I like cookies. Do you?

Sugar cookie recipe!

Also: to cook you need a Timer

Also: don't hint, don't cheat, be nice. Thank you.


General hints:

  1. There are six cookies. You can see them in my profile.
  2. All hidden cookies need 5 ingredients. Mix them in given order.
  3. You don't need math at all (by math I mean scary stuff, like something harder than arithmetic operations) for two of the hidden cookies (actually even 3).
  4. No guesswork involved.
  5. Everything is hidden in plain sight.

Levels of difficulty for cookies:

  • Free Cookie - effortless

  • The Cookie of Wise Choice - very easy

  • The Inquisitive Cookie - easy

  • The Cookie of Understanding - normal

  • The Cookie of Perseverance - hard

  • The Greek Cookie - hard/very hard

  • The Obvious Cookie - normal?


Number of cookie-eaters, per cookie, at least:

  • Free Cookie (infinite)

  • The Cookie of Wise Choice (53)

  • The Inquisitive Cookie (9)

  • The Cookie of Understanding (6)

  • The Cookie of Perseverance (9)

  • The Greek Cookie (3)

  • The Obvious Cookie (13)

Anthrobomination, Award (7/7!)
froost (6/7+) first to get to original cookies


Sorry! Wrong alarm for Q3!
I should sound like Wheatley from Portal 2. "False alarm! False alarm!"


Clarifications/Corrections for math questions.

By the way i have solvers for all these questions. So they are solvable! :)

Q1. Concerning the following:
"What is the maximum number of copies Tommy can purchase but STILL waste at least 1 copy?"

1) You are looking for a number of copies (games) or friends, not bundles. 
2) Tommy is forced to gift only with bundles  
3) Games in bundles are gifted only at the time of purchase. They are instantly used.
4) Example: Tommy wants to gift 10 of his friends with bundles of 6,9 and 29 games.  
   To do this he has to purchase 2 bundles of 6, 6*2=12. And thus 2 games/copies are wasted.  
   So he cannot gift 10 friends with bundles of 6,9 and 29 copies without wasting a copy!  
5) There is maximum number which cannot be made by any combinations of 6,9 and 29. Or of 10,15 and 27.  
   Any number exceeding the said maximum CAN be made with some combinations of bundles. 

Q3. Puzzle version is correct.

Q4. Consider that every game in those 15 similar chance giveaways is different, same for 6.

Also relevant:

In the Hall of Perseverance you can find Tom (not Tommy). It is Jimmy in disguise!

Also there (silly me!) for Stephanie it's 'hours' not 'minutes'!


HINTS.

Hint #1. Basic help.
If this very thread were "a cookie" its recipe (ingredients and order) would be:

  • first, take the letter which asks questions, and whip it until it thickens
  • second, add the buzzing letter
  • third, add the letter that unlocks doors
  • fourth, take the main compass letter (at least in my hemisphere), a sizable one will do
  • and lastly comes the last, in good quantities

Basic help comprehension test

Hint #2. Advanced help.

  • 4 cookies are hidden independently.
  • Their ingredients are also given independently, in every question.
  • There are 4 patterns in the quiz. You look at them every time you look at the quiz.
  • Patterns DO NOT require, but may need guesswork. In truth they are absolutely logical.
  • For Greek Cookie you may throw a glance at Q2.
  • For the Cookie of Perseverance you need quiz hints, which are not hints. And you can check your solutions (or brute-forced guesses, haha) with the quiz!

Additional hints:

  • Look. Suppose you 'think' you found 'something' in one question. If this something is NOT found in other questions this 'something' should be abandoned at once.
  • You really need to explore, not to guess.
  • Nothing is hidden in the opening description (only suggestion to find 5 ingredients).
  • The final description gives only this: access to the Cookie of Wise Choice, hint for the Greek Cookie and the fact that there are 4 hidden cookies. Nothing more.

Hint #3. The Obvious Cookie.

Get it here

Small mistake in Q3. Correct picture here


Solutions.

First, you had to get to the quiz.
The link was hidden in the Sugar Cookie Recipe.

The actual quiz was easy. You had multiple choice answers and could just guess the right answer.

By solving the quiz you are given certain pieces of information:

Link to the Cookie of Wise Choice.
The information that there are four other cookies hidden somewhere.

