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Here is a puzzle entitled "lowercase"
- mistercow 13y agosix 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". Edit: OK, I got it. Tricksy tricksy.
- MIT_Hacker 13y agoLet's hope HN can help me with this. Trying to go through the puzzle and brute-forcing with a dictionary.
- sp332 13y agoIf you want help, here are the first few ROT-13'd http://www.rot13.com http://www.rot13.com -b-a-r- -q-b-a-r- -z-n-a- -z-n-a-r- -a-n-z-r- -r-a-n-z-r-y-
- MIT_Hacker 13y agoWe just got that last one but haven't been able to advance!
- MIT_Hacker 13y agoWelp. Brute-forced and got all the single-word answers, but some of the answers are multi-word.
- jenrzzz 13y ago4a) bgure.ugz 4b) bagureha.ugz (Pink Floyd!) 5a) vgevrq.ugz 5b.1) ohevrq.cat
- jtheory 13y agofor the one after that, you need to fix the grammatical mistake, and the typo. - hey, ninja'd by an edit! - 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)
- diggum 13y agoyeah, I'm stuck on five:a. --------------------- buried. 7S144E <!-- greenwich --> ---------------------- 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.
- jtheory 13y agoIt's in PNG, not south of it: https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=-7.0,144.0 https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q... Ah, duh. And I'm giving hints before I myself realized the answer.
- jenrzzz 13y agoJust got it, finally! Gotta check your assumptions.
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- mauricio-OH 13y agoHow does it work? what's the URL of the second step?
- jlgreco 13y agorot13("qbar") I got that one just by guessing, I don't really get how this works.
- chengsun 13y agoAt the bottom of one.htm it asks you whether you've finished reading the instructions; to which you answer the affirmative. one.htm also states that only slight modifications are needed between the two sections (only one letter needs to be inserted)
- jlgreco 13y agoYeah, 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?
- GhotiFish 13y agoIt's basically a sequence of riddles. Not a technical challenge.
- PebblesRox 13y agoSo far they seem like riddles to me.
- knappe 13y agodone?
- rjvir 13y agoI guess that's a part of the challenge. There's nothing on the page that indicates what the second step could be, I gave up.
- nijk 13y agoPutting hints in source is unhelpful in mobile. Is there a jquery plugin to provide an alternate mechanism for puzzle writers?
- jonjohn84 13y agofrom done.htm it looks like the next answer is ginger bread man but I can't figure out what the right url for it should be...
- mistercow 13y agoPay attention to the number of underscores.
- acjohnson55 13y agoSame here. And I felt so smart after getting the first step!
- MIT_Hacker 13y agoIt's just "man"
- smacktoward 13y agoSPOILER ALERT It's "man.htm". yccmitg__ == "you can't catch me I'm the gingerbread _man_".
- jtheory 13y agoThere'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...).
- geon 13y agoSupposedly it is the catchphrase of the gingerbread man. http://www.folktale.net/GBman.html 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.
- jtheory 13y agoOh, come on -- don't cheat! 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.
- trjordan 13y agoThat was Stripe's Capture the Flag: https://stripe-ctf.com/ https://stripe-ctf.com/ Super fun!
- alcidesfonseca 13y agoYears ago I played notpr0n, which is a puzzle very similar, in which you use links, urls and other web-based "locks" to advance to the next level. http://notpron.org/notpron/ http://notpron.org/notpron/ It is also interesting for non-geeks to learn about how the internet (and computers) work.
- adsche 13y agoNice! Reminds me of notpron[0] which entertained me for weeks. [0] http://notpron.org/notpron/levelone.htm http://notpron.org/notpron/levelone.htm
- hilem 13y agoSPOILER ALERT four is adam
- jenrzzz 13y agoAdam is #7
- diggum 13y agoI've got to five:a but I've hit a bit of a roadblock.
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- jtheory 13y agoPlease use ROT-13 if you want to give answers; http://www.rot13.com http://www.rot13.com 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.
- vampirechicken 13y agofurrfu!
- Bhel 13y agoAny idea on 5a? It gives you a pair of coordinates which point to Papua New Guinea (according to Gmaps), yet the source makes a Greenwich reference.
- jdtw 13y agoThe Greenwich reference is just to let you know that you're dealing with a latitude and longitude.
- GhotiFish 13y agohow can you spot a lyin' male in a crowd of females? The answer to this was NOT apple.htm lol
- fivethirty 13y agoThis brings back fond memories of thisisnotporn, which sadly seems to have vanished from the internet.
- neil_s 13y agoOblique spoiler alert? What does a cow's leer mean? I can't think of any permutations of the letters in 'name' that make sense.