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rowan · Unfictologist Joined: 12 Apr 2004 Posts: 1966

Birthday Puzzle Trail

**Posted:** Fri Mar 11, 2005 7:07 pm

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RobMagus

Do it! It's totally awesome! Best idea for a webtrail ever!

**Posted:** Sat Mar 12, 2005 5:18 am

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Of course! That's the only possible explanation!

maxim

Can I first ask how it works? Do you have to put the 'password' in the bar at the top like in some others?

**Posted:** Mon Mar 14, 2005 5:36 am

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aliendial

I assume - not a password but a new url (often a different page on the same site) based on the clue-age in the page you're looking at. Nothing in the source, so I assume the next page is based on the answer to the question "who sent you here". The answer is not Rowan72. I think.

**Posted:** Mon Mar 14, 2005 7:51 am

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baseball3190 · Veteran Joined: 27 Feb 2005 Posts: 90

http://www.wonderweasels.org/strifey

takes you to an index. the links on the page make letters change, as in when ya click on a link and look at the bottom of the window is, where ur progress bar should be, you see that it says somethin like S=A and things like that. i guess we gotta match the letters?

**Posted:** Mon Mar 14, 2005 5:05 pm

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^^first arg contact directly to me. almost wet myself. lol

aliendial

Well at least you got something other than the 404...

I think this is just part of the html for the columns. All four of the link URLs end with a letter that matches the column name: Name/Last Modified/Size/Description=N/M/S/D and they each toggle back and and forth between =A and =D. /AD gets you a 404. As does /DA

/weasel gets you the weasel (well, presumably ferret) photo album.

Did someone other than rowan start this trail?

Don't forget to try other file extensions...

**Posted:** Mon Mar 14, 2005 5:41 pm

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catherwood

**Posted:** Mon Mar 14, 2005 5:45 pm

Atrophied

ok, so the numbers (as far as I can tell) aren't ascii, or an ip address.

I'm lost with this one. I can't think of what to try next.
My brain just doesn't want to think of possible solving mechanisms for some reason. any hints forthcoming?

**Posted:** Mon Mar 14, 2005 8:21 pm

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RobMagus

Well, it certainly looks like ASCII, doesn't it?

But there's also another Answer.

**Posted:** Tue Mar 15, 2005 2:20 am

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Britt · Guest

Alright..new at all this.,..Giving up now. *huff* I have no clue.

**Posted:** Sat Mar 19, 2005 10:29 pm

Pingu · Boot Joined: 18 Feb 2005 Posts: 18

stuck

**Posted:** Sun Mar 20, 2005 3:20 pm

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