After finding the root of all 7 deadly sins and snuffing them out of existence, you gathered all their essence and used it to open a new portal.
Upon entering the portal, you find yourself in a seemingly futuristic room.
Waiting for you with a light saber is... wait... is that Shepard with a light saber?
You: Shepard?
Zooze: No. I am Zooze Skywalker.
You: What the F$%C??? Did we not correct time propperly?
Zooze: So it is you i have heard stories of. You are the traveller.
You: Yes, you could say that. What year is this?
Zooze: 2808. The empire is winning the war. I have to fight Garth...
You: 2808?? I have gone that far into the future?
Bear: WAIT. This is important! IS THERE STILL HONEY IN THIS YEAR?
Zooze: ... No... -.-''
Bear: NOOOOOO! :'(
You: ... -.-'' ... Who is the emperor?
Zooze: Nobody knows yet, he hides in the shadows. All i know is Garth Cader is his most trusted Sith Lord.
You: Seriously? Sith Lords?
Zooze: Yes, seriously, GC must not prevail. And...
A Sith Lord all dressed in black appears.
Zooze: There you are GC. You will not escape this time!
GC: (Hwooo) You fool, the dark side is stronger. (Hwooo) You have no chance.
You: Oh boy, i can't even...
GC: (Hwooo) Nobody can!
You: ... That's not what i... -,-''
GC: (Hwooo) Silence, Traveller.
You: Wait, you know who i am?
GC: (Hwooo) Who do you think you've been working for... (Hwooo) All this time?
You: What?
GC: (Hwooo) Thank you for your assistance in correcting the timeline, so that the Empire shall prevail forever.
Zooze: That can't be.
GC: (Hwooo) Oh but it is. Now prepare to die, Skywalker.
Zooze: Never, Cader!
A light-saber battle ensues. The battle is intense and very close.
In one swoop, Zooze almost cuts Cader's head off, but he crouches and tries to run his saber across Zooze's chest.
Zooze jumps over Cader rolling in the air and dodges. They both turn and cross sabers once again. The fight goes on...
Suddenly, everything goes dark, including the light-sabers.
Zooze: GC, you scoundrel, is this your trickery?
GC: (Hwooo) Uhh, no. I can't see either. (Hwooo) And my saber is also powered down.
Bear: Uh... oops.
You: Bear... what did you do? -.-''
Bear: I think i turned off the power.
Zooze: WHAT?
GC: (Hwooo) WHAT?
Zooze: Are you mental?
GC: (Hwooo) Yes, what is wrong with you? (Hwooo) Don't you know how irresponsible it is turning off the power just like that?
Bear: Sorry... :'(
The light comes back up.
GC: (Hwooo) The backup generator! :D
Zooze: Phew! :D
Zooze and GC hi five each other. You scratch your head trying to figure this mess out.
Zooze: Ok, ok, enough of that. Time for you to die!
GC: (Hwooo) No, no, no, evil will win, because good is dumb!
You look at Bear nodding in disapproval and can't help but think Cader might be right.
As soon as you think that, Cader cuts Zooze's arm.
Zooze: Gaaahhhh!
GC: You are a fool, Skywalker, you should have joined the Dark Side when you had the chance.
Zooze: Never! Gaaahhhh!
GC: There's also something you should know before i leave...
Zooze: I don't want to listen to your lies! Gaaahhhh!
GC: Zooze... i am...
Zooze: No!
GC: ...NOT Bear's father!
GC walks into a dark portal.
Zooze: Noooooooooo! Our hope is lost that you will slip up...
Bear: Noooooooooo! I was convinced the Empire had honey...
You: Noooooooooo! I'm stuck with him...
Suddenly, a strange person appears.
You see an orange raincoat with a hood covering most of the head of the person, but some long hair still pulling out of it.
There's also a dress underneath the raincoat and a tiara on top of the hood.
The princess: You must hurry, traveller and sacrifice that furry giant Ewok once more.
Zooze: Steia?
The princess: Zooze?
Bear: But i'm a bear, not an Ewok. :'(
The princess: Kill that half-assed Chewbacca impersonator and you will be able to follow GC into the Dark Portal.
Bear: But i'm a bear... :'(
The princess: Beware though, your way out of the portal will test all your mettle.
