Google Talk Wumpus Game Secret

Thursday, August 25th, 2005 at 12:05 pm in Internet

Today i found something interesting about Google Talk. Do you remember the famous GTA sex scene hack?

Even Google Talk have a secret hack! You can actually play hidden game in Google Talk by figuring this out. Do you see the Google Talk icon in your bottom right taskbar? Right click on the icon and click About.

You’ll see a small about window slide up with blurred letters.
Play 23 21 13 16 21 19 . 7 1 13 5

If you know simple encryption. Try decrypt from number to alphabet and you’ll get this:
Play 23 21 13 16 21 19 . 7 1 13 5
Play w u m p u s . g a m e

Until this part i’ve searched around in Google and here are some site which might be useful.

Did you manage to crack this?

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6 Responses to “Google Talk Wumpus Game Secret”

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Tien Soon Says:
August 25th, 2005 at 12:18 pm
Sometime, we call this thing an “easter egg”, which can only be triggered with some combination of keystroke and mouse-click sequence. In this case, maybe the tips given in other sites (add the wumpus.game user) is valid; but, Google may have already de-activate it
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Lee Wye Jon Says:
August 25th, 2005 at 12:27 pm
What do you mean giving wrong instructions?

A friend of mine managed to get it to work. It doesnt work for everyone. The bot is probably down.
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Kahsoon Says:
August 25th, 2005 at 12:30 pm
Wow really? how does it look like? your friend should’ve screen captured it heh about the wrong instructions…everyone is giving different steps. Well gonna re-phrase it.

Btw peachjon, you blogged about it last night doesn’t mean i can’t blog about it today. And i get to know this from other blog, not yours.
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Kevin Rio Says:
August 25th, 2005 at 12:43 pm
It stoped working…
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Lee Wye Jon Says:
August 25th, 2005 at 1:40 pm
Well I didn’t say you can’t blog about it what. So sensitive for what?
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Harry Says:
December 15th, 2005 at 2:30 pm
Do you think google would remove WUMPUS GAME after just few days of use :
Then why are the numbers still there? There have been plenty of updates of GoogleTalk since the game is gone but the numbers are still there!
Maybe the game is not gone. You just need to do one more thing to enable it… maybe you need to sent an email to wupus with certain keywords…
It seems Google tries to pick smart people who can solve the puzzle…