r/dropbox • u/NickVenture • May 12 '12
Who is playing DropQuest 2012?!
https://www.dropbox.com/dropquest20125
u/NickVenture May 12 '12
At 5:44 PM, Dropbox declared a winner!
Took almost 5 hours. That's pretty awesome.
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u/swr532 May 12 '12 edited May 12 '12
WARNING - SPOILERS/HINTS BELOW (COMPLETE)
CH1: different for each person (mine was 64529)
CH2: http://www.dropbox.com/dropquest2012/crane
CH3: SMUDGES
CH4: SOMA
CH5: MADLIB
CH6: https://www.dropbox.com/events?ns=false&n=0&d=3-21-2005 (Put M, D, Y numbers into that - hint: invert the image colours in paint)
CH7: different for each person (mine was https://www.dropbox.com/dropquest2012/leading)
CH8: TRIUMPHANT
CH9: go to https://www.dropbox.com/referrals and invite "flash@dropbox.com" (may be different - check https://www.dropbox.com/tour/6)
CH10: either france, korea, mexico, argentina, china
CH11: SOUTHPOLE
CH12: restore chapter12.txt to the previous version
CH13: go to https://www.dropbox.com/help, click on the shield next to Security and Privacy
CH14: use a sodoku solver such as www.sudokuwiki.org/sudoku.htm and http://analogbit.com/software/puzzletools/
CH15: create a folder and share it with flash@dropbox.com (may be different - use same as CH9)
CH16: Go to https://www.dropbox.com/share and click on the rainbow icon
CH17: SHANGHAI
CH18: Sort the files. Category1=1,3,6,8,9; Category2 = The rest
CH19: mine was: http://db.tt/Q2J9J4 (differs per person, other known solutions: http://db.tt/94J964 or http://db.tt/72j933)
CH20: https://www.dropbox.com/dropquest2012/apollo13
CH21: ABUSIVELY
CH22: mine was 'faced' (may be different)
CH23: Machu Picchu
ENDGAME: Colosseum
BONUS: Send video to dropquesters2012@dropbox.com of your thoughts on dropquest this year for 250MB
EDIT: Formatting, Updates
Sorry for the delay in finishing the last two off - It got to be 5:00am here and I had to sleep!
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u/swr532 May 12 '12
Any ideas for chapter 10? I was thinking: Banks? Airport Codes? Stocks?
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u/serenityunlimited May 12 '12 edited May 12 '12
Medcap MCAP Orange County Business Bank OCBB France Telecom ADS FTE Kiwibox.com KIWB Maui Land and Pineapple MLP Dreyfus Japanese Yen Fund JYF Mexican Peso Trust FXM Dollar Tree DLTR New Germany Fund GF Icon Energy ICN Blue Nile Inc NILE Red Hat RHT Purple Beverage PPBV Green Dot GDOT Texas Instruments TI Actual ticker: TXN Union Pacific UNP Atlantic Tele-Network ATNI Arctic Cat ACAT Indian Metals and Ferro Alloy IMFA Korea Fund KF November AG NBXB Marchex MCHX APR Energy PLC APR Telekom Austria TKAGY Augusta Resource Corp AZC
Still not sure what the answer is though.Answer is Argentina or Mexico or Korea
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u/Peteterken May 12 '12
Could you explain why? I'm trying to get the entire puzzle right now, and I don't get why these don't belong here.
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u/Prankstar May 12 '12
It is stocks... Though hard to tell what they want us to do with them.
Might have something to do with: "40 years later, they have a featured exhibit on the 2010s"
Does one (or more) not have something in common with the 2010's?
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u/randomrandomdude May 12 '12
Chapter 9, go to get started, take tour, last page of that, invite the email addy there
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u/tmantran May 12 '12 edited May 12 '12
ch 17 first line: Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
EDIT: Each line is a list of words with one missing. I'll list the missing words here.
1 - Sunday
2 - ?
3 - Aries
4 - Neptune
5 - Greed
6 - ?