Zooze: Do as she says, traveller. If Cader was right and you're responsible for this, you have to set things right.
You: But i found all the 7 deadly sins and snuffed them of existence. Or so i thought...
Zooze: There is an 8th, traveller!
You: What? O.o
The princess takes Zooze's light saber and cuts Bear in half.
You follow GC into the wormhole.
The Game:
93% of the 22,079 reviews for this game were positive at the making of this GA.
Fight through Mordor and uncover the truth of the spirit that compels you, discover the origins of the Rings of Power, build your legend and ultimately confront the evil of Sauron in this new chronicle of Middle-earth.
Steam Key.
Hi there.
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Well, hello there!
First to make it to 50, it seems. Congrats. ;)
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I still haven't solved 2-6 or 4-1, but I was able to find my way here regardless. Working on this beast of a puzzle now. :P
And then I'll go back for the easter eggs and keep waiting on hints for the ones I'm stuck on.
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How did you get here then?
Bruteforcing? O.o
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Yep...the last two digits. It wasn't that bad...nothing else to do but bang my head against the wall on the ones I was stuck on. :)
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That's still a lot of bruteforcing considering you had to use a capitalized letter and one non-capitalized one... O.o
And get the combination of both right.
Edit: Nevermind about capitalization, itstoohard seems to ignore capitalization on urls too...
Still that's 36x36 combos, that's 1296 possible.
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Yeah...well, I've been stuck for days :)
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Marker 14 was wrong, wasn't in the initial markers, my bad, added it to G2 instead of G3. :(
It's now fixed.
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Everybody already has scripts due to all the bruteforcing puzzles around...
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Ya, figured as much. :)
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Marker 14 was wrong, wasn't in the initial markers, my bad, added it to G2 instead of G3. :(
It's now fixed.
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wow if I win only this GA I will be more than happy!! ^_^
and bruteforce is not complicated, the whole process of bruteforcing 2 digits doesn't take more than 10 minutes when you know what you are doing.
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I reckon so.
Either way, how goes your overall puzzle progression in the 7 wormholes?
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I'm stuck on 2-7-6
and a couple fubuki from 3-5 which I didn't had the patience to sit and do them :/
the rest is all done
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I've added quite a few more solutions to the fubuki, for the record.
If you find a solution that works and isn't there, just add me on Steam and after double-checking it, i'll add it to the accepted solutions.
2-7-6 is a bit of a pickle, Ethan cracked it though, but only one so far. ^.^
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1,300 tries in 10 minutes is almost 3/second. Please be considerate of others using the site and add a delay between web requests.
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Yeah, I saw your post about being IP blocked, so was us making the site goes down? I feel guilty now :(
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Marker 14 was wrong, wasn't in the initial markers, my bad, added it to G2 instead of G3. :(
It's now fixed.
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Finally here. Will not enter just for dlcs. But thanks for nice giveaway..
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You're welcome, there's something pretty shiny after the next puzzle too, btw. ;)
And did you manage to get all other 49 (i know you're the only one so far to have completed wormhole 2, hence my question. :)
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Working on 51 now. Really want to know what is it.
Yep, I got all 49 giveaways, 5 easter eggs, 2 red herrings and this one.
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So still the other 2 easter eggs missing. Shouldn't be hard if you got all 49 to figure where they are, just looking at the egg-hints. ;)
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Hey Zooz, I guess I fill all table with numbers, but the answer still incorrect. Found that in question you ask for numbers 5G, 6F, but in table cells 5F, 6E with the question mark. What is correct question?
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I believe I have same problem as you, solved the final puzzle, but the answer is incorrect according to ITH. Maybe there more than one correct solutions?
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I think so.
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What i said below to PapaSmok, in case you believe you solved it.
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That would be incredibly surprising, but considering how many puzzles i managed to botch, if you don't mind, add me on Steam and i'll verify your solution, to see if you made no mistake.
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Added you
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See comment below. ;)
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Marker 14 was wrong, wasn't in the initial markers, my bad, added it to G2 instead of G3. :(
It's now fixed.
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Added too
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See comment below. ;)
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Marker 14 was wrong, wasn't in the initial markers, my bad, added it to G2 instead of G3. :(
It's now fixed.
