January 25, 2006

• I got to #4 and have no idea.
• COME ON GUYS!!! WE HAVE AN EDGE!!! MEFI JUST WENT DOWN!!!
• I'm tryin!
• It's not a greek letter I'm stuck at 4, too.
• I'm on 4, too. Is it a fashion or department store logo?
• It looks like it, but for the life of me.....
• It looks like a german double s, actually...
• I thought "etrothed" was a pretty clever answer to "Complete me B" but I guess not.
• Wait, what the heck is number three?
• Look up rainbow goddess. Don't use caps.
• It also looks like a handwritten greek letter beta.
• Oh, I was using caps..
• Yeah, the bastards.
• It does look like beta..
• Just found this on the Rules and Hints Page "IMPORTANT: Any text answer required anywhere in the game will always be lowercase, not UPPERCASE, cAmelcase, mIxEdcASe or Sentencecase."
• stuck on 4...
• Okay, the B does look like a German esset too, any ideas there?
• If you type in "rayban" (which is what it kind of looks like) you get a "where is the-?" message.
• Oh. Duh.
• ray-ban is the correct answer
• view the page source on #5
• There's a hint in the source code for #5.
• Uh. Yeah. Jinx.
• Who is it?
• Kurt Cobain, but how do you write it in?
• look up.
• cobain.asp
• ...in the URL rplace it with usethisspace.asp
• HA! next one's easy.
• use this space (to write it in)
• Nick, we're all working together here, remember?
• Well, it's the devil. And a number. A number for the devil.
• Stuck on 7
• It's more the Look it up comment. :) “Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.” ~ Confucius “Simplicity is the glory of expression.” ~ Walt Whitman Ok, enough of gyaan... I say the puzzle is very easy to crack here... the way to the next one is right in your face... In source code.
• For #7: once again, look up.
• To go to the next one change the 7 to a eight in the URL.
• Up to 10
• AAAAaAAAND I'm stuck again on 8.
• Helo out here Lara! =P How'd you get past eight? Light in the road?
• seven is even easier or is it
• I'm on 7 now
• Morse code. On the road. Anyone read it?
• metal pixel
• Stuck on 10
• Gotta get past nine, it's a number sequence..
• Ah, thanks lara. I don't speak morse.
• nope, it's not a number sequence at all
• My brain hurts
• Nine, more importantly, is an anagram.
• Then..what is it? =P
• Think DaVinci Code
• Anyone past ten yet?
• Still on 10
• Still on nine...x_X
• Notice the picture is named level9.jpg on level 10. Not sure if that's a clue or not.
• On nine...didn't read davinci code
• Im on ten...no clue yet...
• That's it. Change the url to level10.jpg
• That's it. Change the url to level10.jpg
• From a blogger community for number 10: the clue could ave been think of motion and a brand name.
• Nine...><
• unscramble the words to spell leonardo
• Mefi says 10 is a logo.
• I can't pin down the brand name for 10. I thought Atkins, but it's not.
• Not Avanti.
• Not American Airlines or Amtrak.
• Or Adobe. Man I suck as branding.
• I'm missing something on 10, clouds...
• If you change the url to http://www.iimi-iris.com/iris/irising/klueLESS/level10.jpg you get a message that you should "complete again" and "p.s. change the name of the page (.asp) to continue." But changing it to level10.asp does nothing, nor does level10jpg.asp.
• nor Avis
• Nickdanger, just change it to level10.jpg
• Never mind, misread. But you have to complete the brand name that A starts in the new URL.
• audi
• No, nickdanger, that's the next clue. You're on the right page, but you have to figger out the name for the A logo and put it with a .asp on the URL.
• Grrr. Ten can bite my anti-corporate ass.
• jinx, rocket!
• Thanks, rocket!
• Okay, eleven is pretty interesting.
• It's a german keyboard
• 12 is hard!
• 12 has me stumped
• the url has singalong in it, and it's called "Sound of". I think it's a musical question...
• 12 is a song; the 2 words of the songs title are the username/pass ; look at the top right pic
• Damn, thought I had 11 but I don't. I transposed the letters and spelled real words, too.
• Think of the term "steely knives" as a song lyric.
• tracicle, compare that photo to an actual german keyboard layout.
• gurobbx? box grub? what?
• got 12...thanks insolentchimp
• Ha! Typo! /embarrassed
• Hahaha, I feel like this is wayy beyond my head...
