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This is part of my A Puzzle a Day series. You will need the Gargoyle IF Reader in order to do some parts of the puzzle. Giveaways end August 10, 11:55 PM PST.

Special thanks to Fet for helping me obtain a couple more games to add to the maze.


Rules:
I just want to preempt this by saying that the choice of "share everything except giveaway links" won. Unfortunately, after I released the poll, I realized that the ITH links are a major, major part of this event unlike my previous group puzzles. You'll see as soon as you get into the Temple, so unfortunately, I have to make the links unsharable.

You can share:

  • The 8 character strings that are the titles of most of the ith quizzes. They are there to help and you will need to share them to get anywhere.
  • Any maps that you make.
  • Answers to ITH quizzes.
  • Methods to get to a giveaway or ITH quiz. Examples: look in the source on x page, use the first letter of every line on y page, image z is a hidden rar file, etc.
  • I know most people probably don't want to download strange programs on their computers. To circumvent this, you can share any 8 character ITH code you encounter inside a z8 file. People who don't want to download the file do not have to.

You cannot share:

  • Direct links to giveaways or ITH quizzes (or the 5 or 8 character strings), unless they fall into one of the categories above. Example: if the answer to a quiz is a giveaway link, you can share it.

If you have any questions at all about the rules feel free to add me or just post in this thread.

tl;dr : Don't share giveaway or quiz links, including the character strings. Almost everything else is permitted. Share quiz answers, seriously.


The Temple of Steamgifts has always been a subject of folklore - the legendary resting place of the Steamgiftians, filled with priceless treasures and artifacts. You and your companions have heard tales of a mysterious stone wall deep in the jungles of giveaway pages. Thousands of adventurers have come before you, scouring the jungle in search of this treasure. None have obtained it. Will you be lucky enough to find the Temple of Steamgifts and claim the treasure for yourselves?

General Hint: games are all for PC

1 decade ago*

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also found d6lhlgyA - zoo tycoon

1 decade ago
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after many, many attempts, I have also found this one :)
A9NbKD7a - jagged alliance

1 decade ago
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Check this group created by zelghadis, there's a map of things we found so far :)

1 decade ago
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okay I'll check it out! thanks :)

1 decade ago
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This is awesome.

1 decade ago
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i think MDqQvtuy is phantasmagoria, but i can't get woman's name right.

1 decade ago
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Finally all caught up. Time to get started on the ones yet to be solved.

1 decade ago
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Just wanted to say that monsters spawn in the same block that you found them in. Even if the IF says to move in some direction, you still stay in the same block on the map.

1 decade ago
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You just had to include Up and Down. Now the beautiful map is ruined.

1 decade ago
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Whoever beat the Ogre, could you tell me how you did it? Because you weren't supposed to be able to beat him. Is there some kind of bug?

1 decade ago
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Haha, that's great. My guess it was Fet :)

I haven't tried but does the undo trick Zelghadis found not work the same way?

1 decade ago
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Nope. Only thing I did was -23 damage on crit. I'm puzzled myself.

1 decade ago
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I was wondering how to do this, because I'm doing -dmg XD

1 decade ago
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I guess I know how this is cheatable, but can tell you on PM, not on public forum xD

1 decade ago
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It'd be really unfortunate to have to pull the plug on this puzzle due to cheating :(

1 decade ago
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well I wouldn't call it exactly cheating - as it still requires some work ;p it's using tools avaiable to solve sth in other way than creator designed it - but as same is reverse image/sound search ;p

like I said - I think I know the trick, but won't be using it / spoiling it before I speak with jatan ;)

1 decade ago
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I probably know a way, but I would definitely call it cheating.

1 decade ago
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found another way, and yeah, this one is 100% cheating ;p still smart cheating ;p still - I'm not solving, waiting for GAR to come back online to inform him first ;p

1 decade ago
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Wait, we're not supposed to beat the ogre? I just went into battle with full leather armor and the mace of troll-bashing and breezed my way through the fight...

1 decade ago
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same here...

1 decade ago
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he posted this before full armor or mace were avaiable, so technically noit having this equipment ogre should be undeatable ;p

1 decade ago
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This must be the most amazing puzzle I've ever seen! Thank you for the challenge! :D

1 decade ago
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can someone tell me what's in ZcifLLSa.z8?

1 decade ago
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You get a sword and a piece of armor. Then you fight a goblin. If you succeed, you get the next ITH link

1 decade ago
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can you give my the ith code? i don't want to download some strange program

1 decade ago
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Join the puzzle group, look on the map for "Bf90j36S" (in A Dimly Lit Hallway), the link to the start of this grand adventure of a puzzle is there as a note.

1 decade ago
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thanks for helping me out, that group was really useful

1 decade ago
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answer to 8ktsSRkR is 08/30/2012

Does anybody have gRhxLVEe?

1 decade ago
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Join the steam group mentioned above :)

1 decade ago
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You hear a sound coming from deep within the labyrinth. Perhaps something has changed.

Also, hints have been added for all questions that have not been answered.

1 decade ago
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Time to trawl through the whole map again :P

1 decade ago
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Oh :( and I'm nowhere near a pc... I will help out tonight (if I can ^^)

1 decade ago
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I'm stuck with the keys. Tried so many combination and it didn't work ;(

1 decade ago
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You might want to check the treasure vault again. I forgot to include something.

1 decade ago
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Time for hints:
17: Do you remember running past an area?

1 decade ago
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18: There are 3 giveaways hidden in the map itself (or is related very closely). You've found 2 of them. For 18, I remember someone posting about something looking odd, but then someone else dismissed it.

1 decade ago
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Thank you for the puzzles! Bump for almost finish it.

1 decade ago
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22: "examine"

1 decade ago
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18: it has something to do with the quizzes and changes from the default settings.

1 decade ago
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18: has nothing to do with Dank Room. Those were just mistakes.

1 decade ago
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Wish I hadn't missed the start of this and fallen way behind. :/

Kudos for the new group puzzle, though!

1 decade ago
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I'm stuck right after goblin :/ got no idea what to do with the code I got after killing it and can't proceed...

edit: LOL got it :D feeling so stupid right now

1 decade ago
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Looks like you guys found all the giveaways (the other giveaways were fillers to obfuscate the total number of giveaways :P). Thanks for participating!

1 decade ago
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Absolutely amazing work Jatan, I bow to your puzzle making skills. I can finally close the Google Docs Map tab after basically having it permanently open for 2 weeks :)

Although thinking about it, you say they were fillers giveaways, but were they?

1 decade ago
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Awesome puzzle! Thanks for taking the time creating it :)

1 decade ago
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Crazy amazing :P A great introduction to this website! :D Thank you Jatan

1 decade ago
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the greatest puzzle I have ever seen

1 decade ago
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Joining in on the praise. I would especially like to thank you for all the trivia questions. I'm a bit of an old obscure PC games nerd, and this puzzle added quite a few things to my "need to check out" list.

So, yeah, huge props for making the puzzle. I can't imagine how long it took.

1 decade ago
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Stuck in the Q1 from the Final Gate :/ don't know that steamgiftian

1 decade ago
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jatan, the lengths to which you go to make interesting puzzles constantly amazes me. Well done.

1 decade ago
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filesmelt.com down?

1 decade ago
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Closed 1 decade ago by jatan11t.