[Lee]

Originally Posted by Death by Mirrors

No problem - this way I got to see a completely unique error message no one else has discovered so far ^^

Onward to orange it is then. Trying red red red red.

1 color, 1 location

You did indeed. Your hackerfu is just that good! that'smystoryandi'mstickingtoit

[Lee]

Originally Posted by Lilith Dracania

How do you do this?

If you could be a little more specific about what parts you didn't understand, I could explain it better for you.

[Death by Mirrors]

@Lilith Dracania

Do you know the game Mastermind? It's the same procedure.

There is a secret code you don't know yet. This can be any combination of the colors blue, purple, red and yellow. For example your code might be blue blue red purple. But since you aren't actually told what it is, you need to figure it out by guessing combinations.

Say you guess yellow purple red yellow. Then you receive a reply of 2 colors, 1 location - because when compared with the aforementioned example, there is no yellow in the code you're supposed to guess. There is however a purple and a red, so you already guessed two colors. One of these two, red, is also at the exact location you guessed.

But of course from that alone you can't figure out yet what exactly the correct colors are. That's why you guess again. Say your next guess is yellow yellow red red. Now you have 1 color, 1 location. Whoops - what happened? That purple you took away has to be part of the solution, it seems. You now also know that the code contains either red or yellow, but not both (otherwise you would have gotten 2 correct colors from your second guess). It also neither contains two or more red, or two or more yellow (again, if it did, you'd have received 2 color as a reply).

You decide to go with yellow, and you know for certain there is a purple in there. So your next guess is yellow purple purple purple, which still yields 1 color, 1 location. Now you know that there can't be more than one purple, and also (since you already established the code contains at least one purple) yellow isn't part of the solution. Therefore you know it is one purple, one red, and the rest has to be blue.

You take a look at your first guess again and see either the second color is purple, or the third color is red. You compare it with your second guess. If the second color is purple, then red has to be the fourth, meaning the solution is blue purple blue red. If instead the third color is red, purple has to be the fourth, meaning the solution is blue blue red purple. You don't know yet which of the two possibilities is correct, but you already have a 50% chance of picking the right one. If you do, you solved the puzzle and start over with a new code. If you picked the wrong one of the two by chance, just submit the other with your next guess, and you've also moved on to the next puzzle with a new code.

[Lee]

I'm putting you up on the first page, that explains it a lot better than I did.

[Death by Mirrors]

Alright, time to further prove my 1337 hax0r skillz.

red yellow yellow yellow

[Lee]

Originally Posted by Death by Mirrors

Alright, time to further prove my 1337 hax0r skillz.

red yellow yellow yellow

2 color, 1 location

This is such a close match-up, the Facilitator chose well with you guys.

[Death by Mirrors]

blue red yellow blue

[Lee]

Originally Posted by Death by Mirrors

blue red yellow blue

3 color, 2 location

At this rate, you'll overtake mdom in no time!

[Death by Mirrors]

Mdom and me just happen to be in different time zones. She'll get a head start again once I go to bed. But thanks ^^

blue red purple yellow

[Lee]

Originally Posted by Death by Mirrors

Mdom and me just happen to be in different time zones. She'll get a head start again once I go to bed. But thanks ^^

blue red purple yellow

You have successfully hacked the Orange Firewall. You win 20 Screams and a Vault hint! Now you're on the Yellow Firewall; good luck!

Neck-in-neck, honestly. xD

[Death by Mirrors]

Well, obviously the code has to be yellow yellow yellow yellow for this one. Wait - what do you mean it isn't? xD I'll figure it out anyway.

[Serra Britt]

Purple Blue Yellow Yellow

I'm in third place now, booooo >_<

[Lee]

Originally Posted by Death by Mirrors

Well, obviously the code has to be yellow yellow yellow yellow for this one. Wait - what do you mean it isn't? xD I'll figure it out anyway.

1 color, 1 location

[Lee]

Originally Posted by Serra Britt

Purple Blue Yellow Yellow

I'm in third place now, booooo >_<

3 color, 0 location

[Serra Britt]

Yellow Red Blue Purple

[Kaderin Triste]

Totally should have started differently than I did. lol.
Red red red blue