Hi everyone,
in collaboration with :
Nordhbane, jbondguy007, ercalote, jatan11t, zelghadis and lovol
we proudly present you the Puzzle Event : Down the Rabbit Hole.
We will test your Decryption, Encryption, Mathematical and Logical skill the more you venture deeper into the Rabbit Hole.

Contributors Spotlight :
Momo1991, LinustheBold and ercalote


Some insight on the Rewards :

Just Cause 3 XL Edition
Grand Theft Auto V
XCOM® 2
Call of Duty®: Black Ops II
Endless Legend™
Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen
Jotun: Valhalla Edition
Project CARS

and MUCH MORE!


Down the Rabbit Hole

Event's Structure

Dates & Duration

  • Start : 15th of January 2017 00:00 GMT+1.
  • End : 27th of February 2017 00.00 GMT+1.

Puzzles

  1. Puzzles will be divided in two parts :
    • The first macro part will be a Group Puzzle. Here we allow, and strongly encourage, to share ideas, reasoning, and even the method to solve a puzzle. However we will ask to not reveal any link to any stage of this event nor any answer.
    • The second part will be an Individual Puzzle. Here we will not allow any kind of sharing, you will be alone in solving this part. The reason for this is that everyone will have fun with the first part, but we also want to reward who will be dedicated and will persevere trough to end for their efforts.
  2. You will find some checkpoints, those will help us keep track of the progression of the puzzle and will prevent someone sneaking ahead without solving previous steps.
  3. Difficulty will vary. We will start with something easy and gradually make things harder.

Giveaways

  1. Giveaways will also be split in two parts:
    • Group Puzzle : These giveaways are allowed to have protection set by the creator, such as: sgtools rules, level restriction, denied access due to blacklist ecc. Every giveaway will be invite only and will not be shared in any way with whitelist and groups.
    • Individual Puzzle : These giveaways will have no restriction, but if needed will be put behind sgtools filter with no rules to allow us to see who joined and when he did so.
  2. Giveaways will start on the 28th of Jenuary 2017 00:00 GMT+1 and will end 30 days later.

Notes

  1. Sharing answer and/or links to Puzzles, part of Puzzles and/or Giveaways will result in a report to SG Support, your addition to our Blacklist and you will be ineligible to win any of the Giveaways created for the event.
  2. We kindly ask you not to share the length of the Event nor the length of any segment and/or part of Down the Rabbit Hole.
  3. Everything in the event will be important, so don't overlook anything.
  4. Refrain from posting information of everything that has nothing to do with the corresponding section of the event in the "Discussions Giveaways":

Hints

  1. Since nowadays the cool kids use a "Buy the Hints" system we're going to do the same. Every class of Puzzles will have a specific cost :
    • Entrance Puzzle hints will cost 10p each.
    • First Year Puzzles hints will cost 25p each .
    • Second Year Puzzles hints will cost 50p each.
    • Third Year Puzzles hints will cost 100p each.
    • Individual Puzzles hints will cost 150p each.
    • Additional Note : You'll understand the Year division by participating in the event.
    • Additional Note : Once unlocked the Hint/s will be visible by anyone who reaches the stage in which they are unlocked, not just by the Giveaway Creators that contributed to unlock the Hint/s.
  2. Giveaways created trough this system will be placed on the main Page and will be open for everyone who meets the creator's requirements, if there are any.
  3. If you wish to create a Giveaway for the hint the mandatory end is before the 21th of February 00:00 GMT+1 so that any Fake Giveaway created to exploit this system will be spotted before we send most of the Keys.
    • You can set the starting date and the duration freely as long as you respect the limitation on the ending date.
    • If given a valid reason, and if this is not abused, we may, or may not, grant the possibility to delete a giveaway created for an Hint only before its end, however if the giveaway is deleted we will subtract its value from the respective threshold and if delete any Hint that would return to being locked until it's unlocked again.
  4. Points refer to the how many points you would spend to enter a Giveaway.

We hope that you all will have a good time and enjoy this event.

Thanks for reading and for joining us in "Down the Rabbit Hole".


