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Also, does everyone have the same problems?
There really shouldn't be an issue of sharing answers since solvers/code could be shared too...

Very awesome puzzle. Hex board is fun, yet a PITA to work with (in a good way :D) As tails said, its amazing how well this puzzle scales. How are you generating the puzzles? I was doing some by hand and noticed a few (around level 30, when they were harder) that consisted of only 1 snake and took 2 ...

I am in Australia so I can not even go to FBI.. there is nothing like FBI here...

What happened to ASIS?

Here it makes sense to brute force it because of the small key size. I *believe* that my solver threw out solutions w/ a character less than ' ' except \r & \n, or w/ characters greater than 'z'. If I wanted to be anal, I could have picked out all the symbols inbetween, but this only returned a ...

As for loops, all I'll say is that look at goto-style instructions. Conditions are also important. There's no "proper" way, but there's 1 or 2 instructions that are used.

And memory as a pointer? Why not?

The point is to force you to think low and (ab)use tricks that you wouldn't dare do if you were writing in a high-level env. You really have to understand how the VM works and the oddities of the instructions; there are a few that really can be tricked and coerced.

There are no line breaks in "real" HVM, nor are there comments.
HVM programs should be 1 line.

I tried using binary search something wierd happened and I got "uifmvwuibucvsot". So I ended up doing it by hand. On the last one I did "binary" search by hand (but not really binary, more like 10's). So I used LIKE '% %' to figure out all the characters that were in it (thankful...

I like guxx's method. I did it letter-by-letter, but while I was doing it I figured there must have been a simpler way, considering 70+ people have solved it...

If you don't have the answer, you're doing it wrong!
(that was a hint, not an insult )

Go out to a golf course, hit a bunch of bad shots and tear up the fairway.
You'll earn the "hacker" status, just not in the CS or EE circles ;-P

Heh, expect us to abuse the heck out of superhack in order to cut down on cycles/codesize

Thanks, and nice use of tools! It wasn't mean to be incredibly hard to factor; the challenge was deciphering the encoding scheme.

Also, 433^11 was not intentional, I'll let adum know

I tried writing an assembler that also had a few more utility functions (!= loops, for example). It was meh... It was easier to do them by hand.

(Reminder that adum doesn't want us sharing assemblers, but talking about them, I presume, is fine)

coderT: cheater

@megabreit re PeterS: that last line is "valid", it didn't just have indentation removed. It just uses the functional paradigm of python. Once you use functional programming (usually from another language) you start to use it all the time in python