Re:Welcome, cryptanalyst
by magnusg7 on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @03:37PM
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Looks pretty easy, I wonder if google recruits like this?
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This isn't for google, it's some marketing thing for upcoming movie "The Imitation Game" (based on Alan Turing).
You sure? It redirects into the foobar game, which seems more like fizz buzz type challenges.
Re:Welcome, cryptanalyst
by andrewryno on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @03:56PM
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The footer has links to Google. Unless Google is now doing movie marketing.
This is also part of another game that was submitted a couple weeks ago which was a recruiting game for GOogle.
I got to that site through this movie trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=sX...
if you look at the paper at 3 second mark you can see the
address "146.148.62.204".
But now i wonder if its somehow connected with google
Haha right as Turing says "Are you paying attention too." Pretty clever. I don't think this is purely a movie advert though. The Imitation Game relation explains how they expected people to get the non number base/regex clue.
It is also on the blackboard at the end (around 0:57), and possibly on some other places.
Google "sponsoring" them in exchange of putting an IP address in their trailer is something I would absolutely see them do.
Re:Welcome, cryptanalyst
by gcmartinelli on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @04:57PM
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also at blackboard at 0:10 and 0:26, and at a paper sheet at 0:12
Wow! You clearly pay attention...
I wonder if I would have noticed this.
Thanks for sharing!
Somehow, google must have to do with this, either google paying weinstein for displaying this or weinstein paying google for making this a social media booster.