Interesting Facts

I travelled to Coimbatore from Chennai and reached home at around 8:15 AM in the morning. After the usual routine at around 9:00 AM I logged in into the system and connected to Internet. As most people who use Internet do as soon as I connected into Internet I opened Facebook account. Once I opened Facebook, I got a ping from Hema (who was my Klueless 5 friend), Deepak are you not playing Klueless 7. OOPS! I had totally forgotten that Klueless 7 had been launched on 11/11/11, the date about which the whole media was going frenzy. Unlike K5 team who mailed me that K5 is on in a couple of days. These K7 team guys(gals too :P) didn’t mail me :@. Anyway that was history. I was in home and there is no other better place to play Klueless than home sweet home, that too on my desktop!

I informed my parents, I won’t be spending any time with them this weekend for I have to play Klueless.

Operation Klueless Starts…

K7’s home page helped me solve this level.

Having played Klueless and having built Cyber Cipher. Changing to the opposite took less than 10 seconds.

Reversing the answer which was right there in the middle of the page wasn’t much of a problem.

I used tineye to reverse search the image and the link I got there helped me to solve this level.

I found that all the characters in the image are related to Marvel characters. But it was a clue I found in blog that I need to look for a new movies to be released took me to past this level.

Having read Davinci Code and having written Mystic Murder, ROT 13 Solver helped me to go past this level. It’s quite a common phrase among web site designers.

“24”, this is the key. In Klueless 5, there are couple of levels with this Comics character. So this level too was easy.

Ha! The story takes a twist just when you think it is normal.

A simple level where I noted it was with the l, but spent nearly 3 hours going mad about the substitution. I was frustrated and took a break from the game. It was 5:00 PM. It was Hema who gave clarity in this IeveI.

Used ISBN calculator to solve the two ISBNs and get the answer. But if I took the source code literally this level would have been a much simpler one.

This big dipper wasn’t that tough. Going for the brightest one was obvious.

I was staring at the flower again and again but I couldn’t find what that flower was. Reverse searching too didn’t help. That’s when Hema’s 'pop' up came up in gtalk enquiring on my progress. She told me what the flower was. Then I had remembered about a day and it led me to a train, a treaty and finally a number which was the solution!

Over thinking will not help in this level. It was Victoria’s Secret and a ship which led me to a wiki page which had the solution in it. The url was stop ogling LOL :)

It was 7:00 PM. It was quite good progress, I guessed. Simple googling helped me to find about Romance Numbers and knowing about Fibonacci Series really helped solving this level.

I was rolling the dice 7 times for 7. Which was a problem again. I was over thinking. All that I had to do was watch the middle of the board.

I planned to take a break. Was dinner time. Resumed at 10:30 PM.

It is same as 14. The only level in K7 which I thought was not necessary.

Though it is a simple level. It was a very well thought out level. The connection between batman, Mr. Monopoly and the answer was simply superb.

Got the level’s answer from a Sudoku solver. But… but…but… the story doesn’t end there. I have never used Samsung Galaxy phone which uses the swype technology and that really cost me a lot of time. Hema helped me with the way to go about this level.

This level had a simple algorithm associated with it. Save the image > open in photoshop > Increase brightness/contrast >Answer would stare at you. It was a fairly simple level.

But it was calm before storm.

It was 11:00 PM. By this time Hema said she wouldn’t be playing further and left. Oh! Oh! This was THE MOST IRRITATING LEVEL in Klueless 7. I too slept off at November 13 1:00 AM.

Woke up at 7:45 AM. And started playing Klueless at 8:00 AM.

I needed 4 years which I found out after lot if googling. The sum of those 4 years was the solution.

If Q is A W is B the solution to this level is on the way. It was a breather after taunting level 17.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is not a movie that was unknown to me. Saying anything more would be like giving away the answer.

Ah! This was a well designed level. I had to find about sponge bob his death note and then the flags.Once I assembled them together, the answer was staring at me.

Good that I had the answers of the previous levels with me. This level was a cakewalk :)

Wanted to take a break. So was playing chess with my dad. Had lunch and then was matching India-Westindies test match.

