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Although i did not create a puzzle solver myself yet, i think you don't really need any HTML / web experience for creating one. All you need is a way to perform a http get/post request. Example: for solving mortal coil (e.g. level 1) you simply visit the following url: http://www.hacker.org/coil/ind...

Mine is around 500 instructions long, mostly filled with whitespace between the subroutines. It could easily be made much shorter in size, but i got a bit tired of recalculating all those jump addresses. I wrote the solution in a sort of pseudo code. When i was confident the algorithm would work, i ...

Hmm... I just adopted my solution for 'brokener keys' a bit to avoid the '-'. This resulted in not too optimized, but working code: 0<1<1^1^00>01>177*7*>1^1^<54**g<27**g1+1v1+1v37*c! dddp It assumed the numbers were below 343, which they apperently did. With such a broken keyboard, i would seriously...

Works because memory is initialized with zeroes by default.

Seen more beautifull solutions though...

... so i just used division

Nice one!

Just finished this one simply using a hexeditor.
From the html on top I derived there were a few packages that repeated very often in the file. After removing these it was just splitting the file into the different png, ico and html files.

Wireshark would have been easier though...

Just made a quick brute force solver in javascript (in the firebug console actually, was too lazy to start a real development tool ).

Only printing results with > 80% readable chars came up with just one hit

Couldn't guess the table name :oops: So I tricked the page into dumping the table name(s) : ' UNION ALL SELECT TABLE_NAME FROM information_schema.TABLES WHERE TABLE_SCHEMA = 'injecto' LIMIT 2,1 UNION SELECT TABLE_NAME FROM information_schema.TABLES WHERE TABLE_SCHEMA = 'asdfasdfasdf Where injecto is...

Maybe a little dirty, but I just wrote a bit of javascript in firefox (using the firebug console) img = new Image(); img.src = 'misc/stars.php'; canvasEl = document.createElement('canvas'); canvasEl.width = '128'; canvasEl.height = img.height; document.body.appendChild(canvasEl) canvas = canvasEl.ge...

Kinda followed the same strategy..

First i translated the homophonic cipher into a regular substitution cipher (by just using the solver I made for the warmup).

Then I manually solved the regular substitution cipher, which took most of the time btw

Hmm, this xyz 'language' makes the decoding a little more abstract, but once you are on the right track...
The small amount of characters definitely made it easier to test my solver and even check answers with pen & paper