I have some pretty fond memories of second semester senior year, largely consisting of doing nothing, making random trips to Steak 'N Shake on weekday nights, and sleeping more than I had, like, EVER.
And in officially less than 4 days (OHMYGODDECISIONZ), over a 1000 of you will be right there with year-ago-me. Yay, you now know where you're going to college (MIT, clearly), your teachers have given up on trying to make you work, and life is good.
But in the meantime, you probably want to do anything but work, so that is why I propose the following: an MIT Admissions Blogs wide game of Funny Farm.
It is pretty much impossible to solve this by yourself, though I wouldn't put it past an MIT applicant to actually be able to do it. The game is pretty self-explanatory: you start with the phrase "On A Farm," which is connected to a bunch of boxes. Those connecting lines indicate that the general idea of the connected box is along the lines of the original, and the number of dots is the number of letters in the word. Okay, in case I'm not making sense, here's the game with a couple of solutions in it:
Following? Okay, the clincher here is you can actually save the game AND just post the link they give you anywhere. Meaning, we can all work on this together and keep posting what progress we've made on the game in the comments. Even better, you can actually merge games, too, so if someone posts a new link you can just add their answers to the game you're working on.
So have at it, MIT applicants. Here's the link to the game I just started above. :)
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I'll try out the game soon =)
Posted by: Jesse on March 10, 2009
It's somewhat far along, though... which might eliminate some of the fun
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Posted by: Rebeca on March 10, 2009
This is probably caused by too much traffic.
Whoops.
Posted by: Anon on March 10, 2009
Posted by: Shannon on March 10, 2009
Posted by: Cam on March 10, 2009
Posted by: Rebeca on March 10, 2009
This is probably caused by too much traffic.
same here
Posted by: 0 on March 10, 2009
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Posted by: Megan on March 10, 2009
It consumed so much of my time last year, heh.
Something else you guys should check out is the Tim Tang Test (just google it online). I got to Level 99 in a few months last year when I didn't have any work and never got past 99 (that level is friggin hard!) :( haha.
Posted by: Oasis '11 on March 10, 2009
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ocw[/url]
Posted by: comboy on March 10, 2009
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Posted by: ngolsh on March 10, 2009
Yup
Posted by: Ilyanep on March 10, 2009
Posted by: ngolsh on March 10, 2009
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Posted by: Matt A. on March 10, 2009
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Posted by: 0 on March 10, 2009
Posted by: ngolsh on March 10, 2009
[/url]
Posted by: MIT hopeful on March 10, 2009
Posted by: MIT hopeful on March 10, 2009
let me forget to sleep, ahan nice coffee is gonna be made
Matt A: I'm afraid of your links, if i click i'm sure i'll see more than 25 parts completed
let me learn to walk after i drink my coffee
Posted by: comboy on March 10, 2009
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^ got this down...
Posted by: Tanstripe on March 10, 2009
yes of course
three dots for cow, add something before them
Posted by: comboy on March 10, 2009
Posted by: Mary on March 10, 2009
But man, some of those were really hard -.-" If you know all the answers, the entire thing goes by in minutes, but figuring out some of those just takes CONSTANT CONTEMPLATION~ I spent a lot of free time in class jotting down options for certain connections when I got stuck, and tried them all when I got home~ Needless to say, I googled many of the words that came up because, as I found out, I had never even heard of what the game said was connected to them! I think it would've been more fun in a group~
Posted by: Narce on March 10, 2009
the formatting is messed up because of the mile-long links xD
I wish I had the time to do this... -.-
I have so much work to do right now.
plus I just got back from a 4 hour choir rehearsal.. 7 hours tomorrow and same on thursday O_O
Posted by: deng on March 10, 2009
Posted by: Tyler '13 hopeful on March 10, 2009
Posted by: ngolsh on March 10, 2009
Posted by: Noelle on March 10, 2009
Posted by: ngolsh on March 10, 2009
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Posted by: 0 on March 10, 2009
DAMMNNNN YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
haha jk.