It was 5:00 PM.

I loved playing this game. But they were looking for that game's scientific name :)

A very well thoughtout level.

I had leave to attened Karthika (Raj Kamal's sister) akka's reception. Came back at 10:30 PM.

Looking through the gaps and staring at screen pointlessly helped me solve this level.

Was feeling tired. Slept at 11:30 PM.

I had been playing golf ever since I got my new Wii Games. That helped me solved the level.

Ha!Another level on a batman villain! But this time around I needed to literally follow the title.

I know that K means 1000. Somehow I solved this level despite not knowing much about the doctor's translation sheet!

A girl is all that I need and yeah the game in this level is GTA!

By now it was 2:00 PM. I was watching India vs West Indies match for sometime.

Resumed klueless at 5:00 PM.

Next to level 17. This was the most taxing.

First I had to get the trip sheet. Then I had to find 7 stations and the sum of the prices from A to B, B to C et., helped me solve this level. The answer is a leap year which had 3 Friday the thirteenths!

Every one who is playing Klueless would surely know this answer.

It was 7:30 PM. I had to leave back to Chennai. Already I had applied one day leave to office, can't apply any more.

Here I had to work on Tron and find two colors. Then the ethernet cable connected to my system helped me solve this level.

It was 8:00 AM. I had to leave to office. Came back at 7:00 PM and resumed Klueless.

Atlast a level on cricket. I found this answer but was missing the space bewtween the two words :(

I had to be really patient. Then tin-eye helped me find this person.

I got the mail id from Daipayan Raja. I still don't know how he got that. Need to solve it sometime later.

Then it was a cakewalk.

I was almost exhausted solving this level before Daipayan threw some light. But a brilliant level. Don't want to give much leads on this :)

It is a lengthy level. Again Daipayan helped me solving the mystic.

There are 3 parts in this level. Relatively simple. Finally Klueless 7 was conquered at November 16,2011 12:30 AM.

Special thanks to Daipayan Raja and Klueless Hema :) especially Daipayan Raja who was with me from level 33 till the end. My name reached the Hall of Fame this time too, a fancy number this time around :-). It was 123rd position.

If your name is not there in the list then don't get disappointed. The inner satisfaction that you get after completing any version of Klueless is unparalleled. So, start playing!!!

This is what the klueless team says in their hall of fame. Infact, I was very happy too, though I didn't make it to the klueless 4 Hall of fame, last year, finishing it gave me an inner satisfaction. But this year, I wanted to make an entry into hall of fame. I was often googling about klueless 5 from August. Then in October, the klueless guys started the count down for Klueless 5.

Klueless 5 started on November 5,2009 9:00:00 AM IST. I had my semester exam(UID) on November 6 :(

Knowing that I was playing Klueless 5 aka K5 took me past that level.

There was a picture from which I was slowly removing the tangles, Arun came up with the solution.

There was a word Will. So, Arun said that it must denote William Shakespeare and we were exploring on The Tempest story, about Prospero and the Angel. It was all waste of time. My intuition said we were wrong. And I remembered reading an Island story during my childhood. And the solution became evident.

Aah! This was the level which took lot of our time. Karthikeyan joined us here. There were numerous options. Arun came up with a way of reading between the images. Then it seems he found the wiki page which contained the answer. But he didn't try the answer :-(. I was taking a little break at that time. When I came back, Arun had left due to power shutdown in his home. I found the wiki page and the solution too.

It was a very simple level. Needed just a couple of minutes. Just checked out on the ROFL part.

There was a button, click me. But when I tried to click it, it moved. So I tried using tab. A message box appeared saying "You cheated! Use the mouse." I checked the source code. The Klueless team had played prank on us. In the source code, they moved the button on mouse over. So it is impossible to click the button with the mouse. I ignored it and concentrated on the picture. Oh! There was a box. I thought may be Pandora's box? Then I googled the source code. Answer was available immediately!

