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[LOCKED] The Master Theorem, "Members-Only Society of Puzzle-Solvers"
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The Penned Word
Kilroy

Joined: 02 Jun 2011
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 		Re: Recursion
Nevermind, I solved it. Although it still doesnt make sense...

The thing that helped me was
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At first it might seem like nothing rhymes...


PostPosted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 2:04 pm
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eiya
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 		Re: Shift Financial Business
EGo wrote:
cgeorg wrote:
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I went the other way, and found 5 valid stock symbols. Using their opening/closing prices on the dates listed as indexes into the alphabet doesn't yield a word, nor does shifting those letters by the changes listed. The first symbol seems to have been recently adopted by a company - on the date listed, their symbol was different, but I couldn't find another company with that symbol. Also, the data for the 3rd symbol is odd - for the entire week around the date listed, the stock was only traded once. Most of the data is 0. I also tried using the stocks' actual change for the date listed, but that doesn't seem like the right path either.

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Don't bring real history into it. Everything's there in the picture they provide.


Oh, and instead of making another post: that Mapmaker on the site is our Mapmaker, right?


How do I use the dates? i'm so stuck

PostPosted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 2:12 pm
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TJ
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Well the thing about dates is that they're usually chronological.


PostPosted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 3:34 pm
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Ninian
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Joined: 02 May 2011
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TJ wrote:
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Well the thing about dates is that they're usually chronological.


This tends to be my biggest bane in most of these puzzles. I always seem to ignore this fact. In this case, I was trying to assign letters to the dates, adjusted by stock...

I have been slightly disappointed with the last few puzzles, though. Even though they've stumped me, in the end the answer was something that could have been easily guessed if you simply thought about the subject at hand (video games, stocks, etc).

PostPosted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 5:30 pm
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Red Dog
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 		Re: Of highlights, disobediences and recursions.
cgeorg wrote:
Red Dog wrote:
I am feeling like a total dork. I got the latest puzzle in just over 5 minutes, but cannot for the life of me figure out the Highlighter Seal. I can tell that it's totally obvious and easy, and yet I am drawing a complete blank. I just need a starting point...it must be summer vacation already...


Not sure if this needs a spoiler, but I will just to be safe...

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Did you try highlighting?


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Well, yes, if by highlighting you mean simply dragging the cursor over text to "highlight" it. Tried that in numerous places. If you mean using the actual highlighter tool like MS Word has, then no, because IE9 doesn't have such an option (and I can't remember if previous versions do). I take it there's somewhere specific that I'm supposed to be highlighting, or is it what I'm supposed to do with it once it's highlighted that matters?


PostPosted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 8:49 pm
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Red Dog
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 		Re: Of highlights, disobediences and recursions.
Red Dog wrote:
cgeorg wrote:
Red Dog wrote:
I am feeling like a total dork. I got the latest puzzle in just over 5 minutes, but cannot for the life of me figure out the Highlighter Seal. I can tell that it's totally obvious and easy, and yet I am drawing a complete blank. I just need a starting point...it must be summer vacation already...


Not sure if this needs a spoiler, but I will just to be safe...

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Did you try highlighting?


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Well, yes, if by highlighting you mean simply dragging the cursor over text to "highlight" it. Tried that in numerous places. If you mean using the actual highlighter tool like MS Word has, then no, because IE9 doesn't have such an option (and I can't remember if previous versions do). I take it there's somewhere specific that I'm supposed to be highlighting, or is it what I'm supposed to do with it once it's highlighted that matters?


Ne'ermind. It seems I no sooner post these things than I stumble upon the correct..."procedure" almost immediately. Thanks!

PostPosted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 8:50 pm
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jeeves
Kilroy

Joined: 03 Jun 2011
Posts: 1

 		Source Seal
Hi there,

The only puzzle seal I need is the source one. I've looked through this forum and not found any clues other than it's harder than the Hacker one, could anyone give me a hint please.

No one else seems to be posting about it so I assume everyone else has got it and i'm being an idiot. I've looked through the source code but couldn't see anything obvious.

EDIT: Wouldn't you know it, i just thought i'd have one more go, and got it straight away. It was me being a idiot.

PostPosted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 10:53 am
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Boot


Joined: 31 Mar 2011
Posts: 36

 		Re: Source Seal
jeeves wrote:
...I've looked through the source code but couldn't see anything obvious.

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Look again.

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PostPosted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 10:58 am
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Rogi Ocnorb
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 		Re: Shift Financial Business
EGo wrote:
Oh, and instead of making another post: that Mapmaker on the site is our Mapmaker, right?

Given the quick solve time, I'd be willing to bet it is 'our' Mapmaker.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 12:33 pm
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Boot


Joined: 31 Mar 2011
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 		I need to get faster at guessing the solutions so maybe one day I get lucky and score Theorem Champ. This last one, I started to shift the letters the wrong way and it obviously wasn't promising. When 12:09 rolled around I just skimmed the text and guessed the answer just in time. If I'd only done that at midnight lol.
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Duerdav
Kilroy

Joined: 04 Jun 2011
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 		Re: Spellign Bee
Rogi Ocnorb wrote:
Here's what I got back:
I can't find any more; So, meh.
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P to me Feb 25

Hi Rogi,

I appreciate you taking the time to point these out. Though while they are indeed misspellings, I wouldn't quite call them errors. Also, there's still one more you haven't found. Six total if I remember correctly...

This is today,
P

ETA: NM. I forgot ARG Rule #1. Thanks, little birdie. Wink
Interesting that spellcheck didn't even find the one I was missing.


What is Rule #1? Can't find the last error.

PostPosted: Sat Jun 04, 2011 12:12 pm
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Guest
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 		It seems I no sooner post these things than I stumble upon the correct..."procedure" almost immediately. Thanks!

I'm just stumbling upon the obvious procedures and getting nowhere. Can you help me?

PostPosted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 12:51 pm
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Rogi Ocnorb
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee


Joined: 01 Sep 2005
Posts: 4266
Location: Where the cheese is free.

 		Re: Spellign Bee
Duerdav wrote:
Rogi Ocnorb wrote:
Here's what I got back:
I can't find any more; So, meh.
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P to me Feb 25

Hi Rogi,

I appreciate you taking the time to point these out. Though while they are indeed misspellings, I wouldn't quite call them errors. Also, there's still one more you haven't found. Six total if I remember correctly...

This is today,
P

ETA: NM. I forgot ARG Rule #1. Thanks, little birdie. Wink
Interesting that spellcheck didn't even find the one I was missing.


What is Rule #1? Can't find the last error.

Well: I guess Rule #1 is really, "CTRL+A". But, rule #2 would be, "Check the source".
If you're using LEETKEY, doing a "To Upper Case" on the page would be beneficial.
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 6:25 pm
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Red Dog
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Anonymous wrote:
It seems I no sooner post these things than I stumble upon the correct..."procedure" almost immediately. Thanks!

I'm just stumbling upon the obvious procedures and getting nowhere. Can you help me?


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Hm, well, if you're anything like me, what you're doing is probably correct; it's more likely a question of where or potentially how you're doing it...


PostPosted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 9:43 pm
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ne0x
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Joined: 30 Jun 2006
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 		Re: Spellign Bee
Duerdav wrote:
What is Rule #1? Can't find the last error.

Now, I would have figured that ARG rule #1 is that nothing is a mistake; unless it is, in which case it throws everyone off on a wild goose chase.
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