Hint: Quote from redsweater after solving:
I thought the intro text was a red herring for the longest time! Silly me.
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Hint: Small hint that I posted early on, but never linked to.
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Final hint:
42 is reverse C, but how does that fit into a chess board, and where would it be possible to find that in the puzzle image?
Once that problem is solved, how would it be possible to get the information you need for the characters that you need?
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Don't share information with others. If you are struggling badly with how to apply something, feel free to ask me in an old public GA or ask the question here if you think it will not spoil anything. I'll let you know if it does and will ask you to edit it if so. :)
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Yes, very much so. I intentionally kept the main post to a minimum to show that everything about it is part of the puzzle.
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I'm glad that despite it being about a year since my last puzzle, I still haven't lost my touch for making people work those brain cells. :)
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I have no idea what I'm doing, but I can at least bump the thread, so bump.
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Numbers of black and white squares are not equal. One more square should be white.
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Perhaps. If I had painted a random square the other colour!
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You know, I think my voice is sounding horse,
and even my rhymes are getting worse.
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And now you sound like a Norse,
or maybe is it like a boss?
The starting argument we forgot,
so I choose a blue heart from the pot.
(take my useless 💙)
/edit changed horse to boss. how can I rhyme with used words?
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The solution is obvious. The white pieces go through the center left to right. Unless you like to eat the cookie part after licking off the white frosting. But honestly that's insane. Oreo's are meant to be eaten with the frosting.
I have no idea. I'll come back to this later but it looks really interesting.
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Looks like blocks from Minecraft, I'll pass.
Have a bump! :p
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Whers "the question"?
Are we looking for letter/numbers hidden hereor something else?
Does this thing even has something to do witch chess or it just looks simlar to chess-board?
Also what am i doing here? Its 3 in the morning and I dont even want Kerbal.
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You are looking for a GA-code.
Yes and no. There's no chess pieces or any of the sorts, and deep knowledge of chess is not required. A very basic knowledge of chess or a quick google will give you the info you need.
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Hi Nordhbane. Nice to see you're still in the scrambling everybody's mind puzzle making business.
I looked at it and went .....................why did I even look ??????????
hidden bump
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Thanks for remembering me. :) I was wondering if people still would, and more importantly, how many new people there would be since I last did a brain teaser.
I haven't even kept up with the puzzle section at all really since I started my full time job approximately a year ago. What kinds of puzzles are even being made now? Does anyone do brain teasers rather than Jigidi and Trivias? Any recommendations?
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I've just come back myself. I tried my hand on a puzzle from godprobe. Ended today, but will have a little continuation soon. Was an interesting one, I think you would have liked it. You were part of it anyway. ;)
Detective story.
Not too sure what other puzzles are out there lately, godprobe's puzzle had me busy for the last few days. :D
Good to see you again. Congratz to the full time job and thanks for this puzzle. I'm not done with it just yet.
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Not that many used it thus far, but Dungeon Sandbox, is a fun way to do puzzles.
Dungeon crawler style puzzle solving/creating.
Original forum thread!
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Is that the new Game of sWords (I think it was called)?
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Not really my cup of tea. Never was a big fan of the pseudo-3D mazes.
Even programmed those kind of walls in a programming course a long time ago.
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Hmmmm..... this looks interesting but i have no idea of what should i do
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Well I'm sorry but I'm really bad at riddles. Could you recommend me any games or places so i can get better on them?
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I can strongly recommend The Secret World. A Lovecraft-inspired MMORPG that's free to play. The quests in it have some really cool riddles, and there are a lot of minor hints online if you don't want to spoil it too much when you get stuck.
Perhaps a bit too advanced, but The Black Watchmen is great if you're an avid puzzle solver.
To learn more about basic techniques here on Steamgifts, you should read Zelph's puzzle guide.
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Thx man i really appreciate for giving those recommendations i will try to play them asap.
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At least that's what the tattoo on my arm says.
