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Puzzle for Hackers: From A to craZy.
- lordlicorice 14y agoAre there supposed to be instructions to this somewhere?
- Tim-Boss 14y agostuck on dad... :/
- liaowang11 14y agome too...
- moubarak 14y agoeve
- v0cab 14y agoI still don't get it.
- ars 14y agoWhat's the name of the first dad.
- saintfiends 14y agoI think it's more helpful to think palindromes starting with 'e'
- stephengillie 14y agoIt said "a" I typed "a" It still said "a" I didn't know what to do, so I left.
- jimm 14y agoThat's not the only answer it accepts. I'm stuck on "india". Edit: Got it. On to the next one.
- JSGraef 14y agoBy now you may recognize that each hint uses letters preceding the current letter, therefore use that to guide you on a new answer. After all, it's a hint for a reason :). So for dad, what can you do with the "d" to make it somehow an "e"?
- lordlicorice 14y agoThe families of solutions are described by the puzzle's author here: http://apps.topcoder.com/forums/?module=Thread&threadID=512073&mc=149&view=threaded http://apps.topcoder.com/forums/?module=Thread&threadID=...
- fredley 14y agoDoing fine until giraffe, completely stumped.
- stefanve 14y agokeeps me from my work, must go back to work, must go
- indiecore 14y agoStuck on off :(
- banter 14y agoYou'll need a three-letter word that ends in "gg" since g is the next letter in the alphabet.
- alainbryden 14y agoThis is getting tricky. It might be faster to write a brute-forcing Greasemonkey script. edit Please no one do this.
- aqme28 14y agoCan I ask what makes this "for hackers"?
- brink 14y agoThere are hints in the source code.
- aqme28 14y agoAre there? I see two relevant fields: <input type="hidden" name="pans" value=[previous answer]/> <input type="hidden" name="hint" value=[current question]/> Neither one tells you anything you don't already know without the source code.
- Joeboy 14y agoThe first two answers are in the source of their questions, which helps get started. I haven't seen any similar hints further on though (up to j).
- recursive 14y agoThis is the worst kind of puzzle, in the company of "There's a dead man in a cabin in the woods with items x, y, and z. How did he die?". The "correct" answers are completely arbitrary and the rules change as it goes along.
- alainbryden 14y agoI like it. It's more a game of psychology than logic or reasoning - you need to get into the author's frame of mind to come up with the same solutions he did.
- jbum 14y agoGoogle 'accition' to find the answers in paste bin.