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Get to Fourteen and Get to Twenty-Eight are back!

#1 User is offline   mrxak 

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Post icon  Posted 06 February 2011 - 01:30 PM

I know some people were eagerly awaiting and/or dreading the return of certain aspects of my website. I don't remember who all of them are, so I'm announcing it here. Also, some newer people who don't know what this is might want to try their hand at these puzzles as well.

Get to Fourteen and Get to Twenty-Eight have now returned!

For those who are immediately confused, these are puzzles that will require some skill to solve. Your goal is to reach the fourteenth and twenty-eighth pages, respectively. At the most basic levels, you must solve simple word puzzles. At more advanced levels, you need to interpret clues hidden in the source code for the page, do various web searches, or even do some math or codebreaking. In order to find the next page, you must solve the puzzle, and type in the URL. For example, and I don't mind revealing this spoiler, the second page on GT28 is duo.html. It's latin for two, and the little quote on page one refers to a quote by a Roman. That's the sort of thing you have to figure out.

Both of these puzzles have been solved by members of this very community, so don't complain to me and say they're unsolvable. They're meant to be hard. Those who made it to the end of either puzzle all hated my guts, and the sum total of man-hours wasted in pursuit of the final pages easily numbers in the hundreds of hours, if not thousands.

For those who want to give each other hints, or talk things over with me, the IRC channel #gt28 is on irc.ambrosia.net for that very purpose.

So, have fun, waste some time, maybe learn a few things along the way. And now a bunch of people will come here and curse me out.
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Posted 07 February 2011 - 04:18 PM

Interesting, I'll try my hand and see how far I can get.

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The /14 index is EMPTY!
Ooh, you clever little...

This post has been edited by Kasofa1: 07 February 2011 - 04:23 PM

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Posted 09 February 2011 - 11:27 PM

View PostKasofa1, on 07 February 2011 - 04:18 PM, said:

The /14 index is EMPTY!
Ooh, you clever little...


Teehee. Yeah, that's right, I know about .htaccess. I know all kinds of crazy web thingies, and you will too, if you want to get all the way to 14/14 and 28/28.
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Posted 25 February 2011 - 09:22 PM

So JoeBob just got to fourteen. He had previously gotten to twenty-eight, back when get to twenty-eight was new. I believe that makes him the only one to win both.

By the way, for all you stuck on 13/14 people, JoeBob went 13->14 in about 2 or 3 minutes. So yeah, redirect all your hatred of me to JoeBob now :P.
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Posted 23 March 2011 - 11:52 AM

So the secret answer must be yo-yos...



Interesting...
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Posted 24 March 2011 - 03:44 PM

I'm still hanging out in that channel, if you ever want to stop by.
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Posted 18 August 2012 - 06:57 AM

A bunch of people on the B&B are stuck on like, 3 and 4 of 14.
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