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5F and 6E are indeed the ones needed, sorry about that, fixed the question.
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Good to be here :)
Being stuck on wormhole 2-6 had to brutoforce one letter
Now need to find puzzle 51, easter eggs and whatever there is left :)
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Grats! ;)
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Number 5!
At last I know the real name of GC! wohohohoho!!!
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Hehehe, grats as well, i had faith in you. ;)
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Yay, glad to be here! The Global Hint(tm) really helped. :)
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Congrats! :)
Now gl on getting past 51 and finding the easter eggs.
The egg-hints on the main thread's 3rd post should help with the scavenging. ;)
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Thanks! I will keep a hopeful eye out for hints on #51. I was able to place 1-62 but then I didn't have any open spots to place 63. I have no idea how far back I would have to go to fix that; 46-62 is quite a lot to place without any clues!
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It's supposed to be a somewhat logical solution, so if you find the pattern shouldn't be too hard seeing where you made a wrong turn, but you can also use that time to scavenge for the eggs, i guess. ;)
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See comment below. ;)
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Thanks for the additional numbers! You placed 53 where I had 8 so I guess I have to go back really far, basically to the beginning.
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Ah, again... pattern. ;)
There have been hints of sorts dropped here and there (considering the grand-scheme of things), that might indicate what the pattern resembles. :P
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Yes, I will focus on that. And 14 definitely goes in G2 and not G3, correct?
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F*$K! :&
GRRRR @myself.
Thanks for the heads up. :/
F%$K! F%$K! F%$K! -.-''
Fixed.
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I was tempted to brute force my way here earlier, but decided to wait until I finished all the chambers first (*Shakes fist at Chamber 2-6)
Already got all the Easter Eggs, so all that remains is 51 and I have become a
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Congrats! ;)
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Marker 14 was wrong, wasn't in the initial markers, my bad, added it to G2 instead of G3. :(
It's now fixed.
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Ah, that made things much easier. ^_^ Solved
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I got here by solving everything. Hmm, aren't I the sucker. And whats a script? I don't even math bro.
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Congrats and good luck with 51!
And with the egg-scavenging.
Having solved everything else to get to here, you have all the info for all 7 eggs, so... :)
The hint-board should also help on the egg-hints section. ;)
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Tried the Final but 72 and 75 can go in different spots to finish the same routes. I haven't finished it by far but that just seems to indicate there are several solutions. I'll go look for the eggs cos this is not possible for me at the moment. I'll wait till the scripters solve it,... :P
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Scripts seem to apparently take longer the more markers i add. I'll add 72 as a marker and another one closer to the finish (89) to prevent that as well as a marker to 53, considering what Kota said previously.
But i seriously hope you guys are going by it through a pattern and not just randomly, because if you do find the pattern, it is (no joke) easily solvable.
Nonetheless, considering the effort people made to get to this, i'm going to make it (hopefully) a bit easier with 3 extra markers.
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Marker 14 was wrong, wasn't in the initial markers, my bad, added it to G2 instead of G3. :(
It's now fixed.
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I wrote a script to help me find the solution. My idea was to solve the range between each pair of lowest known number positions sequentially. 1-7 = 4 possibilities...not too bad! 8-14 with the first possibility for 1-7 = 155 possibilities...gutted!
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Ethan already cracked it, no scripts involved as far as to my knowledge. :)
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Maybe it's just me but I find it very difficult to discern any patterns with only two consecutive number pairs (1-2 and 88-89) and so many possibilities between the other numbers given. I thought I had found something when I asked about the positioning of 14 but I'm having trouble extending it beyond that point.
The main thread states, "P51: Hint unlocked!" - is that the 3 more markers that you added today?
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Yes to P51's extra markers being the added hint, although there are very small hints considering a lot of things in the theme of the whole puzzle-thread.
What i can say is this... there is a pattern of sorts... that you have to repeat till no more moves that way, then make 1 different move, then rinse-repeat.
The pattern should be obvious if you place 1-16 correctly and just clear the rest of the whole board and look at it. ;)
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I'm still plugging away at this. I added the latest markers to my script and got just 3 possible solutions for 1-89! However, the remaining 11 numbers cannot be placed in the grid cells that are still empty. There must be a mistake somewhere?
