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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Event is almost at the end.
Remember to join the Giveaways that you want and the solve what you have left while you still can.

7 years ago
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Bump for GA's that need a bit MOAR love (btw, alphabet trains end tomorrow morning and it's a work day for me so please be patient :-)

7 years ago
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Event just ENDED. Please allow us some time to verify that the winners of the Giveaways did not break any rules and to forward you the keys. Thanks for joining us and also thanks to the Puzzlemaker for the suffering and to the contributors for the rewards.

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I only suffered on two sections really. jatan's Labyrinth, and Nordhbane's individual section.
My suffering on ercalote's section wasn't his fault, nor mine. Stupid buggy website...
and Congrats to the winners of the BIG PRIZES, sadly I wasn't among you. :(

7 years ago
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Oh no, I forgot to enter any giveaways

7 years ago
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You've been forgetting to enter any giveaways for 4 years now...

7 years ago
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I have a sneaking suspicion that's an account made simply for comments.
You could make any comment you want without being blacklisted on your main.

7 years ago
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A cool conspiracy theory, but the official blacklist feature was only introduced after SGv2's launch in 2015, two years ago. :P

7 years ago
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Didn't know that. My account may be old but that's only because I forgot about this site.

7 years ago
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Ah, I see. :D
Yeah, only a few people had an unofficial blacklist before that, including me. It was literally just a pastebin list of names of users, which had to be approved by support.

7 years ago
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So glad to see that SG has become a lot better since then.

7 years ago
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Trains by Momo1991 and LinustheBold will run for another 9 hours, so technically the event is not finished yet.

7 years ago
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My shares of keys has been sent. Enjoy the games and please remember to mark them as received.

Stay tuned for future events.

7 years ago
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Thanks and I marked them received asap already.
😀

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Thank everyone so much for this event. The puzzles (and prizes) resulted in a wonderful ride.

I especially liked the group sections, because I met and worked with a wonderful bunch of people. Thank you Morshock, thank you Nordhbane, jbondguy007, ercalote, jatan11t, zelghadis and lovol, thank you to all the participants who joined us in this quest.

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I totally agree with the group section being totally the best part of this event. Thanks to all the puzzlers and contributors who made this event so great!

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Thank you also to Momo1991 and LinustheBold, who contributed giveaways but I didn't thank earlier.

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You're welcome! :D

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Nah, ended four days ago, a week after the event began. :P

7 years ago
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Thanks for the event people, I really enjoyed it. Who knew suffering together would be so fun :D

7 years ago
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So, can someone please tell me how the final cat bacon code worked? I tried every method I could think of, and I was so disappointed not to get to the last set of ITH's :(

7 years ago
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Since some giveaway are still running I would postpone this answer after every giveaway will end.

7 years ago
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Have the rest of the giveaways ended now? Would it be OK for someone to put me out of my misery and tell me what stupid mistake I was making? :D

7 years ago
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Yes, all the giveaways should be ended as now. I can try to answer, otherwise you may want to ask Nordhbane since that was a Puzzle designed by him.

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Only just saw your reply - see my description of my various failed attempts below! :D

7 years ago
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Did you solve any of the cat bacons?

7 years ago
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No, I just searched and searched for the REDACTED, trying REDACTED - in short, I didn't get anywhere with anything I tried. With the first, most logical REDACTED, it seemed there might be a REDACTED, so I tried using REDACTED - again, didn't lead anywhere... And, I was late to the party, so I only had about a day to exhaust all these ideas :D

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Damn! Like I said, I tried REDACTED, but didn't get anywhere with them! :( Wonder where I slipped up...? Well, I spent most of my time focusing on REDACTED, which certainly didn't help.

Thanks for the explanation, anyway!

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Please don't post solution key publically. There are certain cheaters I don't want to know how it worked. If anyone wants to know exactly how it worked, they can ask me personally on Steam.

That said, nice writeup. :P

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Oh dear, I didn't realise that. Is what I have posted ok, or should I delete immediately?

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Delete it. That was kind of my point, you posted the entire solution. :P

7 years ago
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Done. Sorry, I did not realise that you did not want that revealed. I was acting on the earlier "I can try to answer" comment from Morshock under the assumption it was ok.

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No worries, but you should always let puzzle creators themselves reveal solutions in the future unless otherwise specified by them. Tricks may be reused in future puzzles, so they may want to keep the secret hidden to the public.

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I want to assure you and everyone else that I would never reveal solutions (even after an event has ended) without permission. In this case, I mistook a comment from the event coordinator as permission, and I profusely apologise.

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Yes, Morshock's comment was a bit vague. :)

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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.

Why did you change your mind and let people buy hints after that date?

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Here's the conversation.

I should have added that if you were to get at least one PuzzleMaker to vouch for you the date part could be "bypassed".
It's my fault, I should have thought of that. I'll make sure to include it if there will be a future event.

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Thanks

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A general thanks to all the organisers and fellow participants. This was a great event!

7 years ago
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Fantastic! Nice work all! Congrats to the victors who beat the whole event and for those that contributed for a cool event!

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For all those who wondered, here the answers for WWW3 puzzle:

  1. Audi
  2. Level
  3. Oligopoly
  4. Vegans
  5. ixii
  6. Paul Landowski / Heitor da Silva Costa
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Why Audi? I was stuck at this one :(

7 years ago
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Two sequential nil-nil draws that can be represented like OOOO that associated with Audi logo.

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Now it does make sense...

7 years ago
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Can we know the solution for the puzzle named "last door' (at the end of the maze) ? I got stuck here and I would like to know how much i'm stupid ^^

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Only the puzzle creator can reveal a solution if s/he wants. So, ask jatan probably.

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