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The Package
Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 3:43 am
by Weehawk
I cracked it the first try. (With about a minute to spare.)
Can anyone else survive?
http://www.compfused.com/directlink/957/
Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 4:40 am
by JoustGod
I had 8 and a half minutes to spare. Nice little visit back to my binary days of the 70s computer age...lol.
Also, nice nod to the Japanese craze, Sudoku.
Multiplication was a cinch. Just hoping the wires were the ones I thought they were referring to.
Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 5:26 am
by mahlemiut
Eh, I had 5 and a half minutes to spare until I cut the wrong wire. :/
But once you know what everything refers to, it's easy. Especially when two of the puzzles were identical each time. Writing emulators helps a bit too.
Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 5:35 am
by The_Pro
Well now I know what a sudoku is, it may save my life one day, but not today. After I knew the rules, the rest was easy.
Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 5:39 am
by Weehawk
mahlemiut wrote:Eh, I had 5 and a half minutes to spare until I cut the wrong wire. :/
But once you know what everything refers to, it's easy. Especially when two of the puzzles were identical each time. Writing emulators helps a bit too.
You cut the wrong wire???
I don't want to give it away for anyone who hasn't tried yet, but MARP's Assistant Web Maintainer shouldn't have cut the wrong wire.
Should have thought about it for about five more minutes...
Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 5:52 am
by The_Pro
If I weren't so lazy I'd photoshop a funny pic showing the MARP database depending on a similar wire based decision.
I'd be hilarious too, just picture it. Ahhh, yeah.
Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 5:53 am
by destructor
I cut wrong wire too
Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 7:01 am
by The TJT
Was left around 6 minutes.
Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 12:31 am
by BeeJay
Hmmmm....... now I am concerned that I've been working on computers for too long.............. 12 mins 10 seconds left.....
Was using calculator to do the multiplication considered cheating?!?
BeeJay.
Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 3:29 pm
by BeeJay
There must be something in the BeeJay genes.....
My 13 year old son did it with 4½ minutes to spare (guessed the colour).
My 10 year old daughter did it with just over 4 mintues to spare. Used the logic that the red wire was on top in the picture so the top multiplication must also represent the red coloured wire. Not bad lateral thinking and luckily it gave her the right answer for which wire to cut.
BeeJay.