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Thank you!
Are we going to be able to keep them? At least for a little while. I think they are pretty cool!
Congratulations to everyone who helped solve the Great MacRumors 2009 April Fool's Day Mystery Icon Puzzle.
The "official winners" are as follows:
Honorable mention goes to:
Thanks, everyone, and Happy April Fool's Day from MacRumors!
The "official winners" are as follows:
For identifying the rules:
For identifying names of rules:
Each will be awarded a 29-day "Contest Winner" badge (i.e., for the month of April). This wasn't an announced MacRumors contest, but after seeing how much effort you all put into the challenge we decided that some recognition is deserved. The badges will appear before midnight east coast time, one badge per person.
Rule A: iBookG4user
Rule P: Moi un Mouton
Rule R: r.j.s
Rule I: Peace
Rule L: Moi un Mouton
Rule 1: wrc fan
Extra icon rule: richthomas
Rule P: Moi un Mouton
Rule R: r.j.s
Rule I: Peace
Rule L: Moi un Mouton
Rule 1: wrc fan
Extra icon rule: richthomas
For identifying names of rules:
Rule A: Eanair
Rule P: Eraserhead
Rule R: darrenscerri
Rule I: TwinCities Dan
Rule L: TwinCities Dan
Rule 1: r.j.s
Rule P: Eraserhead
Rule R: darrenscerri
Rule I: TwinCities Dan
Rule L: TwinCities Dan
Rule 1: r.j.s
Each will be awarded a 29-day "Contest Winner" badge (i.e., for the month of April). This wasn't an announced MacRumors contest, but after seeing how much effort you all put into the challenge we decided that some recognition is deserved. The badges will appear before midnight east coast time, one badge per person.
Honorable mention goes to:
The members who mapped the icons:
Rule A: iBookG4user
Rule P: Abstract
Rule R: r.j.s
Rule I: darrenscerri
Rule L: Moi un Mouton
Rule 1: OrangeSVTguy
The following members who made other important contributions to the team effort:Rule P: Abstract
Rule R: r.j.s
Rule I: darrenscerri
Rule L: Moi un Mouton
Rule 1: OrangeSVTguy
bartelby
TuffLuffJimmy
Rt&Dzine
iMpathetic
MOFS
Your reward is this post (plus the satisfaction of doing a good job).TuffLuffJimmy
Rt&Dzine
iMpathetic
MOFS
Thanks, everyone, and Happy April Fool's Day from MacRumors!
Lol pcrumors.com is actually a domain which redirects to macrumors.com!
P.S. Don't know if you're joking or not!
The forum members at pcrumors.com solved the puzzle at the same split second that our forum members did, so we went to a tie-breaker based on processors. But everyone was using Intel chips, so we went to a second tie-breaker based on alphabetical order. "Mac" comes before "PC", so the MacRumors forum members win!
Perhaps it wasn't fair that I stole the grand prize for myself (probably not what WildCowboy intended when he donated it), so we're going to heat it until it melts down, divide the molten liquid into equal portions, cast it into the shape of discarded Apple hockey puck mice, and split them among all members who posted in this thread. If your commemorative hockey puck paperweight mouse doesn't arrive by courier within the next 120 to 130 years, please contact MacRumors for a free replacement.
Perhaps it wasn't fair that I stole the grand prize for myself (probably not what WildCowboy intended when he donated it), so we're going to heat it until it melts down, divide the molten liquid into equal portions, cast it into the shape of discarded Apple hockey puck mice, and split them among all members who posted in this thread. If your commemorative hockey puck paperweight mouse doesn't arrive by courier within the next 120 to 130 years, please contact MacRumors for a free replacement.
I think the general concensus is that there were no rules and it was just random, a way for the admins to fool with us.
