Puzzle of the Exuberant: Updated with achievement images!

[kkstrong]

This puzzle moves to slow! :P

and it -is- hint day.

[player_03]

can i guess a whole word?

You either have to guess the current letter or the entire name. (Assuming that's what you were asking...)

[Kablamo]

This puzzle moves to slow! :P

and it -is- hint day.

WELL ITS 2 DAYS AFTER HINT DAY

[999_Springs]

You either have to guess the current letter or the entire name.

Oh that's SO annoying. I can guess 5 out of the 6 words, but as for the first word...

[Exüberance]

You either have to guess the current letter or the entire name.

Oh that's SO annoying. I can guess 5 out of the 6 words, but as for the first word...

O___O

You can guess the word that has no letters in it yet? Context I guess.

EDIT: Sorry about missing the hint. I haven't been online on teh forums (at all) in the last few days.

The hint has been posted now, and I moved the deadline forward one day to compensate for posting the hint 1 day late.

[Exüberance]

This riddle has gone unsolved for a week, so a new one has posted. The solution to the failed riddle has been added to the first post and a new riddle has been posted.

[kkstrong]

ah yes, I would never have guessed entropy...even with a better clue.

also isn't this puzzle 11? 8 passed, 2 failed = 10, next = 11?

[999_Springs]

It's February the 8th *hint, hint*.

[Exüberance]

O_____O
It's the 8th already! Every notice how time flies by so fast when something important is comming up? Ah, the joy of midterms... which are comming up tomorrow and I have yet to study for.

Hint has been posted for this week. See first post for hint.

[kkstrong]

So....the puzzle expires 2 days ago?

[Exüberance]

So....the puzzle expires 2 days ago?

I was 2 days late posting the hint, so I extended it by 2 days. I just forgot to update it. Yes, I know it's the 13th, not the 12th, but I was literally up all night yesterday doing Calculus, so that's why it's a day late.

I'm pretty suprised no one got this puzzle, since I've been receiving math/physics related (wrong) guesses for many other hints, but now that this actually is one... it stops. Is that irony? Eh, more just unfortunate, not really ironic.

Anyways, NEW RIDDLE!!

EDIT: @ Tribulation. You fool! You're not supposed to solve the puzzle within minutes of it being posted! Curses, foiled again! Now I must think of a more sinister clue... I geuss I made that too easy? Record-Smashing time! Also, gratz on being first to 3.

EDIT AGAIN: Then 999_Springs solves it like 30 seconds later. THIS IS BLASPHEMY! THIS IS MADNESS! *gets punted into pit of doom*

I'm tempted to discard that one since it seems I made it too easy, but I won't. All's fair.
Hopefully, I'll think of a new non-obviouse riddle before I leave for Sno Camp!

PS: (the edit button fell off from me using it so much, so I'm using postal script instead) I just posted the new hint. BREAK THIS ONE, FOOLS!

Final Thought PPPPPPPS:
Well, I'm off to Sno Camp! So long noobs friends!
If anyone should happen to solve the puzzle today while I am out, I leave you the following message:

INCONCEIVABLE!

...

My name is Inigo Montoya; you killed my puzzle; prepare to die!

[Exüberance]

I wast kind of expecthing thiis riddle to bes solved pretty quickily, but then again it's shard to judge may puzzle's difficulthies, like I've saiid before. Annyways, you still have until tomorrow tto solve the riddle. Good luck.

POST-RIDDLE EDIT:
Notice the mispellings? This post was a hint!

I wast kind of expecthing thiis riddle to bes solved pretty quickily, but then again it's shard to judge may puzzle's difficulthies, like I've saiid before. Annyways, you still have until tomorrow tto solve the riddle. Good luck.

T-H-I-S-I-S-A-H-I-N-T
(TIHS IS A HINT)

[TribulatioN]

I am so ridiculously close! I already figured out like 90%. Ughh.

[Exüberance]

This puzzle has been solved by 999_Springs.
Honourable mention to TribulatioN who was on the right track with noticing the mispellings, but he found another mispelling in a previous post that mislead him >_< I fail.

