Since then, I've done my own homages to Cliff in the form of 'Wall Games'. These are puzzles on pieces of A4 paper: blu-tacked to the wall at Christmas parties, conferences like hardware.io, the waiting areas for escape rooms, and various other places. Sometimes the puzzles are hard (some of the hardwear.io wall game puzzles required writing code to solve them!) and sometimes they are easy, and I try to not repeat the same idea twice. But the key concept is that everything is interlinked.
The Nullcon 2020 conference badge is another variation on the same idea. There are a number of hidden references on the badge, and your task is to decode them. Nothing on the badge is there by accident - everything has a meaning. Some of the puzzles are numerical, some are word-related, some are conceptual, and some are graphical. The only clues that you get are the badge, and the conference title.
Oh yes, and I have always loved the way that transparent green and orange plastic looks when laser-printed! For an even more amazing 'spirit level' experience, try putting fluorescein in water...
Oh yes, and I have always loved the way that transparent green and orange plastic looks when laser-printed! For an even more amazing 'spirit level' experience, try putting fluorescein in water...
After the conference has finished, I will post the answers here on this blog, in case you missed the reveal at the conference...
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I also publish a couple of other blogs. One of them is devoted to detailed technical explorations of hi-tech electronic music. Sometimes it does stray onto other topics - like a very popular post that reveals how to store text on Dropbox using zero bytes from your storage allocation...
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The title of this blog is a kind of meta puzzle as well. There's a very easy way to remember how to spell it...
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And the answers to the badge challenges? They are here...
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If you find my writing helpful, informative or entertaining, then please consider visiting this link:
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I also publish a couple of other blogs. One of them is devoted to detailed technical explorations of hi-tech electronic music. Sometimes it does stray onto other topics - like a very popular post that reveals how to store text on Dropbox using zero bytes from your storage allocation...
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The title of this blog is a kind of meta puzzle as well. There's a very easy way to remember how to spell it...
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And the answers to the badge challenges? They are here...
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If you find my writing helpful, informative or entertaining, then please consider visiting this link:
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