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biosterous posted:thank you for contributing, terry! isn't it fun to make art together? I'm not above admitting that it was fun. It was a nice way to start my mornings, which I've begun to fill by exploring other BYOB threads. Though I dare not post in them. A lot of butts, I'm noticing.
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Terry Harri posted:My name is Terry Harrison and I am a simple man and a longtime "lurker" of the B.Y.O.B. subforum on Something Awful. at least, Terry seems confident that he is one! has someone already sent the picture in? |
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Wait what. No no no no, that was a joke. A L.O.L.
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 this weird email i got reminded me to go look outside, and i saw eleven nuthatches! what a successful start to my day! (it also kinda reminded me of macnult for some reason?)
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Dec 1, 2020 18:21
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Under the table crew.
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reminder to all puzzle solvers to check out this weird email before trying to spot 11 nuthatches 
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biosterous posted:reminder to all puzzle solvers to check out this weird email before trying to spot 11 nuthatches I had great success finding an eleventh nuthatch after reading that email. It must be good luck! If you look closely at the email, you can almost see 11 nuthatches all in a row. Their head plumage is especially beautiful. |
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Dec 1, 2020 20:38
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just spotted my eleventh nuthatch thanks to all you nuthatch experts 
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google THIS posted:I had great success finding an eleventh nuthatch after reading that email. It must be good luck! same!
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Alright, I have had ENOUGH! I knew what was going on this whole time. I saw behind your measly attempts at hiding your collective hacking of my dear Nuthatch World Wide Web Internut (L.O.L.) site. I just chose to ignore it. You were all doing so well--my agent said the metrics are off the chart! We were on track to incorporate NordVPN and G-Fuel banner ads. But I also never thought you'd get so far. Imagine, working together to solve a puzzle. And tricking me, me, into helping retrieve one of my own passwords! Well no more. I've taken the liberty of editing the next puzzle on the site. I'm shutting it all down. There's no password for you to find this time. He's not coming back.
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Dec 1, 2020 21:21
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You don't even need spoiler tags anymore. I defy you to talk amongst yourselves. There's nothing to talk about, really. I suppose maybe to grieve the loss.
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Dec 1, 2020 21:25
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the only thing i've got so far is that puzzle 12 doesn't have any javascript in it so there's no input of any kind, so my guess is that we have to guess a page? the error: 12 image is overtop some text, but it looks like it says Twelve like the other ones had headings so that's probably nothing the 12 is in italics, maybe that's meaningful? 12.html/twelve.html aren't there.
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Dec 1, 2020 21:30
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i don't have gimp/photoshop but could we maybe make the jpg transparent to see what is behind it? also other than a play on cheaper by the dozen do the img filenames seem like they might lead us anywhere?
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Dec 1, 2020 21:53
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!! I'm on to something here, in fact I think I've cracked two of the three parts of the final puzzle. A couple of things I'm certain of: The number 12 is fairly significant, and sometimes a string of characters isn't as random as it looks. |
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Yes! I have successfully cracked #12, which I needn't pretend is a nuthatch at all! The three images on the new page (including the background image) are all clues for parts of the puzzle. Suffice to say, I think our friend Terry has interests other than nuthatches...say, Greek Mythology? To figure out the rest, you'll want to pay attention to where the other puzzles thus far are located. |
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Dec 1, 2020 22:31
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google THIS posted:Yes! I have successfully cracked #12, which I needn't pretend is a nuthatch at all! figured this one out now too, thanks! suck a fart terry! |
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Dec 1, 2020 22:35
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i'm pretty sure i've got the solution for some bad chemistry, and i'm confident about all the hard work i've put in (barring a possible c/k confusion?) but i think i've already established from previous posts that i'm bad with numbers! it's like i've got two slices of puzzle bread ready but can't figure out what to put in it (i actually noticed the pattern for the first and last parts the other day and was hoping it would be relevant  )
