Here is a puzzle entitled "lowercase"

http://lowercase.billyjanitsch.com/one.htm

by MIT_Hacker • 13 years ago

51 52 13 years ago

lowercase.billyjanitsch.com

MIT_Hacker4• 13 years ago

Let's hope HN can help me with this. Trying to go through the puzzle and brute-forcing with a dictionary.

sp332• 13 years ago

If you want help, here are the first few ROT-13'd http://www.rot13.com

-b-a-r-

-q-b-a-r-

-z-n-a-

-z-n-a-r-

-a-n-z-r-

-r-a-n-z-r-y-

MIT_Hacker4• 13 years ago

We just got that last one but haven't been able to advance!

mauricio-OH• 13 years ago

How does it work? what's the URL of the second step?

jlgreco2• 13 years ago

rot13("qbar")

I got that one just by guessing, I don't really get how this works.

knappe• 13 years ago

done?

rjvir• 13 years ago

I guess that's a part of the challenge. There's nothing on the page that indicates what the second step could be, I gave up.

rfrank_• 13 years ago

Second url: http://lowercase.billyjanitsch.com/done.htm

Thrid: http://lowercase.billyjanitsch.com/man.htm

jonjohn84• 13 years ago

from done.htm it looks like the next answer is ginger bread man but I can't figure out what the right url for it should be...

mistercow3• 13 years ago

Pay attention to the number of underscores.

acjohnson55• 13 years ago

Same here. And I felt so smart after getting the first step!

MIT_Hacker4• 13 years ago

It's just "man"

smacktoward• 13 years ago

SPOILER ALERT

It's "man.htm".

yccmitg__ == "you can't catch me I'm the gingerbread _man_".

jtheory5• 13 years ago

There's an oblique hint in the source code, sometimes.

Though with that one, the first line of the hint helped me, but the second just confused me (I've just looked up the full story behind the "Run run" reference -- I suppose it was a reminder of the ending to the story? Lost on anyone who doesn't remember the full thing, though...).

jtheory5• 13 years ago

Oh, come on -- don't cheat!

Though I admit I don't currently have the time to get far (I've gotten the first couple but have work to do tonight...). I love these puzzles, though!

I quite enjoyed going through the web penetration puzzle posted here a year or so ago -- where to access the next URL at each step involved a slightly trickier exploit (starting at just reading the HTML source, to modifying form fields, to tweaking cookies, etc.) -- anyone remember where this was?

It was educational (as well as fun), so at least I could excuse burning some time doing it.

trjordan• 13 years ago

That was Stripe's Capture the Flag: https://stripe-ctf.com/

Super fun!

alcidesfonseca• 13 years ago

Years ago I played notpr0n, which is a puzzle very similar, in which you use links, urls and other web-based "locks" to advance to the next level.

http://notpron.org/notpron/

It is also interesting for non-geeks to learn about how the internet (and computers) work.

adsche• 13 years ago

Nice! Reminds me of notpron[0] which entertained me for weeks.

[0] http://notpron.org/notpron/levelone.htm

hilem• 13 years ago

SPOILER ALERT

four is adam

jenrzzz5• 13 years ago

Adam is #7

diggum3• 13 years ago

I've got to five:a but I've hit a bit of a roadblock.

jtheory5• 13 years ago

Please use ROT-13 if you want to give answers; http://www.rot13.com

Vague hints are fine, but putting "SPOILER ALERT" right above the answer doesn't help; it's impossible to read past those posts to see the less giveaway hints.

vampirechicken• 13 years ago

furrfu!

Bhel• 13 years ago

Any idea on 5a? It gives you a pair of coordinates which point to Papua New Guinea (according to Gmaps), yet the source makes a Greenwich reference.

jdtw2• 13 years ago

The Greenwich reference is just to let you know that you're dealing with a latitude and longitude.

GhotiFish2• 13 years ago

   how can you spot a lyin' male

   in a crowd of females?

The answer to this was NOT apple.htm

lol

fivethirty• 13 years ago

This brings back fond memories of thisisnotporn, which sadly seems to have vanished from the internet.

neil_s• 13 years ago

Oblique spoiler alert?

What does a cow's leer mean? I can't think of any permutations of the letters in 'name' that make sense.

mistercow3• 13 years ago

six b has me stumped. The obvious interpretation is that you need to do something with "4 down" and "2 across" from the crossword puzzle shown. But according to typical numbering, that puzzle wouldn't even have a "2 across".

Edit: OK, I got it. Tricksy tricksy.

aparadja• 13 years ago

I'm absolutely stuck on that. Any hints?

mistercow3• 13 years ago

There is a four down, but there isn't a two across. So 2a must refer to something else.

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