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Re: Never Completed Game

#141

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!

It's simpler than that.

Re: Never Completed Game

#142

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!

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

Re: Never Completed Game

#143
post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

That's so contrived, and they got it so quickly. And they got #40 even quicker.

In hindsight it’s not that crazy compared to some of the Args we’ve seen them do. Gripped b64 sounds like it’s been used before even

Re: Never Completed Game

#144
post #142

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!

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

Ugh, lame. Thanks though!

Re: Never Completed Game

#146

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!

Most games do this too, like CCS.

Re: Never Completed Game

#148

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

They just completed it, verified on my end. http://boards.4chan.org/sci/thread/9202862#p9203437

And now the sidebar says "Go fuck yourself." as suggested by /sci/.

Never change, 4chan. Never change.

Re: Never Completed Game

#150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

4chan flew through the last several. Amazing work.

I actually want to see a timeline of how long it took for each question. The 4chan posts all have timestamps for when the answers were posted so this shouldn't be too hard to do. There are archives of the older threads as well.

Based off when the solutions (or "gotcha" hints) were posted:

Q23: 19:28:28

Q24: 19:38:38

Q25: 19:54:52

Q26: 20:02:44

Q27: 20:05:08

Q28: 20:24:09

Q29: 20:27:42

Q30: 21:22:56

Q31: 22:37:51

Q32: 22:53:41

(thread languishes until 2-3 am, few posts are made, a new thread arrives)

Q33: 05:05:16

Q34: 05:23:58

Q35: 05:38:09

Q36: 05:54:55

Q37: 06:17:25

Q38: 06:21:57

Q39: 06:47:14

Q40: 06:53:04

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