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[Avatrix]

Based on a lot of the other puzzles we've had, it keeps striking me that something such as a word "sounding like" another word is too simple, especially if they're trying to stump us. Of course, I haven't figured out an another possibility yet, but my gut tells me we're stuck in a rut, and not looking down the right path.

[RandMod6]

the evils of brute force

[Lurking_Kouzou]

[peeveen1]

[jegger]

Re: the evils of brute force

[guantes]

Ok I've been digging around in my brain to try and sort this one, (since I usually come in too late in the game to sort an actual puzzle this one gave me a chance!)

Still after all the attempts with complex "sounds like" theories my first assumptions keep coming back to me.....

1) A lot of these words seem to be atonyms.... On/Off, Above/Below etc.
2) There are 41, a number which won't pair off exactly.

Sorry if this is trout but have we gone through to match up pairs of results? I tried it out but was pretty unsucessful.

I also tried to group the words by categories since they do fall into a number of simple categories, I'm just unsure what to do with them now.

I just keep thinking that "sounds like" is the end of the riddle and the beginning involves the list.... sounds like the atonym of the odd one out?

(Note: in my search I have checked the following;
slip_of_the_tongue.wav
sloping_trough.wav
cough.wav
trough.wav
take_it_on_the_chin.wav
devout.wav
stake_out.wav
bake_off.wav
violence.wav
more_over.wav
All with various combinations of hypens, underscores and spaces.)
Needless to say they're all 404.

[thebruce]

I can't help but think that SP will either give us a hint tomorrow or tell us where to find the clip... it's gotta be unlocked somehow.

Same with those two missing recipe3 clips... that just irks me!

[RandMod6]

brute force revisted

[usernameguy]

To me, it was like doing by hand, only faster. This is what I do for a living. Guess I didn't think about it that much.

Where's the line, exactly? I can automate this six ways to Sunday. If I had a program generate the request lines, then run it by hand, would that be bad? OK, what if I used a really good editor to generate the requests quickly? What if I'm just really good with Notepad?

I'd agree with you if we were doing a dictionary attack, but at a couple thousand, especially at the point we're at with this thing, all I'm doing is saving someone out there some time.

Who knows, Melissa could be artificially turning down requests that come too fast.

[catherwood]

I think the point for me is that you're just guessing, you aren't solving the riddle/puzzle/challenge. So what if you stumble upon it, where is the pride in that?

[usernameguy]

Someone asked for it. [shrug] There have been a lot of hand-attempts down this line.

Again, didn't think about it that much. It took me 2 minutes. You guys are probably right, I won't be doing that again.

[drizjr]

Probabaly more of nothing imparticular

[Tien_Le]

the image

[SuperJerms]

Ok, I'm reaching again, but here's a new thought.

Sounds Like...

Remeber two weeks ago, we had a puzzle that said "No, don't look IN the picture!" and we had to count the flowers on danadress? What if this is similar?

SOUNDS LIKE...maybe we should be listening to the hives mantra?

[danteGA]