Mikalye's Easter Hunt 2020 - The Casefiles of Sherlock Hares - Ended - Solutions Posted

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So I have posted a few of the Easter Egg Hunt puzzles, and a few people have contacted me and asked me to put up the entire Easter Egg Hunt this year as a puzzle event.

So I have. A few details.
All of the giveaways run until noon GMT on the 17th of May.

There are no hidden puzzles, or hidden giveaways in this event. What you see is what you get. If you want any guidance as to how I write my puzzles, I can again recommend my magic guide (this should not be confused for Zelghadis' excellent guide).

Each of these puzzles have been written so that each will yield a single word or short phrase for the answer, which means I can use them with ITSTOOHARD. Not all of the puzzles are original (though many are). Where I have used an unoriginal puzzle, I will of course provide full information about the source, and where you can get others of that creator's puzzles. In several cases, I have stolen the puzzle, in several more, I have taken someone else's clever idea for a puzzle, and rewritten it to make it work with this event (and with the desired answer word.

The contributor level for all games is set to 1. I have used SGTools with precisely 2 rules: You must have activated all of your wins, and you cannot have been VAC banned.

As per usual with my events, I don't really care if you do not play your wins, but I do care deeply if a game does not reach 5 entries, so if you are one of the first five to solve something, and you wouldn't mind seeing that game in your library, then please enter the giveaway. You can always choose to remove your entry later (once 5 people have entered it).

My daughter has recently gotten very into the periodic table of the elements, and indeed has memorised it. As such, this is a periodic table-heavy event. Indeed, when I knew I wanted to put together a periodic table event, I was searching for themes, and the phrase "Elementary, my dear Watson" came to mind, and the rest of it fell into place. You do not need to know the periodic table to solve these things, but you may need to refer to it.

I recommend the one at the bottom of this intro:

You also do not need to know anything at all about Sherlock Holmes. I have stolen chunks of Conan Doyle's prose, to limit the amount that I have to write, and to try to get the tone right. While Lord St. Simon is a real character who is the protagonist of the Adventure of the Noble Bachelor but that has nothing to do with this puzzle, and no knowledge of the original will help in any way. Similarly, the client of the adventure of the dancing skeletons (chapter 9) is similar to the client in the adventure of the Dancing Men. This is true, but totally unnecessary to solve the puzzle. Similarly, the protagonist in chapter 14 is similar to that in the adventure of the Red-Headed league. True but totally irrelevant. You really do not need to know anything at all about Sherlock Holmes. Nada. Nothing, None whatsoever.

I will keep track of how the puzzles are going, and after a few days, hinting will be freely available.

Prizes for this event are:

Planet Coaster, Dirt Rally 2.0, Two Point Hospital, Battle Chasers: Nightwar, Frostpunk, GRIP: Combat Racing, Lords of the Fallen: Game of the Year Edition, Override: Mech City Brawl, Planetary Annihilation, - Note: This is for the original game, not Titans, but you can upgrade to Titans for 90% off. The original is no longer sold on the Steam Store., Killer is Dead - Nightmare Edition, Mages of Mystralia, Nex Machina, Pathfinder Adventures Obsidian Edition, Rise of Venice, Sir, You are Being Hunted, Yoku's Island Express, Never Alone + Foxtales DLC, Blades of Time - Limited Edition, Rivals of Aether, Planet Coaster - World's Fair Pack DLC, 9 Clues: The Secret of Serpent Creeek, Bike Rush, Enigmatis: The Ghosts of Maple Creek, Enigmatis 2: The Mists of Ravenwood, Enigmatis 3: The Shadow of Karkhala, Quest for Infamy, Robin of Loxley - The Legend of Sherwood, Rune Classic, Sine Mora, Skullgirls, Skulls of the Shogun, System Shock - Enhanced Edition, Cibele, Mimic Arena, Auditorium, Colt Express, Etherlords 1+2 Bundle, Last Express - Gold Edition, Marine Park Empire, Mysterium, Z, Super Chibi Knight, Superluminauts, The Princess' Heart, Millie, Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny, Dinosaur Hunter, Trials of the Gauntlet, Last Anime Boy: Saving Loli, Premier Buggy Racing Tour

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4 years ago*

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Xartyx

Bump for a very enjoyable puzzle event :)

4 years ago