Posted by: ngolsh on March 10, 2009
Posted by: comboy on March 10, 2009
Posted by: comboy on March 10, 2009
My boyfriend and I did that in one sitting (~2 hours) ^.^
Posted by: Michelle from Israel on March 10, 2009
I have a lot (partly thanks to you guys), but now I am stuck...
Anyway, I'll pay it forward.
http://shygypsy.com/farm/p.cgi?state=nnobkbiaaaaibdaccbaakaiaccabecadamdbiaachbabaeeabcaaaaaiacgcaaaaaopibmdmpbcaeaaiaaaaaaaobaabhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa&style=dywdxvyrxrcrycqsrcxvtdyqsbzyezytsawzvbcbcrwusuzxzycrqtobspdpaqfbuibeczea&i=2&j=2&cmd=guess&guess;=+
Posted by: 0 on March 10, 2009
Posted by: ngolsh on March 10, 2009
Posted by: nesi on March 10, 2009
Posted by: 0 on March 10, 2009
couple more
Posted by: 0 on March 10, 2009
Posted by: 0 on March 10, 2009
Posted by: ngolsh on March 10, 2009
@Comboy
I only added like 2 the first time I posted, I have no idea why you'd say that.
Posted by: Matt A. on March 10, 2009
Posted by: Matt A. on March 10, 2009
Posted by: Dago on March 10, 2009
Posted by: Dago on March 10, 2009
A few of mine plus Dago's answer
No, we have to merge them, but there's an easy way to do it in the game by pasting in someone else's link
Posted by: Matt A. on March 10, 2009
http://shygypsy.com/farm/p.cgi?state=nppbkbjaabaibdbcdbibkdkbkcibgdadcmhbimecpfafaefiddaaeaalbcgcfaeceopinmdmpjckeaaiaaljpaaobaajhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa&style=dzytvadtgbctwdquqwxyqduqaujybnztzaxcxxbkgzgyryybvpfuqrueprgatrgyzkzldkdi&i=1&j=1&cmd=guess&guess;=+
Posted by: 0 on March 10, 2009
Posted by: ngolsh on March 10, 2009
Posted by: 0 on March 10, 2009
check out the upper right, help me out with that
Posted by: 0 on March 10, 2009
Posted by: Narce on March 10, 2009
Posted by: 0 on March 10, 2009
Posted by: Narce on March 10, 2009
Posted by: ngolsh on March 10, 2009
And if our great class of 2013 wants to find every single connection in the entire game rather than just solve the metapuzzle, that's a really amazing thing
Posted by: Narce on March 10, 2009
http://shygypsy.com/farm/p.cgi?state=nppbkbpbajnjjpncdbmbkdkfkcidgdjdgopbinhcpfbfgoflhdadfebldcocfepceopinmdmpngkfmaopkpjpaaobiajhaaaaaaecaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa&style=veewvabxhrsaxmovrerboctnxsgajpebtxxyuybcdpbqwtdzumvvszsfaqduwreexddhffff&i=2&j=4&cmd=guess&guess;=+
Posted by: Matt A. on March 10, 2009
Posted by: Narce on March 10, 2009
my brain hurts
Posted by: ngolsh on March 10, 2009
Posted by: 0 on March 10, 2009
Posted by: 0 on March 10, 2009
pizza break! someone please take over the merging for a while
Posted by: ngolsh on March 10, 2009
Posted by: James on March 10, 2009
Little more...
Posted by: 0 on March 10, 2009
Posted by: Hamid on March 10, 2009
http://shygypsy.com/farm/p.cgi?state=nppdkbpbajpjjppcdbmbkdkhkcilgdjdgppbinhcphbfgohlhdadfefldcocfepofopinmdmpngkfmiopkpnpaaobiajpaaaaaaegaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa&style=uazzwwwqarxrrhpyzfpdqbrqxubzkrzwyuwvaueiftexuvaavsybmztetrbstsjhwcrcfchb&i=0&j=3&cmd=guess&guess;=+
Posted by: James on March 10, 2009
Some friends and I have almost completed the left side.
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A couple of these are SO obvious after the fact...
