Wow, you found the secret and finished it! So now, which was the easiest and which was the hardest? Were you surprised by this second giveaway?
Note: Don't mention this directly on the main page. So, nothing like "thanks for the secret/hidden giveaway" on the main puzzle page. Here that's fine, of course. :P
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So, that Half Life one? I messed up when I was linking the pictures. This was the picture
Might be for the best, since that one's hard.
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I thought there were no picture, since I even looked at the sourcecode of the page's to see if an URL existed in Q5 but just somehow slightly in mistyped -form, but nope. :)
Still, brilliant puzzle.
P.S. I prefer the way you corrected the issue anyhow.
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Nope, I really just messed up when I was making the puzzle. I tried to create it, and Itstoohard freaked out, so I had to recreate all the questions. When I did that, I guess I missed copying a line of text, and that line was the image. :P
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Finally. I got 1, 7, 12, 13, 14 immediately.
Got many more after googling, and thinking.
And finally needed a hint for 11, and made a lucky guess for 10 just now.
Thanks for the fun puzzle and great drawings.
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I'm glad someone made it to this side finally. Congrats!
Yeah, 10's answer is very simple. I figured people would feel silly for not guessing that once they got it.
Fun Fact: I drew Knuckles about 3 times before I came up with something I liked. It's hard to control lines on that site, but I feel like the end result is worth it.
Glad you had fun!
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Finally managed to get here!
Knuckles was the easiest one... The spinning Knuckles took me some time to realize...
The hardest one was the blue candle. Really. Haven't played the first Zelda... I'd never know about that! XD
Thanks for the fun puzzle, great drawings! And for the childhood memories, like Klonoa! hehehe
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I figured if anything else, the blue candle looks like a candle, and has blue flames, so it should be easy enough to power through even without playing the first Zelda. And fun fact, it's also in the Binding of Isaac.
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Question 15 took me forever, I was going through all of the blue robots in the Megaman franchise I could think of before thinking of adding the 'X'.
Last question I got was #4, and I still don't recognise it. :p
Amazing puzzle and a smile shot across my face when I saw Vivi, thanks for this!
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Haha yeah, that's X's helmet, specifically.
Here's a picture of 4
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Ah, it was the telltale logo that threw me off. I was convinced it was a rose or bonfire. Ha ha, good job.
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Damn you blue candllllleeeee haha. Loved it and thank you but already have it.
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lol. I felt like Blue Candle would be an easy one to guess :P
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Oh hai! The hardest for me was the Castle Crashers dev one. Others like the Blue Candle were pretty obvious for me, actually. :P
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Yeah. I don't think as many people have heard of Alien Hominid. Fun game, though.
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I still don't know where in Final Fantasy 10 the symbol comes from.
I wonder if this is a Supreme Commander 1 key in disguise. I guess we'll find out.
Thanks for the chance!
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Tidus wears it. I think it's on his pants. I know it's somewhere. Jecht has it on him, also.
It's a SC2 key. This was after amazon made the correction and emailed me they did it.
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Whoo! Got through it! I knew I recognized Tidus's symbol, I just wish it didn't take some guy's tattoo picture to remind me of one of my favorite games/characters. Also, Blue Candle took me forever, for some reason the picture made me think of something that would be much bigger than a candle. Eventually I just searched Legend of Zelda items and found it lol.
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Not a bad idea. If in doubt, google Zelda items. :)
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The Walking Dead was just kind of a wild guess cause of the "Dead". I kept thinking it was a game over screen from something.
Blue Candle was the last one I got.
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Glad to see you got it, though! Didn't even need all 36 hours
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Cant believe Q10 was blue candle, that took me quite the time to figure it out. Easiest ones were the walking dead, dead island and knuckles, also got troubles with the klonoa question I didnt even know that there was a pacman on his hat all this time. Thanks for the giveaway.
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I love the Pac Man on Klonoa's hat, nice touch on Namco's part. Congrats on making it to the real end!
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Goddamn Blue Candle. Was a great puzzle nonetheless. Glad I decided not to sleep after trying to go pass out. Thank you for the giveaways.
