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Antiriddle: The toughest riddle on the internet...or is it?
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vpisteve
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Joined: 30 Sep 2002
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Location: 1987

Antiriddle: The toughest riddle on the internet...or is it?

http://www.antiriddle.com/

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Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 5:18 pm

romper2004
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Joined: 22 May 2006
Posts: 26

Level one

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numbers.html

Level Two

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weather.html

Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 10:33 pm

Ayeso
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Joined: 05 Sep 2006
Posts: 101

Level one and two is easy, 3 im stuck on.

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Says: Patriarchal city, found references to Constantinople, which was taken over in 1453AD hence the +1453 in the weather, but then the -667 threw me off, and constantinople doesnt work as an answer, so in 667BC it was named Byzantium before it was named constantinople, but neither of those are the correct answer.

Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 3:33 am

Ayeso
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Joined: 05 Sep 2006
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And more info pointing to a istanbul / constantinople / byzantium answer

41�N 29�E = Modern day instanbul
- or Byzantium, as it was originally called, ...
- or Nova Roma as it was shortly called by the Romans
- or Constantinople as it was renamed by Constantine the Great in 330 A.D.

*edit*

Level 3, caps sensitive owns me

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constantinople

Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 3:45 am

Ehsan
Entrenched

Joined: 09 May 2003
Posts: 992

Riddle 4:

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Count the alternating slashes. The 3 dots in each are our clue that it's an IP address. They also ask for the page titles.

For example:
\\\\\\//////.\\////\\\\\\\\\./////////\./////////\\\\\\\\\
123456123456.121234123456789.1234567891.123456789123456789
66.249.91.99
Google

The rest follow the same pattern. Google, O2, D-Link, J Sainsbury, O2, B Braun

http://www.antiriddle.com/levels/godjob.html

Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 4:47 am

Ayeso
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Joined: 05 Sep 2006
Posts: 101

Riddle 5, sorda stuck

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"put on your orange glasses, ill presume it means only look at the black text, well this is where a paint program would come in handy alas i am at work. secondly it says flipping out, which would mean the rest of the black letters are flipped.

Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 7:01 am

Ehsan
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Joined: 09 May 2003
Posts: 992

Riddle 5:

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If you do look at only the black letters, and flip the image vertically, you'll notice a group of repeating letters which look like this:
n n o ttt a l o n n e
nn n oo t a a l o o nne
n nn o t aaa l ll oo n n e ee

http://www.antiriddle.com/levels/notalone.html

Riddle 6:

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1-800-ABA-NDON

http://www.antiriddle.com/levels/222-6366.html

Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 8:14 am

Ehsan
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Joined: 09 May 2003
Posts: 992

Riddle 7:

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Beethoven's F�r Elise (WoO 59) was originally titled "F�r Therese, as Ludwig wanted to marry Therese. Nohl mistranscribed the title as "F�r Elise" and it stuck, to this day.

http://www.antiriddle.com/levels/therese.html

Riddle 8:

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Look closely at the bottom right of the image and you'll see a filename:
http://www.antiriddle.com/levels/audio/212-796-0735.wav

The WAV is from the recent expirement on craigslist which was widespread on the Internet.. search for the page title for more info. The recording is of Group 415...
01305 60510 12079 04606 50100

Every group EXCEPT one is repeated twice...
http://www.antiriddle.com/levels/04606.html

Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 8:28 am

Ehsan
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Joined: 09 May 2003
Posts: 992

Riddle 9:

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Cell phone code:
http://www.antiriddle.com/levels/wichita.html

Riddle 10:

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As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls is a collaborative album by Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays.

http://www.antiriddle.com/levels/lylemays.html

Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 8:47 am
Last edited by Ehsan on Tue Sep 12, 2006 8:49 am; edited 1 time in total

Ayeso
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Joined: 05 Sep 2006
Posts: 101

Dang you beat me to it!

Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 8:47 am

Ehsan
Entrenched

Joined: 09 May 2003
Posts: 992

Ayeso wrote:

Dang you beat me to it!

