Howdy, gang! I've been enjoying making weekly giveaways via small puzzles, and if I keep doing it, making a thread for each one is gonna end up being a total mess in the forums, sooo I figured I'd keep it all in here! Every week, more or less, I'll put up a new 2solve puzzle that leads to a pretty good game - most of the time I'll just outright be buying some cool stuff, I could make y'all go through the extra hoops to get some bundled games, but ehhh. I wanna go above and beyond. Down below'll be the write-up for the newest puzzle, then below that'll be a little chart with the puzzles from past giveaways, if you feel like giving 'em a try for the fun of it. Most of my puzzles are pretty simple - connecting themes, usually related to the game itself. While my puzzles will always be solvable with a bit of thinking or research, I'll fully admit: if you're a fan of the series/game I'm giving away, you'll probably be a bit more likely to figure it out. That's somewhat intentional - while it'll never be a requirement to solve things, as past participants can attest, it's nice for games to go to people who'll enjoy them! Not just collectors. If you're stuck on the current puzzle, and you haven't done the old ones, try 'em. Might help you figure out how my brain works.


Off-week this week - but I put up my Humble Monthly leftovers in the group. If you're not in the group yet, just solve any of the puzzles from Escape Simulator onwards to get the link!


Here lies giveaways from the past. A nice and simple chart, game given, link to its puzzle, and the solve percentage and entrants, mostly for the hell of it. I like to keep track of that kind of thing. Numbers are cool. Most recent giveaways are at the top, older at the bottom!

Game Puzzle Solve Percentage Entrants
DREDGE Link 16.0% 53
NieR: Automata Link 24.2% 51
Cult of the Lamb Link 32.5% 75
Gunfire Reborn Link 14.7% 42
DAVE THE DIVER Link 67.4% 77
Escape Simulator Link 27.1% 41
Risk of Rain Returns Link 46.6% 52
Inscryption Link 34.1% 49
Darkest Dungeon II Link 29.4% 68
Persona 5 Royal Link 29.6% 184
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy Link 20.5% 90
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Bump as I'm anxious about why/how there haven't been any bumps for more than 24h ┬┴┬┴┤(・_├┬┴┬┴ (my fault partially lol)

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Bump for newest giveaways, but they're in my Steam Group. If you're not already in, go back and solve the puzzle for DAVE THE DIVER or Escape Simulator to find the link!

Happy holidays, gang. Been fun to give out some cool stuff, it'll be fun to give some more next year. A few people have dropped giveaways in the Steam Group, too, which is awesome! Hoping to see more of that as well.

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I solved the puzzle for Dave The Diver a little late, but I just sent a request for the group :)

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Happy holidays WNDRLST! Hope you make the best of it. Looking forward to your future puzzles :)

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Thanks for all the giveaways and have a good end of year!

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Bump for the newest giveaway - Gunfire Reborn!

December was a good month for me around here. My November luck was a whopping -4.07 gifts, but I'm at +3.35 gifts this month, on top of 2 1-entry wins in some group stuff. Backlog's getting heavy, gotta start playing some of 'em...

Also, contemplating alternating weeks between bigger giveaways here via puzzle, and Humble Monthly giveaways in my group, since giving stuff away EVERY week (on top of a few groups I'm in) is a lot, but we'll see. I'll think on it.

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Do what's best for you. Much better than burning out. :)

Edit - Very disappointed the answer to the 5th is not Gungrave

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Oof, 5 is giving me a headache. Got the other 4 first try.

Edit: nevermind :)

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Thanks for a new week of Quizes! I have a suggestion and also a question (not about the quiz itself)

Suggestion: Maybe this is more bothersome than helpful and idk if other solvers may agree with me, but i have this thread bookmarked and i never know when there will be a new giveaway, so maybe a good idea would be to add a little counter at the bottom or top of the Previous GA's list (or wherever) with a date for the next GA, would be a nice little touch in my opinion, if not, it's okay, i check it daily eitherway hahaha.

Question: Does anybody else get a warning about 2solve.me when entering any quiz? I get a warning about it being an unsafe site, maybe Opera is just bugging out, but idk, just wondering.

Haven't even started the puzzle yet, will give it a try for a while and if i get stuck i will go sleep for a bit, im tired af, thanks again! :)

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The warning's there simply because the certificate expired for the site.

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I do mention when a giveaway's ending (and thus you can figure out when the next one's coming), but I see your point, maybe I'll put something in the thread title or something like that when I add a giveaway.

And yeah, seems like they didn't renew their security certificate or something, but not a big deal unless you're somehow putting your credit card info in, lol

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Happy to see a new puzzle :)

Definitely a harder one this time! Personally stuck on Q3 and Q5. I think I know what Q3 is referring to, but can't seem to find the common denominator. Q5 I have no idea, everything I throw at it is wrong. Maybe I'm thinking too literal?

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no hints for 3, i feel like it should be pretty easy to figure out eventually

5 is a key part of a title of a game (and generally what most would use to refer to the game in passing)

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Just wanted to bump and also mention that I am finding Q3 and Q5 difficult as well. I guess I don't play enough newer games to understand the clues.

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Q3 really stumping me. I think i get what the references are, and I get what idea should be, but Im not finding the connection

Edit: any chance you could say if the answer to 3 is plural or not. I assume not.

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it is not - but i'll go ahead and add the plural form of it, because honestly there's no reason not to count that as a correct answer.

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I've seen a couple Q3 wanderers and here I am at Q1 and Q5....

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if you got question 2, question 1's for a very similar game.

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That helped. :)

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Im having real trouble with the 5th question, and im having trouble finding game lists, would it be ok if you gave one more little hint? Like for example, what year is the game of which it forms a part of (Like you said on a comment above) Or maybe, is it a game-specific weapon name or is it actually an irl gun name? Thanks and if no hints then no problem, i might give it another go in a while!

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it's a roguelike :)

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OHHHHH!

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bump for new puzzle!

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Man, I just can't figure out Q3 and it's literally the only one left for me! I'm not even sure I got what all the references are...

Are you sure you cannot give one clue about this one?

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all of the characters referenced in q3 are from EXTREMELY popular games, if you know even one of them it really shouldn't be that hard to guess from there

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I'm confident I've been over thinking it, but I've had in mind exactly what you're saying and still haven't figured it out.

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I've been at it for 4 days, I'm ~99% (alright maybe 90%) sure I know the characters, so I question that last part lol 😂

The new hint for Q5 above helped a lot, but Q3 is still alluding me 🤷‍♂️

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new q3 hint, for each character's games respectively - ex-playstation exclusive, popular fps, gacha game, pointy chest

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Not sure if this was meant as a reply to me, or just a post for everyone in general, but I already had figured it out after you replied the first time.

But thanks for the clue anyways! :)

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Solved with this extra hint. Took ages for this question but I eventually tried the right word. You can do it, think more general if you're stuck!

Thanks for the puzzle and giveaway.

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so what was the answer to Q3?

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Lmao nevermind, I didnt know any of the characters. I had completely different characters in mind.

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Finally solved it, so here's a bump! :)

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Whew, struggled with q3 for quite a bit buut here's a bump for solved!

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