[ninsiana]

Name: The Beauty and the Hacker
URL: http://user.it.uu.se...a/hackerbeauty/
Walkthrough URL: none as of yet
Online/Download? Online
Platform: WIN and MAC
Description: A mixture of logic, puzzles, text, and adventure. Advance by inputting the right codeword.

This is a tough one. Found it on nordinho.com (thanks merel!), but I figured, the more heads working on this together the better. So far I have passed 3 levels.

Having broadband helps...

EDIT: I have finished so if anyone needs help, ask.

This post has been edited by ninsiana: 14 September 2005 - 12:55 PM

[Kapma2004]

Ok, I'm really not getting how you play this game. Any help please?

[driB]

I'm in number... ONE!!! (can't make clear for myself even one of riddles)
But... dont' spoil for now.

[ninsiana]

Read the "manual".

Click "start new game".

Look at the puzzle and then read the text below. Most often, the text below gives you the clues to help solve the puzzle above.

After following the clues and solving the puzzle, you should either figure out or be provided with the passcode to get to the next level.

Gentle hint for first level...

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Use the clues in the text and the puzzle to come up with letters that make a phrase...

Stronger hint:

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That phrase will be a description of an object which is the passcode.

Stronger-er hint:

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The phrase is "a sucker for dust every cleaners must"

Answer:

Spoiler

vacuumcleaner

This post has been edited by Mantari: 02 December 2009 - 08:16 AM
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[ckcharm]

The puzzles can be challenging - I'm on level 2 right now, but I'm liking it so far!

For level 1:

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In order to get the clue in the picture, you have to make each row of digits the next number in binary code. Click around until you get it.

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[inuyasha_91]

i need help on level 4

[Daf]

This game is... strange gotta be careful so you don't get addicted.

[ninsiana]

Hints for level 4...

Spoiler

Have you played around with your inventory?

Spoiler

When you view things in your inventory, do you see something that may fit the puzzle? Perhaps it is too blurry...

Spoiler

You can select the magnifying glass and another item to see things close up.

Spoiler

The license plate number is the key to the puzzle...then answer the riddle.

This post has been edited by Mantari: 02 December 2009 - 08:17 AM
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[inuyasha_91]

it didn´t work..i need help with the question

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[ninsiana]

Hints about Riddle...

Spoiler

The riddle is "Turns water into smoke."

1. The object is often found in public or corporate buildings.
2. When it is working, something is wrong.
3. When it is not working, all is well.
4. If all is well and it is working, something is wrong.

Answer if you are REALLY desparate...

Spoiler

sprinklers

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[ckcharm]

Is there a trick to solving hte puzzle on level 2 - I keep jumping and jumping and never get both of hte balls in the right spot!

[khanh_kangaroo]

how r u suppose to move the ball? i tried drag it, click on it and click squares near it, etc...?

[ckcharm]

You click and drag the ball where you want it to go - but you have to jump over one ball either horizontally or vertically; there can only be one ball between the ball you want to move and where you want to move it to (and where you wan to move it to has to be empty).

[ninsiana]

Is there a trick to solving hte puzzle on level 2 - I keep jumping and jumping and never get both of hte balls in the right spot!

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Yes, there is a trick, and you can find it in the diary below...

[Aziza]

I love this one. It took me forever. I even got the easter egg so I'm happy

[widers]

Riddle 7 is a tough rebus!

Got the last two lines but the first!!

Any hints as to what the objects are or even how the 2 parralell lines between the two letters would be good

Thanks

[Aziza]

For riddle 7,
Basically it breaks down into

Spoiler

What blurs a lover's vision?

Not tears
but

Spoiler

heartbreak

For riddle 9,

Spoiler

Use the picture of Sean's apartment and the magnifying glass

to get a hint of what to do.

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[widers]

hmmmm

Riddle 9 seems so straight forward but i can seem to get the right sequence

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The letter grid is the same as the vlue above but are the objects themselves relevent or just their position?

I have taken the grid position and come up with a series of letters that cannot be rearranged to make a word, i have used the actual objects with the letters and cannot come up with any sensible words.