This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill—the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill—you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. Remember: all I'm offering is the truth. Nothing more.

~ Which one will you take ? ~
Red Pill On this first stage you will have to share more than you think. A lone solver won't even budge the door.What you need here is an army to breach the entrance! Red Pill

Third Year hint for Ercalote's Puzzle bought : GAs
Hint for Nordhbane's Individual Puzzle Bought : GAs
Hint for Ercalote's Individual Puzzle Bought : GAs
Hint for Ercalote's Individual Puzzle Bought : GAs

Train made by Gracee.


Here I'll leave you some cats, because, why not ?

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Nice, bump4puzzle

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Question 5 is "final" so maybe it's a hint or it's just the final question.

7 years ago
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I'd say Physics, Litterature, Foreign languages (it's russia), medicine/biology, music, sports. Reminds me a lot of what I was doing at school when I was younger. Maths, history and geography would miss. But that does not lead to any breakthrough or finite list where 1 item would miss. At least not for me.

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Maybe the language of the google results is important?
space: English
book: Spanish
car: Bulgarian
doctor: Russian
music: Spanish
shoes: English

7 years ago
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English can be from USA vs UK (shoe prices are in pounds)
Spanish can be Latin America (book: .mx and .ar) vs Spain (music http: //es )
Maybe?

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I just noticed both the book and the music have flowers and butterflies too. Strange coincidence

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2 letters by picture?
Theory of Relativity
Fantasy Book
General Medicine
Adidas X
Fantasy Music
Opel Kapitan
code would be trfbgmaxfmok (doesn't work)

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Searching all of the terms (other than the RU medicine one) leads to
https://gist.github.com/jorendorff/5359e0ef9dc41326e66f3f6a3b84a118

General Relativity 1877
Google Books 6501
Medicine??? 4522 or 2154
Adidas 3015
Musical Theater 3143
Opel 2285


"You have enough people to be able to google the answer." - this is worded very strangely.... Why "enough people"?

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Enough people might be in relation to the 96 tickets

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That was posted after we got all the tickets, so I thought it was in reference to the pictures.

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Currently I think that phrase means that the answer is poorly googleable (very loosely based on the images or just too obscure), so that many people have to try to google it in various ways.

However, googling random stuff without any sense of direction doesn't look very fun, so I hope for another explanation.

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Just free-associating on the six images:

Earth, Gravity, Rotation, Green, Blue, Physics, Space, Einstein, e=mc2, General Theory of Relativity, 1915, Space-time, warped, 430X300
Book, Read, Written, White, Library, Fantasy, First published book -1455, Imagination 482X300
Medical, Doctor, Cure, 465X300
Shoe,Sneaker, Yellow, Cleats, Soccer, Adidas X, Invention of soccer cleats - 1525, 447X229
Notes, Music, Scale, Invention of musical notation - 1025 or 1026, 422x300
Car, Auto, Red, opel kapitan 1939, Invention of first car - 1885/1886, 491X299

It could be anagram of six letters or 12...

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I found a link from the car image to a russian site - possible correlation with the medicine image? Also possibly irrelevant, but I have found other variations of a handful of these images that include pieces that were at some point edited out of the versions we were given. I've found the car photo, but with a license plate number, the photo of the music with a handful of extra butterflies, and the medicine photo with an extra stack of capsules.

7 years ago
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I'm so bad at decode puzzle, I'll try X_X

7 years ago
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is there a way to see my ticket again? i claimed one from my mobile phone and bookmarked the link, if i open it now, i can't see my ticket :/

7 years ago
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No worries - ticket part is solved...

7 years ago
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i wasn't really online for a few days,. i will read the disussion to be up to date, sorry^^

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This thread seems to be in need of another bump. I'm thinking about this hint:

You have enough people to be able to google the answer.

What does that really mean? When can googling depend on the number of people?

Does that mean that googling this answer relies on luck a lot, and we all should google random strings loosely based on the images? ("musical gravity book drugs running car" or "physics machine melody medicine shoes novel")

Or is there another way in which many people can google something that one can't?

