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A: So this puzzle requires some technical skill. If you don't have much technical knowledge, you may just want to reveal all of these answers rather than trying to break your head over them.

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A: Assuming you do have a bit of technical knowledge, what would be wrong with this page?

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A: Take a look at the details of this page.

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A: Notice its name in particular.

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A: Compare it to the names of other Mowz pages.

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A: This page is an HTML file.

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A: Of course, the others are, too, except for the ones with active server code on them.

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A: Those files are ASP files.

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A: Shouldn't the Freshman test have some ASP code in it?

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A: If so, it would have to be an ASP file, too.

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A: So the right page must end in ".asp", not ".html".

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A: Last chance!

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A: The right page is http://www.bangaloreworldu-in.co.nz/qw0vm67fgj.asp
(Note that links to Mowz ASP pages don't work properly. You'll have to go in through the mowzhole in the front door to get to the test, unfortunately.)

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Q: How do I solve the "Who Am I" puzzle?

A: Don't try this until you've read the Bangalore news pages very carefully. (Not BWUNN, which is not a game site.)

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A: Well, take a guess!

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A: No, that wasn't it. ;) But you did get an interesting rejection page when you tried. (The first guess never works, not even when you have the right answer!)

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A: What are those sounds?

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A: The strange sounds only come in on the left hand side, not at all on the right.

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A: Maybe you can analyze them?

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A: Again, this puzzle requires technical skill, this time in sound analysis. If that's not you, just reveal the rest of the answers in this puzzle. We won't mind.

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A: The sound is divided into 12 parts. If you don't want to extract them yourself, we've done it for you.

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A: It might help to make a spectral analysis of the sounds. If you don't want to do that yourself, we can provide one for you.

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A: Try to reorganize the sounds so that they go well together.

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A: Last chance... we're going to spill the order next. Sorry, there's no other hints we can give except to use the spectral analysis along with the sounds themselves.

(In fact, this part of the puzzle was figured out by someone with no technical skill in sound analysis. If you skipped the last two parts, you might find it fruitful to try again here.)

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A: 1,9,7,4,11,5,2,8,6,3,12

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A: This is what it sounds like when you assemble them directly.

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A: If you clean it up, removing gaps and taking out hiss/noise, you'll get something clearer.

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A: Understanding this is easier if you read the news page carefully.

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A: It's one of the earlier articles.

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A: It's the one about the student found catatonic.

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A: This sound file is saying "I am Beelzebub." (Be-EEL-ze-bub)

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A: Have you tried that as the answer?

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A: At this point, brave men have been known to break down and cry.

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A: Listen to the sound file again.

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A: Do you hear those extraneous S noises?

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A: It's like somebody's whispering underneath the file.

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A: Not very clear is it?

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A: There's a reason for that.

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A: Can you guess what it is? (Last chance before a big clue!)

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A: It's backwards.

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A: Listen to it again reversed. (Even those with little technical skill can do this if you open it up using Windows' Sound Recorder, also under accessories.)

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A: Can you hear what the whisperer is saying?

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A: Last chance!

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A: He's saying "Say it backwards!"

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A: So, what's the answer?

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A: Last chance before we give it away!

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A: The answer is "bubezleeb", which is "beelzebub" spelled backwards!

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Q: How do I solve the "Where Am I From" puzzle?

A: After that last puzzle, you might like an easy puzzle to relax. If so, this puzzle is not what you were looking for. Don't even try unless you've solved the SPCB "One Good Move" puzzle.

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A: Ignore the dots for the moment.

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A: Concentrate on the squiggles and symbols.

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A: Especially notice that symbol in the middle on the bottom that looks like an H in a circle.

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A: Remember that this *is* an obstacle course.

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A: What did Red King say about the obstacle course in his diary?

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A: He didn't get the "Declaration of Indepedence" puzzle.

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A: Maybe you should look for it.

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A: On Google, perhaps?

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A: Check out the official image of the stone engraving on the first link.

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A: Notice anything familiar?

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A: That symbol on the bottom in the middle is part of John Hancock's signature!

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A: OK, now think about the dots.

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A: What could they signify?

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A: Try overlaying the background image onto the official version. (Alternately, you can use our version.)

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A: Look carefully at this image.

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A: Notice where the dots coincide with letters.

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A: Especially notice where the white dots coincide with letters.

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A: You might need to use the official transcript in order to figure this out... the picture is difficult to read.

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A: There are 11 white dots. Each of them overlaps a single letter.

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A: Those letters are, from top to bottom, left to right:

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A: E W D R O H L N E W T

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A: What does that spell?

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A: Last chance!

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A: "the new world"

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Q: How do I solve the "What business am I in" puzzle?

A: You'll be pleased to hear that this is the last one. Not that knowing this will help you solve the puzzle. First of all, notice the letters within letters.