The link:
http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/xfxvX/cookie-of-wise-choice

That was invalid.
When closely inspected the link itself reveals the code 'lxbxl' while the clickable name shows 'xfxvX'.
It's a mixture of giveaway code itself and its format (x for lower case, X for upper or digits) usually given here on steamgifts.
When combined, it gives 'lfbvl' as a code and 'xxxxX' as format --> 'lfbvL'.

When getting to the giveaway you were hinted to look into the HINTS to the quiz.

“I hope you did not use Hints, because there are none! Ha-ha!”. Hints section was critical to get to the Cookie of Perseverance.


The Cookie of Perseverance.

This was on a straight path, but required math.

The actual ingredients were hidden in the hints to the main quiz. You had to solve math problems and get answers. All answers were numbers which you had to translate into symbols using the corresponding ASCII code.

Full solution here

Also you need drawings for Q2. Here

In the end you have the following numbers: 113, 53, 84, 75 ,72, which in ASCII is 'q5TKH'. This directs you here , the long forgotten giveaway. There you should find my comment and get to The Hall of Perseverance. Which is another quiz.

There you have to answer 5 questions correctly and use the correct sum as an answer.

Answers for the questions:

Q1.
Any number, but 3, can be represented by combination of 6 and 9.
29 mod 3 = 2
29*2 mod 3 = 58 mod 3 = 1.

So the maximum number is 58+3=61.

Q2. You have it already. 22.
Q3. So it should be 'hours' as pointed out. It is 7+33+1 = 41
Q4. To win at least 1 is not to lose at all. To lose all giveaways: (1/2) (3/4) (9/10) = 27/80
To win at least 1 is 1 – 27/80 = 53/80 = 0,6625
Q5. About a Mite, Fishing Floor and Super Fleet Buoy will sum up to 35. Fees for submission: 1+2+4+8+16+32+64=127. Total 35+127=162

The sum of answers is 162+0,6625+41+22+61 = 286,6625


The Inquisitive Cookie.

If you were inquisitive enough you'd check the main quiz for all multiple answers. And find out, that in every question exactly one was wrong. You could do it even without math just by checking 'letters'.

The letters corresponding to wrong answers are: c,C(!),f,d,a. What is this? A giveaway code: cCfda. It goes here. There you need to find my comment and get to The Hall of Inquisitives .
A simple name the game quiz! Do it yourself if you want to get to the giveaway.


The Cookie of Understanding.

And it was hiding in the same place as the Inquisitive Cookie! In the wrong answers (“check answers twice!” hint). Wrong numbers are: 55,110, 73 (this one is tricky), 65 and 48. Or in ASCII it is '7nIA0'.

'73' is tricky because it's the only wrong number in sequence.

Now that you have the code you should go here. Find my comment and proceed to the Hall of Understanding. There you need to answer 3 easy questions.
Answers:
Q1. 191
Q2. 201
Q3. 75

Answer to the quiz is 750


The Greek Cookie.

That's my favorite. The only explicit hint you had is word 'Greek' written in italics. So you had to find something written in italics in the main quiz. And that what you should see:

Leopard Hot lines
Inhuman Car Loop
Too Intimate Roach
A Mad Magpie Battle
About a mite

Again you could be wondering what it is. The answer is simple: it's Greek, it's math, you have 2 examples in Q2 (alpha, beta). So you need to use the Greek alphabet. And those strange names are just anagrams. Of Greek letters. Besides the number of words means how many letters to look for.

So,

Leopard Hot lines = rho + delta + epsilon
Inhuman Car Loop = alpha + omicron + nu
Too Intimate Roach = omicron + iota + theta
A Mad Magpie Battle = gamma + beta + delta + pi
About a mite = mu + iota + beta

But then, again. What should you do with them? The answer is Greek numerals.

Leopard Hot lines = rho + delta + epsilon = 100 + 4 + 5 = 109
Inhuman Car Loop = alpha + omicron + nu = 1 + 70 + 50 = 121
Too Intimate Roach = omicron + iota + theta = 70 + 10 + 9 = 89
A Mad Magpie Battle = gamma + beta + delta + pi = 3 + 2 + 4 + 80 = 89
About a mite = mu + iota + beta = 40 + 10 + 2 = 52

Turning to ASCII (myYY4) leads you here. There you should find my comment and proceed to the Greek Hall

In the Hall again you are asked 3 questions. Answers are:

Q1. Aeronautic Tomb = beta + omicron + tau = 2 + 70 + 300 = 372
Q2. Adult Enigmas = sigma + delta + nu = 254
Q3. Immolated Organics = omicron + sigma + delta = 274

Q1 + Q2 + Q3 = 900.

