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It's A. Times don't count, only if you get there in the end.

Yes, the top hackers list isn't updated anymore. Cron jobs don't seem to be possible with the current hosting solution. According to my own calculations Hippo is currently ranked number 20: 1 tails 1088.56931 2011-09-18 22:57:40 2 Yharaskrik 774.70417 2015-04-09 05:42 3 zeased 648.71126 2014-11-12 0...

Back to the original question: The ranking is not exactly broken, but you sometimes see bogus values. This occurs while computing the global score from the ranking tables of the different puzzles on this site. Unfortunately these intermediate values are user visible. At some point the ranking had se...

Schau genau! '6' und 'b' sind unterschiedlich und bei '3' und 'E' musst du berücksichtigen, in welchem Quadranten du gerade bist und den Buchstaben passend rotieren.

The solution checker is still written in PHP. I guess the checker would hit the 30 seconds boundary again with an 800x800 board. Who else is interested in more levels?

Please try again. We have a faster solution checker now.

I used a genetic solver and get solutions like let's eace ynto this ciphmrn#juar 3 lfnps! i guess 'threesum' shou,d "e a good choice vor ymR a-n-s-w-e%b._% I didn't investigate further but I think the plain text is Let's ease into this cipher. Just 3 loops! I guess 'threesum' should be a good c...

I realized too late how revealing the discussion in the forum had gotten. Too late now. I don't think there is anything new in this Thread.

I only wish there would be more levels to spread out the top again, but I fear the solution checker would soon bring down the server.

Your global score is based on your rankings in the Challenges section, the two bot wars and the eight different puzzles. If you're ranked at Position R in the Challenges section you're attributed 200*(0.96^(R-1)) global points. Adum changed the factor in the formula from 0.9 to 0.96 at some point. F...

why is my last digit not alphanumeric? There are three or four known cases in the "Didactic" challenges where the last character of an answer is not encoded correctly. It might be that this applies here too. No, the challenge is perfectly good. @kain: With six out of seven characters you ...

He earned easy 100 points by solving Runaway Robots to the end. The user ferret was the 195th to get this far and gets the same 100 points. Feel free to do the same... Ok then i dont understand how(for example) tiwe is rank 129. I am probably missing something here. Sorry, i was in error here. Abov...

Board creation seems to be broken. I end up with an empty board description.
The Flash GUI considers this to be a completely blocked board (see trez0rs remark).

This happens even when i play anonymous after cleaning out all the cookies.

if you're top in a particular puzzle, you'll be awarded 100 points, and it goes down from there. This is kinda unfair, older users get more points. No, they don't. Same Achievements result in the same number of points in the ranking tables regardless of starting time. For example check this guy tiw...

OK, let's see... Zeta:~/> file clrs.png clrs.png: PNG image data, 126 x 52, 2-bit colormap, non-interlaced This is not your usual RGB image. It contains a colormap in the PLTE chunk (you were halfway there megabreit). How does the colormap look like? Open the file with Imagemagick and click on 'Imag...

@laz0r: This should work. Analyze the server response.