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L'lanmal
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 Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2013 7:04 pm Post subject: 41 |
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Out Too Tea (Out to sea)
Best Ion Shot (Best in show)
Bill Of Fires (Ball of Fire?)
esme: Sure, I know the meta-answer |
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novice
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| Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2013 7:12 pm Post subject: 42 |
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G AO Coal Gas Ice (Cool as Ice)
H EY Height Craze Nights (Eight Crazy Nights)
O TW Best Ion Shot (Best in show)
S CD Yankees Doodle Candy
P NL Net Pit Ride (Let It Ride)
R TN Stranger That Friction
I HO Odd Main Hut (Odd Man Out)
E FL Thee Fast Samurai
S IA Bill of fires (ball of fire)
E KN Thee Big Greek (The Big Green)
C CS Con in claw (son in law)
N EY West Snide Store
A LR May Fail Lady
S EO Mrs. Peppers Penguins (mr. Popper's penguins)
E ME Dinner Eat Might (Dinner at Eight)
L UI Prude Land Glory
L OA Meet Joel Block
C RE Rat Pray Clove (Eat Pray Love)
E IN Side Aid Nancy (Sid and Nancy)
C AE Call About Eva (All About Eve)
O BK Hoard to Bill (Hard to Kill)
O TS Out Too Tea (Out to sea)
N UA Without An Puddle (Without A Paddle)
I HS I aim Ham (I am Sam)
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esme
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| Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2013 7:20 pm Post subject: 43 |
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| L'lanmal wrote: |
esme: Sure, I know the meta-answer |
Thx, PM sent.
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novice
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| Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2013 9:28 pm Post subject: 44 |
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1933 E ME Dinner Eat Might (Dinner at Eight)
1941 S IA Bill of fires (ball of fire)
1942 S CD Yankees Doodle Candy
1947 I HO Odd Main Hut (Odd Man Out)
1950 C AE Call About Eva (All About Eve)
1961 N EY West Snide Store
1964 A LR May Fail Lady
1986 E IN Side Aid Nancy (Sid and Nancy)
1989 P NL Net Pit Ride (Let It Ride)
1990 O BK Hoard to Bill (Hard to Kill)
1991 G AO Coal Gas Ice (Cool as Ice)
1993 C CS Con in claw (son in law)
1995 E KN Thee Big Greek (The Big Green)
1997 O TS Out Too Tea (Out to sea)
1998 L OA Meet Joel Block
2000 O TW Best Ion Shot (Best in show)
2001 I HS I aim Ham (I am Sam)
2002 H EY Height Craze Nights (Eight Crazy Nights)
2003 E FL Thee Fast Samurai
2004 N UA Without An Puddle (Without A Paddle)
2006 R TN Stranger That Friction
2008 L UI Prude Land Glory
2010 C RE Rat Pray Clove (Eat Pray Love)
2011 S EO Mrs. Peppers Penguins (mr. Popper's penguins)
Call in MICHAEL J. FOX |
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esme
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| Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2013 9:37 pm Post subject: 45 |
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Call in MICHAEL J. FOX |
This is not the correct answer.
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novice
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| Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2013 10:29 pm Post subject: 46 |
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| esme wrote: |
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Call in MICHAEL J. FOX |
This is not the correct answer. |
But it's 11 letters and all...  |
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gftt*
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| Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2013 10:44 pm Post subject: 47 |
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| novice wrote: |
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| novice wrote: |
Call in MICHAEL J. FOX |
This is not the correct answer. |
But it's 11 letters and all... |
That's what my team thought, too. To save some time, FOX, J. FOX, MICHAEL ANDREW FOX and all other variations of his name are incorrect. |
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novice
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| Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2013 11:09 pm Post subject: 48 |
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Call in PROTAGONIST, then.
Although that would have been MARTYINBACKTOTHEFUTURE, I suppose. |
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gftt*
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| Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 12:58 am Post subject: 49 |
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| PROTAGONIST is also incorrect. |
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L'lanmal
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| Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 1:29 am Post subject: 50 |
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The changed letters sorted by year gave "Michael in Back to the Future".
But this hasn't made use of the added letters, and as I said earlier I expect the rows and columns of the original layout of the words to matter.
