Update: Fixed an oversight in the original crossword (although nothing that would change the solutions).
I got several comments from people claiming that some letters might be missing...? I can solve everything just fine. If you get stuck, try to solve as much as you can, and be sure to check whether you can access the giveaways as soon as you complete a key (even if the game doesn't interest you). If that doesn't work, let me know! (And note that, if you get the capitalisation wrong the first time, your browser might be auto-"correcting" your future attempts.)
Also, thank you for everyone who commented! I had over 100 notifications, and while I won't respond to all of them (or even just more than a handful), I read them all! :D
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Update: Changed the example to avoid confusion. The example is just that, it's not a part of the puzzle!
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Update: Made a hint a bit more obvious. Also made a change to the main post unrelated to the crossword puzzle.
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The "hint" letters in the puzzle are all lower case. In the solution below, they are either upper or lower case, depending on what you need to enter. So if, for example you enter an "X" into the puzzle square with the c, then you need to enter an "X" into all squares below twith a C, and an "x" into all squares with a c. Take a look at the example I provided: The solution has one upper- and one lower-case b, but only the lower-case b appears in the puzzle.
If this doesn't make sense, I'll try to make it clearer after I'm properly awake... whenever that might be. :'D
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No I think I got that, it's just that there is no c on the crossword while the "astroneer" one ask for one so I got confuse
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I may be blind... but I feel like alot of the letter keys to make codes are missing.
I don't see any a's, h's, l's or n's needed to get the code character
theres like others not around to... but I am not looking to get those codes so idk
edit: not missing... solve what you can and you will figure it out
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Maybe I'm a bit dumb but where is the: a, b, c, h, l, n, r?
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OOoooh, I am so glad I am in good company NOT knowing where those are... :D :D
Edit: I got it now! Sorry! :D :D :D
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Hey! I'm still trying to figure thst out, any help?
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Thanks for the help! I've been stuck on N for some reason for noita though. I seem to have all the other answers right. I checked both possibilities for that answer based on the wiki, they're both wrong... I'm a bit lost
edit: bruteforced it
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My initial mistake was trying to solve just the ones whose GAs I cared for. Go for all of them!
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Thank you! I managed to solve it partly thanks to your and Carenard's help, I'm stuck again though. I've replied to Carenard above, don't want to bother you guys both, but if it's something simple that i'm missing out again i'd appreciate a heads up :)
edit: bruteforced it
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Solved one of them, might edit this later
Thank you for the fun puzzle and bump 💙
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Linux is an adjustment but it beats Wind0w$ 10 for sure. GIMP is not too bad once you get used to a few bizarre interface choices.
Anyway R.I.P to your old PC and long live the new!
Bump for crossword solved... now to solve those missing letters...
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I solved the crossword, but when I try to use the letters I got, nothing comes out, although I'm sure they are the right letters (otherwise the crossword puzzle would not be solved)
edit: fully solved
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BTW for image editing, photopea is a very clean browser photoshop like, pretty simple to use
https://www.photopea.com/
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I'm starting to (slowly) get used to Pinta, but I'll check that one out, thanks!
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Wow, that took a while to complete... Thanks for the GAs!
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Finally solved the crossword puzzle. Thanks for the giveaways!
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Greetings! You like crossword puzzles? Then you came to the right thread! You don’t? I don’t care! Grit your teeth and endure it if you want my giveaways!
A personal little rant first; feel free to skip it if you don’t care and just want to get to the games.
This whole thing was supposed to be ready weeks ago, but with the usual stress, work, chores, et cetera, I didn’t have as much time as I wanted. Then, when I could finally look forward to a a few days off, everything blew up in my face like a ghostly, purple balloon (if you catch my drift) when I tried booting up my PC and it… didn’t. Or rather, it did, but I couldn’t get an image. I tried everything, swapping out monitors, cables, but ultimately, it seemed that my graphics card was fried.
Luckily. the writing had been on the wall for some time now (the PC was rather old already, and replacing anything wasn't worth it), so I had already been in talks with a friend about buying his old PC off of him (which is still much newer than anything I ever had), and he delivered it a few days after. Still, this meant I had to devote some time getting the new system ready, which isn’t a trivial task for someone who doesn't know that much about PCs. Silly me also decided to try out this "Linux" stuff, which took even more time to properly set up... It mostly works now, although my friend advised me to swap out the power supply sometime soon.
Oh, and I originally planned to keep my old Windows 10 available on my old hard drive, just in case... which fell flat, because I somehow managed to brick it, and now it won't boot up anymore. (I backed up all the important data first, but it still sucks.)
I suppose this ends up being a blessing in disguise, as it forces me to actually get comfortable with Ubuntu, instead of putting it off indefenitely and just going back to Windows.
An added hurdle for me was that I am more or less exclusively used to working with Paint.NET when it comes to image editing, which I tried getting to run on the new system, but failed. I toyed around with Pinta and GIMP, and neither really appealed to me, although I'll try figuring it out... eventually. Hey, what's this Egg doing here? Anyways, that made creating this crossword puzzle much more of a hassle, and I ended up doing it in Calc, which, at least right now, feels like "we have Excel at home" to me.
Enough of this! You're not here to read my life story, but to win some games!
In the image linked below (or just click here) you will find a crossword puzzle. In the table to the right of it are the clues needed to figure out which words you're looking for; the numbers in the squares relate to the clue needed. Most of the words are video game related, but there's also some trivia stuff, a few memes, and more!
Some of the squares have letters in the upper left corner, and you'll find the same letters in the squares below, next to the titles of the games I'm giving away. When you fill in one of those squares in the puzzle, you can also fill in the square in the solution that bears the same letter. Note that if the letter in the corner in the solution is a capital letter, then you need to enter a capital letter there, as well... and if it's a lower-case letter, you need to enter a lower-case letter. Makes sense?
See this example if you need some clarification.
I am giving away the following games:
Astroneer
Everspace 2
Game Dev Tycoon
Noita
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion® Game of the Year Edition Deluxe
Solasta: Crown of the Magister
SteamWorld Dig 2
All giveaways are going for about four weeks, ending at April 18th. Level 1 or higher is required to enter them.
That should be all! This was more effort than I originally thought, so I hope you enjoy it. I'm off to bed now, I have to get up early tomorrow... Here's hoping that in my sleep deprivation I didn't mess anything up and forget to add, like, half the required letters. If you run into trouble, just try to solve it as far as you can, and let me know in this thread!
Enjoy!
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