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biosterous posted:i'm pretty sure i've got the solution for some bad chemistry, and i'm confident about all the hard work i've put in (barring a possible c/k confusion?) but i think i've already established from previous posts that i'm bad with numbers! it's like i've got two slices of puzzle bread ready but can't figure out what to put in it The numbers are powerful but they have a weakness google THIS fucked around with this message at 22:56 on Dec 1, 2020 |
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think i'm solving out of order. i think i know what nonottheheal.jpg is referring to, but i don't know what to do about bad chemistry
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magic cactus posted:think i'm solving out of order. i think i know what nonottheheal.jpg is referring to, but i don't know what to do about bad chemistry for chemistry, you might want to check out previous i think we should table the discussion about what we think about terry, at least until nut gets freed! meanwhile, the part you think you know about is the part i'm having some trouble with, i think  google THIS posted:The numbers are powerful but they have a weakness ooh! oh this pointed me somewhere and i think i've almost got it but not quite! e: i ended up outside somehow and i don't quite understand why, but i'm enjoying the fresh air for sure! biosterous fucked around with this message at 23:24 on Dec 1, 2020
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i got twelve thanks to google THIS, who has an extremely apt username anyone got anything on where the next ones might be? i don't think they can follow the same conventions because one of the components doesn't have that many things in it (unless i'm wrong)
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these puzzles have confounded me. i'm gonna keep working but good job on these puzzles terry they are confounding!
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still flummoxed by this one I've figured out what 1 2 is referring to and the corresponding pattern, but I have no idea what to do with this information. 
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magic cactus posted:still flummoxed by this one I've figured out what 1 2 is referring to and the corresponding pattern, but I have no idea what to do with this information. the puzzle urls have 3 components (not including the .html). if you figure out what they all mean, you can figure out what the next one should be by putting together a filename using the next (or missing) of each component
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hey terry listen man i'm sorry but OKAY THE FIRST PART OF THE URL IS A ELEMENT ON THE PERIODIC TABLE AND THE LAST BIT IS A THING BACKWARDS AND WHAT THE HELL IS THE MIDDLE GAG THREW A BACHELOR PARTY AND I'VE HAD SOME BEERS
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Heather Papps posted:hey terry listen man i'm sorry but OKAY THE FIRST PART OF THE URL IS A ELEMENT ON THE PERIODIC TABLE AND THE LAST BIT IS A THING BACKWARDS AND WHAT THE HELL IS THE MIDDLE GAG THREW A BACHELOR PARTY AND I'VE HAD SOME BEERS username/post combo here: google THIS posted:The numbers are powerful but they have a weakness
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I'M IN. e: is it a puzzle or do we just... wait a day?
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Heather Papps posted:I'M IN. i can't tell.
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man, this one has thoroughly defeated me  ah well. the real nuthatches were the friends we made along the way.
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magic cactus posted:man, this one has thoroughly defeated me it may feel like a herculean task but once you complete it it'll feel great! the 1 part of the url is chemistry, the second part is knowing that a thing like strong numbers exist, and the last bit is a trick from beyond but i think you'll get it!
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Heather Papps posted:it may feel like a herculean task but once you complete it it'll feel great! the 1 part of the url is chemistry, the second part is knowing that a thing like strong numbers exist, and the last bit is a trick from beyond but i think you'll get it! I'm super close. I figured out what to do with the table and i know a dog when I see one, but I'm missing something with the numbers. I know they're not strong, but I can't figure out the sequence.
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magic cactus posted:I'm super close. I figured out what to do with the table and i know a dog when I see one, but I'm missing something with the numbers. I know they're not strong, but I can't figure out the sequence. they actually are strong, and that is the weakness. this threw me off for a while. thank you wikipedia!
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can't believe i slept on this thread so long. i'ma try to see how far I can get without spoilers
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magic cactus posted:I'm super close. I figured out what to do with the table and i know a dog when I see one, but I'm missing something with the numbers. I know they're not strong, but I can't figure out the sequence. whenever i need to identify a sequence (which is surprisingly often?), my first stop is the OEIS
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