Nice one!

The secret of Monkey Island is in Pi. Heh Ron you must be pretty bored.

Wow... thats pretty damn crazy!

I think it got something to do with "pie" it all makes sense now. THANK YOU

The cake is a lie.

It may be a subliminal message to the fans, that are asking for the secret, telling them to shut their collective piehole.

Brilliant!

HA! Good one!

Dude, for a guy who prides himself on not partaking in April Fools day, you really are fond of the pranks, aren't you.

This is rather the secret of how to crash Firefox.

How to crash Mozilla Firefox is not a secret.

Lol

If that crashed your browser... stop browsing with a calculator and get a computer. Srsly.

heh heh heh

Nice time and date for Pi day!

Aw man, that's gonna take anyone still on dial-up around four minutes to download.

Not true!  Dial-up or any other slow connection will choke on video or high-res imagery, but can slurp up a much larger block of text than this with no problem.  Believe me, I spent enough years on dial-up to know.

Happy Pie Day!

Happy Pi day!

I just decoded a bit of the secret but Ron was lying, it's not all in there, it's incomplete! Give us the rest of the story Ron!

The pie is a falsehood.

Perhaps if you scroll the page quickly enough, you can see zoetrope style ascii animations unfolding the secret!

about 1 Minute to load this page.... But it was worth it :D

You know, this is, excuse me, a DAMN fine piece of pi!

It is interesting how Ron proves himself to be a big nerd on every post like this one! Thanks Ron

So was God moonlighting for the LucasArts hotline in the nineties?

On an different note, I know a guy who can relay pi upto the, from what I've last heard, 70th digit.

I mean, fuck me.

That's nothing mate, the world record for reciting pi is around 100,000 decimal places!

'king hell.

Thats about the same number of piles I've had.

I really hope you meant pies...

If you put your nose up against it, let your eyes go fuzzy, then pull back, the secret of Monkey Island pops out like 3-d.

Spoiler alert:  It's a sailboat, actually.  Some secret.  Feh.

PI-rate!

Just wait till we get the Matrix guy here who can read code like it were Dickens.

Isn't that where God hid the Da Vinci Code?

Stop teasing Mr. Gilbert!

God made the natural numbers; all else is the work of man.

Why everybody loves pi? There are many irrational numbers more interesting than pi...

well, im no mathwiz. but doesnt pi theoretically stretch on infinently? the search would be endless O.o

I figure the more decimal places they find out, the more accurate they can calculate certain stuff. I think that's important for astrophysics.

In theory not only is the Secret of Monkey Island in there, but also the entire works of Shakespeare, classified jpgs of the moon landings as well as Episodes 1-4 of DeathSpank.  Don't blame me if you're too lazy to go extract them.

Are.. are you in there too, Ron?

On a related note, I recently stumbled upon this:

"LONDON - Give an infinite number of monkeys an infinite number of typewriters, the theory goes, and they will eventually produce the works of Shakespeare.

Researchers at Plymouth University in England reported this week that primates left alone with a computer attacked the machine and failed to produce a single word.

A group of faculty and students in the university's media program left a computer in the monkey enclosure at Paignton Zoo in southwest England, home to six Sulawesi crested macaques. Then, they waited.

At first, said researcher Mike Phillips, “the lead male got a stone and started bashing the hell out of it.

“Another thing they were interested in was in defecating and urinating all over the keyboard,” added Phillips, who runs the university's Institute of Digital Arts and Technologies.

Eventually, monkeys Elmo, Gum, Heather, Holly, Mistletoe and Rowan produced five pages of text, composed primarily of the letter S. Later, the letters A, J, L and M crept in — not quite literature.

The notion that monkeys typing at random will eventually produce literature is often attributed to Thomas Huxley, a 19th-century scientist who supported Charles Darwin's theories of evolution. Mathematicians have also used it to illustrate concepts of chance.

The Plymouth experiment was part of the Vivaria Project, which plans to install computers in zoos across Europe to study differences between animal and artificial life.

“They were quite interested in the screen, and they saw that when they typed a letter, something happened. There was a level of intention there.”

How fool am I. I should have posted a link to it. Sorry :S

Not too late, you know.
I'd like to check out that site...

Lol. I think it's so dumb how they try to save face on a stupid project.
"They saw that when they typed a letter, something happened. There was a level of intention there."

The monkeys noticed that something happened. That's the best they could do. Sigh.

Reminds me of this: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0138704/

You perv! I can't believe you'd put porn on your front page and not give us age verification! I say!

Right, humm...