Since I used to make lot of mistakes while typing messages in my mobile. Like, "Has the cup come?" instead of "Has the bus come?", this level was a cakewalk for me. The answer was spot on! The level's name was Texting on the sly! It was apt.

Leytonstone is a place which I knew for only one thing. And that was the answer too!

Here too the klueless team had played a prank. The :P from horse was well thought out. But it wasn't that tough.

I was searching about the passage everywhere. But couldn't find anything :( I was discussing in the blog of klueless 5 for the first time. Then suddenly I remembered that this was lvl 10 and not level 10! There was the solution!

Level 10. Didn't seem to leave me. There was a detective story over there. It was 2:00 PM. So I went for lunch. Coming back I could see Karthikeyan online. He was good in detective stories. He gave me the idea of who it could be and since it was an extension of the last lvl,solving this level was not tough anymore.

It was very simple. The poem in that level meant an incident, reading Digital Fortress really helped me. And what can one ask more than the picture present there.

This was a level that was very hard for me. I am not a master of vocabulary! There was an India-Australia match running and the Indian bowlers were thrashed to all parts of the ground :-(. And it was really tough for me because I was watching match, I could not focus my attention completely to klueless. I was trying strange methods, I went to the extent of trying all the words ending with 'ly' :-O. Thats when a guy called Aditya, sent me friend request in yahoo. I must thank him for telling me the answer to be an adjective!

It was 5:30 PM. Arun and Karthi were sending message to me, close Klueless and goto study, which . Last year I nearly flunked(somehow escaped) in a subject called Theory of Computation because of playing Klueless 4 without studying! This year was no exception. I had my semester exam(UID) and I was focussed more on klueless 5! Then I had to go out. I returned home and the Indian innings had began. Sehwag was rocking as usual and Tendulkar was playing sedately. But after crossing 17000 runs, Sachin played a pull shot. When Sachin plays pull shots, he is in mode-ATTACK. I love to watch Sachin when he is playing the pull shots. He is one of the best. But he doesn't play them often :(. Sachin played one of his best knocks, 175, while chasing was a great innings. But he couldn't finish off the match which he did so well in the CB series final! He played a crazy shot and got out. Match was lost by just 3 runs. It was Jadeja who surprisingly gets run out because he runs like a mad hare when his partner shouts "NO!NO!NO!" who lost the match single handedly! Pathan would have handled pressure situation well. It was 11:00 PM when the presentation of the match was over.

OMG! I hadn't studied a word for my exam :-(

Slept at once and woke up at 3:30 AM next morning. Was studying, till 9:59 AM, with my pals Arun and Karthi. Exam began at 10:00 AM lol :) But exam was quite easy. So it was not a problem. After this exam on Novemeber 6. I had one week leave for my next exam. I knew I could pull klueless 5! Came back to home had lunch and started playing klueless once again!

It was 3:00 PM...

Ah! You know how I solved the level, i saw an image map. Saved the web page in my system. Opened it in Microsoft expression web, then found the exact location of the image map. Clicked it to find a superb clue which directed me towards the answer! I don't watch Jeff Dunham shows and it actually cost me some time.

I knew the answer immediately after reading the word verbose. I wasted time on typing the answer in the wrong place. Then remembered how I chat. It helped me solve this level. Karthi was with me in this level. But he had some problem with his net connection. Arun called me up and we were discussing on this!

It was nearly 4 in the evening. I loved this level. I would rate it as my most favorite level in klueless 5 for the sheer brilliance of the level. I was blind over what the solution could possibly be. Then when I saw what the dice meant, I was blind-folded. One clue that really helped me was from the forum. It said, 'Find the rhyme!'

It was 6:00 PM. Arun and Karthi joined me. But now my net had some problems. Found that it was related to a comic. And by the time the wiki page loaded for me, they had found the answer.

Oh! This level was brilliant. We thought too much actually because of the clues in the blog stating that we needed to be tekhie buff and movie buff. It was actually misleading. Then I took a break from those guys and went to watch tv. Resumed klueless at 11:30 PM. And I was able to solve it immediately. Taking break between the levels definitely help. After all, I am playing Klueless and not Clueless!

