ApopheniaBTC - Bet and solve the challenges to win BTC.

[Tritonio]

I didn't bid skull, but I was wrong anyway, lol.

Ah OK. Didn't see any other bet at the time of your posting. :-) Was it "dory" or "palm tree"?

[Welsh]

I didn't bid skull, but I was wrong anyway, lol.

Ah OK. Didn't see any other bet at the time of your posting. :-) Was it "dory" or "palm tree"?

Palm tree, but I don't know how I saw that now.
Now the picture is becoming more clear.

[Stunna]

Winning on here is so redeeming just because it is low odds/skill based. Been having fun for a while.

[Welsh]

Winning on here is so redeeming just because it is low odds/skill based. Been having fun for a while.

I like to try and solve them early on, and always fail.

[Tritonio]

I like to try and solve them early on, and always fail.

That's part of the trick. You need to know when you should bet. Too early and you'll likelly fail, too late and you get nothing since someone else solved it first. :-)

EDIT:

One more easy pic:

[ranlo]

I like to try and solve them early on, and always fail.

That's part of the trick. You need to know when you should bet. Too early and you'll likelly fail, too late and you get nothing since someone else solved it first. :-)

EDIT:

One more easy pic:

I don't even know what to make of that one. So much for "easy," lol.

This is starting to feel like a Rorschach test.

[Welsh]

It's a really good website you have here, please keep it up.


(I'm having some time off, before I become addicted, lol)

[Tritonio]

I don't even know what to make of that one. So much for "easy," lol.

This is starting to feel like a Rorschach test.

Well right now it's hard. But I predict it will be solved quite early compared to other images. Of course my predictions are often wrong so you may as well ignore them. :-D

[ranlo]

I don't even know what to make of that one. So much for "easy," lol.

This is starting to feel like a Rorschach test.

Well right now it's hard. But I predict it will be solved quite early compared to other images. Of course my predictions are often wrong so you may as well ignore them. :-D

After taking another look, it seems like a bunny or a dog. Weird how each time you see a picture you may interpret it differently...

[Isamaru]

kaching kaching BTC0.0425 to me from the bluetooth headset 
blockchain.info/pt/tx/95028c87ea6491d1a657ff9149621a7c29679e1a6cb77a12d916266a1c10ba00
thanks and continue the good work 

[Tritonio]

kaching kaching BTC0.0425 to me from the bluetooth headset 
blockchain.info/pt/tx/95028c87ea6491d1a657ff9149621a7c29679e1a6cb77a12d916266a1c10ba00
thanks and continue the good work 

Well done Isamaru!

New pic:

PS: Don't forget to look at the hints before you bet.

[Tritonio]

Here's one more:  

[addi]

Little limited in pics, what about adding some movie pics?

edit: Yay! won the shoe pic

[Welsh]

Little limited in pics, what about adding some movie pics?

edit: Yay! won the shoe pic

Congratulations, I WAS going to guess, but I was going to say "Boots" so, I was lucky I didn't really.

[Tritonio]

I had this conversation over PM, I got permission to post it here since it might interest other users too:

TxID: https://blockchain.info/pt/tx/5cc976fb2f3ec9269ef05d910e66a31330828219640e92cdd58bc190e1c371e0

i've answered the scrat picture with "scrat ice age" and get wrong answer, now someone send "scrat" and won WTF!!!!

Hello Isamaru.

That picture had this hint: "Character name"
Your answer was the character name and the movie name so as a whole it was not correct. Also the answer field when you try to place a bet says "keep it simple" for this reason. The system is automated in order to be as instantaneous as possible so it's impossible to make it really understand the answer. If for example your answer was "scrat, the little squirel rat from ice age" the answer would be considered wrong. I just asked for a character name, nothing more or the system will not be able to check the answer for correctness.

Now even IF your answer was simple and making sense, that doesn't mean that it HAS to be the correct answer. As the instructions say

not everything that fits the picture is a valid answer.

So if the picture was for example hintless and it shows some guy from a movie, it could be the case that I am asking for the movie title. Saying the name of the actor or the name of his character would not be considered correct even though they both fit the picture. I try to avoid this in hintless pictures though, but hintless pictures are supposed to be a surprise so there is no guarantee about what the correct answers will be for them. In any case this is not about your case.

