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Aírmanareiks Þiudareiks
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 Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2005 5:27 am Post subject: Hunt the wumpus game for Google Talk! |
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You know Google just HAD to add an easter egg. I found one! It's the wumpus game easter egg. 
If your computer's monitor is set at a high contrast, lower it and right click on the GTalk bubble icon in the taskbar and click about. You should see play 23 21 13 16 21 19 . 7 1 13 5 at the bottom. Now you may wonder what it means. I was one of the first to discover it, and I did so on the 24th, GTalk's release date. If you map the numbers to their corresponding alphabetical designations in English, you'll get that they spell out wumpus.game; I figured that it was an email address and added wumpus.game@gmail.com to my GTalk contact list, and whaddya know! It turned out to be a game reminiscent of Hunt the Wumpus, an old game I played once. It's like online text-based hide and seek. I was the first one to add the information to wikipedia, and others subsequently added to the section on it. I found out that it was disabled after the 24th for some reason. I wanted to tell Laurent, but I didn't log on to the internet some time and I ultimately forgot. But later after remembering, I informed Laurent about it, and now you guys also know. XD. Although it isn't online anymore, you can add the bot and hope for it to be brought back online again one day.
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alfahwave
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| Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2005 8:29 am Post subject: |
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| well what do you know! your right |
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| Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2005 7:37 am Post subject: |
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You know, I saw that on Wikipedia as well, but Wumpus still is shown has "invited" on my contact list. 
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Aírmanareiks Þiudareiks
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| Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2005 8:00 am Post subject: |
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| Nah, it's just offline for me since I added it when it was online. |
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Jack.J.Haibin
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| Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2005 9:42 pm Post subject: |
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Is that still work?
someone told me the Wumpus has stop the service. |
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Laurent Van Winckel
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| Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 11:29 am Post subject: |
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Yea.. too bad I didn't play it. I don't know what happened with the game, maybe it was just an easter egg for 1 day or another reason could be that the game/account crashed because too many ppl added it.
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