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Aug 20: Pointless fun or an exercise in hacking

It's Sunday afternoon and nothin' on TV and the weather isn't too nice. It's warm inside, and the web is my oyster. yep, it's time to do a little bit of browsing around.
I popped over to Rachel North London, a good read and an even better writer. Where upon I find that she is talking about a puzzle. A hackers puzzle to be more precise.

So here it is. the link to the hackers puzzle. If you're very good you should be able to do it in 10mins, so they say, I don't know who 'they' are so I wouldn't be able to vouch for them. But to set you mind at rest there are only 23 levels till you see your prize.
I got stuck at ojofuffo but remember who your friends are, Google and wiki they will provide many of the answers. In fact in real life they do help hackers find stuff that you didn't know about.

There you go, have fun. I may post the answers later, but as they said in the X-files, The truth is out there, somewhere if you know where to look and you know what your looking for etc...
I have been having a good look at my stats and have found that a lot of you passers by are looking for the word ojofuffo. Yes wasn't very nice was I ? I didn't provide any answer worst still I didn't even provide any clues as to how I found the answer. That's evil isn't it. But I'm a nice kinda guy and I'll give you a clue.

N I N E T E E N
O J O F U F F O

There, that's it, that's all you need to know except that you do the same for... Oh you know..
There, my deed of the day is done 8-)
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#1 - joanna said:
2006-08-21 03:41 -

The hacker game was fun!

#2 - Mapgie said:
2006-08-25 10:01 -

I actually thought that OJOFUFFO was one of the easier ones (the harder one for me was the pope, because I'd never heard of him before and had to google before I knew what it was on about)

#3 - Andy Rambling 2006-08-25 15:06 -

it was that one that threw me the most. the others there was a quick and easy Google search. ;-)

#4 - joanna said:
2006-08-26 03:38 -

Dpohsbu po uif pkpgvggp hpphmf sbol : )

#4.1 - Andy Rambling 2006-08-26 11:01 -

Gone all cryptic then? :-P

#5 - rabers 2006-09-03 23:46 -

ojofuffo means nineteen by replacing the letters to that previous ones
o becomes n
j becomes i and so on....so
the answer will be twenty in the same way

#5.1 - forex trading said:
2008-07-18 13:37 -

Really thanks for your work. It's good indeed. It's actually very interesting.

#6 - Hunter 2006-09-06 10:56 -

cool yar...
good work... 8-)

#7 - anoop 2006-09-06 11:34 -

that's very cool ...........
really good work...

#8 - AcidfluxX 2006-09-08 06:12 -

u wont believe this... I waz solving this puzzle and I put the word "ojofuffo" in google to search for the relation between the two words and guess what?????!!!!

I hit this page... hahahahahaha!!!!!

its a gr8 game!!!

#9 - vikas said:
2006-09-09 11:36 -

uxfouz

#10 - lbsffn 2006-09-10 13:02 -

Ahmad and Ibrahim , I can see you and watching you... C u / lbsffn

#11 - sam 2006-09-11 08:50 -

very funny

#12 - akshath 2006-09-11 12:44 -

i was googlin 4 the same ting.n i found tis page.

#13 - Mukesh Kumar R 2006-09-13 10:10 -

Really good game... A mind relaxing.... have these kind of games more... and levels also more....

#14 - maverick 2006-09-13 19:26 -

hmmm.. i got stuck on ojjuu.... whatever it was .. lol... ;-) ..
rest were pretty easy ...

hmm.... sos why are u reading this ???? ... liar liar pants on fire !!!

#15 - chloe 2006-09-16 16:07 -

many thanks to u and this page ;-)

#16 - Dhruv Lilaramani 2006-09-17 18:24 -

Hacker game was a lot of fun..Well, came to this page to for ojofuffo (or Nineteen)..Many thanks to this page..i believe this one was the toughewst to guess.

#17 - Naomi from Australia 2006-09-18 06:05 -

Hahahahhaha I too was googling that word puzzle for the hackers game and found this page!!! Thank you!!! It was doing my head in that I couldnt find the answer!! ahhh...such a relief!!

x

#18 - abhilash 2006-09-20 10:40 -

Here are the answers
9-d neun
10-d oct
11-d jack
12-d tWeLvE
13-d 169
14-d number14
15-d quince
16-d lincoln
17-d septendecim
18-d 10010
19-d potassium
20-d uxfouz
21-d icosihenagon
22-d 17711
23-d Woody
:-P

#19 - SPW said:
2006-09-21 13:18 -

try this swissquiz, we made it two months ago, good luck

www.schnuderoderchoder.ch

#20 - Angelos 2006-09-27 17:03 -

I got stuck on "sept" - as it came right after "acht-->neun", I was sure it MUST be French and tried umpteen possibilities before the coin fell in. "Buchanan" stumped me for a bit, too (I kept thinking of Pat B.), until great big wonderful Google gave me the answer, and if I weren't Greek by birth I probably wouldn't have gotten 'icosihenagon', but 'ojofuffo' was the one that required a bit of cheating. No, I didn't look it up in your blog, but already the Google listings mentioned something about "minus one letter", and that put me on the right track. All that on taxpayers' money, as I am an underworked civil servant...

#21 - ajayprem narain 2006-10-17 11:24 -

Enjoyed doing the hackers puzzle It was fun ...................... :-)

#22 - abdul rashid 2007-05-29 07:50 -

very interesting puzzle..make me headache but at last i feel very satisfied.it combination all knowledge and crack my brain to solve it..if have any puzzle please let me know.

#23 - NEO 2007-05-30 06:11 -

THE HACKER PUZZLE WAS PRETTY GUD........
I THOUGHT 13th page was the best..
8-)

#23.1 - swetha 2007-05-31 12:25 -

just toooo good

#23.1.1 - Ace 2008-07-08 05:17 -

When is the next set of puzzles coming? I love this type of stuff.


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