Never Completed Game • Hacker News Board

onychomys wrote: post #6

sidcypher wrote: post #4

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.

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

And "infinity" but not "infinite"

Re: Never Completed Game

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Post by havardk » Mon, Oct 02, 2017, 3:29 PM UTC

goloroden wrote: post #184

Any hint on 30?

President of the United States of America

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Post by starshadowx2 » Mon, Oct 02, 2017, 4:28 PM UTC

nailer wrote: post #212

Data entry font doesn't include the stars necessary to answer question (Chrome, Windows): http://prntscr.com/gs9875

Just count the stars and put in the number.

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Post by ninjakeyboard » Mon, Oct 02, 2017, 8:44 PM UTC

0xcde4c3db wrote: post #189

ninjakeyboard wrote: post #176

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

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

BAHAHA completely coincidental! Thanks for the link. My wife and I just tried to play this game on a Pi a few weeks back and I remember being surprised by the fact that the game would accept my answers.

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Post by treuherz » Tue, Oct 03, 2017, 9:29 AM UTC

enthdegree wrote: post #19

onychomys wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

"ramanujan" was pretty pretentious

It taking "ramanujan" and not "ramanujan-hardy" put me off it