A TRAINFUL OF (PAINFUL?) PUZZLES

What is this?
This is a puzzle event. Yay! Let's call it a train even though it really isn't a train -- but "train" is such a popular catchword around here that I felt I should use it no matter what. Anyway, there are two months worth of puzzles awaiting you, altogether 22 of them, all of various difficulty and design (some common on SG, some -- I hope -- entirely new and unheard of).

What is it for?
The main purpose of this event is to have fun and provide some exercise for those little grey cells. The puzzles are not meant to be hardcore, and I believe any average solver should make it to the final metapuzzle. This is also my little giveback event and a humble homage to all the great puzzlemakers here on SteamGifts.

How about the gibs?
No worries. There will be gifts for solving each puzzle and a little extra treasure for solving the metapuzzles. Everything will be restricted to level 1+ and a basic SGTools check.

How long will the giveaways be open?
I will post a new puzzle every three days. Each giveaway will last for ten days. This means we will have several things running at the same time and it might get a bit messy but I will try to make it as organized as humanly possible. (I chose this unusual format for my event to make all puzzles /except for metapuzzles and the bonus puzzle/ accessible to everyone. Even if you fail seventeen times you can still try your luck with the eighteenth one -- and maybe succeed.)

Will there be... er... any hints?
You haven't even seen the puzzles yet! But yes, of course, since you will need to solve all 18 of them to get to the final metapuzzle, I feel a hint system of some sort is a necessity. I will be even as generous to give two hints for each puzzle. Will they be free for everyone? Yes... kind of. The schedule for hints will probably vary, depending on how much will people struggle with given puzzles.

Can I contribute to this event?
Oh, glad you asked! Yes, definitely. If you have any unused keys lying around, if you planned to hide your next giveaway from bots anyway, if you just want to make this event even more awesome, please don't hesitate and contact me. The more the merrier! Thanks a lot in advance.

PUZZLE GIBS STATUS HINTS SOLUTIONS
1. The Magnificent Ten FINISHED OPEN Hint 1.1, Hint 1.2 LINK
2. One Dot Dot FINISHED OPEN Hint 2.1, Hint 2.2 LINK
3. Quipu FINISHED OPEN Hint 3.1, Hint 3.2 LINK
4. Wall of Numbers FINISHED OPEN Hint 4.1, Hint 4.2 LINK
5. Piggy Time FINISHED OPEN Hint 5.1, Hint 5.2 LINK
6. A Shortlist FINISHED OPEN Hint 6.1, Hint 6.2 LINK
7. Broken Nonogram FINISHED OPEN Hint 7.1, Hint 7.2 LINK
8. Chesswords FINISHED OPEN Hint 8.1, Hint 8.2 TO BE DONE
META 1 FINISHED OPEN nope LINK
9. Dungeon of Liars FINISHED OPEN Hint 9.1, Hint 9.2 TO BE DONE
10. Version 101.2 FINISHED OPEN Hint 10.1, Hint 10.2 LINK
11. Sniper FINISHED OPEN Hint 11.1, Hint 11.2 LINK
12. Word Search with a Twist FINISHED OPEN Hint 12.1, Hint 12.2 LINK
13. Cabal of Pleasure FINISHED OPEN Hint 13.1, Hint 13.2 LINK
14. 8E28 FINISHED OPEN Hint 14.1, Hint 14.2 LINK
META 2 FINISHED OPEN nope LINK
15. Mastermind FINISHED OPEN Hint 15.1, Hint 15.2 LINK
16. Starry Night FINISHED OPEN Hint 16.1, Hint 16.2 LINK
17. No Way Out FINISHED OPEN Hint 17.1, Hint 17.2 LINK
18. The Magnificent Seven FINISHED OPEN Hint 18.1, Hint 18.2 LINK
META 3 FINISHED OPEN nope LINK
BONUS FINISHED OPEN nope LINK

Notable contributors: Potvora, Ameto, Cornpops

7 years ago*

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bump for level 3 jigidis starting... those hints ain't that cheap anymore...

7 years ago
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bump for 15 done, now to figure out what meta3 wants.

7 years ago
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Bump for working on 14. I did the puzzle for the second hint, and while it seems I copied the url down correctly, the imgur link leads to a missing image.

7 years ago
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I just checked, the address is working... it's annoying with jigidi that you have to copy it manually but please check if you copied it correctly... (there's capital "o", not zero)

7 years ago
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Theeere's where my mistake was! The font on jigidi is really ambiguous with 0/O. Thanks! :D

7 years ago
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Bump for bonus solved. This has been a great event. Thank you for all the interesting puzzles!

7 years ago
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Bump for the penultimate car open...

7 years ago
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Bump for 17!

7 years ago
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Bump for the bonus ~

7 years ago
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Will there be a second hint for puzzle #15?

7 years ago
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Of course, it's coming tonight...

7 years ago
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Good, because I figured out the first part, and I think I know to what the first hint is referring, but I still don't know how those two things are related...

7 years ago
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I'm looking at all the scrambled puzzle pieces for hint 15.2 and I am not sure if the completed puzzle will be NSFW or not... :-)

7 years ago
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OK, finished puzzle and still stumped with the new hint... Hmmm, guess I'll have to ponder it a bit...

Edit:
Returned from the "Ponderosa" with a win! :-)

7 years ago*
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Bump for 15 solved :)

7 years ago
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Bump. Solved Meta 2 and Bonus!

Going to have more time from here on out so I'll make it a personal challenge to try to solve things with the least amount of hints as possible.

7 years ago
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bump

7 years ago
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bump for new hints

7 years ago
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hmm i think i got 15 right, but other than that i have no idea wat to do with it lol

7 years ago
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same here....got both masterminds...but hints dont help me to get cipher

7 years ago
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the first hint tells you which cipher is used there, the second one indicates how to use it...

7 years ago
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Forgot to bump for Meta 2 finished with 33 successful solvers. Great job, everyone! It seems we now have a stable group of solvers who will, hopefully, finish the whole event. We're almost there!

7 years ago
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And since I'm going for a family weekend and I'm forbidden to take my laptop with me, Car #18 is released a bit earlier. Good luck and enjoy the last puzzle!

7 years ago
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bump

7 years ago
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bump :)

7 years ago
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Bump for car 17 solved!

7 years ago
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Bump for solved car 16 !

7 years ago
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Bump for 15 solved!

7 years ago
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Looks like 15 will be the first one I can't solve if I don't get a spontaneous revelation the next hours ;)

7 years ago
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It does seem that some people are having troubles with this one... in which part are you stuck?

7 years ago
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I've got both mastermind rows, know what your hint 1 is linking to but I don't know how to get something out of the rows in the form I need it for the hint 1 thing.

7 years ago
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You won't get anything from the rows themselves, you need to apply these two solutions on something to rearrange it into a form on which you could use the hint 1 thing.

7 years ago
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It's okay, I tried everything I could think of to find out what this "something" is, I even got a decrypted result which was an anagram of my first name xD 30 people have solved it, so maybe I'm just overthinking it xD

7 years ago
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This comment finally made it click for me, but I was a bit late putting it all together.

7 years ago
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Bonus bump! :)

7 years ago
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Bump for car 17 solved ! :D

7 years ago
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bump for car 16 and 17 solved!

7 years ago
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Bump for #16 :)

7 years ago
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