Pitfall Harry Posted May 5, 2003 Share Posted May 5, 2003 Never one to stop beating a dead horse, I have modified Atari Troll's word search puzzle yet again. Only this time I've added more Atari 2600 related terms into the puzzle, dropped one or two, repositioned a couple AND I've turned it into a contest! The attached word search puzzle is now loaded with AT LEAST 150 Atari 2600 terms. By "term" I mean a game title, game company, well-known acronym or programmer associated with the Atari 2600. Each term has a minumum of 3 letters. You may find E.T. in the puzzle, but it does not meet the minimum letter requirement and therefore does not count. I'm not saying exactly how many terms you will find in this puzzle, but you will know when you are done with your searching because the unused letters of the puzzle (letters through which no Atari 2600 terms pass) will spell out a secret, hidden message. Well, not exactly. You will have to do something tricky with those letters first. But when you figure out what to do, the unused letters will tell you exactly what you have won, should you be the first to crack the code. Contest Rules: Be the first to post back to this thread the decoded secret hidden message. The message tells you what your prize is. All you have to do is be the first one to tell me what the message says, and I'll mail your prize off to you right away. Good luck! Hint: It's a really good prize. Ben Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATARI TROLL Posted May 5, 2003 Share Posted May 5, 2003 Somehow I saw this one turning into a contest! Be fair I will sit back and watch. Good luck to everyone else. This puzzle will keep you searching. Just when you think your done, theres another word. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted May 5, 2003 Share Posted May 5, 2003 I love those contests! The secret message is: Congratulations you have just won a boxed copy of CommaVid Room Of Doom (though I still have a few spare letters and am also missing a few ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keir Posted May 5, 2003 Share Posted May 5, 2003 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUGH! :wink: I was so close, I just couldn't figure out the anagram. It probably didn't help that I had these extra letters: T C E O L and was missing U and S. Congrats Thomas. That's quite a prize! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Room 34 Posted May 5, 2003 Share Posted May 5, 2003 Here we go again. Don't do this to me Ben! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snider-man Posted May 5, 2003 Share Posted May 5, 2003 And once again, Thomas and that big ol' brain of his crushes the competition. Unless you're using some kind of base-13 logarithm, you're not gonna stump this guy. Thomas, you never cease to amaze me with your code-busting skills. Way to go! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Room 34 Posted May 5, 2003 Share Posted May 5, 2003 Oh man, I thought Thomas was just making that up. I should've known he'd gotten it already. And I just wasted the last hour trying to solve the puzzle. I got pretty far. Ho-hum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted May 5, 2003 Share Posted May 5, 2003 This time I had an advantage because I could start with the puzzle while most members where still sleeping. The first thing was subtracting the old picture from Ben's new one. That helped identifying the changed letter. First I had hoped I could solve the riddle that way alone, but that didn't work. So I started with the word list from the other thread and found most of them plus those addtional words: Activision Amiga Asterix Boing Bomb Bridge Card/Pirat Commando Dot Edtris Enduro Epyx/Xype Glib Gorf HeMan Hero Imagic Konami Mangia Math Mattel Obelix Panda Polo Race RamIt ROM Sega Slots TacScan Tapper Taz Ufo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATARI TROLL Posted May 5, 2003 Share Posted May 5, 2003 I would ensure that the person sends a scanned copy of the puzzle showing all the circled words and the code hi-lighted in yellow maybe. Just a suggestion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pitfall Harry Posted May 5, 2003 Author Share Posted May 5, 2003 Congratulations Thomas! You've solved the puzzle, even without finding (or at least listing) any of these: CCE Guardian Ice Hockey INTV KLAX Oink Quelle Salu Sub Scan Please email me with your address and I'll send you your prize. To help you find the entries you missed, here's a handy little chart. Ben Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted May 6, 2003 Share Posted May 6, 2003 Congratulations Thomas! Thanks! You've solved the puzzle, even without finding (or at least listing) any of these: Actually I only missed CGE, INTV and OINK and forgot to listen the other ones. But I found ROM which obviously wasn't meant to be there: And then I had recognized PIRAT (which was meant to be IRATA), CARD and (not listened) somebody called CARL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted May 6, 2003 Share Posted May 6, 2003 Ack! I didn't even see this until it was all over! I have to see if there's any way to hide the Contests Forum from Thomas. ..Al Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted May 6, 2003 Share Posted May 6, 2003 Ack! I didn't even see this until it was all over! I have to see if there's any way to hide the Contests Forum from Thomas. Maybe we need an option to watch a whole forum for a new topic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lonesome_pa Posted May 6, 2003 Share Posted May 6, 2003 Hmm.... I didn't list Sneak n' Peek, because in the puzzle, it's shown as "Sneak N Peak", so I thought it was wrong. Oh well, maybe next time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Room 34 Posted May 7, 2003 Share Posted May 7, 2003 I think apostrophes in the puzzle would be a giveaway... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lonesome_pa Posted May 7, 2003 Share Posted May 7, 2003 Oh, I don't mean the apostrophe. I meant the spelling of Peek. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pitfall Harry Posted May 7, 2003 Author Share Posted May 7, 2003 Yes, there is a spelling error in Sneak 'N Pea. I pointed out this spelling error when I first discovered it, when I was solving Atari Troll's original Word Search, the word search puzzle on which this contest puzzle is based. I have since learned Atari Troll's original puzzle comes from another website, so let me give credit where credit is due. Getting back to my contest puzzle... I decided to keep the misspelling I inherited from the original puzzle. I figured that A) Puzzle solvers would realize that SNEAKNPEAK is close enough to an actual Atari game title to warrant considering it as a legitimate word, or B) SNEAKNPEAK would not be considered a legitimate word, but not recognizing it as such does not make the puzzle appreciably more difficult to solve. When I posted the rules to this contest puzzle, I deliberately stated "I'm not saying exactly how many terms you will find in this puzzle..." The statement was an acknowledgement on my part that some may consider SNEAKNPEAK as a legitimate entry and some may not. For those who did not consider SNEAKNPEAK a legitimate entry, the unused letters of the puzzle would have spelled out the following: CONGRATULATIONSYOUHAVEJUSTWSONABOXEDCOEPYOFCOMMAAVIDROOKMONFEPDOOM I thought it close enough to CONGRATULATIONS YOU HAVE JUST WON A BOXED COPY OF COMMAVID ROOM OF DOOM that the misspelling of SNEAKNPEEK presented no consequential disadvantage to those who opted not to consider it. As a final note, the contest winner, Thomas Jensch, has graciously declined his prize winnings so that it may be rolled over into my next contest, which will be coming soon. Since I will be creating the next one from the ground up, rest assured there will be NO SPELLING ERRORS! And I'll be sure to better advertise it, so more people get a chance to work on it before Thomas wins again. Ben Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Room 34 Posted May 7, 2003 Share Posted May 7, 2003 Ah... Didn't even notice that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted May 7, 2003 Share Posted May 7, 2003 Oh, I don't mean the apostrophe. I meant the spelling of Peek. Your are right, it's spelled wrong. Fortunately I didn't notice. But I guess the puzzle was still solvable then. And just in case anybody didn't found out already: For getting the hidden message you have to read the unused letters in a clockwise spiral (starting at top left). BTW: Here is the picture I got after subtracting the old bitmap from the new one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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