The Sun Towel is in the box relating to 'F' but overhanging the box 'O', is this relevent? do you use just one or both of those letter cause it still makes no sence when i have tried all combinations

the diary only gives certain obvious reference clues which dont work and have no relevence to the grid and am really stummped as to how they all mesh together to give a coherent answer

Clues would be very welcome

Thanks

W

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[Kimi108]

hmmmm

Riddle 9 seems so straight forward but i can seem to get the right sequence

Clues would be very welcome

Thanks

W

read the clues from day 8 and click on the objects in the same sequence as the clues...

however you might need to type in the last letter 'cause I don't think you can click on it. the last letter will be very obvious when you do get to there

Edit: I need help with Riddle 10... I can't seem to understand what I am suppose to do for that

This post has been edited by Kimi108: 05 October 2005 - 08:03 PM

[Malys]

read the clues from day 8 and click on the objects in the same sequence as the clues...

however you might need to type in the last letter 'cause I don't think you can click on it. the last letter will be very obvious when you do get to there

Edit: I need help with Riddle 10... I can't seem to understand what I am suppose to do for that

well its the neural interface program.

what else have we seen that relies on neural.

check ur diary if all else fails.

[spacekitty23]

i cannot for the life of me get riddle 9!!!! maybe i am just a bit tired as i have just woke up, but i reckon i'm just silly! can someone help pls i got the 1st five letters but maybe i'm wrong? lol

[khanh_kangaroo]

You click and drag the ball where you want it to go - but you have to jump over one ball either horizontally or vertically; there can only be one ball between the ball you want to move and where you want to move it to (and where you wan to move it to has to be empty).

but then it woudn't come with my mouse wen i drag it... the ball is the blue/green and red colored ones rite?

[Greyling]

Yes, you need to get the blue and the red ball to land end up in holes maked blue and red respectively. You can only move one ball at a time and it always has to jump to a free spot/hole by jumping over an adjacent ball which then disappears. It works in the same way as the game "solitaire" (if you know it)


Oh, and any tips on how to move the blue square in riddle 5 would be awfully nice. I know where it's supposed to go, but cannot for the life of me get it to go there

[khanh_kangaroo]

Yes, you need to get the blue and the red ball to land end up in holes maked blue and red respectively. You can only move one ball at a time and it always has to jump to a free spot/hole by jumping over an adjacent ball which then disappears. It works in the same way as the game "solitaire" (if you know it)
Oh, and any tips on how to move the blue square in riddle 5 would be awfully nice. I know where it's supposed to go, but cannot for the life of me get it to go there

lik i get wat ur suppose to do, BUT THE BALL JUST WOULDN'T GO WEN I DRAG IT (

[spacekitty23]

woohoo done riddle 9 now on 11, all the riddle says is mastermind??!!?? lots of diary to read but it doesnt seem to help!!!!!!! please please help me stuck!!!!!!!

done it never mind....onto 12 woohoo lol
done 12 in quick time..even for a person like me (i'm a bit scatty and not a quick thinker lol) onto 13 (looks hard to me!!!!)

This post has been edited by spacekitty23: 06 October 2005 - 08:09 AM

[Aziza]

13 is hard and obviously her phone number is the answer.

khanh_kangaroo, the ball won't move with you. I'l assume you know how solitaire goes.
Just click on the ball, making sure it does not jump over a green and red ball. Drag it over the one blue ball. You should not see the actually ball that you're dragging move, but when you have successfully jumped over the blue ball, it'll just appear there.

And I cannot remember how I solved 5. I just moved the stuff around and I got it. But the answer is

Spoiler

machines

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[khanh_kangaroo]

no luck for me... oh well i'll prrobably just have to giv it up...

[flexia]

Riddle 4 - how do you select the items in your inventory i know you need one to see a code on another but seem to get them to do it??
do you have to selct them in an particular order??

[Rognik]

For a while, the inventory was messing me us, as well. Here's how it works:

To see an item, click it, then click view.
If you want to see something larger, click the magnifying glass with the object, then click view.

For the longest time, I was trying to combine the magnifier with the picture through use, and it wouldn't let me. It didn't seem obvious to try the other.

[Aziza]

no luck for me... oh well i'll prrobably just have to giv it up...

Just type in what I put as the answer.

