edit: The console could use a little error checking, if the request dies (i had referrer disabled), it prints "requesting xxxx..." and then nothing. Tsk, tsk :)
I wish they had the courtesy to put up a "Sorry, your browser is not supported" instead of having me answering everything and then finding out it doesn't work.
[0] http://www.regexr.com/ . Hint mouse over regex after you type it for explanation of what will match, try it out in the text editor below. Fairly trivial.
For example "\D{2}\S{3}" means match 2 non-digit characters followed by 3 nonspace characters. Some things that match "aaaaa", "bbbbb", "ALUSD", "AA123"...
Site I linked really explains things quite well on mouseover. Once you complete first challenge (make sure you open this in chrome, I've had exciting quest of delete elements in firefox until I could save my solution) you can register and come back anytime later.
Foobar is fun and well made! Passed the first challenge in a few minutes and will continue tomorrow. Try to start challenges on foobar only when you want the timer to start (e.g., not when you need to go to bed like me..). Thou shan't worry much on the first challenge though, it allows for 48 hours.
I'm now facing a small coding challenge: 48 hours to come up with code with Python or Java (my choice).
Edit: Level 3: 3 puzzles, 96 hours apiece. How deep does this go?
Upon completing the crossword the page auto-submits the solution and gets "403 Forbidden" in response. Something got broken somewhere or someone has pulled the plug.
<<
POST / HTTP/1.1
Host: ig-game.appspot.com
...
>>
HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
Alternate-Protocol: 443:quic,p=0.02
Cache-Control: no-cache
Content-Length: 0
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 21:32:12 GMT
Server: Google Frontend
Set-Cookie: session=(snip); Path=/; HttpOnly
X-Firefox-Spdy: 3.1
if this is a recruiting tool, they should make sure they code it properly. unless part of the game is to debug it ... but i do enough of that already at work, so screw it.
edit: It might be this suggested by Kripke:
"kripke 0 minutes ago | link
FF33.1.1 (on Archlinux) is working fine here. In addition to NoScript, you probably need to disable any extension that forbids cross-domain cookies as the relevant cookies are registered for https://ig-game.appspot.com/ and not a raw IP."
I suppose that is some sort of HN effect.
...yeah, that's all that I got too.
This is also part of another game that was submitted a couple weeks ago which was a recruiting game for GOogle.