Tommy is tired of living on the γιου reservation, and constantly tries to push his heritage away, while at the same time trying to convince Jen to leave home, if θρι only for a short while, to which she refuses steadfastly. After an αρ unfortunate bar fight, the entire building is lifted up by a gravitational force into a green light above. Tommy, Jen, and Tommy's grandfather, Enisi, are κιου transported skyward to the massive alien starship called the Sphere. After docking, all three, along with countless other captives, are dragged through the upper levels of ζετ the Sphere. Tommy is freed in an explosion set off by a stranger who, despite being cybernetic like most of the Sphere's denizens, appears to be working against it rather than for it.

Καλή σας τύχη!

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Thanks to all who tried!


Solution

Tommy is tired of living on the γιου reservation, and constantly tries to push his heritage away, while at the same time trying to convince Jen to leave home, if θρι only for a short while, to which she refuses steadfastly. After an αρ unfortunate bar fight, the entire building is lifted up by a gravitational force into a green light above. Tommy, Jen, and Tommy's grandfather, Enisi, are κιου transported skyward to the massive alien starship called the Sphere. After docking, all three, along with countless other captives, are dragged through the upper levels of ζετ the Sphere. Tommy is freed in an explosion set off by a stranger who, despite being cybernetic like most of the Sphere's denizens, appears to be working against it rather than for it.

Καλή σας τύχη!


First of all, it is obvious to some that this is about a Prey giveaway. If it is not, if you search a part of the text on Google, it will show you the Prey Wikipedia page. Secondly, I have bolded the "odd one out" off the text. I'm sure most of you made it to this part, but didn't know what to do next. So here is how it goes:

  • The last phrase "Καλή σας τύχη!", if put in google translate, it is probably recognized as greek and translated to "Good luck!". So it hints you that we have to deal with greek here.
  • From the text you can take out the words "γιου", "θρι", "αρ", "κιου", "ζετ". If you put "γιου θρι αρ κιου ζετ" on google translate it gives you "son thri No. Q Zet" which may give you some letters, but it doesn't give you the solution. That would be way to easy wouldn't it? :P
  • If you stay at google translate, there are "Listen" and "Read Phonetically" functions. Both of them give you the letters pronounced which are u3rqz.
  • Of course if you knew greek it would be piece of cake, so yes greek people had an advantage on purpose :)
  • Some of those that solved the puzzle have a high level on maths and know many greek letters

Thanks again, hope you liked it!

13 years ago
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I was close to it!
Thanks anyway.

13 years ago
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that was not simple

13 years ago
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Sorry to hear that :(

Did you find previous puzzles here simpler?

Anyhow I expected at most 40 entries when I started this giveaway and it had 38, so things turned our as expected for me :)

Better luck next time ;)

13 years ago
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If you could rely on Google to do 100% of the thinking for you instead of just 60% then it wouldn't be a puzzle, would it? :P

13 years ago
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Careful...when I point that out, I'm being a troll.

13 years ago
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Nice one! Loved the solution. However, as chaosquall said, it was not simple (particularly the last bit, which was not intuitive)

13 years ago
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I missed it by one letter! oh well :)

13 years ago
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Closed 13 years ago by tragikos.