Going back to the original grid, the added letters appear one per row. From top to bottom:
C law
H eight
E at
S yankee
S fire
P it
I am
E the
C love
E the
O in
N side
A my
S mr
I man
N a
G as
L and
E sid
C all
O hard
L joe
O to
R fiction
"Michael in Back to the Future" + "Chess Piece on a single color"
Even though I hadn't looked at this puzzle, I sort of know what the answer should be, so someone else should probably make the final call. |
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L'lanmal
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| Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 3:31 am Post subject: 51 |
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| Ah, screw it. Call in MARTY BISHOP. Let's move on to Open Secrets |
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esme
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| Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 9:02 am Post subject: 52 |
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| L'lanmal wrote: |
| Ah, screw it. Call in MARTY BISHOP. Let's move on to Open Secrets |
Correct, of course (I do like the way they clued the names, it is not apparent without all the information, but quite clear that one has the right solution at the end). I have no idea whatsoever for Open Secrets and would totally go for backsolving in a hunt. The only line I recognize is the one with the unicode characters. The top reminds me of flag colors and TV test pictures.
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Scurra
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| Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 11:15 am Post subject: 53 |
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The bottom line is Dancing Men. It appears to say R(?)OYAL ARCH (the flag indicates "end of word")
Not sure what the second letter is, as the missing arms make it hard to tell; it could be bclmnsy (or possibly 2468 if it turns out this is a sort order, since it appears to be an insertion.)
edit:
Ante-penultimate line is Pigpen. It says OA(O)SIS OF LIFE WATER
Penultimate line is Gnommish from Artemis Fowl (I remember decoding the original myself a decade or so ago!) It reads ORANGE D(Y)ARTWING
Looks like there are surplus letters. not a sort order.
edit2;
Line 4 is the Futurama script. It says ELEMENTAR(H)Y.
Elementary might refer to Sherlock Holmes.
Aha. A bit of googling, and I discover that Royal Arch is a reference to Freemasonry, and what I knew as the Pigpen cipher is also a Masonic code.
Oasis of Life Water appears to refer to a videogame called Commander Keen. The Orange Dartwing meanwhile appears in Skyrim. I am now looking up codes in those games...
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Scurra
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| Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 11:32 am Post subject: 54 |
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OK, so line 5 is the Standard Galactic Alphabet from Commander Keen, and reads MYLO(K) XYLOTO. This was the title of a Coldplay album, and they also did one called X&Y which had the colour bars on it, which was a version of the Baudot code.
edit: the top line is AQUA(?) MAGNA (not sure what the fifth letter is.) And this refers to Bionicle, and the sixth line is from there.
And that reads NEVER(O)MORE. Not sure what that might be referring to (other than The Raven...)
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Scurra
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| Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 12:01 pm Post subject: 55 |
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| And that reads NEVER(O)MORE. Not sure what that might be referring to (other than The Raven...) |
D'oh. A few minutes later and I remember The Gold Bug.
Second line is COLFE(R)R, which leads to Artemis Fowl.
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Scurra
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| Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 12:03 pm Post subject: 56 |
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X&Y baudot: AQUA(?) MAGNA (ref. Bionicle)
gold bug: COLFE(R)R (ref. Artemis Fowl)
daedric: DOCTOR WE(F)RNSTROM (ref. Futurama)
futurama: ELEMENTAR(H)Y (ref. Holmes)
standard galactic: MYL(K)O XYLOTO (ref. Coldplay)
bionicle: NEVER(O)MORE (ref. Edgar Allen Poe)
masons: OA(O)SIS OF LIFE WATER (ref. Commander Keen)
gnommish: ORANGE D(Y)ARTWING (ref. Skyrim??)
dancing men: R(?)OYAL ARCH (ref. Freemasons)
Sorting into chain order and edited once I spotted the clue:
R(?)OYAL ARCH
OA(O)SIS OF LIFE WATER
MYL(K)O XYLOTO
AQUA(?) MAGNA
NEVER(O)MORE
COLFE(R)R
ORANGE D(Y)ARTWING
DOCTOR WE(F)RNSTROM
ELEMENTAR(H)Y
Initial letters read ROMAN CODE
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Scurra
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| Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 12:17 pm Post subject: 57 |
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?OK?ORYFH when given a "proper" Caesar shift (i.e. of 3, which is what Julius used) gives ?RN?RUBIK
Which is good, because I know ERNO RUBIK is the correct answer. 
That was a very pleasant diversion; nicely accessible and with steps that lead naturally to each other. I didn't see this one originally because I was doing the "decoding sentences that lead to provinces" one instead.
