This is my tenth (or possibly eleventth) puzzle of 2016 after:
9th Let me make myself perfectly clear (code hidden in trivia questions) (http://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/0Dla6/mikalyes-9th-2016-puzzle-let-me-make-myself-perfectly-clear)
8th Simple addition (not so hidden code) (http://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/ysWey/mikalyes-8th-2016-puzzle-simple-addition-ended-solution-posted)
7th A list of words (hidden code) (http://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/3SdHu/mikalyes-7th-2016-puzzle-a-list-of-words)
6th As Easy as ABC (logic) (http://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/NaTeF/mikalyes-6th-2016-puzzle-as-easy-as-abc-ends-17-feb)
5th Movie Stargazing (Movies and Topology) (http://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/bku0l/mikalyes-5th-2016-puzzle-movie-stargazing-ends-7-feb)
4th Queens Play (Mathematics) (http://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/tBtXy/mikalyes-4th-puzzle-anno-2070-full-pack-ga-queens-play-ends-1-feb)
3rd Keep Your Distance (logic) (http://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/V8Ggp/michaels-third-puzzle-of-2016-keep-your-distance-ended)
2nd Hunting Lie and Hoe (Wordplay) (http://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/Jo54c/mikalyes-second-giveaway-puzzle-of-2016-now-closed)
1st Mixed Bag - Not linked as I will alter one of these soon
0th History of Computer Role-Playing Games (http://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/8ayLm/my-first-puzzle-and-a-bit-of-history-at-the-same-time)
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Tried many options but can't pass Q12, are you sure everything is ok there?
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For Q12 the few countries i've found that have the demonym exactly the same are not correct.
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I'm too dumb for this :/
Can't find the right incorrect answers :/
edit: oh, got one, seems the explanation should have just been 1 line, not a chapter, that's the real puzzle.
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Only Q12 left, like a few others who have posted O:
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Yup, found all but 12. Well, actually found 2 answers that should have worked but didn't.
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How did you solve when there were errors in the ITH answers?
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I'm curious about this too. One question had a pure error in it that would have rendered the question unsolvable. I am really sorry about this, I will do better puzzle testing next week. However, it was not solvable. And yet you solved it somehow. THe ITH solver was listed as Asdjkllkj. Was that a bruteforce script? I don't know that that is banned under the rules of SG, but it is certainly not in the spirit of the puzzle.
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I didn't used any script or any kind f cheat, and currently there is only 134 guesses, this is way too low for bruce force. and i thought it was a part of puzzle.
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I didnt. waited for hints, there was no hint, then i tried "It is in Europe".
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Fair enough, You figured out precisely how I had screwed it up. I would have thought that that was a very low percentage play. Well done I think.
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This is really weird. Is there a maximum number of ITH answers over the entire puzzle. I definitely put in 11 solutions. I click Update puzzle. It does not accept any but the first. I edit again, put in all 11. Click Update puzzle. When I look at view solution, it only displays the first. It took all 50 solutions to question 10.
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OK I have removed question 12 completely. I am very, very sorry. I did not know that ITH would do that.
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One of those questions was completely correct. I have updated the hint text to explain.
The other question had a fault and has been fixed.
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Bump for solved.
Would you mind explaining what was the problem with Q12?
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Truthfully I do not know. ITH supports multiple answers to a question (for example Q11 has 50 answers), but there may be some internal limit I was running up against, but I could not get questions 12,13,14 to support more than one answer. So I typed in the 11 answers for Q12 and it only saved the first one (Burundi if I remember correctly). I tried to fix this multiple times, then I withdrew the question.
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Marked some countries for travelling in the future. Bump.
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11 Hours to go. My next puzzle is finished, and I am testing it now. Hope to have it up in 12 hours or so.
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Well I continue with my weekly 2016 puzzles, This one will finish slightly earlier than normal on Saturday 12 March at 11pm GMT. I am also planning a fairly special puzzle sequence over Easter, where I will give away a Witcher III amongst other stuff (though you might have to work a bit for that one). Anyhow, on to this week's puzzle:
The prizes this week are:
Zoo Empire and
Cities XL 2012
Also, this is the first time I have tried using SGtools. I hope I have set it up correctly.
A number of people have been very pleased with the last few brainbusters I have published, and a few have written looking for something more accessible. So I have gone with a quiz rather than a puzzle this week, but hopefully a quite puzzling quiz. I was aiming to capture the aesthetic of my Movie Stargazing Puzzle of last month. Anyhow it is geography this week and I call it "Mommy, Where Do I come From?"
You can find it here: http://www.itstoohard.com/puzzle/S2F5SVYE
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