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Hi,

I'm pretty sure I got the answer. If I compare the first ~20 numbers with my results they match but my answer still seems to be incorrect: 24********24.
Any help would be appreciated

I've got exactly the same problem.

EDIT: Solved... nevermind.

Hi, can You give alittle hint? Can this challenge be done just by mind or do I need to use OllyDBG or something like that?
Thank You very much...

There are several ways of solving this, so work out which one is easiest for you. You can work out the sequence of numbers, you can reverse app to see the code, or come up with another one yourself. Like many of the challenges here, there is no one way of solving it.

cheers
smutley

I did it by mind and with Wolfram|Alpha (makes many of the challenges much easier!)

I am stuck.
I have decompiled the programm an just executed the last run.
The result , maybe the same as horst get, 24**...**24 is wrong.
Can somebady give me a little hint ?

Edit: I've got it.

Hi,
I thought I had the correct formula to get it. But as it turned out, I forgot about a special feature about big numbers. I checked my calculation and noticed that my evaluation of the sequence isnt correct anyway.

It gives me the correct values up to 89 though. So I'm not sure, if stubborn Vista is going wild here?! I don't think that I spoil anything, if I ask if the value for 88 really is 34***76 instead of 33***71, which would perfectly fit in my sequence...

Thanks in advance,
tripleedged

tripleedged wrote:It gives me the correct values up to 89 though. So I'm not sure, if stubborn Vista is going wild here?! I don't think that I spoil anything, if I ask if the value for 88 really is 34***76 instead of 33***71, which would perfectly fit in my sequence...

The sequence has nothing to do with Vista.
Just one more step of thinking, and you're done; the sequence is not so simple, but not so complex either

hey guys, this challenge is driving me nuts for some days!

i compared the first like 50 numbers printed by the original sharper.exe with my calculation and they all match exactly. why isnt my answer accepted though?

its close to impossible my answer is wrong o.O any clue? thx

EDIT: OMG the devil is in the details, had to slightly modify formula (even though the 50 first numbers were actually correct). thx anyways.

Do I have to install Windows for this challenge?

it looks like you have to install the windows version of Mono on wine judging by that message

Wine is mostly a Win32 API implementation, so you only need it for things that use the Win32 API. Pure CIL assemblies that don't use Win32 APIs can be executed through native Linux mono.

After a deeper look, I managed to solve it by hand... I hoped for more challenges to the north-west, but seems I get stuck there once again, since the crypto was only solved 10 times...

Wait till you see how many people solved "What in the world"...

even less people have completed a challenge called "a living dead cat in the box"...