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Topic: ApopheniaBTC - Bet and solve the challenges to win BTC. - page 3. (Read 58241 times)

hero member
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You should automate the process of adding new puzzles, instead of manually adding them everytime.
Why not code up a queue (and put a set of puzzles in it) so that once someone has solved the picture, or the picture has expired, it automatically publishes the next puzzle for you?

Yeap I want to do that too actually.

Here's something different:


No hint this time! Could be item/person/title or even anything else.

Wow, no clue on this one. Maybe a screw or something? I could convince myself I see threads...

Btw, where are you pulling these images from? Your own personal collection or from around the web?

Dang, I just tried "bull terrier." I thought for sure that was going to be it.
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You should automate the process of adding new puzzles, instead of manually adding them everytime.
Why not code up a queue (and put a set of puzzles in it) so that once someone has solved the picture, or the picture has expired, it automatically publishes the next puzzle for you?

Yeap I want to do that too actually.

Here's something different:


No hint this time! Could be item/person/title or even anything else.

Wow, no clue on this one. Maybe a screw or something? I could convince myself I see threads...

Btw, where are you pulling these images from? Your own personal collection or from around the web?
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Vanity of vanities; all is vanity...
You should automate the process of adding new puzzles, instead of manually adding them everytime.
Why not code up a queue (and put a set of puzzles in it) so that once someone has solved the picture, or the picture has expired, it automatically publishes the next puzzle for you?

Yeap I want to do that too actually.

Here's something different:


No hint this time! Could be item/person/title or even anything else.
sr. member
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You should automate the process of adding new puzzles, instead of manually adding them everytime.
Why not code up a queue (and put a set of puzzles in it) so that once someone has solved the picture, or the picture has expired, it automatically publishes the next puzzle for you?
legendary
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Here's the latest one:


Looks like I didn't see all the posts here. I'll read through them and answer after I take some sleep!

Honestly no clue. It looks like a ship, or some part of a weird shaped knife.
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Congrats to whoever got the latest image correct Smiley Great eye...my current guesses weren't anywhere close to that Tongue

I keep hoping I'll have an epiphany and know exactly what is under the distortion, but no luck so far...
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Vanity of vanities; all is vanity...
I just came across your thread/site today. I really like this game/idea. I'm looking forward to trying to solve some of these. I was getting tired of the traditional gambling games, and this one isn't just luck. Thanks!
Your site is really awesome!. This site is very different from other gambling sites. You give a the newest games and fun, I really enjoyed and liked gambling. And may the fore you provide features that can support the users
Just checked out your game, seems like a fun and unique idea! Will be trying it out soon.
BTW, do you know the reason I first came to Bitcointalk? To comment on this thread! Here.

Thank you!

This is no fair! You said something along the lines of 'keep it simple' in the box where you put the answer; this had been the case for the potato chips...

Looks like someone got it! Well, you clearly say "make it simple" on the answer field... And that's what 2nd and 3rd option tell us Cheesy

So how is 'planner' wrong, when you've got 'day planner' as a valid answer? Tongue Fair enough that you didn't call it a diary or a journal, but a "red toyota" is right but a "toyota" is wrong when you clearly stated keep it simple? Reminds me of that replicate/replicabe accident a while ago...


Yes it's a pain sometimes. How detailed an answer is, is such an subjective thing so it's sort of expected that I will fail to always agree with the player-base in whether something was too detailed or not. Here's how I try to think: I generally try to take synonyms from wikipedia and such. And then I may add some even simpler ones. So for example in some other cases the equivalent of just "planner" could have been added, depending on whether I think it's too general. Wikipedia helps a lot because if often lists USA, British or Australian variants that I've never heard of.

So basically here's two examples:

Not enough info: plant   /    planner, pages
Correct answers: aloe, aloe plant, aloe vera plant  /   daily planner, personal planner, year planner, agenda
Too much info: plant in pot, aloe in pot   /   open agenda, empty agenda

In the case of chips as I said I would like to have had added more correct answers though.

You know, I might actually add a tip on the answer form that says "Check wikipedia" because I often use it to find synonyms or alternatives. Don't take this as a rule though. It doesn't HAVE to be from wikipedia.

I see what looks like dates in there (Wednesday - 24, Thursday - 25), maybe it's a calendar, schedule, or day-planner of some kind? I like the journal guess, I think that's what I would have guessed as well.

Haha damn, I totally had it right :-P If only I had the balls to make that guess...although I might have spelled it "dayplanner" or "day-planner" which wouldn't have counted I guess? That is one of the tough parts of this game, getting the spelling and/or syntax correct.

If anyone wants to tip me a little commission for helping them win the pot, just let me know and I'll give you my bitcoin address Wink

dayplanner would have been wrong, it's not a proper word I think. "day-planner" would have been converted to "day planner" and accepted though. Pretty sure I remove dashes and other symbols from answers.

Hi OP, I've got a question for you. You know the address name you give to the pictures, like apopheniabtc.com/processed/27f41fd9ca6c6b793f403f46f2c9490294ad590ddc97765bb0c7782b9cece868, the part where I bolded seems like a SHA 256 hash. Is it of any significance, like serving as an anti-tampering/probably fair proof?