Looks like someone has been reading Carl Sagan's Contact a few times too many :)

...or possibly 'JPod' by Douglas Coupland?

xkcd has a nice one like this. :D

http://xkcd.com/10/

I've confirmed that this number is the first 933418 decimals of pi (Sorry, no hidden secret of MI)

See the wikipedia entry A message from God in pi for a final nail in the secret coffin

Oh noes! You have borken me browser X_x

Now who's gonna learn that by heart? :)

mmmmmmm. pi.

Seriously though, ain't it obvious? The secret of Monkey Island has something to do with a circle! :o

A circle... What could it be...? Wait! Guybrush's engagement ring to Elaine, or... Dinky Island! (It's kinda round, right?) Uhmmm... The moon! Yes, the moon is the secret! Or what about that Creative Commons license logo at the bottom of the page?

...

The secret of Monkey Island is the circle of life

I understand,
No-one knows the end of PI
And no-one know the secrat

The secret is :

It's never ever had give a secret

If the time is coming
You must invent it

Its true :)

Sorry for my awful English

I think those were the digits I pressed last week trying to navigate the automated telephone system for my employer's human resources department.

I tried dialing that number. All I got was some recorded message of a dog barking.
Sounded like he was in some kind of bar.

Warning ! There's a 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419... headed monkey behind you !!!

Warning! There's a 3.14159 headed monkey on the last post!

Where?
+looks left and right+
+hides+

(I don't like decimals. Things get messy.)

Just A Little Bit Egocentric!

You Suck Ron.

I have better things to do like say, play monkey island 1 again, or cure cancer. Thinking about it, world peace would be a better idea. I will be back with you in 2 or 3 months.

Oh, isn't that infamous float point bug of older pentium systems? Look-up tables have it's weak points too...

The decimal digit at place 583047503820 is wrong.

Sorry

Dude, I'm usually the last person telling people to "get a life", but if you really dug through that entire piece of Pi looking for a mistake maybe its time to reevaluate the purpose of your existence on this planet.

And you, Seriously, are an idiot. sorry.

Hahahahaha, He surely is...
There are some people over there that realy don't have any sence of humor!

Dude, it's obvious you have none. Please remove yourself from this planet ASAP.

I got to 3.14 and then I gave up

Hehe I get to 3.147 :)
1UP
er...Is that right so far?

Now we just need the index at which the secret starts...
(PI porn would be appreciated too).

While hitting my page down button to get to the comments, I swear I saw a platypus in the digits...

And I thought the secret of Monkey Island was 42. Damn...

The secret of monkey island is not to forget to get the toothpaste before you leave earth. Or is that another game?

I found it! It's amazing!

This is a joke isn't?

Gee. Thanks for making a post so large that's its boring to scroll down to read the comments

I found it! 37. It's on line 5881, about 37% in. Thanks Ron for the heads up!

Now I've memorized it, I'm gonna spoil The Secret to my friends!

I think he's saying that a circle has no beginning, as in The Secret isn't there?

The cake is a lie, and the cake is also a pie. Therefore, the pie is a lie as well. And with this pie that is a lie, so is the secret of Monkey Island.

Is the fly on the pie a lie too?

Well, in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series, the Second Foundation is on "the other side of the galaxy." But since the galaxy is round and there's no sides, it was right where they were all that time! Could it be that the secret of Monkey Island...is inside all of us? LOL

Hey, that was that answer that satisfied, not the answer that was true.

Wow...that's deep!
I am deeply impressed.

Maybe if you assign the right notes to the numbers Pi will play the MI theme song:

http://www.avoision.com/experiments/pi10k/pi10k.html

I thought the secret of Monkey Island is that it has a gateway to hell in the form of a giant monkey head.

You know, that's what i always thought too!
What could be a bigger secret than that?
And then there was the carnival at big whoop and then the monkey Robot...
come on! Personally i think that people are just like the mystery and are never satisfied with the answer so there always has to be a new secret. MI has had so many secrets (and you can find tons more if you choose to view them in that light) so take your pick!

Right on, Davey, I go with the monkey head gateway to hell too- that and the fact that it was the Ghost Pirate Le Chuck's lair. Why else would that be called the Secret of Monkey Island?
Though i bet Ron has thought up a new and better secret since then, the one he keeps telling everyone he has never told anyone.

OK, this simply isn't funny :) Two pages of digits would be enough!

Everyone is so fast and funny, you made already all the jokes I had in the head, bleh...

It's 2415780099182945276911, isn't it? I knew it.

My PIN for the ATM is in there several times.

Man, somehow I always knew it was 42.

200 years ago they´d have been very glad if they had "Pi" up to that point...

Is it my idea or is Ron adding more digits at the end of pi every so?

