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- dcow 9y agoBritish Color
- sillysaurus3 9y agoColour
- RhysU 9y agoBritish Racing Green, clearly, should be accepted.
- aplummer 9y agoI was so sure it was british racing green!
- petermcneeley 9y agoI thought grey... but i guess thats a shade.
- sidcypher 9y agoFor "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.
- onychomys 9y agoYeah, and it takes "prime numbers" but not "primes". Kind of annoying.
- enthdegree 9y ago"ramanujan" was pretty pretentious
- ehnto 9y agoAh. That explains where I got stuck.
- laurent123456 9y agoAnd "infinity" but not "infinite"
- golfer 9y ago---- . ------ ------ --------- -- struggling on this one.. (not morse code)
- cubecul 9y agocount them
- huplus 9y agostill not getting it, tried 4.6692 and 46692 e: got it, thanks!
- leddt 9y agoIt's a mathematical constant. Answer is Feigenbaum.
- majewsky 9y agoGah! I entered "feigenbaum's constant", but it didn't accept that, so I kept looking for another relevant term.
- gburt 9y agoThat number has some significant meaning. You'll have to Google it, the author expects exact answers.
- golfer 9y ago4.6692 ?
- Judgmentality 9y agoYou're halfway there - google that number.
- golfer 9y ago
- sidcypher 9y ago123567890134567890123456790 (collab effort crowdwiz bruteforce yay)
- golfer 9y agothe missing #'s in each sequence... 428
- sidcypher 9y agoAnd here I thought that maybe it had to do with bits and powers of 2 (0 and 1 being among them)
- abecedarius 9y agoGeez, I thought it was asking you to extrapolate.
- mapcars 9y agoSame, no idea what's needed from me on most of the questions
- _raoulcousins 9y agoDamn, I feel stupid! I kept trying things like 23456789 (the same sequence but missing 2^0)
- gburt 9y agof4nt45t1c
- dcow 9y agofantastic
- justin761002 9y agoLightens the night.
- leddt 9y agoLevel 23 RWluc3RlaW4ncy4
- silentbunny 9y agoHint: Base64 Encoded
- Judgmentality 9y agoA firearm against the man's skull, Fired a round, now he's deceased.
- leddt 9y agoAnswer is "queen". It's a reference to Bohemian Rhapsody
- Judgmentality 9y agoI'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 :/
- tremendo 9y agoI got the reference, but alas "Queen" was wrong, had to type queen (all lowercase) after seeing your answer here. Ruh.
- deepanchor 9y agohmm, can't figure this one out 97...98...99...00
- leddt 9y agomillennium bug ;)
- deepanchor 9y agoahhh thanks!
- mayboy 9y agoLevel 17 : 1729 = 13 + 123 = 93 + 103 Tried : ramanujam, taxicab, hardy-ramanujam. Nothing works.
- leddt 9y agoramanujan (ends with an N)
- waterphone 9y agon, not m.
- LouisSayers 9y agoAlso 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 } }
- rawnlq 9y ago#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.
- gburt 9y ago230809200519 152120080518 140709011420 Hint: Letters.
- swolchok 9y agosimple A=1 index decodes to WHITESOUTHERNGIANT.
- Judgmentality 9y agowhite southern giant antarctica
- roddds 9y agoWould you mind breaking down how did you arrive to that conclusion?
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- waterphone 9y agoThe 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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- roddds 9y agoStuck on this one as well.
- enthdegree 9y agomuch more natural answers "petrel" 160520180512 nor "fulmar" 062112130118 work
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- Judgmentality 9y agoStop! 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.
- josephan 9y agoweleetka
- Judgmentality 9y agoI'm guessing that's somehow linked to the zip code? I'm not seeing the connection.
- foxhedgehog 9y agoOK = oklahoma...
- waterphone 9y agoStill not clear on the connection outside of the OK portion, where does weleetka come from?
