A Little bit of Everything Puzzle Event!

Looking forward to all the fun messages back and forth on this event! PLEASE don't hesitate to ask for hints or help...

For those who are interested: I am going in for 10 hour brain surgery on Tuesday the 12th to put in two implants and will stay in recovery overnight. I will go back the 19th for another surgery that will put a pacemaker-like device in my abdomen that is attached to the brain implants that will control them. I wanted this puzzle event running during this time so I can have a fun outlet to keep my mind off the surgeries. The best way to encourage me is to solve this puzzle event!! This is what makes me happy! ;) Love you guys!

Instructions of How to Solve:

  • 1 Unscramble the list of words in one of the below puzzles (Ex. P1Q1 IMTTSAESFG is STEAMGIFTS)
  • 2 To determine the Column A-Z to reference for each answer use the Column Number Hint (Ex P1Q1 12345-7890 the column will be the 6th letter in the unscrambled word of STEAMGIFTS, thus column G)
  • 3 To determine the Row to reference for each answer you must solve the Row Hint (Ex P1Q1 unlucky number on a Friday would be 13, thus row 13)
  • 4 Refer to the Puzzle Key below image and find the character in the Grid for the Column/Row coordinate (Ex P1Q1 G13 is "L")
  • 5 Use the Grouping and Order Hint to group together 5 sets of 5 words in the correct order (Ex P1Q1 is the Roman Numeral I, this will be grouped with the others in order of I, II, III, IV, V)
  • 6 Once all the characters are found and the groupings and ordering are correct, you should discover 5 hidden GA codes of 5 characters each
  • 7 Find all 5 GAs for each Puzzle... each will give a HINT to solve a common Acronym (order of GA characters can then be determined)
  • 8 Find all the 8 Acronym Hidden GAs from each of the 8 puzzles to solve and find a hidden ITSTOOHARD puzzle
  • 9 Solve the ITSTOOHARD puzzle and get access to more GAs and conquer the full event!!

NOTE: Helpful Shareable Excel Sheet for solving event can be found HERE Save a copy and use to keep your notes!!


PUZZLE 1- Scrambled Steamgift Words - Common Numbers of Things - Number Terms
PUZZLE 2- Scrambled Gaming Steam Keywords - Common Numbers of Things - Common Order of Things
PUZZLE 3- Scrambled Sea-Ocean Animals - A little bit of Math - Common Order of Things
PUZZLE 4- Scrambled Common Land Animals - Common Numbers of Things - Common Order of Things
PUZZLE 5- Scrambled Diseases and Health Conditions - Anatomy of the Human Skeleton - Order of Body Systems
PUZZLE 6- Scrambled Color Names - Labelled Diagram of a Typical Submarine - Order of Education
PUZZLE 7- Scrambled Fruits - Anatomy of the Human Digestive System - A Matter of Literature and Math Complexity
PUZZLE 8- Scrambled Vegetables - Anatomy of the Human Muscular System - Order of Common Stages

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Reserved cuz of raisins!!

Corrections:

July 8- fixed V4 on puzzle key... originally a 1 but should have been lowercase L.
July 8- fixed spellings of scrambled words: puzzle 5 line 24 and puzzle 6 line 21
July 9- fixed U13 and V16 on puzzle key which both should have been lowercase L
July 9- fixed V4 which also should have been a lowercase L
July 13- W13 should be a 6 and not an 8 in key... will need to fix sometime soon.
July 14- E15 on Puzzle key should be Y and not A... sorry.
July 21- on Puzzle key G3 should be → L, and G4 should be → G.

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5 years ago*
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found another typo, L3 should be lowercase L instead of 1

5 years ago
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Jeff is back with another puzzle, nice! I know you've been waiting for this surgery for some time. It's finally there! Put your brain at ease, we will use ours to solve (hopefully) these puzzles...

5 years ago
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Thanks for your warm words!

