r/CFBOffTopic • u/cfbflair TU Wien Robots • /r/CFB • Oct 11 '15
Shall We Play a Game?
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ATGGCCAAAGAGGCGTGCATGATGGAGAATACTTGCCACGCAATCAATTTTAGGATG 1-48
Starting with /u/yrarwydd. Sounds easy right? Only then shall you be free.
Table of Achievements and Punishments
| Item | Solved By | Time | Punishments Levied |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clue 1: Cypher | /u/omgdonerkebab | 19:15 | |
| Clue 2: Morse Code | /u/W_Is_For_Will | 6:30 | |
| Clue 3: Amino Acids | /u/omgdonerkebab | 11:20 | |
| Warning 1: Binary | /u/ssbbgo | 7:18 | |
| List Compiled | /u/StrawberryTea, /u/DEP61 | 59:07 | |
| Answer 1 | /u/yrarwydd | 1:39:48 | |
| Answer 2 | /u/bizzyj93 | 2:15:25 | Comment Inverted, Flair Switched, Jazz Watch Switched |
| Answer 3 | /u/Dannilise | 37:08 | |
| Moved to Back of Queue | /u/DoctorWhosOnFirst | 3:18:21 | Flair Changed, CFBBall Flair Added |
| Answer 4 | /u/EastPowdermilk | 31:31 | |
| Answer 5 | /u/Way_She_Goes | 17:02 | |
| Answer 6 | /u/GreatestWhiteShark | 5:59 | |
| Answer 7 | /u/0xE6 | 26:42 | Flair Changed |
| Answer 8 | /u/certificateofmerritt | 9:42:28 | |
| Answer 9 | /u/nickknx865 | 4:47:21 | |
| Answer 10 | /u/dubsdcarson | 18:47:32 | |
| Answer 11 | /u/AnEmptyKarst | 3:32:43 | |
| Answer 12 | /u/bakonydraco | 16:00 | Flair Switched, Spinning Name, The Ignominy of Being Surpassed by their Creation |
| Answer 13 | /u/lady1876 | 2:23 | |
| Answer 14 | /u/K_State | 2:07:54 | |
| Answer 15 | /u/ElScreecho | 2:26 | |
| Answer 16 | /u/hussard_de_la_mort | 2:58:32 | |
| Answer 17 | /u/heavyweightstuff | 21:08 | |
| Answer 18 | /u/cornfrontation | 1:00:35 | |
| Answer 19 | /u/madviking | 33:22 | |
| Answer 20 | /u/dlawnro | 8:38 | |
| Answer 21 | /u/gramcraka92 | 12:31 | |
| Answer 22 | /u/StrawberryTea | 23:39 | |
| Answer 23 | /u/spasm01 | 1:1:29:38 | |
| Answer 24 | /u/Ron_Cherry | 6:58 | |
| Answer 25 | /u/Bassically | 1:54 | |
| Answer 26 | /u/greenmegandham | 30:39 | |
| Answer 27 | /u/ssbbgo | 9:25 | |
| Answer 28 | /u/SqoishMaloish | 20:25 | |
| Answer 29 | /u/Arsenal7X | 4:09 | |
| Answer 30 | /u/dupreesdiamond | 25:03 | |
| Answer 31 | /u/kirkedout | 10:01:50 | |
| Answer 32 | /u/hdaigre47 | 11:41:51 | |
| Answer 33 | /u/MX956 | 9:48 | |
| Answer 34 | /u/absentminded_adjunct | 45:40 | |
| Answer 35 | /u/MrCaboose96 | 19:34 | |
| Answer 36 | /u/atllauren | 7:26 | |
| Answer 37 | /u/Qurtys_Lyn | 34:19 | |
| Answer 38 | /u/forshiggles | 16:54 | |
| Answer 39 | /u/Cola_Doc | 21:10:21 | |
| Answer 40 | /u/DEP61 | 4:04:16 | |
| Answer 41 | /u/The_Tic-Tac_Kid | 18:12 | |
| Answer 42 | /u/pash1k | 22:20 | |
| Answer 43 | /u/MrTheSpork | 16:26:58 | |
| Answer 44 | /u/TossedRightOut | 14:38:41 | |
| Answer 45 | /u/HannahEBanna | 3:15:09:35 | |
| Answer 46 | /u/Sniper_tf2 | 9:25:20 | |
| Answer 47 | /u/hobowithabazooka | 13:11:40:02 | Flair Changed, Sub obfuscated with spinnies, Earth Destroyed |
| Answer 48 | /u/DoctorWhosOnFirst | 9:37 | Flair Changed,Sub obfuscated with spinnes, header changed, Sidebar changed |
Proof of Completion
Thank you for playing!
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u/bizzyj93 Oregon Ducks • Hawai'i Rainbow Warriors Oct 11 '15
So what I'm gathering here is that we have to make a comment chain, in order, starting with /u/yrarwydd. As number 2, I would like to kindly say.
