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rose1
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 		from updated ideltech page about Marty
Quote:
Well, if you are reading this I am dead. I knew something was up when I saw that weird van outside the new office. But, I hid TobI in a server with a neat little time release program which put him in a spot where hopefully you Ideltech people will find him. I am not sure if Marcus or Jude made it so if the did get it to one of them. If they didn't make it, destroy it. TobI can get you killed like he did me.

www.ideltech.com/nim/nim.html



I looked quickly to see if this was posted here somewhere--it's a bit dated but I didn't see it.

Rose

PostPosted: Mon Jun 21, 2004 4:15 pm
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Caterpillar
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Joined: 25 Sep 2002
Posts: 1887
Location: cem's otherbody

 		Looks to be akin to the Pearl Game:
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But not sure what "Add them together" means after one page tells you that you win. May be more pages...........

http://www.ideltech.com/nim/nim.html
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"Three away from the first row. Your move."

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http://www.ideltech.com/nim/2r1.html
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http://www.ideltech.com/nim/1r2.html
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Two away from the fourth row. Your move.

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http://www.ideltech.com/nim/2r5.html

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Two away from the first row. Your move.
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http://www.ideltech.com/nim/2r2.html

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One away from the third row. Your move.

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http://www.ideltech.com/nim/1r5.html

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Three from the fifth row. Your move.


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http://www.ideltech.com/nim/2r3.html


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One away from the third row. You win. Now add them together.


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PostPosted: Mon Jun 21, 2004 4:38 pm
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Caterpillar
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 		Looks like the moves are:

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3----2----2----1----3----1
---5----1----2----2----1----1


PostPosted: Mon Jun 21, 2004 11:25 pm
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Sin Vraal
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Joined: 28 Nov 2002
Posts: 219
Location: NJ

 		hey
Caterpillar - I think you did a great job, but it's my gut feeling that you left out a potentially important piece of information from the way you're viewing the moves - see if this helps anybody):

These are the sets of moves that yield the play sequence given. Based on the fact that the first pattern loses lines from 2 different rows, it only stands to reason that we make the first move, followed by the other player, and so forth.

First move is me (us), second move is the other player, and so forth:

My coordinates below are x, y where 'x' = # of pins taken, and 'y' = row #

Starting with:
Code:

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Code:

#  ME        THEM
1  5, 3      3, 1
2  1, 2      2, 4
3  2, 5      2, 1
4  2, 2      1, 3
5  1, 5      3, 5
6  2, 3      1, 3



Does this help anybody visualize what's going on?

I tried comparing these to a grid of letters to no avail (as such):

Code:

ABCDE
FGHIJ
KLMNO
PQRST
UVWXY


But then this doesn't go with "now add them up". Bueller?

PostPosted: Thu Jun 24, 2004 12:17 am
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y2kbozo
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Joined: 28 Sep 2002
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 		Progress...
The relevant pages (not in order) are:

http://www.ideltech.com/nim/2r1.html
http://www.ideltech.com/nim/1r2.html
http://www.ideltech.com/nim/2r2.html
http://www.ideltech.com/nim/2r3.html
http://www.ideltech.com/nim/1r5.html
http://www.ideltech.com/nim/2r5.html

"Adding" them gives:
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http://www.ideltech.com/nim/10r18.html

Titled: When a problem comes along

Now whip it.

Which leads to:
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http://www.ideltech.com/nim/whipitgood.html

alt.aardvark

Which leads to... Question

PostPosted: Sun Jun 27, 2004 1:56 am
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y2kbozo
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 		A is for Aarvark
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alt.aardvark is a Usenet group. I found the following:

From : mmanson(at)ideltech.com (Marty Manson)
Subject : A is for Aarvark
Newsgroups : alt.aardvark
Date : 19 Jun 2004 14:49:53 -0700

VN FB EE LV PB HY QA BG
PB AG NP GL BH QV ER PG
YL ZN EP HF GB OV VF YB
PN GR QN GV QR YG RP UQ
BG PB ZG BO VQ BG RK RV
GJ VY YN HG BZ NG VP NY
YL VA GR ES NP RJ VG UG
BO VN AQ QB JA YB NQ GU
RP BZ CB AR AG FG BL BH
EP BZ CH GR EK KK KK KK


PostPosted: Sun Jun 27, 2004 2:06 am
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y2kbozo
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Posts: 252

 		Message decoded...
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Its a rot-13:

i a(m) sorry i could not contact you directly marcus tobi is located at ideltech dot com tobi dot exe
it will automatically interface with tobi and down load the components to your computer

ideltech.com/tobi.exe is just a text file which says:

TOBI was here.
Exclamation

PostPosted: Sun Jun 27, 2004 3:39 am
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Sin_Vraal (not logged in)
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 		heh
Good Job.

I feel 'duh' about that one now =(.

PostPosted: Sun Jun 27, 2004 9:23 am
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Emericana
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Joined: 25 Oct 2003
Posts: 66

 		1 of 2 options:

A) WR figured it out first and is hiding TOBI.
B) It's alive. Shocked (more likely)

PostPosted: Sun Jun 27, 2004 9:49 am
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Zx-777
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Joined: 27 Jun 2004
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 		Great. Now TOBI escaped from Marty's server. Any traces?

PostPosted: Sun Jun 27, 2004 4:07 pm
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Guest
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Quote:
B) It's alive. (more likely)


/End Dr. Frakenstein voice. Smile

PostPosted: Sun Jun 27, 2004 5:23 pm
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Tablesaw
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Joined: 13 Jun 2004
Posts: 20
Location: LACAUSA

 		For historical value, when the puzzle first went live, it was rather broken. The directory http://www.ideltech.com/nim had not been protected and could be accessed directly. Furthermore, http://www.ideltech.com/nim/10r18.html didn't work. Instead, looking at the directory, another file, http://www.ideltech.com/nim/2r1.htm which presented a board that could not have existed in the same game as the others. Nevertheless, this file was necessary to add up the files to get http://www.ideltech.com/nim/12r19.html. These errors have obviously been corrected.
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