Terin's Perplexity Emporium

Life is a Boomerang.  What you give, you get.

To celebrate finally winning a game since 2018... I am going to start giving away games on a regular basis but behind some puzzles, quiz, and other various perplexities... They might take you over the internet or just even closer. Most of the games will be from bundles but they might not always be...

The formatting of this post will likely evolve over time but most times I will post what games are involved and how to start. We will see where this goes and let me know if you have any ideas or thoughts on it.

Hope you all had fun!

Solutions

  • 911 Operator - Jigidi Puzzle...
  • Age of Wonders III - Binary - Use Xlate to Decode
  • Revolver360 - ROT47 - Alternative Ceasar Cipher
  • No Time to Explain - Maze - Shout out to refat17 for the Solution
  • Revolution Under Siege - My BUMP has the answer in bold
  • Narcos - The Youtube link has the value in it ...youtube.../watch?v=hqIbEHNqbPs&giveaway=MiHQX
  • Space Overlords - Hex Values - Use Xlate to Decode
  • Regular Human Basketball - Q1 - darkness, Q2 - 8, Q3 - r
  • This War of Mine - Hidden link... check out the "r" in "Start"
  • Codex of Victory - Word Search - Solution
  • Planet of the Eyes - Base64 - Use Xlate to Decode
  • Pony Island - View the Source code of the "Code Block" - Firefox instructions - Highlight the Hulk Hogan quote and Right Click, then "View Selection Source"
  • Newt One - Giveaway code embedded in the image - Solution
  • One Way Heroics - ABCs, counted... A = 1, B =2, ... Z = 26. Bolded numbers were capitalized letters
  • Life is Strange - Crossword puzzle... 1 - Linebacker, 2 - Adroit, 3 - Worm, 4 - Surpass, 5 - Mother, 6 - Hostile, 7 - Bicycle, 8 - Chemistry, 9 - Youthful, 10 -Discord
  • Endless Space Collection - Multi-tap... think old phones, Read Here - Bolded numbers were capitalized letters
  • Ski Lifts - Braille - Decode Here + Periods "." were lowercase and Colons ":" were upper case
  • Mitsurugi - Icon --> my steam icon is a "Turtle"
  • Company of Heroes 2 - Youtube video, the license plate of the car in the video is "Lincoln"
  • World Ship Simulator - Oct - Use Xlate to Decode
  • Roller Coaster Tycoon - Morse Code - Just use the spaces and fills to map it out visually or listen to it... + Periods "." were lowercase and Colons ":" were upper case - Definitely one of the more difficult ones
  • Dad Quest - Phrase the Pays: "Life is a Boomerang. What you give, you get."
  • Battle Academy 2 - ASCII Numbers - Look up the numbers on table - Number under "Dec"
  • Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter - Hidden Giveway from the start... Hidden in the Phrase that Pays.

Persona 4 Solutions


Past Perplexities

Games Included Perplexity End Date SG Level
911 Operator Jigidi July 11th, 2020 4am UTC 1+
Age of Wonders III 01100010 00111000 01000001 01100111 01010111 July 12th, 2020 4am UTC 0+
Revolver360 Reactor 4$+@! July 13th, 2020 4am UTC 0+
No Time to Explain Remastered Start Here July 13th, 2020 4am UTC 1+
Revolution Under Seige ? July 14th, 2020 4am UTC 1+
Narcos: Rise of the Cartels Some sick beats July 15th, 2020 4am UTC 1+
Space Overlords 4f 44 4c 41 6d July 15th, 2020 4am UTC 1+
Regular Human Basketball Start Here July 16th, 2020 4am UTC 1+
This War of Mine Start Here July 17th, 2020 4am UTC 1+
Codex of Victory Start Here July 18th, 2020 4am UTC 0+
Planet of the Eyes MFBmNWc= July 19th, 2020 4am UTC 1+
Pony Island Start Here July 20th, 2020 4am UTC 1+
Newt One Start Here July 21st, 2020 4am UTC 1+
One Way Heroics 21-22-7-8-22 July 22nd, 2020 4am UTC 1+
Life is Strange: Before the Storm Start Here July 23rd, 2020 4am UTC 1+
Endless Space Collection 999 8 3 999 44 July 24th, 2020 4am UTC 0+
When Ski Lifts Go Wrong ⠭⠥⠝⠛⠼⠓ AND ..::: July 25th, 2020 4am UTC 1+
Persona 4 Golden* ? August 1st, 2020 4am UTC 2+

Past Perplexities - Non-Persona 4 Related

Games Included Perplexity End Date SG Level
Mitsurugi Kamui Hikae Start Here July 26th, 2020 4am UTC 1+
Company of Heroes 2 Start Here July 27th, 2020 4am UTC 0+
World Ship Simulator 35472063 140340 July 28th, 2020 4am UTC 0+
RollerCoaster Tycoon Deluxe Start Here AND ..::. July 29th, 2020 4am UTC 1+
Dad Quest Start Here July 30th, 2020 4am UTC 1+
Battle Academy 2: Eastern Front 100 104 107 68 106 July 31st, 2020 4am UTC 0+

