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[mr. sunshine]

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[mr. sunshine]

Throw down!

[pzlr]

I'm not the person to whom you refer, but I do attempt to prepare in the hour or two before midnight. I try to research the subject and then generate a list of possible solutions. When midnight comes, I pump my list through the theorem before I even read it. Recently, this proved successful for the Legos theorem but it still required a bit of thought to include both the singular and plural forms (I almost missed that). Sometimes, you do have to wonder if somebody has cracked how the theorem "application" works. I have not investigated myself but I wonder whether it checks each answer with the server (I doubt it). If not, then the answer must be encoded in there somewhere.

[SoItBegins]

[confused] Subject? How can you research the subject of the theorem when it hasn't popped yet?

EDIT: Also, plzr— the theorem page code does indeed check every answer with the server. The server also won't include the 'solution' data in the page until you've solved the Theorem, and attempting to go to the image filename of a KNOWN solution (but while logged out) threw a Not Found error. They've covered all the bases.

[Rogi Ocnorb]

Actually, now that you brought it up, getting back to the amazon storage area for images doesn't seem like it'd be too hard to hack.
It's beyond my kung fu, but well within that of others. Just pulling up a known solution image exposes all the parameters needed to do additional lookups.

[SoItBegins]

[pzlr]