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Want to Hire: A Dozen Arg-like Puzzles for Non-Arg Project
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garyd
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 		 Want to Hire: A Dozen Arg-like Puzzles for Non-Arg Project
An actual person wanting to buy 12 puzzles
Hi Unfictioners, I'm looking to pay someone to develop about a dozen puzzles (of noob to novice difficulty) for a project I'm working on which is not an ARG.

I have some previous experience with ARGs (both player and pm), so I understand the issues involved -- these are very simple puzzles, however, meant to be cracked by a non-arg audience in under one day each.

In payment, I can offer the credit and exposure that from related press releases, and about $60 to $100 USD.

The puzzles will revolving around 12 names and 'coordinates', like thus:

Golden Pond 124 260
(...)

Interested? Contact garydSPLATunhacker.com -- and thanks for your time.

Best wishes,
garyd

PostPosted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 7:20 pm
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rose
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 		Would it be useful to create a database of people willing to make puzzles for games?
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Puppy_Zwolle
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 		I doubt the usefulness because of one thing:

Making a list of people would also have to include some form of... sneak- preview so a PM could screen for a particular style or puzzle-genre. It would leave a 'paper-trail' most PM's would want to avoid. Whom ever would have access to that database would also be able to puzzle who made what and what thinking could be behind a puzzle.

Bit confusing (even for me) but it is a risk I would not be willing to take if I were to make an ARG. But that is just paranoid me.

Having said that: Ad me to the list. But don't expect me to take money for it. Laughing

Here is my "sneak preview". Some computerskill is needed.
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jchillerup
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Puppy_Zwolle wrote:
Some computerskill is needed.


Solved. I know that solves in this thread are irrelevant, but I like Photoshop puzzles so much...

-- though I could have done without the Comic Sans...
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Puppy_Zwolle
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 		Congrats. You are the first that did not give up on this rather simple puzzle. Wink
jchillerup wrote:
-- though I could have done without the Comic Sans...
It is the most rounded typeface and hiddes best in these kind of pictures. Straight lines and angles show up if you look really really hard. Squinting helps. Twisted Evil
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Puppy_Zwolle
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 		Oh...as this is almost a legal way oh highjacking this tread Twisted Evil I post a new one. Posted before but never solved.... completely.

The solution is one word (or 2 depending on your spelling but not more).
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sixsidedsquare
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 		Here you go puppy, but I'm more one for ciphers than riddles:
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Simple sub with some plaintext alphabet letters used multiple times:

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz123456789 -Cipher alphabet:
thequickbrownfoxjumpsoverthelazydog -Plaintext alphabet:

Decoded text:
The fox is quoted in flavor about eating dogs.
What dog..don't you eat?

I know the dogs you do eat are hotdogs, but not sure about the ones you don't?


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Rekidk
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sixsidedsquare wrote:

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I know the dogs you do eat are hotdogs, but not sure about the ones you don't?


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A cold one?

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catherwood
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 		Re: Want to Hire: A Dozen Arg-like Puzzles for Non-Arg Proje
An actual person wanting to buy 12 puzzles
garyd wrote:
Hi Unfictioners, I'm looking to pay someone to develop about a dozen puzzles (of noob to novice difficulty) for a project I'm working on which is not an ARG.

{snip}

Interested? Contact garydSPLATunhacker.com -- and thanks for your time.

Best wishes,
garyd


I'm reminding people that this thread's purpose is to recruit workers. If you wish to post your own puzzles, then please start a new thread in Timewasters. Thank you.

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