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Unless my tattoo's been wrong all these years, I'm very certain Reverse C is 42. :)
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Seems like I was wrong about something all along. No wonder I was hitting a dead end. Thanks for the info, though now I need to find out what it means... :)
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At least my tattoo has "the answer". Perhaps it can be reverse engineered. :)
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One should hope so! It did provide me with a very good clue, at any rate... :)
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I've tried applying XOR (and, for good measure, also OR and AND) between your columns and the correct binary pattern for the board in the vain hope that converting the results values to ASCII might yield five valid characters. No cigar. I even tried grabbing the numbers that, when represented as decimals or hexadecimals, were valid octals. That's when I knew I was out of ideas and grasping at straws.
It was a nice puzzle, though, especially because I want Kerbal very much and a GA with such a high chance is an absolute must-try. :)
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I know this probably won't make much sense, but perhaps you can get an idea from it.
Input: num
(1) Initialize rev_num = 0
(2) Loop while num > 0
(a) rev_num = rev_num*10 + num%10;
(b) Divide num by 10
(3) Return rev_num
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That moment when I spend 20 minutes cracking your hint and it finally dawns on me that it's telling me something I already know. I feel pretty damn smart both for cracking it and for figuring out that I'm ahead of where you thought, even if I feel pretty damn stupid for all the rest of the puzzle! :D
If I can understand the hint, how far along am I, in terms of, say, percentage of the thinking done? Perhaps I'm just looking from the wrong point of view, geometrically speaking?
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If you have found 42, and know where it is and why it's reverse C, then I would say all that's left is to figure out which are the important ones for the puzzle.
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I'm pretty sure I found the link between 42 and C, but I don't quite know how to revert. And possibly what to revert. So I don't think I know why it's reverse C, no. :|
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we need to find which rows and columns to use
Oh, man, I feel like such a fucking idiot. I got this close and didn't realize that the lines were giving away the positions I should use... I should have looked a little harder at the description. It was literally the only thing I missed. I was thinking that I was wrong about the reversion, but I was right about that all along; I just didn't figure out how to use the result. I feel like Hannibal, who (according to his second-in-command Maharbal, and only if we take Livy's rather unreliable manuscript as fact) knew how to gain a victory, but not how to use one: "Vincere scis, Hannibal; victoria uti nescis".
Despite feeling like a total idiot now, I had a lot of fun. No Kerbal for me, but thanks for the fun puzzle anyway! :D
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Ah, Dolphin 42 42, getting closer to unravelling the mystery :P I thought I had something but I seem to be missing a crucial part it seems (or I'm completely wrong) can't figure out what reverse C is. At least I gave your puzzle a shot, but I don't get it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Awesome. Hope that inspires others to get it now that it's shown it can be solved! :)
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Not important, and can't believe I made that one. Thanks.
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Obviously your board has it squares all messed up and there are no pieces on it, no wonder you're having so many problems with it.
I have an idea how to solve it but it would require too much (well some) time to work out and I'm not interested in the game so have this bump.
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It can actually be solved really quickly with the right idea. :)
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8 times I've tried to solve this problem and look at this
god awful chessboard. No wonder I can't solve it. I don't think
1 person can when it's this scrambled up.
Come on, I really need some help figuring this out. If
everyone at least tries, there might be Kerbal Space Program to win.
Solution:
This is a binary puzzle, which I think most understood rather quickly. It uses the 1-8 and A-H from a chessboard.
One of the most important hints was that 42 is reverse C. 42 in binary (as could be seen on my tattoo) is 00101010. Now look at my board and check column C. Counting black as 0 and white as 1 you can see that we have that binary number on that row. And because I said it's REVERSE C, it means that it's 42 if you read it from top to bottom. A chessboard is numbered from bottom to top, so you would normally read it the other way around.
Now that you understand how to read the binary on the board, we need to find which rows and columns to use. That's where the text comes in. Each row starts with the coordinate to use. 8g1Ce, row 8, column g, row 1, column c, column e.
And that's it. Translate the binary that you get from that and you have your GA-code. Hope you enjoyed this brain teaser, even if you weren't able to solve it. :)
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