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esme
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| Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 1:21 pm Post subject: 58 |
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| Scurra wrote: |
That was a very pleasant diversion; nicely accessible and with steps that lead naturally to each other. |
Ok, yes it is sort of nice. Except the Pigpen code is the only one I know and I really would expect it to have right angles. (.... grumble... grapes ... sour... )
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esme
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| Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 1:23 pm Post subject: 59 |
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| "proper" Caesar shift (i.e. of 3, which is what Julius used) |
Ok, now I have learned something new.
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gftt*
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| Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 2:11 pm Post subject: 60 |
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Great!
Now that we have all 6 answers (MAXWELL SMART is the answer to Thomas Crown Scare), if anyone wants to work on the meta they should feel free to PM me with a potential answer. It's not one that is all that interesting to do on the board. I'm guessing Esme solved it already?
Moving on to Ocean's 11:
This Page Intentionally Left Blank
Have at it! |
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gftt*
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| Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 2:17 pm Post subject: 61 |
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I should add that this particular meta is probably a *lot* more fun if you try to do it without one answer.
Also, I know most of the tricks for ...Intentionally Left Blank so I'll stay silent. |
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esme
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| Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 2:42 pm Post subject: 62 |
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I'm guessing Esme solved it already?
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Yes, it is pretty straightforward, except that the final answer is somewhat ambiguous.
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novice
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| Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2013 6:48 pm Post subject: 63 |
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Well, the blank page has 10 invisible links to blank.<format> files in 10 different formats, listed alphabetically.
.class - Java compiled class file, I assume
.html - blank html file, contains just the html opening and closing tags
.pdf - 128 blank pages of a pdf document, although something's funky, as the page switching buttons in Adobe Reader show 150 pages. Apparently some of the numbered pages span multiple A4 sheets or something.
.png - 8-bit 72dpi 181x181 pixel white image, with rgb(223,223,223) defined as its border color
.ps - postscript file. Seems to contain some info, maybe white on white vector graphics?
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%!PS-Adobe-3.0
%%Creator: cairo 1.12.8 (http://cairographics.org)
%%CreationDate: Tue Dec 4 21:57:16 2012
%%Pages: 1
%%DocumentData: Clean7Bit
%%LanguageLevel: 2
%%DocumentMedia: 279x279mm 792 792 0 () ()
%%BoundingBox: 0 0 792 792
%%EndComments
%%BeginProlog
/languagelevel where
{ pop languagelevel } { 1 } ifelse
2 lt { /Helvetica findfont 12 scalefont setfont 50 500 moveto
(This print job requires a PostScript Language Level 2 printer.) show
showpage quit } if
/q { gsave } bind def
/Q { grestore } bind def
/cm { 6 array astore concat } bind def
/w { setlinewidth } bind def
/J { setlinecap } bind def
/j { setlinejoin } bind def
/M { setmiterlimit } bind def
/d { setdash } bind def
/m { moveto } bind def
/l { lineto } bind def
/c { curveto } bind def
/h { closepath } bind def
/re { exch dup neg 3 1 roll 5 3 roll moveto 0 rlineto
0 exch rlineto 0 rlineto closepath } bind def
/S { stroke } bind def
/f { fill } bind def
/f* { eofill } bind def
/n { newpath } bind def
/W { clip } bind def
/W* { eoclip } bind def
/BT { } bind def
/ET { } bind def
/pdfmark where { pop globaldict /?pdfmark /exec load put }
{ globaldict begin /?pdfmark /pop load def /pdfmark
/cleartomark load def end } ifelse
/BDC { mark 3 1 roll /BDC pdfmark } bind def
/EMC { mark /EMC pdfmark } bind def
/cairo_store_point { /cairo_point_y exch def /cairo_point_x exch def } def
/Tj { show currentpoint cairo_store_point } bind def
/TJ {
{
dup
type /stringtype eq
{ show } { -0.001 mul 0 cairo_font_matrix dtransform rmoveto } ifelse
} forall
currentpoint cairo_store_point
} bind def
/cairo_selectfont { cairo_font_matrix aload pop pop pop 0 0 6 array astore
cairo_font exch selectfont cairo_point_x cairo_point_y moveto } bind def
/Tf { pop /cairo_font exch def /cairo_font_matrix where
{ pop cairo_selectfont } if } bind def
/Td { matrix translate cairo_font_matrix matrix concatmatrix dup
/cairo_font_matrix exch def dup 4 get exch 5 get cairo_store_point
/cairo_font where { pop cairo_selectfont } if } bind def
/Tm { 2 copy 8 2 roll 6 array astore /cairo_font_matrix exch def
cairo_store_point /cairo_font where { pop cairo_selectfont } if } bind def
/g { setgray } bind def
/rg { setrgbcolor } bind def
/d1 { setcachedevice } bind def
%%EndProlog
