purple blue yellow purple

Congratulations, Serra Britt!

Woohoo! \o/

Ok, now onto the orange one...

purple purple purple purple

No too time consuming for me. Granted, that's more because I over analyze everything.

Purple red red red

Purple red yellow yellow

Blue blue blue blue

Blue purple purple purple

Purple red yellow blue

Alright, now I'm confused. Granted, guessing green was a goof on my part (it was already late at my place and only when I checked the instructions again today I realized green was just part of the firewall colors, not the code itself). So from my previous attempts I'm fairly certain it has to look like "something something something blue" and there is a purple and a yellow in there also, at locations which still have to be determined.

The fourth color obviously isn't green, as there is no green. However, if the fourth color was red, the first try would have 3 colors correct (red, blue and yellow). So no red. Same if the fourth color was yellow (blue, yellow, yellow). So no yellow either. Now if the fourth color was blue, the second try would have all four colors correct instead of three. Therefore no blue. But if the fourth color was purple, the fourth try would have all four correct, so it can't be purple either. Is something like "nothing" or "empty" a valid color?

In that case I'll try: empty yellow purple blue.

No problem - this way I got to see a completely unique error message no one else has discovered so far ^^

Onward to orange it is then. Trying red red red red.

How do you do this?

@Lilith Dracania

Do you know the game Mastermind? It's the same procedure.

There is a secret code you don't know yet. This can be any combination of the colors blue, purple, red and yellow. For example your code might be blue blue red purple. But since you aren't actually told what it is, you need to figure it out by guessing combinations.

Say you guess yellow purple red yellow. Then you receive a reply of 2 colors, 1 location - because when compared with the aforementioned example, there is no yellow in the code you're supposed to guess. There is however a purple and a red, so you already guessed two colors. One of these two, red, is also at the exact location you guessed.

But of course from that alone you can't figure out yet what exactly the correct colors are. That's why you guess again. Say your next guess is yellow yellow red red. Now you have 1 color, 1 location. Whoops - what happened? That purple you took away has to be part of the solution, it seems. You now also know that the code contains either red or yellow, but not both (otherwise you would have gotten 2 correct colors from your second guess). It also neither contains two or more red, or two or more yellow (again, if it did, you'd have received 2 color as a reply).

You decide to go with yellow, and you know for certain there is a purple in there. So your next guess is yellow purple purple purple, which still yields 1 color, 1 location. Now you know that there can't be more than one purple, and also (since you already established the code contains at least one purple) yellow isn't part of the solution. Therefore you know it is one purple, one red, and the rest has to be blue.

You take a look at your first guess again and see either the second color is purple, or the third color is red. You compare it with your second guess. If the second color is purple, then red has to be the fourth, meaning the solution is blue purple blue red. If instead the third color is red, purple has to be the fourth, meaning the solution is blue blue red purple. You don't know yet which of the two possibilities is correct, but you already have a 50% chance of picking the right one. If you do, you solved the puzzle and start over with a new code. If you picked the wrong one of the two by chance, just submit the other with your next guess, and you've also moved on to the next puzzle with a new code.

Alright, time to further prove my 1337 hax0r skillz.

red yellow yellow yellow

blue red yellow blue

Mdom and me just happen to be in different time zones. She'll get a head start again once I go to bed. But thanks ^^

blue red purple yellow

Well, obviously the code has to be yellow yellow yellow yellow for this one. Wait - what do you mean it isn't? xD I'll figure it out anyway.

Purple Blue Yellow Yellow

I'm in third place now, booooo >_<

Yellow Red Blue Purple

Totally should have started differently than I did. lol.
Red red red blue