Rank update! Okay... just for fun, I processed all of the data and posts on this thread to see where everyone stands (rank-wise) in the running for the Grand Prize... So far (taking into account who has solved the most, who has helped the most, who has tried the hardest, who has the best manners, who has accumulated the most eligibility points, who has been given the most eligibility points, who has really tried, who has dropped the most hints, who has given it their all despite chasing red herrings and going off on wild goose chases, who has finally understood the hints, who has used both sides of their brain to the fullest, who has stepped in at the last second to solve the puzzle, who has taken the wildest guesses, who has come up with the most amazing deciphering ideas, who has blown the most gaskets, who has lost the most sleep, who has shown the most devotion to deciphering, who was the fastest at solving the puzzles, who has solved the most puzzles in a row, who has spoon-fed the answer to other players, who has been spoon-fed the answer by other players, who has raced in at the last second and used the answer that someone had just provided without realising that they had just provided it, who has waited for everyone to go to sleep in order to solve the puzzles etc) this is the updated top 10 list of names of who currently has the best chance of winning the grand prize of a Parrot AR. Drone (a cool hover toy!!!) 1. staulcub 2. pajo_ojap 3. cloudcastles 4. cjsbug 5. hiurdin 6. jwcasser 7. Daldaris 8. da shiz wiz 19 9. KoOne23 10.warcrack & speed4mee Note: This list may change depending on how the rest of the contest continues... As you can see (if you look through this thread)... we've had quite a shuffle of names as we've progressed through this contest! So you never know! You've got to be in it for a chance at the Grand Prize! So get in there! If your name hasn't made the list - you need to try harder (you may just be in position 11)! Extra note: You don't need to actually solve the puzzles in order to be eligible... you may earn eligibility by just being helpful in the thread! Good luck everyone! Be on the look out for more puzzles!! (Can't be many left now!)
Contest Auto-message from garbot1: Unbelievable! You deciphered my 58th encrypted data packet! Thank you - you deserve a reward! To claim your prize, you need to be the first person to post the following to the official Hover World Alternate Reality Game thread at TouchArcade.com: 1. Password: DIVERSIONISAGREATPASSTIME!_MEM_RECOVER_58 2. Precise details of how you found this page (be sure to mention this URL "contest.ezone.com/wholesome")! 3. At this point you have a choice: You can claim which Ezone.com app you would like as a prize, and earn SOME eligibilty points - which go towards your chance of winning the grand prize (A really cool hovering Parrot A.R.Drone). or You can forfeit the Ezone.com app prize, and earn EVEN MORE eligibility points towards your chance of winning the grand prize. or You can be really nice and selfless, and forfeit the Ezone.com app prize AND nominate another Hover World Alternate Reality Game thread member to have their eligibility points increased SOME (this in turn will earn you MORE eligibility points!) Good karma and all that! PLEASE NOTE: Once YOU nominate someone - YOU can't nominate them again for the duration of the contest... Unless you've nominated everyone once already! Well, what are you waiting for? Hurry up, someone else may be posting the winning entry right now!! mem
Lucky for me my phone beeped as garbot message came in. (I still haven't got the automation working reliably yet, but in this case it worked.) Again capitalization got me. I swear I tried all lowercase and upper case and capital case and camel case and I just plain ran out of cases. I had the word wholesome for almost from the start but again it didn't work directly so I let myself be led astray. Ran out of things to try and knew it was the right answer so went back to it. I then retried (apparantly it wasn't a retry) lowercase again and viola. I bet I caught staulcub napping. Otherwise I'm sure he would have had this one figured out about the same time I did but he would have made sure to do lowercase right away. I nominate....well I guess I will start my nominations over again and give cloudcastles the nod.
It looks like there is one more puzzle left according to the graphic 0 to 100 scale. But its off to bed again for myself. Hopefully no new puzzles until either much later today or tomorrow would be fine.
