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December 2013

Friday, December 27, 2013

Le Internet

—devadutta @ 16:55

Identify this French machine which was used from the 80’s all the way to 2012.

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Cracked by: Anubhav Bhattacharjee, Denita Mendez, Rogi, s m muneer ali, Manish Achuth, Saarthak, FAlphaXII, Sumanth Patlolla, Bipin Banavalikar, Dhruv and Siddharth Prathap

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French Minitel


Monday, December 23, 2013

Life in the fast lane

—devadutta @ 12:05

Ridiculously Long Connect Results: First cracked by Rogi, Second by Manish Achuth. Great job guys!

Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, s m muneer ali, Manish Achuth and Bipin Banavalikar

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Weird Al’s White and Nerdy. I was hoping no one will crack the theme so I could post about 100 things from that song.. thus the name, RLC :)


Saturday, December 21, 2013

Selfie Stimulus

—devadutta @ 14:20

Congrats to Rogi for cracking the Ridiculously Long Connect :) Great Job!

I will put up the answer in a few days. Since Rogi cracked the RLC, the series is over. This question is not connected to the theme.

If you want to try cracking the RLC theme, here is a final hint: Earl Grey Tea.

Now for today’s question

Identify this camera and tell us its claim to fame.

Cracked by: Manish Achuth, Siddharth Prathap, s m muneer ali, Rogi, Bipin Banavalikar and Sumanth Patlolla

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Logitech Fotoman or Dycam. The first commercially available digital camera.


Friday, December 20, 2013

Your MCs are not like our MCs

—devadutta @ 10:41

RLC: Question 3

Sitter. Who da man?

Cracked by: Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, Bipin Banavalikar, s m muneer ali, ranu vikram and Siddharth Prathap

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Thursday, December 19, 2013

Rule Books, be sure to save them

—devadutta @ 15:28

Ridiculously Long Connect: Question 2.

Who is this strip a tribute to? (What he co-created will be the theme hint)

Cracked by: Bipin Banavalikar, Manish Achuth, s m muneer ali, Sumanth Patlolla and ranu vikram

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Tribute to Gary Gygox, who created Dungeons and Dragons.


Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Ridiculously long connect

—devadutta @ 11:08

Something different for a change.

Questions will be posted as usual, but answers to the next n questions are all connected to one single “thing”. As soon as someone cracks the theme, this series will end and I will announce the winner.

Question 1: What is blocked out in the image below?

Cracked by: ShreyGoyal, Dibyo, Rogi, s m muneer ali, Sumanth Patlolla, Bipin Banavalikar, Manish Achuth, VP and ranu vikram

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MIT


Monday, December 16, 2013

Water Vapor

—devadutta @ 23:56

What is this?

Cracked by: Rogi, s m muneer ali, Sumanth Patlolla, Dibyo, Aryan Srivastava, Bipin Banavalikar, Manish Achuth and ranu vikram

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Controller for the steam box!


Wednesday, December 11, 2013

make: no target

—devadutta @ 17:02

Who is this?

Cracked by: Rogi, s m muneer ali, Manish Achuth, Dibyo, Sumanth Patlolla, ranu vikram and Bipin Banavalikar

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Limor Fried from Ada-fruit Industries


Tuesday, December 10, 2013

See Source

—devadutta @ 18:14

Graph summarizing the cultural impact of this game released 20 years ago. Which game?

Cracked by: s m muneer ali, Aryan Srivastava, Rogi, Anjul, Manish Achuth, Dibyo, Sumanth Patlolla, harsha, ranu vikram, nivinpaul, Dhruv Khurana and mankuTimma

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Doom! Doom was so popular when it released that any FPS game was called a “doom clone”.


Monday, December 9, 2013

$100 Bet

—devadutta @ 11:42

We know Einstein and Hawkins in the photos below. Identify the other two gentlemen and connect. BTW the dude below with Einstein definitely deserves some more recognition than what he currently gets.

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, Manish Achuth, s m muneer ali, buk, Nihal, Dibyo, VP and ranu vikram

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Peter Higgs and Satyendra Nath Bose. “Higgs-Boson” gets its name from them.