Posted by: 0 on March 10, 2009
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Posted by: James on March 10, 2009
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Posted by: Marktu on March 10, 2009
beauty comes here, i've just seen openSolaris desktop. please distribute your passion with penguins on march 14
Posted by: comboy on March 10, 2009
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Posted by: James on March 10, 2009
dinner break for me too, someone keep merging to get everyone's answers in
Posted by: Matt A. on March 10, 2009
Posted by: James on March 10, 2009
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Posted by: James on March 10, 2009
Darn you Shannon =P I have to run to a dress rehearsal and I still have hw to do..
Posted by: Chris on March 10, 2009
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Posted by: James on March 10, 2009
with rocks
Posted by: Chris on March 10, 2009
Posted by: James on March 10, 2009
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Posted by: cadaeib on March 10, 2009
Posted by: Matt A. on March 10, 2009
Compiled Version!!
Thank you MIT for forcing me to learn HTML for textboxes
Posted by: James on March 10, 2009
Posted by: James on March 10, 2009
Addition of one more word
Posted by: James on March 10, 2009
Movie time in the bottom left corner!!
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Posted by: Matt A. on March 10, 2009
Posted by: 0 on March 10, 2009
But 2 more to go, guys ^.^ Then you can all start guessing at the answer to the metapuzzle (won't take very long at that point).
Posted by: Narce on March 10, 2009
i'm back
Posted by: ngolsh on March 10, 2009
acid/base... who would've guessed.
oh, thats right, i did. :D
haha jk
Posted by: ngolsh on March 10, 2009
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Posted by: Matt A. on March 10, 2009
Posted by: Matt A. on March 10, 2009
Posted by: Hamid on March 10, 2009
I'm sure it'll still be keeping me occupied when I get my decisions... -next- year.
Posted by: Anon on March 10, 2009
Someone needs to merge, though
Posted by: 0 on March 10, 2009
Posted by: 0 on March 10, 2009
thats what she said.
Posted by: ngolsh on March 10, 2009
Posted by: 0 on March 10, 2009
Reservoir Dogs? really? haha
great movie though.
Posted by: ngolsh on March 10, 2009
I opened up a new block about drugs but had a hard time getting all of them in there
Posted by: anon on March 10, 2009
Posted by: Logan on March 10, 2009
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Posted by: Matt A. on March 10, 2009
maybe I'm behind, but I have only the lower right square left pink
Posted by: 0 on March 10, 2009
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Posted by: Matt A. on March 10, 2009
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Posted by: Eric J. on March 10, 2009
Posted by: ngolsh on March 10, 2009
lets guess the topic of the second to last square... we have v*agra and c*alis to go off of now
i had to censor them, the server was filtering it
Posted by: 0 on March 10, 2009
It was spam XD
Posted by: 0 on March 10, 2009
Posted by: James on March 10, 2009
Posted by: Anonymous on March 10, 2009
Posted by: 0 on March 10, 2009
Posted by: ngolsh on March 10, 2009
Posted by: Matt A. on March 10, 2009
Midnight Train to Georgia!
[I'm the mysterious googler]
Posted by: 0 on March 10, 2009
Posted by: Matt A. on March 10, 2009
Posted by: 0 on March 10, 2009
almost there. lets do this.
Posted by: ngolsh on March 10, 2009
Last box!
Posted by: 0 on March 10, 2009
Posted by: 0 on March 10, 2009
Posted by: ngolsh on March 10, 2009
All boxes are open!
Posted by: Eric J. on March 10, 2009
update with like 2 random ones I found back towards the middle and probably won't help.
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Posted by: Matt A. on March 10, 2009
Subject found: medical dramas
Posted by: Sam ('13?) // stevethepirate on March 10, 2009
More answers on final box.
Posted by: Sam ('13?) // stevethepirate on March 10, 2009
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Posted by: Matt A. on March 10, 2009
do we win now??
Posted by: ngolsh on March 10, 2009
I have to quit now. I can't wait to see what it'll be like tomorrow :p
Posted by: Eric J. on March 10, 2009
Posted by: ngolsh on March 10, 2009
Posted by: Matt A. on March 10, 2009
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Posted by: Matt A. on March 10, 2009
a couple more answers (bottom left)
Posted by: Sam ('13?) // stevethepirate on March 10, 2009
last box in sight!