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I really did think blue candle would be a bit easier :)
Congrats on getting to the end.
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I never really played anything from the Zelda series before the Oracle games on the GBA. The only reason I even know about the blue candle is because of Legend of Neil. Anyway, retracting my entry because I looked the game up and it doesn't look like something I'd be really interested in playing.
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Still, I thought it looked enough like a candle that's blue for people to logic it. Can't say I've heard of Legend of Neil.
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Crap I already have SC2.
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Congrats on getting here anyway!
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Well, thanks. :)
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You're welcome!
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Urgh, I was getting to the point of rage with Q10. I spent a good 2 days looking solely at that image.
The very first thing I thought of when I saw the drawing was that it was of a candle, but obviously "candle" isn't the correct answer, so I dismissed it entirely from then on. I started thinking it was some sort of aircraft/vehicle or since you were saying the colour was important and "power", I thought it was something electricity based (like a battery or generator), judging from the forking of the lines at the top.
It was only when you give the Batman hint did I Google up some characters (Solid Snake, Samus and obviously Link) and then went through each of the characters' respective game items to find the answer. When you said the item cameoed in a different series, the only game I could think of was Super Smash Bros.
Oh, and Q7 "Angry Birds", I can only presume it's of the green pig, but really, there's no way that drawing is of a pig :D It looks more like a beaver/otter/hamster/gerbil/squirrel type animal. I only got that answer from the hint you gave.
Very tough puzzle, at least for me, since I've not played any Sonic, Final Fantasy, some of the indie games you used and annoyingly, The Legend of Zelda.
Thanks again for another difficult puzzle and giveaway! Apologies for this long comment, it's me venting my frustration.
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Glad you finally got the Blue Candle, though!
That totally looks like the pig. :)
And now you have a good list of things to go play! You're welcome.
Eh, vent away. It's fine lol
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The Blue Candle was the hardest for me. I knew it's a candle, but couldn't get it right. And 2-4, I guessed it by looking at Yokuo's games list :D Rest of them was pretty easy.
I spent only ~1,5h, I guess it's because I have taste similiar to author.
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Yeah, it's usually a good idea to either check my library or remember old games :)
Way to have good taste!
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How is Q7 not a squirrel???
Thanks for the puzzle
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Because it's a pig :)
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RIGHT? I was stuck on that one for so long...
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That was great fun, and you were a tricky devil hiding that link.
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Glad you found the link and had fun with it!
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At last! That was hard, and fun :)
Hardest for me were 10 and 12. 10 I knew it was a candle, didn't try "blue" till the last moment. 12 was worse, because I never heard of that game. I had to search all recent steam releases...
Thanks!
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Yeah, "Blue Candle" is a pretty obvious choice once you figure out it's a candle, but I can't blame you for not trying it since it's really never that simple :P
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I finally got it, although I have the game already. Number 10 really had me caught because I never played the Legend of Zelda (we had a Master System). I had tried everything from lantern to glove, I even thought it might be a bird of some kind & I finally Googled "Zelda Candle" & I found Blue candle. I can now rest my mind. Great puzzle & I hope you have another soon.
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You should go try out some Zelda games, then! Link to the Past for SNES and Ocarina of Time for the 64 are usually peoples' favorites. The Blue Candle was only in the very first game (and makes an appearance in Binding of Isaac)
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I played Ocarina of Time & Majoras Mask. I have a link to the past on an emulator which I must put on the psp & play because I've heard some great things about it.
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It's definitely the best 2D top-down Zelda, not that Link's Awakening and the first game aren't good. OoT is by far my favorite, though.
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I finally got it too! Just barely in time. I only got it from Yokuo's hints (common household item). Looks kind of like a candle. He says it's blue. "Blue Candle"? Win.
So, the Batman of classic console games WAS LINK! I really really thought it was, but on linkipedia or whatever site it was, I didn't see "Blue Candle" as an item. I tried pretty much everything else, and they were all (of course) wrong. So I had my doubts.
SO HARD! As all the best puzzles are, haha.
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Yep, the Batman of video games is Link! Glad you made it to the end of this thing in time!
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