Well played Woot. Well played.

Well played, madam. Well played.

Edit: Jinx @ Asavatizk! (and now, back to Dwarf Fortress)

I can't get it. I copied the text exact, removed all non-bold characters/spaces, changed upper case to lower. Still no go, get access denied message. :-(

Zia Lia wrote:That was so not worth it.

That was totally worth it!!!

wow, that's a lot of work to go through for what looks like just a red herring!

Ugh... I'm no good at this, I've written it down so many times and I can't figure it out.

I got all excited when I finally got it right! And then I laughed.

Either brain no working right now or solve did not work. Hmmm....must think harder....

caroltz wrote:I can't get it. I copied the text exact, removed all non-bold characters/spaces, changed upper case to lower. Still no go, get access denied message. :-(

I did that the first time too. Make sure you don't miss the punctuation marks (dash, period, etc.); it's hard to tell which ones of those are bold.

Got it! That was amusing

We'll be herring about this for a long time

Kasona wrote:I did that the first time too. Make sure you don't miss the punctuation marks (dash, period, etc.); it's hard to tell which ones of those are bold.

Thanks! I finally got it.

Bravo Woot, well played..... you sadistic little b@stards.....

Ug, going into the source code was the only way I could do this. Law school taught me to tell (by eye) an italic comma from a regular one, but in the font they use I can't tell when a hyphen is bold for the life of me...

Here's more of a hint:

3 forward slashes (/)
3 periods (or dots) (.)
3 hyphens (-)
1 colon (: )
no spaces
all lowercase

Kasona wrote:I did that the first time too. Make sure you don't miss the punctuation marks (dash, period, etc.); it's hard to tell which ones of those are bold.

Along these lines, I found that some of the automatic heading styles of Word 2007 helped hightlight the bold characters.

MS Word to the rescue!

Find what: Font: Not Bold
Replace with: [nothing]

Voila!

My congrats to anyone who did this without viewing the source. And no, it's not worth your time.

jro2020 wrote:We'll be herring about this for a long time

Haw. Haw. Haw.

I see what you did there...first the message had caps, and then it magically disappeared after pressing F5, like my chances of finding a Buccaneer of the Caribbean...

bortel wrote:I think this clue is just a red herring.

Kasona wrote:wow, that's a lot of work to go through for what looks like just a red herring!

Right after I got the picture to load, I shook my fist into the air and cursed woot into the heavens.

lol

Cute.

Is that a herring? Is it magenta or red?

1rudeboy wrote:My congrats to anyone who did this without viewing the source. And no, it's not worth your time.

I didn't use source code & I don't get it :/

Oh no! I missed my chance at a roomba on home.woot while I was decoding this!

Be sure to drink your Ovaltine!

Well played. As my wife just told me "Sucka." And also "why are you swearing so much at your computer" and also "no, you can NOT go to Seattle and/or Carrolton this summer."

She's a keeper.

where do you go

lol oh my gosh, that was funny, but yeah I have spent too much time on this thing, you tricksters.

LOL
That was worth the work. Thanks for the laugh. :-)

But wait, why is the striped bass orange?

AutoTechInSTL wrote:Be sure to drink your Ovaltine!

A crummy commercial? Sunava...

Ha! After *eventually* getting there it occurred to me that a totally evil trick would be to post the last bit of the puzzle while we're all chasing the fish...Thank you Woot for not doing that. I appreciate it.

muahahahahahah http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-hide-one-image-in-another-An-introduction-/?ALLSTEPS

Did I win my Bag of Carp?

persquank wrote:Right after I got the picture to load, I shook my fist into the air and cursed woot into the heavens.

lol

It was worth it.

The Office Manager has never before received this many read receipts on her memos! Well played!

What the heck am I missing?

http://d3gqasl9vmjfd8.cloudfront.net/d7837dcf-bat0d-4294-ae18b52f51f508f5.gif

I get access denied

I think the icing is that alpha channel is setup in that image.

At least I have learned how to assemble a map in GIMP.

thetrain2 wrote:What the heck am I missing?

http://d3gqasl9vmjfd8.cloudfront.net/d7837dcf-bat0d-4294-ae18b52f51f508f5.gif

I get access denied

You're missing a t and a -.

thetrain2 wrote:What the heck am I missing?

http://d3gqasl9vmjfd8.cloudfront.net/d7837dcf-bat0d-4294-ae18b52f51f508f5.gif

I get access denied

You should DASH right back to see what you may have overlooked. Hopefully your observation skills suit you to a T.