I entered "feigenbaum's constant", but it didn't accept that, so I kept looking for another relevant term.
That number has some significant meaning. You'll have to Google it, the author expects exact answers.
4.6692 ?
You're halfway there - google that number.
Good lord... thanks :)
That's pretty stupid, though. Kind of like "prime numbers." If there are multiple correct answers, it should allow multiple correct answers.
123567890134567890123456790

(collab effort crowdwiz bruteforce yay)

the missing #'s in each sequence... 428
And here I thought that maybe it had to do with bits and powers of 2 (0 and 1 being among them)
Geez, I thought it was asking you to extrapolate.
Same, no idea what's needed from me on most of the questions
Damn, I feel stupid! I kept trying things like 23456789 (the same sequence but missing 2^0)
Lightens the night.
The answer they're looking for is Moon, despite the moon not being a night-specific phenomenon. Other things that lighten the night, that they aren't looking for, include stars, light pollution, lighting, love and laughter.
Level 23

RWluc3RlaW4ncy4

Hint: Base64 Encoded
Einstein's.
Not accepting that answer, what am I missing...
Same that's why I posted.
I got this worth pointing out it's a clue not a solution
"relativity"
Man I tried all sorts of things including "theory of relativity" with and without "special" and "general" etc. Thanks!
I got an answer here but it seems more like a clue?
A firearm against the man's skull, Fired a round, now he's deceased.
Answer is "queen". It's a reference to Bohemian Rhapsody
I'm disappointed I didn't see that one sooner! I think I'm at the point where each question is now a challenge for me though :/
I got the reference, but alas "Queen" was wrong, had to type queen (all lowercase) after seeing your answer here. Ruh.
Level 17 : 1729 = 13 + 123 = 93 + 103 Tried : ramanujam, taxicab, hardy-ramanujam. Nothing works.
ramanujan (ends with an N)
Also stuck on this one... last thing I did was open up a terminal (with no luck). lol.

res = (1..20000).to_a.map { |val| val * val * val }

res.select { |a| res.any? { |b| (b - a) == 1729 } }

#000 T '29

No idea for the above. Reference to the t29 heavy tank? "Black" T in 1929? Nothing is coming up. Black Tuesday/Black Thursday of 1929 wasn't it either.

black tuesday 1929

Answer is "wall street"

Thursday.Tuesday was beige, as always.
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  230809200519
  152120080518
  140709011420

Hint: Letters.
simple A=1 index decodes to WHITESOUTHERNGIANT.
white southern giant

antarctica

Would you mind breaking down how did you arrive to that conclusion?
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The numbers are each in pairs and each pair doesn't exceed 26 (the number of letters in the alphabet). a = 01, z = 26. Convert the number pairs to letters, you get

  whites
  outher
  ngiant
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Stuck on this one as well.
much more natural answers "petrel"

    160520180512
nor "fulmar"

    062112130118
work
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Stop! Stop! Stop! Start. Stop!

Stop! Start. Stop! Stop! Start.

Stop! Stop! Start. Stop! Stop!

Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop!

OK!

Not sure if it matters, but HN won't let me format it the way it's presented. There are five words/commands to a line.

weleetka
I'm guessing that's somehow linked to the zip code? I'm not seeing the connection.
OK = oklahoma...
Still not clear on the connection outside of the OK portion, where does weleetka come from?
binary 00010010010010000000 = decimal 74880
Interpreted as binary number (Stop = 0, Start = 1), you get 74880. 74880, OK (Oklahoma) is Weleetka.
You need an extra newline between line breaks. I've added them for you.
Level 25

    Stop! Stop! Stop! Start. Stop!
    Stop! Start. Stop! Stop! Start.
    Stop! Stop! Start. Stop! Stop!
    Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop!
    OK!
Let's say Stop! is 0 and Start. is 1, we get:

    00010
    01001
    00100
    00000
Or:

    0001
    0010
    0100
    1000
    0000
Not sure where to go from there
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Converted the binary to decimal and got 74880. Searched 74880 on Google and got "Weleetka, OK 74880, USA". The answer is "Weleetka".
If you try a bunch of bogus answers in quick succession you get an ad for a betting site.
Also if you look at their facebook page it's kinda weirdly hype-y.
Try entering in parameters manually and it tuxes an amusing inage if a man with the label “I’m a hacker”.
Level 26... Did a base 64 decode.. The output looked base64 legal. Decoded that, looked legal again, decoded that... Canabarro Sandow?
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4chan has the current high score(spoiler warning http://boards.4chan.org/sci/thread/9202862)
now how the heck does that drone image translate to deadly sins! :)
curious to know this also
Zoom in, below left of the drone.
so there are numbers backwards in the bottom left

take all numbers, substract 5, get

SEVENDANGER

There are numbers upside down in the lower left, minus all numbers by 5, replace with alphabet, spells SEVENDANGER
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It's at 34 0.0
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35 already. 4chan is brilliant and horrifying.
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The most terrifying hive-mind on the internet.
If only there were a way to direct it toward some useful purpose...
They are on the last puzzle now!

#33 - european union

#34 - horror movie

#35 - corpus christi

#36 - world war

#37 - plato

#38 - isaac newton

#39 - johann sebastian

Some people might not appreciate spoilers so publicly here, the other comment with the link gave a warning.

Anyways, #39 was just solved.

aaaannnd they finished.
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Strong Chase Stone Hunt. ???
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35: Edxwer Rgnvgy Resxc Iuhnm.
Looks like a substition cipher; the family of solutions that jumps out to me as a possible clue is "[something] seized Savoy until".
corpus christi.
explanation: looking at the keyboard those spell out TXCC. There's a town Corpus Cristi, Texas...
Can you elaborate, please?
The letters represent locations on a QWERTY keyboard. If you draw out one "word" at a time, you get patterns that look (... if you squint a little) like T X C C.
Is HN competing with 4chan on this? I'm gonna be pretty disappointed if we lose.
Nah, 4channers are more numerous and/or have more time on their hands.

Edit: besides, we are to collab, not compete.

Also the culture/format/rules there are way better suited for this
No, simply because HN doesn't have the culture of "Here's a problem, let's collaborate on it". We're much more likely to discuss the problem itself and discuss the pros and cons of different approaches.

If you ask for help with a specific problem you'll probably get it, but I don't think there's the same viewpoint that if a puzzle is posted we need to solve it as a collective as quickly as possible.

If you post on HN about a problem, you'll likely get 1 useful answer and 6 answers pointing out that your problem is symptomatic of a wrongheaded approach and you should be doing something else instead :)
I love the replies to this. Not to shoot any one of them down, but it makes me wonder what would it take for us to admit 4chan are smarter?
It’s like those on HN never go to 4chan and vice versa...