I believe you were not trying to play two bets at the same time (movie title + character name). It's pretty obvious to me that you were merelly trying to refine your answer, to be more specific. (although this goes against the "keep it simple tip")

Please understand that in order to make the game distinguish between multiple answers and refined answers like the one you gave, I would have to personally check every answer that gets into the system. This would result in a very slow and unresponsive game. What would happen while I am sleeping? It's impossible to have someone look over the site the while day checking the answers for correctness. Actually it is possible, but who is going to pay that guy for all the hours he spends on the site? That's a full time job, actually it's more than full time, you need someone 24/7 on the site. The only option is to have an automated system, and an automated system can only check predifined answers. Consider this a luck factor to the game. In your case you were unlucky. You knew the answer but your phrased it completelly wrong. It could be the other way. It's mostly a game of skill but as in most games, there is a luck factor. IMO it's a small factor if you try to keep your answers simple.

For example, look at the bluetooth picture. It had LOTS of different possible answers: "bluetooth" / "handsfree" / "bluetooth handsfree" / "handsfree bluetooth" / "headset" / "bluetooth headset". Any of those would work. Now if someone bet "Samsung GT-008" or something like that he would loose. It's alsmost impossible to thing of ALL the possible answers for a picture.

BTW would you mind if I quote our PMs in the forum thread? Other users might be also interested in this conversation.

Oh and since we are running out of pics, here is one more:

[hasher87]

i should not made a bet so early in the game lol.. it was a good try 

[Welsh]

i should not made a bet so early in the game lol.. it was a good try 

I'm guessing you didn't win? haha. I'm still having my break before I try again. It seems I suck at this game.

[Tritonio]

i should not made a bet so early in the game lol.. it was a good try 

I'm guessing you didn't win? haha. I'm still having my break before I try again. It seems I suck at this game.

Try not to find the answer at once. Some times finding a background object might narrow down what the answer is. Like the scrat picture. The nut was quite visible, if you could see that, well, which character holds a nut? You don't always have to keep asking yourself the main question "who is this character?".

And take it easy. Go for the cheaper pictures first and when you see a solved picture, don't click one it and don't look at the answer. Instead right click on the thumbnail, save it somewhere and try to find what it is. When pictures get solved, they are no longer processed, which means that someone was able to solve the picture you see as it is.

BTW in case someone hasn't noticed: you can see the full res picture if you click on a solved thumbnail and then click again on the big picture. Clicking that should switch between the original picture (in B&W) and the state of the picture as it was solved.

[ranlo]

i should not made a bet so early in the game lol.. it was a good try 

I'm guessing you didn't win? haha. I'm still having my break before I try again. It seems I suck at this game.

Try not to find the answer at once. Some times finding a background object might narrow down what the answer is. Like the scrat picture. The nut was quite visible, if you could see that, well, which character holds a nut? You don't always have to keep asking yourself the main question "who is this character?".

And take it easy. Go for the cheaper pictures first and when you see a solved picture, don't click one it and don't look at the answer. Instead right click on the thumbnail, save it somewhere and try to find what it is. When pictures get solved, they are no longer processed, which means that someone was able to solve the picture you see as it is.

BTW in case someone hasn't noticed: you can see the full res picture if you click on a solved thumbnail and then click again on the big picture. Clicking that should switch between the original picture (in B&W) and the state of the picture as it was solved.

The idea of trying to figure out the solved images is a good one. I hadn't thought of that for testing skills.

Is it possible (I was reading about the issue with people putting in too detailed of answers) of using some kind of wildcards? For example, if you have a picture of Lassie and you wanted the answer of a dog, someone who put in "Lassie the dog" would still ping as correct since the system would find "dog" in it.

Just spitballing with that.

[Tritonio]

Is it possible (I was reading about the issue with people putting in too detailed of answers) of using some kind of wildcards? For example, if you have a picture of Lassie and you wanted the answer of a dog, someone who put in "Lassie the dog" would still ping as correct since the system would find "dog" in it.

There is a big problem with this. There is no way to distinguish a user that gives a detailed answer, from a user that submits multiple answers.

For example he could be recognizing that it is a dog and then, since I would be asking for a character name, start listing all dog names in one answer, like: "lassie jack brucie bingo hatchie".

Maybe I could only allow the answer to be a prefix of the string but this would again not solve the problem. Let's suppose I accept "lassie" and "lassie x" where x any word or words. This would be good for answers like "lassie the dog", but what about answers like "baby lassie"?
Then I would need to start accepting "x lassie" too, which I bet would lead to having users double betting all the time like "lassie brucie" <- two answers in one bet, if one is correct then the user wins the pot. This would be a big problem.