25 Platinum and 23 Gold Winners!!!

Click HERE to see the event champions!

This event is ended. If you want to provide solutions to your puzzle then post them in main thread.


Note to puzzle designers: Our goal is to get everyone through the event and try to avoid frustration. We want to see a lot of platinum and GOLD winners. Thus, have fun dropping clever hints in your GA thread and helping users that are stuck. We are all in a learning process-- we want our puzzles to be FUN, EDUCATIONAL, ENJOYABLE and promote COMRADESHIP.

com·rade·ship

ˈkämˌradˌSHip,ˈkämrədˌSHip
noun
the company and friendship of others with common aims.
"his greatest joy came from comradeship with others in the team"

Note: To solve the passcode puzzles use a copy of THIS PERIODIC TABLE. When it says Number focus on atomic numbers of elements. When it says Weight focus on atomic weight which is usually three digits after the decimal. If it says two elements added together to get a new element then add the two elements atomic numbers and get a new number--then find what is the element that has the added result. You will also need to goggle for common and scientific names of plants and animals. The first part of the passcode hint shows the format and special characters to use. (no passcodes have spaces)

Note: If you can't access the opening GA to the puzzle as you are BL then go to the ITH directly-- you will still get rewards for some GAs under each puzzle solved. (More explanation HERE if you can't see GA with puzzle because of BL.)

GO FOR THE GOLD!! (All puzzles in full event solved)

GO FOR THE PLATINUM!! (excludes Special Interest category)

SCIENCE PUZZLE LINE-UP

PASSCODE Puzzles for Awards! TOPIC SIGN-UP SG USER NAME SOLVE These First! Direct ITH
FORMAL SCIENCE - -
01 MATH Math- Computer Science stlpaul GA Opening ITH
02 Math- Geometry revilheart GA Opening CUBE (Easy Version)
03 Math- Statistics jeffhowe N/a ITH
04 LOGIC Logic- Reasoning zelghadis GA Opening N/A
05 Logic- Philosophy jonathankalo GA Opening ITH
- - -
PHYSICAL SCIENCE - -
06 CHEMISTRY Chemistry- Materials Gracee GA Opening ITH
07 Chemistry- Chemical Reactions Adelion GA Opening ITH
08 PHYSICS Physics- Particle Physics Oppen4himer GA Opening ITH
09 Physics- Thermodynamics Fnord GA Opening ITH
10 Physics- Real World Application Mikalye GA Opening ITH
- - -
LIFE SCIENCE - -
11 CELLULAR BIO Cellular Biology- Biochemistry MSKOTOR GA Opening ITH
12 Cellular Biology- Evolutionary Biology m3rc GA Opening ITH
13 FUNCTIONAL BIO Functional Biology- Physiology jeffhowe GA Opening ITH
14 Functional Biology- Medicine Dianatrix GA Opening ITH
15 Functional Biology- Ecology(Food Microbial) TheLuckyShamrock GA Opening ITH
- - -
SOCIAL SCIENCE - -
16 PSYCHOLOGY Psychology- Developmental jesuswarjesus GA Opening ITH
17 Psychology- Cognitive nellyneko GA Opening ITH
18 SOCIOLOGY Sociology- Law mrt39 GA Opening ITH
19 Sociology- Ethics Lalwende GA Opening ITH
20 Sociology- Economics dingbat GA Opening ITH
- - -
EARTH AND SPACE - -
21 GEOSCIENCE Geoscience- Climate CrystalGamer GA Opening ITH
22 Geoscience- Geology Fragy GA Opening ITH
23 Geoscience- Oceanography Tewam GA Opening ITH
24 ASTRONOMY Astronomy- Planetary Science Nordhbane GA Opening PUZZLE
25 Astronomy- Cosmology iflirtwithanyone GA Opening JIGSAW
- - -
SPECIAL INTEREST - -
26 Science in Movies and TV Neokarasu GA Opening ITH
27 Science in Music and Literature Lugum GA Opening ITH
28 Science in History- Great Scientists mandrill GA Opening ITH
29 Science Riddles and Humor gag6357 GA Opening ITH
30 Science Sucks! SexyBudgie GA Opening ITH
- - -
GA Contributors - -
01 KTS -Donations for Gold Train
02 lmxn 2 GAs for both Gold and Platinum!
03 Migga Migga's train for Platinum Winners!

