Solving from my phone sucks, but man... I love these puzzles.
6:55 was my time. :)
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Thanks for this puzzle that seems to be unsolvable, but actually shows the solution even in multiple ways. I solved it without knowing whats a holiday special or without guessing words (I am too bad with that). Cifer does not stand for cider in my solution 8)
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sorry, that was not my intention. As I said, there are multiple ways to solve this. And I could solve it without knowing english words, so it is solvable for anybody (which was a surprise for me)
If you did not understand the Sherlock hint, you missed a big chunk of the fun 8)
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Okay, I guess I see what you mean.
And you're right, you don't need to know any particular English word.
I got the Sherlock hint in the end, no worries, but not after this leading me down a scavenger hunt in completely the wrong direction.
Maybe cider would have helped? :D
Not because it is related to the puzzle.. but.. being drunk makes sometimes things easier?
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Sorry to say, but you seem to be following a trend, which lately became quite popular here, but is really either pretty nasty or stupid in its origins.
This really make me upset to solve a jigidi only to find, that it's followed by some kind of solve-it puzzle, that I wouldn't even touch with a stick, if I knew from the beginning, what I'm getting into. If you want both solve-it and jigidi, why not clear warning (couple puzzles for a train of games could be just a few jigidis leading from 1 to the other) and why not solve-it 1st followed by a jigidi, that is declared in OP on haw many pieces it has, so people would not run into nasty surprises like a solve-it followed by a 500 pieces jigidi? Are those to make us all having fun or to have fun upsetting some of us?
Cheers, but please, don't do this again.
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Bump for solved with a random shot-in-the-dark guess!
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No clue for the puzzle, but thank you for the jigsaw anyhow.
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Bump for solved.
Some comments here a very misleading, making this whole thing a lot trickier to solve.
Because I'm also allowed to give a hint now, no?
It actually has nothing to do with Sherlock Holmes or Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Waste of time for me. Stupid word riddles... No, I don't get it.
E:
Got it, but I feel it was quite random.
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Bump for finally solved! Only took me (checks notes) six days! 😄
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solved but my brain is going into a coma after this lol
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Cute little puzzle and some awesome giveaways, thanks for the chance and merry Christmas to all! 🎄
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Merry Christmas!
I made this puzzle last year, but didn't post it here. There's not much to it, but I hope you find something you enjoy!
The games are listed below... and apparently I flubbed up the end time for Wayout... sorry!
SOLUTION
The Secret Word was "GIFT".
There were actually several ways to come up with the secret word.
Familiarity or some Googling may have hinted to you that the faces were those of actors who all starred in shows that were a part of ABC’s TGIF, which is an anagram of GIFT. In addition to this, “abc Special Presentation!” was a play on words in the sense that “Presentation” is closely related to “present/gift”. It was also an indication that “abc”, or the alphabet, was being presented in a special way, a cipher -- a Dancing Men cipher to be precise, as hinted at by the flavor texts -- "You don't have to be Sherlock to solve this!" and "There's nothing quite as good as holiday specials with a cup of hot cifer!"
Besides googling/researching faces or certain key phrases such as "Sherlock + cifer/cipher", some people seemed to have had luck guessing the word, either randomly, based on the gift in each hand, or through brute force.
Merry Christmas, and congratulations to the winners! I hope some of you enjoyed the puzzle -- the next one will be more tedious!
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