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Hey-o answers/spoilers incoming.

You can still hop on the Puzzle Train if you are so inclined. (No more prizes, but still fun to try.)

This guide is formatted more as a ‘hint-book’ for those still wanting to play.
I’ll say it only one last time. If you haven’t checked out Zelgh's guide, you probably should.

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Now, without further ado, the answers.

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[1] <Start> https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/ef7FL/weird-puzzle-train

For those of you that were very stumped, or came in late.

on that note, the train will leave
nothing else here for us to perceive
whenever you feel stuck, lost or pissed
always look a bit harder, think what you could've missed
regard old decisions, give not into fear
don't let it stop you - ride on, persevere

• First letter from each line
• onward Goes to [2]

There was also a ‘hidden’ phrase under the Important section

• entire-phrases Goes to <Clever One>

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[2] https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/3QACX/sonic-adventure-2

Like the first riddle, but asked in a different way.

• First letter from each sentence.
• Main clue was the entire lowercase paragraph.
  (I use GREAT punctuation…most of the time).
• waken Goes to [3]

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[3] https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/Klk83/tropico-reloaded

This was one of the first hurdles most people encountered
I think the space in ‘o clunk’ was throwing people off, however this puzzle was made to show how most of the answers relate to the ‘situation’ each room puts the player in.

• The text suggested the door was locked
• ‘o clunk’ anagrams into a related word
• unlock goes to [4]

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[4] https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/hXyDd/torchlight

This was one of my more devious puzzles, and made me happy that it caught a lot of people off-guard. It may have been a little too steep of a difficulty jump though.
This puzzle is also the beginning of the ‘maze’ section. The maze is just a few loop-backs, but enough to be confusing

-Exit 1-
The crossword puzzle is straightforward. The ‘outside’ hint was probably not worded the best, but I was trying to keep them all train-related
1- outside
2- engine
3- movement
4- valve
5- rail
6- express

• Crossword led to another anagram
• Answer related to the room
• remove
• Leads to <The Puzzling End>

-Exits 2 & 3-
I love simple solutions like this.

• ”Next” button leads to [5a]
• ”Previous” button leads to [5b]

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[5a] https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/UkF8U/sonic-adventure-dx

-Exit1-

• First use of an ‘invisible’ link
• View source/inspect code
• kitsune Leads to [6]

-Exits 2 & 3-

• ”Next” button leads to [5c]
• “Previous” button leads to [5b]

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[5b] https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/eJkvP/worms-crazy-golf

First key piece.
I’ll admit, you could probably figure out what the keys meant without finding all of them, but it probably made things easier.

-Exit1-

• Similar to a previous puzzle…
• First letter of each sentence, with the entire paragraph being lowercase
• repeat goes to [5c]

-Exits 2 & 3-

• ”Next” button leads to <The Pushing Forward End>
• “Previous” button leads to back to the Crossword Puzzle [4]

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[5c] https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/bLUWk/sonic-adventure-dx

This was a dead end room. Nothing ‘progressed’ the story, but you could grab a few endings.

-Exit1-

• Hidden link, a red herring.
• Sent player back to the <Start>

-Exits 2 & 3-

• ”Next” button leads to <The Pushing Forward End>
• “Previous” button leads to back to <The Pushing Back End>

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[6] https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/Mw27T/rakuen

Maze exit. No need to worry about that anymore.

• Both the ‘Previous’ & ‘Next’ buttons linked back to the <Start>

-Exit1-

• 5 hidden links, with one letter contained in each.
• Put them together to create a steamgifts URL.
• PHy03 leads to [7]

-Exit2-

• No, I wasn’t just being pretentious asking to bump in the comments.
• Click it - leads to <Headbang End>~

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[7] https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/PHy03/punch-club

Ohh, fun with images!

• No blatant clue besides the image of a lever.
• Click the image (seemed like a logical next step)
• Look at the image title
• pull-me goes to [8]

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[8] https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/qMfgp/trillion-god-of-destruction

-Exit1-

• Click the image like before
• Look at the image title in the URL. (can also use source/inspect)
• jump-in - leads to <The Miniscule End> & “D” Key

-Exit2-

• Clue: the fox is waiting.
• There was a reason it didn’t immediately enter the portal.
• Hidden link embedded above the image. (View source/inspect)
• wait-a-moment to [9]

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[9] https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/TfOtp/weird-puzzle-train

I thought this was a fun way to trick some people. I hope I got at least one person confused :P

• Decipher the corrupted letters & put them in order.
• lets-start-over to [10]

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[10] <The Briefcase room> https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/NkMeX/sonic-adventure-2

This silly briefcase became more important to the game/story than I originally thought. At first, I just slapped in a briefcase thinking it may be fun to open later on. It led to the inclusion of multiple keys, traceback clues & the final ending. I kinda wish I had a different giveaway on this page, rather than Sonic 2 :P

Not all exits were immediately available when you first entered the room. That’ why there was a more cryptic ╠ + symbol instead of the normal ones.

