ohh Einstein Puzzle, I wonder if AI is good enough to solve these already
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Until they actually find the I in "AI", I'm afraid the poor thing can barely tie its shoe laces, let alone solve riddles.
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Answer format tips? Like, "house ten", "tenth house", "10"? Just to make sure I'm getting it wrong because I'm a dummy and not because of the format lol cheers
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I would also appreciate clarification on this as well. I think I have the right answer, but any wording I use is still dinged as wrong.
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I just leave a pin here. I solved it and tried a bunch of formats, but no luck. Maybe the Einstein puzzle is a red herring. I circle back after a few days,
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I want to know this as well. Then I will answer. As soon as I solve the puzzle, anyway
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1 word. Like with letters. But I doubt this will help you in any way
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uhh i solved the einstein puzzle but idk how to specify the house... i only know the first name, middle name, last name, distinctive feature, pet and favorite hobby! specifying the house number also doesn't work...
edit: solved, thanks for the puzzle :)
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I'm stuck there too :/
The answer format seems weird.
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yeah i hate that website so much,. even if you have the correct answer, itll still take however many tries to get the answer locked in because of spelling, or exact answer requirement.
i tend to just skip em.
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I think I've gotten the answer but I don't know how to answer.
Is there a format like First Middle Last House Number Pet Hobby?
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Well solved with all people assigned to house, names and other characteristics, none of the formats works as answer.
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It seems the real puzzle is how to input the answer :)
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Also confused on the format as I think I have the answer.
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How do I answer? I know which house he lives in, but I don't know how to answer in a way it will accept.
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What we currently know...well, assuming that everyone knows "In which house Edwards lives" is that there are zero solvers despite over 235 players and 1550 attempts. It would seem that we need to think about how to enter the answer properly.
The challenge ends on the OPs birthday, which is "11.12.2025" (11th December 2025).
Escollo, the OP, is a refined crafty cryptic curator and doesn't let anything go to waste. Presumably a ten or eleven day long challenge is important to it all.
"Only top 98% could solve it." means one in fifty can't.
The link sends us to "💡 The title 💡" and the question is "The question".
There is only 1 question and the answer case sensitivity is off - so UPPER and lowercase don't matter in the answer.
What language or alphabet is the answer in? How can we ascertain what the input answer is from the answer to the zebra puzzle?
If anyone else has anything to add I'd greatly appreciate it. This was never about Clair Obscure for me and now it is about finding a solution :)
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Also: "I don't speak English and regret nothing"? That felt a bit out of place... a clue?
(Edit: clearly wrong, as pointed out by Oshyer and hallak65 below)
Also, the names and objects in the puzzle might mean something -- a guy that likes the LHC, really? Let us put the whole solution in a table and see what comes out of it...
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Also: "I don't speak English and regret nothing"?
Well OP's Steam says they live in Kyrgyzstan. So I tried the answer in Russian and even Kyrgyz, but still got nowhere 😅
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You guys think the answer is in a format like Street, 10 or something?
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The 1st from 288. Well done!
We'll have to wait 10 days or so to find out how, or some of us might figure it out ourselves :)
But nice to know it can be done.
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bruteforced how? There are only 5 houses; if one of them were the solution, everybody bruteforced it at the beginning without solving it.
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I doubt one of them is the solution. So instead of "bruteforced" I should have said "stumbled into it"
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That is a possibility, but with the ten second time penalty between incorrect guesses much of that bruteforced would have been done by a few more already.
Currently at 557 players, 4124 attempts and only 2 solves.
Seems the 98% part might be more useful than initially thought :)
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I would like to see the person who can bruteforce it, 'cause with 1 account it would take about 400 duodecillions years (or 400 sextilliard years if you are from one of those countries that use long scale)
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Assuming 400 duodecillion years isn't an arbitrary figure, and the answer only contains letters and no numbers or other characters, then the answer would have to be 24-25 letters long. EDIT: used division instead of multiplication accidentally, DarkDreams1 is right, it would have to be 32-33 letters
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That would mean the answer has 32 letters (assuming 26 letter alphabet)? I'm so confused right now ...
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If we're talking 400 sextilliard years then we're looking at numbers used in things like theoretical discussions about cosmology, entropy and the universe universe as a whole (Both past and future).
Perhaps "invisible" or some sort of Schrodinger buzzword might be what we're needing...
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lol sorry. I just meant stumbled into it. And obviously didn't feel like the community part of the puzzle was interesting.
