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2009

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Have no fear, when ...

—devadutta @ 23:13

Connect

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Hint to identify 3:

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Cracked by: Goyal , Dibyo , Kal , gammafunction and udupendra.

and AmK, How did you even get that answer? :)

Goyal, Dibyo, Kal, gammafunction and udupendra

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EFF – Electronic frontier foundation


This tooth isn't blue

—srikanth @ 21:00

What technology claims (with tongue-in-cheek) to take its name from this?

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Cracked by Kal , username , Raghuvansh , Debasish , Mridul Kapoor , duriel , Rohan , shrik , Neeraj , Siddharth Jain , Dibyo , Bipin Banavalikar and calvin.

Kal, username, Raghuvansh, Debasish, Mridul Kapoor, duriel, Rohan, shrik, Neeraj, Siddharth Jain, Dibyo, Bipin Banavalikar and calvin


Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Sonic the Hedgehog too

—devadutta @ 22:28

Sort of a very easy question. Connect

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Turns out to be a not so easy question :)

Cracked by: Goyal and kal. Nice work!

Goyal and Kal

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Google Analytics is also called Urchin, which was the original name of the software before Google bought it.


Monday, January 12, 2009

A series of unfortunate jumping puzzles

—srikanth @ 21:00

Don’t identify each, unless you really really want to, but just connect:

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Cracked by duriel , Dibyo and Arjun Chennu.

I haven’t had this much fun setting a question in a loong time ;-)

duriel, Dibyo and Arjun Chennu


Sunday, January 11, 2009

Quack

—devadutta @ 23:59

Identify and tell us which internet meme this thing lead to.

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p.s: Live quiz scores have been updated for a few users. Others, please bear with us for a while.

Perfect answer by: Goyal , Vaishnavi , username , kal , Rohan , Higgers , p vs np , Ananth , Neeraj , priyananda.

Others gave incomplete answers, but get a point too.

Goyal, Sruti, mach101, Sombe, Vaishnavi, Dibyo, username, kal, Rohan, Higgers, duriel, p vs np, Ananth, Neeraj, malcaluffin, priyananda and Gurupad

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“Duckroll” which originated on 4chan lead to “Rickroll” internet meme


Saturday, January 10, 2009

.. and the beast reborn..

—devadutta @ 23:45

Guest question(or “fan question” as he likes to call it :) ) sent in by Ananth! Thank you, Sir!

Connect Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox via this pic

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Cracked by: duriel , username , Kal , Aditya , Dibyo , dheeraj , Rahulk. Nice!

Ananth, if you want a point for your question, you need to post a comment here.

duriel, username, Kal, Aditya, Dibyo, dheeraj and Rahulk


Saturday, January 10, 2009

Live quiz answers

—devadutta @ 12:11

If you have not tried the quiz, we suggest you give it a shot before you look at the answers!

There are some unrevealed commands on the terminal which will let you cheat big time. Try and see if you can find them :)

This is one of the shortest paths to finishing the quiz with a score of 18.


Friday, January 9, 2009

You have to sacrifice yourself on level 3

—srikanth @ 20:49

This mash-up of two games lead to the creation of another pioneering game.Identify all three games and connect.

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Cracked by Vaishnavi , shrik , akhi and duriel.

Vaishnavi, shrik, akhi and duriel


Thursday, January 8, 2009

Three finger salute!

—devadutta @ 22:41

These three things do the same thing in three different worlds. What?

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Cracked by: Ananth , Kal , duriel , username , shrik , priyananda and Raghuvansh. Well done!

Ananth, Kal, duriel, username, shrik, priyananda and Raghuvansh

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The “command key” on different platforms.


Wednesday, January 7, 2009

No cheat codes for these?

—srikanth @ 20:30

Claim to fame of this deck of cards?

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Cracked by everyone!

priyananda, p vs np, Dibyo, Ananth, duriel, Rahulk, Sombe, mach101, Sruti, Raghuvansh, Abhishek, Prasad, AmK, Rohan, BASAB, udupendra, username, shrik, sidsen, Wasi Manazir, quaziluffy, jo, Neeraj, Siddharth Jain and Chandrakant Nair