{"id":4419,"date":"2012-10-22T16:44:57","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T14:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/?p=4419"},"modified":"2024-10-22T10:54:05","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T08:54:05","slug":"embedded-linux-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2012\/10\/22\/embedded-linux-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Embedded Linux Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

During our embedded Linux hacking event in Stockholm on October 20th<\/a> I ran a little contest for the ones who wanted to participate. I created it entirely by myself to allow as many people as possibly to participate with them knowing me or me knowing them etc limiting the fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For your amusement I include the full contest here. If you want to try it out, then make sure you don’t attempt to google for any answers or otherwise use a machine\/computer as a help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"img1\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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\"img2\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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\"img3\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Here I just want to mention that, as is shown in the above example question, ‘ace<\/strong>‘ is the correct character sequence and the letters should then be kept in that order in the final question. Also note that a character sequence can legally contain a dash as well. You will get 16 similar sequences of 1 to 3 letters, and those 16 sequences should be moved around to form the 17th question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"img4\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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… at this point I fired off all the questions one by one at about 15-20 seconds per question. In this blog post I’ll take a shortcut and instead show you the final page I made that showed all questions at once, which I then left displayed for the remainder of the competition time. Click the image to get a full resolution version that is perfectly readable:<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"all\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t<\/button><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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\"the<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

My take away from this contest is that it was harder than I anticipated and took a longer time to crack than I thought. I gave away a few additional clues and hints as the time went by, but in the end I believe there were several persons who were very close to breaking it at almost the same time. In the end, Klas and Jonas<\/strong> presented the correct answer first and won the bottle of Champagne. I’m sure you appreciate their efforts after having tried this yourself!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The answers? Are you really sure? The correct answers and the final question with its answer is available<\/a>…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had a great time creating the competition and I believe the competitors appreciated it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additional trivia: <\/strong>I created the letter sequences for the other alternatives by writing other English phrases and chopped them up, so that they were from actual English and hence possibly more believable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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