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Devinettes app has about 3 or 4 riddles that I haven't been able to crack in 8 years.
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.workingagenda.devinettes/
It gives no answers or hints, just reports 'correct' if you type the right answer in.
I think if I tried that, it would only be a day or two before I went digging into the source code.
I think they are hashed
So due to the nature of it beeing riddles it is quite possible the answer is bugged and the hash wrong. But because nobody "knows" they have the solution nobody can say it is a bug.
Hmm.
Rainbow tables...
I think you're better off with a literal dictionary attack. Knock yourself out: https://github.com/fenimore/devinettes-android/blob/master/app/src/main/java/com/workingagenda/devinettes/RiddleCollection.java It's just SHA-1 of the UTF-8 representation of the answer.
Note that the riddles, unlike the software, are under CC-BY-NC-ND.
Interesting. Looks like it can accept multiple variations on each answer. I was wondering about that
I'm not actually going to do it, but I like the system design
Cool app! I tried it and I have 7 riddles to go. Which ones have you not cracked yet?
Edit: a little break helped, 4 to go!
I'd say, your 4 are in this 6:
Name your heroine after me.
Name me the skin
Without this common currency
Without you I am incomplete 1
Without you I am incomplete 2
This: Brought by man
- PS, I am not looking for any answers here at all. (Spoiler-tags do not work in several clients)
I'm fine solving these 15yrs later or not at all. The unsolved ones are good for campfires, or travelling through other countries.
Actually only one of them is in that list. I'm still missing:
- Name me the skin (like you said)
- Recursion here
- My warmth connects
I was stuck on Where, close at hand too but I got that one last night.
I got the other ones on day one, hopefully it won't take me another 15 years to get the remaining three.
Are those 6 the ones you're still missing? I won't give any answers, that wouldn't be much fun.
I am a non-native speaker (Dutch), I wonder if that's helping or hindering me...
This is my 3rd phone, since solving them the first time, so I just went through and got the ones I remember.
I'm glad the other 5 of 6 are solvable. Thanks for confirming that.
Looks like 'Name me the skin' is the hardest one of all.
I'm pretty sure you will get the other 2 in a couple of days.
The 'skin' question... ~5-10 years ? (c:
Now I really want to figure out that skin one 😋.
Out of the six you listed, the Without you I am incomplete-set is probably the easiest one.
I think I like the common currency one best, it's very clever in my opinion (but not necessarily the hardest one).
"failed to install due to unknown error" :(
Do you feel like posting the riddles here?