Posted by: ngolsh on March 10, 2009
Posted by: Matt A. on March 10, 2009
Posted by: ngolsh on March 10, 2009
woooooooo
Posted by: ngolsh on March 10, 2009
Posted by: Marina '13? on March 10, 2009
Posted by: 0 on March 10, 2009
who's gonna get the last word?
Posted by: ngolsh on March 10, 2009
Got the Maglev train!
Posted by: Peter on March 10, 2009
Yellow Box!!! Reveal to us your secrets!!
Posted by: Matt A. on March 10, 2009
Yellow Box!!! Reveal to us your secrets!!
Posted by: Matt A. on March 10, 2009
Posted by: 0 on March 10, 2009
Got it. Religious Cult.
Posted by: Sam ('13?) // stevethepirate on March 10, 2009
Posted by: ngolsh on March 10, 2009
X-Files
That 70s Show
hospital
religious cults
what's the connection?
Posted by: Matt A. on March 10, 2009
what, no creme filling?
Posted by: ngolsh on March 10, 2009
To solve the meta-puzzle, put the two left ones together and get something red. Add the top-right and get into the right state. Then add the last clue and you will win.
Posted by: ngolsh on March 10, 2009
bum bum bummmmm.
Posted by: Shannon on March 10, 2009
hmmmmmmmmm
Posted by: 0 on March 10, 2009
Posted by: Matt A. on March 10, 2009
Posted by: Matt A. on March 10, 2009
Posted by: 0 on March 10, 2009
Posted by: 0 on March 10, 2009
Posted by: 0 on March 10, 2009
Posted by: 0 on March 10, 2009
the above anonymous is me.
Posted by: ngolsh on March 10, 2009
Posted by: ngolsh on March 10, 2009
Posted by: Peter on March 10, 2009
Posted by: 0 on March 10, 2009
Any leads?
Posted by: anon on March 10, 2009
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Posted by: Peter on March 10, 2009
Posted by: Matt A. on March 10, 2009
Posted by: anon on March 10, 2009
alternatively, if you haven't, I hope that admitting that what you said was fairly relevant doesn't give too much away.
Posted by: 0 on March 10, 2009
Posted by: 0 on March 10, 2009
Posted by: 0 on March 10, 2009
everyone ready?
Posted by: 0 on March 10, 2009
Posted by: ngolsh on March 10, 2009
Posted by: Matt A. on March 10, 2009
Ahh, no!
Posted by: Anon on March 10, 2009
Find some way to privately message people who want the answer, but please don't put it up here. :/
Posted by: Anon on March 10, 2009
No, I promise you it is NOT painfully obvious, but I assumed it would take you all less time to get the answer than it did me after you got all the clues unlocked.
@last anon, that's not possible here (private messages). This has been a collaborative effort of the MIT blogs, what's wrong with posting the results?! He can just post a screenshot if you want.
Posted by: 0 on March 10, 2009
A little bit more...
Posted by: Jen on March 10, 2009
we know the X-Files episode, Red Museum, about some weird cult-type thing in Wisconsin.
we have That 70's show, set in Wisconsin.
the final meta-clue is hospital.
hospitals and museums in Wisconsin turned up nothing.
In That 70's show, Kitty was a nurse at a hospital. so google Wisconsin nurse museum, no answer, but something about a nurse who worked in a psychiatric hospital.
So I searched for Wisconsin psychiatric hospital, which gave Aurora Psychiatric Hospital.
http://www.aurorahealthcare.org/facilities/display.asp?ID=0010
i stuck it in the box...
and
Ta Daaaa.
Posted by: ngolsh on March 10, 2009
sorry guys.
my bad......
Posted by: 0 on March 10, 2009
sorry guys.
my bad......
Posted by: ngolsh on March 10, 2009
sorry guys!
