So, as promised here's a posting of all the puzzle solutions for this along with the links to all the GAs so you can read the plot, since the plot is written in the GA description (for the very, very few interested :P). Also a simple explanation of where all the easter eggs and red herrings were and their puzzles.

And yes, there are gibs at the end of the post. And no, no puzzles to solve this time. ;)

And no, it's not another wall of text, no way around 60+ links (x2), if you don't care about the links, there's very little text actually.

PLOT

Plot Starting Hub

Wormhole/Train 1:

1-1 - Preceding Puzzle Solution
1-2 - Preceding Puzzle Solution
1-3 - Preceding Puzzle Solution
1-4 - Preceding Puzzle Solution
1-5 - Preceding Puzzle Solution
1-6 - Preceding Puzzle Solution
1-7 - Preceding Puzzle Solution

Wormhole/Train 2:

2-1 - Preceding Puzzle Solution
2-2 - Preceding Puzzle Solution
2-3 - Preceding Puzzle Solution
2-4 - Preceding Puzzle Solution
2-5 - Preceding Puzzle Solution
2-6 - Preceding Puzzle Solution
2-7 - Preceding Puzzle Solution

Wormhole/Train 3:

3-1 - Preceding Puzzle Solution
3-2 - Preceding Puzzle Solution
3-3 - Preceding Puzzle Solution
3-4 - Preceding Puzzle Solution
3-5 - Preceding Puzzle Solution
3-6 - Preceding Puzzle Solution
3-7 - Preceding Puzzle Solution

Wormhole/Train 4:

4-1 - Preceding Puzzle Solution
4-2 - Preceding Puzzle Solution
4-3 - Preceding Puzzle Solution
4-4 - Preceding Puzzle Solution
4-5 - Preceding Puzzle Solution
4-6 - Preceding Puzzle Solution
4-7 - Preceding Puzzle Solution

Wormhole/Train 5:

5-1 - Preceding Puzzle Solution
5-2 - Preceding Puzzle Solution
5-3 - Preceding Puzzle Solution
5-4 - Preceding Puzzle Solution
5-5 - Preceding Puzzle Solution
5-6 - Preceding Puzzle Solution
5-7 - Preceding Puzzle Solution

Wormhole/Train 6:

6-1 - Preceding Puzzle Solution
6-2 - Preceding Puzzle Solution
6-3 - Preceding Puzzle Solution
6-4 - Preceding Puzzle Solution
6-5 - Preceding Puzzle Solution
6-6 - Preceding Puzzle Solution
6-7 - Preceding Puzzle Solution

Wormhole/Train 7:

7-1 - Preceding Puzzle Solution
7-2 - Preceding Puzzle Solution
7-3 - Preceding Puzzle Solution
7-4 - Preceding Puzzle Solution
7-5 - Preceding Puzzle Solution
7-6 - Preceding Puzzle Solution
7-7 - Preceding Puzzle Solution

Final GAs:

50 - Preceding Puzzle Solution
51 - Preceding Puzzle Solution - Solution Picture

Easter Eggs/Red Herrings:

Egg 1 - Preceding Puzzle Solution
Egg 2 - Preceding Puzzle Solution
Egg 3 - Preceding Puzzle Solution
Egg 4 - Preceding Puzzle Solution - Actual result would be an image link, following it would lead to the GA.
Egg 5 - Preceding Puzzle Solution
Egg 6 - Preceding Puzzle Solution
Egg 7 - Preceding Puzzle Solution - Actual result would be an image link, following it would lead to the GA.
Red Herring 1 - Preceding Puzzle Solution - Result is a series of images, but no GA at the end. :P
Red Herring 2 - Preceding Puzzle Solution - Result is a series of images, but no GA at the end. :P


How to find the eggs/herrings:

Eggs 1 (Green), 2 (Yellow), 4 (Purple), 6 (Orange), 7 (Blue), along with Red Herring 1 (Red) and Red Herring 2 (Black), could be found using this picture. That would give you the order of the location of the fragments (letters) for the puzzles that led to them. There are 8 letters on ITTH links, so the 7th fragment always contained the last 2 letters.

Egg 3 puzzle letters could be found on every GA that said You notice Bear found a honey jar.
You would find an invisible character immediately after the sentence, so you had to view source code of the surrounding lines.

Egg 5 puzzle letters were found bolded in the plot in GAs 7-1, 6-2, 5-3, 4-4, 3-5, 2-6 and 1-7, in that order.