• Isn't a cipher the same as a cryptogram?
• 12 is a common internet cypher
• That it's upside-down is significant. The code hint...I'm an idiot.
• upside down is not significant
• Nope, not getting through MCT.
• You have to rotate the text. Rotate.
• It'll always spell the same thing if you rotate it, though.
• www.rot13.com
• Wait, how blatant are our hints allowed to be anyway?
• Ah.
• I gave a login and password up above. Not sure, though :)
• Thanks. I got your initial hint, rocket, but I couldn't fucking remember the name of it.
• Still don't get how you found that, though.
• good...i need help on 14
• HA! "bible" leads to a good message.
• Me too. Did you see the invisible stuff, rocket?
• Source says you may be looking at it now, and the image name is areyouusingityet.
• Google the text.
• sorry, "Chances are you can see it right now."
• awesome
• tried semicolon...didn't work
• did you see end.asp? heh
• I suck at logos, if that's what 15 is.
• Woot!
• Goddamn, another logo. I recognise this one, too...
• Ha! rocket, google the first sentence
• I don't recognize it at all. Grrr...
• Page title is "Deja Vu" and the login box says "Have you seen it?" Not sure if that means anything, though.
• Page title is "Deja Vu" and the login box says "Have you seen it?" Not sure if that means anything, though.
• Got nothing on the logo. Product placement should have no place in a brainteaser.
• Typing "yes" returns the text, "so what?"
• Actually, "To reach further...have you seen it?"
• No.
• It's not a US brand, unfortunately. It's British. Sponsored the Lions rugby team, I believe.
• the logo is vodaphone's
• they sponsor Ferrari F1 team
• does "vodaphone" work? I typed "vodafone".
• ...and Manchester United apparently...but none of those seem to work
• damn...that's how they spell it???
• vodafone
• It must be more than that. Something from the text clues, too?
• I couldn't get it to work with an f :(
• Vodafone
• no caps, should work
• Vodafone Quick, I'm stuck on the next one!
• Now I did.
• Use notepad and think ALTernatively about numbers...
• Google the text
• Sorry, one back, tracicle. Look at the bottom and see if there's any hidden text.
• with sixteen?
• ah
• Damn, I figured as much but I don't think it works on a Mac.
• Gah! Mammon! Firefox just crashed, can someone give me the #18 url again, please?
• http://www.iimi-iris.com/iris/irising/klueLESS/fonelevel.asp
• I just can't make any words...
• InsolentChimp, can you mail me the URL for 17 -- I can't work it on the Mac and I don't want to spoil it for the others if it's not necessary.
• Thanky.
• 18 is a text messaging thing, but I don't get it.
• "elements" but that doesn't work
• Got it
• elements works
• oh, i was using the url
• Sent, tracicle.
• WHY IS DONALD DUCK SMARTER THAN I AM?
• Got it, thanks. I didn't want to miss a level.
• I just don't get how it's a cipher.
• I don't either. I mean, it's obvious they're all pointing one way, but they're a bee, a duck and indian and a seal.
• "pointed which way?" To the right, motherfucker.
• I have no idea what two-word answer comes of this.
• I guess it might help to be from a country where the word "cipher" meant something...
• Did that work, MCT ? :D
• It looks like they're saying, "back"... but I don't want to play the phone game again.
• That damn duck is laughing at me.
• Anyway, you have to come up with two words. It could be literally hundreds of different combinations.
• it's "lookthere.asp", but that doesn't help
• Well, it's not "fuck" and "you"...
• online hints keep stressing that the cipher is in the source.
• Damn, Chris Penn was found dead!
• WE'RE BUSY.
• I know, I'm stuck on 11 and want to divert everyone's attention!
• DONALD DUCK I HATE YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
• Buried in the text: clue: hpshfpvt.bojnbufe
• With the clue on 19, now go left.
• aha
• I. Don't. Get. 11. Please HELP!
• 20 is a rough one. Googling gives the play that it's from, but I can't figure out the second line and the person it belongs to.
• Darshon, google up an image of a german keyboard layout. Compare to the keyboard in the picture. "Type" the message on the correct keyboard.
• nope...didn't work
• It's not Cassius, who has the next line in JC
• Curse you, Nickdanger!
• Hey, wait. Hold up. I went one letter left to each letter of that clue, and it didn't work. Help.
