Who (really) has the biggest brain ?

For Facebook enthusiasts out there, the online game "Who Has The Biggest Brain" is well known, since it attracts over 50000 players every day. It is beautifully designed by PlayFish, featuring eight mind-intriguing games to keep you busy for endless hours. The more you play the better you learn its secrets, improve your score and compete with your friends (or the world).


Nevertheless, any game of this kind is susceptible to design flaws. No matter how well designed the graphics are or the music is composed, there are some details that have not been paid much attention to. Don't think about any advanced code reverse engineering, key cheats and the like.

Two out of the eight mini-games have to do with arithmetic calculations. Now think as if you had a 'robot' that can do these calculations instead of you. I am taking about a robot that can read your computer screen and do the math. It will certainly do it much faster than you (and it doesn't have to be a traditional mechanical one).


You can download this 'Bot' from here and get the source from here as well (Delphi 7). To play you have to turn off font edge smoothing of Windows (XP, Vista) and use the FireFox browser. To compile you will need some free components that you can find on Torry.net (PBEditPack, CalcExpress).

I think that I've had enough fun with my friends :) You can play with it as long as you don't pose problems to the world scoring table, which I did and I apologize.

I really appreciate the friendly attitude of the software company about my 'abnormal account activity' shown above. Now I am sure that they will work it out and further enhance this very enjoying game. Looking forward.

P.S. The philosophical question whether a robot is smarter than his/her creator is currently under investigation with my friend uncle.

UPDATE : As of today (20 Feb), the guys are trying to fix the problem. Looking forward.

UPDATE 2 : The new game version (1.3.2) just doesn't accept a very high score in a particular mini-game. That was an easy fix by the developers and seems to be efficient yet a bit annoying :) Thanks to Bekki for the info.