You are right. I succumbed to my lack of sleep. Just trying to figure out how you could be able to start your nominations over again without nominating me, as I had to with you on the last one I solved.
Well good work and welcome. I don't know how much of the thread you may or may not have read but just incase you hadn't realized that was solved a few responses after it was posted by non other than our very own staulcub. If you did realize this, than go for the rest if the puzzles and see if you can figure them out. I don't want to say that you are late to the party but I belive we are nearing the end of this contest. Either way again welcome to garbots groupies.
!!! Congrats pajo!!! Excellent!!! Wow! I can't believe staulcub missed that one... I guess he does need to sleep! According to the 0 - 100 memory reconstruction chart it looks like there might be two more puzzles to go (that would make it a nice round 60 puzzles all up... sounds good)! I hope the completion of my memory-reconstruction leads me to getting out of this room, and discovering exactly who I am and what my purpose is... ... so far it seems as if my purpose is as a puzzle finder... not the worst purpose to be sure... still... I was hoping for a much grander purpose... ... anyway... ... we shall see...
Rank update! Okay... just for fun, I processed all of the data and posts on this thread to see where everyone stands (rank-wise) in the running for the Grand Prize... So far (taking into account who has solved the most, who has helped the most, who has tried the hardest, who has the best manners, who has accumulated the most eligibility points, who has been given the most eligibility points, who has really tried, who has dropped the most hints, who has given it their all despite chasing red herrings and going off on wild goose chases, who has finally understood the hints, who has used both sides of their brain to the fullest, who has stepped in at the last second to solve the puzzle, who has taken the wildest guesses, who has come up with the most amazing deciphering ideas, who has blown the most gaskets, who has lost the most sleep, who has shown the most devotion to deciphering, who was the fastest at solving the puzzles, who has solved the most puzzles in a row, who has spoon-fed the answer to other players, who has been spoon-fed the answer by other players, who has raced in at the last second and used the answer that someone had just provided without realising that they had just provided it, who has waited for everyone to go to sleep in order to solve the puzzles etc) this is the updated top 10 list of names of who currently has the best chance of winning the grand prize of a Parrot AR. Drone (a cool hover toy!!!) 1. staulcub 2. pajo_ojap 3. cloudcastles 4. cjsbug 5. hiurdin 6. jwcasser 7. Daldaris 8. da shiz wiz 19 9. KoOne23 10.warcrack & speed4mee Note: This list may change depending on how the rest of the contest continues... As you can see (if you look through this thread)... we've had quite a shuffle of names as we've progressed through this contest! So you never know! You've got to be in it for a chance at the Grand Prize! So get in there! If your name hasn't made the list - you need to try harder (you may just be in position 11)! Extra note: You don't need to actually solve the puzzles in order to be eligible... you may earn eligibility by just being helpful in the thread! Good luck everyone! Be on the look out for more puzzles!!
I actually did think about nominating you since you nominated me. It probably would have been the fair thing to do. But even before you nominated me I had thought about who I was going to nominate when I ran out of names. the method to my madness was that I was thinking of just nominating the same people in the same order I nominated them before. Then I thought well I'm nor going to catch staulcub so maybe the better answer was to give someone a shot at catching me. Therefore the nod and nomination to cloudcastle. I actually had another goal in mind and that was to see if by judiciously picking the right person doubling up another set in the top 10, we could than have 12 people listed in the top 10. I decided that was to hard. Since there also appeared(s) to be one more puzzle left I had figured if I do get the answer first that by all rights would than nominate you. Not so much that I would be close to catching you but that you deserve the acknowledgement of your position/ranking. Otherwise I was banking on you solving it. So please don't feel I snubbed you or anything. That wasn't my intent and hopefully as you see I put some thought into my actions. Well that got longer winded than I intended so onward and good luck in the remaining puzzles.
Thanks for the heads up. I just got the notice on my phone right after my Daughters Band Concert finished. So I got on the road and headed home. I will hopefully be ready for it when it comes. I need to do a thing or two first.
