for the one after that, you need to fix the grammatical mistake, and the typo.
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Next one has a hint (but I haven't gotten it yet... my first guess takes me to nowhere special, PNG, as far as I can tell... trying variations on Flores etc. aren't working)
That position, 7S, 144E, appears to be in the Marianas Trench, just south of Papua New Guinea. "buried" contains similar enough letters to the previous answer, that I'm assuming it's related in some way, but I'm not getting anywhere. Need to step off for a few minutes and let things clear a bit.
Yeah, that's how I managed to guess the second page, but I don't really "get it". Are these suppose to actually be mechanically derivable, or is this just a guessing game?
There's an oblique hint in the source code, sometimes.
Though with that one, the first line of the hint helped me, but the second just confused me (I've just looked up the full story behind the "Run run" reference -- I suppose it was a reminder of the ending to the story? Lost on anyone who doesn't remember the full thing, though...).
Having never heard that tale, I was stumped. I supposed it is part of US culture? I'm from Sweden myself, so if I was told the story as a child, it wouldn't have been in english anyway.
Though I admit I don't currently have the time to get far (I've gotten the first couple but have work to do tonight...). I love these puzzles, though!
I quite enjoyed going through the web penetration puzzle posted here a year or so ago -- where to access the next URL at each step involved a slightly trickier exploit (starting at just reading the HTML source, to modifying form fields, to tweaking cookies, etc.) -- anyone remember where this was?
It was educational (as well as fun), so at least I could excuse burning some time doing it.
Vague hints are fine, but putting "SPOILER ALERT" right above the answer doesn't help; it's impossible to read past those posts to see the less giveaway hints.
six b has me stumped. The obvious interpretation is that you need to do something with "4 down" and "2 across" from the crossword puzzle shown. But according to typical numbering, that puzzle wouldn't even have a "2 across".
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[ 4.8 ms ] story [ 122 ms ] thread-b-a-r-
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4b) bagureha.ugz (Pink Floyd!)
5a) vgevrq.ugz
5b.1) ohevrq.cat
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Next one has a hint (but I haven't gotten it yet... my first guess takes me to nowhere special, PNG, as far as I can tell... trying variations on Flores etc. aren't working)
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buried.
7S144E
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That position, 7S, 144E, appears to be in the Marianas Trench, just south of Papua New Guinea. "buried" contains similar enough letters to the previous answer, that I'm assuming it's related in some way, but I'm not getting anywhere. Need to step off for a few minutes and let things clear a bit.
Ah, duh. And I'm giving hints before I myself realized the answer.
5b) fur 6a) natyr 6b) natyvn 7b) nqnz 8a) cebqhpg
I guess that's it. And fun times were had by all.
Edit: by "8a", I mean the puzzle that leads to 8a ("get out your notepad")
I got that one just by guessing, I don't really get how this works.
one.htm also states that only slight modifications are needed between the two sections (only one letter needs to be inserted)
This sentence made no sense for me.
Thrid: http://lowercase.billyjanitsch.com/man.htm
It's "man.htm".
yccmitg__ == "you can't catch me I'm the gingerbread _man_".
Though with that one, the first line of the hint helped me, but the second just confused me (I've just looked up the full story behind the "Run run" reference -- I suppose it was a reminder of the ending to the story? Lost on anyone who doesn't remember the full thing, though...).
http://www.folktale.net/GBman.html
Having never heard that tale, I was stumped. I supposed it is part of US culture? I'm from Sweden myself, so if I was told the story as a child, it wouldn't have been in english anyway.
Though I admit I don't currently have the time to get far (I've gotten the first couple but have work to do tonight...). I love these puzzles, though!
I quite enjoyed going through the web penetration puzzle posted here a year or so ago -- where to access the next URL at each step involved a slightly trickier exploit (starting at just reading the HTML source, to modifying form fields, to tweaking cookies, etc.) -- anyone remember where this was?
It was educational (as well as fun), so at least I could excuse burning some time doing it.
Super fun!
http://notpron.org/notpron/
It is also interesting for non-geeks to learn about how the internet (and computers) work.
[0] http://notpron.org/notpron/levelone.htm
four is adam
Vague hints are fine, but putting "SPOILER ALERT" right above the answer doesn't help; it's impossible to read past those posts to see the less giveaway hints.
lol
What does a cow's leer mean? I can't think of any permutations of the letters in 'name' that make sense.
Edit: OK, I got it. Tricksy tricksy.