But that was not the answer. Because you should have used the Greek letter instead of the numbers. And this letter is 'sampi'.


The Obvious Cookie.

Answers to the quiz:

Q1. Easy to calculate: (1626 - 4)/2 = 811, (811 - 3)/2 = 404, (404 - 2)/2 = 201, (201 - 1)/2 = 100, (100-0)/2 =50.
Answer is 50.

Q2. The probability can be calculated like this: the chance to pick out letter 'c' as first is 1/6, letter 'o' as second = 2/5, 'o' as third = 1/4, 'k' as fourth = 1/3, 'i' as fifth = 1/2, 'e' as sixth = 1. The total probability is the product of these, because they need to happen simultaneously. So P = (1/6) (2/5) (1/4) (1/3) (1/2) * (1) = 2/720 = 1/360.
Answer is 1/360.

Q3. The answer is 'cake'. Full explanation for that on the giveaway page, in one of the comments.

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I can't even see the free cookie :P I'd guess it has something to do with the games marked with asterisks on your Steam Profile, but beyond that I'm lost :P

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To get a cookie you need a...herring!..erm..recipe!

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Same here...

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Okaaay. Four cookies down, two to go.

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Three people found 4 cookies out of 6 (not necessarily same cookies btw)

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Oh man, ain't I jelly. "Hard" was not so hard compared to "easy" and "medium". I can't find even the direction to dig in, that's frustrating D:

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im still at a lost for the non easy cookies

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Hints time!

Hint #1 published.

1 decade ago
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Add me in Steam, please. I have a question but I'm not sure if it is answer sharing

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In Q5, does fee for sumbmission means fee for checking every achievement

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Yes. In Q5 Steam charges for submission AND for cheated achievos, if any. You need the sum without submission fees (1$ per achievo).

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Wow, this is tough. Those cookies... are in very tight cookie jars.

(By which I mean they are very well hidden. But, you know, continuing cookies metaphors.)

1 decade ago
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Solved puzzle for "The Cookie of Wise Choice"

It says "invalid Giveaway Code" :\

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Look closely!

1 decade ago
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Hint #2 appears.
Sincerely, it's more than a hint. It's a walkthrough!

1 decade ago
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Made a small mistake in hints (was referring to Q3, while in truth it was Q2). Corrected.

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Jimmy entered 15 giveaways (for 1 game) with 50 entrants each, 6 giveaways (for 1 game) with 20 entrants
Can we count that Jimmy can win only one of 15 and only one of 6?

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I don't understand but you have got to the cookie so let it rest :)

I got it: consider you have different games for 15 and 6 copies.

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Small update for cookie-eaters. 4 people found 4 of 6 cookies. Greek cookie is going to rot, it seems.

1 decade ago
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Additional hints for hints added :P

1 decade ago
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I heard you like hints in your hints for your hints xD

Greek cookie is one tough cookie, but I also can't find the apparently easy inquisitive one. Ah well.

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You'll chew your hat instead of a tasty cookie after it ends!

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well at least my hat is safe from chewing now. I don't think I'll chew it over the Greek one xD Don't want to spread defetism, but it still is one tough cookie.

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I am already thinking of making an independent puzzle out of it.

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TL;DR

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It's math. No reading required!

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Two lesser giveaways have ended.
Solution for the Cookie of Wise Choice revealed.

Solvers updated (6 people found 4/6 cookies). No-one can boast he/she got at least 5/6 cookies!

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Well i found something in every question, but no matter how hard i tried i cant figure out what to do with these somethings... Waiting for solutions.

1 decade ago
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I think that many people found those 'somethings' and wondering what to do with them

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Fun facts about the puzzle.

  • 4 of 7 people who solved the math part speak Russian.
  • None of people(4) who found the Inquisitive Cookie found the Cookie of Understanding (2 people there) and vice versa. Weird.
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The latter is actually really intriguing.

