Identify and connect.

Cracked by Goyal , udupendra and jayanth.

Answer
John Conway (1) created his Game Of Life. He guessed that there would be patterns created in the game that were finite patterns that would grow infinitely, but couldn’t figure them out. He offered a 50$ award for anyone who could find one.

Bill Gosper (2) led a team of MIT hackers who figured out the Gosper Glider gun (3), and won the prize.

Goyal, udupendra and jayanth

According to a recent analysis by a famous blog, something connects all of these. What?

(yesterday’s question will be open for 12 more hours as it was posted late)

Cracked by: sidsen , Goyal , Akshat , Guneet , VikraM , Atul Mathew , Rohan , Priya , Ajay Parasuram , akhi , jayanth , malcaluffin.

sidsen, Goyal, Akshat, Guneet, VikraM, Atul Mathew, Rohan, Priya, Ajay Parasuram, akhi, jayanth and malcaluffin

Apologies for the delay in posting. We were waiting on each other to post a question. Synchronization algorithms are not failure proof :)

This question will be up for 12 more hours than usual.

Connect

Cracked by: varuns88 , duriel , Nakul , rajeshvj , Dibyo , vijayaraghavan , Goyal , sidsen , Guneet , yaksha , akhi , joe , Priya , jayanth , malcaluffin.

varuns88, duriel, Nakul, rajeshvj, Dibyo, vijayaraghavan, Goyal, sidsen, Guneet, yaksha, akhi, joe, Priya, jayanth and malcaluffin

Guest question from sidsen. He won a t-shirt for awesome stuff like this! If you want to contribute questions, mail them to [email protected]

Identify this game. What is shown on the wall is the arguably the oldest known comic in western history. Name the “comic”.

Cracked by: gudanggurum , Atul Mathew , jayanth , Akshat , duriel , akhi , varuns88 , Ajay Parasuram , Rohan , sidsen , Guneet , udupendra , vijayaraghavan.

Gurupad, Atul Mathew, jayanth, Akshat, duriel, akhi, varuns88, Ajay Parasuram, Rohan, sidsen, Guneet, udupendra and vijayaraghavan

This question is inspired by another question which Karthik Jagadeesan sent in. Send in your guest questions to [email protected]. You get a point for that! :)

1 is the creator of this popular game. The hero of this game is modeled after 1 because 1 could not afford to get an actor to do it. The game was so famous that in the sequels, he could afford much more than a model for the hero. Which game? who is 1?

The game has countless refernces to things like these..

Cracked by: varuns88 , Nakul , Ajay Parasuram , akhi , duriel , svgreatest , Chandrakant Nair , Atul Mathew , Keerthi Kiran M , Dhashrath raguraman.

varuns88, Nakul, Ajay Parasuram, akhi, duriel, svgreatest, Chandrakant Nair, Atul Mathew, Keerthi Kiran M and Dhashrath raguraman

Simple. Identify:

Cracked by everyone who tried!

Chandrakant Nair, Atul Mathew, Keerthi Kiran M, udupendra, sidsen, Goyal, shenoyvarun86, svgreatest, Wasi Manazir, Rohan, varuns88, Kamal Rathi, krishnendu, Rc, Gurupad, akhi, Poornima, Nakul, shyam, VikraM, joe, Ajay Parasuram, duriel, malcaluffin, Archana, yaksha, Prasad and Tathagata Chatterjee

Which guitar is missing?

Cracked by: Keerthi Kiran M , Priya , joe , Dibyo , gudanggurum , Ajay Parasuram , akhi , sidsen , Atul Mathew , varuns88 , udupendra , duriel , Prasad.

Keerthi Kiran M, Priya, joe, Dibyo, Gurupad, Ajay Parasuram, akhi, sidsen, Atul Mathew, varuns88, udupendra, duriel and Prasad

Identify and explain who connects:

Cracked by sidsen , haroon siyech , udupendra , Goyal , Atul Mathew , akhi , varuns88 , svgreatest , Rohan , teju , Prasad , duriel , gudanggurum , Keerthi Kiran M , Tathagata Chatterjee and rubhatta.

sidsen, haroon siyech, udupendra, Goyal, Atul Mathew, akhi, varuns88, svgreatest, Rohan, teju, Prasad, duriel, Gurupad, Keerthi Kiran M, Tathagata Chatterjee and rubhatta

Another Uber simple question. What are these Microsoft geeks playing Pac-Man on?

Very close to the most cracked question on Boiledbeans! Cracked by: Keerthi Kiran M , Dibyo , varuns88 , Atul Mathew , svgreatest , Goyal , Rc , udupendra , Amith , Prasad , anirudh patil , krishnendu , Ajay Parasuram , Keerthi M R , Kamal Rathi , joe , Priya , RajT , Ashwin , Rohan , jayanth , vijayaraghavan , prasanth , Archana , Poornima , akhi , Tathagata Chatterjee , duriel , malcaluffin , piezocake , Sine , yaksha , Siddharth Jain , Pulkit Gupta , rubhatta , srikar , rajeshvj , madhur.

Keerthi Kiran M, Dibyo, varuns88, Atul Mathew, svgreatest, Goyal, Rc, udupendra, Amith, Prasad, anirudh patil, krishnendu, Ajay Parasuram, Keerthi M R, Kamal Rathi, joe, Priya, RajT, Ashwin, Rohan, jayanth, vijayaraghavan, prasanth, Archana, Poornima, akhi, Tathagata Chatterjee, duriel, malcaluffin, piezocake, Sine, yaksha, Siddharth Jain, Pulkit Gupta, rubhatta, srikar, rajeshvj and madhur

Two names of this product:

Both names were chosen for similar reasons. Why was each name chosen?

Wholly cracked by Dibyo , Atul Mathew , Goyal , Prasad , Chandrakant Nair , udupendra , svgreatest , joe , varuns88 , Rohan , Ajay Parasuram , duriel , rajeshvj , Tathagata Chatterjee , prasanth , jayanth , Amith , yaksha and sidsen.

Dibyo, Atul Mathew, Goyal, Prasad, Chandrakant Nair, udupendra, svgreatest, joe, varuns88, Rohan, Ajay Parasuram, duriel, rajeshvj, Tathagata Chatterjee, prasanth, jayanth, Amith, yaksha and sidsen