How on earch do you work out #23?

It looks like it should be simple but i cant find any combination of a 4x4 bloack where the rows etc add up to 34!

I've even resorted to typing in every combination of x and y co-ords and still nothing works!

What am i missing?

teamllama wrote:How on earch do you work out #23?

It looks like it should be simple but i cant find any combination of a 4x4 bloack where the rows etc add up to 34!

I've even resorted to typing in every combination of x and y co-ords and still nothing works!

What am i missing?

Google docs spreadsheets helped with this one immensely, there's no real secret to it.

Exick wrote:You do, but the button tips its hand a little when it taunts you. Pay attention to what it says about its protection.

Would you mind PMing me what the silverlight way of dealing with it was, I tried that but gave up and solved it without silverlight.

Sweet! I made it in the top 100 as well. Very excited. I bought the woot shirt as well to commemorate it.
I'm just glad to be done with it...top 100 or not. It was all consuming for nearly 3 days there. I couldn't sleep, or work...I was obsessed.
Now I can get back to some game development.

any hints for #77 (the blog after the houses). I'm sure i'll see whatever it is right after i post this as the last couple people asking for hints to this one have.. nothing jumps out to me on the page and nothing in the source code either..

joel558 wrote:any hints for #77 (the blog after the houses). I'm sure i'll see whatever it is right after i post this as the last couple people asking for hints to this one have.. nothing jumps out to me on the page and nothing in the source code either..

The blog itself is the clue.
Not hidden in the source or anything.

sTyLeS wrote:The blog itself is the clue.
Not hidden in the source or anything.

That particular blog post or the blog in general? Must be time to have lunch and get back to actual programming for awhile.. These puzzles must be throwing me off lol.. Missing the obvious..

joel558 wrote:That particular blog post or the blog in general? Must be time to have lunch and get back to actual programming for awhile.. These puzzles must be throwing me off lol.. Missing the obvious..

That specific blog post has everything in it to solve that puzzle.
You might need an external tool to assist with part of it, but all of the information is there.

sTyLeS wrote:That specific blog post has everything in it to solve that puzzle.
You might need an external tool to assist with part of it, but all of the information is there.

Woo i knew lunch and a little programming would help lol,, thanks!

Is it all falling apart now that 100 people have finished it? I'm on #56 (tdpe.justinkohnen.com/2/) and I'm trying to put in the url for level 57. At first it just sat there and loaded forever. Now I get "The service is unavailable." Anyone else having this problem?

PanamaJack wrote:Is it all falling apart now that 100 people have finished it? I'm on #56 (tdpe.justinkohnen.com/2/) and I'm trying to put in the url for level 57. At first it just sat there and loaded forever. Now I get "The service is unavailable." Anyone else having this problem?

Yeah I'm getting the same thing from that site on a later level.. seems to be down..

joel558 wrote:Yeah I'm getting the same thing from that site on a later level.. seems to be down..

It doesn't appear to be you guys. I just retried the correct URL I used for 57 and am also getting service unavailable deal.
You should post on their FaceBook page and let them know there's an issue.

Seeing the same thing for 58

Did y'all post your "service unavailable" issues over here yet http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=125938174091695

fakon! Spent like 30 minutes trying to figure out the 'trick' when it's just the server being down.

Stuck at 55 1/2 I guess.

I think it's just the puzzles hosted on Justin Kohnen's site. Which would be 56-61. Someone needs to kick him in the butt.
His puzzles were kind of dumb anyway.

In the 3 hours since I've been stuck with the server being down. Just completed TDPE1. Damn that was easy. I mean compared to this.. I've spent 3 hours on a single level in TDPE2.

Just got to 56 and had to check here to make sure that "The service is unavailable" wasn't some strange clue to get to 57. Guess it's time for bed!

Ok, I need a hint on 58. It is the "Something missing?" one with the all white AlmostThere.png.

Given that no one else has mentioned it in 18 pages, I'm sure I'm missing something simple.

qpolarbear wrote:Ok, I need a hint on 58. It is the "Something missing?" one with the all white AlmostThere.png.

Given that no one else has mentioned it in 18 pages, I'm sure I'm missing something simple.

Never mind.

Exick wrote:hehe, that's one you're just gonna have to look up if you don't know.

I've googled this for over an hour, and read the entire wiki article on the riddle.

Who short first????

Have no idea how that relates to the riddle. Every variation I could find is asking for a number.

What am I missing?