And sorry you got the mathematicians on you ;)
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Maybe a clue, if we ask nicely? Puzzle is the first part or not part at all?
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https://www.steamgifts.com/go/comment/YJHQUNr
don't use AI
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Mind telling me the levels for each giveaway, I am mostly interested in Expedition so I don't want to spend time solving it if I can't enter it.
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Too dumb for this puzzle but then I'm glad only one person seems smarter than the rest of us.
Well one person and you, escollo 😅
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Someone solved the puzzle successfully one hour ago. Would you kindly leave us any hints if you are here?
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uhhh you might want to remove the link since that will spoil part of the puzzle...
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Apparently it was suggested by the OP, but I will do (Being abused as it is anyway).
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i think they meant that doing so will be helpful to solve the puzzle. you can make it and try to deduce your steps from there.
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The OP deleted said suggestion and I've removed the link.
I still don't see it personally but sharing it didn't seem to bring anything but vandalism and so it couldn't be trusted even if it were sanctioned.
But thanks for keeping me right and the puzzle strong! :)
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I did, didn't work :/
I'm pretty sure I know the exact location of everyone, but the answer format is apparently really weird, because just giving an answer doesn't work.
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I completed the puzzle, no idea how to answer the question.
Assuming the question being asked is "in which house does Edward live", and pretending that the answer is "seven" for the sake of not spoiling the real answer, here are the answer formats I've tried:
seven, 7, number seven, number 7, #7, seventh, 7th, house seven, house 7, house number seven, house number 7, house #7, the seventh house, the 7th house, seventh house, 7th house, #7 house, seven house, 7 house, VII, house VII, Edward lives in house number seven, Edward lives in house number 7, Edward is in house number seven, Edward is in house number 7
Any hints on what format the answer should be in? Or if the question is a red herring? I know I'm not getting the house number backwards, since one of the puzzle clues specifically states "Ivan is in house number two", and the other clues only work if Ivan is in the second house.
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I'm not the one who solved the puzzle but OP answered your question in the comment above:"1 word. Like with letters. But I doubt this will help you in any way". And the last part of that answer makes me think there's a riddle within a riddle.
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I tried a couple other potential options after seeing that one (which I can't really name here because they would be spoilers) but it still seems very opaque. Hopefully the one solver isn't just OP testing their own puzzle and they come back to give us a hint.
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Well, there're two now. I'm studying the previous puzzles by Escollo. And by the look of them, the solution of this puzzle might be just one step of getting closer to the quiz actual answer.
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We just need 1 of the current or future solvers to give us some sort of hint.
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Oh, didn't realize he was one of the solvers, well I definitely already did that so that's good. I hope I don't need to have it written down as specifically Collecting Miniatures or Assembling Miniatures since both were mentioned, I just put down Miniatures, In case the whole table is needed or something.
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7 solvers now and that poster deleted whatever comment it was they made.
Do you happen to remember it?
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Its not a digit
Maybe the names of these people mean something?...
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Bump for not solved.
The issue is there is no mentioned of Edward in anywhere else
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Based on previous comments, it's possible the answer is a 32 letter word maybe?
Since OP says it's 1 word, I assume all letters, and someone did the math when OP mentioned the odds of bruteforcing it, which led to 32 letters.
EDIT: Based on previous puzzles from OP, I can only assume that the which house does Edward live sends you to the next step, to continue the puzzle, so maybe after doing the logic puzzle and having it all in a nice table, that house will have maybe the first letters be a code for something to continue the puzzle wherever? At least I tried, but so far my attempts haven't led to anything. Or maybe this is nothing, who knows.
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My IRL cake day is coming up soon, so I decided to do GAs that end on that day. Levels are 2-5.
I'm tired of quizes, ciphers and all that crap so I decided to steal idea of some old puzzle.
There was the guy named Epstein or something like that. He invented time, space, quantum physics and the zebra puzzle. Only top 98% could solve it.
Anyway. There are 5 guys who live next to each other on the same street. They all have first name, middle name, last name, distinctive feature, pet and favorite hobby.
In which house does Edward live?
Rules? You can and probably should give each other any hints/clues/ways for a solution other than direct answers.
You can ask me any question and I'll happily ignore them. If there is any mistake - well, I don't speak English and regret nothing.
Edit: had to recreate 2 GAs due to regional locks, but since nobody entered them anyway I think it's not a problem.
Prizes:
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