Answers: 1) http://www.toughestdeveloperpuzzleever.com/tdpe/level1.aspx http://www.toughestdeveloperpuzzleever.com/tdpe/level1.aspx Click on the knob 2) http

Answers: 1) http://www.toughestdeveloperpuzzleever.com/tdpe/level1.aspx http://www.toughestdeveloperpuzzleever.com/tdpe/level1.aspx Click on the knob 2) http://www.toughestdeveloperpuzzleever.com/tdpe/level2.aspx http://www.toughestdeveloperpuzzleever.com/tdpe/level2.aspx Read sentence and type this: 3) http://www.toughestdeveloperpuzzleever.com/tdpe/level3.aspx http://www.toughestdeveloperpuzzleever.com/tdpe/level3.aspx View page source and type this: 4) http://www.jeffblankenburg.com/tdpe/jeff.aspx http://www.jeffblankenburg.com/tdpe/jeff.aspx View source, copy-paste to calc in bin mode, convert to hex, pair of 2 hex: U: 69,68,65,61,72,74 and P: 73,6F,66,74,77,61,72,65 open an ASCII hex chart table and translate (61-79 is a-z lowercase): Type Username: iheart Password: software and Proceed 5) http://www.jeffblankenburg.com/tdpe/thatisnotenglish.aspx http://www.jeffblankenburg.com/tdpe/thatisnotenglish.aspx View source, image is called wingdings.png, open WordPad, type a-z in lowercase in wingding font match the image symbols, convert to arial, copy-paste. Type Username: wheelof Password: jeopardy and Proceed 6) http://www.jeffblankenburg.com/tdpe/yesthatisjavascript.aspx http://www.jeffblankenburg.com/tdpe/yesthatisjavascript.aspx #cns Read the script, copy/paste in an HTML dummy page, fix bugs, it should be: regexp.exec() (c missing) checkNonInteger() (n missing) primes[] (s missing) Type solution: cns and Proceed 7) http://www.jeffblankenburg.com/tdpe/algebra.aspx http://www.jeffblankenburg.com/tdpe/algebra.aspx Substitute downward until you get: 1+x+x+x+x=89 x=(89-1)/4 Type x=22 and Proceed 8) http://www.jeffblankenburg.com/tdpe/sudoku.aspx http://www.jeffblankenburg.com/tdpe/sudoku.aspx By simple deduction, it cannot be 2,3,5,6,7 so you are left with 1,4,8,9 Either solve the puzzle or just try them all four, one by one. Type x=9 and Proceed. 9) http://www.jeffblankenburg.com/tdpe/BOSSLEVEL.aspx http://www.jeffblankenburg.com/tdpe/BOSSLEVEL.aspx Two different ways: Open the JavaScript code translate into keys and do it. Search on Google: "Contra 30 lives" Open IE for this one, it is broken in Firefox 3. Press: UP,UP,DOWN,DOWN,LEFT,RIGHT,LEFT,RIGHT,B,A 10) http://www.jeffblankenburg.com/tdpe/notourprincess.aspx http://www.jeffblankenburg.com/tdpe/notourprincess.aspx View source, click the image... 11) http://codinggeekette.com/tdpe/mybff.aspx http://codinggeekette.com/tdpe/mybff.aspx View source, look for that sentence in Google. Type: http://www.codinggeekette.com/tdpe/mybff.aspx?user=software&pw=change http://www.codinggeekette.com/tdpe/mybff.aspx?user=software&... 12) http://www.codinggeekette.com/tdpe/monumental.aspx http://www.codinggeekette.com/tdpe/monumental.aspx Does not work anymore... Type: http://www.codinggeekette.com/tdpe/sequencename.aspx?rnd=fibonacci http://www.codinggeekette.com/tdpe/sequencename.aspx?rnd=fib... 13) http://www.codinggeekette.com/tdpe/calcwords.aspx http://www.codinggeekette.com/tdpe/calcwords.aspx http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob (Hint: Melinda Gates was the project manager) gOOgLE, BOB, BIOS, LEgOS (reverse with digits, if not convince try with a real calculator) Type: 376006, 808, 5018, 50637 and Proceed 14) http://www.codinggeekette.com/tdpe/notasnake.aspx http://www.codinggeekette.com/tdpe/notasnake.aspx Search on Google: "Zen of python" Type: import this and Proceed 15) http://www.codinggeekette.com/tdpe/idclipdoom.aspx http://www.codinggeekette.com/tdpe/idclipdoom.aspx Search on Google: "Doom I" cheat code next level Type: IDSPISPOPD 16) http://www.codinggeekette.com/tdpe/showmethevariables.aspx http://www.codinggeekette.com/tdpe/showmethevariables.aspx Try the common server config display http://php.net/phpinfo http://php.net/phpinfo Type: phpinfo(); 17) http://www.codinggeekette.com/tdpe/oldschool.aspx http://www.codinggeekette.com/tdpe/oldschool.aspx