5 years ago
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Thank you for another nice event, Jeff! ^^

5 years ago
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Thanks for your warm words, LostSoulVL!

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You're very welcome!

5 years ago
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@Iam: I would have written nearly the exact same text! Didn't know the surgery. O.o
@Jeff: YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY! You are back with puzzles! But damn I fail at english scramble puzzles. -.-

5 years ago
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You can use an online tool to unscramble the words.

Glad to be back with a puzzle... hoping my brain doesn’t get too scrambled that I won’t be able to solve and create puzzles after the surgery! Lol! (Or not lol...)

5 years ago
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This reminds me at the episode with JD(from Scrubs if I may saw it) in which he was day-dreaming about surgery. Was funny(or not depends on you).

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looks like a great puzzle but surprisingly difficult, I only got 2 from the puzzle 1 batch correctly -- seems to me that some hints are rather unclear or allow multiple answers... anyway, wishing you the best outcome with the surgery!

5 years ago
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Thanks for the feedback.... I'm going to add Hints for the 5 groups and the order. Is the scrambled words the issue or the row hints or the group and order part??

5 years ago
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3 from the second batch solved, 2 unclear again... it's the row hints where I'm struggling, the other parts seem easy enough or at least unambiguous...

5 years ago
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I’ll continually make the row hints better and more clear. Fixed one about knights of round table in P1.

5 years ago
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thanks, that helped to clear one confusing point... that code (starting with uno) still doesn't work for me, though, not sure where I could be making another mistake... by now I have solved 3 from 1st batch, 3 from second batch and all 3rd batch (best one so far, row hints are very clear there)

5 years ago
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I had to fix V4 in puzzle key... see if that was it.

5 years ago
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oh, that was it, thanks! Got puzzle 1, 3 and 4 completed now...

5 years ago
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Thanks for another awesome puzzle event, Jeff! And don't get your brains in a twist, think about the nice meds you will be high on instead ;) See you back here soon, buddy

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bump

5 years ago
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Superb Jeff, I always appreciate your events.

I have one question on the first one. The Knights of the Round table is an ambiguous number. The Norman poet Wace, is the first to mention it in Roman de Brut, and describes it as seating thirteen people in all, a number stated in the Didot Perceval.
Robert de Boron, in Joseph d’Arimathe and Merlin says it seated 50 knights.
The Vulgate Merlin says 250, and the Vulgate Lancelot and Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur both say 150.
The English poet Layamon has 1,600.
And I have been to Winchester Castle personally and seen the 25 shields hung there, but at least one of those (King Arthur Pendragon) was not a technically knight of the round table.

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King Arthur's round table had ?? knights plus King Arthur himself.

Different stories had different numbers of Knights, ranging from only ?? to 150 or more.

5 years ago
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Only started puzzle 1 at the moment. I've solved 3 sets. The uno and ballerina sets aren't coming together yet, I must have some wrong answers in there. But I have been working on mobile, and I'll have more time later today to get a better look at those.

5 years ago
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Solved 4 sets in P1. Only uno set is left, I thought I'm wrong with first question here, but even bruteforcing didn't help.
Anyway, I will return later for the rest.

5 years ago
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Fixed first question of uno set.

5 years ago
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1, 3, 4, 5 done

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Thanks for another great puzzle event Jeff. Hope i find the time to solve the whole event. Currently these weeks extremely busy at work.

Hope everything goes well with the surgeries! Wish you the best and a speedy recovery!

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Glad to see you here!

Thank you for your encouraging words, DrTenma.

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bump

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Good luck with the surgeries! Thanks for the puzzles!

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Puzzles 1-4 have been conquered by various people! Yay!

5 years ago
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Managed to solve P1 through P4, but for the life of me, I can't figure out the "row hints" starting at P5, how do I get a row numbers out of those? Any more hints?

Love the puzzle and good luck with the surgery!

5 years ago
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Take a look at the image under the list!

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woah, how did I miss that :)

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Hey friend, this is the first time I heard about brain implants.
May I know why you are doing this surgery?

