the mystery of asterisk*
category: general [glöplog]
15 months – 15 demos – 15 points
cinco
seven
douze
kaksi
ovcci
jeden
treze
ункъо
jūyon
eelef
nyolc
dieci
sechs
trije
shíwǔ
try to decipher them all and gather their digit sequences
the first correct solution will be rewarded with the asterisk-trophy (ships worldwide)
post your suggestions here or send them to asterisk[at]motionwars.com
happy hunting
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* at youtube
* at demozoo
* at pouët
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An Arctic Tern!
Congratulations to RaccoonViolet for submitting the correct solution.
And thanks to all who tried to decode the demos.
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And thanks to all who tried to decode the demos.
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From 9th December:
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Had a weird dream last night that Asterisk was connected to an Arab Spring-like movement that was toppling dictatorships all across Africa. I was following along on the BBC News website where they had a map updating in realtime showing that government forces were almost entirely overthrown, and just clinging on in a couple of corners of Morocco and Egypt...
apparently masses of people had descended on [the central location] to find more clues, and it all sort of spiralled from there. And all I could think was "aww, I guess we weren't as ahead of the game as we thought. But the whole wave-of-democracy-sweeping-a-continent is still quite nice I suppose"
it was a very very long news article explaining it all, and I was scrolling through it trying to find the bit where it stopped talking about African geopolitics and started talking about Asterisk demos instead, but woke up before I could find it
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Congratulations to RaccoonViolet for submitting the correct solution.
So what was the correct solution? I suppose it was a bit more than "*"?
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Quote:Congratulations to RaccoonViolet for submitting the correct solution.
So what was the correct solution? I suppose it was a bit more than "*"?
Well, the asterisk shape has 15 points, so in this case it's quite obvious that the solution was "*" :)
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start with the numbers provided in cinco, and work from thereQuote:Congratulations to RaccoonViolet for submitting the correct solution.
So what was the correct solution? I suppose it was a bit more than "*"?
Extremely cool concept. Congrats, V!
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start with the numbers provided in cinco, and work from there
Yeah, I also thought that at the least the first entries looked like lat-long coordinates, but didn't quite think about the 15 points in (that) asterisk shape etc. Just wondering if the accepted solution was just the educated guess "these points probably form an asterisk" or an actual map drawing like revivals?
Cool concept/challenge anyway :)
Very cool concept! Interesting to see all 15 together as part of a puzzle rather than individual coding experiments. Does the number each title translates to play a part in the sequence of the points? And is "*" a veteran scener or a new outsider? Reminds me of the mysterious Elitegroup teasers.
wait, so this isnt about the SIP PBX?
As one of Violet's co-conspirators...
phoenix: Yep, if you order the points according to the numbers in the titles, it will trace out the outline of the asterisk in clockwise order.
Also, the 15 languages map to the 15 different countries where the demos were released (albeit not necessarily as the majority language). If you make a chain of those countries (for example: "seven" was released in Argentina, where they speak Spanish; "cinco" was released in Hungary, where they speak Hungarian; "Nyolc" was released in Germany, and so on) you get a cycle of all 15. Based on that, we correctly predicted that the penultimate demo would be "trije" released at Inercia, and incorrectly predicted that the final demo released at Sessions would be "kinsi". I was seriously tempted to hack up a "kinsi cracktro" to submit to the Sessions demo compo :-)
phoenix: Yep, if you order the points according to the numbers in the titles, it will trace out the outline of the asterisk in clockwise order.
Also, the 15 languages map to the 15 different countries where the demos were released (albeit not necessarily as the majority language). If you make a chain of those countries (for example: "seven" was released in Argentina, where they speak Spanish; "cinco" was released in Hungary, where they speak Hungarian; "Nyolc" was released in Germany, and so on) you get a cycle of all 15. Based on that, we correctly predicted that the penultimate demo would be "trije" released at Inercia, and incorrectly predicted that the final demo released at Sessions would be "kinsi". I was seriously tempted to hack up a "kinsi cracktro" to submit to the Sessions demo compo :-)