Show HN: AVP 42 – A Puzzle Website

Re:Show HN: AVP 42 – A Puzzle Website by drz on Friday July 11, 2014 @06:20AM (#8019487)

The questions need to accept more alternate phrasings.

I spent at least five minutes feeding alternate phrasings and spellings to 3 until it accepted one. They were all semantically/informationally equivalent. They would all have been accepted by, say, a fair pub quiz judge.

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Re:Show HN: AVP 42 – A Puzzle Website by anmonteiro90 on Friday July 11, 2014 @06:29AM (#8019508)

I'm feeling so dumb right now; I've tried so many Caesar's Cypher combinations for problem 3 and can't seem to find the right answer. Tips?

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Re:Show HN: AVP 42 – A Puzzle Website by wiml on Friday July 11, 2014 @06:38AM (#8019527)

You could bruteforce all 25 possible keys ... but the key is right next to the Caesar cipher clue.

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Re:Show HN: AVP 42 – A Puzzle Website by drz on Friday July 11, 2014 @06:37AM (#8019526)

There are only 25 possible settings for a Caesarean cipher. You may be thinking of a substitution cipher, but the clue indicates a Caesarian cipher, as you correctly figured out. The problem is probably that you're feeding a correct answer in a phrasing that the system will not accept.

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Re:Show HN: AVP 42 – A Puzzle Website by avp42 on Friday July 11, 2014 @12:33PM (#8021041)

Can you send an email to [email protected] with some examples of alternate phrasings (to avoid spoilers)?

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