@Sid I was thinking about brute forcing every stack.imgur address that has the 3rd and 5th letter capitalized as well as a lowercase "o", but I'm kind of afraid of the amount GBs that's gonna take, LOL. Not sure if you can search imgur any other way for specific image patterns.
Partial answer
First, click on the image in the question. Hidden behind what you can actually see in the question is a quite different Stack.Imgur image:
This image contains two five-character codes. Each of these yields a Stack.Imgur image of its own:
Finally, each one of these two images...
@Randal'Thor Not sure if the "a A 9" clue refers to an address, just looks like a charset to me. (would be a cool coincidence if it actually was in this format). Also, clue 2 seems to suggest something in the format "xxXxX" ("it grows bigger when I look at its middle and its tail"), and as you said "o" in there of course.
Nevermind, didn't read your answer properly. Forget everything I just said.
@dcfyj But that would be "9 A a" IMO. (reverse cipher?). IMGUR addresses can only consist of upper,lowercase and numbers as far as I know, so that's what I thought.
I keep seeing people worrying that their puzzles are being solved too fast, and here I am worrying that because my latest puzzle hasn't been solved yet, it must not be very good...
@dcfyj "I have risen" - "I have fallen". (reference to the question I just started a bounty on). I might do this more frequently in future if it's fun :P (and somehow earn 500 rep between all my questions)
So I was just browsing Puzzling as usual, when I stumbled upon a... to put it mildly, "strange" question:
The question seems to be permanently deleted now...
For those who disabled GIFs in their browser, here are pictures that together form the whole webpage of the question: One, two, three. ...
@GarethMcCaughan Sorry for the (very) slow response to the question about homework. Here's a relevant meta question. The upshot is that there is no official policy on homework questions.
makes sense, i guess. though i'm curious - there was a 100 bounty posted by a puzzle setter, and then halfway through the time, i was awarded 50 points by "Community" and the OP's bounty vanished. how does that work?
@Rubio OP didn't manually award the bounty, so the accepted answer gets half of the bounty. If there's no accepted answer, I think it's by the number of upvotes. And if that also fails, the answer that was posted earlier. Let me find the source for this to make sure I'm not telling you nonsense :P
> If you do not award your bounty within 7 days (plus the grace period), the highest voted answer created after the bounty started with a minimum score of 2 will be awarded half the bounty amount. If two or more eligible answers have the same score (their scores are tied), the oldest answer is chosen. If there's no answer meeting those criteria, no bounty is awarded to anyone.
Ц А З А
10110 00000 00111 00000
0 1 1 0 0
0000 00F(D or b) FF00 0003 0000
0000 00F(D or b) FF01 0002 0000
Top line is 4 separated single letters of russian alphabet (Ц - 24 letter in alphabet, А - 1, З - 9).
Any ideas what's the logic here?
UPD It's just c...
@Rubio Via Google Cache I figured out the date it was started by hovering over "in 2 days": ""started at 2016-10-17 23:25:52Z; ending at 2016-10-24 23:25:52Z"
@LukasRotter There are a few possibilities. "Rule violations", "voting irregularities", "plagiarism", "to cool down", "promotional content" are the ones I can remember offhand - not sure if there are others.
@Randal'Thor Strange, I remember it also saying "rule violations" on your profile, and therefore people asking what you did to get suspended... But I guess I have a bad memory.
Partial answer
First, click on the image in the question. Hidden behind what you can actually see in the question is a quite different Stack.Imgur image:
This image contains two five-character codes. Each of these yields a Stack.Imgur image of its own:
Finally, each one of these two images...
So I was just browsing Puzzling as usual, when I stumbled upon a... to put it mildly, "strange" question:
The question seems to be permanently deleted now...
For those who disabled GIFs in their browser, here are pictures that together form the whole webpage of the question: One, two, three. ...
Ц А З А
10110 00000 00111 00000
0 1 1 0 0
0000 00F(D or b) FF00 0003 0000
0000 00F(D or b) FF01 0002 0000
Top line is 4 separated single letters of russian alphabet (Ц - 24 letter in alphabet, А - 1, З - 9).
Any ideas what's the logic here?
UPD It's just c...