[[EDIT]]
Ok. That was just stupid. This guy's puzzles are either way to simple, or have no relevance to anything. 'Who shot first?' could refer to anything. I just breezed over the first few search results, as I gave the creator of this puzzle too much credit. And at least accept the "FULL" answer, as I would have solved it awhile ago. It also would make sense to have the answer only be accepted in binary as the riddle, button value, and error message are all in binary. The server also either seems to be really slow or down a lot as well.

Excuse my rant, but I really hope they don't bring him back next year. Other other than the last couple of levels, I've enjoyed this.

Can't wait to finish the last couple of levels and be done with this part.

What am I doing wrong on #74?

I can't figure out why...

000
101
011

...is not right.

I even plugged it into JC's GoL simulator and it agrees with me...

qpolarbear wrote:What am I doing wrong on #74?

I can't figure out why...

000
101
011

...is not right.

I even plugged it into JC's GoL simulator and it agrees with me...

The shape is a well known shape in life. Don't assume the upper left cell is the same cell in both grids.

foxfirex wrote:The shape is a well known shape in life. Don't assume the upper left cell is the same cell in both grids.

Ahh, thanks! I was assuming the board was only 3x3.

nchezrony wrote:Okay, still stuck on 62. Found missing letter, decoded letters, but the second to last one doesn't work.

What am I doing wrong?

Stuck on this one as well.. Guessing I have the letter if it is related to the list of sites and the page title. Still, not sure what to do with it.

Haha! As I write this, a page I tried brought me back to the one with the albums.. Still stuck though..

Oh well. Think I'll play some poker and try again tomorrow.

For #66, I did solve "A" problem with "TWICE" the "ID" of the last one.

It won't accept the answer though. Am I missing something? I solved both variations of #00001010. (I've found 2 variations of the same question to solve for 2 different numbers).

[[EDIT]] Nevermind.. Never trust code written by others lol

You guys/gals get it completed over the weekend?

At least it looks like puzzles 56 - 61 are back up for you.

Done.. 100 really wasn't as hard as I thought it would be.

invadermindspin wrote:Done.. 100 really wasn't as hard as I thought it would be.

I agree. It took me longer to figure out 99 than it did 100.

I can't get the cipherific one (65 I think?, there's no numbers). I've tried every combination of #s and Xs for the cipher, and none of my deocdings make any sense. Any help?...

djc5166 wrote:I can't get the cipherific one (65 I think?, there's no numbers). I've tried every combination of #s and Xs for the cipher, and none of my deocdings make any sense. Any help?...

Sounds like you already know the structure of the cipher; you might want to go searching for other keys based on those shapes. Sometimes you don't have to put letters in the key in order.

Hi all,

Can someone please help me with Level 21? I thought I figured out the clues, and ended up at this website:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2797806/what-tricks-can-be-used-to-type-and-edit-code-faster

Looking through several forums, the site seems to be correct and I know I'm suppose to look for the jigsaw piece, but I really cannot find it.

I've restarted my comp, looked through each and every post in Chrome and IE but still cant find the piece. I know the puzzle has been going on for a while and figured maybe the link has been removed?

In any case, could someone just pls post the url to Level 22 and I'll continue my journey from there? Thank you very much for all your help!

can anyone hint me on level 21 - "stack overflow at user 14637" & "thomas" - i'm unable to figure out the solution. or atleast let me know the url for level 22...so that i wud not waste more time on L 21.


thanks

level 25 pl... got to the site answers.oreilly.com but cudnt get anything out of it... need hints pl

jazzy123 wrote:level 25 pl... got to the site answers.oreilly.com but cudnt get anything out of it... need hints pl

I think the puzzle piece must be gone. It was gone on stackoverflow also (I edited the question so future users won't get stuck) - I think the puzzle is starting to rot as 'collaborating' sites remove their puzzle pieces. I couldn't find anything on answers.oreilly.com and can't find a link to level 26 . . .

The puzzle is indeed broken. Link to 26 which should be on answers.oreilly.com is http://toughestdeveloperpuzzleever.com/tdpe2/oreillybooks.aspx

petegas wrote:I think the puzzle piece must be gone. It was gone on stackoverflow also (I edited the question so future users won't get stuck) - I think the puzzle is starting to rot as 'collaborating' sites remove their puzzle pieces. I couldn't find anything on answers.oreilly.com and can't find a link to level 26 . . .

petegas wrote:The puzzle is indeed broken. Link to 26 which should be on answers.oreilly.com is http://toughestdeveloperpuzzleever.com/tdpe2/oreillybooks.aspx

thanks petegas!!!

can anyone post the url for level 46? i guess the external link in wiki for level 45 which directs to level 46 is deleted...
pl post level 46 url

thanx...