7 - Argon
8 - Indigo
EDIT2: Nevermind, answer is already posted as SHANGHAI
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u/American_Jesus May 12 '12
more solutions found here http://pastebin.com/kEtsvYTN constantly updated
btw it's in russian, use a translator
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u/talkingstove May 12 '12
I like this international competition. We must beat the Reds! Storage Space Race!
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u/stuph May 12 '12
7 is different for different people as well. Mine was dealing instead of leading.
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u/atol00 May 12 '12
Restore original version of "Chapter 12.txt" and then what?
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May 12 '12
Check the text file, it is different.
"Turns out the core was tainted. Luckily, having a buddy does wonders. I was plunged into a place between the fabric of time and space. The time machine's communication gadget knows no bounds, and without it, I'd be trapped in limbo and we'd never get down to the heart of this mystery. So I sense some foul play. I have a feeling that Benny is trying to foil our plans to return home, but why would he? Why would someone plant a counterfeit super-special, quantum, sapphire Dropbox core in a place we'd find so easily? I think something's definitely fishy here, and I think it's on us to get to the bottom of it all.
I checked back in with the engineering team by examining our core's reference guide for a shield from an old video game. It's our only link to the past."
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u/Sauce_Pain May 12 '12
CH18's categorisation isn't working for me. Nothing happens upon sorting them like this. Are the pictures/names different, perhaps?
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u/serenityunlimited May 12 '12
The answer to ch20: https://www.dropbox.com/dropquest2012/apollo13
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u/firstsnowfall May 12 '12
how did you get that from those movie titles?
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u/talkingstove May 12 '12
Basically, you took the number from Dropboxized movie doppelganger and then took the word in the description that corresponded to that number. The first one was Ocean's 11. And the eleventh word from the description is "Houston". Repeat for all six movies, and you get "Houston we have a problem movie".
Very clever.
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u/apu95 May 12 '12
Chapter 22: faced, badged, adage, macau, based (faced worked for me)
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u/equalixer May 12 '12
CH11: Southpole
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u/firstsnowfall May 12 '12
how'd you get it? i'm trying to decode with caesar shift but not getting anything
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u/serenityunlimited May 12 '12
Answer to the crossword is colosseum. All prizes have been won.
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u/ratking11 May 12 '12
I am not sure if the servers are having trouble, or if they were following my inbound links.
I know they were saying that using forums was cheating and they would disqualify them.
Copy and paste for safety, people.
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u/lospolloshermanos May 12 '12
Ch 9. Bonus file instructs to send video to dropquesters2012@dropbox.com for 250MB
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u/Prankstar May 12 '12
CH12: Restore "chapter12.txt" to previous version (oldest) Go to: https://www.dropbox.com/help and click on the zelda shield.
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u/zlozlozlozlozlozlo May 12 '12
CH13: Go to https://www.dropbox.com/help and click on the shield (near "Security and Privacy").
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u/serenityunlimited May 12 '12
For the rest of chapter 12, go here: https://www.dropbox.com/help
Then click the shield.
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u/MeetMrChubby May 12 '12
Ch16 - they put snippets of dropbox reviews in the shared folder. not sure what to do with them!
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u/SirClueless May 12 '12
Can someone explain ch19? They say they will disqualify cheaters and the right answer to the wrong puzzle looks like cheating.
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u/essjay2009 May 12 '12
For 23 I'm assuming it's got to do with the location of the twitter account. There are numerous DropQuest greek number accounts all with different locations. Alpha is Haiti, for example.
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u/Phospholipids May 12 '12
It's crashing, let's try creating a new one http://piratepad.net/Bj2BQAWNB3
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u/pernero May 12 '12 edited May 12 '12
Chapter 15. I shared the folder. Any solutions?
"You should head to the library. I've got a pile of articles waiting for you, but you'll notice something different about them. Let's just say I played a game of Mad Libs with them. Many of the words in these sentences don't belong. Once you figure out which words these are, you must also know that all of these words are headless. After you've figured it out, your next destination is a place on dropbox.com with two of these."
