krett12 wrote:

so on scratch, i saw this illuminati confirmed project. but it seemed to have a lot of random parameters, and made things unnessessarily long, something like this.

eye rhymes with pie
pie is food
and chicken is also food
you can get chicken at kfc
kfc has 3 letters
3 sides on triangle

when eye automatically means illuminati. so i am issuing a challenge.

whichever program (you may use any language except scratch) can get from any string to illuminati in the least steps wins.

its a dumb challenge but harder than you might think

Ihaveexpectations wrote:

done

krett12 wrote:

(you may use any language except scratch)

The_Grits wrote:

krett12 wrote:

so on scratch, i saw this illuminati confirmed project. but it seemed to have a lot of random parameters, and made things unnessessarily long, something like this.

eye rhymes with pie
pie is food
and chicken is also food
you can get chicken at kfc
kfc has 3 letters
3 sides on triangle

when eye automatically means illuminati. so i am issuing a challenge.

whichever program (you may use any language except scratch) can get from any string to illuminati in the least steps wins.

its a dumb challenge but harder than you might think

I have an idea, but I need to know what's the max length of the string?

The_Grits wrote:

So basically just get to triangle somehow or do you need to have ‘3 sides makes a triangle’ as the final sentence?

“Bar” has ten letters.
You know what else has ten letters?
That's right.
“Illuminati” has ten letters.
“Foo” is illuminati confirmed.

krett12 wrote:

sorry but youre not allowed to use you know what else is a ___-

edit: also if you started with “bar” how does it confirm “foo”

Remove the first 42 letters of “foo”.
You get “bar”.
“Bar” has ten letters.
You know what else has ten letters?
That's right.
“Illuminati” has ten letters.
“Foo” is illuminati confirmed.

Jonathan50 wrote:

If I removed that one line would it be valid? It's more for decoration than anything else…

Remove the first 42 letters of “foo”.
You get “bar”.
“Bar” has ten letters.
You know what else has ten letters?
That's right.
“Illuminati” has ten letters.
“Foo” is illuminati confirmed.

krett12 wrote:

no, because i consider “you know what else” to be cheating. foo exists. you know what else does? illuminati.

but that logic means you could confirm asdfasdfsadfadfasdfasdfsdfadfilluminatisdfsdf in one step tho.

eh, i guess that's alright since 42 is a special case.

(remove the first 35 letters of asdfasdfsadfadfasdfasdfsdfadfilluminatisdfsdf)
(you get natisdfsdf)
(natisdfsdf has ten letters)
(you know what else has ten letters?)
(thats right)
(illuminati has ten letters)
(asdfasdfsadfadfasdfasdfsdfadfilluminatisdfsdf is illuminati confirmed)

novice27b wrote:

Here's my entry (which works entirely by web scraping)

import urllib.request
import re
import time
import html
 
origin = input("Please enter the title of a Wikipedia article: ")
 
print("Finding links...")
resp = urllib.request.urlopen("http://degreesofwikipedia.com/?a1=%s&linktype=1&a2=Illuminati&skips=&submit=%d&currentlang=en" % (origin, time.time())).read().decode()
 
if "was not a valid article" in resp:
	print ("%s is not a valid Wikipedia page." % (origin))
	exit()
 
if "success!!!" not in resp:
	print("Link not found. Illuminati unconfirmed.")
	exit()
 
print("Found links. retrieving context...")
 
links = re.findall(r"\[.*?\] => (.*)", resp)
 
for a, b in zip(links[:-1], links[1:]):
	print("\n%s:\n" % (a.upper()))
	resp = urllib.request.urlopen("https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/" + a).read().decode().replace("\n", "")
	replaced = re.sub(r"<a[^>]*?\/wiki\/%s.*?>" % (b), "PLACEHOLDER", resp, flags=re.IGNORECASE)
	stripped = re.sub(r"<.*?>|\[.*?\]", "", replaced)
	isolated = re.findall(r"[^\.]*PLACEHOLDER.*?\.", stripped)[0].replace("PLACEHOLDER", "").strip()
	print(html.unescape(isolated))
 
print("\n%s is Illuminati confirmed!" % (origin))

(python 3)

example output (pretty much the same as in my comment above):

Please enter the title of a Wikipedia article: Microsoft
Finding links...
Found links. retrieving context...
 
MICROSOFT:
 
In March 2004 the European Union brought antitrust legal action against the company, citing it abused its dominance with the Windows OS, resulting in a judgment of €497 million ($613 million) and to produce new versions of Windows XP without Windows Media Player, Windows XP Home Edition N and Windows XP Professional N.
 
EUROPEAN_UNION:
 
The anthem of the Union is an instrumental version of the prelude to the Ode to Joy, the 4th movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's ninth symphony.
 
LUDWIG_VAN_BEETHOVEN:
 
He may also have been influenced at this time by ideas prominent in freemasonry, as Neefe and others around Beethoven were members of the local chapter of the Order of the Illuminati.
 
Microsoft is Illuminati confirmed!

The “context finding” code is a bit buggy/hacky, so I might need to improve that.

Where do I collect my prize?