Just checking, because of the date and all, is it an SGTools/GA we may already have/How much time will this take?
I love April Fool's but time management has been a thing I've learned to take note of around here.
Particularly with a GA mentioning people having struggled before.
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I don't think I have seen someone give this game away, at least not in the past several months? You have nearly a week to solve it!
People struggled on my first puzzle, yes, but not because anything I created was hard. It was so simple, they were way overthinking it. You can go look, that puzzle still has over a day left.
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I wouldn't say people are overthinking puzzles. They just need proper context. It's definitely not your fault as the puzzle master but I think lacking context makes some puzzles feel unnecessarily hard.
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I appreciate the reply :)
It's most certainly not you doing anything wrong here.
I just find that sometimes you can be five or six steps into a 'puzzle' when you realise you wouldn't have started had you known how long it would take. And then when you get there and get hit by an SGTools which far outdated and then, if you get past that part, you find out you already have the offering.
It's not biggie. I just like a brief roadmap, nothing spoilering or anything. Just an indication of if the time is worth it :)
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I totally get it. I even went so far as to see if you owned the game already, but your profile is private.
If I am posting a puzzle, it's never 'a prank,' nor something that should be taking you hours and hours and hours, nor ever anything you need some weirdly specific knowledge to solve. I want people to solve it!
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Understood Foxmonster, as I said it's most certainly not you. It does happen though - a lot.
Hopefully people will read what you've said to me and will take a crack at it :)
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A problem I see often with (new) puzzle makers is they all think their puzzle is easy. It seems simple because it makes sense to them and knowing the answer it seems obvious, but the problem is if you don't know the answer there are too many possible ways of solving the puzzle. I you don't guide people correctly, they either have to waste a lot of time trying different options, get lucky, or most likely they'll just give up on it. I applaud your creativity of making different kind of puzzles, but they're too vague for me to even try. I would have never gotten the answer to your first puzzle. I'm not trying to critique you just to be mean, but rather for you to understand puzzle making and solving better. If you have fewer than 50 entries your puzzle is hard, no matter how obviously simple it seems to you. A puzzle maker should never comment on the difficulty of their own puzzle. I'm not trying to solve this puzzle, nor am I trying to get a hint, but I look forward to see what the solution is.
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Ah, and then you ended up totally getting this one!
I'm learning, Kal, thank you. ^^
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Well, I have certainly reconnected, but using the information I gathered from that on the obvious target leads to nothing useful, and trying around with other possible targets didn't help either, so I am stuck.
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Quite stuck on this one at the moment.
Have a bump!
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I don't even know where to start, I'll leave it to people smarter than me, but I'll give you a BUMP so they can find you.
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Ooh Gus-! I will be posting hints as we draw closer to the end date. <3
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This znoygqwcorrctuztrkxocuxqluxpktqceuawyuxxeo feels like:
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i am lost as hell xD will revisit it tonight! Bump xD
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OK, I've assembled some sort of clue but it's not leading me to a giveaway. Looking forward to the next hint.
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Gave up on your previous one, but this one was very smooth going. Still satisfying though, nice little puzzle.
Bump!
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About 24 hours left!
Let me know where you guys might be stuck, so I may give you appropriate hints <3
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In my case, I don't even know how to start, does that count as stuck? XD
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Of course it counts!
SOD JAR = A
SPAR NEED = K
AXE ACE = L
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For me the instruction we decode is a bit too generic and applicable to a lot of places. The newest hint suggest that even after applying ti I might get more than five letters in which case step 2 becomes a guessing game whether you applied it to the right spot and in the right way.
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Bump for solved!
People really should try to solve this. It's pretty simple once you join the dots :)
But not too many people. That early release to GTA VI is mine! :D
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Bump for solved! That was a helpful hint. I was stuck on how to turn the "more than 5 characters" to 5 characters for an embarrassingly long time.
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Well, the first hint helped quite a bit to get one step done.
But after that I am stuck. 🤪 Who knows, maybe inspiration strikes later today.
In any case, thank you for the brain teaser (and that first step was already very creative). 😊
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STEAK KNIFE
CARD SHARK
CON JOB
BOOT CUT
DOG TOWN
BLOOD BATH
RIB CAGE
SOFT TAIL
Skin that flick, she's such a little DJ.
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Kicking myself because I thought of approaching it in the way that ended up being the actual solution, but I dismissed it because I did not know how to connect SWAM + CONS, since I did not know that SWAMI is a valid word in the English language. Very cool idea for a puzzle though, thanks for hosting it.
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Exactly the same here! :D
Still a fun idea and a nice puzzle, thanks for posting the solution.
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Hey SG Community~
A lot of you struggled with my first puzzle, so here is another one:
znoygqwcorrctuztrkxocuxqluxpktqceuawyuxxeo
CAT TONE
SWAM CONS
CODE RAY
PAIN ABLE
BOOT ATE
MODE EAST
BAN LITE
FAR ASK
NEW ONE
PLUM VERY
USE ANT
Requirements: Level 2+
no region locks
<3
Hint: CAT _ TONE, SWAM _ CONS, CODE _ RAY...
Hint: You do not need to go to another website.
Hint: You are looking for five characters. If you end up with more, how can you turn those into five?
Solution: The first step is figuring out the instruction! Each line needs a letter that can work with both words when attached to the end of the left word and the beginning of the right word, as hinted by the title, the "...missed connections." CATS + STONE (S), SWAMI + ICONS (I), CODEX + XRAY (X)... the only options that form helpful words end up being "SIXTH LETTER."
Looking at the boldened line of gibberish, pull out every sixth letter. This gives you "qckqtwo" which turns into "qckq2" and is the answer for the giveaway link. P.S. If you try putting this whole nonsense line into a Caesar Cipher decoder, you'll be told my condolences.
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