Location: Machine Room

Solution to Nope!

by Yi-Hsin Lin, halftime, and Kaia Dekker

Answer: OVER

Each of the images represents either an architecture (Greek letters) or a Linux error message (Roman letters). In combination, these represent an error code. For example, EDOTDOTsparc represents 88: http://www.kneuro.net/cgi-bin/lxr/http/source/include/asm-sparc/errno.h?a=sparc#L93

Solving each expression gives a number from 65 to 90, which in turn can be interpreted as ASCII. Doing so gives the phrase PREFIX FOR TIME KILL AND HEAD, which uniquely describes OVER, the answer.

A:

E2BIG

B:

ECANCELED

C:

EDOTDOT

D:

EHOSTDOWN

E:

EIO

F:

ELOOP

G:

ENETDOWN

H:

ENOMEDIUM

I:

ENONET

J:

EOVERFLOW

K:

ETOOMANYREFS

L:

EXFULL

α:

 

alpha

β:

 

generic

γ:

 

mips

δ:

 

parisc

ε:

 

sparc

P80=(EDOTDOTsparc + EOVERFLOWparisc) / 2
R82=ETOOMANYREFSmips - (ECANCELEDgeneric - 1) / 2
E69=EHOSTDOWNalpha + EIOgeneric
F70=ENETDOWNparisc - ECANCELEDmips
I73=ELOOPparisc - 2 * EDOTDOTsparc
X88=2 * ENETDOWNgeneric - EOVERFLOWalpha
F70=ECANCELEDmips - EDOTDOTsparc
O79=EHOSTDOWNparisc - 3 * EXFULLgeneric
R82=EXFULLgeneric + 4 * E2BIGgeneric
T84=ENOMEDIUMmips - EOVERFLOWgeneric
I73=ENONETsparc - E2BIGgeneric
M77=ENETDOWNmips - ENONETparisc
E69=EXFULLalpha - 6 * EIOgeneric
K75=ETOOMANYREFSparisc - EXFULLparisc
I73=ENETDOWNgeneric - 4 * E2BIGgeneric + 1
L76=(ENOMEDIUMmips - E2BIGgeneric) / 2
L76=2 * (EHOSTDOWNmips - ETOOMANYREFSgeneric)
A65=(ENOMEDIUMsparc + EIOgeneric) / 2
N78=ECANCELEDmips - ENONETsparc
D68=(4 * ELOOPalpha + 2 * ENOMEDIUMparisc) / 9
H72=EOVERFLOWalpha - ELOOPgeneric
E69=ETOOMANYREFSparisc / 3 - 2 * EIOgeneric
A65=(ELOOPmips + ENONETalpha) / 3
D68=(EHOSTDOWNsparc + EDOTDOTgeneric - 1) / 2