No worries, been doing this for a while now Wink

Riddle 11:

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FAF <-> BE[zero] translates into the numbers 616 <-> 250
GEF <-> EBH is 756 <-> 528

Using the source hint for ISO 3166-1, those are country codes:

Poland <-> France
Switzerland <-> Netherlands

Now look at them on a map, and draw a line from the capital of each. Paris to Warsaw and Bern to Brussels. You'll end up with an intersection point over the city of:

http://www.antiriddle.com/levels/luxembourg.html

Riddle 12:

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This one gave me a headache. You can use the instructions to draw the circle, but it's better to use the J's as a guide, just follow the group on the northeast side of the circle and mirror them on the other 3 sides.

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/1296/stencilsj8.gif

The trick then is to follow the letters counter clockwise! I just made out Vitruvian Man Birth Year...

http://www.antiriddle.com/levels/1492.html

Riddle 13:

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Good old Sudoku! Solve it and then add up the diagonal...
5 + 7 +8 + 7 + 5 + 4 + 2 + 3 + 9

http://www.antiriddle.com/levels/50.html

Riddle 14:

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There's a yellow line of text hidden at the top edge of the scissors...
http://www.antiriddle.com/levels/level16.html

Riddle 15:

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Something's not right..
That's because we're on 15 and the level says 16...

http://www.antiriddle.com/levels/level15.html

And a clicky to:

http://www.antiriddle.com/levels/key.html

Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 9:01 am

Ehsan
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Joined: 09 May 2003
Posts: 992

Riddle 16:

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I thought this was obviously easy, but 'hurricane' and 'cyclone' and other variations didn't work.

Looking up Wikipedia, it mentioned that names were given to hurricanes in the 1950's only. One hurricane recurred in 3 years, and was classified as a category 5, fitting the riddle.

http://www.antiriddle.com/levels/dog.html

Riddle 17:

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The pentagram is pointing to five letters, e o C D X.

Anagrams to:
http://www.antiriddle.com/levels/codex.html

Riddle 18:

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From top to bottom the letters transcribe to:
egoism, sloth, gluttony, envy, greed, lust, pride

The obvious answer being egoism:
http://www.antiriddle.com/levels/egoism.html

Riddle 19:

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This one was VERY confusing... first it asks for a .what, but trying different extensions for the image doesn't work... I guess the broken image is just a distraction because you actually need a different web page.. The -1 from the title gets you there:

http://www.antiriddle.com/levels/egoism.htm

And then you are redirected to a weird message...

http://www.antiriddle.com/levels/hard.html

Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 9:50 am

Ehsan
Entrenched

Joined: 09 May 2003
Posts: 992

The unfinished levels...

Riddle 20:

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With the quote from the previous page, it leads us to the Divine Comedy... just as Dante is entering the Gates of Hell.

http://www.antiriddle.com/levels/hell.html

Riddle 21:

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Elwood is Elwood T. Baker, the game is Gin, and when you drop something which is not in any meld it's called...
http://www.antiriddle.com/levels/deadwood.html

And now I have to get back to work! Next one looks like l33t sp34k.

Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 10:33 am

Russell
Unfictologist

Joined: 11 Feb 2005
Posts: 1571
Location: London

It is indeed leet speak (god i hate leet)

Anyway some of it is backwards, all words that are backwards i have put in bold. Some are upside down which are in italics.

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Tremendous Bush Overnight Hazardous Achieved Strategy Iran Furious Mortars Hezbollah Stupendous Handouts Deployed Southwards Defended Olmert Troops Weapons Displayed In correspondent Sporadic fragile Israelies peacekeeping Landed Lebanon Sources between(Ceasefire movement) Horrendous

Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 12:14 pm

Sooperman23
Kilroy

Joined: 18 Sep 2006
Posts: 1

27 and 28

I know im skipping arround but ive gotten all the way to 27 and 28 some help below...

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27 is hi.html (easy right, i thought so) and then from there you get the "you were not alone" which refers to Christopher Columbus who also persent "7" years after the bill was introduced so in return columbus.html is 28

Good Luck!

Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 12:00 am

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