Hi all! I'm still around but I haven't found time to reopen Apophenia. I still do some work on Biticker and Bittit.info and I still want to start a new version of Apophenia (sort of a rewrite) but I need to sort out some legal stuff first.

(which btw is why i'm keeping the domain around but I let the certificate expire  )

It'll be back. I had an issue with my server so I decided to use the opportunity to upgrade my OS and clean up a bit but I didn't have time to restore all my services yet. I still need to bring back bittit.info and Biticker and then it's apophenia's turn... Sorry! 

It's on purpose. The x4 pot wasn't but since I took it down I didn't feel like putting just the regular pot so instead I went for x2 the regular. :-)

Argh... It looks like a background service had crashed for some time now and it failed to restart. I may have to cancel this one since it has become pretty clear already (no bets on it yet thankfully). I'll put up a new one in a few minutes.

I though I had replied to that question via my phone's browser but I must have mis-tapped on something. It wouldn't push it out. It would wait in the very first place until it was solved. :-)

Here's the new picture:


The winning payment for the previous one will be sent in a few hours. Sorry for the delay on that.

Why not? :-) I thought I'd run two in parallel, one of them very long lasting. The short one got solved, I will replace it in a little while.

And one more: 

Here's the latest one. 

Yeah of course. Just go on the website, click on the solved picture's thumbnail and then click again on the full size picture. It'll show you the clear version.

Here's the latest one:


Good job on the last one btw. I didn't expect someone to hit the bath salts solution before the letters were visible... "Slipper" was also a possible answer btw. :-)

Yeap, almost found that. :-)

Here's the new picture btw:


Have fun!

Don't overthink the new hint. I hadn't done a "no hint" picture for some time, so I thought I'd help new players by mentioning a couple more of other categories to help them understand that it could really be anything. :-)

Either my own photos or screenshots from movies TV series etc. Generally it's not stuff that you can google image search. :-)

Would it be unfair if I put a hint on this one now? Given that some people have already answered I mean. I would say that it wouldn't, since all people would be helped by it but at the same time, people who saw the "No hint!!!" are less likely to look at the hint box again so they might miss it. But I'd really like to help a bit more... :-( Maybe I can put it an add an alert to notify all players of the new hint.

[EDIT] OK I did that. So everyone will be aware of the hint now.

Yeap I want to do that too actually.

Here's something different:


No hint this time! Could be item/person/title or even anything else.

Thank you!


Yes it's a pain sometimes. How detailed an answer is, is such an subjective thing so it's sort of expected that I will fail to always agree with the player-base in whether something was too detailed or not. Here's how I try to think: I generally try to take synonyms from wikipedia and such. And then I may add some even simpler ones. So for example in some other cases the equivalent of just "planner" could have been added, depending on whether I think it's too general. Wikipedia helps a lot because if often lists USA, British or Australian variants that I've never heard of.

So basically here's two examples:

Not enough info: plant   /    planner, pages
Correct answers: aloe, aloe plant, aloe vera plant  /   daily planner, personal planner, year planner, agenda
Too much info: plant in pot, aloe in pot   /   open agenda, empty agenda

In the case of chips as I said I would like to have had added more correct answers though.

You know, I might actually add a tip on the answer form that says "Check wikipedia" because I often use it to find synonyms or alternatives. Don't take this as a rule though. It doesn't HAVE to be from wikipedia.


dayplanner would have been wrong, it's not a proper word I think. "day-planner" would have been converted to "day planner" and accepted though. Pretty sure I remove dashes and other symbols from answers.


Doesn't mean anything useful really. It's the SHA256 of the input file (the picture that was not black and white). I could start publishing those pictures but it wouldn't make anything provably fair. It would simply prove that I had this picture all along. It wouldn't prove that the processed versions are based on that picture from the start and it would certainly not prove that I don't cheat by giving the correct answers to a "friend" or that I don't play myself. Unfortunately I don't think the last point can be ever provably fair. Someone had suggested that I fix the first point and make it provable that the distorted images are based on the same image that you see "clearly" at the end. That could probably be done in a few ways but the possibility of me cheating sort of makes that feature useless. If I wanted to cheat I would cheat directly, no real point in me just making the game harder for legit players by changing pictures behind the scenes. What would that accomplish? Players can actually detect that if they for example store the picture every 15 minutes or so so that they get the whole series of changes and review them later.   (PS: You will not be able to find my pictures on the internet by searching for the SHA)

Here's the latest one:


Looks like I didn't see all the posts here. I'll read through them and answer after I take some sleep!

Here's the new one then!

Welcome back! Adding a picture in a few minutes!


Yeap. You can see the other correct answers if you click on the picture now. They are listed. As I said I wish I had added french fry but for some reason I didn't think of it at the time. Nevertheless I'm not comfortable adding answers afterwards unless the correct ones were... wrong. 

Yes... I hate it when this happens...  I have typed in 4 answers for this picture and obviously nobody has bet on one of those yet. I'm watching what players are betting though and to be honest I wish I had included some of these answers as correct ones. But as I've said in the past often there are answers that fit the picture but are not accepted as correct (either because I didn't think of that variation when I was typing the correct answers in or simply because there were too many variations to list. Sometimes I overdo it and add tons of correct answers. Other times I just add a few (like in this instance). I can't say much more for now without giving out clues.

(Just FYI: If this picture expires without a solution, the pot (excluding the starting pot) will be transferred to the next picture, it doesn't go to the website. This has happened maybe 2-3 times in the past.)

Thank you Fravia. :-)

Here's the newest one:


Also congrats on whoever solved the coins picture. I think I forgot to post that one here good job. :-) EDIT: Oh it looks like I did post it here.