It didn't take more than 30 seconds. Boom! Playing games do help!

There was a poem in that level. And I immediately decoded what it meant. After that it was just simple googling.

Change the perspective or expand your horizon. The level says.I tried lot of things read lot about a game called BINGO. Which was not necessary at all. It was November 7, 1:00 AM. I thought of taking a break from klueless and was watching Lord of the Rings. it was 4:00 AM in the morning. So slept off.

When I woke up, I found the time to be 2:00 PM. Oh! I had slept for 10 hours while playing klueless. The biggest crime in my life... lol :).

I decoded the poem. But I was making mistake on a line reading them as two numbers instead of a single number.

Aditya pointed out my mistake. Then it was simple march to the answer.

The powerpuff girl was easy. But the other part, I would not have solved if Aditya did not tell me about recession.

There was power shut down and my UPS had drained out. So I forced to shut down my computer :(

I again slept off. From 4:15 to 6:30 PM!

Woke up. Then this time I had to connect the dots and find company! It was easy!

I was thinking on a method to solve it. Aditya said, he can't help me because he himself didn't know the method. Some guy had posted a spoiler which made Aditya''s life really easy. But the moderators had deleted it! Then having so many doors reminded me of a Tamil film, 'Kaasey thaan kadavulada' Manorama uses a method to enter into her safety vault! I tried that method and it actually worked out :)

It was 8:00 PM. Arun joined me. He actually thought too much. Found that in medieval period, S, N etc., were roman numerals. He left for dinner and never turned up. (For the rest of Klueless :-(...Sob...Sob...). I too left, was watching tv and resumed klueless at 10:30 PM.

I read about Cleopatra, how she died, all that coupled with the rules of klueless 5 helped me to solve this level. But I was having a small problem. If I was in north pole, how could I travel north. I posted in the blog and got a reply that, the journey from start should carry on. And I was able to solve this level. I liked this level!

This could be compared with the 15th level. It was too good too! But being a Computer Science student, I was able to solve the RGB stuff in real quick time. Writing down the colors in a sheet of paper really helped me ;-)

Here again, I was thinking too much. Thats when Hema had posted her email-id on the page. I sent her request in gtalk. And she told I should think less. I understood what is to be done. All I can say is it was an A-1 level!

Posting anything on how I solved would be a spoiler. But all I can say is, I solved it really fast because I had been watching lot of movies for the past two years!

It was Novemeber 8 12:30 AM. Hema left. I lost my net connection. Watched Angels and Demons once again. It was 3:00 AM.

Found the song required and used photoshop. I didn't spot any difference. Then I remembered the rules page once again. It helped me to solve this level.

I knew what the image meant. Wikipedia provided the solution!

Ah! I focussed on one single line. It was the last line. Then connected it with clue. Tried trial and error method to connect to the answer :)

It was 7:00 AM in the morning. I had breakfast. It was raining and I was enjoying the rain. India Australia Match started at 8:30 AM :O. And wickets were falling like 9 pins. I knew no miracle would happen with the stupid Jadeja batting! Surprisingly Jadeja made a fifty. And Praveen saved the day with a good knock (ofcourse with lot of luck). I resumed klueless 5 at 11:30 AM. I interpreted the notes. I fought hard for 3 hours in interpreting and then left out. The rain and winds had made banana plant in my backyard fall. I never knew banana plants were so so heavy :-O. It was 5:30 PM when I resumed after lunch, rest,tv. Hema joined me at 6:00 PM. She had no clue on 31 what so ever. She gave me a different set of notes. Thats when I realized, I could have read the notes wrong. I read again slowly. Found that both our interpretations were wrong. After getting the right notes, it was just 2 mins to solve the remaining. Because I had spent lot of time already on devising it!

The Greek sculptor was the obvious one!

Hmmm. I liked this level and its connection with level 32. A number helped me solving this. But its simple even if random tries are made from the source code hints!

It was 8:30 PM and I went for dinner, returned by 9:30 PM. Hema had marched to 36th level, in that one hour! 34 was easy once I found the bearded man and MIT was a reasonable clue.

