Need help about the 'Russian Dolls' challenge

dorahan · Post by **dorahan** » Sat Jul 05, 2008 7:48 am

Please need some help with the 'russian dolls' challenge... i can't solve this one... I've downloaded hex editor software to read the binary numbers in the 'doll' file...

http://www.topshareware.com/free-bin-fi ... oads/1.htm

But after i opened the file with that program, i only saw a whole numbers of hexadecimal... I've tried to convert to binary and translate into ascii regular text... but nothing in the file has any mean... When i translated to text, it has no mean at all... It's empty... I wonder if those numbers can't be translated into text, so what should i do next? I don't have any idea at all... thanks...

dorahan · Post by **dorahan** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 5:58 am

To solve this challenge.. the hint is Russian Doll it self...

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flog · Post by **flog** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 12:37 am

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i don't understand it, too.

lukas · Post by **lukas** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 7:34 pm

first find out what russian dolls mean, then you will automatically know what to do

MerickOWA · Post by **MerickOWA** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 9:37 pm

I wouldn't say that you'd automatically know what to do, but its a pretty good hint as to what the answer might be. Identifying what the file is also helps.

vielinko · Post by **vielinko** » Fri May 29, 2009 10:09 pm

MerickOWA wrote:I wouldn't say that you'd automatically know what to do, but its a pretty good hint as to what the answer might be. Identifying what the file is also helps.

I wouldnt say either ...

another tip: This is a HUGE Russian Doll ...

"you'd automatically know what to do": yeah, isnt that easy at begin

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Triton456 · Post by **Triton456** » Sun Nov 01, 2009 11:30 am

Could you give a tip about how HUGE?... Cause I'm alreaddy working on this for quite a long time, and still no end in sight... >.>

Greetz,
Triton456

portal · Post by **portal** » Mon Nov 02, 2009 6:28 pm

my tip is: computers can do some things fast, if well instructed how to..

yyiinn · Post by **yyiinn** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 9:50 am

I know what to do, just its taking me ages. I have done what needs to be done but seem no closer can some one please give a rough number so i can at least know how close or far I am from getting the answer...thnx

Force4 · Post by **Force4** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 6:43 pm

yyiinn wrote:I know what to do, just its taking me ages. I have done what needs to be done but seem no closer can some one please give a rough number so i can at least know how close or far I am from getting the answer...thnx

Hehe... This challenge is a little more fun than you think.
You might not want to do it by hand.

CodeX · Post by **CodeX** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 6:55 pm

if you bash it hard enough you'll get the answer

Force4 · Post by **Force4** » Tue Dec 22, 2009 2:55 am

CodeX wrote:if you bash it hard enough you'll get the answer

Good one CodeX

CodeX · Post by **CodeX** » Tue Dec 22, 2009 12:33 pm

For those of you planning on doing this manually: the answer in doll.bin has been compressed 999 times, it's time to rethink your approach unless you enjoy the life of a robot and have a lot of spare time.

I just gave doll.bin a quick bash to find out how many layers there are in it and it only took 6 seconds

DaymItzJack · Post by **DaymItzJack** » Tue Dec 22, 2009 9:49 pm

Force4 wrote:
yyiinn wrote:I know what to do, just its taking me ages. I have done what needs to be done but seem no closer can some one please give a rough number so i can at least know how close or far I am from getting the answer...thnx
Hehe... This challenge is a little more fun than you think.
You might not want to do it by hand.

I sadly did. I couldn't find anything in python to open it.

CodeX · Post by **CodeX** » Wed Dec 23, 2009 1:15 am

Code: Select all

import os
os.system("command line to do whatever you want :P")