What's this new thing?

[Teh Don Ditty]

Clue: You have to speak the same language as me, painful as it may be to do so.

So we have to talk in Unix then?

 

[iOrlando]

i just scrolled over my icons and it said April 2 ...anyone else see this?

 

[Doctor Q]

Rule 1 (solved)

wrc fan identified the determining factor: 3rd letter of user name, case sensitive

OrangeSVTguy identified the mapping. (Typo alert: You've got two lowercase a's in your list.)

MOFS determined that the rule name had to be in the correct language.

r.j.s identified the rule name!


Only Rule R remains unsolved.

 

[r.j.s]

r.j.s identified the rule name!

Sweet! I'm a geek!

i just scrolled over my icons and it said April 2 ...anyone else see this?

No.

 

[Peace]

I'm just throwing stuff out now.

"R" = Relevant post ??

 

[Rt&Dzine]

I'll throw some out too:

R =

Regularity
Relationship
Record
Random
Repeat

 

[NickM]

Rule 'A', Rule 'P', Rule 'R', etc...

I'm an April Fool.

 

[r.j.s]

I Got It!!!

 

[Jaffa Cake]

There's a discussion and explanation (of sorts) here.

 

[Tallest Skil]

Don't live where April Fool's Day happens, eh?

I, personally, want them to STAY, but have them all be user-customizable Apple hardware!

 

[Rt&Dzine]

I Got It!!!

Put it in writing so you get credit.

EDIT: By Jove! I think you've got it!

 

[NickM]

I figured it was something to do with April Fools, being that is spells APRIL 1... but the "Rule" part was kinda confusing me... and why it's still there today kinda confuses me.
I'll check out that other thread. Thanks

 

[pdxflint]

I kind of like the art, too. Kind of like ribbons on a military uniform. Give us various icons to choose from, and we can all customize our topside sig with little icon flags.

I imagine they'll be gone by tomorrow...April 3.

 

[r.j.s]

Recent Post Count

It depends on the last number of your post count ...

If your post count ends with:

0 or 5:

1 or 6:

2 or 7:

3 or 8:

4 or 9:

 

[gkarris]

What are these little pics anyways and does that mean I'm in trouble???

 

[r.j.s]

What are these little pics anyways and does that mean I'm in trouble???

There are 18 pages to this thread, but everything you need to know is summed up here, here, here and here.

 

[MOFS]

Rule R

Xyl identified the set of flags correctly, so now we know how many there are.

Clue: Abstract got very close to identifying this rule while talking about another rule. He also used the magic word.

techfreak85's question was the best other clue to the rule.


Rule 1

As reported before, wrc fan identified the rule.

MOFS figured out that the name of the rule needs to be said in the correct language. This is definitely the geekiest part of the puzzle.

Clue: You have to speak the same language as me, painful as it may be to do so.

1) Yay! I get a mention!

2) In a previous post, Abstract talks about binary in his post about rule 1. Techfreak asks:
it thought Pcrumors just aliased to macrumors?

So maybe R means Riddle?

EDIT: r.j.s' answer seems better then mine. Ah well - so near to glory!

 

[TuffLuffJimmy]

So has each code been cracked?
EDIT: Hooray! looks like it. You're all so smart. I thought it was just gibberish, here only to mess with our heads.

 

[r.j.s]

So has each code been cracked?

Should be.

I think everyone that played a major part in solving it gets to keep something there, much like the contest winners do - but it should be related to this ...

 

[TuffLuffJimmy]

Should be.

I think everyone that played a major part in solving it gets to keep something there, much like the contest winners do - but it should be related to this ...

It would be cool if they got to keep one of their tiny icons as a souvenir.

 

[r.j.s]

It would be cool if they got to keep one of their tiny icons as a souvenir.

Yes, something like that - if you helped solve it - keep it.

EDIT: Now what am I supposed to do around here, help people?

 

[OrangeSVTguy]

I'll throw some out too:

R =

Regularity
Relationship
Record
Random
Repeat

Rate
The amount of posts you get in a 24 hour period.

 

[r.j.s]

Rate
The amount of posts you get in a 24 hour period.

See my post above.

 

[Doctor Q]

Rule R

Xyl identified the icons.

r.j.s identified the rule.

All that's left to completely solve the Great MacRumors 2009 April Fool's Day Mystery Icon Puzzle is to identify the name of Rule R, which begins with an R. As it always true in life, the math majors are likely to save the day.

 

[r.j.s]

Something about Reciprocating?