All of the above had multiple hints on the egg-hint board to make it easier for you to find.


The part most of you really want, the GAs:

My birthday was on the 7th, this whole puzzle had the number 7 associated to it... and it seems i hit level 7 with this.
So have 1 GA per each level up to 7. So, illumin8 conf... bah, nevermind. O.o

Nothing too fancy, but it's what i can spare atm, so enjoy. :)

GA 1 - Level 1+
GA 2 - Level 2+
GA 3 - Level 3+
GA 4 - Level 4+
GA 5 - Level 5+
GA 6 - Level 6+
GA 7 - Level 7+

If any link whatsoever (from GAs, puzzle solutions, whatever) happens to be broken, please be kind enough to warn me and i'll fix it. :)


Keep the blacklist drama out of this thread, please. You will just be ignored.
If you really feel you've been unfairly treated, you can add me on steam instead, but don't expect any miracles if you've dug yourself too deep.

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Oh why not a poll? So... did you participate? And did you enjoy it if you did?

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I missed it.
I saw it, but that wall of text. Nope, i just fled. :/
Tried it, but damn... too time consuming and i had little time. :/
A bit fun, a bit long though. Mixed feelings.
It was ok, i guess... (you're shrugging if you selected this, don't lie).
Fun, could have been better, but it was overall positive.
Really fun! Can you kill yourself doing it again, please? :D

Bump for , you have lots of time on your hands :p

I solved a lot, but skipped the ones with math problems, I couldnt just get around those ;___;

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Which ones? 3 or 7? Or both?

And sure... i have a lot of time on my hands... that's why i did this... -.-''

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Both xD

you know you had!

9 years ago
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Bearslap!

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i only bothered viewing the answers for the first one.
and i got all the answeres wrong despite them being written in blue below the question xD

9 years ago
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Well, this was mostly for those that wanted the solutions. :)

9 years ago
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- Where is the princess when you need one?
kills the bear
- Damn, look like portal machine is broken. It was bad idea to haul that bear all the way here...
:p

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So true. :(

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bump for the most complex puzzle I ever seen here. I'm VERY impressed sir. VERY well done.

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Thanks for your kind words, glad you liked it. :)

9 years ago
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Very fun event, Zooz. I think you managed to test all the parts of my brain with all those puzzles :P

9 years ago
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Haha, thanks Zac. ;D
Glad you liked it. :)

9 years ago
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Bump for GREAT JOB! So many puzzles, GAs and the plot... You're awesome! :) Very well done!

9 years ago
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Thanks, so was the halloween event. ;)
Glad you enjoyed it. :)

9 years ago
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That 1-100 thing drove me insane...
Need more puzzles like that (#51)! (you marked it as #50 up in there)

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Thanks, corrected it. :)
And yeah, i liked that puzzle from the moment i saw it years ago, but it was probably a bit of a hard puzzle to have people solve through SG's normal ways, dunno. But glad you for one enjoyed it, despite driving you insane. ^.^

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douh, forgetted solve the puzzle :D so next time :) bump :)

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Don't sweat it, i remember you solved a bit nonetheless, i hope that it was fun at least.

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Unfortunately I missed it. I need to keep better track of puzzles.

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Oh... pot to the kettle and all that. I hear you. ;)

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bumpy :( missed it XD

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Well, you have at least a few GAs uptop to choose from. ;)
And thanks for the bump. ;)

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Thanks. :)

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I'm ashamed to admit that at first the wall of text scared me so I decided I'll take a look at it when I have more time, over the weekend maybe.
Then I forgot about it.

;____;

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Nothing to be ashamed of. :P
I put the option there for a reason. ;)

I myself was running out of patience when writing wormhole 7's plot, that's why the characters there were so short-lived.
Especially that Docile Jester guy, whoever that is. :P

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I tried to dig my way through your wall of text, but got lost and fled in the end, I'm really really sorry.
Can you kill yourself and do it again, please? T'hehe

Hugs and kisses, ZooZ, darling ♥

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^.^
At least try to read wormhole 5 when you have a bit of time (you just have to click on the links 5-1, 5-2, etc. you can skip the puzzle solutions, those are there merely for those who wanted to know the answers)... it's just to get your thoughts on the... err... villain. :P

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Ahahahaahaaa, this is great, ZooZ. Seriously, hilarious. I can't even imagine the amount of work you must have put into this.

Please tell me - the princess ... is it ... Princess Kenny? Could it be ... steffke finally got her revenge???

