Now this is a pretty cool April Fools thing.
2-Year-Olds Convert Binary To Hexadecimals In Game Experiment
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#42WARNING: Loud and obnoxious 8-bit music on autoplay when the page loads.
Not sure who made the music, but it's the same theme from http://www.rocketjump.com/blog/play-terminal-velocity
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#43"Seven percent of the test group could bitshift"
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#44So the game was really hard to begin with, until I realised...
The hex numbers are two digits, and you can treat them both separately, so use the first 4 bits for the first hex digit and the second 4 bits for the second.
If you were brute forcing, this reduces the search space from 256 options to 32.
A good reminder of how you can handle hex. Really nice.
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#45Apparently, I'm the only one who can't figure out how to play. It seems you're supposed to launch missiles, but all I can do is make them pop into and out of the ground. As soon as the first bug reaches the ground, I lose, regardless of how many missiles I have showing.
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#46Apparently, I'm the only one who can't figure out how to play. It seems you're supposed to launch missiles, but all I can do is make them pop into and out of the ground. As soon as the first bug reaches the ground, I lose, regardless of how many missiles I have showing.
Missiles correspond to the binary representation of the hex number. All possible values of one hex digit can be represented by 4 binary digits, and vice versa. As an example: to hit an AF hex you need six 1010(A) 1111(F) missiles. To hit 24 hex you need only two missiles: 0010(2) 0100(4)
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#47Apparently, I'm the only one who can't figure out how to play. It seems you're supposed to launch missiles, but all I can do is make them pop into and out of the ground. As soon as the first bug reaches the ground, I lose, regardless of how many missiles I have showing.
Bugs have a hex number of them, you need to match it with a binary representation with rockets.. I'm still slower than that kid.
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#48Can anyone explain how to win at this game? How to you determine the binary representation of a two-character hex number in your head?
Tips to convert fast:
1. Remember each digit is 4 bits, you can solve separately
E1 -> E 1 -> 1110 0001
2. Solve as even then just flip the last bit for odd
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#49Just had my two year old daughter beat me at this game. Thanks for destroying my self-esteem.
Wait, are you serious? Or is this more April Fools?
Actually. It's - unfortunately for me - partly true. She was able to figure out that you're able to use the number keys before me, and actually hitting 1A... I was fiddling around with my mouse up to that moment :|
(Semi off topic: I don't know how far developed your offspring is, but my four days shy of two years old is only able to count up to three and recognize her own name when written down sufficiently large ;)
Edit: she's also able to mash key's like a perl programmer)
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#50WARNING: Loud and obnoxious 8-bit music on autoplay when the page loads.
Is there no way to mute it?