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and 5th can read Russian but not necessarily understand :P

xD

Intriguing indeed. You may be onto something.

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Sixth can too, possibly, since he's Georgian if I recall correctly ;)

So far, it seems that Eastern Europe prevails at this puzzle :D

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I resent being called Eastern instead of Central, though :P But that doesn't necessarily invalidate your statement :]

Also seems coookie of understanding got 3rd solver in the meantime

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:3

1 decade ago
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...And Chour's statement still holds true.

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Yes, he can :D
And he can speak it as well :D

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А что ж молчал, Вахо? :D

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По английский лучше говорю, а также не удобно ползоваться русской клавятурой :D

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А-а, ну да, понятно :)

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Aww, I'm letting the side down with my lack of Russian knowledge.

1 decade ago
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all solvers speak English, isn't it much more fun?

1 decade ago
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Am I really this stupid? I mean, I understand what you mean by cookie and recipe, but there has to be some link to itstoohard.com (the recipe) at all?

1 decade ago
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Ahh finally. Ok, got the free cookie and the cookie of wise choice. Even they are closed i'm just so happy i found that at all ^^!

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Nice! Now onto the rest! :)

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I have a crazy idea for the greek one, but I think you need the results from the puzzle versions of the questions for this and I'm too lazy to solve them all. Only tried Q3 so far (because I thought this is the easiest one) and I can't solve it. I really think Q3 will never work with the info you gave, but probably I'm just understanding something wrong. Thanks anyway :)

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Found one of the four remaining cookies... I'll try to look for the rest later.

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It seems fun facts are better than hints. Lol. Yes, quite a company at the Cookie of Perseverance.

Meanwhile number of solvers increased (6 who are enjoying 4/6 cookies).
And what do you think? Fun fact #2 still true :)

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BREAKING NEWS!

Sorry to break it to you but I had a breakthrough and 5/6 cookies have been breached at same time! So fun fact #2 has been broken, I repeat, fun fact #2 no longer holds xD

Was a very fun fact indeed though.

Alas, no hope for the Greek one D:

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Why? crying Why? This imperfection was sooo perfect!

First 5/6 cookie eater!

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Bump. Found The Cookie of Perseverance.

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Also the Inquisitive Cookie.

1 decade ago
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aand the Cookie of Understanding. Now, about the greek one.. hmm...

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Fast forward? ) Congratulations on 5/6.

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vuhuuu..-ish.

I solved the greek one. However, I'm stuck at the greek hall. I enter the "correct" answer, I've triple checked it, explored whether there were other possible solutions.. but nope. Can you check the answer? If it's correct, are we supposed to give the numeric answer, or something else?

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Explore some more.

Just checked. Everything is ok.

Damn. You're too fast and too good :)

Edit: i am somewhat of an opinion you did everything right but for the very last step.

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damn.. I can't figure it out after all this :).. For the last step, I just sum the three answers?

Anyway, I've wasted too much time already, will look into it again in a few days. thanks for the giveaways and the puzzles!

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Welcome.

Last step is not obvious :) (it's hard/very hard difficulty anyway)

1 decade ago
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Wohoo, solved! "not obvious" was the hint I needed ;)

Thank you!

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daayuummmm dude you're on a roll!

1 decade ago
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noo I'm not an unique cookie.. I mean snowflake.. anymore ;_; Well, gratz :3

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and bump for solved all. Thanks chour!

1 decade ago
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Man. Looks like you read between lines and see patterns within. Kudos!

First 6/6 solver!

1 decade ago
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Another quite easy cookie appears, you might want to check it.

1 decade ago
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Another cookie appears in Hints section!

Edit: small mistake in Q3, that nobody will notice :P

1 decade ago
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Wild Cookie appears! Blue Award uses math! It's super effective!

Hm will ponder on the Obvious Cookie but still betting on having to taste the bitter Hindsight Cookie.

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The obvious cookie points exactly where you should look.
And congratulations on your math skills!

1 decade ago
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Got the Obvious cookie, that's not so obvious after all...

1 decade ago
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And now I'm only 5-cookie-eater

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i c :(

1 decade ago
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Found the two cookies that are now eaten on day 1. However, that's how I feel about the other cookies. But a free bump :D

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Did it hurt? I am sorry!

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Closed 1 decade ago by chour.