It was 10:00 PM my net connection was totally out! ADSL light did not glow at all :(

I had an alarm for every one hour and slept off.

It was November 9. Till 6:00 AM in the morning, the net did not work. There were offline messages from Hema, like 'Are you there?' 'Damn with your internet connection!'

The net connection was highly unstable. The first thing I did was checking the hall of fame. I had a heart attack when I saw the Hall of fame. 90 people had finished and Hema was there too! I was cursing BSNL, my ISP.

I figured out what was meant of the tables. Then it was really easy. But I should have remembered that people call me Deepak and not Deepak Senthilkumar. Somehow managed to solve the level. Wiki really helped me.

Ah! this was the level for which I troubled the moderators too much. I must really thank klueklutz for patiently replying to me! I thought too much and connected Rafael Nadal to the level when even Roger Federer was not needed :-( But its a simple level of googling the right stuff.

Net connection was still unstable. I got as much information as possible in the short span of time when my net works.

It was 1:00 PM.

When I saw tintin in this level, I remembered a level and figured out on what had to be done. I was making a simple mistake with my logic which was spot on! Klueklutz and Curses, the moderators of Klueless 5 clarified me and suggested a break. I had lunch, returned by 2:00 PM and found the solution immediately!

And only the final frontier had to be conquered!

I was feeling exhausted because of my damn internet connection and working alone. Was trying some fishing from the forum & relaxing, Curses detected it. He suggested me to play the game than hanging in the forum. I started the last level and figured out a way to solve the final level. It was pretty odd but it worked out. The final level belongs to the Lord! It was 4:00 PM and Klueless 5 was conquered.

Actually it was finished in 4.4 days. But 0.6 of that was dedicated towards my semster exam and the cricket match. So 3.8 days ;-)

And on my quest of reaching Hall of fame, yes! I did make it... 115 is my position. Could have reached a far better position had it not been BSNL's fist of fury on me.

Had a lot of trouble posting this here too :-(

It did help me actually on not working with Arun and Karthikeyan. Because, I had a unidirectional thought, which helped me actually.

Had a great time playing it! Hope you have a great time too!

Link to play: Klueless 5

I started solving klueless 4 on November 11 2008 by 10 AM (it was suggested to me by my former blog mate and friend Surya) and finished it today morning by 6 AM. Cracked it in under 48 hours. I would have worked around 10 hours on it totally. I would like to share my experience on each level here.

Level 1,2,3: If one couldn't solve them in under a minute. Then there is no point in the player continuing with Klueless.

Level 4: The real challenge started from here. Relatively simple for Indians because of the title of the level.

Level 5: This involved nothing more than googling. The url of that page was to be observed.

Level 6: This was quite simple for me. 'nAMe' here was the clue. Google about the cartoon character in the page.

Level 7: Very simple level. Observing the name of the image and url held the key.

Level 8: This one was the first puzzle that really tested me. It was a poem. It made me to read about Santa and his reindeer.

The above lines I got from Wiki helped me solve this round.

Dasher,Prancer,Vixen,Comet,Cupid,Donder,Blitzen

All these are reindeer of Santa.

I should have concentrated on Lucas number, which I didn't do.

Level 9: I googled the title of that level and immediately got the solution in wikipedia.

Level 10: This was very simple to me because I already knew Tom Cruise's birthday. It coincides with my uncle's birthday July 3. And I knew a little about Penelope Kruz too. That helped too. Then I also know the birthday of Angelina Jolie. That really helped me to solve that level!

Level 11: It was the first question related to cricket. And the clues in the page especially four and God, I couldn't have asked more in that level!

Level 12: This one i was really lucky to remember the geometric figure in the picture. Though it has connection with the prominent personality and dish present. For a stranger to that figure, it's quite tough I think!

Level 13: This was very simple. Being a big time LOTR fan. This level was very simple.

Level 14: I was lucky to get this one because, I was naming each stone in the ring and was typing it down in notepad. There were seven stones and I identified

1.Diamond

2.Emerald

3.Amber(This one was with help from wiki)

4.Ruby

5.Emerald

And couple of other stones. oh! oh! I am spilling the beans out. I will stop with this.

