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ymgve · Boot Joined: 24 Dec 2006 Posts: 11

"The Strange Box" - self-contained puzzle trail

Rogi Ocnorb

I'm not able to master the "iwarp" GIMP plugin for the 2nd one, so can't get any further than level2. I suck.

**Posted:** Thu Jul 31, 2008 1:01 am

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grumpyboy · Unfettered Joined: 04 Feb 2003 Posts: 660

**Posted:** Thu Jul 31, 2008 12:43 pm

Rogi Ocnorb

Can't play with .rar at work. But, I'm sure I tried that password, last night and it gave a "file header error". Along with many of the other "P*ST" words of 7-10 characters. Looks like it's time for a new archive utility.

**Posted:** Thu Jul 31, 2008 4:55 pm

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Gregoriev

What am I supposed to do for the password 1193747696______T_____.rar?
Just arbitrarily guess the password? Hack into the file?

**Posted:** Thu Jul 31, 2008 6:55 pm

betterspud · Guest

I'm truly stumped by the 1193747696-______T______.rar

Has anyone managed to crack it?

I'd welcome a gentle nudge in the right direction.

Incidentally (to the originator) how many levels are there to this puzzle? Hopefully loads Smile

**Posted:** Fri Aug 01, 2008 3:53 pm

ymgve · Boot Joined: 24 Dec 2006 Posts: 11

It contains about 15 levels.

A hint for 1193747696-______T______.rar: the number is the key.

Another hint:

**Posted:** Fri Aug 01, 2008 4:16 pm

Rogi Ocnorb

Finally got it:

**Posted:** Sat Aug 02, 2008 6:17 am

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ymgve · Boot Joined: 24 Dec 2006 Posts: 11

I actually made a spelling error in the poem. That probably explains why you get the wrong result.

**Posted:** Mon Aug 04, 2008 5:35 pm

Rogi Ocnorb

Care to let me know where the spelling error occurs?
"funk" seemed somewhat... funky (though I couldn't see a better/different word that'd fit there).
And I guess "mine" could actually be "mime".
Like I said, I'm not the best with a graphics editor and can't be absolutely sure which words I may have spelled "correctly".
I guess I could upload the .png file and let somebody with better skillz go at it.
Yeah... That's what I'll do.

ETA: At home, now. Was misremembering some of the questionable areas. Adding what I came up with. I reconstructed it using ROYGBIV in reverse (roughly, since there's no orange and there are a few cyan pixels).

I'm sure I'm going about it all wrong and am probably missing something obvious.

FYI: Changing the one occurrence of "i'm" to "i am" doesn't seem to be the answer: The MD5s for that are:

Broken lines: (I know it says to remove whitespace, but sometimes, mileage varies)
Text only; 6d0dbd17f857c654520a573da7403801
DOS; 237f0b1bf2c92797ce097e128b41379b
Unix; ab9b5dc19147b18ad729aa9efe0ee7b5

No breaks:
Text only; c66153faca0637bb6826818635f5209b
DOS; cee9b4b113eda0b92c369a796bb8871b
Unix; bab2358c9b39fed14f50095f6a182dfc

**Posted:** Mon Aug 04, 2008 7:37 pm

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ymgve · Boot Joined: 24 Dec 2006 Posts: 11

The misspelled word is

**Posted:** Tue Aug 05, 2008 9:08 am

Rogi Ocnorb

Thanks. That works.
I'm sure glad I didn't choose proofreader as a vocation.
Can't believe I kept glossing right over that.

You're not making this easy. I'll give you that.
Looks like the next one is integer sequences and we're looking for a 21-digit number to follow:
27246542475003252211 45573535363315242442 75042300060320514653
Analyzing 20-digit numbers is a challenge when most of the tools I have available only work with 15 significant digits.
It's obviously not primes of any kind and really doesn't look to be any kind of 2/4/5/10/20 digit codified values from a list that I can see.

The percentage difference between numbers is fairly close, but not exact and the most interesting thing I have found, so far, is that if you calculate the difference between the two largest numbers (29468764697005272211) and then subtract the first number (27246542475003252211) the result is 2222222222002020000 which I feel must mean something, though what, is eluding me.

So, come on, math geeks. Edumacate me on this one. Lucas and Keith numbers seem to have similar ratios.

BTW: The last one was simply getting the MD5 hash for the string, itself and not for the string as a file.

**Posted:** Tue Aug 05, 2008 11:41 am

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Zandro · Guest

Fibonacci sequence.

Stuck on level 10, anyone have a lovely hint for these?

**Posted:** Thu Aug 14, 2014 4:32 am

Weregoose · Guest

**Posted:** Fri Aug 15, 2014 6:24 am

Guest · Guest

Ah, but you were right. Onto level 7.

**Posted:** Fri Aug 15, 2014 6:40 am