Doesn't mean anything useful really. It's the SHA256 of the input file (the picture that was not black and white). I could start publishing those pictures but it wouldn't make anything provably fair. It would simply prove that I had this picture all along. It wouldn't prove that the processed versions are based on that picture from the start and it would certainly not prove that I don't cheat by giving the correct answers to a "friend" or that I don't play myself. Unfortunately I don't think the last point can be ever provably fair. Someone had suggested that I fix the first point and make it provable that the distorted images are based on the same image that you see "clearly" at the end. That could probably be done in a few ways but the possibility of me cheating sort of makes that feature useless. If I wanted to cheat I would cheat directly, no real point in me just making the game harder for legit players by changing pictures behind the scenes. What would that accomplish? Players can actually detect that if they for example store the picture every 15 minutes or so so that they get the whole series of changes and review them later.  Huh (PS: You will not be able to find my pictures on the internet by searching for the SHA)
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I just came across your thread/site today. I really like this game/idea. I'm looking forward to trying to solve some of these. I was getting tired of the traditional gambling games, and this one isn't just luck. Thanks!
hero member
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Vanity of vanities; all is vanity...
Here's the latest one:


Looks like I didn't see all the posts here. I'll read through them and answer after I take some sleep!
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This is no fair! You said something along the lines of 'keep it simple' in the box where you put the answer; this had been the case for the potato chips...

Looks like someone got it! Well, you clearly say "make it simple" on the answer field... And that's what 2nd and 3rd option tell us Cheesy

So how is 'planner' wrong, when you've got 'day planner' as a valid answer? Tongue Fair enough that you didn't call it a diary or a journal, but a "red toyota" is right but a "toyota" is wrong when you clearly stated keep it simple? Reminds me of that replicate/replicabe accident a while ago...
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I see what looks like dates in there (Wednesday - 24, Thursday - 25), maybe it's a calendar, schedule, or day-planner of some kind? I like the journal guess, I think that's what I would have guessed as well.

Haha damn, I totally had it right :-P If only I had the balls to make that guess...although I might have spelled it "dayplanner" or "day-planner" which wouldn't have counted I guess? That is one of the tough parts of this game, getting the spelling and/or syntax correct.

If anyone wants to tip me a little commission for helping them win the pot, just let me know and I'll give you my bitcoin address Wink
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Your site is really awesome!. This site is very different from other gambling sites. You give a the newest games and fun, I really enjoyed and liked gambling. And may the fore you provide features that can support the users
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31 hours left, with a pot of 11mBTC and 5 wrong answers. Looks like it's a good time to bet, since the required bet is still the same and the pot has grown to a considerable amount. Good luck if you're betting! I might go for 'planner', we'll see when it clears up even more. Screw it, already sent 1.65mBTC to Apop to see if that's correct. TX 41262f2c67d7f35e640841cba948cf2d34097b35be75c80a31b6d2fdc22d9479. Wish me luck bois! Confirm, ya piece of sh!t!

Aaaaannndd... the answer is "personal organizer" / "day planner" / "personal analog assistant" / "personal planner" / "year planner" / "agenda".
Not so sure if my bet "planner" wins though...   Nope  Sad (But didn't you say "keep it simple" or something like that?)
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a section in bold look like shape of hiragana or katakana. don't know what note but maybe have something related into japanese letter 
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Hi OP, I've got a question for you. You know the address name you give to the pictures, like apopheniabtc.com/processed/27f41fd9ca6c6b793f403f46f2c9490294ad590ddc97765bb0c7782b9cece868, the part where I bolded seems like a SHA 256 hash. Is it of any significance, like serving as an anti-tampering/probably fair proof?
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Here's the new one then!


Really don't understand why everybody thinks its a notebook. OR even a fire extinguisher. It looks more like a bird to me.

Lol. That was the previous one, which was solved. It was actually a plant (Aloe vera, iirc). P.S. I thought it was a fire extinguisher when the pic was waaay more distorted than now. (Guessing what the pic is on here can make that person look very stupid when it turns out to be totally something else)

This is the current one:



Looks like a diary or a day-planner...

Edit: screw this, I'm guessing/betting diary. Wish me luck!

Edit2: Damn, 'diary' is wrong. The hunt for the correct answer continues...
legendary
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Here's the new one then!


Really don't understand why everybody thinks its a notebook. OR even a fire extinguisher. It looks more like a bird to me.
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I see what looks like dates in there (Wednesday - 24, Thursday - 25), maybe it's a calendar, schedule, or day-planner of some kind? I like the journal guess, I think that's what I would have guessed as well.
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legendary
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At least we know now it's not a book, or a menu... I think it will be much easier to guess when the text gets less distorted.

Isn't it a notebook?

Don't notebooks have spirals, though? I don't see any of them in the pic.

No, why does it have to have spirals though?



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At least we know now it's not a book, or a menu... I think it will be much easier to guess when the text gets less distorted.

Isn't it a notebook?

Don't notebooks have spirals, though? I don't see any of them in the pic.

Edit: Sorry, most of them xD. Or at least most of the top google images results.
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