Guess the next url in the sequence

October 25, 2005 11:48 PM

Congratulations, you have just volunteered yourself to be part of this game. The aim is simple: get to the end !
posted by jonson (44 comments total)

Wow, there goes my week.
posted by hypersloth at 12:23 AM on October 26, 2005

Same here, Hypersloth... Same here.

<shrug> Oh well ;-)
posted by crocos at 12:51 AM on October 26, 2005

I live in Exeter, where this guy studies, so if I get stuck I can "send the boys round".
posted by NinjaPirate at 1:00 AM on October 26, 2005

Stuck on level 59..

Am I cheating?
posted by Jack Karaoke at 1:18 AM on October 26, 2005

Gah. Level 13 is confusing me.
posted by Uccellina at 1:18 AM on October 26, 2005

Got to level 7 without having to think too much, and now I'm stuck..
posted by Orange Goblin at 1:20 AM on October 26, 2005

Clue for 13: Follow the direction of the arrows when reading the words, starting from the backspace.

Clue for 7:"the answer will be"
posted by crocos at 2:01 AM on October 26, 2005

Anyone got a clue for 15? I feel dumb.
posted by arha at 2:04 AM on October 26, 2005

Good lord why did you have to go an post this?!... (goes back to level 7).
posted by dingobully at 2:06 AM on October 26, 2005

I taught this guy programming last year. Good to see he's been putting his skills to good use...
posted by gene_machine at 3:08 AM on October 26, 2005

I taught this guy programming last year. Good to see he's been putting his skills to good use...

Not to diss this nice game as such, but...

Font tags... check.
Open tags... check.
No header or body tags...check.
Fantasy tags... check.

You might want to retract that statement.
posted by uncle harold at 3:14 AM on October 26, 2005

Stuck on level 12... aggggh!
posted by antifuse at 3:14 AM on October 26, 2005

18. There's no such thing as "more deadlier". Is that part of the answer?
posted by dingobully at 3:17 AM on October 26, 2005

I got it, but only by cheating and looking at hints. I gave up at 13, I just don't have the patience for this kind of game... hehehe
posted by antifuse at 3:48 AM on October 26, 2005

12 i mean and no it's not part of the answer. You'll get the answer to 12 by finding a word in black, changing it to that word, and then reading the source of what u get.
posted by dingobully at 3:49 AM on October 26, 2005

This is good.

Although I resent the fact that level 50 does not work in Firefox.

Not that I ever think I'll ever get that far anyways.
posted by sveskemus at 5:03 AM on October 26, 2005

Ahem, uncle harold... I never said I taught him web programming.
posted by gene_machine at 5:57 AM on October 26, 2005

Google Search for inurl:people.ex.ac.uk/rbd201/riddle helps you skip ahead a bit.
posted by milov at 6:09 AM on October 26, 2005

gene_machine, I just guessed, since there is no other programming going on there... :)

Whatever, cool concept and game.
posted by uncle harold at 6:27 AM on October 26, 2005

I volunteered myself for this game, which made me lose the game.
posted by you just lost the game at 6:28 AM on October 26, 2005

I'm not getting work done today...

Stuck on 18, and the clue in the source just confuses me more.
posted by Roommate at 6:57 AM on October 26, 2005

this must be generating an awful lot of interesting 404s for the exeter site admin...
posted by gren at 8:54 AM on October 26, 2005

This game made me lose the game :(
posted by 31d1 at 9:42 AM on October 26, 2005

Lost interest at level 5. Man, I am so ADH..-- hey, look, a puppy!
posted by LordSludge at 10:02 AM on October 26, 2005

31d1: "This game made me lose the game :("
Which game was th...
Oh. I lose.
posted by flagellum at 10:48 AM on October 26, 2005

I (cheatingly) found the answer to level 7, but now I'm even more frustrated 'cos I don't understand why the answer is what it is! argghhhh
posted by hmca at 11:40 AM on October 26, 2005

i lost interest at level 5 too--the exact point where i really had to start thinking about the answer. damn brain.


ooooh! pretty puppy!
posted by slogger at 12:05 PM on October 26, 2005

Yeah, I got to level two, and got bored.
posted by davejay at 12:30 PM on October 26, 2005

Yeah, I realized I had lost the game as soon as I saw the FPP. Dirty trick, that one. The link redeemed it a bit..
posted by hypersloth at 1:36 PM on October 26, 2005

Another interesting project, very structurally similar to this, but focused on Python, is the Python Challenge.
posted by whir at 1:42 PM on October 26, 2005

Yeah, I cheated on number 7 also. Really don't know how one arrives at the answer!
posted by michaelonfs at 1:43 PM on October 26, 2005

oh curses. I lost "The Game" too
posted by Megafly at 2:26 PM on October 26, 2005

yeah another idiot here, can someone explain #7?
posted by joeblough at 2:46 PM on October 26, 2005

Dang, I just lost the game as well. I wish I didn't know that, so I wouldn't have lost...
posted by parallax7d at 2:53 PM on October 26, 2005

The answer to #7 is IN the clue.
posted by justjen at 3:16 PM on October 26, 2005

I am so stuck on 18 now. And no, I haven't been playing for all of the last 20 hours.
posted by Uccellina at 9:36 PM on October 26, 2005

michaelonfs and joeblough, the URL that has question #8 is not the answer to number seven.

:-)
posted by arrhn at 11:20 PM on October 26, 2005

The answer to #7 is IN the clue.
posted by justjen at 3:16 PM PST on October 26

Yeah... still not getting it.
posted by quantumetric at 8:48 AM on October 27, 2005

yeah. I also need a clue for Level 15. I am thinking positive - plus, yes, up... help!
posted by pants at 11:22 AM on October 27, 2005

Yargh! Lost the game.

It's been months!
posted by Cycloptichorn at 11:46 AM on October 27, 2005

WTF is up with the answer to level 7. Please.. someone who knows, just write in big letters SPOILERS, and then tell me the answer. For god's sake, I'm begging you. The weight of my ignorance is crushing me.
posted by vomitous at 1:30 PM on October 27, 2005

vomitous: I emailed you.
posted by justjen at 2:29 PM on October 27, 2005

NOOOO!!!!!!

I was refreshing this page every ten minutes, waiting for the answer!
posted by sveskemus at 2:32 PM on October 27, 2005

justjen just emailed me. If anybody else was waiting for the answer, feel free to write me.
posted by sveskemus at 2:53 PM on October 27, 2005