tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36360371.post839058025448525835..comments2024-03-28T14:53:41.428-07:00Comments on Sons of Steve Garvey: Off-Day Puzzle #6: SolutionSteve Saxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00930320282262607468noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36360371.post-45285004147473949302010-06-15T21:02:03.006-07:002010-06-15T21:02:03.006-07:00@EK
For #4, I think we're even up for those d...@EK<br /><br />For #4, I think we're even up for those declared (counting myself as de facto IT)Nostradamushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03658184241218765280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36360371.post-1728909904546595422010-06-15T17:55:14.690-07:002010-06-15T17:55:14.690-07:00Four random thoughts:
1) Golem, you are a lucky b...Four random thoughts:<br /><br />1) Golem, you are a lucky bastard. And an honest one. I mean that in a good way (the former phrase, not necessarily the latter).<br /><br />2) Sorry about the letter vs character issue, when making the puzzle I cornered myself into leaving only 7 letters for the word and couldn't back out without essentially starting over or shorten to 5 (for 'chars' or something). I tried a few different phrases for the final clue but settled on the one you all saw...I didn't realize it would cause any pain.<br /><br />3) I originally had it as a 4D puzzle, but realized the biggest reasonable 4D size I could make was 5x5x5x5, meaning words would be to 4 and 5 letters long. With so many dimensions and directions a word could go, I couldn't ensure a 4-letter word didn't, by pure coincidence, appear twice. I shuddered at the thought of the (totally justified) protests if I screwed that up. So I downsized to 3D.<br /><br />4) Do we have more attorneys or IT folks?Eric Karroshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04070527828477695509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36360371.post-18275404598339308952010-06-15T15:32:13.860-07:002010-06-15T15:32:13.860-07:00Ah, my solve was not clean! I never found the pat...Ah, my solve was not clean! I never found the pattern in the blanks. I interpreted as follows:<br /><br />1. Get a tinyURL for the puzzle page, http://www.sonsofstevegarvey.com/2010/06/off-day-puzzle-6-3-d-word-search.html<br /><br />2. For the first two characters, read the "blank"s from the tinyURL, i.e. leave them alone. For the last five, replace them with mrfgj. <br /><br />3. The tinyURL I found was http://tinyurl.com/23y2y7k, which gave me http://tinyurl.com/23mrfgj after that transformation in step 2.<br /><br />What a crazy piece of luck that the puzzle's tinyURL was a 7-character string that began with 23!Golemhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17585875452020799587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36360371.post-28543128739053005792010-06-15T14:21:56.319-07:002010-06-15T14:21:56.319-07:00There is a much higher percentage of IT staff here...There is a much higher percentage of IT staff here than in the general population. Coincidence?Nostradamushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03658184241218765280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36360371.post-72038252982112155582010-06-15T14:10:43.645-07:002010-06-15T14:10:43.645-07:00@Josh S - Here you go...
http://tinyurl.com/xmmrf...@Josh S - Here you go...<br /><br /><a href="http://tinyurl.com/xmmrfgj" rel="nofollow">http://tinyurl.com/xmmrfgj</a>Jasonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03029038450777105997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36360371.post-803615693228105842010-06-15T14:09:22.068-07:002010-06-15T14:09:22.068-07:00I swear there were no scripting shenanigans during...I swear there were no scripting shenanigans during Flo v. Deltalina or SoSG March Madness. This was just a case of doing the same math as QuadSevens and doing what we IT people do best, be lazy and have the computer do all the work.<br /><br />Besides:<br />* I'm not here to talk about the past.<br />* {waves finger} I have never used steroids. Period.<br />* {via my attorney} I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic.Jasonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03029038450777105997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36360371.post-63165839828393241352010-06-15T13:44:36.678-07:002010-06-15T13:44:36.678-07:00I'm filing my official protest months later on...I'm filing my official protest months later on behalf of Team Flo ... Jason, who works in IT, obviously used performance-enhancing, uh, scripts to win that contest.<br /><br />/sour grapesKeven Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00698949190503548367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36360371.post-717571166874750142010-06-15T12:57:17.512-07:002010-06-15T12:57:17.512-07:00Jason said: "* an article on racist crayons&q...Jason said: "* an article on racist crayons"<br /><br />Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.Josh S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06838578298386299922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36360371.post-47734796611091954742010-06-15T12:05:40.083-07:002010-06-15T12:05:40.083-07:00I first got the facebook page of one Eran Pasterna...I first got the facebook page of one Eran Pasternak.MR.Fhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04179563442472628174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36360371.post-78336560546961363392010-06-15T11:57:15.586-07:002010-06-15T11:57:15.586-07:00@Greg - That's the thing, I am in IT so, theor...@Greg - That's the thing, I am in IT so, theoretically I should know better.<br /><br />I actually wrote a little script that tried every letter combination for the first two and hit them all looking for something baseball related. Unfortunately I didn't include numbers as possibilities so it didn't really help but that is how I discovered such gems as:<br /><br />* idealady.com<br />* an article on environmentally safe ways to eliminate cockroaches in NYC<br />* an article on racist crayons<br />* the previously mentioned porn siteJasonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03029038450777105997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36360371.post-63257752004645467522010-06-15T11:40:51.175-07:002010-06-15T11:40:51.175-07:00@Jason