%%Page: 1 1
%%BeginPageSetup
%%PageMedia: 279x279mm
%%PageBoundingBox: 0 0 792 792
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427 l 164.074 403 l 195.074 403 l 195.074 395 l 164.074 395 l 164.074 364
l 197.074 364 l h
276.148 356 m 266.461 356 l 257.289 384 l 231.945 384 l 222.727 356 l 213.148
356 l 239.18 435 l 250.242 435 l h
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344.367 356 m 332.961 356 l 310.227 392 l 300.227 392 l 300.227 356 l 291.227
356 l 291.227 435 l 313.258 435 l 320.664 435 326.508 433.191 330.789 429.578
c 335.078 425.961 337.227 420.93 337.227 414.484 c 337.227 409.703 335.719
405.445 332.711 401.719 c 329.699 398 325.559 395.473 320.289 394.141 c
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300.227 400 m 311.43 400 l 316.117 400 319.918 401.305 322.836 403.922
c 325.762 406.547 327.227 409.848 327.227 413.828 c 327.227 422.609 322.031
427 311.648 427 c 300.227 427 l h
382.77 436 m 391.715 436 398.539 432.539 403.238 425.625 c 407.945 418.719
410.301 408.664 410.301 395.469 c 410.301 382.344 407.957 372.316 403.27
365.391 c 398.59 358.461 391.758 355 382.77 355 c 373.863 355 367.055 358.453
362.348 365.359 c 357.648 372.273 355.301 382.312 355.301 395.469 c 355.301
408.625 357.637 418.664 362.316 425.594 c 367.004 432.531 373.82 436 382.77
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382.77 363 m 394.457 363 400.301 373.82 400.301 395.469 c 400.301 417.156
394.457 428 382.77 428 c 377.082 428 372.746 425.191 369.77 419.578 c 366.789
413.961 365.301 405.926 365.301 395.469 c 365.301 384.906 366.777 376.852
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612.523 356 m 603.523 356 l 603.523 395 l 576.523 395 l 576.523 356 l 567.523
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l 612.523 435 l h
680.602 356 m 638.602 356 l 638.602 435 l 680.602 435 l 680.602 427 l 647.602
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.svg - white vector graphics file, here's the source:
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<?xml version="1.0"?><!--v0,:*7/4,+2<--><svg
class="v9,+1-,-\*2_,55+,@_\#v%#*:#2_^*4%_" xmlns=
"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" version="1.1">
<!-->:#<8+*,7/4*01^:\-g1/-\,<>-4+2g-,1g\^-->
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.tar - tar archive file- 7-zip says there are missing records in it and can't unpack it.
.txt - text file appearing to contain 13 dashes, but in fact it contains 37 characters. I think the hidden characters are zero-width spaces. Converting the file to the ANSI character set exposes the zero-width spaces:
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.wav - sound file - 9 seconds of silence
.xls - blank Excel document |
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novice
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| Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2013 7:03 pm Post subject: 64 |
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Inspecting the http response when clicking the link to the blank.html page shows this: (Using the chrome developer tools)
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Request URL: http://puzzle.scripts.mit.edu/2013/this_page_intentionally_left_blank/blank.html
Request Method: GET
Status Code: 200 OK
Request Headers
Accept:text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Charset:ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3
Accept-Encoding:gzip,deflate,sdch
Accept-Language:en-US,en;q=0.8
Connection:keep-alive
Host:puzzle.scripts.mit.edu
Referer:http://www.coinheist.com/oceans_11/this_page_intentionally_left_blank/index.html
User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/24.0.1312.57 Safari/537.17
Response Headers
Accept-Ranges:bytes
Cache-Control:max-age=0, no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate
Connection:Keep-Alive
Content-Length:14
Content-Type:text/html; charset=UTF-8
Date:Sun, 10 Feb 2013 18:55:01 GMT
Keep-Alive:timeout=15, max=1000
Last-Modified:Mon, 03 Dec 2012 04:58:25 GMT
Pragma:no-cache
Scripts-IP:18.181.0.46
Server:Apache
X-Puzzle-Clue:MAPOFTHEWORLD |
There's a puzzle hint for us there: MAPOFTHEWORLD |
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Thok
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| Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 12:59 am Post subject: 65 |
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| Does anything interesting happen if you switch up the file formats (like read the pdf as a ps, and so on)? |
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L'lanmal
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| Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 1:51 am Post subject: 66 |
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| In Morse code (dash = dash, short space = dot), the text file spells various things, including "Their Dope G-Skier" and "The Scamp At Sender". Could also be a set of 2 x 7-digit coordinates (ddd:mm:ss) with the dashes as dividers. But again there would be 4 or 8 ways to interpret these on a map. |
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Scurra
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| Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 11:30 am Post subject: 67 |
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| Also, I know most of the tricks for ...Intentionally Left Blank so I'll stay silent. |
Same here. Although my only contribution to solving was to leap in at the end with the a-ha for the answer extraction.
