Main Puzzle

Oh well.. it's not a Christmas puzzle at all... but every year in this special time I always feel like a child. In my childhood I had a lot of time to PLAY games, even if it was harder to get them than nowadays. Especialy I loved jRPG because I could name heroes and I never played them using their real names... and in that way Miss Edna, Pix and Els was born.

Those three girls will guide us in our trip to the past for searching real names.
Go to the past ith puzzle

To provide good Christmas mood here is one of my favourites carols: Carol of bells. Feel free to post carols most liked by you in comments, I'll appreciate if it will be your national ones :) For those who are good childs obligatory GA (meh titles which don't fit to solver's train :D)


Hints

  • if you know what to do with q1 grid than no more special knowledge is needed, from this point it's pure thinking puzzle :P
  • if you have idea to use paint.. pls.. dont :D I'm not that cruel :D probably the best solution is using conditional formatting, try it, it's magical for Q2/Q3
  • dont try to guess, everything is on plate, all pieces of puzzle are provided and visible, no hidden parts on imgur desc or in code
  • sometimes 1 piece cant reveal whole beauty of picture, try to put them all to see sth
  • 1+3=4

Puzzle details

End Time: December 25, 2015, 9:00pm unbundled games: January 1, 2016, 12:00am
Games: Update: There was little reorganisation in solvers train. Flockers™, A Story About My Uncle, STRIDER™, Isbarah, This War of Mine, also vote here

Bonus rule: Because my puzzles are hard (don't know why) and always has a problem with CV, I finaly found proper way to deal with it :3 Bonus part solvers will get "wildcard ticket" for future half empty "solver's trains"


Solvers (Main part)

1. summon1ng

2. AleNofx

3. Kuzurreesh

4. malabagaa

5. chour

6. PapaSmok

Solvers (Bonus part)

1. chour


Main Part Solution

First image was nonogram. I used 0 as white, and 1 as black. 2nd and 3 image have more numbers and each of them represent color. Colors was provided by thread image. 4th and 5th is a marge from two previous methods where first number is a color, and second is a number of pixels.

Result of images is posted in hints now: http://www.itstoohard.com/puzzle/0E0ee6ts/CeSjXECm

Bonus Part

The easiest way to solve main part was take excel from puzzle and put some numbers in grid, then use conditional formatting and it was solved. The main reason I also posted images in all questions was that I hid sth there :D All images has same size when you put all of them together and play with contrast you will get this in 8-9 row. Binary its: 01000111 01000001 00111010 01000001 01110011 01001100 01110110 01010001 -> "GA:AsLvQ"

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Below cool pixel art by SG users :D It was possible to guess but oh well... it's a lot easier with proper colors :D

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hint added

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Finished the first grid, but no idea what/who it's supposed to be, so I'll leave it at that and say thanks and bump! :)

8 years ago
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There is a lot of time :) I hope you can crack it :)

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My kids figured out the first one...so, now of course I have to keep going. :P

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Haha :D When you crack second everything will be clear and your kids do all math job :D Second one is a Princess!

8 years ago
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OK, 2nd one looks familiar, but neither I nor my kids can place it. I haven't figured out the color scheme, if there is one, but I think we can see it well enough just picking random colors - we just don't know who it is, despite lots of Google searching.

Sooo...back to saying 'Thanks for the puzzle! :)"

8 years ago
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ghaaa why you all wanna try to guess colors xD if they are provided and visible :D

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Yeah, I know...silly me...I just like making things hard. :P

The rest of the puzzle I'm sure I know how to solve technically, and I think I know what to do with the colors, but I don't think it would help since I don't know the characters.

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jutr gave me solutions via steam i'll help :P Tha point of puzzle is solving grid ;) I thought characters are common :D All are from japan productions but well known in whole world I think.. they are all like dragon ball xD

in q2 character have a very fameous hairstyle :D oh and remember its a princess... not just name :D

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Yeah, they probably are well known throughout the world, but that's a whole genre/era I never got into. I'll message you this evening or over the weekend when I get some time to take another look. :)

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GA bump!

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Just seen this...that looks like a lot of work...