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OK, one possible interpretation:

A1: physics (science)
A2: knowledge
B1: medicine (another scientific field or maybe a reference to its subject, us humans)
B2: running fast
C1: art
C2: technology

And don't forget those Matrix references.

All this might be connected through the idea of the technological singularity:

the hypothesis that the invention of artificial superintelligence will abruptly trigger runaway technological growth, resulting in unfathomable changes to human civilization.

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Got images from Nordhbane's comment and searched the on google.
It gave me the following suggestions:

  • quarta dimensione which is 4th dimension sorry, wikipedia calls it Four-dimensional space
  • literature
  • медицина
  • adidas x 15.1 leather
  • suoni e musica which is sounds and music
  • газ м20 победа салон
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Posting a clarification on the format of the last needed answer for the entrance puzzle.

The answer is either a single word or more words separated by spaces. It's plain text with no use to any kind of encryption.
So either :

  1. Word
  2. Word Word Word Word Word Word Word Word Word Word... etc (Note that the number of times I used "Word" has no correlation to the actual number of Words in the answer)
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That at least means we don't have to do any MD5 encrypting and such. :) Narrows the result down a bit.

7 years ago
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Bumping, 'cause you asked me to :3

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I thought that maybe the word 'final' was a hint, like we are looking for the final form of every picture (final model of the Opel Kapitän, final of the last world cup etc), but maybe that's a bit far-fetched because for some of the pictures there isn't really an answer (whats the final form of music?)...

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I thought that maybe the word 'final' was a hint

Now that's an interesting idea! It is indeed quite probable that the word "final" is not accidental.

whats the final form of music?

I don't know about the final form, but there's this and, for example, this :)

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A final in the US could imply tests at college - so the concept of areas of study might be important...

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Dubstep. Dubstep is the end of music. ;D

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walk_of_Ideas

What about this? The index says:

2.1 Modern Book Printing
2.2 Milestones of Medicine
2.3 Masterpieces of Music
2.4 The Automobile
2.5 The Modern Football Boot
2.6 Theory of Relativity

I think is the correct way!

edit: SOLVED!!

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You're right! You solved it!!!

How did you do it? How did you get the idea?

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I googled:
"relativity book car medicine music shoe"

And after the results, i added "-amazon" to filter all the books :P

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Excellent work!! Thanks :-)

7 years ago
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Try googling for example "theory of relativity book football shoes". You even do not need all the items for this wiki page to appear in the search results :) Also, you made a really big step yesterday by noticing that the puzzle deals something with Germany. Including the country name in the request led to the solution even quicker. Of course, you have needed to name things in a right way, that's what I meant by "you have enough people to google the answer". Somebody should have eventually used the correct words :)

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We are the champions and you are our hero :D

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Great job indeed. Congratulations!

7 years ago
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Nice job!

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°O° CONGRATZ!!

7 years ago
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Fantastic work! :)

7 years ago
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uau amazing kajoona

7 years ago
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wow, amazing job!

7 years ago
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Wow, you are so smart. I must admit that I never heard about these statues before. Great job!

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While pursuing the idea that we need to find the original source of the images which was inspired by TLDRGLUE's comment I found the source of the book image Here.

And the title of the picture is Books: a portal into another time and place.

P.S. Lol. I was a bit late :)

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Good job!

7 years ago
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Bump for finishing first semester! Yay!

7 years ago
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First lesson complete - confused about second....

7 years ago
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I need longer holidaaays

7 years ago
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ITH is blocked at work since IT thinks it's a porn site....

7 years ago
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They're right: it's puzzle porn.

7 years ago
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You cant really blame them
Site name is "it's too hard" :D

7 years ago
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Oh hi! thank you!

7 years ago
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Bump for all the awesome and smart people on both sides - those who make, and those who solves! You really are amazing! ^_^

7 years ago
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Can I delete the saved ticket now?

7 years ago
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I did c:

7 years ago
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I was too late to even get a ticket :(

7 years ago
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Number 29 checked in at You speak my language - on to the final lesson. bump

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