#249846 - 17/02/2005 17:57
Frustrating puzzle of the day at which I am stuck on level 12.
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31596
Loc: Seattle, WA
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I got to level 12 all by my lonesome. But now can't seem to get past it. Anyone else? http://www.etienne.nu/imagepuz/By the way, some of the levels are skewed towards people running IE on Windows. A friend with a Mac needed to jump through more hoops on a couple of the puzzles than I did.
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#249847 - 17/02/2005 18:31
Re: Frustrating puzzle of the day at which I am stuck on level 12.
[Re: tfabris]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 10/06/1999
Posts: 5916
Loc: Wivenhoe, Essex, UK
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Some of the URLs are case sensitive...
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#249848 - 17/02/2005 18:40
Re: Frustrating puzzle of the day at which I am stuck on level 12.
[Re: andy]
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Registered: 10/06/1999
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Loc: Wivenhoe, Essex, UK
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I cheated on lots of the image ones. Managed to do the code one myself though. Can't be arsed with the math ones.
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#249849 - 17/02/2005 18:44
Re: Frustrating puzzle of the day at which I am stuck on level 12.
[Re: andy]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31596
Loc: Seattle, WA
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Some of the URLs are case sensitive...
Heh, thanks. I'd tried the variants of I, L, and 1 by themselves, and none worked. Didn't realize the one-pixel black border to the left was a letter L, otherwise I would have seen it sooner.
Spent a lot of time trying to get the two halves of the image to produce characters via variations on an interference pattern. My history of playing "Impossible Mission" on the C-64 actually hurt me there. Darn.
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#249850 - 17/02/2005 18:46
Re: Frustrating puzzle of the day at which I am stuck on level 12.
[Re: andy]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31596
Loc: Seattle, WA
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I cheated on lots of the image ones.
Cheated? How?
If you mean putting them into photoshop and mucking with them, I'm pretty sure that was absolutely necessary to solve them, is part of the puzzle, and is not cheating.
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#249852 - 17/02/2005 19:16
Re: Frustrating puzzle of the day at which I am stuck on level 12.
[Re: tfabris]
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Registered: 09/08/2000
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Loc: Edinburgh, Scotland
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wonder if that's why I found some very difficult - up to 5 was easy and a couple of the others were fine (missed out some - followed b3ta.com to some of the higher ones) but found some just baffling. That one with all the coloured lines - wtf?? Lost me completely 
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#249853 - 17/02/2005 19:56
Re: Frustrating puzzle of the day at which I am stuck on level 12.
[Re: frog51]
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Registered: 17/01/2002
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Loc: Manchester UK
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I'm thinking a combination of OS X and Firefox have thwarted my attempts to get past stage 5. I get the feeling I need to use the funny halftoning effect you get in IE when you drag over an image. I'll have to give it a try at work.
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#249854 - 17/02/2005 20:12
Re: Frustrating puzzle of the day at which I am stuck on level 12.
[Re: andym]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31596
Loc: Seattle, WA
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I get the feeling I need to use the funny halftoning effect you get in IE when you drag over an image.
Yup, that's one of the windows-centric ones.
You can jump through hoops in photoshop to get that one to work for you, merely overlay the image with a crosshatch pattern.
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#249855 - 17/02/2005 20:42
Re: Frustrating puzzle of the day at which I am stuck on level 12.
[Re: frog51]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 08/03/2000
Posts: 12338
Loc: Sterling, VA
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That one with all the coloured lines - wtf??
Is that #7? In that case, I'm stuck there too.
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#249856 - 17/02/2005 20:50
Re: Frustrating puzzle of the day at which I am stuck on level 12.
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old hand
Registered: 14/04/2002
Posts: 1172
Loc: Hants, UK
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Is that #7? In that case, I'm stuck there too.
Think about the file itself, rather than the image...
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#249857 - 18/02/2005 05:05
Re: Frustrating puzzle of the day at which I am stuck on level 12.
[Re: andym]
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Registered: 10/11/2000
Posts: 497
Loc: Utah, USA
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Something about the gamma on my ibook made Stage 9 really easy, though. The letters were plain as day obvious as soon as the picture loaded. Probably means my display's totally out of calibration, though...
One other problem I'm having with it is that color blindness is kind of hampering me a bit on one or two of the stages.
[Edited because plane is the thing that flies. Plain goes with obvious.]
Edited by adavidw (18/02/2005 05:35)
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#249858 - 18/02/2005 05:56
Re: Frustrating puzzle of the day at which I am stuck on level 12.
[Re: tfabris]
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Registered: 10/06/1999
Posts: 5916
Loc: Wivenhoe, Essex, UK
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Cheated? How?
Google found me a forum where people were trying to solve the puzzles.
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