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Why all the Decryptonite stuff?

 
 
Reply Sat 9 Jul, 2016 03:23 am
The New Topics list seems to be full of stupid posts about it. Is it some kind of game? It's getting very old very fast.
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Region Philbis
 
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Reply Sat 9 Jul, 2016 03:25 am
@Tes yeux noirs,
ehBeth wrote:
It's a 48 hour inter-high school online treasure hunt competition in India.

Students have been using A2k to exchange hints for many years.

They swarm, they disappear, they reappear the following year.
SHASHWAT1
 
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Reply Sat 9 Jul, 2016 06:21 am
@Region Philbis,
its not inter high school its only for DPS
Region Philbis
 
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Reply Sat 9 Jul, 2016 08:37 am
@SHASHWAT1,

what does DPS stand for?
mark noble
 
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Reply Sat 9 Jul, 2016 09:57 am
@Tes yeux noirs,
Struck me the same, Tes.
ehBeth
 
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Reply Sat 9 Jul, 2016 10:08 am
@mark noble,
I love their enthusiasm - 48 hours when A2k feels a bit less like a retirement home.
ehBeth
 
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Reply Sat 9 Jul, 2016 10:11 am
they'll be done at midnight tonight (Delhi time) so not much longer til they vanish for another year
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ehBeth
 
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Reply Sat 9 Jul, 2016 10:13 am
@Region Philbis,
http://www.dpschd.com/2012/01/decryptonite-an-inter-dps-it-competition/

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an Inter DPS IT Competition in which 65 Delhi Public Schools from all over the world participated.
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mark noble
 
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Reply Sat 9 Jul, 2016 10:13 am
@ehBeth,
Damn, Damn, Grrr.
Guess I'd take the retirement home over 'decrypto' any day. Smile
ehBeth
 
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Reply Sat 9 Jul, 2016 10:24 am
@mark noble,
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/

just about 2 hours left

there's usually a final flurry and then thanks and congrats on a few thread

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are you telling them to get offa yer lawn?

Laughing
mark noble
 
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Reply Sat 9 Jul, 2016 10:34 am
@ehBeth,
Beth - I advocate each persons/peeps right to expression of whatever they see fit to express.
If I understood what the heck it was about, I might even join in - But I don't.
If there were a lost (Smithsonian-hidden) artifact at its end - I would decrypt it for fun.Smile
ehBeth
 
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Reply Sat 9 Jul, 2016 10:43 am
@mark noble,
A lot of it seems to be old-skool decryption. Maybe related to India's colonial history?
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