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I've had Parkinsons since age 40... I'm now age 51. It has become difficult to control my body. I can't walk for most of the day and I'm in bed shaking and tremorring in great pain now like 85% of every day.

I need some relief...

Here is some details on the procedure...

https://www.michaeljfox.org/understanding-parkinsons/living-with-pd/topic.php?deep-brain-stimulation

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My grand father also had parkinson disease. He had shaky hands. So I know how you feel.
Looking up the causes of this disease on the internet, I think the culprit of my grand father's case is exporsure to toxins. He was a farmer and may have exposed to a lot of pesticides and herbisides.
Do you share a simillar history like exposure to toxins?
I wish you have a fast recovery from the surgery! 💐

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Hope it all goes well and you get the relief you want. Thanx for all this hard work you put in the puzzles despite your pains.

5 years ago
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Hey, Jeff! Thanks for the notification and a new puzzle event! I imagine I will enjoy solving this in the next couple of days. I hope your surgery goes well and that you will be helped by it. Bump.

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when I read that you will have brain implants, I got to think Black Mirror stuff (if you haven't watched it yet, go for it!) but than I read the rest and good luck man, be the RoboSteamGiftsPuzzler we need :D

5 years ago
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hi Jeff, can you please check these scrambled words: puzzle 5 line 24 and puzzle 6 line 21?

5 years ago
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BOTH I spelled wrong... Will fix now.

Thanks for the catch!

5 years ago
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Hi, could you please also update the first post about the puzzle changes ?
So all people copied the excel file for solving the puzzles can get the update. Thanks :)

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I'm so happy you're finally gonna be able to get the surgery. hugs I hope it bring you some well deserved relief. Best of luck and I hope to hear a good update soon.

And thanks for another great puzzle event, I hope I'll find some time to get at it this week.

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Thank you very much for making me aware of this puzzle! :)

Good luck with the surgeries! HUGS

5 years ago
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A little bit of Monika.

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Was just thinking "Maybe Jeff is doing another puzzle event?" and here it is! Thank you for it in advance, since I'm absolutely going to have a blast solving it, as I did with your other superb events.

Sorry for hearing that you need surgery, but I'm absolutely positive that all pans out well. Wish you a speedy recovery and may god bless you. :)

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No time for puzzle :c
Good luck with your surgery!

5 years ago
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bump for being stuck at the final captcha :p

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Lol... you must be a bot then if you can’t pass it.

Btw, thanks so much for forging ahead and helping to work out the kinks!

5 years ago
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I'm still missing three codes, though, the "torso" and "fetus" parts of puzzle 2 (no idea what I'm doing wrong there) and the "driving school" part of puzzle 6 (cannot find the correct order), so I had to bruteforce my way a bit...

Is the captcha something to be found somewhere? I believe I tried all obvious answers and nothing worked...

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Torso one- think of head to toe order
Driving school may be unique order to USA, school first, then get a permit, then license, then the rest you should be able to deduce.
Fetus one starts with sperm meets egg and ends with giving birth

And its not captcha but CAPTCHA. ;)

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thanks, it seems I have the order correctly everywhere, so I'll need to recheck everything else later... also will try the CAPTCHA again with a clear head tomorrow...

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Pay attention to the itstoohard puzzle title.

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oh... I don't think I would figure that one on my own... thanks!

5 years ago
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Thanks... I reworded the question.

5 years ago
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The torso, head, leg etc. part doesnt work for me either.

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Maybe I made a mistake on row numbers ... I’ll recheck too.

5 years ago
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The driving school had a typo in key.

E15 should be a Y and not A

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Bump, I'm now stuck at the final captcha as well.

Is this also a hidden word in the key?

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Pay attention to the itstoohard title.

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Bump, I'm also at the ITH, working on the captcha and the hidden word.

Edit: Derp, found the hidden word. Also, should have gotten that captcha sooner. Thanks for the large puzzle!

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