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Re:The Toughest Developer Puzzle Ever by gt7570b on Wednesday July 01, 2009 @09:49PM (#683717)
What number is the last one - I'm now down to level 27.
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Re:The Toughest Developer Puzzle Ever by js1 on Sunday July 05, 2009 @05:42AM (#688081)
I'm stuck at #27 too.

2 7, 27

@puzzlehints

Twenty Seven: Take the first one each time. They'll get you the distance.

This is not the hint. Seriously stop checking.

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Re:The Toughest Developer Puzzle Ever by js1 on Saturday July 11, 2009 @11:50PM (#699797)
The answer is a PHP function name or algorithm to calculate the distance between two words.

If you take the distance of both pages you get 8, which is the number of words in the "This is not the hint. Seriously stop checking."

I guess the hint is way too difficult: "word distance algorithm" would have been easier.

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Re:The Toughest Developer Puzzle Ever by profquail on Wednesday July 01, 2009 @09:54PM (#683724)
There are 30 levels.
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Re:The Toughest Developer Puzzle Ever by collide on Tuesday July 07, 2009 @06:02AM (#691225)
any hints on #29?
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