You´re Kidding don´t cha? THERE IS NO END OF PI!!!!
PI is an endless number xD

More DeathSpank creating, less PI calculating...

http://www.adventuregamers.com/article/id,866/ You forgot this one

There's a mistake in the 563th decimal. It should be a 5 instead of a 7.

The secret IS in there.
I can tell you.

Pi has 3 sevens in a row. Hit Ctrl+F and search for it on this site. You'll find it.
It's in the last 3rd of the given part of Pi.

Erm...what do the 3 sevens have to do with the secret of monkey island? Though that is cool I'm sure...

genuine question, btw. I'm interested to know.

Wait! I see it!
7*7-7 = 42!
The answer to life, the universe and everything!

Ron, you're BRILLIANT!
(and so are we for working that out.)

Great. Now we just need to get one of those weird autistic kids  to translate  us......

Ok Guys ... enough .... Now I will try it my self ... I hope it´s really in there :)
Greetings
Jonas

Well, according to LucasArts, the secret of Monkey Island is that the giant monkey head is a huge robot and monkeys control it... or is it that Elaine was in fact in love with Guybrush?

Anyway, LucasArts did blow the story so much in Curse and Escape that who cares?

Well, you know my IP range now, Ron, so it's quite useless to use another name.
Jesus is in those numbers and he's coming to free us!

Sry, just kidding, the
secret of MI is of course 42.
Now you just have to ask the correct question.
Easy task, guys!!

What the.... ?!?!?!
Thats all the money that I have in my swiss account, but without that · in front of the 3.

How did you knew it mr Ron?
Im gonna have to kill you now... The only thing that can save you, is telling me the REALY secret of monkey Island. IN 3 MINUTES! ò__ó

NOW!

Haha!!, I've found the source of your Swordmaster!!!!

Look at thiz ad...
http://community.livejournal.com/vintage_ads/921569.html

In line two there's a "42" I think this is the secret of Monkey Island ;-)...
(and the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything)

Ok, you better start posting more on your blog again, so that my browser doesn't have to load those thousands of lines of the Pi that you have here...

This is something like...

"oh, I understand...

His name is Robert Paulson, His name is Robert Paulson, His name is Robert Paulson!..."

I played these on an Atari ST in my spotty youth.

I enjoyed the ending at the theme park. That was the big reveal for me and was a nice endnig to Ron Gilbert's Monkey Island.

<snipped to save bandwidth>
THANKS RON!

When you're gonna tell us the secret of the broken stairs at the Maniac Mansion's Library?

OK, 100 comments just for posting pi.

Is this the part where he says "How appropriate, you fight like a dairy farmer?"

Monkey Island does exist in PI. The execution files of MI are nothing more than a bunch of random 1's and 0's... PI is also nothing more than random 1's and 0's if you convert it to binary. So there you have it. MI is part of PI :) Just like everything else in the universe, it wasn't created by man. It's existed all along. We only observed it.

This is an example on how to make a stupid commentary, look even stupider by trying to show everyone else that you think of yourself as a "deep thinker" who can see more than everyone else.
No you are not.

Moron.

I knew God wasn't a nice guy! I knew it!

I don't see how that was a stupid comment. I think it's childish to go around calling people stupid.

Especially if it's just because you don't like the fact that they are thinking while you are not.

Get a life.

Now that was deep! Bravo!

Oh that^ was me. oops.

oops...my other message didn't come up. wierd... thought i posted it without my name

Just meant to say
Good one, Ron. Keep them guessing at what inspired your genius when actually you were too lazy to think of something to write to get people to respond to so you threw out the bait instead. Hehe.

No wait... is that....it IS! I see it right there!

You just have to squint and turn your head...

What is it?

It's a duck!

Hola uenas, alguien habla español por aqui ??...

WHAT? nessuno mi capisce quaaa?

PI is here. About 2 to the 88,2392321893123989329293 quatrillion digits in. No wait, that was the version that was too buggy and caused LucasArt's to lose all their money in a parallel universe.

Some 55,239091230293 trillion digits later it reveals that PC Gamer later called it "The Secret of Buggy Island."

did I say "PI is here." Dam, I'm tired. I meant "Yea, it's in PI." Easy to get the two confused though, right? lol

I loved MI2... its the best game in gaming history...sniff... it changed my life Ron

Secret: "Monkey island" its an atracktion for kids, ever.

Reminds me of the point-and-click game "Day of the PIdiot" made by Johan de Ruiter...

"Will you be able to rescue the kidnapped professors and save pi-day?"

http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/~jruiter/html/game.htm

By coincidence, it was inspired by certain LucasArts games...