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mypieistasty
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Please help with challenge 1!!! - 2009-07-08 08:20:05
Hi i'm stuck on challenge 1 can anyone give me a hint please??

Also is it caSe SenSiTive?
mypieistasty
(User)
Re: Please help with challenge 1!!! - 2009-07-08 08:49:00
OH GOD!!! I'M ABOUT TO CRY!!!! I CAN'T DO THIS!!!! i've tried every variation possible and now i'm hitting my head against a walll!!!!!! I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS HELP PLEASE!!!

is it something to do with the icon? or the title? or the description??? Please give me a hint?????
CodeX
(User)
Re: Please help with challenge 1!!! - 2009-07-08 12:29:29
read the title then read the question, its that simple
mypieistasty
(User)
Re: Please help with challenge 1!!! - 2009-07-08 23:02:26
I still don't get it. OH DAMN IT! I FEEL SOO STUPID!. =[


and where's the question? for me it seems like a description.
CodeX
(User)
Re: Please help with challenge 1!!! - 2009-07-09 01:00:01
it is
mypieistasty
(User)
Re: Please help with challenge 1!!! - 2009-07-09 01:19:26
is it case sensitive?
CodeX
(User)
Re: Please help with challenge 1!!! - 2009-07-09 02:07:19
doesn't make a difference
mypieistasty1
(Guest)
Re: Please help with challenge 1!!! - 2009-07-09 09:09:37
So it's a number??? =D
AndyBG
(User)
Re: Please help with challenge 1!!! - 2009-07-09 10:39:44
If there are no questions, maybe you have found your answer
mypieistasty
(User)
Re: Please help with challenge 1!!! - 2009-07-10 01:22:28
it's nothing?? i heard it's got something to do with "Face Value", i still don't get that though. =/
CodeX
(User)
Re: Please help with challenge 1!!! - 2009-07-10 02:30:59
your going to kick yourself
mypieistasty1
(Guest)
Re: Please help with challenge 1!!! - 2009-07-10 04:28:05
OH DAMN IT!! i feel so retarded =[. Has it got something to do with "Face Value"? What's it got to do with??? Please give me a hint!!!
maxmouse
(User)
Re: Please help with challenge 1!!! - 2009-07-10 10:12:19
You're trying too hard, calm down... read the question out loud, slowly to yourself a couple of times and take each word in.
mypieistasty
(User)
Re: Please help with challenge 1!!! - 2009-07-10 12:26:03
DAMN IT! i still don't get it!! I read it out loud 6 times and read it EXTREMELY slowly 7 times!! and then i read it more 9 times!!! i've already read it 22 times!! ARGGHHH!! i still don't get it. =[
CodeX
(User)
Re: Please help with challenge 1!!! - 2009-07-10 14:31:33
maybe if you took it at face value you would get it :P
mypieistasty
(User)
Re: Please help with challenge 1!!! - 2009-07-12 09:35:26
2ui? what??
that's not it!!! =[
I still don't get it. =[
CodeX
(User)
Re: Please help with challenge 1!!! - 2009-07-12 19:13:15
try not to break anything when you kick yourself
maxmouse
(User)
Re: Please help with challenge 1!!! - 2009-07-13 11:49:52
I'm trying not to laugh here... but no one can give you anymore help than you have already received.
mypieistasty
(User)
Re: Please help with challenge 1!!! - 2009-07-13 13:03:56
=[ I feel so stupid!! I still can't get it!!! =[
Yesnik
(User)
Re: Please help with challenge 1!!! - 2009-07-13 13:22:22
Aah, this was so fucked up. Once you made it, after thinking your brains out for hours, you feel sorta of stupid for not seeing it right from the beginning.
geeko
(User)
Re: Please help with challenge 1!!! - 2009-07-14 08:05:07
i don get plz plz
maxmouse
(User)
Re: Please help with challenge 1!!! - 2009-07-14 09:42:23
Yesnik, it took you hours? lol...

Ok, have you asked yourself this?

does it say anywhere that the problem is a mathematical problem?
CodeX
(User)
Re: Please help with challenge 1!!! - 2009-07-14 11:43:48
it might help to notice that a certain part of the text is italic, does that give you any ideas?
mypieistasty
(User)
Re: Please help with challenge 1!!! - 2009-07-16 09:35:25
What? There's nothing in italic. =[

oh damn it!!!

Wait... Does it literally mean to the delve into the code?

Oh damnit!! I don't get this!!! ARRGGHH!!!!
CodeX
(User)
Re: Please help with challenge 1!!! - 2009-07-16 20:20:19
you don't have to look into this deeply, in fact you don't have to look into it at all, so you could take it at face value :P
monkop
(User)
Re: Please help with challenge 1!!! - 2009-10-09 20:59:54
You are really gonna kick yourself... Take it literally and you'll understand.
Panuary
(User)
Re: Please help with challenge 1!!! - 2009-10-17 12:31:27
In this challenge, it's not about thinking outside the box.
Rather, try looking at it from a glance and submit your answer. No words or letters necessary; just read the title.

Thanks CodeX for the reference. Anyone still interested, try this side-quest...ion:
What's the difference between assume and presume?
Now apply it to this challenge.

You can do it, never give up.
CodeX
(User)
Re: Please help with challenge 1!!! - 2009-10-17 23:17:04
Never give up, never surrender! If your reading this and haven't done the level then you'll probably laugh (or cry) when you've done it
KingCepheus
(User)
Re: Please help with challenge 1!!! - 2009-10-19 06:19:07
I just did it. They are right, look at it at Face Value. You feel like an idiot that you didn't see it before.
DaymItzJack
(User)
Re: Please help with challenge 1!!! - 2009-10-28 15:47:31
Sadly he never passed it.
maxmouse
(User)
Re: Please help with challenge 1!!! - 2009-10-29 09:49:58
lol... shame.
hambone
(User)
Re: Please help with challenge 1!!! - 2009-11-25 22:32:48
lol this is the funniest thread ever
stuarty
(User)
Re: Please help with challenge 1!!! - 2010-02-21 00:27:39
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ....

What goes ha ha bonk?

A rich frenchman.
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