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Elethiomel
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| Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 12:58 pm Post subject: 69 |
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The blank.class file is a Java program that lets you move a grey square around on the screen. Disassembly reveals an array of 40 integers that is somehow involved, but it's hard to tell what for. Anyway, here is the initialization of the array:
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static {};
Code:
0: bipush 40
2: newarray int
4: dup
5: iconst_0
6: iconst_0
7: iastore
8: dup
9: iconst_1
10: iconst_0
11: iastore
12: dup
13: iconst_2
14: iconst_0
15: iastore
16: dup
17: iconst_3
18: iconst_0
19: iastore
20: dup
21: iconst_4
22: iconst_0
23: iastore
24: dup
25: iconst_5
26: iconst_0
27: iastore
28: dup
29: bipush 6
31: iconst_1
32: iastore
33: dup
34: bipush 7
36: iconst_0
37: iastore
38: dup
39: bipush 8
41: iconst_1
42: iastore
43: dup
44: bipush 9
46: iconst_0
47: iastore
48: dup
49: bipush 10
51: iconst_0
52: iastore
53: dup
54: bipush 11
56: iconst_1
57: iastore
58: dup
59: bipush 12
61: iconst_0
62: iastore
63: dup
64: bipush 13
66: iconst_0
67: iastore
68: dup
69: bipush 14
71: iconst_0
72: iastore
73: dup
74: bipush 15
76: iconst_0
77: iastore
78: dup
79: bipush 16
81: iconst_1
82: iastore
83: dup
84: bipush 17
86: iconst_0
87: iastore
88: dup
89: bipush 18
91: iconst_0
92: iastore
93: dup
94: bipush 19
96: iconst_0
97: iastore
98: dup
99: bipush 20
101: iconst_0
102: iastore
103: dup
104: bipush 21
106: iconst_0
107: iastore
108: dup
109: bipush 22
111: iconst_0
112: iastore
113: dup
114: bipush 23
116: iconst_0
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198: putstatic #25 // Field data:[I
201: return |
In other words, the initial values are:
0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0
0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0
0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 |
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gftt*
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| Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2013 10:39 pm Post subject: 70 |
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| Do people still want to think about this one, or should I cue up something else? |
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gftt*
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| Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 1:51 pm Post subject: 71 |
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I'll take that as a yes. If someone has a new idea for Left Blank we can revisit.
Incidentally, I'm skipping a couple because I heard they're somewhat broken and/or require specialized knowledge (knitting, Magic: the Gathering). Here's the next one which seems like it ought to be for general audiences:
Complaint Letter |
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gftt*
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| Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 2:00 pm Post subject: 72 |
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Donna Martin appears to be the character on Beverly Hills 90210 played by Tori Spelling. Is that a hint that we need to look at spellings of words?
Virgil Malloy (character played by Casey Affleck in Ocean's 11) is less likely to be a hint for anything, since that's due more to the structure of the round. |
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L'lanmal
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| Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 5:45 pm Post subject: 73 |
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The first paragraph reads like instructions to me (emphasis mine):
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| The industry has spiraled out of control, and it is imperative to reverse this disturbing trend. I have spelled out my advice below. If you pay attention, I'm sure you will notice an immediate improvement. |
Based on the Tori Spelling clue, the "spelled" in the first paragraph, and the "letter" in the title, I am looking for either things that are spelled backwards (liar = rail), or looking for the rest of the message to spell something (by taking initial letters, containing synonyms of the radio alphabet, that sort of thing). |
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gftt*
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| Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 7:10 pm Post subject: 74 |
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Last paragraph: "Nevertheless, this proves that you must either disregard any saying that rhymes, or you should instead assume that the opposite is probably closer to the truth!"
