Nice poll added... You'll have to teach me how to set it up for my events... Too cool!
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Quite easy. Just go to Doodle, fill in the details, and anyone with the link can add their name and fill in what they need help with. No signup necessary. And if they want to be anonymous they can fill in a fake name.
The pro's are that I can see who actually needs help and it's easy to overview.
The con's are that it's not very good for a lot of choices, it's badly designed for that. Plus if there's a lot of voters it can also become a bit messy.
It's a very good poll-option for a group of friends trying to see what days that are best suited for watching a movie, for example.
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General "Hint"
In case someone's missed it and if you're having problems finding how to use the bomb, check the upper left part of the screen, there's an ITH-link with further instructions.
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I've now made the bomb-link clickable to reduce the hassle of having to copy/paste.
Also, this marks my going away for the weekend, so good luck, agents, I'll see you all on Sunday night or monday.
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Clarification, Q1: All wires and numbers persist throughout the defusing process. If wire 1 is cut, it still exists for both colour and numbering purposes, it's merely been deactivated/cut, not removed completely. When the manual talks about X amount of wires left, it means the amount of connected wires left. I am on an iPad now writing from my hometown, so I can't alter the chapter-file. Sorry for any confusion this has caused.
Also sorry for not replying further in detail to people who has written in different GAs, I will read up more when I can sit in front of a computer.
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New poll for next case, The case of the mysterious note.
http://www.poll-maker.com/poll578972x133F4D94-24
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Ok, the distribution of the poll is quite even between medium and a lot harder, so I'm going to lock it down so I can finalize the next case. I think I have a good grasp of the look of the next puzzle and if it turns out too hard, hints will be there to help you get through it. There will be a harder group puzzle at the start and then four puzzles ranging from medium to hard for solo.
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weird. found the bomb but it seems I blew up the agency on the first entry :-P
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My wire cutting skills leave a lot to be desired O:
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Time to get some sharper scissors.
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Bump for fully solved! A very nice puzzle-- fun! Just gotta use the noggin a bit!
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It's a lot more reading comprehension than my normal harder puzzles. :)
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The bomb's "only" exploded 58 times so far... out of 5 solvers.
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Good job, you didn't blow up the bomb a single time, did you?
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By the way, it seems like your calculations is not totally correct. The bomb explodes when a wrong answer is given. We can calculate the number of right answers precisely by multiplying total solvers by 4. So, Bomb explosions = Total Guesses - Total solvers x 4. And we do not need to make any assumptions here :)
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The way I'm counting is more lenient. The way you're counting, a person that has made 3 correct guesses, but not yet solved would count as 3 explosions.
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Lots of people in the maze, but very few that's even looking at the bomb. It's not one of my hard puzzles this time around, don't get fooled by the ~67 bomb explosions. :)
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Does the poll work? Haven't used Doodle before, wanted to try something different, just a bit surprised noone has voted yet. :)
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I see the very silent Citrinate blew up the bomb once before defusing it.
In other news, noone has yet to announce the grabbing of the key drop, so that should still be available.
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Ah, I blacklist people who aren't thankful after winning a giveaway of mine. Checked your history as well and saw you had a habit of never saying thanks after winning games.
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Congratulations Agent Blackfyre, another silent solver.
I find it weird that the Ruler from the last puzzle still has more views than the Bomb, when all you need to do to reveal the bomb is copy/paste, while the ruler had a somewhat hard puzzle to be revealed. Does people think there's a trick involved? :P
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Are you sure that there are 16 GAs before main puzzle and not 15? :)
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You're correct, I must have counted the one I added to Jeff's Puzzle. :)
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Bomb defused. I think it is easier than the case of Ruler :P
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Yes, I wanted more people to get into the story so removed the big hurdle of having to solve the binary barcode and made sure the puzzle itself was easily solvable for people that were actually interested. :)
Despite that, I'm curious about the low attention it's gotten, seeing as there's not even a puzzle to get to 15 of the GAs and even the first GA doesn't have more than 9 entries as of now. Most publically posted trains have 100+ entries the first day even when it's bundle trash.
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Well, people don't have to work for entries in train giveaways...
And I think the title of the post also isn't very attractive. I would have missed this time if I hadn't recognized your name then :P
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That's some good feedback. Any ideas on what would have made it more attractive? Personally I hate non-descriptive titles, but it seems those get a lot of attraction. Kind of like click-baits. ^^
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Title not click baity enough! Change it to
Gibs inside! Take my games pls tyvm
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Is this puzzle actually doable before doing any others before it? Just wondering. Spent too much on the phone barcode.
EDIT : never mind solved. :) Nice unique puzzle m8.
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Well done, agent.
Yes, to be very clear to others whom may wonder, old cases are completely optional, this puzzle even removed the need to solve the code for the site I'm using to make it more user friendly. :) It's only for story purpose you might want to go back and solve the old cases.
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Can't let the bomb explode by having the thread drop too low. Save us, agents!
Also, 2 new silent solvers. Thank you, Moraito and SrDos.
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Two players have been stuck on the bomb for several days without solving it, is there anything you need help with on it?
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Too many puzzles lately, I forgot about this. Time to give it a try. :P
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AKA How I learned to stop worrying and defuse the bomb.
Story: The Case of the Terrorist Hacker
Suddenly an alarm goes off throughout the Puzzle Agency. Your boss comes running to your desk and pulls you with him into his office. He announces that a hacker going by the name of Cipher Bin Ary has cracked the code to the Puzzle Agency entrance besdM and released it publically on the internet, now anyone is able to find the agency.
What's even worse is that he has hidden a ticking timebomb in the agency. Only you have the skills to find the bomb and defuse it before everyone explodes. Agent, our lives are in your hands, please hurry.
Earlier cases (optional)
Prelude: the Puzzle Agency entrance.
The Case of the Secret Ruler.
Disclaimer
This case involve use of the site found in the prelude. All hidden codes are to be used on that site to reveal that puzzle's setting.
Rewards
15 GAs before main puzzle
3 GAs after the main puzzle Alien: Isolation, Titan Souls, Broken Age
1 GA via another puzzle
1 First to find keydrop bonus for Knights and Merchants, let me know if you've collected it.
Estimated times the bomb exploded
Total Guesses - Total players x 4 = Bomb explosions
242 - 29 * 4 = 126
This is an estimation that's only true when all players are also solvers.
Top 10 agents
1 lmxn
2 silentguy
3 jeffhowe
4 mahv
5 m3rc
6 mellery
7 ercalote
8 Citrinate
9 Blackfyre
10 faragona
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