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aRIEL

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Aug 24, 2005, 9:02:59 AM8/24/05
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Hi all

Any one as noticed the Google Talk about box (Context menu from the
systray) ?
There is a line of faded light gray text, one line before the last,
which looks like some sort of clue for an Easter egg.

Mine reads: "play 23 21 13 16 21 19 . 7 1 13 5"

What is that???
Anyone has an idea?
Did I just post all my most private details, secrets and ways to track
and hack my computer? :)
Anyone else got that line? Another line? Same line with different
values?

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naevus

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Aug 24, 2005, 9:40:56 AM8/24/05
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not working

aRIEL

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Aug 24, 2005, 9:47:46 AM8/24/05
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tnx jeremy

for now all i get is:
"wumpus.game has not yet accepted your invitation to Google Talk."
and after I type "play" I get:
"wumpu...@gmail.com is offline and can't receive messages right
now."

is it working for U ?
Can it be a geographic issue? Being a beta and all?

SirJonathan

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Aug 24, 2005, 10:20:53 AM8/24/05
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I did some research on it.. Check THIS out:

http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/publications/thesis/online/IM040189.pdf

An excerpt from that .pdf reads:

Another important mainframe game from the early 1970s is Hunt The Wum
pus,
which in many ways was similar to Advent. It featured a mysterious
monster that
lurked deep inside a labyrinth-like cave containing 20 rooms. The
player had to
guess (by "smelling") which room the wumpus was in and fire the
arrow to slay it.
The game is currently available all over the Internet and for most
operating
system. It is also used in courses in Artificial Intelligence to show
how an
intelligent agent might use logic to solve the wompus game.

..Well.. there's another clue ;).

George Deglin

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Aug 24, 2005, 12:06:33 PM8/24/05
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According to Wikipedia:

There is a version of Hunt the Wumpus found in Google Talk. Add
wumpu...@gmail.com to your buddy list, allow it to add you to its
buddy list, and send it a text message (anything works). Instructions
will be offered if you say 'y' when it asks.

Julie

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Aug 24, 2005, 2:23:21 PM8/24/05
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Julie

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Aug 24, 2005, 2:24:40 PM8/24/05
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Can't get it to work. Anyone else having any luck with it??

Jono

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Aug 24, 2005, 3:29:54 PM8/24/05
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Very cool - I used to play Wumpus on a friend's hp calculator back in
the early 80s.

istrebitjel

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Aug 24, 2005, 5:55:32 PM8/24/05
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