Never Completed Game

[pls2halp]

4chan has the current high score(spoiler warning http://boards.4chan.org/sci/thread/9202862)

[larkeith]

They just completed it, verified on my end.

http://boards.4chan.org/sci/thread/9202862#p9203437

[sidcypher]

now how the heck does that drone image translate to deadly sins! :)

[deepanchor]

aaaannnd they finished.

[inasring]

It's at 34 0.0

[rawnlq]

They are on the last puzzle now!

#33 - european union

#34 - horror movie

#35 - corpus christi

#36 - world war

#37 - plato

#38 - isaac newton

#39 - johann sebastian

[sidcypher]

For "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]

Yeah, and it takes "prime numbers" but not "primes". Kind of annoying.

[rushabh]

Interesting 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!

[new299]

Reminds me of notpron: http://notpron.org/notpron/

Which was a similarly "impossible" online riddle...

[ninjakeyboard]

I 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]

I'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

[peteforde]

My 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/

The about page is particularly insightful: 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

I'm 100% okay with this being a complete red herring wrt the actual answer.

[averell]

It's just numbers of letters in the alphabet, e.g. 0615180523151804 == "foreword"

[golfer]

---- . ------ ------ --------- --

struggling on this one.. (not morse code)

[dcow]

It's been completed.

[popcorncolonel]

Thanks 4chan. It was a lot of fun watching that thread honestly. The collaborative effort was great.

[larkeith]

The anon of the hour: http://boards.4chan.org/sci/thread/9202862#p9203437

[Gargoyle]

4chan flew through the last several. Amazing work.

[leddt]

Level 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

[_kush]

Converted the binary to decimal and got 74880. Searched 74880 on Google and got "Weleetka, OK 74880, USA". The answer is "Weleetka".

[leddt]

Wow that Q39 was amazing. 4chan is incredible.

[leddt]

Summary:

    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

[0xcde4c3db]

That reminds me of a story about an infamous image from an old ARG.

http://www.unfiction.com/compendium/2002/11/15/wheregif/

[arama471]

If you try a bunch of bogus answers in quick succession you get an ad for a betting site.

[gt_]

Is HN competing with 4chan on this? I'm gonna be pretty disappointed if we lose.

[reificator]

No, 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.

[songshu]

I 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?

[sidcypher]

Nah, 4channers are more numerous and/or have more time on their hands.

Edit: besides, we are to collab, not compete.

[nether]

Thus the Formics were defeated.

[jared0x90]

Level 26... Did a base 64 decode.. The output looked base64 legal. Decoded that, looked legal again, decoded that... Canabarro Sandow?

[sidcypher]

1867 (Wiki mentions both names)

[fapjacks]

Many of the answers are stupidly narrow.

[splicer]

123567890134567890123456790

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!

[tjwio]

It’s much more simple it’s just 428 cause it’s missing those numbers

[my_ghola]

It's simpler than that.

[nailer]

Data entry font doesn't include the stars necessary to answer question (Chrome, Windows):

http://prntscr.com/gs9875

[eradicatethots]

First letter of alphabet

[tsukikage]

first letter of the alphabet is clearly 't', the game is buggy

[deepanchor]

z

[Judgmentality]

Stop! 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.

[dang]

You need an extra newline between line breaks. I've added them for you.

[josephan]

weleetka

[Gaelan]

4Chan got it.