Announcement: Be excellent to each other.

Caravel Forum : Other Boards : Anything : Bad Ideas (a place for ideas that are bad(probably))
123
Page 4 of 4
 New Topic New Poll Post Reply
Poster Message
Drgamer
Level: Master Delver
Rank Points: 113
Registered: 09-09-2006
IP: Logged
 icon Re: Bad Ideas (0)  
In other words, I could create a random series of letters and numbers, and still get it right
10-17-2006 at 12:01 AM
View Profile Send Private Message to User Show all user's posts Quote Reply
Citrus
Level: Smitemaster
Avatar
Rank Points: 1252
Registered: 01-08-2006
IP: Logged
 icon Re: Bad Ideas (0)  
Let me guess, it's:

Click here to view the secret text


____________________________
Call me Citrus. Small system. Sometimes we'll sign off our messages with who wrote it if it's relevant. Colored text indicates who.
10-17-2006 at 12:07 AM
View Profile Send Private Message to User Send Email to User Show all user's posts High Scores This architect's holds Quote Reply
Kevin_P86
Level: Smitemaster
Avatar
Rank Points: 535
Registered: 06-28-2005
IP: Logged
 icon Re: Bad Ideas (0)  
That's more than 1,000 characters... so it couldn't possibly be right? :)

____________________________
+++++[>+++++<-]>[>+++>++++>+++++<<<-]>.>+.>-------.<++++.+++++.
10-17-2006 at 05:00 AM
View Profile Send Private Message to User Send Email to User Show all user's posts High Scores This architect's holds Quote Reply
Kevin_P86
Level: Smitemaster
Avatar
Rank Points: 535
Registered: 06-28-2005
IP: Logged
 icon Re: Bad Ideas (0)  
Drgamer wrote:
In other words, I could create a random series of letters and numbers, and still get it right
Yes, an alpha-numeric string is a sequence of characters A-Z, a-z or 0-9. My string has 1,000 of those characters.

____________________________
+++++[>+++++<-]>[>+++>++++>+++++<<<-]>.>+.>-------.<++++.+++++.
10-17-2006 at 05:01 AM
View Profile Send Private Message to User Send Email to User Show all user's posts High Scores This architect's holds Quote Reply
Dolan42
Level: Master Delver
Avatar
Rank Points: 195
Registered: 04-14-2006
IP: Logged
 icon Re: Bad Ideas (0)  
Well, if you tell us higher or lower and we do it right we should be able to guess it in 5955 or so tries :)

____________________________
-D
"To understand recursion you must first understand recursion."
10-18-2006 at 05:56 AM
View Profile Send Private Message to User Send Email to User Show all user's posts Quote Reply
NiroZ
Level: Smitemaster
Rank Points: 1302
Registered: 02-12-2006
IP: Logged
 icon Re: Bad Ideas (0)  
even better idea, the person who know the answer has to go though and tell us which characters are wrong.

OH JOY!!!
10-18-2006 at 06:02 AM
View Profile Send Private Message to User Send Email to User Show all user's posts This architect's holds Quote Reply
Kevin_P86
Level: Smitemaster
Avatar
Rank Points: 535
Registered: 06-28-2005
IP: Logged
 icon Re: Bad Ideas (0)  
Dolan42 wrote:
Well, if you tell us higher or lower and we do it right we should be able to guess it in 5955 or so tries :)
That's assuming there's some intuitive way to order the possibilities. I suppose you could treat it as a base 62 number...

____________________________
+++++[>+++++<-]>[>+++>++++>+++++<<<-]>.>+.>-------.<++++.+++++.
10-18-2006 at 08:11 AM
View Profile Send Private Message to User Send Email to User Show all user's posts High Scores This architect's holds Quote Reply
Kevin_P86
Level: Smitemaster
Avatar
Rank Points: 535
Registered: 06-28-2005
IP: Logged
 icon Re: Bad Ideas (0)  
NiroZ wrote:
even better idea, the person who know the answer has to go though and tell us which characters are wrong.

OH JOY!!!
Computers are good at that sort of thing... :)

____________________________
+++++[>+++++<-]>[>+++>++++>+++++<<<-]>.>+.>-------.<++++.+++++.
10-18-2006 at 08:12 AM
View Profile Send Private Message to User Send Email to User Show all user's posts High Scores This architect's holds Quote Reply
123
Page 4 of 4
 New Topic New Poll Post Reply
Caravel Forum : Other Boards : Anything : Bad Ideas (a place for ideas that are bad(probably))
Surf To:


Forum Rules:
Can I post a new topic? No
Can I reply? No
Can I read? Yes
HTML Enabled? No
UBBC Enabled? Yes
Words Filter Enable? No

Contact Us | CaravelGames.com

Powered by: tForum tForumHacks Edition b0.98.9
Originally created by Toan Huynh (Copyright © 2000)
Enhanced by the tForumHacks team and the Caravel team.