Just tell IT that you didn't mean to l...@Jason<br /><br />Just tell IT that you didn't mean to look at porn, you were just solving a puzzle for an online sports blog. They'll understand.Greg Finleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06005875920306936097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36360371.post-21777103298009026742010-06-15T10:56:21.435-07:002010-06-15T10:56:21.435-07:00I started to go through all the possible combinati...I started to go through all the possible combinations of letters for the "first two" at one point. After "ad" I realized that 26 squared was 676 and gave up.QuadSevenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08475822200657721538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36360371.post-2144541995314280562010-06-15T10:35:52.095-07:002010-06-15T10:35:52.095-07:00First I realized the blanks made some sort of patt...First I realized the blanks made some sort of pattern. Then I realized that they could be letters in 3D. Then both combinations of the letters Z and E did not work and I realized they were 2's and 3's. By that time I forgot the clue was that they were letters.MR.Fhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04179563442472628174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36360371.post-84815207800472590222010-06-15T09:45:21.516-07:002010-06-15T09:45:21.516-07:00Yeah, I was looking for letters.Yeah, I was looking for letters.Mr. LA Sports Czarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08973447602451236780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36360371.post-6127079371209215172010-06-15T09:27:51.089-07:002010-06-15T09:27:51.089-07:00I got to the same online German newspaper (Welt On...I got to the same online German newspaper (Welt Online) by following instructions (blank letters being spaces). Also to another one by trying "00" for two blank letters. My other 51 attempts just led to errors. However, I did not think of visualizing the blanks in the puzzle for "read blanks", which is the crucial lateral thinking needed. If I had done so, I'm sure I would have "seen" the 23 and tried it out, so I can't blame numbers-for-letters for anything. It's not as if I saw the 23 and rejected it.berkowit28https://www.blogger.com/profile/08194317697552106140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36360371.post-35810033191057269342010-06-15T09:14:19.061-07:002010-06-15T09:14:19.061-07:00Mr. F, G(ood) J(ob).
What? It wasn't a perso...Mr. F, G(ood) J(ob).<br /><br />What? It wasn't a personal message to me?MR.Fhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04179563442472628174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36360371.post-68764319648383762522010-06-15T09:12:55.389-07:002010-06-15T09:12:55.389-07:00^This just in, having an iPad has made me a terrib...^This just in, having an iPad has made me a terrible speller. Random is what we're looking for.Nostradamushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03658184241218765280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36360371.post-35759566157870442722010-06-15T09:10:32.561-07:002010-06-15T09:10:32.561-07:00@Josh
True, but MRFGJ seems appropriately randon,...@Josh<br /><br />True, but MRFGJ seems appropriately randon, I just went on a hunch, I guess.Nostradamushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03658184241218765280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36360371.post-77418731350073214422010-06-15T09:07:24.800-07:002010-06-15T09:07:24.800-07:00I got the German newspaper and immediately after w...I got the German newspaper and immediately after wards an attempt led me to a porn site. That got me into some trouble at work.Jasonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03029038450777105997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36360371.post-48631639500047528092010-06-15T09:02:48.817-07:002010-06-15T09:02:48.817-07:00Did anyone else get the website with the picture o...Did anyone else get the website with the picture of T-Pain? That led me to check if anyone was using T-Pain as their walk-up music.<br /><br />Mr. C: You can customize TinyURLs too, so it was a sizable sticking point for me.Josh S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06838578298386299922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36360371.post-53026584714113606792010-06-15T08:59:49.586-07:002010-06-15T08:59:49.586-07:00I did have a semantic quibble with the numbers/let...I did have a semantic quibble with the numbers/letters, but I've never had a tinyurl come through with all alpha characters, so I didn't waste too much time on that wild goose chase.Nostradamushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03658184241218765280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36360371.post-67500962375366628972010-06-15T08:58:11.988-07:002010-06-15T08:58:11.988-07:00I got the German online newspaper about 4 differen...I got the German online newspaper about 4 different times.Josh S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06838578298386299922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36360371.post-88772291226702110612010-06-15T08:51:52.015-07:002010-06-15T08:51:52.015-07:00The closest I got to solving this is led me to a w...The closest I got to solving this is led me to a website that was selling camera batteries, and a German online newspaper.<br /><br />That is to say, not close...Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12451199428582033589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36360371.post-9165479261574795622010-06-15T08:46:27.934-07:002010-06-15T08:46:27.934-07:00I'm sure I wasn't the only one hindered by...I'm sure I wasn't the only one hindered by being told to look for letters when we were supposed to look for numbers.<br /><br />It's kind of like saying the solution to the puzzle is a Dodger: Derek Jeter.Josh S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06838578298386299922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36360371.post-82689888003441290002010-06-15T07:50:13.714-07:002010-06-15T07:50:13.714-07:00oh man
even the solutions hurt my feeble brainoh man<br />even the solutions hurt my feeble brainFred's Brimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06689859663838105360noreply@blogger.com