Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Indore comes up with Klueless 6

Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Indore has come up with the sixth edition of its much talked about and popular annual online riddle game and with it, the race starts to be in the first 250 to solve the fiendish puzzles that form part of Klueless.

Klueless now in its sixth year is the integral part of the college’s annual festival - Ahvan and its official site gets nearly three million hits from 108 countries and as pert the info gets five comments a minute from its participants.

“It’s a simple idea - players use logical reasoning to cross “levels” which consist of simple pages on the Internet,” says event head Akarshan Gupta.

“Common techniques include changing the URL to get ahead, or hiding hints in a page’s source code.” Gupta makes it sound simple, but Klueless puzzles are exercises in lateral thinking. Players are often encouraged to read up on topics such as cryptography, and it’s not uncommon to agonize for over 12 hours on a single level. “It introduces you to things you never knew,” says Mattawar. “I learnt to decode bar codes to solve a level in K3, and I remember going—cool, now I can read bar codes!”

Klueless 6 begins today and keeping in mind that lot of working professionals take part in this that is exactly why this goes live on Thursday and give ample time of weekend to finish which is is the expected par time. Klueless team comprises of 8 people monitors the game 24x7, disbursing cryptic clues if players seem stuck.

So, what are you waiting for, Klueless 6 can accessed on http://www.ahvan.in/ahvan10/klueless6/ and its facebook page is www.facebook.com/Klueless6.

We wish you luck to be one of the first 250.