@RafaelTavares The only thing that happened in last 12 hours (I haven't raise any flag in 12 hours) is that my helpful flag count changed from 48 to 49.
I think a mod haa reviewed my 'needs improvement' flag.
I tried clicking the Submit, the Reset... I think it messed up after going back from the YouTube redirects (one time I couldn't go back anymore, so I needed to enter the right URL)
Actually, I don't even know if I got the wrong answer or it was just a bug, I really thought it was the right one
I seem to be running into a weird bug where I enter an answer and it doesn't advance to the next question or put me in timeout (but some times I do get put in timeout?)
Once again, Sparkles the /unicorn seems to have gotten herself in a whole heap of trouble.
This time she appears to have been kidnapped!
oh where, oh where has
my unicorn gone? oh where
oh where can she be?
Can you help to track her down? Do you have what it takes to join the ranks of the Defen...
@Smitop Ah ok. Still don't know how it's helpful (well I kind of get it, but that then led me to applying alternate ciphers on words, which is probably wrong)...
@Xnero pronouns more consistent now. Either way should not have hindered solving the puzzle
@nobody until Jan 2, only ok to point people in the right direction, to the starting url. From there, they are on their own. Until then, having the Defender hat should show that you put in the effort to solve it. For the last 3 days: no limits to help that can be given in terms of guidance, but deciphering should still be up to the person.
@nobody I was sorely tempted to do so, but decided to be generous with clues instead. Maybe next year we'll take it up a notch
@cairdcoinheringaahing no, the credit and blame goes to me alone for this one
@YaakovEllis I was stuck completely at the question on the page views question (second last question). Next time I went to the URL it restarted and that q didn't come up...
I think all the secret hats have now been discovered, unless some secret hats are a secret from me. Which is possible. I didn't know about Defender of the Unicorn.
...Also known as "The Quest for the Winter Chicken of the Bash, Part 3" (part 2 here).
So, winter has come again. As every year, the staff members try their best to hide some funny Easter eggs, hoping no one would notice them too soon.
And as every year, their attempts are fooled by a single me...
NOTE: for this year, there's a new topic: Winter Bash 2019 Knitting
This year's Winter Bash got us great hat challenges, but it also gave us a very nice tool for knitting on the main Winter Bash site.
Is there a challenge related to this knitting tool?
Here is my knitting and it would be a...
@RafaelTavares Yes you are right. This is the last one I saw which breaks the strike, but I have 28 reviews after that, all matching the other voters, 1 of them an audit and 1 of them I approve and edit as the only reviewer. So maybe that breaks it as well? Seems unfair if it does...
@Wolgwang maybe. feel free to speculate. Dont have time to dig into data and try to figure how many people almost got it, and why they are falling short
Congrats to the 28 users who have Defender hats thus far!
@YaakovEllis I completely decrypted the haiku on page 2 of this year's DotU but it's not obvious what to do with the information, I guess I need to think about it more.
@Xnero am I really going to have to add a dev route for /dev/yank-back-defender-and-prevent-user-from-winning-it-again? I thought that the threat was going to be enough...
I probably wouldn't have thought of that, and it's not clear how one is expected to decrypt that page using a cellphone; heavily favors desktop users and programmers.
I probably wouldn't have thought of that, and it's not clear how one is expected to decrypt that page using a cellphone; heavily favors desktop users and programmers.
you asked what happens if you ping me, I pointed out that you won't get any hat. If you were about...nine years earlier and I was Punyon maybe you could have gotten a beard, but it it a tad too late.
@SPArcheon what is the easiest way to get a secret hat? (i have dialogue, detective, monologue, matryoshka, Slow trickle, Thought bubble, Manual key, trialogue)