[Noisebridge-discuss] Good puzzles for a web based morning wakeup alarm disarm system?

[Don French]

I had an app on my Nexus One that presented a series of puzzles that you had
to solve to turn off the alarm.  There were four or five simple arithmetic
problems or some simple 4 or 5 letter anagrams.  They were not hard but they
still put my brain in gear enough to wake me up.  So it doesn't have to be
hard and might even be better if is isn't.

-- Don
www.TheGadgetWorks.com


On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Brian Klug <brian.klug at hackerdojo.com>wrote:

> I really like this concept.  Cool idea.
>
> From what it sounds like, you will have your server play music until the
> mobile device tells it to stop.  Maybe you could take an open-source game,
> and modify it / simplify it a little.  Take an existing open-source puzzle
> game, and make it so you just have to beat Level 1, then it sends an HTTP
> post ("stop the music") to your music server.
>
> a) Must beat Super Mario Brothers World 1-1 (or OSS equiv), or
> b) Must enter the contra-code (up up down down ..), or
> c) Must complete 3 lines of a Tetris clone (of course, you need to have
> your computer play TETRIS MUSIC for this one)
>
> Anyway neat idea.
>
> -B
>
> PS: For all reading this thread, FYI, you now have the Tetris song stuck in
> your head.
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Rubin Abdi <rubin at starset.net> wrote:
>
>> I have a cronjob that runs every morning playing randomly from a bunch
>> of music in a directory off of my server at home to speakers in my room.
>> The music will play until a killalarm script is run which kills the
>> process.
>>
>> I am looking for suggestions on some sort of puzzle or game to play in
>> order to wake up the mind and also kill the alarm as the end goal,
>> otherwise known as "finally getting it on with Princess Peach." Plus
>> points if it's something one could very easily turn into a mobile web
>> app and doesn't involve any words at all.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> --
>> Rubin Abdi
>> rubin at starset.net
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