Posted by: ngolsh on March 10, 2009
Posted by: Matt A. on March 10, 2009
well, it was fun. i'm goin to bed, nice working with everyone
Posted by: ngolsh on March 10, 2009
Funny thing, when I did this last year, I solved it from the OTHER direction, the X-files! In Red Museum, the person who killed Deep Throat appears. In the episode Deep Throat, Wisconsin's Aurora program is mentioned. Searching Aurora yielded that hospital, and voila! And as backing up of my idea, searching wikipedia for auroras most commonly shows "red" ones. And naturally, this whole ordeal took longer than the huge group effort everyone did just now ^.^
Posted by: 0 on March 10, 2009
Don't, I agree with the collaborative effort thing. And besides, now I can get to my homework I've been procrastinating for the last several hours to do this. :/
Posted by: Matt A. on March 10, 2009
Will we be getting another one tomorrow? ;D
Posted by: Sam ('13?) // stevethepirate on March 10, 2009
Posted by: James on March 10, 2009
There's another puzzle on the main page that's called a to craZy or something like that. Go have fun. :D
Posted by: anonymous on March 10, 2009
Posted by: Narce on March 10, 2009
Posted by: Matt A. on March 10, 2009
Posted by: 0 on March 10, 2009
@Sam//stevethepirate- Potentially. It'll depend on if I can find another semi-obscure-nearly-impossible game by tomorrow.
Also, good job, guys. Way to not do real work tonight. I'm proud.
Posted by: Shannon on March 10, 2009
martini... cocktails
it was bound to happen
Posted by: 0 on March 10, 2009
And it took me a couple/few hours to find the X-files method to the answer when I did this puzzle over a year ago. (after I FINALLY, after months of working alone, had all 4 clues, mind you)
Posted by: Narce on March 10, 2009
Posted by: 0 on March 10, 2009
Posted by: Another anon on March 10, 2009
Posted by: Another anon on March 11, 2009
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Posted by: Anthony P on March 11, 2009
But of course -- the Mighty Ducks!
Posted by: 0 on March 11, 2009
Posted by: Narce on March 11, 2009
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Posted by: Anthony P on March 11, 2009
Game: http://shygypsy.com/farm/p.cgi?state=ppppodppdppppppphnpppplppkplplnpopppnpplphnphpppppppppppppphpppppppppoppppolnpipplpnpppphiplppphppaghppppaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa&style=uzuvwxwsybvaueqvrzqytzqptuzbdnxtuuxyvwvjbpbqtszzbmwwtxvfxodttmcdwiwackez&i=1&j=3&cmd=guess&guess;=+
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Posted by: Mary and Killian on March 11, 2009
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Posted by: Anthony P on March 11, 2009
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Posted by: Anthony P on March 11, 2009
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Posted by: 0 on March 11, 2009
Posted by: Anthony P on March 11, 2009
i swear i didn't look at that....
someone thinks like me, i guess. or rather i think like someone else.
Posted by: ngolsh on March 11, 2009
Posted by: ngolsh on March 11, 2009
Movie and Alcoholics anonymous to "Days of wine and roses"
my friend really likes that movie. it's super old
Posted by: 0 on March 11, 2009
I agree with you, cheating makes it pointless!
Though it is not cheating if you google for certain words and not for the game!
E.g. you can google bug powder dust and find out that it is a song from bomb the bass or you could google for cocktail names!
Posted by: Anthony P on March 11, 2009
You could have merged with mine-- it already had several of the ones you found xD but nice job.
@ngolsh
Heh yeah, you even had the same wrong leads as that person.
Posted by: Another anon on March 11, 2009
Posted by: ngolsh on March 11, 2009
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Posted by: 0 on March 11, 2009
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Posted by: Kevin L. on March 11, 2009
^ Small, random updates,
product of insomnia....
Posted by: Laura W. on March 12, 2009
Posted by: Tyler '13 Hopeful on March 12, 2009
i feel like i'm dead, such a killing process to reach internet from solaris. 5:27 AM
happy penguin day, that's how we DO what we Say
first internet page i saw in firefox 3.0.4 in solaris 11 was mit.edu (a few minutes ago)
Posted by: comboy on March 12, 2009
Posted by: 0 on March 13, 2009
Posted by: 0 on March 13, 2009
Posted by: Tyler '13 Hopeful on March 13, 2009
is it supposed to mean something
Posted by: 0 on March 13, 2009
Posted by: Matt A. on March 13, 2009
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