"Nice to meet you! Do you know your A-B-Cs?"

"A-B-C-D-E-F-G-H-I-J-K-L-M-N-O-P-Q-R-S-T-U-V-W-X-Y-Z"

"Terrific! You do indeed. Now, instead of telling you what I think, I'll do something better, I'll invite you to The Alphabet Train! 26 wagons, one for each letter of the alphabet! You need to be Level 3 or more to board it, and you can get on it until next Sunday 10th of May, at 10AM UTC."

(...)

"Oh, right, I'm sorry, here's the ticket."




This train and puzzle are over! Nothing to see here!

(except the solution below if you're curious)

The train ticket included 5 images, so first of all you needed to figure out that each one corresponded to an alphanumeric character, and combining them all together you'd obtain the relevant part of the URL to the first wagon of the train.

Now, I said several times in the discussion that there was some common theme to what you needed to "extract" from each image. And, this being The Alphabet Train it kind of made sense to be something related to the alphabet. Or, maybe, AN alphabet?

Indeed, the thing in question was the NATO phonetic alphabet, and each image corresponded to an element in this alphabet:
1: Victor Vran ---> Victor ---> v
2: A couple tango dancing ---> Tango ---> t
3: Charlie Sheen ---> Charlie ---> C
4: Juliette Lewis ---> Juliet ---> j
5: Sub-Zero ---> Zero ---> 0
All together: vtCj0, which gives us the URL of the first wagon of the train.

The relative sizes of the images was a clue of whether they were upper-case or lower-case. I also made Sub-Zero taller than lower-case but shorter than upper-case in order to indicate that he represented neither, but a number. Anyway, "Sub" doesn't belong to the NATO alphabet, so it was the "Zero" part what we wanted.

Finally, a couple of hours after the puzzle began, I edited the OP so the first letter of each paragraph spelled N-A-T-O, but I'm not sure anybody noticed it :P

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Man... I hate puzzles :D

That was looking easy af but still couldn't solve it ;(

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Bump for solved!

3 years ago
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Bump for solved :)

3 years ago
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Is that Cally Klein? 🤣

EDIT: I feel like I'm meant to brute force this...?
I've tried so many combinations with no success.

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While brute force will eventually work, there's a logic and a theme to it.

3 years ago
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Unfortunately I'll have to pass, as I know all the names, and indications of possible caps, but there must be something more cryptic that I'm missing to complete it. I can only try so many combinations before I exhaust my little brain :)

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+1

3 years ago
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Finally got it 😅

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Sure thing!

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🤦🏻‍♀️ oh, I am ashamed

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That makes two of us 😂

3 years ago
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did you work it out then?

3 years ago
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Eventually, yeah. Safe to say we were probably stuck on the same part lol.

3 years ago
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I don't know anyone of these people

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but google knows them all

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You've got a point, so I deleted my comment.

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No problem. ;)
You just revealed the most obvious ones, but still, a puzzle's a puzzle.

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Bump and thank you for the train! :D

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Bump for solved! :)

3 years ago
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can't access, any numbers in link? or all letters

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Well, that's for you to figure out, isn't it?

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oh xD

3 years ago
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Damn.. I quit. Looked very easy, but I can't find the answer. I tried a bunch of combinations already, but couldn't solve it.

Here's a bump though.

3 years ago
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Sigh

3 years ago
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Bump. BTW Google reverse image search sucks

3 years ago
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Lovely puzzle and nice train, thanks a lot!

3 years ago
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Thanks for the train! The hardest part for me was to know who is this woman on the ticket (I didn't know her), but I manage to know her name by "going around". The rest was pretty easy. :D

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Solved, thank you! :)

3 years ago
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Solved for bump

3 years ago
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Honestly trying to find the giveaway code looks like too much of a hassle to me, so have a free bump :P

3 years ago
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Bump! Solved!

3 years ago
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Finally solved!

3 years ago
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Tried 16 combo, still cannot solve it. :( Have a free bump :P

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This is what I needed to solve it, thanks.

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Glad I could help!

3 years ago
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Blowminding! and of course that opened my mind in order to solve it, Thanks!!

3 years ago
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Thanks for the ride!

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Bump!

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Bump for solved!

Thanks a lot

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I was only going to try it once and managed to get it first go! Woo! Thanks for the ride ^_^

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How did you do that????

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I'm old, so recognised them all :P

3 years ago
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I recognize them too, but the letters won't work?!

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Would love to help but that would be up to starporcasa :-(

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Bump

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Bump for solved

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Closed 3 years ago by starporcasa.