The decision of "Drop quest 2012"

This year's “ Dropkvest ” consisted of 24 questions and began on May 12th at 21:00 Moscow time. Already after about five hours, the first winners appeared, and then within a few milliseconds the prizes were dismantled. Let's see how difficult the tasks were and how easy it will be to get the promised gigabyte. Attention: under the "cut" answers are provided without spoilers or any introductory words.


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This year, the passage was slightly complicated: in some tasks the answers differed. However, there were few variants of tasks, most often from two to five.

1. Using simple instructions, get a numeric password by solving a simple math problem. You need to create a text document in the folder that appears Dropquest 2012 under the name containing the answer. Task variants had the following solutions: 64529.txt, 38645.txt, 46637.txt or 24929.txt. The condition of the second riddle will appear in the file itself.
2. On the page https://www.dropbox.com/about go "horse" starting with ChenLi, and you will get the sequence ChenLi, Ramsey, Allison, Naveen, Emily. The answer is compiled by the first letters - CRANE . Press F5 - the server will try to display employment.
3. Use the files added to your account. Find the captions for the corresponding icons in the dropbox web interface. They will be Sharing, Move, Upload, Download, Get Started, Events, Show deleted files. The first letters are added to the password for the next level: SMUDGES.
4. Use the maps to restore the routes of each day, which will be in huge letters SOMA.
5. The figure shows different types of outlets. By their lettering we get the answer MAD LIB.
6. The authors of the quest have turned their heads, saying that in addition to pen and paper, nothing is required. Invert the colors of the picture in the graphical editor (or any online tool), get the date in the cells with unmatched colors, which you need to set in https://www.dropbox.com/events . The result will be something like https://www.dropbox.com/events?ns=false&n=0&d=3-21-2005 , https://www.dropbox.com/events?ns=false&n=0&d=1 -7-2003 or https://www.dropbox.com/events?ns=false&n=0&d=11-28-2001 . On one of these pages you will see the following lead and hint for a new chapter.
7. Perform the calculations with an accuracy of two decimal places, then look at the dropquest2012 user comment at the appropriate places in the composition . For example, if it turned out 3.14, look at 3:14. Arrange the letters in the desired order, which will give https://www.dropbox.com/dropquest2012/LEADING , https://www.dropbox.com/dropquest2012/DEALING or https://www.dropbox.com/dropquest2012/ALIGNED - it all depends on your option. There is no hint in the track itself, and it is not necessary to listen to it.
8. The answer is the word TRIUMPHANT, composed of the first letters of the names of the talismans encrypted in the condition of North American universities.
9. In the web interface, sort the files that appear in the Onboard Computer Update folder by extension, and they will form a hint: your next destination is the last page of the tour. Send an invitation to Dropbox to the email address listed at https://www.dropbox.com/tour/6 . Invitations are sent from https://www.dropbox.com/referrals . Mailbox options: flash@dropbox.com, boxer@dropbox.com, savior@dropbox.com.
10. Unnecessary, depending on the version, are MEXICO, ARGENTINA or KOREA.
11. The cipher of Caesar in each of nine blocks of five letters coded the word BLOCK. Using these nine shifts, we get the answer SOUTHPOLE by the numbers of letters in the English alphabet.
12. Open the Dropbox File Manager in your browser and restore the previous version of the file Chapter12.txt. Then on the page https://www.dropbox.com/help, click on the shield icon next to Security and Privacy.
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14. It is necessary to solve the crossword puzzle with sudoku and mouse clicks to place the numbers in the square below as in the selected area 3 × 3. Perhaps the link will help.
15. Share the folder to the specified email address. Go to https://www.dropbox.com/share and click on the rainbow icon.
