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[Shad0]

UPDATE

[aliendial]

Re: UPDATE

[yanka]

Re: UPDATE

[aliendial]

"twelve that change colors" - could that mean only the squares that trigger a change (those outlined in blue on giskard's illustration). As we noted in #UF, the twelve triggers are exactly two per line and two per column. But how to get from those pairs to "16" I dunno. Now if the hint said 17, that would be different. But probably no more useful.

"letters are red, numbers are green" - use only the red letters and green numbers? = b,c,0,3

Added in the hope of triggering a eureka moment for someone else, cuz it's not doing it for me . . .

[aliendial]

or the incredibly simplistic way - if you convert every colored square to a number, you get many doubles except 1 and 0: 6-6-5-5-4-4-3-3-2-2-1-0

Coincidence? How to restate in the format of the pairs page?

[Giskard]

New clue:

[BrianEnigma]

[yanka]

This is not going to be of any help, but here is how I interpret the clue and the background: 36121636:
36 = thirty six squares, numbered one to thirty six
12 = twelve that change colors with certain mouse clicks
16 = put them in order they look like sixteen
36 = one step remains and its basically clear
make them thirty six, the new page appears

I think we're only supposed to use the 12 that are the output - because we know that "letters are red, numbers are green"; if we used the inputs (which are white), what would they be?
16 is just saying again that it's hex (why they feel the need to keep saying it, I have no idea). "Put them in order so they look like hex". What order? The order in which they light up? That's basically the only hint I'd like - as to the order.
The last one is hilarious - "basically clear" - I think that is referring to "hex --> text". Um, yeah, well, but how do we get the pairs in the first place? On what basis do we combine?
Make them 36, I think, means "convert to text", except that the page name might have numbers as well (therefore, 26 and 10) - which is nice, because so far they don't fit within the ranges of just letters.

But, like I sad - this isn't really of any help.

[Caterpillar]

Looks to me like you may have to use the number of the square....but I've never been good with directions.

Anyway here are the light ups with their square number converted:

GREEN - Numbers
1e 6d 9f 140 293
15 64 96 140 293

RED - Letters
194 35 266 4b 71 242 34c
19d 3e 26f 4b 7a 24b 34c

Maybe someone can do sumpin with it.

[Giskard]

This puzzle is bugging me... I'm trying to take a look at the hint line by line, because I want to understand what it is about...

[danohuiginn]

[Justin_Case]

[BrianEnigma]

It is interesting to note that the values that light up are all valid hex digits (e5b1df0463c), making me wonder if everything else on the grid is more-or-less a red herring. Since there are eleven digits (which, being an odd number, does not translate to a set of 8-bit values) and because putting them in order leads to non-printable ASCII, it seems to me that [assuming the answer is hex->ASCII] there are likely a number of repeat digits--probably indicated in some way by the mouseover actions and/or colors.

[Giskard]

[BrianEnigma]