Puzzling Program!

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  • Xenorosth
    FFR Player
    • Sep 2009
    • 224

    #1

    Puzzling Program!

    In short, this is a small black box for a program (ugly I know) I plan to make that will consist of a massive collection of these.

    Anyway. HERE is a program I made in java. It hides a sentence. You put something in, it spits it out.

    There are a few bits of information that I will give you.

    1. The answer is a sentence that ends in a period.

    2. And incorrect characters will result in massively distorted results to itself, and minorly distorted results to the character left and right.

    If the answer is cat and you put in cct, you get dgu. (2 character away results in the left character character being off by 1, the middle character being off by 4, and the right character off by 1).

    First 3 people to private message me with the correct sentence will receive a credit prize!

    Each one will get 30k credits! Good luck. You'll need it.

    In short, this is an experiment, just to see how well a puzzle like this would work/how easy it is to solve.
  • YoshL
    Celestial Harbor
    FFR Simfile Author
    FFR Music Producer
    • Aug 2008
    • 6156

    #2
    Re: Puzzling Program!

    "this is only the beginning."


    Originally posted by Charu
    Only yours, for an easy price of $19.99! You too can experience the wonders of full motion rump sticking.

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    • evanescence_death4ever
      where'sTHEdrain?!
      • Jun 2007
      • 610

      #3
      Re: Puzzling Program!

      Welp. I'm dumb I don't know how to open it.
      #charu4president2016

      "Life is always downhill, everyone is heading towards death every day. It's up to you to look for the hills you can climb up instead
      Or something
      I just made that up but it sounds good" ~alloyus~

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      • inDheart
        Picker @ JAX2
        FFR Simfile Author
        • Aug 2011
        • 505

        #4
        Re: Puzzling Program!

        grats yoshl

        my strat was notepad

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        • Charu
          Snivy! Dohoho!
          FFR Simfile Author
          • Mar 2006
          • 6161

          #5
          Re: Puzzling Program!

          "this is only the ending."


          Originally posted by JohnRedWolf87
          Charu the red-nosed Snivy
          Had a very shiny nose
          And if you ever saw it
          You could even say it glows

          All of the other Snivies
          Used to laugh and call him names
          They never let poor Charu
          Join in any Snivy games

          (Click the arrow to see the rest)


          Originally posted by Vendetta21
          All in all I would say that Charu not only won this game, his play made me reconsider how I play it.

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          • YoshL
            Celestial Harbor
            FFR Simfile Author
            FFR Music Producer
            • Aug 2008
            • 6156

            #6
            Re: Puzzling Program!

            Originally posted by inDheart
            grats yoshl

            my strat was notepad
            tyty

            when you have
            Code:
            private String code = "this is only the beginning.";
            it's like, ok, nice puzzle


            Originally posted by Charu
            Only yours, for an easy price of $19.99! You too can experience the wonders of full motion rump sticking.

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            • Xenorosth
              FFR Player
              • Sep 2009
              • 224

              #7
              Re: Puzzling Program!

              Originally posted by YoshL
              "this is only the beginning."

              Fair enough. XD I meant it to be a private message though. I didn't know you could open up jars like that though. If I did, it'd have saved me in a loooot of jams. How did you open it?

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              • Reincarnate
                x'); DROP TABLE FFR;--
                • Nov 2010
                • 6332

                #8
                Re: Puzzling Program!

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                • Reincarnate
                  x'); DROP TABLE FFR;--
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 6332

                  #9
                  Re: Puzzling Program!

                  BACK TO THE BEGINNING

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                  • inDheart
                    Picker @ JAX2
                    FFR Simfile Author
                    • Aug 2011
                    • 505

                    #10
                    Re: Puzzling Program!

                    Originally posted by Xenorosth
                    Fair enough. XD I meant it to be a private message though. I didn't know you could open up jars like that though. If I did, it'd have saved me in a loooot of jams. How did you open it?
                    literally just



                    alternate solution: strings
                    Last edited by inDheart; 07-24-2016, 11:29 PM.

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                    • Xenorosth
                      FFR Player
                      • Sep 2009
                      • 224

                      #11
                      Re: Puzzling Program!

                      Originally posted by inDheart
                      literally just



                      alternate solution: strings
                      Notepad++ gives me a bunch of scrambled text. I can't read it. D:

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                      • AutotelicBrown
                        Under the scarlet moon
                        FFR Simfile Author
                        • Jan 2014
                        • 923

                        #12
                        Re: Puzzling Program!

                        A .jar is compressed, you'd have to decompress using 7zip or something similar before getting the actual text.
                        Last edited by AutotelicBrown; 07-25-2016, 01:55 AM.
                        Play my files

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                        • Xayphon
                          sausage
                          FFR Simfile Author
                          • Nov 2008
                          • 1630

                          #13
                          Re: Puzzling Program!

                          I dont think this belongs into FFR Events xd

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                          • DaBackpack
                            ~ お ま ん こ ~
                            • Mar 2014
                            • 918

                            #14
                            Re: Puzzling Program!

                            yeah if you want to do something like this and prevent what YoshL and co. did, .jars are really easy to open

                            I would recommend choosing a different compiled language, but even C is easy-ish to reverse engineer if you have the right tools

                            honestly I would recommend embedding this in some kind of web app ---

                            server computer (yours) does all of the computing in secret, and the client side manages answer requests and stuff

                            cool idea though, would be interested in seeing more!

                            EDIT: You can still use Java for serverside code if you use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaServer_Pages

                            EDIT EDIT: Final option would be using a code obfuscator but I think there are ways to decode plaintext strings in code so you'd need to be careful
                            Last edited by DaBackpack; 07-25-2016, 05:54 AM.


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                            no one cares
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                            there are 743 matches for hedgehog suicide on deviantart
                            that's kind of a sad statistic

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                            • FirstMaple8
                              D7 Elite Keymasher
                              • Apr 2016
                              • 565

                              #15
                              Re: Puzzling Program!

                              Quite a nice program

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