Smitop

test

it definitely would be possible to do it with a pencil and papper

I wrote a script to deciper it

@Xnero it took me ~10 minutes, but I did it in an apparently over complicated way

@Xnero That is indeed the case

(in fact, I have seen multiple Cisco products use a very similar technique to (poorly) obfuscate some data)

It's not a particularly complex cipher

@Xnero I don't know what that means? There's only one alphabet involved

if you figure out how the cipher works generally you can work around the problem easily

@Xnero somewhat

that is what I was referring to

@Xnero the HTML comment on /unicorn is the helpful comment

i've also tried permutations of monthly visits count

only "visitors" and "visits"

@Wolgwang SO monthly page views aren't listed on stackexchange.com/about though

@RafaelTavares the way I solved it it would be quite hard to solve it without that hint in the source code

    <!--
And another clue as well, that might be useful later:

oh where, oh where has
my unicorn gone? oh where
oh where can she be?
    -->

@Xnero there is a very useful hint on /unicorn

"838.7M", "838M", "839M", "838700000", "838000000", and "839000000" are all rejected

I found the answer but it isn't accepted

I'm stuck on "Approximately how many page views do the Stack Exchange network get per month?" then

and question 7 is grammatically incorrect as well, it should be "does" not "do"

i've tried all possible ways to enter in the number

@RafaelTavares question 7

@Xnero past the second page, you'll know when you get there

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?)

@RafaelTavares I think you need to click the button instead of hitting enter for it to work right

are the answers to the Defender of the Unicorn quiz from last year posted anywhere?

@YaakovEllis Are you sure that you're using the right pronouns for the unicorn everywhere on the second page of the unicorn finding?

@Catija bottom of cdn.sstatic.net/Winterbash/js/wb21-setmeup.js?v=466e8645b422 implements a Konami code checker

@Wolgwang the keycode for the up arrow

38, 38, 40, 40, 37, 39, 37, 39, 66, 65, 13 -> up up down down left right left right B A enter

@Wolgwang looks like you need to hit enter afterwards, judging by the source code

@mickmackusa Then hopefully you aren't winning any moderator elections

looks like it's >=16 in the EU, >=13 elsewhere

@Luuklag you only need to be >=13

@EkadhSingh-ReinstateMonica also winterbash2021.stackexchange.com/hat-dash/leaderboard

winterbash2021.stackexchange.com/hat-dash is a rickroll

maybe it has to be a certain type of flag?

@mickmackusa StackOverflow Teams never have winterbash enabled

i've skipped reviews but don't have thought bubble

first time I looked at that page I got an empty leaderboard with just the White Hat Hall of Fame from last year

huh, now it server errors

winterbash2021.stackexchange.com/hat-dash/leaderboard exists

!!/autoflagged

autoflagged

!!/alive