[ckcharm]

Any hints for passing Riddle 6, with Sokoban? I know I have to get the diamonds in the holes, and I think I know which diamond goes where, but I'm stumped!

[Kimi108]

Any hints for passing Riddle 6, with Sokoban? I know I have to get the diamonds in the holes, and I think I know which diamond goes where, but I'm stumped!

That took me a while to do too kind of evil especially when you have to drag with a mouse..

anyway, the trick is to try to keep the blocks/diamonds AWAY from the outer wall (or anyway that avoid you from moving the bricks back out) as long as possible.

[ckcharm]

I think my problem is that I can't figure out which diamond goes in which hole...this is a REALLY evil riddle!

[Rognik]

I remember that was one of the puzzles I actually solved, but it's pretty difficult. You start by putting one diamond in the bottom on the right, then, I think, you put the two in the top, then other one on the right, then the last two. Make certain you don't trap any of the diamonds.

Sorry I can't be more help, but I didn't write down every step that I did to solve it.

[ckcharm]

Okay - so I'm finally at Riddle 12. The clue I see is somewhere over the rainbow. I'm looking at the lists of addresses and phone numbers, and my guess is that the address I need is Kit's, but I have no idea where to find that. Am I on the right track? If not, where can I find a clue to what I need?

[pizzajunction]

Okay, I am stumped on puzzle 8, can someone please point me in the right direction, please. Also the diamond puzzle is easy, once you figure out where to move the blocks, before you move the diamonds, and make lots of trips all the way around. It is a lot about timing and putting them in order.

[ckcharm]

For puzzle 8, you have to get the 4 digits used in the code - people press in the digits when putting in the code - theoretically, these will be the only ones that have fingerprints on them. Do you have anything in your inventory that can be used to bring out the fingerprints? Use the two objects one at a time, and you will get the four digits...

[pizzajunction]

Ok, I thought of that, but not sure if I am doing that correctly.

Spoiler

the brush and the black powder and hit "use" is that right? It won't work for me, am I suppose to do something else?
nevermind, I got it, one at a time.

This post has been edited by Mantari: 02 December 2009 - 08:35 AM
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[din0mite]

Help, HELP, H E L P!!!! I seriously can NOT figure out her number! I got clue # 1, and #2, and #3....but 4, 5, and 6 have me soooo confused! Please help.

[ckcharm]

Any hints on how to get the address for Riddle 12?

[Khallayne]

I would also appreciate some help on Riddle #4.

Spoiler

How do we figure out her phone number? There are um... way too many combinations to try, even when you exclude the ones in the phone book. Plus, there are 20 names in the phone book that have numbers and most of them don't even make words that can be understood (which I assume is what they mean by "The oracle accepts many different gifts and although there can be only one, others can help you on your way. For each gift, a prophecy is made; some are easy to understand, others are not"). I have tried the names she's mentioned in the Diary so far and got the following phrases:

"Beside the pebbly shore o" (for "Soren Artalli")
"The king's evil jester _ _ _" (for "Bertrand Giati")
"r thou where the poppy blo" (for "Emily Morten")
"Two bars between choices" (for "Kronos & Joulisena Manjuss")
"RGB nowhere OK somewhere" (for "Louisa Trimar")
"ws with wind-flowers fra" (for "Andu & Duna Pearl")

Three of these are lines (however butchered, in the order of Soren Artalli, Emily Morten then Andu & Duna Pearl - he has forgotten the word "bide" from the second line) from the poem "Arctic Lover" by William Cullen Bryant. Is this name familiar? It should be because she says the first time she saw Sean he was reading "William" by Soren Artalli and that when she visited his parents they gave her the book "Cullen" by Bertrand Giati, and that when she arrived at the home of Kronos and his wife Joulisena, Joulisena's sister Louisa was reading "Bryant" by Duna Pearl.

The only thing I could find having anything to do with "The king's evil jester" has to do with "The Man Who Laughs" by Victor Hugo. I'm not sure what to think about this as of yet.

"nowhere OK somewhere" I'm pretty sure is nothing, as well I could find nothing on "two bars between choices" on Google.

I thought the solution would be to determine which order the numbers had to be in to give the next 21 letters of the poem "il and fair while I upon hi" but none of the numbers give the three letters "ila" in the starting position, so I am stumped now.

