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I got the answer letter for letter with admin' AND ASCII(SUBSTRING(password, i, 1))>x -- e just changing i and x but when I got the pass, I couldnt log in ("wrong password") :shock: it still worked on the challenge description site That method you used is case insensitive. The result is t...

no, the challenge implies that you know the layout of a qwerty keyboard to solve it, since it is based on this layout. But anyway, I guess most of the people using an azerty keyboard knows about the differences with others. 9 out of 10 flash games online use the wasd keys to move without the possibi...

laz0r wrote:Try thinking harder and get ready to slap yourself when you work it out

I had more the reflex of bashing my head on my keyboard, but slapping was also an option

moose wrote:It's in the crypto-category. Is it a common encryption or a self-invented one?

I would guess it is self invented, but the title is pretty indicative for how to decode this (which is necessary with so little data).

There is a fundamental difference here: In HVM you are not given code to work with, you have to write the code completely from scratch. There is no challenge, as far as I know, which explicitly requires you to write a program from scratch in a specified language (other than the HVM challenges). I c...

If you check the previous posts, you can have a lot of ways of interpreting the position of the beads. based on this, you can get pretty large numbers. My indication about the shape is just to only allow to groups of beads per row, one touching the left side and one touching the right. With this lim...

Once you know where the catch is in this puzzle, it is pretty straight to solve. Although I solved this puzzle in march 2009, I could pretty easily find back the solution in a few seconds (and a calculator at hand). In itself, the puzzle is flawed because it is possile to represent a lot more number...

It is indeed not easy to discuss things when you don't know what is really spoiling things. Clear parts of your solution steps should be avoided, but just be prepared to edit your post if it is requested by people who solved it. You are probably on the right track when this happens :) But you should...

Since what you call a minor spoiler is actually about half the puzzle, I must agree that it shouldn't be posted in the forum. Your 2 statements about the result are a bit contradictory. Since there is little encrypted text, it just makes it easier to find lots of meaningful replacements of these enc...

No idea what causes the problem exactly, since I don't know which steps you took exactly, but it looks like a bit of java Knowledge can solve your problem.

the easiest way to check is to fill in the answer again and follow the link that is on the result screen. These are normally to the page where you can have a discussion. Although, you have to check because some of the earlier ones link back to just the challenges forum. So if you get on that one, be...

nitt wrote:They said it was 4 floors deep and it was on the 3rd floor!

The dungeon levels are zero indexed, you probably were in the fourth layer, as descibed in the problem statement ...

The thing is that, except for basic (brute force) solutions, no code should be posted here. The posted code is just to give people an idea how they can start. I must say I haven't checked your code. With the comments in between, it certainly is less readable for me than the original post. The idea i...

since this is in java, what is the added value for this compared with the code of bok on the first page of this thread.

For me, it is not really clear what you tried exactly.

What do you mean exactly with the every number and the put them together parts of your sentence? It is unclear what you have done exactly, and that makes it difficult to pinpoint the problem.