Originally posted by: TuxDave
Originally posted by: mobobuff
SVOK MZNVH = HELP NAMES
LET IT OFEI AT is very important, but part of it needs to be changed.
You have all you need right there, the pictures and letters and numbers are no longer important.
Look at what you have, LET IT OFEI AT, look at what makes sense, and change what doesn't make sense.
Level 17 is very easy and amusing (I think the creator intended for the last solvable level to be fun and not so hard).
LET IT
OFEIAT = LUVRAT
What the hell is a luvrat? Whatever.. off to 17. Umm... what's going on here.
Originally posted by: Digobick
You might need to turn up the brightness on your monitor for 17.
Originally posted by: mobobuff
Wow guys, thanks for totalling ruining the last 2 levels for everybody that might've wanted a simple challenge. I gave you those answers in PM for a reason.
Oh well, most everybody was probably sick of it anyway.
And it doesn't matter if you have a sucky monitor, IrfanView or Photoshop could've easily done the job.
Originally posted by: TuxDave
Originally posted by: mobobuff
Wow guys, thanks for totalling ruining the last 2 levels for everybody that might've wanted a simple challenge. I gave you those answers in PM for a reason.
Oh well, most everybody was probably sick of it anyway.
And it doesn't matter if you have a sucky monitor, IrfanView or Photoshop could've easily done the job.
If you looked at the entire thread, it was meant to be a global effort by the entire forums. There are solutions from beginning to end. If you don't want hints, you don't read the thread. If you want help, then go read the thread. Obvious enough.
Originally posted by: mobobuff
Originally posted by: TuxDave
Originally posted by: mobobuff
Wow guys, thanks for totalling ruining the last 2 levels for everybody that might've wanted a simple challenge. I gave you those answers in PM for a reason.
Oh well, most everybody was probably sick of it anyway.
And it doesn't matter if you have a sucky monitor, IrfanView or Photoshop could've easily done the job.
If you looked at the entire thread, it was meant to be a global effort by the entire forums. There are solutions from beginning to end. If you don't want hints, you don't read the thread. If you want help, then go read the thread. Obvious enough.
Hints I'm okay with, but just stating the answer is a bit excessive, especially since you didn't fully discover it in the first place. And it's the last actual level, it's not blatant morse code or a foreign name for a candy bar.
And stop whining out "luvrat", you wouldn't have guessed it anyway so its not being correct english doesn't matter, you only had to do a basic conversion. "luv" is a very common abbreviation (admittedly only used by certain kinds of people). And this is loverat.
Originally posted by: Cogman
please? Im slow, A hint would be nice as well.
Originally posted by: Cogman
sure
I was guessing a light bulb, but that did not work.
Originally posted by: LJHalfbreed
My only problem with luvrat was that, to me, it's really not much of an english word. It would be similar to having something along the lines of "ppl=people" or "gooder=more than good" or some other sort of slang (leet, engrish, etc). Although I should have tried 'luvrat', the simple fact that it didn't look like an actual word (or words) threw me off considerably, and made me think we were still (even after your hints) going about it the wrong way. Although loverat is in an english dictionary, luvrat is not.
Not trying to get all riled up about a small speedbump in a rather great riddle, but after all the logical steps (with a few minor leaps of intuition), it seemed like a such a silly thing to get stalled out due to a slang spelling of a colloquialism.
Great riddle, but still really annoyed with the 'luvrat=loverat' business.
-LJ
PS. Have to admit, I'm rather surprised that nearly all the puzzles seemed to have some sort of connection with music. Does luvrat have one? (Band/song/lyrics)
Originally posted by: TuxDave
Originally posted by: mobobuff
Originally posted by: TuxDave
Originally posted by: mobobuff
Wow guys, thanks for totalling ruining the last 2 levels for everybody that might've wanted a simple challenge. I gave you those answers in PM for a reason.
Oh well, most everybody was probably sick of it anyway.
And it doesn't matter if you have a sucky monitor, IrfanView or Photoshop could've easily done the job.
If you looked at the entire thread, it was meant to be a global effort by the entire forums. There are solutions from beginning to end. If you don't want hints, you don't read the thread. If you want help, then go read the thread. Obvious enough.
Hints I'm okay with, but just stating the answer is a bit excessive, especially since you didn't fully discover it in the first place. And it's the last actual level, it's not blatant morse code or a foreign name for a candy bar.
And stop whining out "luvrat", you wouldn't have guessed it anyway so its not being correct english doesn't matter, you only had to do a basic conversion. "luv" is a very common abbreviation (admittedly only used by certain kinds of people). And this is loverat.
Why are you tripping about this puzzle? It's a freaking puzzle, not a midterm or homework, it's a GAME. Read the entire thread... people gave hints, and when people still got stuck, the hints turned eventually into answers. I gave the hint of the A-Z transformation, someone still didn't get it. Then I basically translated it even further. The last puzzle, someone merely said turn up the contrast. What's wrong with me typing out what you see so that you don't have to do it yourself. mus3.mp3, not everyone wants to take an mp3 and reverse it and speed it up, so they read what happens when someone else did it.
Stop trying to act all special that you figured out question 16 first from the forums. The only thing you can get from solving it first is an online cookie. So let it rest. Geez....
Originally posted by: mobobuff
:roll:
I wasn't looking for praise, if I had been, I would've posted the answer right away to prove that I knew it, and even PMing people with the answer made me feel kinda cheap. I enjoyed doing this puzzle and just thought other people would too without having the answers spoon-fed to them. You'd get mad if someone ruined the ending to a movie you wanted to see, wouldn't you? I'm willing to bet that many people spent more than the average runtime of a movie on this puzzle, I know I did. I never asked for any rewards, I simply stated that I solved it and would give anybody hints in PM if they wanted them. I wanted people to solve it on their own, so obviously I don't want any praise for doing the same thing. Really, I'd think that would've been obvious. No e-cookie for you.
There is no connection between luvrat and the Beatles. "Turn me on deadman" was another "seek-and-ye-shall-find" rumor for another Beatles song played backwards. There were many such rumors, along with the famous "Paul is dead" conspiracy too. This was the creator's way of telling you to flip the mp3 to solve the answer, or to turn false into true.