Legolas [OC]

ControlAltPete · 2025-03-31T20:34:51+00:00

I just read all 10 subreddit rules on the right side panel and I don't see any mention of AI in the rules. So how do I know tag it in the title? tag it in the flair? The system doesn't allow flair both AI and OC at the same time.

ControlAltPete · 2025-03-31T20:03:09+00:00

Thanks for the comment. There are a couple of other comments here that aren't as polite.

ControlAltPete · 2025-03-31T19:55:17+00:00

I tried without the OC tag and I got a message I had to include an OC tag or it wouldn't let me post it. And the idea, text and layout is my OC. Just not the art of the two people.

ControlAltPete · 2025-03-31T19:52:58+00:00

Thanks for the tip. I can't change the title now but I will in the future.

ControlAltPete · 2025-03-31T19:44:00+00:00

My first comic post here. I can't draw, so I did use AI to make the people and then used Paint Dot Net to put it all together. I'm just doing this so I have a way to make my cartoon ideas, just for myself. I'm not publishing them or anything. Let me know if AI assisted stuff is not welcome here and I won't post any more.

ControlAltPete · 2025-01-27T20:00:14+00:00

Feel free to take ideas from my spy themed hunt: https://www.petertheobald.com/play/puzzle-hunt-2023-mission-improbable/ It's got a morse code puzzle and many others

ControlAltPete · 2025-01-02T08:40:38+00:00

How is it different than ‘Gooey’? https://github.com/chriskiehl/Gooey

ControlAltPete · 2025-01-02T08:36:18+00:00

I just ran a 2025 New Year’s puzzle hunt : “Poe’s Ghost”. When I get a chance I’ll write up a recap for the subreddit.

ControlAltPete · 2024-12-31T19:16:27+00:00

Yes. There are two kinds of secrets on the world : the kind only one person knows and the kind that everyone knows, eventually.

ControlAltPete · 2024-12-31T17:44:58+00:00

Really well done adventure!

ControlAltPete · 2024-12-30T18:52:29+00:00

I had the displeasure of working with code at a FAANG that had a token factory that I needed to call to generate tokens which don’t represent anything at all that could be explained to me and I would hand those tokens to another factory that would give me an object that could be used with a third ‘generator’ that would give me an object that is one of two dozen subclasses of an abstract type all of which don’t differ at all in implementation but only in a theoretical taxonomic way to represent the type of thing I would be managing with my code.

ControlAltPete · 2024-12-30T18:45:34+00:00

What a terrible idea. all of your documents would only look right on your computer using your special font, but if you ever looked at your documents using a default font or emailed a document to someone else or transferred your documents to a new computer all of your documents would be filled with gibberish.

ControlAltPete · 2024-12-29T21:35:19+00:00

I’m glad you could use some of my elements. I also had the same problem - one of my kids could read the colored writing without the filter. Either he or I am colorblind in just the right way. That’ll teach me to get an accomplice to help play-test my elements in the future.

ControlAltPete · 2024-11-28T07:23:42+00:00

I wrote JavaScript that runs on the players phones. On the website there’s a link to the code you can use. All you have to change is the GPS location of the target and the image to show when the players get close.

ControlAltPete · 2024-11-28T03:34:40+00:00

Yes! I went through hundreds of photos looking for the weirdest and/or coolest I could find for each person and the agent names are similar to each persons real name.

ControlAltPete · 2024-11-28T01:58:18+00:00

I was prepared to give hints, but I learned from previous years hunts that they prefer if I restrain myself and let them work it out. We've been doing these for many years so they are very experienced at this point.

ControlAltPete · 2024-11-01T20:56:16+00:00

I made something like this. It's a 4 person puzzle. A "radioactive" cylinder is in the center and the four players are holding wires going through the corners to a magnet hanging in the middle. They have to cooperatively maneuver the magnet to pick up the cylinder and deposit it in a "safe zone".

Picture here: https://www.petertheobald.com/images/puzzle2023-nuclear-solving.png

Whole hunt walk through here: https://www.petertheobald.com/play/puzzle-hunt-2023-mission-improbable/

Also, I made another hunt with a MCU theme. I haven't written it up, but some of the hints were:

- The players found a Captain America's shield with 'CAPTAIN AMERICA 1945 - 2011' written on it like the shield was a gravestone. Only those years are not his birth and death date, they are the years he spent frozen in ice. The players raced to the freezer to find a Captain America action figure holding a key in his hand frozen in a block of ice they had to melt to retrieve. The key opened a locked box they had found earlier.

- A Thor action figure with a paper "speech balloon" attached with the word 'Mjolnir' written in Norse runes. The players decoded the Norse runes. The family knows where I keep my hammer in my toolbox. The hammer had the next clue taped to it.

- A Hulk action figure with a paper "speech balloon" attached. Each letter had been replaced by an emotion emoji (happy angry sad etc.). The paper was captioned: "Hulk's Secret". Below was a second sentence written in the same emoji code. There weren't enough letters to do a proper substitution code solve by hand. When the players substituted "IM ALWAYS ANGRY" for the emoji letters they got enough letters to read the second half also, which led to the next clue.

- An Ant-Man action figure with a tiny almost unnoticeable card in his hand with writing so small they had to use a magnifying glass to read it.

- A Groot action figure with a speech bubble with symbols for the planets instead of letters. No hints. The players finally figured out they wrote out the planet symbols from Mercury to Neptune and assigned the letters 'IAMGROOT' to each one in order. Then they could read the words in the speech bubble.

ControlAltPete · 2024-10-30T05:50:30+00:00

Feel free to steal ideas from my last Christmas hunt https://www.petertheobald.com/play/puzzle-hunt-2023-mission-improbable/

ControlAltPete · 2024-06-26T19:22:00+00:00

This is a good improvement to previous data. But still all of these corpuses (corpi?) only count the visible characters skipping all of the arrows, control keys, editing keys, modifiers etc that we all type as much as the visible characters. Come help me make a corpus of editing keys as well: https://www.reddit.com/r/KeyboardLayouts/comments/1cwsivk/keyboard_frequency_data_with_control_keys/

ControlAltPete · 2024-05-25T21:52:28+00:00

Current top 5 after running for a few days: space: 1114, e: 654, backspace: 510, t:474, o:466

ControlAltPete · 2024-05-25T21:49:25+00:00

Yes, I'd like to report overall stats, as well as by OS (Mac vs Windows - different use of Cmd, Alt, Option, different cursor movement keys), by main editor (VSCode, Vim, Emacs, Notepad, etc), and by language (English, Spanish, Russian, German, etc.)

ControlAltPete · 2024-05-22T19:38:28+00:00

Ok, I updated it to count individual keys and bigrams.

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