- my_ghola 9y agobinary 00010010010010000000 = decimal 74880
- zaptheimpaler 9y agoInterpreted as binary number (Stop = 0, Start = 1), you get 74880. 74880, OK (Oklahoma) is Weleetka.
- dang 9y agoYou need an extra newline between line breaks. I've added them for you.
- leddt 9y agoLevel 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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- _kush 9y agoConverted the binary to decimal and got 74880. Searched 74880 on Google and got "Weleetka, OK 74880, USA". The answer is "Weleetka".
- arama471 9y agoIf you try a bunch of bogus answers in quick succession you get an ad for a betting site.
- jared0x90 9y agoLevel 26... Did a base 64 decode.. The output looked base64 legal. Decoded that, looked legal again, decoded that... Canabarro Sandow?
- sidcypher 9y ago1867 (Wiki mentions both names)
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- pls2halp 9y ago4chan has the current high score(spoiler warning http://boards.4chan.org/sci/thread/9202862 http://boards.4chan.org/sci/thread/9202862)
- sidcypher 9y agonow how the heck does that drone image translate to deadly sins! :)
- deepanchor 9y agocurious to know this also
- eulo__ 9y agoThere are numbers upside down in the lower left, minus all numbers by 5, replace with alphabet, spells SEVENDANGER
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- inasring 9y agoIt's at 34 0.0
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- foxhedgehog 9y agoStrong Chase Stone Hunt. ???
- golfer 9y agoSomething to do with this artwork: https://chasestone.deviantart.com/art/The-Hunt-83526657 https://chasestone.deviantart.com/art/The-Hunt-83526657 Not sure what though
- codehotter 9y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Strong_(Pennsylvania_judge) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Strong_(Pennsylvania_j... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Chase https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Chase https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlan_F._Stone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlan_F._Stone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Hunt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Hunt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associate_Justice_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associate_Justice_of_the_Supre...
- pjschlic 9y agoSupreme court justices: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Justices_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Justices_of_the_Suprem...
- amingilani 9y agoIt's "justice". Goddamit, it's like my teacher asking me to say exactly what she was thinking.
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- dcow 9y agoD73 S04 P86 B07 S95
- lytedev 9y agoEuropean Union
- dkural 9y ago35: Edxwer Rgnvgy Resxc Iuhnm.
- 0xcde4c3db 9y agoLooks like a substition cipher; the family of solutions that jumps out to me as a possible clue is "[something] seized Savoy until".
- machinelearning 9y agocorpus christi.
- silentbunny 9y agoexplanation: looking at the keyboard those spell out TXCC. There's a town Corpus Cristi, Texas...
- eradicatethots 9y agoFirst letter of alphabet
- deepanchor 9y agoz
- tsukikage 9y agofirst letter of the alphabet is clearly 't', the game is buggy
- gt_ 9y agoIs HN competing with 4chan on this? I'm gonna be pretty disappointed if we lose.
- sidcypher 9y agoNah, 4channers are more numerous and/or have more time on their hands. Edit: besides, we are to collab, not compete.
- eradicatethots 9y agoAlso the culture/format/rules there are way better suited for this
- reificator 9y agoNo, 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.
- nicky0 9y agoIf 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 :)
- songshu 9y agoI 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?
- chris_wot 9y agoIt’s like those on HN never go to 4chan and vice versa...
- roddds 9y ago36 L2:7 1,799,160,000,000 km 1,822,660,000,000 km
- silentbunny 9y agoreduce to ratio 1914:1939, start of the each `world war`
- johnwyles 9y ago35 = corpus christi
- Aaron1011 9y ago18: - .-. .- -. ... .-.. .- - .. --- -.
- Aaron1011 9y agoMorse code: "translation"
- rushabh 9y agoInteresting how this is a great example for on boarding users to a new software, or suck them into completing tougher and tougher tasks. Start with simple questions and tasks and let the user build confidence. Once they answer / complete a few tasks, their ego will push them to take on the next few tasks!
