Boiledbeans

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2011

Thursday, July 28, 2011

Chainsaw!

—devadutta @ 23:59

Recurrent villain in which game series?

Cracked by: badideabear, yaksha, jowens, shrik, Ananth, Sumanth Patlolla, Siddarth Pai, rickde, rohanquizzer, Manish Achuth, s m muneer ali, Gaurav, Bipin Banavalikar, raklodramA, Rogi, username, Shwetha Maiya, Dibyo, Thejas V R, Bharath, Rahulk, Swarun, vishwanath and Amarendra

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Spider mastermind from the DOOM series


Edison would be proud?

—devadutta @ 23:59

Super question from %gqh% shrik. Thanks saar!

Connect

2a.

2b.

Cracked by: jowens, shrik, Ananth, Sumanth Patlolla, Siddarth Pai, rickde, Manish Achuth, Bipin Banavalikar, raklodramA, Rogi, Shwetha Maiya, Dibyo, jins, Bharath, Thejas V R, Rahulk, Swarun, Amarendra and username

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quoting username


Tuesday, July 26, 2011

FTW.

—srikanth @ 23:59

Simple enough - identify the event. Many clues in the image.

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Urthstripe, shrik, username, Manish Achuth, Amarendra, Rogi, jowens, Rahulk, raklodramA, Thejas V R, Shwetha Maiya, Dibyo, Swarun, Bipin Banavalikar, rickde, Ananth, Sumanth Patlolla, Rahul Rajeev and badideabear

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The 3 winners of the 2011 Google Science Fair. The cups seem to be a tribute to/design by Lego - one of the other organizations involved!


Monday, July 25, 2011

kekekeke

—srikanth @ 23:59

Recent pictures. Question is, from where?

Cracked by: Urthstripe, shrik, jowens, Ananth, raklodramA, username, Rahulk, Thejas V R, Bharath, Sumanth Patlolla, Amarendra, Swarun, rickde, Bipin Banavalikar, Rogi, Dibyo, yaksha and Shwetha Maiya

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The photographs are from Joyland - a World of Warcraft + StarCraft themed adventure park in China.


Sunday, July 24, 2011

We're up there too...

—srikanth @ 23:59

Connect. We’re looking for the name of an organization.

Cracked by: shrik, jowens, Rogi, Ananth, raklodramA, username, Thejas V R, Rahulk, Bharath, Sumanth Patlolla, Swarun, Amarendra, Bipin Banavalikar, rickde and Dibyo

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The European Space Agency’s (ESA) so-called cornerstone missions - respectively named after Gaia, Max Planck, Rosetta and William Herschel


Saturday, July 23, 2011

Chomp.

—srikanth @ 23:59

What’s going on here? Give us the name of the ’event’, please.

Cracked by: Urthstripe, Rogi, Ananth, username, Manish Achuth, KK, jowens, raklodramA, Bipin Banavalikar, Jayaprakash B R, rickde, dineshk, shrik, Thejas V R, Rahulk, Sumanth Patlolla, rohanquizzer, Debasish, Mridul, Amarendra and Bharath

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Pac-manhattan - a ‘real life’ enactment of Pac-Man on the streets of New York.


Friday, July 22, 2011

Destruction

—devadutta @ 23:59

This question comes in from %gqh% shrik. Tumba Thanksu Saa!

Who are these guys?

Cracked by: grey_matters, Sumanth Patlolla, Anonymous, username, Anjul, jowens, shrey, raklodramA, dineshk, Raghuvansh, sandeep bhat, Bipin Banavalikar, rickde, Dibyo, Ananth, rohanquizzer, shrik, Rogi, Rahulk, Thejas V R, KK, Swarun, Manish Achuth, Bharath-TK, Bharath, Amarendra and Shwetha Maiya

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Doom development team – John Carmack et al.


Thursday, July 21, 2011

Style

—devadutta @ 23:59

If you were doing something according to any of the below “styles”, what would you be doing?

The list is not exhaustive and 2 is just a hint.

Cracked by: dineshk, shrey, Ananth, shrik, Sumanth Patlolla, username, Rogi, Raghuvansh, jowens, raklodramA, Rahulk, Thejas V R, Bharath, Swarun and Jayaprakash B R

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Quoting Sumanth Patlolla -


Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Your body is the controller.

—devadutta @ 23:59

This happened much before Kinect. Identify.

Video Link

Cracked by: dineshk, Ananth, shrik, Manish Achuth, Sumanth Patlolla, username, Rogi, rickde, Raghuvansh, jowens, Rahulk, Swarun and Thejas V R

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Sega Activator


Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Circle? Take this

—devadutta @ 23:59

The dude in 1 proposed 2 to explain something. Who is this dude? What are those funky curves known as?

Cracked by: Urthstripe, username, Bharath, shrik, Ananth, Thejas V R, jowens, Manish Achuth, Dibyo, Bipin Banavalikar, KK, Sai Subramanian, raklodramA, rickde, anurag, Sumanth Patlolla, Smitha R Maiya, Swarun, grey_matters, kapinjal chowdhury, Rahulk, rohanquizzer, Rogi, dineshk, Anjul, Shwetha Maiya and Raghuvansh

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Quoting Anjul - This is Ptolemy who used these diagrams to explain the orbits of planets under his geocentric theory of the universe. Those funky curves are called deferents and epicycles.