Unintuitive puzzle is unintuitive

flipperthepriest

I was recently told about this site http://people.coe.ilstu.edu/rpriegle/mysted/
And found it really crazy difficult in parts. I thought I'd show it around here because it seemed to appeal to the over-complicated mind of the average point-and-click adventure gamer. have fun!

MusicallyInspired

What....is this?

Rather Dashing

I don't get it. Maybe my browser isn't displaying it right. Whenever I choose something, I get a link and an animated .gif. When I click the link, boom, I "win" the age.

Shwoo

The game really starts in the information age, I think.

So I finished, and... what did I just play? Some sort of MMORPG... school... promotion... thing?

I think it must've been around for a while. That would explain the tiled backgrounds and animated GIFs. Also, some of the links are broken. And there's one part that doesn't work properly. When it asks who you are, the correct answer seems to be

grasshopper

, but it wouldn't accept it until I opened up the site in Internet Explorer and went straight to the page. Pasting

http://people.coe.ilstu.edu/rpriegle/mysted/end.htm?identity=grasshopper

into my Firefox address bar seemed to work.

Post-Human Age wrote:

OOOOPS! You have extinguished the human race. Have a nice day.

I had to laugh.

Darkblade07

this is screwed up

flipperthepriest

i DID say it was unintuitive... Also that site it links to isn't neccessarily "broken" because it still gives you the neccesary information to proceed. Also that name one was wierd... I ended up pasting the ENTIRE source code of that page into the box and it let me through... Also i'm not really sure if i finished it... It's messed up, lets just leave it at that.