Hard puzzle

flava

flava

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Found this puzzle today. For a brief moment I was tempted to give it a try, since by solving it you win $1000 . I won't :D
You can't sleep and feel lucky (EXTREMLY lucky) ... have a look. I would rather try the lottery though ;)
http://webpages.charter.net/rsdotson/
 
You gotta be kidding.

First of all, the screen is so much bigger than my monitor shows that it spills over at the right and the bottom. So I stand no chance of seeing what's going on.

And he wants my solution? So I have to keep track of each move? Riiight.
 
Didn't realize that page was too big, I'm using 1280X1024 resolution. Don't worry, seing the whole page on the screen doesn't help much. ;)
 
flava-what kind of dog is that? It looks like my boxer, kind of. and that game is crazy annoying.
 
got the top half done ,,,cant figgure out how it switches to do the bottom half
taking pics as i go ..let u know how it goes
 
Will the winner REALLY get the cash? Or is the cash offered only because it's near impossible to win? I want proof that the money exists.
 
theres only one way to find out
if you only click in the left hand side you can remove all the top ones (turn off if you prefer)
just click on a square and watch to see if it only turns ones off ,,if it does ,leave it on and go to next one ,,, if you click on one and it turns some off and others on ,,then leave that one off ,,,i can easily get the entire top of puzzel cleared by doing that ,,,,i have no idea how to turn off ones in bottom
come on guys lets do it ,,then use the money ,,(if its true) to buy a kick ass knife,,then we can have a raffle or give away
how about it ????
 
My attention span is too short.....I clicked on 4 boxes, then went to see if the water in the ice cube trays was frozen yet.
 
Ladies and gentlemen, this puzzle was solved a few hours ago. The puzzle was the RSA-640 challenge under disguise :) The solvers won $20000 and used a cluster of 80 Opteron 2.2GHz interconected by a gigabit network, total running time was about 5 months ...
Factoring the RSA-640 (a 640 bit, 193 decimal digits number with only two factors) is several orders of magnitude easier than factoring RSA-1024 numbers (used today to establish secure transactions over the web) so there is no need to worry about using your CC online :D
You can read the article here:

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/news/2005-11-08/rsa-640/
 
Oh, no! :eek: I just came back to this thread to announce I won, I won! but they beat me by mere minutes! Awww ...









:p
 
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