Riddle: Subtext
Main Hint: Shorry, no hiint
Letter: F
Reasoning: It's been fixed back to normal now, but this is what the paragraph below the riddle on the first post read during Puzzle 12:

It's a puzzle!! The purpose of this puzzle is uncover what Exüberance's secret project is by completting a bunch of ambiguous non-googleable (you can if you want, but it probably won't help you) riddles. Each of these riddles represenths a letter of the alphabet. This letteer is contained somewhere in the name of my secret project. The overall goal of this puzzle is to find the name. PM me ilf you think you know what it is, and include the ENTIRE NAME in your message. You only get 1 atteempt at guessing the name, so don't waste it! But aside from the main objective, there are otthers too. Whenever a riddle is solved by someone, I add the lettter above in its correct location and post a new riddle. If a riddle goes fore 7 days without being solved, I post ther solution to it, but do NOT positioin the letter (howevers you will still know that letter exisfts somewhere in the name).

Notice anything? Scanning through it, you may notice the mispelling "exifts" or "positioin". Read through it again and you'll pick up some more. Co-incidence? I THINK NOT! Let's see what it says:

It's a puzzle!! The purpose of this puzzle is uncover what Exüberance's secret project is by completting a bunch of ambiguous non-googleable (you can if you want, but it probably won't help you) riddles. Each of these riddles represenths a letter of the alphabet. This letteer is contained somewhere in the name of my secret project. The overall goal of this puzzle is to find the name. PM me ilf you think you know what it is, and include the ENTIRE NAME in your message. You only get 1 atteempt at guessing the name, so don't waste it! But aside from the main objective, there are otthers too. Whenever a riddle is solved by someone, I add the lettter above in its correct location and post a new riddle. If a riddle goes fore 7 days without being solved, I post ther solution to it, but do NOT positioin the letter (howevers you will still know that letter exisfts somewhere in the name).

T-H-E-L-E-T-T-E-R-I-S-F
(THE LETTER IS F)
Also, notice the mispelling in the hint? H-I (I was going to do HINT but, meh. I thought that might be too obvious? Maybe not?) Turns out there was a hint after all, and that hint was saying there was none! Ha! I also gave a second hint in this post.

[Exüberance]

The puzzle has been solved. I didn't even know they still make DVORAK keyboards... unless you rearange the keys and make a program that re-maps all keys :D
Apparently people still use them, making this one just as easy as puzzle 11 to those people... actually I guess it would be easier.

Supposedly, it's supposed to be more efficient, but it doesn't look like it to me. I don't type the "normal" way anyways, I just know where the keys are and hit them with whatever figer is nearby.
Yeah, it's a remix of puzzle 11.

Clue: G C R _
Answer: L
Why: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... Dvorak.svg

...aaaaaannnnd a new riddle's been posted. How 'bout that.

Looks like the contest (for most number of wins) is between TribulatioN, player_03, and probably 999_Springs. Place your bets and win bi- I mean, don't gamble. That's bad. *cough*

[player_03]

Though there are Dvorak keyboards, a more common way to use it is to change the computers input settings. This is an option in all major operating systems, though the only one I know how to do it on is Windows (it's a control panel option, listed as a "language").

Touch typing is a requirement using this method (you can't look at the keys for guidance), but it is generally accepted to be a more efficient layout (not necessarily by much, though). Here is a list of letters, sorted by frequency. Look at their positions on Dvorak for an idea of how it is supposed to be more efficient.

[Exüberance]

Though there are Dvorak keyboards, a more common way to use it is to change the computers input settings. This is an option in all major operating systems, though the only one I know how to do it on is Windows (it's a control panel option, listed as a "language").

Touch typing is a requirement using this method (you can't look at the keys for guidance), but it is generally accepted to be a more efficient layout (not necessarily by much, though). Here is a list of letters, sorted by frequency. Look at their positions on Dvorak for an idea of how it is supposed to be more efficient.

So it would basically be impossible for me to learnt to type that way since I never look at the keyboard while typing QWERTY....

Though it would be fun to try out and see what my sentences look like. It would be like a pathetic attempt at encryption... with lots of typos.

Humph, I tried setting keyboard to DVORAK before, but it wouldn't let me change it. I click on the thing to change to DVORAK and it opens a window that has absolutely nothing to do with DVORAK or any type of keyboard mapping. <_< Not sure weather to blame Vista or HP on this one.... my bet's on Vista. It never lets me down.... and by that I mean it ALWAYS lets me down, but it never lets me down by not letting me down when I think it will

I also like how it says that the shortcut to change keyboard language settings is leftAlt + Shift, when it's actuallly Ctrl+Shift. At least now I know how to turn that off.
Great how the Vista help file does not exactely reflect how the keyboard language bar actually looks by default. Sigh.