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it was a lot work to do XD But because I'm not evil at all I gave you excel with data and proper grid, all annoying things can be automated :D

8 years ago
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Dont have excel, I have paint :P
So yea, I gave up, I think I'll start puzzling again in 2016, Revils puzzle is like yours too :P

8 years ago
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there is an online excel.. via google or standalone product from microsoft :D Also I can do special instance of this document and gave you edit rights :P So if you wanna try just add me on steam :)

P.S In paint... it will be paintfull xD

8 years ago
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I shouldn't embarrass myself further by getting it wrong another 4 times :P

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Q1 solved. I'm not sure I can solve Q2 even with right colors. I will try other puzzles later :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cl0Rj0o1IQ

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shhhhh... :x

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Funny thing that I didn't know that 'Carol od bells' was based on Ukrainian carol :D Thank you for that you gave me that knowledge <3

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And I have never heard this carol in other languages, so thank you too :)

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Gracee, need hint for the q2 - I realized that these creatures, but the picture is not that clear, and I can not find a match with the original

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do you have grid solution? and just dont know character? If yes contact me on steam :)

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Q2 solved :D

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easy?:D

If you have q2 than q3 will be piece of cake to make a grid :P

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Yeah, q4 and q5 left. I will try to solve them tomorrow.

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Bump for solved! Thanks for the nice puzzles!

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They are always too hard :v I'm really happy I have first main part solver that fast ^^ Grats! I hope there will be at least 5 and there will be nice sales during winter hollidays :3

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bump!

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Thx for bump :) Tell me why you did'n enter Ga's? Link is broken or sth?

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Link ifs fine. I will enter later, don't worry :)

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Did the first one in paint. That took way too long!

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haha xD the best way is use excel and conditional formatting xD

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First masterpiece finished.
I feel like I should know who it is, but my tries all failed. :P
About colours, so much more fun when you pick them at random

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haha xD I saw few SG creations :D I should change name of puzzle to "psychodelic puzzle" XD To be honest I face palmed myself that puzzle can be so easyly abuse but you guys have a lot of problem to solve q2 when bad colors are used Xd

8 years ago
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Damn, I have a serious challenger for the Ravensburger painting award!

8 years ago
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i see here nice concept of pink dress.. it's probably Barbie ;3

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Bump for Q1 solved o/

I used paint too :x
Result for Q2 seems... weird xD I think it will be my masterpiece when I'll die and my talent will be recognized x)
It's so ugly that I can't got the answer yet but I'm working on it xD

Traditional French Christmas song: Il est né le divin enfant

8 years ago
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haha Xd post it later pls.. :d i'll make gallery of sg users creations xD

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Q2 solved.
My "result" for Q3 is worse than Q2, I think I should go back to paint x)
And I'm pretty lost on how to deal with Q4&5 :x

8 years ago
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Ultimate hint: start thinking about right colors more than guessing xD You probably saw them, i don't get why you dont use them :D
Also for Q4/Q5 hint added in thread :D

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I'm thinking of giving up. Started Q1 two times and both of them I got the same error in the low-right corner.. and since someone solved it, the error is on my end and I don't know how to solve it.

Have a bump :)

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hum.. if its a small corner problem it shouldnt aftect solution because image is very simmilar in both sides, give me your solution via steam, we will see how I can help :)

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Solved 1 and 2.
Still trying to figure out who's in 3.
4 and 5 still need to be filled.

BUMP! :D

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Fully solved! :D

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Gracee, I didn't see your puzzle. :P I'll try it later. Looks scary. xD

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it's not that scarry what it looks like, when good tools are used xD Don't know why people choose paint :D

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I used GIMP 2. :P
Will have to come back for the others eventually...

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Only Q5 remains, but that one is for tomorrow.

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Very nice puzzle!
I've completed all the grids, but I can't get the right answer for Q2, hmm...

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dont forget about "princess" word ;)

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Got it! Thank you ;)

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Solved. :)

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So far:
Q1 done.
Q2 made with correct colors - don't know the character... Can't find :)
Q3 made with correct colors - found!
Q4-Q5 pending

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Q2: don't tell me you don't know this iconic hairstyle :D

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I know only one princess that could look like that and she's not from video games >:-)

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she is :x

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OK. I thought about another princess but my wife suddenly saw some similarities with another character and it worked wonders...

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And final bump! Quite a challenging puzzle :)

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Another bump for highly recommended puzzle.

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Wait. "Main part", some strange hints....

Edit. Found smth.

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Ha! Bump for beauty!

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The bonus part is well-hidden. Can't find it =\

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There is a lot of time for it :) 1 week remaining for bonus part ^^

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Solve Q1 and 2. Looks like that's all I can solve.

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Q2 and Q3 based on same thing, Q4 and Q3 are from the same game if you have trouble with "who is this"

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Q2 left, I can't recognize her :|

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:| It's a character mostly known from anime/manga. It was published in 1992. Character has very well known hairstyle but don't forget to use her princess form name ;P

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Oh, thanks, got it :)

I thought it was her but I was trying her other names :)

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Bump, gracee wants those 5 entries. :)
Noticed something, don't know (yet) what to do with it.

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I recommend using hint :D

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