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Roland's Puzzle Challenge #4: You Broke The Code

PostPosted: Thu Jun 20, 2013 3:26 pm
by Roland Sackville
Roland's Puzzle Challenge #4 -- You Broke the Code
Difficulty -- Hard
Google allowed? -- Yes


The students, entering their history class after the shenanigans, would be confronted, at their desks, by a box -- one each. The box had five rows of four colored dots each, with the fifth row being blank:

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On the chalkboard, the following was written:

In these boxes, you will find your most recent essay. The boxes are protected, however, by a secret code, made up of four colors. You will have one guess to solve the code. If you get it right, your grade will go up one entire letter grade. If you get it wrong, it will not.

There were six possible colors in the code -- Red, Green, Blue, Black, Yellow, and Purple. The same color may appear more than once in the solution.

Four guesses have been made, as you can see. The small black dots next to the guess indicates a correct color in the correct position. The small white dots indicate a correct color, but in the wrong position.

You have one guess to discover the correct answer. You have sufficient information.

Good luck
--Sackville

Re: Roland's Puzzle Challenge #4: You Broke The Code

PostPosted: Thu Jun 20, 2013 3:46 pm
by Kay Haddock
"The hell is this?" Kay mumbles to herself, staring at the box.

Re: Roland's Puzzle Challenge #4: You Broke The Code

PostPosted: Thu Jun 20, 2013 4:07 pm
by Brigid Plunder
Brigid frowned and grumbled, starting to work on hers.

Re: Roland's Puzzle Challenge #4: You Broke The Code

PostPosted: Thu Jun 20, 2013 7:14 pm
by Steve Jones
Steve furrowed his brow in frustration as he tried to work out the puzzle.

"...I hate these things..."

Re: Roland's Puzzle Challenge #4: You Broke The Code

PostPosted: Thu Jun 20, 2013 8:44 pm
by Calvin Strong
Cal frowned, looking it all over, and thinking over the possibilities.

Then he shrugged and keyed in his answer.

Re: Roland's Puzzle Challenge #4: You Broke The Code

PostPosted: Thu Jun 20, 2013 9:18 pm
by Narrator
Cal's box sprung wide open!

Re: Roland's Puzzle Challenge #4: You Broke The Code

PostPosted: Thu Jun 20, 2013 9:20 pm
by Kay Haddock
"Oh yeah, of course the robot's gonna get a better grade tossed his way." Kay grumbles, stabbing her notes. She seems to have spent more time making sure the dots in her notes are nice and round and perfectly colored in than actually trying to solve the puzzle.

Re: Roland's Puzzle Challenge #4: You Broke The Code

PostPosted: Thu Jun 20, 2013 9:37 pm
by Theresa McMasters
Theresa thinks about it for a long while and then puts in here guess at the code, after which her box pops open.

Re: Roland's Puzzle Challenge #4: You Broke The Code

PostPosted: Thu Jun 20, 2013 9:59 pm
by Calvin Strong
"Maybe next week he'll put our tests at the bottom of the lake," Cal shot back.

Re: Roland's Puzzle Challenge #4: You Broke The Code

PostPosted: Wed Jun 26, 2013 4:46 pm
by Will Stanton
((The answer was Purple, Black, Red, Purple))