• Oh, wait. In the alphabet, not on the keyboard...
• Lara: That's the way it's done. H -> G and all that.
• Oh, haha.
• http://www.william-shakespeare.info/act1-script-text-julius-caesar.htm
• The Caesar part on 20 refers to the cipher of the same name, it would seem. But I don't have any ideas what kind of sentence starts with 3 of the same letter.
• On 20, giving up, and going to bed. Good luck all.
• Could it be III, like Act III, or Scene III?
• Also, here's a list of characters: http://www.william-shakespeare.info/play-characters-julius-caesar.htm
• Unlikely, as that gives the next three letters as fpq
• Well, I must go to bed. Which is making me mad, because this is fun! Good luck, all.
• Caesar's Code javascript decipher thingy but it isn't helping me...
• Oh jesus. They completely and totally screwed the pooch on 20. The cipher they used is definitely not Caesar cipher according to everything on the internet. You're supposed to put the code in a square, row by row, and then read it column by column. I would never have figured it out if I didn't read through the entire hint thread on their blog.
• Holy crap. That had me messed up.
• Holy shit. 193 comments in three hours? And it's not political or eeked?
• According to blog posts there are 30 or 31 levels but I'm too tired to go on so I'm quitting at 23.
• 19: (Donald and friends) Go left with what clue? I don't understand at all.
• I'm having problems with 25. So much research. kirk, look in the page source (for a clue) and think "simple cipher".
• Already looked at the source code and saw the hint in the comments. I've tried letter shifting "simple cipher" on the keyboard, shifting it one before in alphabetical order, I've tried whole words(go left, turn left) I am entirely clueless.
• And the fact that you all breezed past it does wonders for my self confidence.
• Ok, I'm going to need more than "simple cipher" or pointing left or hpshfpvt (which doesn't trigger anything to my mind, it just looks like gibberish) because I just can't think of another way to enter this thing, I have quite simply tried everything I'm going to think of on my own.
• Good Grief, I'm still stuck on 11 and that's with help! Somebody please just give me the friggin' answer, already!!!!
• Darshon, #11 emailed, to keep actual answers off the board
• kirk- are you sure you got nothing by shifting to the lift alphabetically? h=g, p=o, s=r etc...? You already have the correct method - you must have made a typo :) Darshon- I didn't get what people were saying about a german keyboard. I just looked at the words and compared to my own keyboard to find what the letters would become on the pictured keyboard (eg. 'w' is 'f' on the pictured keyboard)... Oh, and for those like myself with absolutely no patience/dignity/skill, you can quite easily google for the solutions :)
• Um, hope that answer wasn't too spoilish (having just seen kirk's response. Sorry if so, I won't post again :\
• /sneaks in, looks around Just what is happening here, you troupe of simians? /scratches head, goes away to look for other simian to nit-pick
• *follows Flaggy, pulling faces behind his back*
• Gestas, no worries. The German keyboard thing threw me off, too. Thanks to kirk, as well. Now, how 'bout 16? Hmm?
• darshon, for 16, the comment above about "hidden text" is important. as is the mention of ALT. if you're not on windows, you can find some useful mapping information here
• OMG I've just noticted something, something horrible. This 'game' is teh boring. LOL. Egads.
• Ok, so I made it to the end(?) and found this: notpron. Another internet riddle... ay, ay, ay.
• I'm boycotting Disney for Donald Duck's involvement in this.
• finished, but after a majorly annoying problem on #25.
• Want to help me do the notpron riddle, roryk?
• tomorrow? home time for me now :(
• Ok.
• You guys might like to look at the total discouragement here before moving to the notpron one. I spend far too many hours of my life there, thanks to Melinika!
• > Want to help me do the notpron riddle, roryk? stuck at level 10 of notpron :-( sound files are not loading for me in firefox on win32, which is frustrating. this one appears to involve a sound file, but even after downloading it i can't hear anything. i've tried tweaking the file, but no luck
• now at level 35 of notpron. it's getting a little boring. same stuff repeated quite a lot. klueless had more variation. /sleepy time
• I couldn't get the sound in firefox or the windows sound recorder to work properly, roryk so I gave up on notpron for the time being... I don't remember what level (I think the last one I solved was the zipper). The one thing that I like about this riddle was how you got easter eggs if you were close to getting it.