It could very well be in my script, although I don't know how it could get this far with a bug - could you please check all the markers one more time?
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I'm probably misunderstanding ... you use the "vanilla" board from the ITH as input for your script -- no extra assumptions -- and have your script place the first 89 numbers, and there are only 3 possibilities for that? ... then one of our scripts is wrong -- I just killed mine at solution #6000 for those first 89 numbers
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Correct - the "vanilla" board with the 17 given numbers. I was getting tons of possibilities, too, until I modified my script to follow this critical rule:
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I hope i haven't misled you more than help you with that comment.
I made that comment, because the folks that added me with working solutions from 1 to 100 that didn't meet the solution were breaking pattern.
This is also why i told you folks that if you try to do it manually it might actually be simpler than using a script.
I solved this myself quite some years ago manually, i just had to make sure that when i made a move that was different from said pattern until repeating it again it wouldn't get me stuck.
An added suggestion, if you feel like you figured out the pattern is... maybe use a 10x10 spreadsheet (5 width, 30 height for instance) and copy-paste it 4x while empty.
Then go about it by 1 iteration at a time...
As in mark the 1st in the 1st box, then copy to the 2nd and make said move, do 2nd iteration, etc.
Should be easier to backtrack where exactly are you moving that gets you stuck and which other logical possibilities might there be.
I honestly hope this helps as much i honestly still believe manually beats scripting (as it was intended anyway). ;)
If however you feel like a script might help you identify the pattern faster, then by all means... :)
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Ok I see ... I think that rule is ... well hard to interpret correctly, to say the least. I solved it in the meantime (well, my script did) and I still don't fully understand that rule. My script did not follow it.
I don't think I can tell you anything else without spoiling ... but I think I wouldn't need to. You have the tools and you are close.
Edit: wrote this before seeing Zooz' comment above. I don't agree with "manually might be simpler", but it definitely is possible ... and it can give you the right ideas for your script.
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Wait, your solution doesn't involve always continuing in the same direction whenever possible?
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Nope. But it probably should, see below.
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So there are either multiple answers or the rule "you have to repeat till no more moves that way" is incorrect? I am really curious how you narrowed it down from 6k possibilities without implementing that rule.
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I think that rule is correct, but back then I thought it wasn't. I narrowed it down by not starting from the vanilla board. I manually did the first few numbers (following my wrong pattern rules) and had my script complete it. I actually was lucky that the first of my 8 solutions had the right numbers in the relevant places.
Edit: I hope this is readable, on my phone this comment is 5 letters wide.
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... and one more reply ... TheZooZ cleared the rule up for me. There's a good chance you got it right after all, I think I had it too complicated.
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Just checked the markers, everything is correct this time.
If you have placed the numbers correctly up to 89, it's weird that the 11 remaining don't, unless you're breaking pattern.
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yay, nice GA.
Thanks Zooz
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You're welcome. And good luck with #51. ;)
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Did this GA just call me an ass?
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Hahaha, hadn't noticed it. ^.^
See? Some GA codes are funny like that.
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I'm pretty sure I found a valid solution that is not accepted ... well, I wrote a program for that, so that solution probably does not follow your pattern. I'm searching for more solutions -- but feel free to add me on Steam if you need my alternative to add an excluding marker
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Hmm, send me an add request so i can double-check it.
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I bruteforced the fourth character.. I have no knowledge of SG history, so when I saw that wormhole 4 was about 'famous' usernames, I know I was screwed. I managed to finish 2-6 today thanks to the hint, and thus I completed everything else and forced my way in here. To be honest I think wormhole 4 was not a very good idea as everything else could be solved with common knowledge but that particular wormhole forces you to have existing knowledge of a lot of past SG history. Thanks for leaving the brute force option though.
And thanks for this entire event, in case I didn't mention it anywhere else - such huge amount of work!
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I managed to force my way through 4-1 thanks to hints and spamming the SG userlist like crazy. Glad to see the rest of the theme is different. :)
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I take that back as I reach 4-3 and we're back at usernames. :(
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Yeah, but 4-1 was still probably the hardest of all of 4... without hints, that is.