I'm pretty sure I tried all the other names in the phone book and none of them seemed relevant to me. Did I miss something?

OK NEVERMIND...somebody gave it away up there! I am such a dork.

Spoiler

I knew the other items had something to do with this riddle...

This post has been edited by Mantari: 02 December 2009 - 08:36 AM
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[pizzajunction]

I guess I am a freaking idiot, I don't understand puzzle 10. I know the answer has to be in the diary, but what page? HELP!!!!

[sunnysongbird]

I know nobody so far has sat and recored their moves, but I REALLY need help with Riddle 6: Sokoban. It's driving me nuts!!!!

[ckcharm]

You just have to work it out - it helps to know that of the lower boxes, the right one goes down all the way, and that's the first one that you have to move. The diamonds in the lower chamber both go on the right holes. The diamond on the left that's above the box (in that narrow passage way) and the diamond on the top but on the left both go in the holes in the top chamber. The remaining two diamonds go in the bottom left holes.

I guess I am a freaking idiot, I don't understand puzzle 10. I know the answer has to be in the diary, but what page? HELP!!!!

Pizzajunction - look on Monday (Day 8) for help with riddle 10. Where have seen the word neural?

This post has been edited by ckcharm: 24 October 2005 - 08:48 PM

[Khallayne]

I'm having trouble answering the riddle on number 11.

Spoiler

I already took the extra o's out of the message at the bottom and switched it around to read "under the stars they stand, the garden is their land, a singular short, watching over the court" and I assume the answer to this riddle is the answer to the Mastermind above. I have never been any good at Mastermind and this one seems to be completely different from any that I've ever played (for example, what do the different colors and numbers mean? There is NO explanation of this that I can see...). I tried the word "bailiff" because its the only thing I could think of that watches over the court? Other than the Judge, and that doesn't work either because I just tried it. Obviously they aren't talking about a court of LAW...hmm....HELP! PLEASE!

[ckcharm]

I'm having trouble answering the riddle on number 11.

» SPOILER (click to show) «

I already took the extra o's out of the message at the bottom and switched it around to read "under the stars they stand, the garden is their land, a singular short, watching over the court" and I assume the answer to this riddle is the answer to the Mastermind above. I have never been any good at Mastermind and this one seems to be completely different from any that I've ever played (for example, what do the different colors and numbers mean? There is NO explanation of this that I can see...). I tried the word "bailiff" because its the only thing I could think of that watches over the court? Other than the Judge, and that doesn't work either because I just tried it. Obviously they aren't talking about a court of LAW...hmm....HELP! PLEASE!

Khallayne - what I did to solve this was to type in individual letters in the answer box - the box beneath it will show you how MANY of that letter are in the answer. Some letters will be repeated (there are two words). If the box showing you how many is in blue, the letter is in the wrong place. If the letter is in the right spot, the number will show up with a green background. If the letter isn't in the answer, the box will be red with a zero inside. Once I figured out the letters, I wrote them down and put each one in, one at a time to figure out which one went where.

[sunnysongbird]

Nope... still not working... I've tried everything I can think of... And I can't get the diamond at the very bottom anywhere *near* the righthand side.... box always gets in the way..... Help! I can't take it much longer!!!

[Khallayne]

Thank you ckcharm for the help with the colors and numbers. I can probably figure the rest out for myself, now!

And for those of you who are extremely stumped by the Sokoban puzzle in Riddle #6....

I made a walkthrough and you can find it by clicking on this link!
http://www.khallayne.com/sokoban

[Khallayne]

Also ckcharm, if you haven't gotten through Riddle #12 yet you can find the answer in the Diary on Day 9.

And I am on what I'm pretty sure is the very last puzzle but having some difficulty. I get number 1 but the rest is all confusing me. How am I supposed to know

Spoiler

what number ageless hate is and how many monkeys Terry Gilliam has? not only that but the second step is just the work "Hack'n'..." which means nothing to me. My shirt sizes come in Small, Medium and Large, not numbers! Also, how do you put a cube in square? OY!

This post has been edited by Mantari: 02 December 2009 - 08:37 AM
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[sunnysongbird]

Can somebody PLEASE help me with 13? I'm completely stumped!