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Yep. The orange raincoat should be a dead giveaway. ;P
Did you like the reference to the 4 people who got killed by the villain with a bomb? Ring a bell? :P

And glad you got a giggle out of it. :P

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O, is that some insider ref, or I missed something?

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You did... :P
Kenny... orange raincoat... :P

Pretty straightforward. ;)

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I didn't get the explosion and revenge parts. Totally forgot about hunger games #2 however Elbows spreading disease stuck in my head p

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Oops, duh, stupid answer and didn't even notice eeev had beaten me to it with the actual answer you were looking for... O.o
And oh, don't i get your forgetfulness pain... happens to more than i would wish it did. :P

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very appreciated ^^ thank You and this is a bump - definitely :D

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Thanks, glad you liked it. :)

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I won nothing from giveaways, but the fact I got to the final chamber was more important for me.
For those puzzles from easy to impossible, I'd like to bow to you. I enjoyed the most.

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Thank you for your kind words, glad you enjoyed it, that was mostly the point. :)

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Bump

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Thanks. :)

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I feel dumb for not getting #50 now... The 4 GAs that I didn't get to had some really nice stuff though. Thanks for a lot of fun! :D

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Aww, better luck next time. :)
And glad you enjoyed it. ;)

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Oh, I missed it. Darn, I guess it was interesting judging by amount of text.

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Heh, the amount of text actually seems to bee what put off most of the people that saw it and ran. :P

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Poor souls, those who can't comprehend the joy of reading. =:)

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;D

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I guess it was too many ZooZ for them. =;)

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WTF? O.o
Dat find...

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Almost forgot, the SG users puzzles (I got stuck on PZ-4-6):
Is there some way I'm not aware of to look for SG users by letters without DDoSing the site or some other way?

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Not that i'm aware of.
But the answers are there now, i get some of the usernames are hard to find if you don't know them, but most of them are relatively well-known users. The red herrings i threw in the mix of other names you could combine probably didn't help either. :P

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One technic I used was to look at the entry list of Lvl8-lv10 GAs.

Then dumped all the usernames in Excel. Then could filter on length and starting letter's etc.

Still took a while :) Now I have a searchable list of SGUsers though. I'm ready if TheZooz ever dares to show his face again :P

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Will i? ;)
Drumrolls

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Thanks for the puzzle TheZooZ.

You definitely awoke a fire.

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Haha, glad to hear that. ^.^

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Heh? What do you mean?

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Ah, ok. :'(

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Bump and meow for aftermaths.

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;)

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Was an epic puzzle. Not too hard, but made you think a little bit to get the answers. Unfortunately only made it through a few before being overwhelmed by the sheer quantity!

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Ah yes, it was a big one, i did leave it open for 3 and a half weeks to try and acommodate for as many folks as possible, but still... :)
But glad you found it epic. ^.^

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It did make me think about would it have been different (for me) if it was split up into chapters. I.e. release the first few lot of puzzles. Do them, it's exciting and don't get burnt out. Then by the time the next lot comes out the puzzles will be exciting again.

So you would manage our not burning out as we are incapable of doing a couple of puzzles and coming back in a couple of days! It's just a mental thing, cause when you want to take a break from puzzling you go, 'oh, there is still so much more of this to go...' and when you are in the too much puzzles mood, that can feel like a burden!

Anyway, just a thought I had, not necessarily better or worse, just interesting in regards to the human psyche. Though that could have plenty of negative consequences of loss of flow, but also more entrants who aren't interested in the story!

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Well, ironically thought about it too... close to the end. :P
Dunno, i decided it this way and just went with it, mostly considering the way it was structured and how i spread the easter egg info.

It would have its pros to structure it in bits / pieces, sure.
But oh well, no point in dwelling now. :)

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To be honest, it's more a reflection on us that it's even a decision to make! Still having to be spoon fed things cause we don't know how to manage ourselves. Then if you go one way, it works for one group, but not for another.

We are quick to blame (or not take responsibility), "I would have done it if you split it up smaller", when we could take responsibility and section it up ourselves over the weeks. I'm not sure I would have done it if it was split up as I guilt myself when I put in time and effort into other things when I haven't been putting it into my work

This is what I do with my day thinking of these things. It's actually quite amazing how much control of our lives we give to others (or to outside events) and it only seems to be getting worse!

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True. :)

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THanks and BUMP!

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You're welcome. :)

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bump

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Thanks.

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