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17. Rejected for use in the "Dropbox" cipher encoded sets of related elements with missing members. DNMOYASUYDEATNSDEEYDAWUHDRYASTRAFYIDTRUSYADA - days of the week with missing Sunday, LUSHBAFDCOODEPYYPGRUMPLEESYNESEZY - Disney Dwarfs Bashful, Doc, Grumpy, Sleepy, Sneezy with missing Happy and Dopey, STAUURIMEINGANCCREELOGRIVOBRAILSCRPOIOTARGISTUSAIPRICRNOCAARQAUISUSPEICS - zodiac signs without Aries, CERMRYUEVSUNTHEARMRASPUJTIERTSAURNRUUNAS - modern eight planets without Neptune, NEVYLUGTONYTUSLTPIDERTHOLSARTHW - seven deadly sins without Anger, TRAXOGRIETBRATIBDGRAONKNASETAOGKONMEYOROSTREGDOIPG - signs of the Chinese horoscope without Horse, LIHEMUENONPYKORTNONXENRDAON - noble gases without Argon, DRERANGEOLOWEYLRGENELBUELIVOTE - colors of the rainbow without Indigog, rainbow colors without Indigog, DRAGANGEOLOWEYLRGENELBUELIVOTE - colors of the rainbow without Indigog, rainbow colors without Indigog By the first letters of the words we get the answer SHANGHAI.
18. Despite the seemingly logical nature of sorting photos to photos, and drawings to figures, in the first directory you need to move the 1st, 3rd, 6th, 8th and 9th files, and the second - the remaining (2nd , 4th, 5th, 7th and 10th). It is connected with the synonyms depicted, containing DROP or BOX: dead bird - dropdead, switch - switchbox, in the same way cereal box, orange box, drop sail, drop shadow, ballot box and so on. Perform sorting is necessary in the browser, as specifically emphasized in the task.
19. In the rebus, the link is encoded in the shortened URL used by Dropbox; it is either http://db.tt/94J964 , or http://db.tt/Q2J9J4 , or http://db.tt/72J922 or http: // db.tt/72J933 . Hieroglyphs are di bi, that is, db, “Audi TT” - tt, in the third line, different for different variants, - the difference between the card values ​​in the first two.
20. The files contain obvious retellings of the films “Ocean's Eleven Friends”, “X-Men: First Class”, “Twenty-One Years”, “Super 8”, “28 Days Later”, “Sixth Sense”. Take from each text by the word under the number that matches the number in the film. At the hint of the Houston we have a problem movie, it is easy to guess about Apollo 13 .
21. The numbers of the functions used (1; 2; 2.1; 1.9; 9; 2.2; 5; 1.2; 2.5) will give the numbers of the alafit letters. The answer is the word ABUSIVELY.
22. The most brainstorming task in the whole quest. We are given MIDI files, also hinting about the Periodic Table of Mendeleev, about the national domain zones, and you can think of the modulo comparison yourself. Record notes from files (1: CED, 2: CAG, 3: CAB AGE, 4: EG, 5: EG, 6: DE F, 7: CA E, 8: ABBAGE, 9: EEF, 10: FAC, 11: ACE, 12: BE F, 13: EAF, 14: ABBAGE, 15 EG, 16 AG, 17 CED, 18 DEF, 19 DEC DE, 20 DECAD) and note that in each of the received letter sequences there is a hint of missing letters (CABBAGE, CEDE, DEAF, DECADE, FACE, and so on), then get the answer from the missing letters from the files numbered from the comparison operation modulo expressions with the numbers of chemical elements instead of the numbers of chemical elements with the same name as the national domain zones flags. Depending on the variant, the answers are FACED, MACAU, BADGE, ADAGE, BEEF, CAFE, CAGE, AGE, DECODE, CABBAGE or BASED.
23. On Twitter there are several such accounts with the specified coordinates. At one of them the coordinates are not filled, that is, his position is our answer. Substituting the coordinates on the map and receiving the Dropbox logo, we can see a hint of the MACHU PICCHU.
24. A long and painful crossword gives a hint: ORDER LOGS BY SIZE NINE-LETTER WORDS. Having sorted the log files by size and taking from each one by the nine-letter word, we get the following clue, which requires taking the first word from each of the log files: the first record is the first word, the second word the second and so on. In the phrase received, there is an obvious allusion to the wonders of the world, from which follows the COLOSSEUM.

Thank you all so much for your participation and help in the decision of “Drop quest 2012”, it was a lot of fun. I thank the users liquido , LaCTuK and Sterhel for additions explaining solutions. Thanks to Pechkin1007 for pointing out the document with the answers, the decisions from them supplemented the post.

Do not forget to receive your free gigabyte until June 2nd of 2012, when, as the official blog of the service informs , “Dropkvest 2012” will be closed.