The crosswords have some overlapping, and with the added hints, should make some of the names easier to guess.
I've been here for 1 year only as well, so those names are mostly forum regulars, etc. (in the crosswords, that is).
There might be 1,2 names harder to guess, but nothing impossible, imo.
There have been way harder puzzles regarding users in SG. ;)
Not that you needed it for 50 or 51, but if you want to get all the eggs, you might have to. ;)
Anyway, good luck. :)
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I made the plain script and left it to solve but I regret now.
It takes too much time to search all the possible combinations. I should solve it by hand considering the comments here.
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Yep, told you guys as much from the start. :)
Especially considering the hints added. ;)
How goes the egg-hunt?
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I got 7 (all?) thanks to added hints.
I think I've grown up from the start point when I googled "red herring".
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Yes, there were 7 (plus the red herrings). :)
Congrats on your finds then. :)
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One puzzle more to go and the easter eggs. Too tired to attempt those right now. :)
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Still a few days, so. :)
Congrats on getting this far. :)
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Previous was easy, this needs some thought. I hope it is solvable without machines
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I actually recommend you try without scripts, might actually be easier.
Skim through the posting here and you'll see why. ;)
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Still stuck on PZ-4-5-... (usernames) so brute-forced that letter to get here & I see it was worth it :)
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Good luck with 51 then and finding the eggs available.
And maybe after you can still finish 4. :)
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I've tried the next thing by hand for days now, no luck (and I'm 99.999999999999999% sure I know what the pattern is).
Wrote something in java to solve it, hope it finishes before the GA ends :)
P.S.
not a single (whole) egg found (only bits and pieces) -.-7 eggs found, 2 of which are red herrings
46/49 wormhole GAs found
This is the 50th
Stuck on the puzzle to the 51st
so... 52/56/58 (found/know where/total) - I'm missing something
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If you found 2 red herrings, it means you only found 5 eggs. ;)
There are 7 total side GAs, meaning the other 2 are found differently. ;)
If you are certain you are filling the board for 51 without breaking the rules it has, add me tomorrow on steam and i'll have a look at it.
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I had a lot of difficulties getting here: I immediately figured out I what the answers were like, but the first 3 I got were all of the same length as the amount of underscores in the questions. I stared and looked for synonyms for hours to try words with the same length as the amount of underscores. Today I decided to google the 3 answers I already found, and the rest was indeed a peace of cake.
Thanks for the giveaway, but I'll skip it since it's not my cup of tea.
Also thanks for this great puzzle event in case I didn't thank you earlier. I'm really enjoying it. And I appreciate the way of giving hints. Begging for hints won't work, but random hints are appearing now and then. Some of the puzzles are very difficult, but not impossible. Only the username puzzle train took a little too much brute forcing for me, but that's because I'm generally bad at word puzzles and I'm not that active on the forums here.
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Ah well, i figured the rest of the answers for this would become easy after you cracked a couple, since it's the 7 deadly sins.
And thank you for your words, glad you're enjoying it.
If you got here, you got all the info for egg-scavenging as well as the last of the main storyline (Puzzle 51). There are some (i feel) nice gems in the eggs though, might be worth looking into that. ;)
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Well, I'm here after solving all the quizzes. I need the DLCs for this game but have the base game, so guess I am out of luck. Anyway, I am off to collect some eggs and maybe get lucky with #51.
Thanks!
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Grats once again. :)
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Holy moly, I made it here!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hello, mom!! Q_Q
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^.^
Only 51 and the eggs to go. ;)
Congrats. :)
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Oh god I'm really stupid. I could've bruteforced the 4th character to the hidden puzzle, but I spent all my time on 4-5 >.<
Well, I only got here an hour or so ago, and I don't think I can solve the 10x10 puzzle before all the GAs end :(
Anyways, thank you, Zooz, for all the pain, sadness, happiness, relief, stress and all the other emotions in the wildest train ever!
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You can try looking for the eggs.
If you got as far as to 4-5 and did all the rest, you should have enough info for 5-6 eggs (possibly all 7).
And they all have 1 question as well before them yes, but 50% of them it's one single stupid easy question. ;)
Just check the egg-hint board. ;)
And congrats on getting this far and glad you enjoyed the ride. ;)
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