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[Nevasleep]

Got it!

Fourth place, fuck yea!

Well done dude!

 

[Cyan]

Another hint:

What you get from the nine letter thing is (quote to see)

 

[pleunv]

Currently scanning through the ordered files, so far i got: (quote)

 

[ElNarez]

Maybe I'm the only one still doing the crossword puzzle, but
54 across ALE
55 down LIARA

 

[Zeppu]

Hints Cyan?

 

[half a moon]

Another hint:

What you get from the nine letter thing is

Could you just say it so neogaffers can win?

 

[Particle Physicist]

Whole thing (quote to see):

... they are all 4KB. do they mean amount of text?

 

[Adamm]

Could you just say it so neogaffers can win?

edit: oops, nvm

 

[Maddog]

Prizes are all gone

 

[Particle Physicist]

Seriously. just spill it and a gaffer can get the 5th spot!

it's probably too late by now though.

 

[Adamm]

Prizes are all gone

Boooo!

 

[Maddog]

1750 people have finished so far

Edit: now 2965. Fuck that.

 

[Treythalomew]

the word is colosseum

 

[LyleLanley]

Damn finished 1787.

 

[Starfish_Oxide]

691st w00t!!!

 

[Zeppu]

the word is colosseum

how, though?

 

[Tattooth]

#3859.

 

[linkeurena]

well, 2310 isn't too bad...

 

[pleunv]

uh, so i was on the wrong track. How'd you get to that?

 

[Cyan]

how, though?

When you look at the nth letter of each log in order, you get:


The
time
gate
is
the
Only
the
of

new
seven
wonders
of
the
world
in
the
only
continent
you


That's as far as I got before I hit Google.

 

[Dhx]

Well, that's disappointing. We get a 4th place finisher and in the 5 minute delay it took me to figure it out, over a thousand people beat me and I'm assuming the rest of you to it. Could have just posted it with the email quote. Thanks, I guess.

 

[Benutzer]

only #4865

 

[The Boat]

That was epic, thanks everyone!

 

[Ivan A Nguyen]

#5786 Now for me to get back to work.

 

[Maddog]

Well, that's disappointing. We get a 4th place finisher and in the 5 minute delay it took me to figure it out, over a thousand people beat me and I'm assuming the rest of you to it. Could have just posted it with the email quote.

 

[KarmaCow]

Wow that took 5 hours? I completely lost track of time.

Grats Cyan on getting 4th and the swag!

 

[clav]

Yay. 1GB+ get.

Congrats to Cyan.

 

[Zeppu]

When you look at the nth letter of each log in order, you get:


The
time
gate
is
the
Only
the
of

new
seven
wonders
of
the
world
in
the
only
continent
you


That's as far as I got before I hit Google.

aaaw damn, the order by size really made me think something else.

Oh well, got 1GB more and spent a hell of an afternoon. Thanks everyone

 

[Adamm]

Well, that's disappointing. We get a 4th place finisher and in the 5 minute delay it took me to figure it out, over a thousand people beat me and I'm assuming the rest of you to it. Could have just posted it with the email quote.

As soon as it was posted publicly a few thousand people got it.

Im guessing the 9th person shared it, because after that the floodgates opened!

 

[half a moon]

You placed #3170 with a time of 04:43:30

Throughout your quest, you've amassed a total of 1 GB of space.

Why the hell did I spend the time doing this.

 

[Particle Physicist]

Well, that's disappointing. We get a 4th place finisher and in the 5 minute delay it took me to figure it out, over a thousand people beat me and I'm assuming the rest of you to it. Could have just posted it with the email quote.

Yeah, that was pretty lame. We have been helping each other directly the whole time.. and at the end when a bunch of us could have gotten prizes, someone decided to be coy about the answer!

Spoiler

don't mind me Cyan, i'm just a bit bitter! congrats

 

[Ivan A Nguyen]

Well, that's disappointing. We get a 4th place finisher and in the 5 minute delay it took me to figure it out, over a thousand people beat me and I'm assuming the rest of you to it. Could have just posted it with the email quote. Thanks, I guess.

Suck it up. People who figured it out on their own deserved those spots.

 

[clav]

aaaw damn, the order by size really made me think something else.

Oh well, got 1GB more and spent a hell of an afternoon. Thanks everyone

Yeah. I sorted the files by file size in a file manager, but I don't think that was the key.

 

[half a moon]

Yeah, that was pretty lame. We have been helping each other directly the whole time.. and at the end when a bunch of us could have gotten prizes, someone decided to be coy about the answer!

Spoiler

don't mind me Cyan, i'm just a bit bitter! congrats

Yeah, it was a dick move on his part.

 

[Cyan]

Man, sorry guys, it just didn't seem right since it was the last one. :/

 

[Adamm]

Suck it up. People who figured it out on their own deserved those spots.

I agree that people who figured it out should get the prizes, but im guessing the majority of the prize winners were just quick at stealing answers

 

[Nobility]

Can't believe how just a few minutes brought thousands of finishers, congrats everyone.

 

[LyleLanley]

Suck it up. People who figured it out on their own deserved those spots.

I don't think anyone here figured everything out on their own.

 

[Zeppu]

I agree. Hints are fine, but giving the solution to the last one is dumb.

 

[Dhx]

As soon as it was posted publicly a few thousand people got it.

Im guessing the 9th person shared it, because after that the floodgates opened!

The floodgates were certain to open. I'm just not sure why the collaboration stopped after the final solve. Still enjoyed the puzzles, don't get me wrong. Just an odd way to end it.

 

[pleunv]

Suck it up. People who figured it out on their own deserved those spots.

they didn't, though

 

[half a moon]

1-3Gb isn't even a big deal. Once I got started, it was addicting, then it took almost 5 hours! WoW.

 

[Mr_Zombie]

#4289, woo

Thanks guys, without you I wouldn't be able to solve some of the puzzles (I would have never figured out the one with flags and midi files). And congratulations to Cyan.

 

[Ivan A Nguyen]

Man, sorry guys, it just didn't seem right since it was the last one. :/

2nd place (10) Dropbox employee hoodie, Dropbox t-shirt, 20 GB for life

Enjoy the spoils. Ya earned it.

 

[ElNarez]

7458. I blame my love of crosswords.

 

[Adamm]

The first 9 people deserved it, after that it was a free for all.

Im not mad at you Cyan, you earned your 5th place
I played it for fun & didnt expect to get anything from it

 

[Ivan A Nguyen]

Also, I hope dropbox can search the web and see if they can put together a time line on where the answers first started showing up.

How long will Dropquest take? To be honest, we don’t know! There are a bunch of factors that dynamically shift while Dropquest is running, so it’s pretty hard to tell. Last year Dropquest was finished in a little under 2 hours, but the Black-ops team doubts that it’ll be solved in under 5 hours this year — feel free to prove us wrong .

 

[Particle Physicist]

Man, sorry guys, it just didn't seem right since it was the last one. :/

laaaaaaaaaaame!

 

[Kazerei]

Man, sorry guys, it just didn't seem right since it was the last one. :/

Don't worry about it man, some people are just babies.

 

[KarmaCow]

Man, sorry guys, it just didn't seem right since it was the last one. :/

Dude it's fine. I imagine that by the time you typed it up the flood gates would have been already opened anyway.