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Devinettes app has about 3 or 4 riddles that I haven't been able to crack in 8 years.
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.workingagenda.devinettes/
It gives no answers or hints, just reports 'correct' if you type the right answer in.
I think if I tried that, it would only be a day or two before I went digging into the source code.
I think they are hashed
So due to the nature of it beeing riddles it is quite possible the answer is bugged and the hash wrong. But because nobody "knows" they have the solution nobody can say it is a bug.
Hmm.
Rainbow tables...
I think you're better off with a literal dictionary attack. Knock yourself out: https://github.com/fenimore/devinettes-android/blob/master/app/src/main/java/com/workingagenda/devinettes/RiddleCollection.java It's just SHA-1 of the UTF-8 representation of the answer.
Note that the riddles, unlike the software, are under CC-BY-NC-ND.
Interesting. Looks like it can accept multiple variations on each answer. I was wondering about that
I'm not actually going to do it, but I like the system design
Cool app! I tried it and I have 7 riddles to go. Which ones have you not cracked yet?
Edit: a little break helped, 4 to go!
I'd say, your 4 are in this 6:
Name your heroine after me.
Name me the skin
Without this common currency
Without you I am incomplete 1
Without you I am incomplete 2
This: Brought by man
I'm fine solving these 15yrs later or not at all. The unsolved ones are good for campfires, or travelling through other countries.
Actually only one of them is in that list. I'm still missing:
I was stuck on Where, close at hand too but I got that one last night.
I got the other ones on day one, hopefully it won't take me another 15 years to get the remaining three.
Are those 6 the ones you're still missing? I won't give any answers, that wouldn't be much fun.
I am a non-native speaker (Dutch), I wonder if that's helping or hindering me...
This is my 3rd phone, since solving them the first time, so I just went through and got the ones I remember.
I'm glad the other 5 of 6 are solvable. Thanks for confirming that.
Looks like 'Name me the skin' is the hardest one of all.
I'm pretty sure you will get the other 2 in a couple of days.
The 'skin' question... ~5-10 years ? (c:
Now I really want to figure out that skin one 😋.
Out of the six you listed, the Without you I am incomplete-set is probably the easiest one.
I think I like the common currency one best, it's very clever in my opinion (but not necessarily the hardest one).
Well, I'm proud to say I managed to find them all :). I did indeed get the other two a day later, only figured out Name me the Skin just now.
I must say the answer is not as good as I had hoped, I felt like I tried a couple different answers that I thought fit better. Still, it does fit.
I have one more comment on the answer, which I feel like isn't really a hint, but I think it's a small shortcoming with the app and knowing that might help you not miss the right answer accidentally. I think it's technically true for all riddle answers, but it just so happens it doesn't matter for any of them. I'll put it in a spoiler if you really want to know nothing:
Minor annoyance in the app that's not really a hint but good to know regardless
Only the US American spelling of the answer is considered correct, the UK English spelling is considered wrong."failed to install due to unknown error" :(
Do you feel like posting the riddles here?