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[Puzzle] 「Quandary of Eccentric Variety」

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Doomedness

I give to you a wonderful and sadistic puzzle of unreasonable difficulty, one which is sure to delight the heart and muddle the mind. You need not have contributed to enter. The giveaway will be open for roughly one week.

If the whim strikes me, hints may be given at some unspecified point in time.

As is tradition, please do not give out hints, answers, or the giveaway URL to others. These are items which must be jealously guarded, lest some terrible disaster befall the world.

Without further fanfare, the puzzle awaits.

12 years ago*

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Deadlytyler

i havnt got a clue at any of them GL all

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rewas

Well, I'm only at the first one and It was very easy.
I'll get the rest tomorrow, now I'm off to bed. Thanks OP now I can waste another day.

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r0bbE

On my PC, there only is one kanji... wat?

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Doomedness

If that is the case, then it is working just as intended! Might I suggest you reread the question more carefully?

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r0bbE

Fix your grammar then?

12 years ago
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tuxkamen

There is nothing wrong with the grammar of that question.

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bubblestheadventurer

It makes sense but my chrome doesn't support other characters :(

12 years ago
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ShoeUnited

The question is easily solved if you have a basic grasp of the language.

12 years ago
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jatan11t
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So I'm missing 5 and 8. You do know that species codes are not standardized, right? They differ between states and countries, so which one are we supposed to use?

Edit: Never mind, got 8 but still missing 5.

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Gramis

+1

12 years ago
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weemadarthur

I also am having trouble with these 2 questions... and 7.

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Doomedness

To clarify for anyone who might be confused, the code I am looking for can be found on the BBL website.

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weemadarthur

Thank you.... I don't know what that stands for... the best suggestion I see is Bird Banding Laboratory?

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ErrEff

If that's the proper site, there's two columns... which one am I meant to be entering info from? Also holy crap so many sub-species.

12 years ago
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Doomedness

The answer I seek is four letters in length.

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tuxkamen

. o O ( "Hurray, I solved it!...oh." )

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Damaurite

I have everything but question 5 :(

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Doomedness

It seems I may have made a small mistake by forgetting to add in a ".com" variant of the answer.

12 years ago
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Wind

The quiz is the easy part. There is another puzzle following the quiz. There is an answer at the end though. I wasted more time than I cared to solving it all. Cleverly done though I must admit.

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tuxkamen

Well done. I have to admit I'm completely drawing a blank on the second part, though.

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Doomedness

It might be wise to avoid overthinking part two of the puzzle. Certain pieces of the clue are key and will direct you to where you need to go. The first answer you arrive at is probably correct, in more ways than one.

12 years ago
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tuxkamen

I get the hint, just not what follows.

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Doomedness

If you have already followed the path laid out for you, then you should have in your possession a valuable resource. You need only to apply it.

To those who have strayed from the path or lost their way, you can always take a step back to find it once again.

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weemadarthur

I believe I've found said valuable resource, but my security settings do not seem to allow it to work.

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Doomedness

I was afraid something like that might happen, which is why I had a backup plan in mind when creating this puzzle, one which I was hoping never to act upon due to my indolent nature.

Nevertheless, perhaps these will be of some help:

An Alternate Path

An Alternate Path's End

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tuxkamen

So if that's true, I've been looking in the right spot and not seeing anything.

That makes me feel both better and worse.

12 years ago
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weemadarthur

Thank you! The alternate path worked very well. Sorry to make you work. ;)

12 years ago
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chour

The End of the Path is overgrown for me :)

P.S. Btw, it's a nice puzzle indeed!

12 years ago
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chour

Anyone here? :)

12 years ago
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weemadarthur

Sure. The giveaway ended yesterday. Doomedness may release a solution soon.

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chour

Good. The last part is still haunting me. In frustration some people spilled "paint" around it :)

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chour

Since it's ended anyone can spill the beans? At least where does the "t... t...." reside in the source mentioned? (I think solvers understand me :)

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weemadarthur

If you look at the PA section and just view all the categories, you'll find it ain't funny and starts with C.

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chour

Thank you! That helped :)

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Closed 12 years ago by Doomedness.