Identify and connect

Hint:

Cracked by: Achilles , Atul Mathew , Goyal , shenoyvarun86 , varuns88 , Rc , gudanggurum , Ajay Parasuram , Siddharth Gupta , Siddharth Jain , malcaluffin , udupendra.

Achilles, Atul Mathew, Goyal, shenoyvarun86, varuns88, Rc, Gurupad, Ajay Parasuram, Siddharth Gupta, Siddharth Jain, malcaluffin and udupendra

Like we had promised, we will be handing out Boiledbeans t-shirts to two of this month’s toppers.

1. varuns88 — 24 – You double deserve the t-shirt dude! Congrats!
2. **akhi **— 22 – The highest scorer whose name was not already on the t-shirt winners list
3. Atul Mathew — 21– Second highest
4. duriel — 18
5. Rohan — 17

So, akhi and Atul Mathew, Congrats and thanks for your enthusiasm! We will be contacting you soon!

We were waiting for this month’s toppers to be decided to get the shirts out. Now that we know who the winners are, the shirts will be out very soon and if you want to buy one, this is your last chance to let us know at boiledbeans@gmail.com

Thanks!

Simple one to end this month. What is being mocked at?

Cracked by: Achilles , Goyal , Dibyo , Atul Mathew , shenoyvarun86 , Tathagata Chatterjee , varuns88 , Rc , Kamal Rathi , duriel , akhi , Chandrakant Nair , Akshat , jayanth , BiGFooT , sidsen.

Achilles, Goyal, Dibyo, Atul Mathew, shenoyvarun86, Tathagata Chatterjee, varuns88, Rc, Kamal Rathi, duriel, akhi, Chandrakant Nair, Akshat, jayanth, BiGFooT and sidsen

What connects:

1. 
2. 
3. $100

Cracked by joe , Dibyo , varuns88 , srikar and Achilles.

joe, Dibyo, varuns88, srikar and Achilles

What it is?

Hint:

Cracked by: **varuns88 **and **akhi **only. Brilliant job!

varuns88 and akhi

A bit of a sitter, really.

What are each of these places famous for? (list is connected, but not exhaustive)

Cracked by Goyal , Siddharth Gupta , Atul Mathew , shenoyvarun86 , vijayaraghavan , Preetish , piezocake , Rohan , varuns88 , srikar , Kamal Rathi , VikraM , Tathagata Chatterjee , vinod , Ajay Parasuram , akhi , nihit , pratap , Vivek and duriel.

Goyal, Siddharth Gupta, Atul Mathew, shenoyvarun86, vijayaraghavan, Preetish, piezocake, Rohan, varuns88, srikar, Kamal Rathi, VikraM, Tathagata Chatterjee, vinod, Ajay Parasuram, akhi, nihit, pratap, Vivek and duriel

A “cover” for which “album”?

Cracked by Atul Mathew , vijayaraghavan , Goyal , Rc , Debasish , udupendra , duriel , Rohan , Ajay Parasuram and Siddharth.

Atul Mathew, vijayaraghavan, Goyal, Rc, Debasish, udupendra, duriel, Rohan, Ajay Parasuram and Siddharth

Identify and connect.

Cracked by Goyal , udupendra and jayanth.

Answer
John Conway (1) created his Game Of Life. He guessed that there would be patterns created in the game that were finite patterns that would grow infinitely, but couldn’t figure them out. He offered a 50$ award for anyone who could find one.

Bill Gosper (2) led a team of MIT hackers who figured out the Gosper Glider gun (3), and won the prize.

Goyal, udupendra and jayanth

According to a recent analysis by a famous blog, something connects all of these. What?

(yesterday’s question will be open for 12 more hours as it was posted late)

Cracked by: sidsen , Goyal , Akshat , Guneet , VikraM , Atul Mathew , Rohan , Priya , Ajay Parasuram , akhi , jayanth , malcaluffin.

sidsen, Goyal, Akshat, Guneet, VikraM, Atul Mathew, Rohan, Priya, Ajay Parasuram, akhi, jayanth and malcaluffin

Apologies for the delay in posting. We were waiting on each other to post a question. Synchronization algorithms are not failure proof :)

This question will be up for 12 more hours than usual.

Connect

Cracked by: varuns88 , duriel , Nakul , rajeshvj , Dibyo , vijayaraghavan , Goyal , sidsen , Guneet , yaksha , akhi , joe , Priya , jayanth , malcaluffin.

varuns88, duriel, Nakul, rajeshvj, Dibyo, vijayaraghavan, Goyal, sidsen, Guneet, yaksha, akhi, joe, Priya, jayanth and malcaluffin