April Fool's Day Icons - Summary of Rules
Rule A: Avatar or no avatar (2 possible icons)
Rule P: Presence in the forums, day last active (31 possible icons, one for each day of the month)
Rule R: Remainder of post count divided by 5 (5 possible icons, for remainder 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4)
Rule I: Initial join month (12 possible icons, for January thru December)
Rule L: Letters in username (13 possible icons, for lengths 3 thru 15)
Rule 1: 7|-|1rD 1_3773|? 0]= |_|53|?|\|@|v|3 ("third letter of username" in l33t) (one possible icon for each character)
Extra Icon Rule: Posting in the Happy April Fools' Day: April 1, 2009 thread (1 icon, always)
Rule A: Avatar or no avatar (2 possible icons)
Rule P: Presence in the forums, day last active (31 possible icons, one for each day of the month)
Rule R: Remainder of post count divided by 5 (5 possible icons, for remainder 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4)
Rule I: Initial join month (12 possible icons, for January thru December)
Rule L: Letters in username (13 possible icons, for lengths 3 thru 15)
Rule 1: 7|-|1rD 1_3773|? 0]= |_|53|?|\|@|v|3 ("third letter of username" in l33t) (one possible icon for each character)
Extra Icon Rule: Posting in the Happy April Fools' Day: April 1, 2009 thread (1 icon, always
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Well, I'd like to thank WildCowboy, Doctor Q, and the rest of the MacRumors team for another fun April 1st. I'm always impressed with the new idea you come up with every year.
About 2 to 3 hours.
If you'll be lonely without them, you'll still be able to see them at famfamfam.
Just out of curiosity, what letter/number/symbol was required to get the United States as a flag?
I should get an honorable mention as well. Just spent the last 30 minutes going through these 13 pages in hopes that it still wasn't figured out.
Then again, I wouldn't have had anything to contribute, but it was interesting seeing you nutballs unfold the mighty riddle of Q.
It also seems that the few moments I had enjoying them will be gone, "in the next couple hours."
For shame.
Then again, I wouldn't have had anything to contribute, but it was interesting seeing you nutballs unfold the mighty riddle of Q.
It also seems that the few moments I had enjoying them will be gone, "in the next couple hours."
For shame.
I should get an honorable mention as well. Just spent the last 30 minutes going through these 13 pages in hopes that it still wasn't figured out.
Then again, I wouldn't have had anything to contribute, but it was interesting seeing you nutballs unfold the mighty riddle of Q.
It also seems that the few moments I had enjoying them will be gone, "in the next couple hours."
For shame.
Take a screenshot and enjoy them forever
I have been pretty busy this past several days so didn't really get to participate in the guessing and working-out of the answers to this intriguing puzzle, but it was sure fun catching up here-and-there! First thing I did this evening when I got online was to come to MR to check out this thread to see what progress had been made on figuring out the puzzle. Wow, you guys are terrific! Doctor Q and his cohorts sure came up with a challenging puzzle and you met that challenge -- congratulations!
Credit for the wacky APRIL1 rules goes to WildCowboy. It's great to have such fiendish people planning your recreation, isn't it? I helped by testing the implementation of the rules, with Knox having done the heavy lifting on the scripting. In hindsight, testing was probably not the best job to assign to me since I'm not good with colors (I was absent that day in school), so I checked the icons by their filenames instead of by what they looked like.
Without the April Fool's Day icons, this thread looks strangely sparse. I was used to seeing all those decorations, I guess. But the many new Contest Winner badges
![contest_winner.png]()
certainly look cool.
That sentence looks like I omitted a word, but that's actually the answer: the exclamation mark character.
Kudos to cr2sh for the clever new avatar:![cr2sh.gif]( "cr2sh.gif")
I helped by testing the implementation of the rules, with Knox having done the heavy lifting on the scripting. In hindsight, testing was probably not the best job to assign to me since I'm not good with colors (I was absent that day in school), so I checked the icons by their filenames instead of by what they looked like. Without the April Fool's Day icons, this thread looks strangely sparse. I was used to seeing all those decorations, I guess. But the many new Contest Winner badges
The answer is !!
That sentence looks like I omitted a word, but that's actually the answer: the exclamation mark character.
Kudos to cr2sh for the clever new avatar:
Without the April Fool's Day icons, this thread looks strangely sparse. I was used to seeing all those decorations, I guess. But the many new Contest Winner badgescertainly look cool.![contest_winner.png]()
Who got them and how did they "win"?