Google-fu.

What jatan said. Don't encourage piracy, even if the game can't be purchased. You can be banned, or even worse, put steamgifts in legal problems

Those are TWO locations or one?

Six puzzle solvers so far, and none of them actually played the game like they're supposed to.

Fear not, today I will be posting on this very thread yet another puzzle regarding Never7 with a different, better prize so that people will actually put some effort:

• It won't be just one question
• Questions will be designed in a way that will ensure the person has played through the game
• I will provide very useful help/advice for people who actually play the game (via Steam)
• I will provide installation help
• There will be a very long timeframe to solve this puzzle
• The puzzle won't be excessively hard, just something that will confirm that you played through the game and has an understanding of its plot.

I would also like to stress that the actual reward of this puzzle is the game experience itself, not the giveaways, they are just there as an incentive.

Yes, the game is THAT good.

You just had to go and make a puzzle out of Never7. Why couldn't you have picked Ever17? Huh? Huh?!

jk At least i have another reason to play Never7 :v

Yep. I tried to do this a dirty way, opened translation scripts, tried to search for all appearances of word "bell", but there's extreme amount of text there. That's not my type of games, so... I'm sorry, I quit. Wish you luck though! :3

7 solvers so far, but none truly played through the VN. However I know that there are some people who are.
Come back to this thread later for a second, special puzzle!

I love the Zero Escape games (written by the same guy) and I've played Ever17, but I wasn't aware that any of the other infinity series games had been translated. All fan translations like Ever17, I take it?

Bump.

Second Never7 puzzle still in the making, check back soon.

Guys. Had technical problems yesterday --
Will soon release the other puzzle. But you can already start ahead by playing the VN!

Another dude put a puzzle where you had to play Sanitarium (great stuff) so I'm playing it at the moment : /

This thread is sinking. Apparently some are playing the VN, but I really would like more people to be interested in it.
I changed my mind and I will let the first giveaway end before I post the second puzzle on a different thread. One month of timeframe to join that giveaway!

Due to lack of interest, I will not be posting the new thread containing the Never7 puzzle with a greater prize.

If any of you are interested in myself posting this puzzle, please contact me on Steam.

Now that the puzzle is over, may I ask for the answer you were looking for? I took several hours to play through Yuka's route, and I wasn't able to answer the question correctly. Avonyel also appears to have played through the game and been unable to answer the question. Yet several people who never played the game were able to answer the question...how? What seemingly magical combination of Boolean terms were they passing through their favorite search engine?

I'll outline what I remember about the bells from my playthrough, so maybe you can see where I got lost. Spoilers ahead for anyone who hasn't played the game, so if you haven't played through the game at least once, please stop reading now and play the game.

There are a total of three bells in the story, bell 1 and bell 2 are small silver bells with crimson strings tied around them, and bell 3 is a larger silver bell hanging from the eaves of the building modeled after a small shinto shrine inside the Shiki no Mori Temple (though Makoto notes that bell 3 is not that bell). Makoto finds bell 1 washed up on Moon Beach on Week 1, Day 1, and because of the feeling of ominous premonition he feels seeing it, picks it up and throws it into the ocean. Yuka finds bell 2 on Week 1, Day 3, also washed up on Moon Beach, and also throws it into the ocean after finding it. (But we don't discover this fact until later in the story.) The next time Makoto sees a bell is when he and Yuka walk to Viewpoint Park on Week 1, Day 4, where they see bell 1, which had again washed up on Moon Beach and was found by a young girl (because of these facts, I kept trying answers like, "Moon Beach and Viewpoint Park", but nothing I tried was accepted as correct). Yuka trades with the young girl to obtain bell 1 and secretly keeps it with her from that point on. Makoto and Yuka see bell 3 when searching for Kurumi at the Shiki no Mori shrine after the BBQ on Week 1, day 4 (but, again, since Makoto notes that it wasn't that bell, I didn't think this was the bell you were looking for...I still tried a few variations of Shiki no Mori shrine and Tokitsukasa shrine in my answers just in case, though). Kurumi gives Haruka a small white bag containing bell 2 to give to Makoto as a gift (Kurumi found it on the beach, though it may have been Princess Beach this time) on week 1, day 5, and Haruka gives the bag containing bell 2 to Makoto sometime around midnight between days 5 and 6 on week 1. Makoto does not open the bag until the fateful events at the shrine on day 6, when we loop around to week 2 (or is it two million?). During week 2, Makoto and Yuka both remember the previous week, and they decide to try to find the bells as soon as possible as "insurance". Yuka finds bell 1 on Moon Beach on week 2, day 1, and Kurumi finds bell 2 on Moon Beach on week 2, day 3, and gives it to Yuka, who gives it to Makoto. They hang onto these bells until they are destroyed at the end of the story.

So where do you consider the bells to have been originally? If not Moon Beach and Viewpoint Park (from the point of view of our protagonist), then where? The ocean? Were you asking about bell 3 at the shrine? Or was the origin of the bells given in some plot thread that I did not happen to find in my playthrough?

NEW PUZZLE POSTED, CHECK THE NEW THREAD!