Feelin' smart? How about this?

[pkt-zer0]

I happened on this site not too long ago. I don't know if you people know it already, but I find it quite a fun and challenging puzzle indeed. So far I got to level 3.

Here's the link:

http://www.hack.net/

[ZeikHunter]

uhmm... all i get is a little picture of a roach or something

[ZeikHunter]

and looking at the source, thats all there is, except for a link to ninebows.com, and all that page contains is "1110000 1101100 1110011 100000
1100111 1100101 1110100 100000
101111 1110100 1110111 1101111 "

[pkt-zer0]

uhmm... all i get is a little picture of a roach or something

Yep, that's the first one.

Tip:
You have to find a link on that page. It shouldn't be that hard.
Tip 2:
Try looking where the bug looks.
Tip 3:
Look at the source of the page. The link can be easily read that way, though that's probably cheating.

EDIT: Jeez! I AM slow. The second page is binary code. Did it easily with a help of a text file and the Windows calculator

[ZeikHunter]

yeah, but im too lazy to translate the binary code into words or numbers

[ZeikHunter]

ok, i stopped being so damn lazy * i translated it... but it makes no sense.

[pkt-zer0]

Well, I don't remember the hex characters, but it ASCII they should make the string "pls get /two"

So you just put it there after the URL.

After that, I'm screwed. Can't do nothing with those damn numbers.

[ZeikHunter]

thats what i got. out of the binary too... lemmmie look at it...

hm. got some addtition/subtraction.... this could be good...

[ZeikHunter]

hahahaha, i found it

http://www.ninebows.com/three/

[Chaos]

Pretty funny.

First on was easy, second one was rather hard.

[ZeikHunter]

i dont believe thats the solution though. theres a rather lengthy topic at gamedev.net on it... it also includes information from the creator... yeah, its pretty much impossible i think

[SpiraUnited]

i tried going through this, and i thought that the numbers might be a puzzle type of an IP adress, but that's as far as i thought ahead

[ZeikHunter]

well, people have tried doing just about everything to those numbers. the creator of the puzzle was quoted as saying something to the extent of the next step is a natural extension of the first step. and something about middleschool average & 50%... and 15 is the middle number of the set... i dunno... creator also said there were 9 steps in the puzzle

[pkt-zer0]

I think "natural extension" means that it is also a number code. I mean a number corresponds to a letter, in some wicked logic. But maybe this is where I'm mistaken, and that's why I'm stuck.

[ZeikHunter]

i think 'natural extension' might mean "well, the first part was /two, so the next part should be /three" nowq, as for ninebows.com/three, the statement there should perhaps be seen as simple text, and not as a statement. and scans of the site reveal that the computer that hosts the site also hosts a backpacking site, and some kind of rallycar something, however, no other subdirs for ninebows other than /two, /three, and the apache error message