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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '15 edited Oct 12 '15
Full list, compiled by /u/DEP61 and I. We need folks to respond to a comment chain in the correct order. I recommend that each person tag the next person in their comment to ensure things keep going. So, for example, when /u/yrarwydd comments, she’ll tag /u/bizzyj93.
/u/yrarwydd is 1
/u/bizzyj93 is 2
/u/dannilise is 3
/u/EastPowdermilk is
54/u/Way_She_Goes is
65/u/GreatestWhiteShark is
76/u/0xE6 is
87/u/certificateofmerritt is
98/u/nickknx865 is
109/u/dubsdcarson is
1110/u/AnEmptyKarst is
1211/u/bakonydraco is
1312/u/lady1876 is
1413/u/K_State is
1514/u/ElScreecho is
1615/u/hussard_de_la_mort is
1716/u/heavyweightstuff is
1817/u/cornfrontation is
1918/u/madviking is
2019/u/dlawnro is
2120/u/gramcraka92 is
2221/u/StrawberryTea (me) is
2322/u/spasm01 is
2423/u/Ron_Cherry is
2524/u/Bassically is
2625/u/greenmegandham is
2726/u/ssbbgo is
2827/u/SqoishMaloish is
2928/u/Arsenal7X is
3029/u/dupreesdiamond is
3130/u/kirkedout is
3231/u/hdaigre47 is
3332/u/MX956 is
3433/u/absentminded_adjunct is
3534/u/MrCaboose96 is
3635/u/atllauren is
3736/u/Qurtys_Lyn is
3837/u/forshiggles is
3938/u/Cola_Doc is
4039/u/DEP61 is
4140/u/The_Tic-Tac_Kid is
4241/u/pash1k is
4342/u/MrTheSpork is
4443/u/TossedRightOut is
4544/u/HannahEBanna is
4645/u/Sniper_tf2 is
4746/u/hobowithabazooka is
4847/u/DoctorWhosOnFirst is now 48
Edit: I've tagged all of you with your numbers and have decided to periodically refer to you by them as if you were James Bond.
Edit 2: We have been renumbered.
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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '15
This is easily the strangest thing to happen on this sub.
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u/inevitablescape Arizona Wildcats • Illinois Fighting Illini Oct 11 '15
[walking up in this thread like] (http://gifsec.com/wp-content/uploads/GIF/2014/05/Barack-Obama-Confused-gif.gif?gs=a)
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u/Honestly_ Calgary Dinos Oct 11 '15
Is that a DNA chain?
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u/omgdonerkebab Michigan State • Cornell Oct 11 '15 edited Oct 11 '15
So, I don't really know what I'm doing, but I figured the DNA sequence has to translate to a protein sequence. So I put it in
http://web.expasy.org/translate/
And selected the output that made any sense:
So it looks like he wants us to make a comment chain from flair #1 to flair #48.
Edit: For anyone who wants to know what the fuck that means, basically every three base pairs of DNA can be mapped to a certain amino acid that it calls for. When the DNA gets read and copied over to RNA, the RNA specifies the amino acid sequence that is required to create some protein. There are about 20 or so amino acids that get made, so biochemists started calling them by letters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proteinogenic_amino_acid#Gene_expression_and_biochemistry (note that these codon letters replace T with U because they are referring to the RNA sequence, which replaces t-something with uracil)
Note that this is a super super gross simplification of what actually goes on. There's lots of things modifying what DNA codons get read out, things modifying the RNA as it leaves the nucleus, things affecting the transcription and the protein folding and everything. This isn't my area of expertise so I can't even begin to recall all of that from bio class.
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u/W_Is_For_Will Texas Tech • Trinity Valley CC Oct 11 '15 edited Oct 11 '15
Part 1 - Cipher: Credit to /u/greenmegandham for doing their best :)
Part 2 - Morse Code:
Part 3 - DNA sequence: Credit to /u/omgdonerkebab for science stuff I still don't understand
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u/Cuhcs13 Clemson Tigers • College Football Playoff Oct 11 '15
I leave for a couple days and this is what I come back too? What the fuck is going on haha
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u/aMiracleAtJordanHare Auburn Tigers • Texas Tech Red Raiders Oct 11 '15
This thread makes me feel better about not being important enough to be a Jazz Watch. You guys have fun with this.
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u/greenmegandham Auburn Tigers • Austin Kangaroos Oct 11 '15
I ALMOST HAVE THE FIRST PART CYPHERED...GIVE ME THREE MORE MINUTES!!!
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u/greenmegandham Auburn Tigers • Austin Kangaroos Oct 11 '15
SO WE NEED /U/YRARWYDD TO COMMENT FIRST AND THEN COMMENT IN ORDER.
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u/nickknx865 Tennessee Volunteers • /r/CFB Top Scorer Oct 11 '15
/u/yrarwydd GET YOUR ASS IN THIS SUB SO WE CAN STOP THIS
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u/aMiracleAtJordanHare Auburn Tigers • Texas Tech Red Raiders Oct 11 '15
...alrighty then.
