So, as you know the scavenger game was beaten by a non-floobler (which ought to be humbling to us :)

I'm still kinda interested to see which of the members will be the first to get past challenge 8. To tell you the truth, I was beginning to doubt myself for the last couple of days, thinking that it was too difficult or trivial, but since somebody actually managed to beat it, I think the people here can do it too.

I'll stress again that I don't believe that the solution requires any specialized knowledge of in-depth programming, though you have to know some HTML, image editing and javascript basics and concepts. (I think that those who have made it to challenge 8 would agree that this is a fair assessment of the previous challenges as well).

Since games like this are not exactly re-playable any more than the puzzles on this site, I am interested in adding more challenge trails to the game. I would be very interested to know if you guys found this an entertaining excercise, and would like to see more such puzzles.

Interesting you should suggest that, Sam, since I was thinking in that direction as well. I would happily accept email with suggestions for future challenges, be they actual HTML and images, or just descriptions.

However, I do not wish these challenges to be purely logical, since such puzzles can be submitted to this site directly. As you undoubtedly saw in the challenges you were able to solve, there is always some grounding in the practical setup of the way the web works. Nothing fancy, requiring in-depth knowledge, but if it forced somebody to give a tutorial a cursory look, so much the better in my book :)

Can someone just give me one tip. Do I need to know anything about US politics to do challenge 4. Because if not, I've just been going off on a tangent for the past few days... bugger.

Popstar, none of them assume any actual knowledge. Everything is always right there. And use Netscape.

I got all gee'ed up and now I'm stuck on challenge 7. I've got the word (you'll know what I mean) and I've got "DOTmac" (and an idea as to what it means), but now I just can't seem to put them together. Now I know only 10 people have passes challenge 7, but I'm also assuming that most of them read this forum from time to time. So if you've got a word or two to push me along, I'd love to hear from you! (I'd rather not have a week next to a challenge again!)

Gamer, you fool! I Can't believe you unwittingly posted the answer to CH4 :)

I had to delete it to avoid spoilage.

Yes I feel suitably shamed. Yes I feel suitably humbled. Yes I'm still stuck on challenege 2.

I've tried everything I can think of that's obvious. I've tried everything I can think of that's obscure. I've even tried random URLs. All to no avail.

I can't sleep. I can't eat. I can't think about anything else.

AAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cory... try VIEW SOURCE, then scroll to the bottom...

Well, looks like more and more people are beating the challenge trail!

actually Dave... I met this one guy... this one time.... and he actually DID want to be given the answer...

But, in any case... since I certainly didn't give fwaff a walkthrough on any of them, I assume you are referring to the problem #1 "hint" I gave to Cory....

Since Levik (who obviously saw it... he posted afterwards) thought it appropriate for the first problem... and since no one seemed to mind (until you choose to honor us with your opinion), I think it's okay to give such a tip.

But, you keep posting!

blah i feel sad i cant get past challenge 2

hmm.. can i ask... (all of this is for CH3)

is the picture there just as a picture, and it involves the HTML ..

or does the picture actually need manipulation to get the answer?

OK, guys, I had to delete some of Victor and SK's posts - too many clues for my tastes...

Let's all be a bit more careful.

A number of small hints were in the first scavenger thread:
http://flooble.com/perplexus/forum.php?fid=5&tid=300

I need help on CH7...What's dotmac?

Challenge one, I'm not seeing it.
the source is easy enought get to but whatever i try i keep getting the oopsie page, can someone offer some assistance it is really rather frustrating.
Thanks in advance, Juggler

Managed to get that far, stuck trying to "crack" the first address, i am not seeing any logical answer.

(Sorry if I keep giving rather cryptic answers, but too much if a hint would give everything away...)

@#$%&*!! I can't get past #2!! will someone PLEASE give me a few hints? I'm at frodofrombagend on yahoo messenger or wiseone5 on AIM. thx.

I admire all the hard work you guys have been putting into this. These puzzles are very interesting. I just found out about the challenges about 36 hours ago, and I've spent much of that time working on them (especially the 8th one). I admit that I was tempted to try and find someone to give me a hint for the last challenge, because it was just so frustrating. Now that I figured it out, I'm glad I wasn't able to find any solution spoilers here. If you are tearing your hair out over the 8th challenge, take it from me; You'll be glad you figured this one out yourself. Just give it some time, and don't try to overcomplicate things. Puzzles this clever and challenging don't come around every day. Anyhow, I'd love to see some new challenges added. I might even try to put together one or two myself. =)

Am I an idiot, or is it just me? Even after reading Gamer's hint, I can't figure out #1. I found what was hidden, but what do I do with it?

HELPP!! ..i know my html and java and plenty other languges.. and i can do image design quite nicely but what the heck is with challenge 2???? AIM: rebelyell2k5 hell a bro out.. or email curiousalex@gohylton.com thanks!!!!

I can't get passed challange #0, what are these Scavenger puzzles and where are they?.

Thanks Jer, this flooble site looks really good.

I've heard the picture is worth a thousand words.gif thing hint for Challenge 2, but it doesn't help me. Please help!

Woot! I just did 8! Only 10 minutes in total! I think I got lucky.

Look at it another way eh? Devious...

On to 9 next chance I get. How many challenges are there btw?

Swift

I need a hint on 8.