- my_ghola 9y agoSo the final question will be P=NP? It will truly be a never completed game.
- superasn 9y agoMost games do this too, like CCS.
- fragmede 9y agoAdditionally, the challenge in the name - Never Completed Game - luring people in who soon regret their hubris in thinking "how hard could it be?"
- sdrothrock 9y agoI'm thinking this is more of an example of what NOT to do; it's inconsistent and destroys confidence, which in turn makes the user mistrust the author through repeated mistakes and eventually quit. I would argue that far, far more people have fallen to that than some author-instilled urge to continue on due to confidence and ego. For example: "2 + 1 = ?": you are expected to answer with a number to complete the equation. The question mark is a good cue -- you know to answer with a number and not, for example, "addition". "5 x 7 = ?": the same formula as before. You now safely assume that math -- especially math with a "?" after an equals sign -- should be answered with a number. After that, it degenerates into vague riddles where you're left to guess at the intentions of the author, quite literally. The first place this becomes immediately frustrating is: "2,3,5,7,11,13,17 What are they called?" Early versions of this game omitted the second line, leading people to guess "19" as a continuation of the prime sequence. Other popular answers are "prime" or "primes", but the ONLY acceptable answer is "prime numbers." There is no clue leading to the acceptable answer and the only possible way to get it is trial and error or sheer luck. Primed by that, we face the next problem: "3.14159265..." Given past history, we can guess that the author either wants us to continue the sequence (unlikely, given the lack of _ or ? cues) or name the sequence. This would be much clearer with the addition of the words "What is" at the beginning -- this is frustrating BY DESIGN, not clever BECAUSE OF design. A great example of this is the VERY NEXT problem: "1+2+3+...+999+1000" Given the previous cues (? or _ to show a numerical answer is required, ... to show a sequence to be named), the expectation is that this should be named... however, the author really wants the sum of integers 1-1000. Again, this could have been solved easily with a simple, CONSISTENT cue. Imagine trying to onboard users and you just say "a date box" without any indication of what they're supposed to use it for or what the consequences of it are. This game does not build any confidence and should not be likened to good UX design at all.
- my_ghola 9y ago#29 gives me numbers 188, 144, 152, 150, 139, 144, 223, 154, 141, 152, 144, 223, 140, 138, 293. What next?
- leddt 9y agoWow that Q39 was amazing. 4chan is incredible.
- leddt 9y agoSummary: Base 64 encoded gzip, Expanded gives a set of directions (Left Down Right Up) Drawn gives 5138 Flipped upside down gives 2138 2=B 1=A 3=C 8=H, BACH Answer: johann sebastian
- popcorncolonel 9y agoThat's so contrived, and they got it so quickly. And they got #40 even quicker.
- eradicatethots 9y agoIn hindsight it’s not that crazy compared to some of the Args we’ve seen them do. Gripped b64 sounds like it’s been used before even
- 0xcde4c3db 9y agoThat reminds me of a story about an infamous image from an old ARG. http://www.unfiction.com/compendium/2002/11/15/wheregif/ http://www.unfiction.com/compendium/2002/11/15/wheregif/
- Gaelan 9y ago4Chan got it.
- ikeboy 9y ago... and completed
- dcow 9y agoIt's been completed.
- popcorncolonel 9y agoThanks 4chan. It was a lot of fun watching that thread honestly. The collaborative effort was great.
- Gargoyle 9y ago4chan flew through the last several. Amazing work.
- starshadowx2 9y agoI actually want to see a timeline of how long it took for each question. The 4chan posts all have timestamps for when the answers were posted so this shouldn't be too hard to do. There are archives of the older threads as well.
- pls2halp 9y agoThe last few were pretty easy. We were on beat for the cyphers used, and the last one just happened to be picked up by a music nerd.