-Exit1-

• Probably the most obvious one.
• Hover over the image. Who does it belong to?
• stan Leads to <The Boom End>

-Exit2-

• A dead end. I wasn’t thinking of even making this an answer, but decided in the end to just do it and wound up trolling people.
• its-locked <dead end>

-Exit3-

• The clue was the last sentence in this room.
• I was trying to make the sentence stick out by phrasing it awkwardly.
• ‘Properties’' and ‘details’ were more specific clues.
• Save the image and examine its properties in on your PC.
• Now, look in the details section.
• You will find the following message:

  “This is one sturdy briefcase. It has some kind of METAL underneath the leather. You will definitely need a key to open it.”

• You could also find the answer by throwing the .jpg into a text editor… though it’s not recommended.
• Leads to [11]

-Exit4-

• This will get explained later.

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[11] https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/svWUq/guilty-gear-x2-reload

Start of a small branch that converges at [16]

I’ll admit I messed up a little on this puzzle.
Exit 2 had a method where a link was concealed in a way that didn’t use the normal ‘hidden URL’. I did check compatibility in Chrome/Firefox, but still, this method only worked on some devices and not others. I believe it may have had to do something with the ESGST addon. I didn’t realize the mistake till after the GA had ended. I won’t spoil the technique in case I ever get it working.
Some people still figured out the answer, though!

-Exit1-

• The numbers at the end of each row point to a specific letter.
• 0 is a blank
• use-door to [14]

-Exit2-

• hidden letters to steamgifts link
• zlxZa to [12]

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[12] https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/zlxZa/i-am-not-a-monster-first-contact

-Exit1-

• This room looks familiar.
• The word ‘second’ is in bold.
• Use the 2nd letter of each line.
• run-out leads to [13]

-Exit2-

• “Maybe you should look closer”
• Look in the source to reveal: 25x2:◲▢◂◢
• These are Unicode characters.
• If you look them up, each one has a letter in the “x” position of ‘25x2’.
• face Leads to <The No Vision End>

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[13] https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/XulwO/gremlins-inc

-Exit1-

• Hidden URL surrounded by ‘blank’ Unicode text.
• Source/Inspect reveals a series of: %E2%80%80%E2%80%80%E2%.....
• There is a steamgifts code hidden in the middle.
• dbH9S Leads to <The Leisurely End> & “K” Key
• “Leisurely” end because the space that was put between the answer was not very long (i.e. you didn’t run fast enough).

-Exit2-

• Another hidden URL, but with a LOT of blank text.
• If you Inspect the page, you may not see anything since the text gets truncated.
• If you view the source, you’ll see an absurdly long string of E2%80%80.
• Hidden in the middle of that really long string.
• CNMKY Leads to [16]

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[14] https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/9Etua/nidhogg

-Exit1-

• Google almost made this one too easy, but I guess you still have to decipher what to look for
• Each box character has an alphabetic letter related to it.
• feed Leads to <The Hungry End>

-Exit2-

• “The Opposite Direction”
• Hidden url reveals xUdv4
• Reverse the text
• 4vdUx Leads to [15]

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[15] https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/4vdUx/gremlins-inc

This was another large barrier for the folks at home. I hope I supplied enough clues in the page so it didn’t turn into a ‘guess what I’m thinking’ puzzle.

-Exit1-

• Find the word hidden in the image
• look Leads to <The Eye End> & “C” Key

-Exit2-

• The word ‘mirror’ is mentioned twice in the text.
• When you hover over the image you see a ‘mirror finish’
• The work ‘look’ was already used in the other answer, so it should be in you mind.
• Mirroring something typically flips it along the vertical axis: <|>
• Gave additional clue on how the answer was not a literal ‘word’
• Mirroring just the word, or the whole image reveals the answer.
• lookkool Leads to [16]

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[16] https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/CNMKY/paradigm

This one went through a lot of iterations to get the Exit 2 answer to fit in a clever way. I wanted the feeling of actually finding a trap door.