[Exüberance]

You people are on a roll today! Puzzle 14 solved. That makes 3 puzzles solved so far today.


...


Guess that means I'll have to come up with another riddle today, h-uh?

Puzzle 14 solved by TribulatioN:
Clue: A Z, Y N, M _
Answer is: F
Reasoning: Note how there's a , every other letter instead of every letter. That means they're pairs! So (A , Z) , (Y , N), (M , _) hhmmm....
A is to Z as Y is to N as M is to F. Why?
A - first letter, Z - last letter ("opposite")
Y - yes, N - no (opposite)
M - male, F - female ("opposite")

In other news, the mysterious project name is getting filled in pretty well. I'm expecting to see some guesses comming in in the near future. How exciting!

[999_Springs]

AAAAAAAAAARGH!!!

I would have got puzzles 13 and 14 if I were on the computer when this was posted. Puzzle 14 I would have got within a minute, and I got puzzle 13 after half an hour of seeing it, using a most completely different route. Unfortunately I had turned my computer off.

Stupid timezones.

(My route on puzzle 13 would have been: I seem to have some very vague recollection of the post count leaderboard 3-5 weeks ago being GTM, Condog, Rikaninja, Laurie... This may be wrong, and it's completely weird anyway, but that's the way I think... and I had never heard of DVORAK keyboards.)

[Exüberance]

Well, you could still pull ahead. Or (more likely) solve the entire puzzle. I'm thinkin this puzzle (and possibly one more) will reveal enough of the name for people to start guessing. Maybe, maybe not.

By the way, there's no sig tag for having the most riddles solved.

I still haven't decided how one should earn the mystery prize. I'm deciding between [Correctly guess the project name OR have the most / tie for most riddles solved] or [Correctly guess the project name OR solve 3 or more riddles] or [Correctly guess the project name OR solve at least 1 puzzle]

I'm pretty sure there's only one possible word that will work for the first word. Same for the 3rd. May be wrong though.

EDIT: There has now been 1 guess on the project name. It was incorrect, but very close.

[Exüberance]

Now there's been 2 guesses on the name. Our current leader in points, TribulatioN, is now no longer able to guess on the project name *gasp* *confusion* *excitement* *fury*

Both guesses were very close.



....and Springs wins this letter. There's been a lot of different people participating, but player_03 999_Springs and TribulatioN keep winning, and now all have at least 3 wins :D

Clue: H, S, I, _
Answer: E
Reasoning: In morse code, H is . . . . and S is . . . and I is . . so the next letter in the sequence would have morse code . and this letter is E

[TribulatioN]

Now there's been 2 guesses on the name. Our current leader in points, TribulatioN, is now no longer able to guess on the project name *gasp* *confusion* *excitement* *fury*

Mostly *fury*.
I would imagine if both guesses from me and whoever else were both very close, it's only inevitable that the puzzle is solved very soon! And that means, I might just get my Dominating the Contest achievement ;D

[Exüberance]

Now there's been 2 guesses on the name. Our current leader in points, TribulatioN, is now no longer able to guess on the project name *gasp* *confusion* *excitement* *fury*

Mostly *fury*.
I would imagine if both guesses from me and whoever else were both very close, it's only inevitable that the puzzle is solved very soon! And that means, I might just get my Dominating the Contest achievement ;D

WE HAVE A WINNER!!

player_03 has solved the puzzle!!!
DEFEND YOUR NINJA: THE FLASH GAME

Other guesses that were made before this last letter (the last E) was filled in:
DEFEND YOUR NINJA: THE FLASH RACE by Daikenkai (only 2 letters off >_<)
and
DEFEND YOUR NINJA: THE FLASH WARS by TribulatioN (only 3 letters off)

In a few hours, I'll post (in this thread) the basic idea of the game and stuff.

[999_Springs]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

I figured out the project name correctly 5 hours ago, but deliberately held it back in the hope that I would be able to solve puzzle 16 and have a chance of getting On a Roll/Specialist/Good Hair Day/possibly even dominating the contest!

Worst strategical mistake ever... or is it?

[TribulatioN]

Congratulations player_03! And thank you for earning me my prized achievement! =D