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September 2010

Saturday, September 11, 2010

LSD

—srikanth @ 23:59

What recent (well, relatively) discovery connects? We’re looking for a specific object.

Cracked by everyone.

Logik, jowens, Raghuvansh, Bharath, shrik, Ananth, Rahulk, dineshk, Rogi, Manish Achuth, Thejas V R, udupendra, username, Dibyo, v.chandrashekar, Sumanth Patlolla, SV, Rahul Rajeev, joe, Qbrain, lanu, raklodramA, byslexia and Shwetha Maiya

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Quoting udupendra, “BPM 37093, named Lucy after the Beatles song inspired by the painting”


Photoshoped

—devadutta @ 23:59

Game developers and photographers are very fond of using technique X to achieve the exact opposite effects as illustrated in the image below. What is X?

Hint: Photographers use it while exposing pictures and game developers use it while rendering games.
cracked by: Raghuvansh, shrik, Anjul, Qbrain, Gurupad, Logik, Bharath, raklodramA, Rogi, Dibyo, username, Rahul Rajeev, krudebox, Bipin Banavalikar, Manish Achuth, jowens, Ananth, byslexia, achals, Rahulk, dineshk, Thejas V R, udupendra, lanu, Uday, Anubhav, Sumanth Patlolla, v.chandrashekar and Shwetha Maiya


Thursday, September 9, 2010

H20 + Heat

—srikanth @ 21:30
  1. Duke Nukem Forever is the crowning glory
  2. Half Life 2 has topped one list
  3. 3G networks have shown up on one
  4. The latest list featured Pixel Qi’s technology
  5. MS Vista has made one of the lists

What lists am I talking about?

Cracked by Dibyo, dineshk, shrik, krudebox, Raghuvansh, Logik, jowens, Manish Achuth, vijayaraghavan, Rogi, Ananth, raklodramA, udupendra, Sumanth Patlolla, Abhiram Bharadwaj, Gurupad, achals, Rahulk and Thejas V R.


Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Trust Me.

—devadutta @ 23:00

Whose tribute to whom? You need to rearrange this image to get the original one :)

Cracked by: raklodramA, Debasish, Goyal, lanu, v.chandrashekar, Higgers, Rogi, Rahulk, shrey, Vinay Nair Karath, Shwetha Maiya, Xanda, Thejas V R, Dibyo, Sumanth Patlolla, Raghuvansh, Logik, jowens, KK, dineshk, Nanda, shrik, Rahul Rajeev, Ananth, Vasanth Kamath, udupendra, SV, vijayaraghavan, abhijeet, Swarun, Bharath, username, darren, Atul Mathew, Hari Parameswaran, Gurupad, Ajay Parasuram, krudebox, Manish Achuth, byslexia and Qbrain


Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Aim to misbehave failed

—srikanth @ 23:59

A simple question (with a slightly long answer?). Why was this device named so?

Cracked by everybody.

shrey, jowens, Logik, Dibyo, Rogi, krudebox, Ananth, Anjul, shrik, v.chandrashekar, Bharath, username, Vasanth Kamath, Raghuvansh, byslexia, Debasish, udupendra, Thejas V R, Shwetha Maiya, joe, lanu, Higgers, Rahulk, Qbrain, raklodramA, Vinay Nair Karath, Xanda, Sumanth Patlolla, dineshk, Rahul Rajeev, vijayaraghavan, suhas, Gurupad and Manish Achuth


Monday, September 6, 2010

That guy

—devadutta @ 23:59

Nice question from udupendra %gqh%. Thanks Saar!

Whose old logo? Who is featured in the logo?

Cracked by: Rogi, Bharath, username, krudebox, v.chandrashekar, Goyal, Raghuvansh, raklodramA, Qbrain, udupendra, lanu, Atul Mathew, shrik, Xanda, Rahulk, Shwetha Maiya, Debasish, Logik, ht, Sumanth Patlolla, Vishnu, Dibyo, Vasanth Kamath, byslexia, Nanda, Thejas V R, dineshk, Rahul Rajeev, Ananth and jowens


Sunday, September 5, 2010

Power up!

—devadutta @ 23:59

Some ingenious dude(et) did this to a cycle track in a big US city. Where are these symbols from?

Sorry about the delay people. Long weekend here :)

Cracked by: shrik, Rogi, Ananth, jowens, Raghuvansh, Bharath, byslexia, Vinay Nair Karath, udupendra, Manish Achuth, raklodramA, Shwetha Maiya, username, v.chandrashekar, Qbrain, Xanda, Rahulk, ht, Anjul, Mo, Thejas V R, Dibyo and Rahul Rajeev


Saturday, September 4, 2010

*twist*, *twist*

—srikanth @ 23:59

An image doing the rounds on the net. Someone (X) is using this to explain something (Y). Solve for X and Y.

Cracked by everyone.

Logik, SV, jowens, Dibyo, byslexia, Rogi, Raghuvansh, Bharath, Atul Mathew, krudebox, Vinay Nair Karath, Manish Achuth, udupendra, raklodramA, Jean Valjean, Vishnu, shrik, Thejas V R, lanu, Shwetha Maiya, dineshk, justajester, rohanquizzer, Anonymous, Sumanth Patlolla, Ananth, Bheema V, username, Gurupad, v.chandrashekar, Niranjan G, Qbrain, Xanda and Rahul Rajeev


Friday, September 3, 2010

Professional Witness

—srikanth @ 23:59

Fully-formed guest question from Rogi - the latest winner of the shiny

The gentleman in (1) created the device in the foreground of (2) with all the stickers on it.
If you can tell us what the stickers are, we’ll assume you know who he is and what he created.

Got more questions? [email protected] awaits.

Cracked by jowens, Rogi, Bharath and shrik

Check out Rogi’s answer for the full details.


Thursday, September 2, 2010

The other phone

—devadutta @ 23:59

Simple. What is this phone called? (It is blanked out in the image below)

Cracked by: jowens, krudebox, username, Rogi, Logik, Bharath, shrik, Dibyo, Ganesh Prasad, Raghuvansh, Ananth, Manish Achuth, Bipin Banavalikar, madhur, Jean Valjean, dheeraj, varuns88, vijayaraghavan, udupendra, Hitesh T S, v.chandrashekar, Rahulk, Gurupad, Sumanth Patlolla, Thejas V R, Qbrain, Shwetha Maiya, Vinay Nair Karath, raklodramA and lanu