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Posted by NinjaBirdman (Member # 7114) on :
 
I don't know if any of you have seen this little game, but it seems pretty cool. I found it on another forum and thought Hatrack would probably do a bit better.

Basically each day a new challege is posted, and everybody in the colony gets together and tries to figure out the answer. You get points for correct answers, more colonists, and you can submit challenges, and if they pick them you get points too.

Sooo yeah, it's basically just a fun little game that looks like it will be pretty tough and really work your brain.

So, I started a Hatrack colony and I think this will be fun. So here's what you have to do!
1. Go here.
2. In the white field, type play
3. Click Join Existing Colony
4. Add 13606355 to the empty field and make an account.
5. Once we get five colonists we'll be able to see the problem, so join now and let's see how we do!

[ April 12, 2005, 02:04 AM: Message edited by: NinjaBirdman ]
 

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Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :
 
Mmmmm... I'll bite.
*munch*
 

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Posted by Shigosei (Member # 3831) on :
 
Does the whole colony see the same challenge? I have "Here sweet margie sits. At this distance it sees the rich, the poor and everything in between."
 

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Posted by Danzig (Member # 4704) on :
 
Apparently so.
 

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Posted by NinjaBirdman (Member # 7114) on :
 
Ok, so now that we have 6 people, we can see the challenge.

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Here sweet margie sits. At this distance it sees the rich, the poor and everything in between.

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Some things that may be important:
margie isn't capitalized, so it may not be a name, it possibly means something else.
"At this distance" seems a little weird. You'd think it'd be height or something, not distance, unless of course the distance is close or something.

I dunno, I'm really quite stumped, but keep in mind that the answer could be anything really. I heard the last one was Angelina Jolie.

 

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Posted by Shigosei (Member # 3831) on :
 
The fact that it's "it" and not "her" seems like it would be relevant.
 

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Posted by Danzig (Member # 4704) on :
 
The rich and the poor in what currency?
 

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Posted by Shigosei (Member # 3831) on :
 
Rich and poor might not even refer to people. It could refer to rich or poor soil, for instance.
 

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Posted by Rappin' Ronnie Reagan (Member # 5626) on :
 
It still says there aren't enough members on my screen.
 

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Posted by NinjaBirdman (Member # 7114) on :
 
Try closing all your browser windows and then going back to the site, that worked for me.
 

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Posted by NinjaBirdman (Member # 7114) on :
 
Woah, after a bunch of google searching I found the answer, Western Avenue. The margie that is being reffered to is margie's candy shop in chicago. If you search for sweet margie in google you can find stuff about it. And the street that margie's is on is western avenue. I was about to give up on this too.

I guess we'll get a new challenge tomorrow. Meanwhile, we need more people, so people who haven't joined, join!

[ April 12, 2005, 03:38 AM: Message edited by: NinjaBirdman ]
 

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Posted by ProverbialSunrise (Member # 7771) on :
 
I joined.
 

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Posted by MEC (Member # 2968) on :
 
I joined but someone used MEC as a SN already.
 

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Posted by KarlEd (Member # 571) on :
 
Well it looks like the new challenge is up. It's a puzzle piece that looks like part of a photo of a car, but apparently it's not one I can name.
 

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Posted by Portabello (Member # 7710) on :
 
http://home.comcast.net/~cporter42/731.jpg

This is what I see. Does anybody see anything else?

Also, what was the solution to the first challenge?
 

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Posted by HesterGray (Member # 7384) on :
 
I'm kind of confused. It's a picture. How is that a challenge?
 

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Posted by urbanX (Member # 1450) on :
 
Wow, Microsoft is doing a good job with the new Xbox promotion. You do know the purpose of this "game" is to promote the new Xbox. Teams that do very well get to see pictures of what the newXbox looks like. It is viral marketing at it's best.
 

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Posted by urbanX (Member # 1450) on :
 
It looks like some kind of buick.
 

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Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
 
It won't let me past the registration screen. I typed in my information and then that number that's there I typed into the field, but it says it's the wrong number.

Is there a trick I'm missing?
 

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Posted by Stray (Member # 4056) on :
 
I'm getting the same thing as Lyrhawn. Frustrating.
 

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Posted by urbanX (Member # 1450) on :
 
It is a Ferrari 360 modena
 

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Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
 
How'd you figure that?
 

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Posted by Dragon (Member # 3670) on :
 
somebody already has Dragon too...


 

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Posted by Dragon (Member # 3670) on :
 
I don't get what we're supposed to be doing...
 

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Posted by urbanX (Member # 1450) on :
 
Because I have my sources...shhh
 

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Posted by urbanX (Member # 1450) on :
 
here's the completed image
 

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Posted by Dragon (Member # 3670) on :
 
um... so we know what it is... now what?

everything I try in the box comes up: "You have not met the challenge. Use your colony to solve the puzzle."
 

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Posted by urbanX (Member # 1450) on :
 
I'm having the same problem...hmmm
 

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Posted by NinjaBirdman (Member # 7114) on :
 
Well, it seems like the images are pieces of a puzzle. I've got two right now.

here
and
here

Anybody see anything different?
 

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Posted by NinjaBirdman (Member # 7114) on :
 
*Dances*

Ok! I managed to figure out a bunch of stuff. The pictures on the site are just stored in places that are 132 away from eachother. So there was 335.jpg, 467.jpg, 599.jpg, etc up until 1259. So I took all these images into photoshop and after flipping a few of them and stuff I got this . Sloppy I know, but we only needed the message. So there's our challenge.

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Stella's peddler.
Imagine if he had
one of these.

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Now to figure that out! *googles*
 

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Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
 
Various Wikipedia Stellas
 

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Posted by Dragon (Member # 3670) on :
 
who's stella? what would someone sell to her?

once we know that, obviously they could work faster in a nifty car... or something like that.
 

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Posted by rav (Member # 7595) on :
 
I tried making an account, and it kept yelling at me about that stupid number box that I'd type in properly every time. I also tried making raventh1 thinking maybe rav was already taken.. It hates me.
 

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Posted by NinjaBirdman (Member # 7114) on :
 
Try again later, it was doing that to me last night, but a half hour later it worked...
 

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Posted by MEC (Member # 2968) on :
 
maybe it's some kind of link between "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "Death of a Salesman"?
 

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Posted by Jhai (Member # 5633) on :
 
Could this have something to do with the clue?

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ready for more secrets?

if you aim to find the truth, you will uncover tom caty instead of edward

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(to err is human, without the colony, you would have been misled by the error)

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You have not met the challenge. Use your colony to solve the puzzle."

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Suddenly in 1998 Ferdinand Piëch, top level manager at Audi AG, offered to buy Automobili Lamborghini SpA, Di Capua managed to convince the Indonesian owner to agree and on June 12, 1998 a 'letter of intent' was drawn up stressing both partners to close this deal as soon as possible.

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