HALL OF FAME

- - - FORMAL SCIENCE Awards - - -
1 mrt39 2 Adelion 3 hafilip84 4 Citrinate 5 skunlte 6 faragona 7 chour
- - 8 Svipur 9 lmxn 10 Anonymous - -
- MATH Achievement - - - LOGIC Achievement -
1 mrt39 2 Adelion 3 hafilip84 - 1 Adelion 2 mrt39 3 Svipur
4 Citrinate 5 skunlte 6 faragona - 4 Citrinate 5 chour 6 zorglub
7 chour 8 Svipur 9 lmxn - 7 hafilip84 8 ValyrianSteel 9 faragona
- 10 Anonymous - - - 10 skunlte -

- - - PHYSICAL SCIENCE - - -
1 Adelion 2 Citrinate 3 mrt39 4 faragona 5 radagast82 6 Svipur 7 hafilip84
- - 8 skunite 9 ValyrianSteel 10 lmxn - -
- CHEMISTRY Achievement - - - PHYSICS Achievement -
1 Adelion 2 VillaNZ 3 Gracee - 1 Adelion 2Citrinate 3 mrt39
4 fargona 5 hafilip84 6 mrt39 - 4 faragona 5 rradagast82 6 Svipur
7 edwintan23 8 Svipur 9 Citrinate - 7 Anonymous 8 hafilip84 9 Hawkwind
- 10 lmxn - - - 10 skunlte -

- - - LIFE SCIENCE - - -
1 Citrinate 2 faragona 3 VillaNZ 4 Gracee 5 Svipur 6 Adelion 7 mrt39
- - 8 hafilip84 9 edwintan23 10 thecrzyguy - -
- CELLULAR BIOLOGY Achievement - - - FUNCTIONAL BIOLOGY Achievement -
1 Citrinate 2 fargona 3 VillaNZ - 1 skunite 2 Citrinate 3 fargona
4 mrt39 5 hafilip84 6 dzigiz - 4 Gracee 5 mrt39 6 VillaNZ
7 Svipur 8 Gracee 9 Adelion - 7 Svipur 8 Adelion 9 hafilip84
- 10 ValyrianSteel - - - 10 edwintan23 -

- - - SOCIAL SCIENCE - - -
1 faragona 2 Adelion 3 Svipur 4 Citrinate 5 hafilip84 6 mrt39 7 skunite
- - 8 lmxn 9 chour 10 samusx - -
- PSYCHOLOGY Achievement - - - SOCIOLOGY Achievement -
1 Adelion 2 fargona 3 Svipur - 1 Nordhbane 2 Citrinate 3 faragona
4 Citrinate 5 hafilip84 6 mrt39 - 4 Anonymous 5 ValyrianSteel 6 mrt39
7 stlpaul 8 skunlte 9 - 7 Adelion 8 Svipur 9 hafilip84
- 10 lmxn - - - 10 skunlte -

- - - EARTH AND SPACE - - -
1 Adelion 2 Garlan 3 faragona 4 Citrinate 5 hafilip84 6 mrt39 7 N0i7
- - 8 skunite 9 Svipur 10 mxrider772 - -
- GEOSCIENCE Achievement - - - ASTRONOMY Achievement -
1 Adelion 2 Garlan 3 faragona - 1 faragona 2 Adelion 3 N0i7
4 Citranate 5 hafilip84 6 mrt39 - 4 Garlan 5 skunlte 6 Citrinate
7 skunlte 8 Gracee 9 N0i7 - 7 hafilip84 8 Nordhbane 9 lmxn
- 10 Svipur - - - 10 mrt39 -

Attached is a graphic showing the various branches of science

View attached image.
8 years ago*

Comment has been collapsed.

