Mystery Picture #434

Fri Aug 26, 2005 2:58 am

Congratulations! You have guessed correctly in the Mystery Pic game (Round 433). We have given you a Primella Stained Glass Window and 2381 NP!

Answer: MAGAX Play Button

Fri Aug 26, 2005 3:44 am

ye i got it correct thanks for the tip

Fri Aug 26, 2005 4:39 am

the hints were great, I got it

Fri Aug 26, 2005 5:17 am

Yay! I got it too but I didn't get the window.HMM?

Fri Aug 26, 2005 5:56 am

guy679 wrote:Yay! I got it too but I didn't get the window.HMM?

Neither did I, we just didn't do it quick enough to be the first 250 to solve it

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Fri Aug 26, 2005 6:36 am

I got the item too. Thanks for the hints guys

Fri Aug 26, 2005 6:42 am

I put the url this time again and DID NOT get it.

Fri Aug 26, 2005 7:10 am

stampsyne wrote:I put the url this time again and DID NOT get it.

Same here. The URL did not count for me, either. I send a bug report about it last time, but (not surprisingly) didn't get a response.

I guess it might be time to go back to taking a chance at the wording and being dissappointed when I don't word it right and don't get credit.

Fri Aug 26, 2005 1:49 pm

Me neither, I didn't get it.

Sat Aug 27, 2005 4:25 am

this is completely ridiculous, i'm sick of not getting it with the url anymore. if they aren't going to accept it then why dont' they tell us that? I'm sending in another bug report

Sat Aug 27, 2005 4:40 am

I don't believe it's ridiculous. Half of the game is trying to phrase the answer correctly so you do win. The guidelines on the page state that it's the keywords they're looking for and not a URL. I think you may get lucky on a few when you type in the URL, but maybe they're cutting down on those responses.

Sat Aug 27, 2005 4:45 am

Runevalkyrie wrote:I don't believe it's ridiculous. Half of the game is trying to phrase the answer correctly so you do win. The guidelines on the page state that it's the keywords they're looking for and not a URL. I think you may get lucky on a few when you type in the URL, but maybe they're cutting down on those responses

I got lucky on all of them for the last 3 months with url's now all of a sudden they aren't taking them.

Like I stated before, if they aren't going to accept them, they should put that on the page.

Sat Aug 27, 2005 4:49 am

Well, there is a big difference between "playbuttons/play162.gif" and "MAGAX: Destroyer play button". If the keywords were "MAGAX Destroyer", that URL obviously wouldn't cut it. You have to use common sense sometimes and take a bit of one and a bit of another. It never hurts to fill the answer box with as much as you can.

Sat Aug 27, 2005 4:50 am

Atjj wrote:I got lucky on all of them for the last 3 months with url's now all of a sudden they aren't taking them.

Like I stated before, if they aren't going to accept them, they should put that on the page.

But they've never stated in the first place that they'd accept URLs, there is no need to add it since it's by those guidelines it's not accepted. You never know, they probably didn't notice people doing such entries until now (and have given those who did post a URL credit as a correct answer despite it.)

Sat Aug 27, 2005 6:24 am

I've answered every MP for the last five months with the URL and have won every time (when I was correct) except the last two. Many have a URL that is very VERY different from thier phrasing. It is obvious to me that they changed thier practice of accepting the url.

So, the echelon who have before used the URL method; you have been notified.