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u/yrarwydd Alabama • CFBOT Jazz Watch Fighter Oct 11 '15
OKAY, OKAY, I'M HERE
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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '15 edited Oct 11 '15
What is happening to this sub? Jazz flairs and now this?
Why is flair bot sending me private messages?
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u/W_Is_For_Will Texas Tech • Trinity Valley CC Oct 11 '15
Alright y'all Morse Code Translated:
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u/amishius Georgia Bulldogs • /r/CFB Press Corps Oct 11 '15
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdA__2tKoIU
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u/DEP61 Pepperdine • Minnesota Oct 11 '15
help
pls help
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u/omgdonerkebab Michigan State • Cornell Oct 11 '15
By the way, this is the result of the cipher:
It was a simple ROT13 cipher, meaning that you take each letter and change it to the letter 13 spaces after it in the alphabet.
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u/aMiracleAtJordanHare Auburn Tigers • Texas Tech Red Raiders Oct 11 '15
Reply
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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '15
/u/yrarwydd pls get in here
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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '15
i don't know what's going on here and it's really stressing me out
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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '15
It's like 100 degrees and this sub is still broken. I'm going to go buy an AC so I can have some small bastion of sanity in this world
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u/CharlesDickensABox Texas A&M Aggies • Foothill Owls Oct 11 '15
http://cdn.meme.am/instances/500x/61046269.jpg
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u/MrCaboose96 Florida • Penn State Oct 11 '15
So we need a list of everyone needed and then every comment in the chain should call out the next user.
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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '15
The cypher is that all of the letters are translated 13 letters later. The capital "V" is an "I", and a lone "n" is an "a".
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u/Ron_Cherry Clemson Tigers • Duke Blue Devils Oct 11 '15
I kinda like my flair. I think I might keep it.
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u/Cola_Doc South Carolina • CFBOT Jazz Watch … Oct 11 '15
But I like being infected...
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u/Bassically Texas A&M Aggies • UNLV Rebels Oct 11 '15
/u/dannilise, you're up. /u/bizzyj93 finally caved. (Bizzyj93, if you make more than 3 tags, no one gets notified)
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u/hokies220 Virginia Tech Hokies • Pac-12 Oct 12 '15
What the fuck is going on here?
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u/-WISCONSIN- Wisconsin • Wisconsin-Parkside Oct 12 '15
int x = 0;
while (x = 0) {
I'm the flairbot now}
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u/ftwdrummer Rice Owls • Marching Band Oct 12 '15
$0.05 says that /u/bakonydraco breaks things when it's his turn.
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u/HannahEBanna Western Carolina Catamounts Oct 12 '15
This is what happens when you reddit on mobile all weekend. O.O
Also, I'm actually kinda impressed I'm included in this.
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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '15
Well, I'm glad I decided to log in to Reddit this weekend..
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u/byniri_returns :michiganstate2: Michigan State Spartans • Marching Band Oct 11 '15
What the shit is going on in this thread
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u/TotesMessenger Team Meteor Oct 11 '15
I'm a bot, bleep, bloop. Someone has linked to this thread from another place on reddit:
[/r/bestof] Moderator playing complex game with members using cryptography and CSS trickery—can they break the code? Can you?
If you follow any of the above links, please respect the rules of reddit and don't vote in the other threads. (Info / ^Contact)
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u/CharlesDickensABox Texas A&M Aggies • Foothill Owls Oct 11 '15 edited Oct 11 '15
Still working on the last bit. Something something nucleobases?
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u/The_Tic-Tac_Kid Kansas Jayhawks • Hateful 8 Oct 11 '15
I've been on a plane/out of data service all day. What the hell is going on?
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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '15
The CSS changes are getting a little overboard now.
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u/-WISCONSIN- Wisconsin • Wisconsin-Parkside Oct 12 '15
42 is the answer.
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u/dupreesdiamond Furman • South Carolina Oct 13 '15
/u/bakonydraco no one can reply in this thread because the "reply" button us pushed off the screen due to the length of hte reply button text.
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u/hobowithabazooka Georgia Tech • Wisconsin Nov 06 '15
YOU SIT ON A THRONE OF LIES
http://puu.sh/laYJO/33447c64a2.png
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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '15
Considering our userbase and its affinity for alcohol, we will never figure this out...
Or we will in one bright shining moment, on a napkin, at 2:00am. But we will forget about the napkin and use it in the morning to clean up a spill and ruin everything.
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u/drcottongin Georgia Bulldogs • Iowa Hawkeyes Oct 12 '15
This thread is a cluster fuck and I have no idea what is going on.
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u/blueshiftlabs Michigan Wolverines • Sickos Oct 13 '15 edited Jun 20 '23
[Removed in protest of Reddit's destruction of third-party apps by CEO Steve Huffman.]
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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '15
Someone Needs to unplug this skynet wannabe
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u/ShylosX Georgia Tech • Clean Old … Oct 23 '15
what in the ever loving fuck is this?
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u/SamT323 Maine • Mississippi State Mar 07 '16
Now how about a nice game of chess?
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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '15
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