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[carlwebb]

lpilker: Some of us have in fact been trying to do just that. If you want to participate, my suggestion would be that you check the thread called "How many poison? How many parasites?" in the Studio Cypher forums (WA area) to see what people have already guessed for today. Note: as of now, the only guess submitted that the guesser logged is 2 & 1.

Then, after submitting your guess, please log it in that same thread.

[Edit: Kevin has made our lives much easier. The batch processor page now has a summary of the day's guesses so far, so you don't have to scour all the forums trying to get some clues as to what people might have guessed. So now there's no excuse for duplicates!]

[carlwebb]

Results for Batch 5

The others might have been asleep, but I was awake. I listened, I listened on the watch for the sentence, for the word, that would give me the clue to the faint uneasiness inspired by this narrative that seemed to shape itself without human lips in the heavy night-air of the river.

Poison = 4 Parasites = 3

logicphyber - 6 & 12
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
sgresso - 7 & 9
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
Lola66 - 6 &
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
Gasparina - 4 & 0
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
Tesseract - 2 & 1
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
lpilker - 9 & 9
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
Kythen - 2 & 4
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
confoundo - 2 & 2
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
carlwebb - 1 & 2
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
cjknight06 - 3 & 3
0/3 & 1/3 Observations Correct
magus - 4 & 4
1/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
formula99 - 1 & 0
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
tjray - 5 & 5
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
tallerbird - 8 & 3
0/3 & 1/3 Observations Correct
mnemo - 3 & 4
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
gandalf112 - 1 & 6
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
kinsey - 6 & 4
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
Idorusan - 7 & 7
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
Silverkun - 10 & 5
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
vikingofmars - 11 & 8
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
MizEmotional - 0 & 10
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
artlogic - 12 & 11
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
Svengoolie - 3 & 1
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct

[carlwebb]

Batch 6 Text

[from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein]

And now my wanderings began, which are to cease but with life. I have traversed a vast portion of the earth, and have endured all the hardships which travellers, in deserts and barbarous countries, are wont to meet. How I have lived I hardly know; many times have I stretched my failing limbs upon the sandy plain and prayed for death. But revenge kept me alive; I dared not die and leave my adversary in being.

[Svengoolie]

I wonder how long it will be before they just give us the answer.

[Dr. Confoundo]

This is supposed to be their shining example of why we'd want to pay money to play their game in the future?

[ALISDAIRPARK]

[cjknight06]

im trying... but as ususal im wraking my brain and coming up with nothing. ill probably just wait untill the end of the day and put in some numbers that havnt been tried yet...

[carlwebb]

Results for Batch 6

And now my wanderings began, which are to cease but with life. I have traversed a vast portion of the earth, and have endured all the hardships which travellers, in deserts and barbarous countries, are wont to meet. How I have lived I hardly know; many times have I stretched my failing limbs upon the sandy plain and prayed for death. But revenge kept me alive; I dared not die and leave my adversary in being.

Poison: 6
Parasites: 4

Tesseract - 6 & 6
1/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
MizEmotional - 5 & 5
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
mnemo - 5 & 4
0/3 & 1/3 Observations Correct
magus - 8 & 2
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
Synchronicity - 7 & 3
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
carlwebb - 4 & 7
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
kinsey - 6 & 11
1/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
Pickleworth - 5 & 9
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
Wojcik - 8 & 6
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
lpilker - 3 & 1
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
gaj90027 - 2 & 12
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
tallerbird - 4 & 1
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
thelsdj - 1 & 8
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
cjknight06 - 7 & 10
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
sgresso - 9 & 11
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
Idorusan - 7 & 7
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
ilikepucks - 10 & 13
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
gandalf112 - 11 & 14
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct

[carlwebb]

Text for Batch 7

[Again from Heart of Darkness, it looks like. And yes, it says "foot of his yes" on the batch processor page. In the Project Gutenberg file of Heart of Darkness, it says "eyes." Also the last sentence goes on: " and stood over him as if transfixed".]

One evening coming in with a candle I was startled to hear him say a little tremulously, 'I am lying here in the dark waiting for death.' The light was within a foot of his yes. I forced myself to murmur, 'Oh, nonsense!'

[Rogi Ocnorb]

Beforfe you guys run out of darkish classic literature...
I think your "parasites" number is gonna be 3 (Number of commas in the text)

[LatentMoths]

[Rogi Ocnorb]

I just meant that it works for every correct batch response you have guessed, so far. As there have been "glitches" in the batch processor before, I'd still keep it in mind.


EDIT: Counting, again, I see that there were 4 commas in Batch 5 and the answer was 3. Though that 1 that is different, seems like it should be a period in the text(I mean like the batch processor could have counted it as a period).

[LatentMoths]

I understand your point and am not going to disregard that punctuation could be part of this solution; however, if you look at the very first post you will see a passage that Kevin himself took a guess on before he handed it over to us. There is one comma in that passage and he guessed 1 for parasites. The processor counted it incorrect. So, I don't think the number of commas will work for the parasite question. That's all I was trying to point out. I appreciate your ideas Rogi...if you have any more keep 'em coming.

[Sgresso]

I think its has to do with sylables.



poison is 2
parasites are 3.


its seems to batch all teh batches

[Sgresso]

Oops! Looks like I made a mistake when I copied over the text 'yes' should be 'eyes' in that last bit of text. You'd think that a Copy and Paste is a Copy and Paste. A computer is a computer, from my way-cool graphing calculator to those silicon monoliths I used to work on in the underground, right? Right? Well I tell you, cats, the computers these Cyphers have are something else. Just the other day I found a file full of nothing but p's and q's on that dusty old computer in the hall. I guess if I can collect stamps ( I don't, but I could. ) a computer can collect letters.

Anyway, by Carl's suggestion, I asked Lane his opinion on all the depressing text. He said, wait for it… "shoot it." And then he spit. I ought to tell Eliza that he's spitting on the carpet again.

I asked around about Charles Lehner too. No one seems to remember anything useful about him.

So, after that extremely unhelpful answer, I decided to dig a little deeper into this system. I couldn't see anything in there that looked like an answer file so the computer must be counting… something. Punctuation, different kinds of words, something like that. Here's some good news, cats and kittens, I think I figured out how to stick in my own text. So if you want to give me some text to try out, some paragraph set to your own parameters, I can stick it in and we can give it a go. I don't think it will accept anything we've used before, and it can't be too short either. Make sure I've got it two hours before midnight, EST, so I can stick it in the system.

posted on the wakefull agents BB

Kevin is going to help with us!