-Exit1-

• Click one of the “Exit” buttons.
• Goes to <THE QUICK END> & “A” Key

-Exit2-

• No explicit clue in the text, but there is a shady-looking comment from yours truly.
• Weird, a blank image.
• Check the image description.
• Find using either source, inspect, or the little notification in the lower corner of your screen when you hover over a link.
• hidden-door to [17]

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[17] https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/kYeZe/wandersong

-Exit1-

• Hover over the image – clue about two buttons.
• Image title has one button
• green-button goes to <The Fall End>

-Exit2-

• “You should take a closer look”
• Inspect page
• You will find a 2nd button mentioned
• oval-button to [18]

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[18] https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/zaljA/

Yay! More buttons. I actually liked how this one turned out. There was a minor edit where I removed a leftover “a” from one of the buttons. It didn’t effect the puzzle, but I can see how it was throwing people off.

• Titles of images pointing you elsewhere.
• ‘Display’ showing 6 digits, giving the length of the answer.
• The Note requiring the smallest “Size” button.
• Note also having the word ‘byte’ used incorrectly
• ‘Byte’ & ’Size’ alluding to image file size, in bytes
• Save all 3 images to see which has the smallest file size
• Use the file size (bytes)
• 670883 goes to [19]

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[19] https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/DCH0d/

For those of you wondering, this was “Batman” that some people were posting about.
This page mostly has exposition and technically one exit that takes you back to the briefcase page [10].
You get 2 clues here for later on. 1st is a gear with letters, 2nd is the clue from the fox. Clicking the link from the fox sends you to the briefcase page

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[10] (again) https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/NkMeX/sonic-adventure-2

Back here again!

• In the previous room, the fox specifically mentions the briefcase.
• The clue words they give are both 4 letters long
• There is a notable 4-letter name on the briefcase
• If you ‘solve’ the word clues, you will see a pattern
• Each letter is shifted an amount per position. Both clue words have the same pattern.
• +1 | +15 | +12 | +17
• i.e. for the ‘F’ in LIFE = MXRV add +12 characters to get the corresponding ‘R’
• Therefore stan = time goto [20]

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[20] https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/eLbRD/timeshift

I put in the ‘Get Out’ exit because a few folks got here without first getting to [19] and having the right item. I suppose the word ‘time’ was being guessed from another puzzle.
First use of the ≟ symbol since we were nearing the end!

Main Exit

• Each recess has a ‘keyed’ position
• Rotate the cog you got to match
• truth goto [21]

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[21] https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/34ELK/tower-unite

This had a small error that I did catch before the game ended. Not sure what caused it since some people got the clue before the bug was pointed out to me. If I ever do this again, I’ll make some kind of changelog.

-Exit1-

• “Nothing to see here”
• Simple hidden link
• contemplate leads to <The Blackness End> & “H” Key

-Exit2-

• This worked for some people and not for others. Changed it a bit to work for everyone.
• “Laugh echoes somewhere below”
• Weird comment – inspect/source it.
• Hidden in the table element: <code class=’language-
• determination goto [22]

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[22] https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/2MGRR/finding-paradise

This is it. The last puzzle! Congrats to those that got this far!

-Exit1-

• Fox reinforces the idea to try the keys, if you haven’t already
• You could have easily gotten this end ‘early’ by figuring out what the keys were.
• Put the puzzle together or anagram the keys
• hacked leads to <The H4x0R End>

-Exit2-

• "Everything in order and an order for everything!!"
• Before this went live I put the clue in bold. Wasn’t sure if it was too vague.
• After seeing why ‘hacked’ didn’t work, it should help narrow down your options.
• Maybe the keys have a different order?
• Alphabetical order!
• acdehk leads to <Final End>

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And that's it! All 25 puzzle solutions (and 38 giveaways).
Thanks for sticking in there, despite any road bumps along the way. Hopefully (if I make another one) it will be bigger & better. I’m already thinking of somehow implementing an inventory system.

I want to shoutout nunolg88 & abbadon01 for helping me out with some bugs and exploits. Thanks y'all!

That’s all from me for now. I’m surprised I ever made it this far. The whole process hurt my brain.
Have a good one!

P.S. Here's some flow charts.