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Unsolved Perplex City Card

Perplex City is a collectible card, alternate reality, puzzle game that I’ve mentioned here before.  To play the game, you buy packs of cards each of which has a puzzle on it.  Boingboing is reporting a collaboration of Perplex City players to solve one particularly difficult puzzle.  They’re not looking for collaboration between the best puzzle minds, however; they’re looking for collaboration between the computers of the best puzzle minds.  The puzzle contains RC5 encrypted text that would take a single computer years to crack.  They’ve set up a little distributed computing experiment to get the job done faster.  And apparently, they’re also offering prizes.

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Posted by Josh in Contest/Competition, Game (Wednesday April 12, 2006 at 7:36 pm)

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