Cheat

ZurdoDev

Ha! Developer tools make it too easy. :)

There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

Keith Barrow

Yes - take a look at the scores. I reckon I could write a bot to do it in seconds less than a second. [Edit] RyanDev is right - with developer tools it's too easy, though they have tried to obfuscate the image names. It doesn't look like they randomise the positions either - simply play once, note the positions and play again.

PB 369,783 wrote:

I just find him very unlikeable, and I think the way he looks like a prettier version of his Mum is very disturbing.[^]

chriselst

I did get the Inspect Element thing in Firefox to show me the images when I hovered over the image names once, but I'd already started the timer long before, when I tried without it wouldn't do that. Restarting the game does randomise, or it did each time I looked. I wonder if they'll pull the plug on the competition once the leaderboard is full of perfect scores by the end of today.

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

chriselst

Someone care to explain why they reported me for posting this?

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

Bergholt Stuttley Johnson

you kyboshed their chances of winning an IPad or whatever?

You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

There is a flag_1/falg_2/flag_3 and so on class value on the inner div... I hope you got that no iPad in it. It's a page to collect email addresses for future use...(or are they so dump?)

I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

Because it seems like a page to collect email addresses. No-one will give any iPad away. The game is so dump, so easily can be cheated that it is not thinkable that someone who investing an iPad will let it happened...

I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)

chriselst

So you felt the need to report me because you didn't like the website it linked to? I made it clear you didn't have to put in an email address to look at the thing. The website belongs to a company that has been trading since 1845, employes thousands of people and has a turnover of hundreds of million. They might employ some slightly crap web devs, but it is a a company that does not need to resort to simple tricks to mine email addresses, and if it doesn't have the prize to give away it will be in quite a lot of trouble under UK laws, running competitions is very tightly regulated. Anyway, thanks for the report oh lord of the webs.

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

I didn't report you my friend. It was merely an observation backed-up with the experience about our trigger-happy fellow CPians...

chriselst wrote:

UK laws

I do not know about it - around here there is no much regulation...

I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)

AlexCode

An iPad is a very cheap prize but with a huge fan pool. OK, it might eventually be expensive for a single individual, but for a company it's peanuts. If to that you add a dumb game, the word will spread and chances are you'll mine a lot of emails :) It's never about the quality of the responses, is about the amount!! This is way cheaper than any other way to publicize something or just gather contacts.

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

You probably right...

I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)

PIEBALDconsult

Now I wonder how it deals with Canuckian laws.

You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.

chriselst

AlexCode wrote:

If to that you add a dumb game, the word will spread and chances are you'll mine a lot of emails :)

It's never about the quality of the responses, is about the amount!!

It's not about getting the email addresses, although lots of online competitions do exist for that sole purpose, but to increase web traffic and ad revenue. But if someone is going to object to being a facilitator to that then pretty much every single link posted will get reported.

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

Keith Barrow

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote:

There is a flag_1/falg_2/flag_3 and so on class value on the inner div...

I'm not even sure it's used for anything- the JavaScript perhaps?

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote:

I hope you got that no iPad in it

I hadn't considered actually winning - I doubt I'll be in the top 10 much longer which is good as I'd feel bad winning.

PB 369,783 wrote:

I just find him very unlikeable, and I think the way he looks like a prettier version of his Mum is very disturbing.[^]