Mikalye's Jigidi Event - Ends 19 February - Solution Now posted

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This puzzle has its genesis in a poll that Powerziege created about a week ago. Powerziege ran a poll asking which types of puzzle people most preferred. To my dismay, 58% of people voted for Jigidi jigsaw puzzles.

I admire puzzles, I admire puzzle creators and the ingenuity that it takes to create a good puzzle. As a solver, I am addicted to that AHA moment. There is a real feeling of joy at the moment that the problem solution or some other significant realisation becomes clear. That is my drug. Sadly, a jigidi doesn't give me an AHA. I still sometimes enter them, but I do have the same degree of being impressed with the creator.

But I wanted to show that one could create a real puzzle with jigidi. So this puzzle consists of two parts. In the first part, there are seven small (50-75 piece) jigidi puzzles. Each gives a word or phrase that should be entered into an ITH. If you solve all seven puzzles, you can get a prize, and you can also enter the second round, which consists of a single metapuzzle that takes as its input the seven answers from the first part.

If you need more information about Metapuzzles, I can certainly recommend my Magic Guide which is two years old, but still valid.

The six prizes for this event are (in alphabetical order):
Cook, Serve, Delicious!
Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy Remastered
Grimrush
Just Cause XXL Edition Note:This is the bundle with all the DLC

Monstrum
Spectrubes Infinity

Good luck. The event starts here

6 years ago*

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Hints

All of the questions on part 1 should either be obvious (like question 1) or easily searchable (like question 4) with one exception. Question 2 (the medical one) may require a small amount of research. Question 7 is in the first category. You do not need any research, merely to describe what you are looking at.

Part 1:
Question 5 - I realised that there may be some abiguity on the third word. Which could legitimately be a 7 letter word beginning with a B or one beginning with a W. I am looking for the word beginning with a W. Sorry for any confusion.
Question 7: Puzzle 7 needs no research. It is literally just a statement of what you are looking at. You know from the letter counts in the words that one of the words you are looking at is 4 letters. Can you see anything in the picture that could be 4 letters?

Part 2:
Hint 1 of 4: The word describes the view of a puzzles board filled with nothing but jigidi puzzles
Hint 2a of 4: The answer to part 2 is a single 7-letter word.
Hint 2b of 4: Hmmm... There are 7 jigidi's in part 1 and a 7 letter word in part 2, it's almost as if each part 1 puzzle yielded a single letter
Hint 3 of 4: An excerpt from the Tao Te Ching (Dao De Jing) by Lao Tzu Chapter 11
"Thirty spokes share the hub of a wheel; // yet it is its center that makes it useful. // You can mould clay into a vessel; // yet, it is its emptiness that makes it useful. // Cut doors and windows from the walls of a house; // but the ultimate use of the house // will depend on that part where nothing exists. // Therefore, something is shaped into what is; // but its usefulness comes from what is not."
- Translated by Kari Hohne, 2009
*Hint 4 of 4: Have a listen to this
Now the link is to the performance of this song at the academy awards. The Oscars is totally irrelevant. The hint is in the song itself. not this performance of it.

Announcements

The puzzle ends on 19 Feb.

Solving Stats

As of 11:00 GMT on 19 February with 12 hours to go
165 people have solved part 1
20 people have solved part 2

Solvers of both parts prior to part 2 hint 2b being released

gegs, CharlesNonsens, Viccae, Thexder, monkey66, mijamal7, dobeduck, plus 1 anonymous solver

Solvers of both parts prior to hint 3 being released

gegs, CharlesNonsens, Viccae, Thexder, monkey66, mijamal7, dobeduck,,plus 3 anonymous solvers

Errata

There was :an error in the message after part 1 puzzle 5. Hopefully this is now fixed.

Solution

~The solution can be found here.