Re:Welcome, cryptanalyst
by vnagpal on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @03:40PM
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This isn't for google, it's some marketing thing for upcoming movie "The Imitation Game" (based on Alan Turing).
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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.