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I'm trying to beat Listen to me to get to this XD Best of luck! I took the longer path. I guess I'm in same boat as a lot of people now...the first half makes sense, followed by gibberish as the second half. I've figured out a million things the songs don't have in common, however. I'm still thinki...

So I blew through Descartes and Green Grass to get here (they weren't that difficult, to be honest) because of all the discussion... I have 18 of the songs identified. The ones with no lyrics are a little harder to sort out. I've looked at the metadata, but I can't really see anything in there (OK, ...

If anyone is still interested in this one...I suppose OCR has come a long way in the last few years, and it is viable as (part of) the way to the solution.

If you do go this route, though, you'll need a top-tier OCR and plan on some serious training time. That font is *ugh*.

:idea: This sounds like a lot of work but with the help of the community I bet we can do it. What do you think? Honestly, these are great ideas, but that's a lot of work, and it seems like there's no one around to do it. I don't know what was happening in this site's heyday, but the problem is that...

sometimes i feel really stupid ... I did have one question, though: someone in the "Challenges" forum claimed to have found the original. Where is it? I spent a lot of time looking for it online but never could. I think the image file for this challenge was taken from Open Street Map, sev...

sometimes i feel really stupid ... Me, too. Convert to ppm, create histogram in Java, sort in Excel. Oh, well... I did have one question, though: someone in the "Challenges" forum claimed to have found the original. Where is it? I spent a lot of time looking for it online but never could.

Ok, this is driving me crazy. In CipherQuest A, I know what the text is, but there seems to be no way to type it in correctly. I've tried: 10 characters without any blanks 10 characters with blanks 10 characters with blanks but not counting the blanks as characters All with hyphen and no hyphen and ...