Solution to Logic - Reasoning:
GA code you were looking for was http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/9KZOf/blackguards . Only 4 GA codes meet all rules set in Entry GA. 9K[AZ]O[cf] so you had only a total of 4 codes to check: 9KAOc, 9KAOf, 9KZOc and 9KZOf.
There were multiple ways and routes to get solution plus some rules were totally not necessary and only there to let you check with multiple sources if what you got is right. You can see a lot of discussion over the puzzle and solutions in Blackguards GA linked above, so below I will just present you one of possible solutions.

  1. From #3 we know there is only one NUMBER in GA code.
  2. Rule #8 tells us NUMBER is either 1st or last character of GA code.
  3. Rule #15 says about alphabetic position of last character in GA code mreaning it must be alphabet letter and it cannot be number, thus NUMBER must be 1st character of GA code and 4 next characters are letters.
  4. Rule #13 tells us that not all letters are the case mase, aka we have lower and upper case letters in GA code.
  5. Rules #5+#7 tell us that last letter in GA code (and we already know it will be on 5th position) must be lower case.
  6. Rule #6 tells us that 1st three etters must be the same case. since we know there are both lower and upper case letters in GA code and 5th character is lower case it means letters on positions 2,3,4 bust all be upper case.
  7. From #14 we learn that 4th letter is often confused with number in GA codes. We can think of several letters like that - O confused with 0, l (lower case L), I (capital i) both confused with 1, b confused with 6.
  8. So it cannot be l (lower case L) or b, because they are lower case. 4th character can be O or I (upper case i).
  9. I is 9th letter of alphabet, O is 15th.
  10. From #4 we can find possible corresponding letters for 2nd position in GA. I->D or O->K.
  11. Using #12 we check these letters. for D it would mean that 4=2+NUMBER, NUMBER would be 2, and as #11 tells us NUMBER is not Prime it cannot be 2. So it must be O, K combination.
  12. Using #12 again knowing it's K we get 11=2+NUMBER. So we know the NUMBER is 9.
  13. From #15 we get that alphabetic position of last letter is a single-digit number (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9), and NUMBER (9) are two different numbers divisible by the same number β=/=1 (without remainder). We can divide 9 without remainder by 1, 3 and 9. β=/=1 and these are 2 dfifferent numbers, so β=3. What other numbers 1-8 are divisible by 3? Only 3 qand 6. aka last letter in GA code is either 3rd or 6th letter of alphabet, so it's c or f.
  14. Let us look on our GA code now: 9K?O[cf].
  15. Rule #9 tell us that one of the letters is either first or last letter in alphabet, so a or z. We don't have a nor z in GA code yet so it must be on 3rd position. We also know it must be upper case. This way we ended up with GA code 9K[AZ]O[cf] which gives us only 4 possible solutions and which we can easilly bruteforce :>
8 years ago*
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Solution links for Science Sucks! added.
References for the second puzzle:
Q1. Neverwinter Nights 2.
Q2. Doctor Who.
Q3. Discworld/myth of the World Turtle.
Q4. Harry Potter.
Q5. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.
Q6. Harry Potter (Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfiguration)
Q7. Myth of the birth of Aphrodite/Venus.
Q8. Star Wars.
Q9. Magicka's magicks.

8 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

9 of my giveaways have been sent. The winner of the 10th hasn't activated a gift they won yesterday, so I'll wait a few days to see if that changes.

8 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Solution links for Climate section are added.
9 out of 10 prizes are sent to winners.

8 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

What a fabulous event!! Some won a boatload of games, friendships were made and the collaboration was amazing!!

Bump for only 7 games of mine awaiting feedback. We are so close to 1K comments!

8 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Claps
Job well done, Jeff, Everybody.

8 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Got 7 games from this wonderful event!!
Thanks a lot Jeff and all the guys (and gals) who have contributed the puzzles.. ;)

8 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Sign in through Steam to add a comment.