And I'm sure I nailed first three but have no clue about the fourth. tried characters and numbers. Not sure if numbers should be attempted forward or reverse.
I am stuck at #13. I tried using 6 & 9 for G ...but it does not work. I am sure I have all 4 answers (1) G...(2)B* (3)B* (4)L*, but it seems it is not accepting.
var round = function(number){
var binary = number.toString(2);
var hex = number.toString(16);
var R = function(str){
return /^10*$/.test(str);
};
return R(binary) && R(hex);
};
That I wrote this just shows how special class I am... If a number is "round" in base-n that just means it's a power of n, and obviously all powers of 16 are also powers of 2.
Don't waste your time on this stupid puzzle. #13 is just completely unfair. There are too many combinations (if the answer ends with '0' do add a '5' to form a plural or use a decimal point? Do you use '9' or '8' to represent 'b'?) Trying out all the possibilities is just not fun. And the 4th question is too much of a guessing game.
I'm surprised no-one has yet pointed out that #15 does not work in FireFox 3 (I happen to know the answer and was confused that there seemed to be no way to enter it - until I switched to Safari.)
nevermind. i did it. Conclusion: it has nothing to do with development. If you're lucky enough you might figure out that some of the letter are capitalized, some not, reverse them...
Lame!
it's 100 symbols without spaces, so email shouldn't be that long, so may be:
a) several cipher symbols mean 1 clear text symbol
or
b) you must skip some symbols
my interpretation of "if you throw a pi at the wall, does it break into chunks of two" - take pi value in binary like 11.00100100001111110110... and assume, that 1 means keep symbol, 0 means discard it, but that didn't produce meaningfull email :(
Such interpratation just shows, that hint is not clear enough, too much variations.
Can't seem to find a way into level 27, stuck at 26. Din't find anything in the source. Tried following addresses "ponandzi.aspx", "ponzi.aspx", "jefthomas.aspx", "azuzephre.aspx"... nothing seems to get me into level 27... Any hints???
I got email confirmation but it says I didn't solve the puzzle exactly.. I guess I got the correct mail address but there's something missing. any hints?
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It's got to be some short text cause $_SERVER, phpinfo, getenv, and other variants don;t work.
EDIT: I think I may actually have figured it out just now...turns out my original method was just a little off. Now to wait and see if I won!
2 7, 27
@puzzlehints
Twenty Seven: Take the first one each time. They'll get you the distance.
This is not the hint. Seriously stop checking.
If you take the distance of both pages you get 8, which is the number of words in the "This is not the hint. Seriously stop checking."
I guess the hint is way too difficult: "word distance algorithm" would have been easier.
What're those round numbers?
#17 has me totally stumped though, anyone offer any clues? I've tried naming the computer, the institute, the museum... no luck :-(
You have enough hints now...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet
Ask yourself why there is a period in the first column all by itself.
The "distance" comment has something to do with a word formula.
I found the answer on that page, but I still don't get it, between what you say and the relationship with that algorithm.
http://php.net/manual/en/function.similar-text.php
my interpretation of "if you throw a pi at the wall, does it break into chunks of two" - take pi value in binary like 11.00100100001111110110... and assume, that 1 means keep symbol, 0 means discard it, but that didn't produce meaningfull email :( Such interpratation just shows, that hint is not clear enough, too much variations.
and I still have no clue what are the 4 commands...
I've been at number 30 for a few days and is still stuck. Does anyone have pointers for this?
Tip #1 : 100 letters all numbered from 1 to 100 when reading from left to right then top to bottom.
Tip #2: Take pi and split into pieces of 2. At what position is the @ sign?
I've tried adding them up and the ASCII of the letter to try to get the actual decrypted letter but that doesn't seem to work so well. :C
pi is 3.14592653589793238462643383
See a 53 in there? :)
Then what position is the dot? See that number in there?
BTW, the level25 is a fake 404 page, read the stack trace...