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If i get the error from the line 22 for the 2nd and 3rd parameter it means that i am on the right track and all i have to do is to find out what is the 12 numbers represent? Probably it's something like an rgbaxy from 3 sources? Errors are just errors - given that you're grabbing the web page so ma...

I think "Emyoolay" is a pun on "emulate", and possibly a slight hint towards the three-letter "HVM" - there might be a deeper meaning, though!

AMindForeverVoyaging wrote:

michuber wrote:It's very helpful to understand the pun.

Hm, which pun? Diamonds/briolettes is not really a pun, unless maybe one mumbled very incomprehensibly

Well, I see a pun, but it hasn't helped me… it suggested a technique, and that technique has yielded some interesting patterns, but nothing concrete.

Four letters combined into a nonsensical phrase is a very good place to start out

bsguedes wrote:250 hours? Well, that was unexpected!

It only took about 150 to get the required text, but it didn't occur to me to try it as the answer - the hex file names threw me off!

people know about matrix manipulation stuff but fail with such a primitive thing as a http_post request? serious facepalm. Post isn't very primitive - matrix manipulation can be worked out with pencil and paper, while Post can't. actually you should almost be able to do a http_post request via teln...

camel wrote:people know about matrix manipulation stuff but fail with such a primitive thing as a http_post request? serious facepalm.

Post isn't very primitive - matrix manipulation can be worked out with pencil and paper, while Post can't.

I submit Mathematica (again, not free, but useful for almost every challenge!) and WolframAlpha, as well as Colonel Dump's HVM IDE (though I did eventually write an HVM compiler in Mathematica, following their SymbolicC style of design).

I'll PM you

No, it's still working correctly.

All the puzzles I experienced were solvable. That's not to say that "all the puzzles are solvable", but given that the puzzles will probably have been made 'in reverse' - taking a grid, deciding on an answer that the puzzle will have, then making sure that the path is free for that answer,...

I'm on it by PM

It was meant to be general if it were an integer, it would be obvious what to do - so treat it mathematically in *exactly* the same way - see if that helps!

It's a number, so what do you normally do with numbers?

I haven't done this challenge, but the 80-divisibility did strike me as suspicious...