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Did you know about the Library of Babel?
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I did. I think it was mentioned in a Vsauce video once.
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Awesome puzzle! :)
I didn't know about it.
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I did, probably from vsauce
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Never heard of it before. Looks interesting though. It's pretty late where I am so I'll have to check it out when I'm actually awake.
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Nope, I didn't. It's a really awesome concept. Thanks!
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Nope. An interesting concept.
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I knew about it, i remember the first time i heard of it it just blew my mind.
Afaik, it's literally everything you can think of is in there? I always wondered how much it would cost to keep that site online.
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Holy crap. I'm dumbfounded
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Yeah it's impressive :)
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Thanks!
Learn something new today :)
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I made it!
Didn't know about it before. So, would this be doable with any other code?
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Not just any code, but any text, ever!
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Man, I spent 20 minutes trying to figure out why the giveaway code YLcrb wasn't working. Apparently, my browser was acting up and using previous incorrect entry (lowercase ylcrb).... even slowly manually inputting and going wasn't working, cache kept visiting previous incorrect link.... had to use a new browser for it to work.
And no, I didn't know about that site.
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Yeah, Chrome does that... very annoying when trying giveaway codes and you forget/don't knwo about it.
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I had the same issue. Good to know this, though! I only managed to get here by leaving "crumble" in the URL when putting in the code. Wondering how many other puzzles I got stuck on because of this issue lol
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You have to specifically select the suggested URL below the omnibox that corresponds to the exact result you want when you've already tried visiting the page with different letter-capitalization once.
Another way is to hit the "X" all the way to the right of a suggested URL to permanently remove it from suggestions, then type it out again.
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What is the Library of Babel? Seems like a cool way to do puzzles
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https://youtu.be/GDrBIKOR01c
Minute 17
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Wow!
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I did not know about the Library of Babel.
But I visit a certain library all the time. 🌫️
🌫Library🌫
steam://open/library
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Cool puzzle!
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Exactly what I thought lol
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem
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I actually do know all about it! I even have a Guidebook.
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Surprised by the amount of people who didn't know about it given the average knowledge of puzzle stuff I assessed previously
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this is mind blowing =)
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Didn't know about this, so thanks for sharing a fantastic TIL of the day. I had to read the "About" pages in there before I realise what the wall of text you provided might be for. I had simply thought that Hexagon=6 and the wall of text I subsequently landed in was for some cipher decoding against the text you provided. Intuitively speaking, those 3000+ chars simply shouldn't belong in a small textbox / URL bar!
That said, I still have no idea how the library works like it does. bookmarks for another day
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Yeah that's the reason I didn't directly link to the browse section
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Knew about this, probably from vsauce from watching his videos 8 years ago lol but here's an excerpt from the about section on library of babel. I think it works on a per-page system so you may not find an entire real book written in library of babel by clicking "next page", you'll have to jump between different hexagons, shelves, and etc. but that individual page is the exact copy of the real book. It says "including lower case letters, space, commas, and period" but that doesn't mean "including this as well", it means excluding everything that's not on that list like UPPERCASE and number5.
https://libraryofbabel.info/About.html
"The Library of Babel is a place for scholars to do research, for artists and writers to seek inspiration, for anyone with curiosity or a sense of humor to reflect on the weirdness of existence - in short, it’s just like any other library. If completed, it would contain every possible combination of 1,312,000 characters, including lower case letters, space, comma, and period. Thus, it would contain every book that ever has been written, and every book that ever could be - including every play, every song, every scientific paper, every legal decision, every constitution, every piece of scripture, and so on. At present it contains all possible pages of 3200 characters, about 104677 books."
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"Anglishize" helps highlighting the thing. The library is impressive, indeed.
I intended to try all 5-characters strings, until I realize that the chance of the giveaway code is a dictionary word is quite low.
A wall of text so I don't read the page wholly.
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Cool stuff!
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One of the coolest puzzles I’ve solved here! Came for the giveaways, stayed for the puzzles :3
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Thank you :)
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Very nice one :) Gave up the first time, but came back and made it \o/
Thanks for the puzzle and giveaways!
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Well done, and thank you!
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