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Show HN: AVP 42 – A Puzzle Website
- avp42 12y agoIf anyone has any questions or needs help on any puzzles, I'd be happy to answer them in this thread.
- 2arrs2ells 12y agoFor what it's worth, the level solution hashes in github are pretty googleable. (Easier to google than your name, I found!)
- amass 12y agoBut why would you want to?
- Mandatum 12y agoMarvin isn't your name.. It's Aakash? What the hell!
- mijoharas 12y agoI'm very confused, I've solved the cipher for level 4 but I can't get to the next level by typing it in? Ahhh, you just type in the last word. Solved.
- kapep 12y agoAny more hints on level 9? The ones given don't help me to figure out how to even start. "Flip-flop", like in a circuit? Those could do a myriad of things to encode the message. "the second word" .. is the decoded message the first word or is it refering to 8bit words or something?
- avp42 12y agoI think you're trying too hard on the "flip-flop" clue.
- Paul_Dessert 12y agoYou're going to kill my productivity tonight! ;) Isn't the answer on level 2 "robot"?
- avp42 12y agoRobots can have names, too.
- ars 12y agoYou have a typo in level 2 - you have <title> after </head>
- ars 12y agoI figured out what to do for puzzle 4, but not the keyword I need. I notice the title is the word keyword, but not sure what that means.
- zvrba 12y agoI have to register to try it. No-go.
- ars 12y agoNah, the registration is nothing. Username/password, no email address.
- Mandatum 12y agoHaha, I'm on 11.. On the verge of it and I can see YOUTRDLOGETMTEOTHENNEXTLEVIEL "YOU GET ME THE NEXT LEVEL" in it.. Ffffuuuuu!
- Kiro 12y agoThis shouldn't require registration. At least let me try a few levels first. In fact, I think you should just be thrown in a level straight away.
- anirudhrata 12y agoThis doesn't even need an email. So what is the problem.
- vertex-four 12y agoI couldn't be bothered coming up with a username and password for something that I only know is a "puzzle game", with no further information.
- Kiro 12y agoThe problem is that most people won't even click the "Register" link. For me personally it has nothing to do with email though. It's an obstacle which I can't be bothered with, even if it's just username and password.
- drz 12y agoThe advantage of making you register is tracking your progress (and analytics, for the benefit of the webmaster). I suppose it could give you the option to just set a cookie, but that has the disadvantage of being device-specific. Also, some browser crashes can wipe out recently set cookies.
- aptwebapps 12y agoSite is down ...
- anmonteiro90 12y agois not http://isup.me/http://www.avp42.com/ http://isup.me/http://www.avp42.com/
- aptwebapps 12y agoIt's back up. Was giving bad gateway errors for a few minutes.
- drz 12y agoThe questions need to accept more alternate phrasings. I spent at least five minutes feeding alternate phrasings and spellings to 3 until it accepted one. They were all semantically/informationally equivalent. They would all have been accepted by, say, a fair pub quiz judge.
- anmonteiro90 12y agoI'm feeling so dumb right now; I've tried so many Caesar's Cypher combinations for problem 3 and can't seem to find the right answer. Tips?
- drz 12y agoThere are only 25 possible settings for a Caesarean cipher. You may be thinking of a substitution cipher, but the clue indicates a Caesarian cipher, as you correctly figured out. The problem is probably that you're feeding a correct answer in a phrasing that the system will not accept.
- wiml 12y agoYou could bruteforce all 25 possible keys ... but the key is right next to the Caesar cipher clue.
- avp42 12y agoCan you send an email to help@avp42.com with some examples of alternate phrasings (to avoid spoilers)?
- PranY 12y agoI know what ^ operator means in python and I tried that on given binary strings, It says password is not number so I am trying hex, still no luck ! Hints please : Level 5
- lloeki 12y agobytes
- underlines 12y agoI am a Web Analyst and I see a big point here in using google analytics. Are you adding/removing hints based on the through-put rate, average-page-time per each level etc? This would give you bare data on where you need to add/remove hints.
- mordicuac 12y agoI am stuck in the 8, maybe is something related with the american culture and I don't know it because I'm spanish. The first part drives me nowhere, The second one is a christmas song The third one Legendary -> Barney? What I'm missing?
- cezarywojcik 12y agoLevel 7 should specify that C can't be 0. That held me up for a bit.
- teh_klev 12y agoI've solved level 4 but regardless of what I enter: - the whole phrase with and without spaces - each individual word ...and in upper and lower case, yet it still won't let me move to the next level. I'm bored now and going to the pub.
- chardsky 12y agoSo I managed to get passed level 11 with a little hand-waving but am still not sure how to get to the answer properly. Any hints?
- cezarywojcik 12y agoIt's a word search. There are 11 countries. Find them all.
- sta12quest 12y agoNeed help on 16. I think I've figured out the first part from the hint, but I'm stuck on the second part. Any hints?