Level 15 a: This was very simple. Socrates' assistant helped me. The way level 15 a ended with the road not taken poem edited was amazing!

Level 15 b: Déjà vu of playing Level 1 took me to a semi completion of this level. Which had the prerequisite of completing level 15 a and c.

Level 15 c: This is the first one where my friends Arun and Karthi joined me in yahoo messenger. With search for some time. We found that it was a movie name so close to a man eating another man. Arun's role played important.

Level 16: In this level I found what was required really fast. But unnecessarily delayed due to some wrong misinterpretation. My friend Karthi had some power disruptions too. But he called me up to tell the exact answer, Bletchley Park would not have known this!.

Level 17: This level was nothing more than google search. Saving the image and observing it helped us. This was solved by my friend Arun.

Level 18: This is the level which I love. This was once again solved by my friend Arun. Who told the method and I found the solution. The name of the level has a very important role.

Level 19: Arun had the chance to watch a series which I hadn't watched at all. This helped him solve it really fast.

Level 20: When we entered this level, it was late in the evening around 9. So I left to have dinner and my friend Karthi solved this level before I could get what it was. But it was relatively simple.

Level 21: AT SiX PoinT. This was the text in that round. Arun gave the idea of what it could be. And we were working on the intermediate part of this level. Suddenly I got the solution, which was so close to what all three were thinking. I was back on track.

Level 22: We worked on this for a long time and it was 10:30. My friends bid adieu and left. And I was working on that level, thinking of finishing 25 on day one. And finally patient reading in wikipedia helped me solve that level.

Level 23: I have read some forums where people say that they have solved it but without understanding the crypt. All I can say is prime numbers have never let me down.

Level 24: I liked the concept of this round. Of the rounds that I solved within a minute, this was one too. But this was the one I loved the most of them. After solving it, I tried to match the other clues too.

Level 25: When I reached this level it was 11:30. I was feeling very sleepy. But I couldn't, because my target was finishing 25. But after finishing around 80% of the level I accidentally read the rules of Klueless 4. And the 13th one, Take breaks between levels. It invariably helps :) . Caught my attention. So I decided to sleep by 1.

As I slept, I had dreams about level 25 ;-)

Then when I woke up, I solved it. I never imagined it was such an easy level.

This was my longest level in klueless 4. First time I posted in the forum of Klueless was for this level. And I solved it before I got a reply :-)

Level 26: Hmmm, optical illusions are always available in the net. And this one was a huge let down sort of level after an amazing level 25. Maybe a refresher.

Level 27: The next level didn't test one's mathematical skills or physics skills. It's an altogether different area. Relatively simple.

Level 28: After level twenty five. This one was the best! There's one phrase batman comes to the rescue. I never knew the answer was hiding in this phrase. But solving in the normal route by identifying the picture ignoring the batman sentence proved to be correct.

Level 29: Though this level didn't take much time. It was a master piece from the klueless 4 team. I got the direction to proceed from the picture name. But thought I could solve it faster if I had one of my friends to discuss this with. And Karthi came online. He helped me to unearth the image which was not just the image as I already knew little about the content of the picture. But the way the title of this level was linked to the picture was amazing. The best one of klueless in my view is this level. I was needlessly wasting time on this after finding the correct solution!

Level 30: I had not visited the original iris site. So I didn't understand this and posted in the forum for which I received a reply that I should check out the iris site. After checking the iris site. Solving this level took more time because. There were some differences to be discovered. And this level was aptly named alternate. I had my semester exam today. So I had to stop at that point and study. Today morning, when I woke up, I woke up the solution to the alternate. And reading Dan Brown helped me to solve this level.

Level 31: After solving thirty levels this titled XXX+1 took less than half a minute to solve. This level was more a tribute to Klueless team.

I enjoyed playing klueless. But it is addictive. So try it only when you are free. Definitely not when you have your semester exam happening.

I would now like to solve the previous versions of klueless(1-3)!