Puzzle Randomness

[Anonymous]

While the puzzle is dead and recruitment is currently closed, T did kind of ask me to toss something together as a back burner sort of project.

An idea with a complete backstory has been simmering in my mind and I finally sat down and banged out a piece of the puzzle today.

Parts might be a bit daunting, but it is solvable using no more than a browser and google. I swear. In fact, it might be a wee bit too easy.

If you want to give it a whirl, Click me! and ignore the under construction notice. Type: connect white_pawn to get started. I'll make a nice login message at some point.

Ideas, bugs, etc. are always welcome.

I have not written the backstory aside from an outline, but it is technically feasible... That is, you can use two lasers to measure electron flux and do adaptive prediction in order to pierce things that would otherwise be anethema to radio transmissions (like the sky in the real world). I have thought about this and will pen it if this is something that is deemed useful/wanted/whatevah.

[Anonymous]

hmm, I have the hexadecimal translation when debugging the error, but when I hit enter all I get is "Huh?"  Is there some command I'm supposed to put in before the translation?

[Anonymous]

% signs are bad. So don't use escaped hex. I might change it to octal or 64 just to get rid of that since lots of hex translators like to escape. And there isn't really any error checking yet. In other words, if you don't put in the right answer, it will always say: Huh?

[Anonymous]

Maybe I mistranslated then, because I didn't have a percentage sign anywhere in there

I translated it to text and then back over and ended up with the exact same Hex code, so I have no idea.

[Anonymous]

Is this puzzle based on "Detective Story" from the Animatrix ?  "White pawn" and "Red Queen" kind of ring a bell.

Anyways, I love it until now.  I really like all the surrounding technical output, like the trace.  It gives "texture" to the puzzle.  It makes it more "real".

Keep up the good work.

[Anonymous]

Yep, I tried it, too.
HEX:
3232392E3239353300
BINARY:
0011001000110010001110010010111000110010001110010011010100110011
EDIT: It worked the second time I tried.

I like this idea. However, it seems that if you miss it the first time and get a "Huh?" you have to start over.

[Anonymous]

Hmm, I got a different hex result than you did Redux, I got 3232392e32393533

[Anonymous]

Hmm, I got a different hex result than you did Redux, I got 3232392e32393533

3232392E3239353300
Hm... you're missing the last character.

[Anonymous]

What translator, wolf?

[Anonymous]

I used Nick Ciske's. http://nickciske.com/tools/hex.php
It gives you the option for both escaped and pure bytes.

[Anonymous]

When I first translated it I did it by hand, the second time I got an actual program but don't remember where it was, so it seems the most likely problem is that I'm just a moron.

[Anonymous]

Contact info goes here. You are teh winnar!
I enjoyed it, but I feel like it needs more steps.
We want members with a little perserverance, right?
...I know! We should hide some information in a rasterized page, and provide the keyword as a metatag. =D There's one idea.

[Ketamininja]

Gerenal bug: Doesn't work in opera. IE is fine.
Haven't tried netscape/mozilla, but I suspect thats all fine.

[Anonymous]

Yeah. That opera bug has been reported by myself and about a hundred other people roughly ten thousand times. They just don't care.

[Anonymous]

Moz works fine