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A: This style of writing is used elsewhere, and has been used famously by a certain writer.

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A: Douglas Hofstader used a similar image in his book Godel, Escher, Bach, to refer to Fermat and JS Bach.

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A: Think of this picture as having inside letters and outside letters. The outside letters are the big ones, and the inside letters are the small ones.

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A: One word (fermat) is written with its first half in outside letters, and its second half in inside letters. The other word (jsbach) is written with its first half in inside letters, and its second half in outside letters.

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A: What words can be written that way here?

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A: You get two words written that way: "EXODUS" and "CRITIC".

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A: OK, now try using Google.

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A: Search on "exodus critic business" (no quotes).

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A: Didn't do anything did it?

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A: Well, that's because there USED to be another page at the top of Google's list.

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A: It may help to inform you that after a long while of bashing our heads against this puzzle, Laia sent us this e-mail.

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A: Especially notice the subject line.

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A: That used to be a quite helpful hint.

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A: That's because it used to refer to the first link that appears in Google. Not true any longer.

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A: But you can fix that by searching on "exodus critic business red herring" instead.

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A: Explore these links.

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A: Especially explore the links about Red Herring.com.

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A: What business are THEY in?

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A: They're actually in a number of businesses. Try them all.

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A: You should be able to find it that way, but if not, the answer is...

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A: "innovation"

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Q: I've solved the Freshman test! Is there anything else to find here?

A: Yes.

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A: Examine the Hall of Fame very closely.

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A: There's hidden text there.

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A: It's white-on-white, like in the Mother e-mail.

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A: Where would the usual place be?

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A: Try running the obstacle course again. Look closely at the source code to each file.

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A: There's something that appears on every file but varies just slightly.

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A: Not the Mowz header at the top. That varies quite a lot.

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A: What else?

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A: It's ...

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A: The grey lines that appear throughout the puzzle.

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A: Find them all!

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A: Notice their file names: they're all "/images/hor_line_????.gif", where ? is either "l" (lowercase L) "1" (numeral one)

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A: There are 11 of them. (Yes, 10 + 1 of them.)

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A: images/hor_line_111l.gif (Man or mowz?)
images/hor_line_LLLL.gif (323 a)
images/hor_line_LLL1.gif (323 b)
images/hor_line_1LLL.gif (Welcome a)
images/hor_line_L1LL.gif (Welcome b)
images/hor_line_L11L.gif (Wrong page)
images/hor_line_11L1.gif (Who am I?)
images/hor_line_1111.gif (Who am I? - Alarm)
images/hor_line_L1L1.gif (Where am I from?)
images/hor_line_LL11.gif (What business am I in?)
images/hor_line_1LL1.gif (Hall of Fame)

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A: If you rearrange them into the proper order, they reveal a secret message.

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A: You can do this in photoshop, or you can do this in HTML. (To do it in HTML, create a table with one row for each image. Make sure the first row is set to valign="bottom".

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A: The correct order is:

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A: http://www.bangaloreworldu-in.co.nz/images/hor_line_l1ll.gif
http://www.bangaloreworldu-in.co.nz/images/hor_line_1ll1.gif
http://www.bangaloreworldu-in.co.nz/images/hor_line_111L.gif
http://www.bangaloreworldu-in.co.nz/images/hor_line_LLLL.gif
http://www.bangaloreworldu-in.co.nz/images/hor_line_11L1.gif
http://www.bangaloreworldu-in.co.nz/images/hor_line_L11L.gif
http://www.bangaloreworldu-in.co.nz/images/hor_line_LLL1.gif
http://www.bangaloreworldu-in.co.nz/images/hor_line_1111.gif
http://www.bangaloreworldu-in.co.nz/images/hor_line_LL11.gif
http://www.bangaloreworldu-in.co.nz/images/hor_line_1LLL.gif
http://www.bangaloreworldu-in.co.nz/images/hor_line_L1L1.gif

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A: Alternately, you can use our version.

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A: Look very closely at your reconstructed image.

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A: There's a hidden message there.

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A: Try turning up your monitor brightness to see it.

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A: It says:

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A: http://www.bangaloreworldu-in.co.nz/errorlog/electricsun/reconstruct.gif

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Q: So, what's this "reconstruct" picture I've found?

A: If you haven't passed the Mowz Freshman test, you're in the wrong place.

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A: Well, it looks an awful lot like Sophia's Temple, doesn't it?

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A: This must be the picture of Sophia that Beelzebub was talking about.

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A: But if there's anything else to be found here, (like, for example, a Name/Password!) we don't know what it is! If there's a puzzle remaining here, it is unsolved.

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Q: How do I solve the Hack of the Moment puzzle?

A: What do you suppose this hack does?

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A: It has something to do with the faculty directory.

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A: Why not try a few guesses in there?

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