Look for words that rhyme? I don't see too many that have rhymes (at least within the same sentence - liar/fire, liquor/quicker, seize/tendencies...) but maybe we should look for words that don't have rhymes? Thursday? Grandson? |
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novice
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| Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 7:23 pm Post subject: 75 |
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| gftt* wrote: |
| I'll take that as a yes. If someone has a new idea for Left Blank we can revisit. |
It's a bit of a time-consuming puzzle, and not really amenable to armchair solving. I'm really more interested in what trick's they've used to hide information in the various blanks, than what that information is.
To summarize what we've found out:
.class - Java compiled class file, contains an array of numbers
.html - blank html file, http response header contained hint MAPOFTHEWORLD.
.pdf - 128 blank pages of a pdf document, although apparently some of the numbered pages span multiple A4 sheets or something.
.png - The png file has a 256-color palette, and all the colors are white. So my bet is that different pixels use different palette indices, and that's where the information is hidden. Maybe by converting the palette indices to a grayscale image we'll see some text.
.ps - postscript file, by removing an occluding rectangle the text FEAROFTHE is revealed in the image.
.svg - SVG is an xml-based format, and the xml contains unused comments and attributes. These are:
Initial comment: v0,:*7/4,+2<
class attribute: v9,+1-,-\*2_,55+,@_\#v%#*:#2_^*4%_
Second comment: >:#<8+*,7/4*01^:\-g1/-\,<>-4+2g-,1g\^
.tar - tar archive file- 7-zip says there are missing records in it and can't unpack it.
.txt - text file containing visible dashes and zero-width spaces, of the pattern -????????-?-??---?--??--????-?-????-?
.wav - sound file - 9 seconds of silence
.xls - blank Excel document
I'm happy to move on. |
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novice
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| Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 11:00 pm Post subject: 76 |
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First paragraph: "Silent consonance" - I think we're looking for silent consonnants in this paragraph.
Autumn, answer, campaign, etc.
Second paragraph: "Current dress is not appropriate" - I think we're looking for words with alternative ways to place stress.
Concert, Conduct, Entrance, etc. |
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novice
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| Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 11:09 pm Post subject: 77 |
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Silent consonants:
mighty
autumn
might
might
ought
talks
half
campaign
answer
vignette
eighty
MAMMOTH CAVE |
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novice
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| Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 11:16 pm Post subject: 78 |
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Misplaced stress:
concert
overall?
number?
conduct
entrance
record
therefore?
express?
CONCERT, perhaps. |
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novice
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| Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 11:25 pm Post subject: 79 |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammoth_Cave_National_Park
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Throughout the 19th century, the fame of Mammoth Cave would grow so that the cave became an international sensation.
At the same time, the cave attracted the attention of 19th century writers such as Robert Montgomery Bird, the Rev. Robert Davidson, the Rev. Horace Martin, Alexander Clark Bullitt, Nathaniel Parker Willis (who visited in June 1852), Bayard Taylor (in May 1855), William Stump Forwood (in spring 1867), the naturalist John Muir (early September 1867), the Rev. Horace Carter Hovey, and others.[8] As a result of the growing renown of Mammoth Cave, the cave boasted famous visitors such as actor Edwin Booth (his brother, John Wilkes Booth, assassinated Abraham Lincoln in 1865), singer Jenny Lind (who visited the cave on April 5, 1851), and violinist Ole Bull who together gave a concert in one of the caves. Two chambers in the caves have since been known as "Booth's Amphitheatre" and "Ole Bull's Concert Hall". |
A shot in the dark, but Call in Ole Bull. |
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gftt*
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| Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 11:29 pm Post subject: 80 |
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Maybe more like words that are spelled the same but pronounced differently? "unique sounds and express unique ideas, but they ought to look the same!"
concert
overall
number
conduct
entrance
record
Tear
house
appropriate
live
lead
CONCERT HALL
Still can't figure out the third paragraph, though. |
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