Aaaand... it's over! :3

Thank you for participating, I hope you had as much fun as we did during preparing the event for you!

As some people asked, here you can find 7z archive which contains all chiptunes that were used during the event, as well as some that didn't make it to the event, yet we had them ready (total of 369 songs). Feel free to use them however you wish.

We hope that you join us in our future events! :3

Single puzzles answers were:

Darude - Sandstorm
Game of Thrones
Tetris
Back To The Future
Batman
Little Shop of Horrors
Life Of Brian
Mission Impossible
Pulp Fiction
The Good The Bad and The Ugly
The Lion King
To Sir With Love
Top Gun
Flash Gordon
I Get Around
Saturday Night Fever

Zombies on your lawn; Plants vs Zombies; Plants vs Zombies - Zombies on your lawn
Minecraft
Mutter
Reservoir Dogs
Anchorman
Bridge Over The River Kwai
Galaxy Quest
Grease
Highlander
Footloose
Arthur
Knowing Me, Knowing You
Beautiful Life
Japanese Boy
Walk Like an Egyptian
Gone With The Wind
Warcraft 2

Karakuri Pierrot
Noein; Yuu's Theme
F-Zero: Climax; F-Zero Climax
A Goofy Movie
Rocky 4
The Wizard Of Oz
The Sting
RWBY - Divide; RWBY Divide
Song Of The South
Groundhog Day
My Fair Lady


We made it tradition in Touhou Giveaways to organize public SG events from time to time, rewarding everybody with decent giveaways as a "giveback" to the community. Every event is unique, carefully prepared by Touhou Staff, with contributions from various Touhou Giveaways members. This way we want to show that giveaway groups are not only about giveaways, and it's the community that plays important part in creating a successful group of lovely people.


This time we'll put you to the test. Your every ability and skill will come useful. In cooperation with other SG members, you'll be working hard on solving the biggest mysteries we prepared for you, which will require versatility, especially games, movies, music, anime and memes knowledge, and that's only the beginning.


Rules

  • There are over 289+ giveaways, from which at least 245+ can be obtained through teamwork of whole SG community. We have prepared many different bundled and unbundled giveaways, including No Man's Sky, so everybody should find something worthy :3.
  • Event will last until 20th August 00:00 CEST (my birthday)
  • Your objective will be to find out the origin of over 300 audio samples, from various games, movies, bands, TV serials and likewise.
  • In order to avoid cheating, every sample has been converted into awesome chiptune-like 8-bit arrange done by our beloved ArchiBoT. We made sure that every song sounds properly and can be solved. We included extra info about format we expect for each question, therefore you can use that as a hint.
  • The task is divided into two categories: Group puzzles and Single puzzles
  • If given song was used in more than one place, original origin matters (where it was used for the first time), unless format specifies otherwise.

Group puzzles

Group puzzles are supposed to be solved by the SG community. You can (and should) work together on solving these ones. I strongly encourage you to use the thread for sharing hints, thoughts, possible clues and other useful information regarding questions being asked. You can ask anybody for help, apart from Touhou Giveaways members (who are also excluded from participation).

Every group puzzle features mini-train after solving all questions, and they're further categorized into matching themes, so solving RPG puzzle consisting of RPG-like questions will reward you with many awesome RPG games!

Adventure / Strategy Games [SOLVED]
Touhou [SOLVED]
Fighting [SOLVED]
jRPG [SOLVED]
RPG [SOLVED]
Visual Novels [SOLVED]
Anime [SOLVED]
Platformers [SOLVED]
Arcade [SOLVED]
Action/Shooters [SOLVED]
Horror Games [SOLVED]
Puzzle / Simulation Games [SOLVED]


Single puzzles

Single puzzles are supposed to be solved solo, so I'd appreciate if you did not share hints, thoughts or otherwise useful information regarding them. Those puzzles are divided into three categories, and I'm sure that everybody can solve at least one of those solo, so why not give it a try?

Easy

Those are puzzles which are considered easy to solve for majority of people.

Easy #1
Easy #2
Easy #3
Easy #4
Easy #5
Easy #6
Easy #7
Easy #8
Easy #9
Easy #10
Easy #11
Easy #12
Easy #13
Easy #14
Easy #15
Easy #16

Medium

Solving those might require prior knowledge of particular game/movie, but that knowledge is considered quite common in this case.

Medium #1
Medium #2
Medium #3
Medium #4
Medium #5
Medium #6
Medium #7
Medium #8
Medium #9
Medium #10
Medium #11
Medium #12
Medium #13
Medium #14
Medium #15
Medium #16
Medium #17

Hard

Solving those usually requires expert knowledge of particular game/movie, very often obscure and otherwise unknown or rare titles. Maybe reward will be worth it?

Hard #1
Hard #2
Hard #3
Hard #4
Hard #5
Hard #6
Hard #7
Hard #8
Hard #9
Hard #10
Hard #11


Hints

We made our best to focus on community aspect of our event, therefore majority of giveaways (245 out of 289 total) are behind group puzzles. We expect that you'll solve them quite easily. If it becomes too difficult, we will give you some hints, but we'll also reduce amount of giveaways for that gate, so hard-work will be much more rewarding :3.

Regarding single ones - giveaway creator's rules apply. We have prepared two hint phases: at 15th August and 18th August, offering every giveaway creator to decide if (s)he wants to disclose any hints (or not).


All clear?

Then go solve those mysteries! We wish you all good luck!


AND NOW FOR THE FIGHT YOU'VE BEEN WAITING FOR...