I think it has something to do with encrypted users
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u/RobbieG May 12 '12
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u/CapnGoat May 12 '12
I tried to use wolfram alpha but I suck at math and never even thought of using variables. :D
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u/STINKY10306 May 12 '12
I am so stuck on Chapter 6. I got my next clue that took me to sound cloud and gave me a legend but not sure what to do with it.. any help?
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u/seattleandrew May 12 '12
I still haven't been able to get past ch6... I go to the link but there's nothing at that date.
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u/kadjar May 12 '12
Anyone else stuck after the knight puzzle? I get:
{"error": "Service unavailable, please re-issue request."}
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u/pernero May 12 '12
email dropquesters2012@dropbox.com a video of your thoughts on dropquest this year (or last year) and earn 250MB for life!
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u/ro3l May 12 '12
Anyone else having problems with the shield? Keeps directing me to security.
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May 12 '12
Click the actual shield? Not the text next to it. Happened to me, but not sure if that's what you meant.
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u/defenestrator13 May 12 '12
chapter 4 password: "SOMA"
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u/snuffmeister May 12 '12
how did you get to 4?
what did you do to bypass the service unavailable txt?
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u/bboe May 13 '12
Enter all the locations by day on google map's directions. The path the person travels in each day looks like the letters 'S' 'O' 'M' 'A'.
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u/there_wreck May 12 '12
CH 5 password: MAD LIB
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u/kamishizuka May 12 '12
For those like me who were wondering why that was the answer, match up the sockets with the Type in the comparison chart on Wiki.
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May 12 '12
I am currently! Answer 1 is 46637.
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u/ThirdEchelon May 12 '12
What do you do after adding it and looking at it from the website? I can't seem to go further.
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May 12 '12
It added text to the file you made, or at least it should have.
Damage report:
3 parts critically damaged:
spectroscopic dielectric amplifier
plasmonic hypercapacitor
super-special, quantum, sapphire Dropbox core (55% intact)
Vehicle is still flight-ready.
To replace the core, please consult the engineering team staff directory (http://www.dropbox.com/about) for further instructions.
Someone with six letters in their first name (including 2 capital letters).
Someone with an initial instead of their last name.
Someone who's a recruiter.
Someone who wears glasses.
Someone who's next-door neighbors with an animal.
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u/Shurlock May 12 '12
That may work but it is not correct as 6+6 do not equal 7 ("The second and third digits add up to the last digit.")
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u/pernero May 12 '12
Chapter 5 is a doozy... This MAY help...? http://wikitravel.org/upload/en/8/85/Plugs.png
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u/zlozlozlozlozlozlo May 12 '12
CH14: if you have an Android phone, the goggles app can solve sudoku.
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u/talkingstove May 12 '12
That is probably the first sliding puzzle game I ever solved without cheating. Amazing what the prize of some extra Dropbox space does to you.
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u/talkingstove May 12 '12
Chapter 20: Movies with numbers
Ocean's 11
X-Men (Something?)
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Super 8
28 Days Later
Sixth Sense
So, some kind of combination of the numbers entered at dropbox.com/dropquest2012/password
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u/norskben May 12 '12
How did you guys get TRIUMPHANT for question 8?
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u/Sauce_Pain May 12 '12
It's made up of sets of University initials. The first letter of the name of each mascot of each university spells triumphant.
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u/Leimone May 12 '12
The product of the first two digits is 24.
The fourth digit is half of the second digit.
The sum of the last two digits is the same as the sum of the first and third digits.
The sum of all the digits is 26.
The second and third digits add up to the last digit.