- kethinov 9y agoI watched it live during the last ten or so. Each question was solved within about fifteen minutes. I tried to contribute to the process, but every time I found a clue, someone beat me to posting about it by a minute or so. The power of collective intelligence is amazing.
- jelly 9y agoBased off when the solutions (or "gotcha" hints) were posted: Q23: 19:28:28 Q24: 19:38:38 Q25: 19:54:52 Q26: 20:02:44 Q27: 20:05:08 Q28: 20:24:09 Q29: 20:27:42 Q30: 21:22:56 Q31: 22:37:51 Q32: 22:53:41 (thread languishes until 2-3 am, few posts are made, a new thread arrives) Q33: 05:05:16 Q34: 05:23:58 Q35: 05:38:09 Q36: 05:54:55 Q37: 06:17:25 Q38: 06:21:57 Q39: 06:47:14 Q40: 06:53:04
- popcorncolonel 9y agoCompleted Game.
- nether 9y agoThus the Formics were defeated.
- splicer 9y ago123567890134567890123456790 I can see the pattern: count successive powers of 2, dropping the digit that would occurred. So the next part of the sequence is 123456789012345678901234567891... etc. But I have no idea how much of the sequence they want me to type in. Very frustrating!
- lordnacho 9y agoForever and ever. (inf symbol) ?
- tamatsyk 9y agoInfinity
- new299 9y agoReminds me of notpron: http://notpron.org/notpron/ http://notpron.org/notpron/ Which was a similarly "impossible" online riddle...
- peteforde 9y agoMy attempts to solve #24 sent me down a really interesting rabbit hole: I was Googling for substrings and found this truly bizarre site that appears to be the WordPress equivalent of a numbers station, likely by someone Russian speaking. https://nihilsphere.wordpress.com/ https://nihilsphere.wordpress.com/ The about page is particularly insightful: https://nihilsphere.wordpress.com/about/ https://nihilsphere.wordpress.com/about/ And perhaps the weirdest thing is that they appear to have a Google Plus profile: https://plus.google.com/110863007377623596048 https://plus.google.com/110863007377623596048 I'm 100% okay with this being a complete red herring wrt the actual answer.
- averell 9y agoIt's just numbers of letters in the alphabet, e.g. 0615180523151804 == "foreword"
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- tomxor 9y agogot to 14... apparently 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 ... 999 + 1000 are not triangle numbers! who knew. I'm not really into synonym games.
- ninjakeyboard 9y agoI was frustrated that "prime" did not work for the primes. Even the SNES version of "family feud" would accept variations on the written answer
- 0xcde4c3db 9y agoI'm guessing you already know this since you brought up this specific game/version, but it seems to accept any answer with a subsequence matching its list of synonyms, which can be abused for tomfoolery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrWR5DqG4ZI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrWR5DqG4ZI
- ninjakeyboard 9y agoBAHAHA completely coincidental! Thanks for the link. My wife and I just tried to play this game on a Pi a few weeks back and I remember being surprised by the fact that the game would accept my answers.
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- PaulHoule 9y agoWho wants to be a millionaire?
- andrepd 9y agoQuestion 17 doesn't accept "taxicab number".
- MattLeBlanc001 9y agoTry the name of the guy who came up with it.
- goloroden 9y agoAny hint on 30?
- jimmeyotoole 9y agobump!
- havardk 9y agoPresident of the United States of America
- plank 9y agoGot as far as number 12: did not accept prime as answer...
- pacuna 9y agoprime numbers
- fapjacks 9y agoMany of the answers are stupidly narrow.
- bmmayer1 9y agoThis is basically Godtower[1] [1]http://www.godtower.com/ http://www.godtower.com/
- 0xcde4c3db 9y agoI don't see how to even start. Does it require Flash or something?
- nailer 9y agoData entry font doesn't include the stars necessary to answer question (Chrome, Windows): http://prntscr.com/gs9875 http://prntscr.com/gs9875
- starshadowx2 9y agoJust count the stars and put in the number.