So I decided to make a puzzle as part of Mew's 3000 milestone event! It's my first puzzle, but I've played quite a few on here so I hope I've done a decent job.

The puzzle is a mix of codes, facts, riddles and cool stuff, and there is of course a giveaway at the end! Not a huge one, but it's a recentish non-bundle game which sounds pretty fun. No CV requirement. You have until midnight GMT, Saturday. Timer

Good luck and have fun!

http://www.itstoohard.com/puzzle/lHi2M9SR

There was a mistake in Q6. Correct image may be found here

(thankyou CthuluIsSpy/TheDangerousMabry for pointing this out!)

Q10: Include the very last key you would enter to submit the code.


Solutions:

Q1: As google can tell you, it's talking about the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything, from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The answer to the ultimate question is 42.

Q2: The upper and lower case letters correspond to dashes and dots in morse code. The dots just break up the stream of symbols into the code for each letter. Decoding gives YOUSOLVEDTHEMORSECODE.

Q3: Use your awesome 3D vision powers, or just wait for the hint and google their names. Aeroplane/airplane.

Q4: A teapot, of course. Sips beverage britishly

Q5: The letter e. I modified the wording to make it a little less googleable, but you can still easily find or solve this one.

Q6: The solution to the original image is moving the pawn to c4. Unfortunately I typod this to "c3", which is the solution to the replacement image I put up.

Q7: It's the Vigenere cipher, and decoding with "vigenere" as the key gives LASTCODEQUESTIONIPROMISE.

Q8: You can image search or google the description. It's the beautiful Huaca de la Luna in Peru.

Q9: A slightly harder google gives Mireya Moscoso, who was the president of Panama from 1999 to 2004.

Q10: A classic question, it's the Konami Code: up up down down left right left right b a (start)

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Great puzzle!

Unfortunately im stuck in Q2.. Are the dots relevant here?

PS: I love stereograms!!

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Did the hint help?

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nope :)

11 years ago
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Okay, well the dots are just to break it up into chunks. There's two different kind of letters - what famous code has two different things? (It can't be 1s and 0s for binary, because the chunks aren't all 8 letters long).

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What a well-written quiz!

11 years ago
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Thanks, I'm honestly thrilled that you like it!

11 years ago
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Q1 is bugged, should be:
9 64 24
16 196 56
n 121 5324

Unless there is a big catch I'm not aware of, Q2 is bugged too. It won't accept the correct answer.

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Thanks, but are you sure this is the right puzzle? My Q1 looks nothing like that!

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sorry, wrong thread, too much puzzle in the same time :P

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oh crap thats mine, fixed thanks!

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xD

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I think there is something wrong with the chess puzzle. There is no way you can win that in one move if you are white.

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I agree, I've found the answer but I'm not going to win in one move...

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Oops, you're right. I'll put up a corrected image. Sorry!

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Yep, that did the trick :)

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are you sure about Q10? I know the answer but I'm not able to get the right format...

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Include the very last key you enter to submit the code.

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Bump for solved. The hint on Q2 you gave here on the comments did the trick. Thanks!

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bump for solved

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The old chess image could still have been solved in one move, lol.

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Yep, but I typod the answer >.<

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Bump for 4 hours left!

So far we have 9 solvers (the 10th one was me) and 4 entries into the giveaway. Will anybody else step up in the remaining time?

(Feel free to post here for a hint if you're stuck.)

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I've decoded Q2, I just don't know what you want me to answer :p

Also Q7 is on the tip of my tongue. I know I should know this

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For Q2, just enter what you decoded :)

Q7 is a pretty popular cipher that's more complicated than a simple Caesar shift. You also haVe a hint for the name which could be Very helpful inVestigating which cipher could haVe been used.

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Bump for solved. For some reason I insisted on answering Q2 encoded :p

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Solutions posted, if anyone's interested to check them.

Thankyou for playing, and congrats to the winner!

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Closed 11 years ago by blackfyre.