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Play the Jackpot!
Posted by Pha. Sphinx 6577 from on 2007-09-17 09:47:04
Brought to you by quangntenemy!
Really like the way it's designed. Many thanks and cheers to quangntenemy!
Enjoy! And if you win the Jackpot, remember to share your winnings with quang and us ;)
Update: Added to Level 7.
Update2: Applet upgraded by quangntenemy.
Update3: Problems with ftp'ing...temporarily down.
Update4: Challenge is back ;)
Update5: Another upgrade to the applet by quangntenemy to make the the text colours customisable. Perfect now!
Last edited on 2007-09-20 00:16:34 by Pha. Sphinx
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Huuuuuuu
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Posted by Geb. quangntenemy 1286 from on 2007-09-22 11:17:18 Reply
Congrats to divergentdave for being the first solver! :)
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quangntenemy.blogspot.com
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Posted by Pha. Sphinx 6577 from on 2007-09-22 12:07:48 Reply
Wow...impressive!
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Huuuuuuu
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Posted by Pha. Sapr0 1354 from on 2007-11-05 16:44:57 Reply
finally solved this evil challenge
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Posted by Pha. divergentdave 51 from on 2007-11-08 13:04:21 Reply
Oh, I just noticed I was recognized here. Thanks guys! And welcome to the club, Sapr0.
Congratulations to quang on making an awesome challenge -- there were wrinkles within wrinkles, and figuring out the last bit was a real rush.
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Posted by Geb. ozehka 254 from on 2007-11-08 17:30:13 Reply
Solved! :D
Nice challenge, quangntenemy!
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Posted by Geb. quangntenemy 1286 from on 2007-11-08 17:42:54 Reply
Congrats! That was faster than I expected :P
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Posted by Geb. witzar 14 from on 2015-02-20 19:57:39 Reply
Is it working? I think I have the solution, but it's not being accepted. If someone could take a look, I would appreciate, coz I'm statring to be frustrated with this one. Thx.
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  Posted by Geb. Simonselles 90 from on 2015-02-21 14:15:24 Reply
  Hum... Indeed, there might be a problem. My solution isn't working neither, but maybe I'm missing something I saw mounths ago.
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  Posted by Pha. Sphinx 6577 from on 2015-02-25 14:36:08 Reply
  I will try and contact quangntenemy and see if he can take a look. Maybe you can PM him your solution in the mean time?
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    Posted by Geb. ZetaX 561 from on 2015-02-26 20:43:39 Reply
    Why would this need quangntenemy¿ It sounds like the server does not accept the correct passphrase (which I don't have anymore, so I can't check myself), so this is not an error in the challenge but in the server.
    So I would suggest simply setting the passphrase to whatever it was in the past (assuming you still have it somewhere).
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      Posted by Pha. Sphinx 6577 from on 2015-02-27 01:18:14 Reply
      Will take a look. The solution is static and has not been changed so I didn't suspect it to be the source of the problem.
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      Huuuuuuu
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Posted by Geb. witzar 14 from on 2015-02-25 14:29:41 Reply
Bump
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Posted by Geb. quangntenemy 1286 from on 2015-03-10 01:29:04 Reply
Hi guys,
It's been quite a while and my hard disk crashed (again!) so I don't have the solution with me anymore. However there is a mistake in witzar solution that he sent me via PM and I suppose that was why it wasn't accepted.
It would be great if someone with the correct solution can submit it and confirm.
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  Posted by Geb. Simonselles 90 from on 2015-03-10 10:38:24 Reply
  Hum...
  Maybe I shall look more carefully then.
  
  EDIT:
  Ok, I can confirm the challenge is still working!
  Last edited on 2015-03-10 21:22:25 by Geb. Simonselles
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Posted by Geb. witzar 14 from on 2015-03-25 12:50:01 Reply
Thanks everybody - Sphinx and Simonselles especially - for your help! After a month of struggling I finally realized, that the error actually was on my side! The source of the bug was the Java decompiler I was using - JD, http://jd.benow.ca, which incorrectly decompiled the applet. I switched to another one and it worked at once. Finally :)
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  Posted by Geb. Simonselles 90 from on 2015-03-25 17:47:01 Reply
  That's exactly what I suspected :) Grats for solving this one!
  
  However, I don't know if it's a good idea to detail the problem you had here. I consider it as a part of the challenge ;) (maybe that was not intended though).
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Posted by Geb. witzar 14 from on 2015-03-26 07:09:13 Reply
I don't see how the fact that some Java decompiler(-s?) is buggy can be part of this challenge, but in case it is, my post should be removed.
If the challenge applet purposely deceives some poorly written decompilers making them produce incorrectly working code, then the author is a true devil indeed :)
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Posted by Geb. ZetaX 561 from on 2015-03-26 12:04:19 Reply
The problematic detail is not that there are buggy (de)compilers out there, but that you want to use sich a thing in the first place.
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