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    Default OT - 11/04/2007 Puzzle

    Capture It!

    1. 14,553,112
      10,628
      13,795,137

    2. 14,553,112
      16,777,215
      14,553,112

    3. 16,777,215
      1,086,546
      14,553,112

    4. 16,772,872
      10,628
      14,553,112

    5. 2,710,181
      0
      16,777,215

    6. 1,086,546
      16,772,872
      10,628

    7. 0
      14,553,112
      16,768,520

    8. 14,549,000
      16,777,215
      555,833

    9. 11,337,728
      16,777,215
      11,337,728

    etc.
    Name the location associated with item# 11.



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    By the way, this puzzle does not require any heavy-duty math, so don't bother looking for any complex functional interrelationships between the numbers.

    So, for example, if at any point the terms "square root", or "eigenvector" or "Riemann zeta-hypothesis" come to mind ... you're probably over thinking things.

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    if at any point the terms "square root", or "eigenvector" or "Riemann zeta-hypothesis" come to mind ...
    they wouldn't come to mind even if I tried.

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    Quote Originally Posted by louisvillekid View Post
    what?

    555,833
    11,337,728
    10,628
    You're looking for the name of a place in plain English. Numbers and punctuation just won't fly.

    My advice would be to just keep thinking about the puzzle, reading any hints amast in this thread, and maybe an idea will come to you.

    It's just a lateral thinking puzzle that I thought was pretty fun and colorful. Try any answer that comes to mind, I promise no one will put a hex on you if you guess wrong. Really.

    Anyway, I don't think think this puzzle is all that hard, but maybe I'll start a pole and see what other posters think.

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    Wave if you have any ideas ...

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    I noticed that Capture It! as you titled this puzzle has 11 spaces if you count all letters, the space between words and the exclamation point . Does the 11th sequence you request involve this punctuation mark?

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    Default Solved by Sean

    Solved by Sean on Mon Nov 05 at 13:54:13.

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    Quote Originally Posted by HedgeHog View Post
    I noticed that Capture It! as you titled this puzzle has 11 spaces if you count all letters, the space between words and the exclamation point . Does the 11th sequence you request involve this punctuation mark?
    No.

    If you look at my previous two posts in this thread I've actually given a number of hints.

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    Im working on it, dont give us the answer, let us figure it out ourselves.

    later

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    Quote Originally Posted by MrX View Post
    Almost got it.
    I may have been premature in that assessment.

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    Default Solved by MrX

    Solved by MrX on Mon Nov 05 at 16:52:25.

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    I am numb I see a few hints... just won't fly. amast colorful... a pole....hex....wave.... capture it...pole


    Not enough time or brains for me today!!!!

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    Default Solved by Art Vandeleigh

    Solved by Art Vandeleigh on Mon Nov 05 at 17:15:54.

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    i'm clueless. i have no idea what this is about. i thought it was a numbers sequence puzzle, but i guess i was wrong.

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    Ganch, are you going to post the answer and explain this puzzle to me/us. my simple-minded feeble brain doesn't get it.

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    it will not let me type answer in
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    Quote Originally Posted by pokernut9999 View Post
    it will not let me type answer in
    I probably broke the damn answer machine, typing in all the wrong answers. Im still trying, although its not looking promising anymore.

    later

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    is it the Moon ?
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    Moon answer came back wrong, sorry.

    later
    Last edited by capitalist pig; 11-06-07 at 02:32 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pokernut9999 View Post
    it will not let me type answer in
    Is there not a text box at the bottom of the post?

    What browser are you using?

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    if this is supposed to be a lateral thinking problem, i thought there is no true answer to a lateral thinking problem. but i don't think this is one, cause all the lateral thinking problems i've read before, are just a paragraph of words, theres no numbers involved.

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    Default Solved by diglett

    Solved by diglett on Tue Nov 06 at 17:33:04.

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    Quote Originally Posted by louisvillekid View Post
    if this is supposed to be a lateral thinking problem, i thought there is no true answer to a lateral thinking problem. but i don't think this is one, cause all the lateral thinking problems i've read before, are just a paragraph of words, theres no numbers involved.
    I'm fairly certain that there's nothing inherent in the definition of a "lateral-thinking" puzzle that would preclude the use of numbers.

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    Dead Money, by the way, pointed out a few hints in this post.

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    Default Solved by Matt Rain

    Solved by Matt Rain on Wed Nov 07 at 15:18:52.

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    Last hint gave 50% of it away... still took me a while to figure it out from there.

    Good stuff!

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    Solved by Sean on 11/5/2007 at 13:54:12, MrX on 11/5/2007 at 16:52:25, Art Vandeleigh on 11/5/2007 at 17:15:54, diglett on 11/6/2007 at 17:33:04, and Matt Rain on 11/7/2007 at 15:18:51.

    Very nicely done.


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    Default Solved by picoman

    Solved by picoman on Thu Nov 08 at 02:20:04.

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    still a pretty hard puzzle with that rgb hint.

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    i guess not everyone is cut out to work for the NSA

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    Default Solved by tacomax

    Solved by tacomax on Thu Nov 08 at 03:20:57.

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    cycle-grabbing, all-encompassing monster. Allocate an array and free
    the middle third? Sure! Why not? Multiply a character string times a
    bit string and assign the result to a float decimal? Go ahead! Free a
    controlled variable procedure parameter and reallocate it before
    passing it back? Overlay three different types of variable on the same
    memory location? Anything you say! Write a recursive macro? Well,
    no, but Real Men use rescan. How could a language so obviously
    designed and written by Real Men not be intended for Real Man use?

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    Default Solved by BigBollocks

    Solved by BigBollocks on Thu Nov 08 at 03:26:58.

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