Online puzzle
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An online puzzle is usually regarded as a web based puzzle game, where the player's objective is to get from one page to the next using hints and clues provided on the previous page.
[edit] Format of online puzzles
Online puzzle sites are just what they claim to be, puzzles that you solve online. They take many different forms. Some sites release contests which are a fixed number of puzzles and the aim is to solve them all, whereas others continually add new puzzles so that there is no fixed end to the contest.
Puzzle contests can either have a sequential or non-sequential format. If you solve a puzzle in the sequential format you enter your solution either into the url or the submit box depending on the format of the host site. If you've got it right you are rewarded with the next puzzle. Non-sequential contests allow you access to almost all the puzzles from the start so that you can solve them in any order that you wish to. Both types of contest often end with a meta-puzzle, which incorporates puzzles/answers from earlier in the contest.
Solving these online puzzles is often tricky. As the contests are online the puzzle writers assume that you have access to resources such as Wikipedia and Google and therefore they have completely free rein in the information they can expect you to be able to discover. Many techniques used in puzzles are codes, the phonetic alphabet, the periodic table, ASCII code, binary, braille, Morse code, semaphore, cryptic clues, riddles, logic puzzles, anagrams and leet. In most riddles you will also need different programs and/or editors, such as photoshop, text editors like pspad or notepad, and music editing programs like audacity, free audio software or linux audio software.
