stupid thing going around on facebook. Presumably the part about clicking forward is to get people to actually forward the darn thing, and I’m inclined to say what’s “wrong” is that people fall for that line, not that there’s any preakup of a pattern in the puzzle. But here I am posting it in case somebody with a different perspective can figure it out. I don’t know the answer, by the way, just curious as to whether or not there’s something wrong or my assesment that it’s almost certainly just a silly chain linked post is true.
ETA: or maybe that there’s no “?” after the “what’s wrong here?”, that was my other guess.
Well, there’s no question mark at the top, before the alphabet. That’s the only thing that I can find.
ETA: Duhr, you noticed that already. Maybe I’m not the best person to be trying puzzles like this…
hm. Why would it only be really obvious after clicking forward?
fw:what’s wrong here
That doesn’t leap out at me.
The only non-linear answer I can think of to the question “What’s wrong here” is the KKK, but that’s not really an error as such.
The answer is at the bottom of that list:
(Bolding mine) The answer: You just perpetuated a chain letter with a problem you can’t find anything wrong with to see if others can figure it out – despite the fact that there’s absolutely nothing wrong with it. That’s what got you to forward it.
Wait, I get it. Those aren’t uppercase III, it’s lower case lll. So the letter L is repeated twice.
edit: or maybe not. In the reply window, I’s have a serif, but they don’t when posted. Maybe that’s what the puzzle is supposed to be, but someone retyped it?
I was thinking that when you click forward maybe the text in the input box would be in a different font like courier or something. That would enable you to see that perhaps the I’s were really l’s, or the O’s were really 0’s.
No, I don’t think so, I can’t see any difference between the capital “I” in this font. And it isn’t the kind of puzzle solution that warrants the name.
I think Mindfield’s got it right, its a self-replicating meme virus.
Nope. Looked at 'em in a serif font. They’re proper I’s.
I still say it’s a gimmick to perpetuate the chain.
If this were a flash puzzle, 3 minutes into looking at it you’d be hit with some ugly face and a blood-curdling scream.
well at least I didn’t just mindlessly copy it to like 20 different facebook walls. I went straight to the experts to confirm my analysis. Does this count as having spread it virally if, by our analysis we determine that it’s a virus and not spread it? Woohoo, I cured the disease!!!
(Ok, unless somebody else comes in and points out something that we all missed)
No, think of it more like having fed it to your virus scanner to see if it recognized the signature. In this case – virus quarantined.
Aside from the definitely missing question mark or colon after “here”, and the space in "Forward ",…
There is an implication that 20% of USCD students could locate the error, but that’s not wrong, per se. 80% couldn’t find the error, nor could the other 20%. (Personally I’d count the use of an invented or ill-founded statistic as an error. I am extremely skeptical that a statistically valid sample of USCD students was polled. Maybe the original author [who knew the answer] asked four of his buddies, but I doubt it’s even that well justified).
What’s wrong here?
a) the premise? (i.e. the nature of the “wrongness”)
b) willingness to follow instructions for little reason despite foreseeable consequences?
c) “the error above” (when the error is actually in that very word or after it)?
d) a poorly framed and ambiguous question?
e) a miscopied original question? (not miscopied by you, but at some point along the line)
I hate to say it, but the question mark/colon seems the best candidate to me.
Didn’t we just do this? I’m too lazy to do the search, but I’m fairly sure the answer was that “Whats wrong here” is missing an apostrophe.
Ironically, OP has the corrected version.
I seem to recall a version where the T’s aren’t the T character repeated three times, but some other similar character - the top line is connected with three lines dropping down.
That doesn’t seem to be this version, though.
Whew, I’m glad I’m not the only one. I specifically remember posting to that thread, and thought something was wrong with my browser because the OP was posted “Today”.
If you stare at the letters long enough…THE GIANT HIDEOUS ALIEN FACE OF AN UNDEAD ZOMBIE WEREWOLF LEAPS OUT AT YOU!!!