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Re: Show HN: Schnitzeljagd.dev tests your web dev skills

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Post by ezekg »

julianwachholz wrote: post #7
ezekg wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was fun at first, but I've been stuck on step 7 for about 15 mins. Calling it. The hints are a bit too vague for me. Tried different ports (thought I had it there), different HTTP methods, and a few Accept content-types. Spent >30 mins to get that far, so definitely more than an hour of playtime to complete.

Your first guess is on the right track. Can you see some other pieces of information that look out of place?

Thanks. Picked it up again today. The hint helped find the right port. Stuck on level 13 now. Tried dig, but nothing substantial came up even with +trace. But maybe I don't enough about dig.

Re: Show HN: Schnitzeljagd.dev tests your web dev skills

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Post by julianwachholz »

ezekg wrote: post #11
julianwachholz wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your first guess is on the right track. Can you see some other pieces of information that look out of place?

Thanks. Picked it up again today. The hint helped find the right port. Stuck on level 13 now. Tried dig, but nothing substantial came up even with +trace. But maybe I don't enough about dig.

Nice! You'll need to dig deeper than just the apex domain, otherwise people could find it from the very beginning and skip half the steps.

Re: Show HN: Schnitzeljagd.dev tests your web dev skills

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Post by bobblywobbles »

Neat idea. I had this page saved because I wanted to try it later.

If it wasn't for this thread I probably wouldn't have gotten past step 3. However, I have no clue how to move past step 4. I get the HINT we need to make a request, but I can't figure it out based on the instruction on the page. The page I tried is a 404. I'm not sure what blocks are trying to convey, it's not clear to me. It would be fun to try to get to step 20, but if the clues get more vague at each step, there's no way I'll make it to the end.

Re: Show HN: Schnitzeljagd.dev tests your web dev skills

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Post by julianwachholz »

bobblywobbles wrote: post #15

Neat idea. I had this page saved because I wanted to try it later. If it wasn't for this thread I probably wouldn't have gotten past step 3. However, I have no clue how to move past step 4. I get the HINT we need to make a request, but I can't figure it out based on the instruction on the page. The page I tried is a 404. I'm not sure what blocks are trying to convey, it's not clear to me. It would be fun to try to ge…

Try adding some query parameters. I've been tweaking the hints based on peoples' feedbacks and I hope later steps aren't so vague.
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