Hints

  • Revolver360 Hint: XLVII
  • Endless Space Collection Hint: Nokia
  • Company of Heroes 2 Hint: Video Required to Watch is Official Music Video for Sugar by Maroon 5
  • Dadquest Hint: Karma
  • Persona 4 Hint 1: Requires solving a good portion of previous perplexities (Before Ski Lifts)... also "Genie in a Bottle"
  • Persona 4 Hint 2: You got them Mom Jeans and those Dad Jeans to giveaway
  • Persona 4 Hint 3: Do Not Assume... you and me... something something...
  • Persona 4 Hint 4: 4, 7, 9, 10, 11
  • Persona 4 Hint 5: The Hero holds a key... but what does it open?
  • Persona 4 Hint 6: Obtuse encryption is fun!!!
  • Persona 4 Hint 7: Only 5 pairs of Jeans fit in the washing machine
  • Persona 4 Hint 8: Homophones are fun for hints
  • Persona 4 Hint 9: It's all downhill from here!
  • Persona 4 Hint 10: Words have meanings, especially the word hero
  • Persona 4 Hint 11: Search for the good word, hero
  • Persona 4 Hint 12: Distill them jeans down to single letters... 5 of em in the right order!
  • Persona 4 Hint 13: Look for those 3 letter combos

These guides might help 1 & 2

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Bump it up!

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Bump!

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Boomp.

3 years ago
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Bump and meow

3 years ago
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Solved the New(t) One. Bump and thanks!

3 years ago
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Bump!
Also some direction for Planet of the Eyes? :P

3 years ago
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I would love to help out. But... there are reasons... and fairness... :( I have faith that you can figure it out!

3 years ago
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I would read through some of the guides... they might help in future endeavors

3 years ago
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Yes I do, just not getting enough time! will check this weekend :)

3 years ago
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Bump!

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Bump.

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Bumpy

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Bump... for Persona 4 being reachable now...

3 years ago
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I thought I was thorough with the puzzles. But somehow I entirely missed the "Revolution Under Seige" one. Is that supposed to be just a question mark? I can't find anything to even begin.

3 years ago
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The ? mark means you have to find out how to enter it. There were at least 20 people that figured it out...

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Very unlikely, but I was just wondering if there was a copy paste error. Ok, I’ll have to look again later.
Although, if the answer to the older Revolver360 puzzle was revealed in the previous comments, this could be explained as well?

edit: Solved.

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I will post the solutions to all of them on August 1st. :D

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Bump for solved some more puzzles. I am quite perplexed.

3 years ago
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Any hint for the second part of When Ski Lifts Go Wrong?

3 years ago
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We will see... maybe later... hints cost $ and time. :D --- And seriously that wasn't a hint or I would have added it above for everyone!

3 years ago
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Thank you for the tip. I have no idea why I made that mistake at the first place :p

*Serously, I actually solved it by myself XD

3 years ago
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Nice!

3 years ago
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I still can't figure this out meh :(

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Wow! That must have been the first time I was the first one who solved an ITH-puzzle! :)
Bump and thanks!

3 years ago
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Bump for solved Mitsurugi puzzle.

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I get a "Video unavailable" message for the Company of Heroes ITH, but I worked around it and was able to solve the puzzle. Not sure if its region restrictions, embedding restrictions, or some other issue. Might want to put the title of the required video in the description so people can search for it on youtube and find a version that works for them.

3 years ago
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Good thought, but I don't think I can modify ITH puzzles? Will add a hint here to help...

3 years ago
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I am dumb. And I figured out how to edit ITH puzzles. You have to click on your account name then a list will appear.

3 years ago
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Bump for hints and stuff.

3 years ago
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Hmm, I'm pretty sure I now know what your going for in the Persona 4 puzzle hints (hints 1-3). They make sense to me now. And I found a couple things that logically connect to that and I think i know where I'm suppose to use that stuff.

There were also things I found that don't seemingly connect to what hints 1-3 made me think (although there was one that did), so not really sure what to do about those things.

Gonna keep thinking about it though. These puzzles have been pretty cool.

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The things I found, which I know aren't all the parts, make no sense with those hints...I hope you are crazy and it ain't me that's dumb instead :P

3 years ago
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You aren't dumb... I am a genious? :D Joking... no its definitely not straight forward by design...

3 years ago
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Missing 1 thing, tried to force the issue...no luck.

3 years ago
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Hint 4 is very helpful... :D

3 years ago
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Hint 4 is missing something though, so let's have a look at 5 :)

3 years ago
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Latest hint should help a lot... hopefully

3 years ago
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Can i join ?

3 years ago
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Yes! Please do. Probably adding a few more just for the giggles... but remember Persona 4 is reachable as of Ski Lifts.

3 years ago
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Solved the Dad Quest-puzzle. Thank you and bump!

3 years ago
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Puzzled bump, so close yet so far...

3 years ago
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Still stuck to be honest. Took a little break to maybe get a new perspective. Hint 5 I'm good, i know I got that, since it fits with my expectations. Hint 4 makes sense to me, as well, all those numbers have felt pretty important to me. One of those numbers kind of bothers me though. It makes sense to me that it's there, but maybe I just haven't understood its significance. I assumed one possible significance that fit with all the things I had, but it didn't seem to work.

i feel like I've got all the pieces, but i just don't know how to bring them together.

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I would read the guides I posted... they might help spark some innovation in your thought process?

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Yeah, I had done that, and I totally agree with you. I'll check them out again to maybe get some new ideas.

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Bump and meow

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