http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC, wikipedia says 1946... try 1945. Type Username: eniac Password: 1945 and Proceed 18) http://www.codinggeekette.com/tdpe/chinchillas.aspx http://www.codinggeekette.com/tdpe/chinchillas.aspx Search on Google: smalltalk chinchillas implementation http://www.squeak.org/ http://www.squeak.org/ Type: squeak and Proceed 19) http://www.codinggeekette.com/tdpe/icanhazcode.aspx http://www.codinggeekette.com/tdpe/icanhazcode.aspx Search on Google: "CAN HAS STDIO?" Example ends with: KTHXBYE Type: KTHXBYE and Proceed 20) http://www.codinggeekette.com/tdpe/kthxbye.aspx http://www.codinggeekette.com/tdpe/kthxbye.aspx View source, click the image 21) http://brendan.enrick.com/tdpe/untitled.aspx http://brendan.enrick.com/tdpe/untitled.aspx Use code above to find the correct number. Type: 1162564096 and Proceed 22) http://brendan.enrick.com/tdpe/icecream.aspx http://brendan.enrick.com/tdpe/icecream.aspx Call ancestor class first in order (implicit super() being called) Type: 134124 and Proceed, then click on the link 23) http://brendan.enrick.com/tdpe/threelawsofrobotics.aspx?x=RobotWithIceCream http://brendan.enrick.com/tdpe/threelawsofrobotics.aspx?x=Ro... Search on Google: "robot laws" Answer also in view source Type: http://brendan.enrick.com/tdpe/threelawsofrobotics.aspx?x=Asimov http://brendan.enrick.com/tdpe/threelawsofrobotics.aspx?x=As... 24) http://brendan.enrick.com/tdpe/level24.aspx?x=superSecretExtraPart http://brendan.enrick.com/tdpe/level24.aspx?x=superSecretExt... Open level24.js or secret.js Type: thisistheanswer and Proceed, then type URL: 25) http://toughestdeveloperpuzzleever.com/tdpe/level25.aspx http://toughestdeveloperpuzzleever.com/tdpe/level25.aspx Read 404 message, compare to a real one, it says in suffix: ", but it's more likely you're being fooled." View source, read stack trace: "at System.Web.UI.ThisIsAFakeErrorPage.YouCanGetPastIt.GetToNextPuzzle(ToughestDeveloper puzzleEver, DotCom slash, TdpeSlash level, TwentySix dotAspx)" 26) http://toughestdeveloperpuzzleever.com/Tdpe/levelTwentySix.aspx http://toughestdeveloperpuzzleever.com/Tdpe/levelTwentySix.a... View source, either use show cookie, Firebug or HTTP Live headers: Cookie header says: nextLevel=--> http://www.toughestdeveloperpuzzleever.com/tdpe/twoseven.aspx http://www.toughestdeveloperpuzzleever.com/tdpe/twoseven.asp... <--; 27) http://www.toughestdeveloperpuzzleever.com/tdpe/twoseven.aspx http://www.toughestdeveloperpuzzleever.com/tdpe/twoseven.asp... and http://jexed.com/tdpe/twentyseventext.aspx http://jexed.com/tdpe/twentyseventext.aspx "Take the first one each time. They'll get you the distance." The author means take each page name and plug it into the leveinstein function, you will get the word distance of 8, which is the number of words in: "This is not the hint. Seriously stop checking." Search on Google: distance algorithm http://php.net/manual/en/function.levenshtein.php http://php.net/manual/en/function.levenshtein.php 28) http://jexed.com/tdpe/levenshtein.aspx http://jexed.com/tdpe/levenshtein.aspx <?php echo levenshtein("killer","bunnies"); // output 6 Type 6 and Proceed 29) http://jexed.com/tdpe/pingpong.aspx http://jexed.com/tdpe/pingpong.aspx Now, compare those two images: http://jexed.com/tdpe/assets/images/pingpong.png http://jexed.com/tdpe/assets/images/pingpong.png Search on Google Images: ping pong tournament http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1121/1098453615_f41fb895bd.jpg http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1121/1098453615_f41fb895bd.jp... The title is different, now read the sentence: "There's a command in that image. Maybe you should start following instructions." open a command prompt, type: "ping pong.com", you get: "Pinging pong.com [68.178.232.99] with 32 bytes of data:" Type one number in each box "68 178 232 99" and Proceed 30) http://jexed.com/tdpe/congratulations.aspx http://jexed.com/tdpe/congratulations.aspx View page source and figure it out yourself :D