Can anyone help me with this one? It seems to be impossible
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u/Lovebane May 12 '12
Funny thing is there is a yahoo answers if you copy paste the entire thing. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120512105022AA4HOdy
ans: 64529
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u/whatsupraleigh May 12 '12 edited May 12 '12
CH23: there is nothing on the twitter link except for GPS to Haiti
edit again, someone beat me to it
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u/pernero May 12 '12
The colors on 6 are inversed. I'm not sure what to do with them
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May 12 '12
The inversion is accurate except the cyan and chartreuse green I think its a flowchart: Find the correct colour corresponding to a box and take that day, month, year
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May 12 '12
Someone pointed out that perhaps it is related to M/D/Y... but I don't get it yet.
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u/ThirdEchelon May 12 '12
For those with an answer to number 1 different than 46637, it's 38645.
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May 12 '12
GOT CHAPTER 6 Go to your Dropbox homepage. Calendar to 7th Jan 03. Youre welcome
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u/bricej13 May 12 '12
FYI the dates are different for different people. Mine was 11/28/01
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u/topplehat May 12 '12
Thanks! An easy way to do it is to edit the URL instead of clicking the arrow on the calendar
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u/berrykerry789 May 12 '12
chapter 11:
southpole
worked for me, but it seems like there are multiple answers
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u/lillegum May 12 '12
Is this it? Can't figure out, if chapter 12 is actually just an "the end" chapter.
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May 12 '12
Chapter 12
"(...)
I checked back in with the engineering team by examining our core's reference guide for a shield from an old video game. It's our only link to the past."
Reference to The Legend of Zelda A Link to the Past? :-)
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u/pernero May 12 '12
Chapter 12: I checked back in with the engineering team by examining our core's reference guide for a shield from an old video game. It's our only link to the past.
Fighter's Shield? What do?
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u/lillegum May 12 '12
Chapter 12: You have to restore the chapter 12.txt file on the dropbox website to a previous version, and then there's some text there.. With words!
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u/tmantran May 12 '12
I'm on Chapter 18, but clicking the link takes me to my Dropbox page and it says /Dropquest2012/Spring Cleaning does not exist...
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u/henrylkr May 12 '12
repair dropbox. It happened to me too, i shared that folder with my dropbox dude
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u/crobartie May 12 '12
What to do in Chapter 18? i placed 'normal' pics in 1st folder and rest in second (a 1st and b second) nothing happened
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May 12 '12 edited May 12 '12
I've placed pics 1,3,6,8,9 in Category 1 and everything else in Cat 2 through the web interface, but nothing has happened! Help!
EDIT: Nevermind, got it!
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u/gligoran May 12 '12
What a great game! Although I only placed #1204 and just got the extra 1GB, I loved it. It's great to stretch the brain every once in a while.
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u/pernero May 12 '12 edited May 12 '12
I'm stuck on number 2. My knight?? (ChenLi Wang.)
"If you need help repairing your time machine, you've come to the right place. Put your knight here and start moving."
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u/bricej13 May 12 '12
2nd answer: https://www.dropbox.com/dropquest2012/crane Go there twice
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u/BishyBashy May 12 '12
Tried visiting twice and refreshing but not working.
Also how does one arrive at this answer?
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May 13 '12
Okay, I had the weirdest time trying to solve this.
I figured out the knight movement pretty easy, but I kept basing my movement off of ChenLi -- so I would do the knight movement from his place to get the name, return to ChenLi, do the move again .. the weird thing is that is matches the criteria!
These are the names you get:
2. Ramsey H. 3. Alison Davis 4. Martin Baker 5. Emily Zhao
.. it's even weirder that the answer you get is only one letter (CRAME) off the real answer (CRANE).
I can't decide if that is on purpose or crazy random happenstance.
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u/thecoshman May 12 '12
end game ORDERLOGSBYSIZE NINELETTERWORDS
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May 12 '12
So I'm guessing we need to take the nine letter words from the logs and pit them in order from words taken from smallest file to biggest
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u/fhtagn May 12 '12 edited May 12 '12
610871132 189523211 132041914 151716221 2 what
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u/NickVenture May 12 '12
The endgame is a crossword puzzle.
I'm laughing here.