Mindturner Hints

We will be publishing hints here every few hours to help people who are stuck. The hints will be declared on the basis of how people are performing.

Head out in the bottom of the site to check for any updates/discrepancy reporting.

Hints:

Stage 1:

Q1. There are only two letters which matter in the equation. The RHS of equation need to be looked at as inverses (1/25 -> 25) to calculate the values. Final answer will be of the form 1/x. (The string 1/x, x being replaced by some number, is the expected answer. Don't try decimal numbers).

Q2. Check out the given engines on google maybe? (A popular software - two words in the name - is expected. One space between the two words and all letters capital).

Q3. Some linux trivia... (A two lettered single word expected, all caps).

Stage 2:

Q1. Use Shazam's real name as it appears in DC Comics. Two worded in the format: Firstname Lastname (first letter capital).

Q2. Hint: Number systems. Hint 2: Squidward is an octopus.

Q3. Morse is an encoding and so is ROT-13.

Stage 3:

Q1. You get 3 weights of each value you purchase. You can thus utilize the values in several different ways (example keeping one weight on one side and 2 weights on the other side of the balance. Try to use this to find which weights you can buy and what permutation can be used.

Q2. Note that gcd(a, b) = gcd(a, a-b) = gcd (a, a+b) and so on... Thus all destinations they should visit have the same gcd.

Stage 4:

Q1. Straight permutations and combinations questions. There's no twist here.

Stage 5:

Q1. Heard of a Spectrogram?

Stage 6:

Q1. What do we do if a python package isn't on our local machine? That's right - pip install mindturner!

Stage 7:

Q1.

Find the bit-pattern abcdefgdp (8 bits) to generate the each letter. Then convert to ASCII.

Stage 8:

Q1. Same as stage 5.

Stage 9:

Q1. Open the image in notepad.

Stage 10:

Q1. (Hint 1) Crack the bit code. It contains a single word (all small letters). Use the word to find the map.

(Hint 2) The map is a program in a (surprisingly) Turing complete language.

Stage 11:

Q1. The first thing is, you can always google. The second thing is, we're repeating patterns in how to find clues.

Stage 12:

Q1. (Hint 1) A decryption is needed. The algorithm is hinted in the poem.

(Hint 2) We talk about a link to a memory. What is memory, if not a collection of images? What else is a passing collection of images?

Updates:

• In stage 12, the watermark in the GIF is completely unrelated and NOT A HINT. We regret the confusion.
• Since many people were stuck on Stage 10, we have updated the hint to that directly on the portal. Find the updated statement.
• Anywhere we feel like many people are stuck, we will upload the hint directly on the portal.
• The solutions to all the stages will be released at the end of the contest, on this page itself. Stay tuned for the answers.
• We will try to maintain the site for those who failed to attempt the event. (No guarantees).