Updates

passing by to inform that Hard #8 and Hard #9 both have a new hint added by the giveaway creator ¦3
All remaining group questions now have hints added
passing by to inform that Medium #1 and Hard #2, 3, 4, 8, 9 all have a new hint provided by the puzzle makers ¦3
passing by to inform that Medium #1 has news answers added by the gib creator ¦3
passing by to inform that Hard #5 has a new answer added by the gib creator ¦3
format for Hard #8 was fixed ¦3
passing by to inform that Hard #2 has new answers added by the gib creator ¦3
Easy #16, Hard #10 and Hard #11 were fixed, sorry for the trouble!


Previous events:
Anniversary
Christmas
Cirno de Mayo
Baka Cirno
Cat Giveaways V3
Cat Giveaways V2
Cat Giveaways V1

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I got the second to last one left in Platformers, it was Actraiser!

That game's great! :)

8 years ago
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Am I right in thinking that all of them require level 2?

8 years ago
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Not all of them. There are some that require level 1, and some have no level restriction at all.

8 years ago
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Thanks, that's good to know!

I suppose I still have to solve them before I find out if I can enter, but at least I know there's a chance!

8 years ago
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Many single ones include a potential tip what level has been set, for instance my Medium #17 does.

8 years ago
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So it does! I hadn't noticed any like yours when I wrote the previous post. Thanks for being considerate in your labeling :)

8 years ago
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...aaaand now I'm seeing there are plenty which aren't level 2, it was just coincidence that all the ones I immediately solved were level 2. I guess I should have been more patient :D

8 years ago
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Is the accepted answer the same as what shows in https://www.steamgifts.com/bundle-games ? Trying what I expected the game name(s) to be, and variations, yet it doesn't seem to work.

Sometimes a : or a - in the name is used and the answer doesn't include it. 36 solvers, so I feel like I just have the wrong game.
(Like Muv-Luv in VN puzzles was "Muv Luv" when Muv-Luv seemed to be its widely accepted used name)

8 years ago
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If game is known under several different titles then yes, you're supposed to try different ones to see if you're right. We can't catch all titles, but we update questions to accept more answers if they're right.

Judging from entries though, I doubt there is anything to add?

8 years ago
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I had a reply, but I will just use this instead:
:(

8 years ago
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Weeb bump!

8 years ago
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Also filled in Star Fox 64 in Arcade. I'm surprised no one got that one.

8 years ago
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Visual Novels puzzle solved. Yay! Now I can leech more bundled anime weeb trash!

8 years ago
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I had so much fun doing the easy ones and then boom, I am blacklisted in medium ones. Don't even know who and why. It's sad, this is the best puzzle I've ever seen. Oh well.

8 years ago
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You can log out to see who is it, then you could try talking to them to know why.
Your ratio might be the cause, it's kinda... off. Some people blacklist others for that.

8 years ago*
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I almost forgot: happy cake day!

8 years ago
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The 'why' might be an obvious reason (I have you blacklisted for the same reason).

Still, cake day.

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8 years ago
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happy cake day! :3
if you are blacklisted and cannot progress in one of the trains, please log out of SG to view the giveaway, click Next, then log back in to continue your journey. sorry for the trouble, hope you'll still enjoy the event! :>

8 years ago
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Thank all of you guys bump! :D

8 years ago
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I want that Prontera 8-bit music please! xD
I missed good old ragnarok :(

8 years ago
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right click -> save as
you welcome :3

8 years ago
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Thank you ^^
*You're

8 years ago
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this is not bad grammar, just lazyness

8 years ago
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NAZI GRAMMAR

8 years ago
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Excuses!
Well I'm pretty bad at grammar and not native speaker
Sooner or later someone still have to correct that, because grammar nazi is everywhere

*laziness
Thanks for the bait, thanks xD

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8 years ago
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Bump!

Can you please add a reference to all of the solo ITH puzzles that states their difficulty and number? It's hard to tell what is what when you open them in multiple tabs.

8 years ago
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E 11/16
M 1/17
H 1/11
+nothing from the still unsolved group ones -.-

8 years ago*
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I have secretly hoped to hear Red March from Red Alert 1 but it's all some crap.. thx for all these hippie solvers.

8 years ago
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Bump

8 years ago
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Bumpuh!

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8 years ago
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Wow, I am bad at remembering melodies. I know that I heard some that are unsolved, and I couldn't even recognize most that I've heard before.

8 years ago
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what a noob, i only solved one of the those :/

8 years ago
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Still unsolved jRPG and RPG. :-(::.

bump

8 years ago
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Don't solve the jrpg :D

8 years ago
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Super bump!

8 years ago
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I'm really bad with music stuff (tone-deaf etc.) but managed to get one right. Thanks everyone else who knew the trickier ones & especially everyone who made contributions to the GAs!

8 years ago
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Tone-deaf, you say..
After one second, is this how everything here sounds? Bonus, you can open it and see if you can recognize without looking. I couldn't even though I'm familiar with the song, though, until maybe halfway in

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Yeah, I think most of them sound pretty much the same & familiar. XD And I'm horrible with names to boot. Now that I looked at some of the group puzzle answers since my last visit, they are from games etc. I know quite well even. Just couldn't come up with the name. :/

8 years ago
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Mega bumpa.

8 years ago
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bump

8 years ago
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Bump and thanks :)

8 years ago
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passing by to inform that Hard #5 has a new answer added by the gib creator ¦3

8 years ago
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Lies, the truth is that there are no answers

8 years ago
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but then that'd mean that there are no questio-oh wow. okay. this is deep.

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bump

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bump

8 years ago
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Awesome event, thanks!

8 years ago
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Bumpu~

8 years ago
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Closed 7 years ago by JustArchi.