Solution

I'm pleasantly surprised that someone actually asked for this ... here are the solutions to the ITH. When the puzzle ended, there 2334 guess by 167 players; 27 solved the puzzle. (Adding this summary here because posting the solution makes the stats on the ITH page pretty much worthless.)

Puzzle

No, this is not a Billie Holiday puzzle. It's literally about fruits. Since many of you liked my leaves puzzle, I decided to have a spring/summer version of this :)

Just like last time, I took the pictures myself, so don't waste your time googling ... unless you like Google to helpfully guess "plant" and show you lots of random leaf stuff. (Here, have a free hint: All the pictures show plants. One picture has a bonus phone booth. Google does not recognize the phone booth.)

Difficulty depends on "climate of origin" (sorry) ... it should range from "very easy" to "hard if you have never seen the trees, but very much solvable once the ITH hints show up". I'll try to adjust the hints if needed, so ... feedback would be appreciated! (And I already thought of some more hints, but let's see how well you do without ;)

So without further ado, here's the puzzle. And don't forget the mood music :)

Usual rules apply. Don't share any solutions, blah blah.
Giveaways: 8 bundled level 1+ (3x Tiny Bridge: Ratventure, Outland, Shadowrun Returns, Gods Will Be Watching, How to Survive, How to Survive: Third Person Standalone), 1 unbundled level 3+ (Submerged)
End time: June 15, 19:00 CEST (UCT+2)


Something else: I had planned to do this puzzle for some time; it was more "waiting for the right time of year" than "waiting for an occasion". That said, I still feel that I have a small reason to celebrate ... see the image below. I don't want any pats on the back for that or anything, that would somehow feel inappropriate. It's more like ... Just wanted to share this because I'm happy that I'm finally back from "terrible leech" to "decent human being". ... yay? :)

View attached image.
8 years ago*

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This one is mine.

8 years ago
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This is mine!

8 years ago
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Q9 has a new hint \o/ ... if that doesn't help I really don't know what will :P

Ok, and now a general hint I planned to give today ... well, more a general "foreign language puzzling trick": If you know a specific name for something in your native language, but have no idea what it is in English, try "Wikipedia translation"! ... just go to your native language Wikipedia article and click "English" on the lower left. Tada!

8 years ago
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Shameless self bump ... time is running out!

8 years ago
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aaaand one more bump ...

8 years ago
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Only know 4, some others look familiar.

8 years ago
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Bump for being first to solve! :D Really nice puzzle and photos :3

8 years ago
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... and without the hints, congrats! Seems I didn't make stupid mistakes this time, phew :)

8 years ago
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Got 4, waiting for hints, bump for now ^^

8 years ago
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Is it a dirty banana?

8 years ago
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Got 5, thought I new another but it doesn't like my answer... Looks like I should get my father to answer this one :)

8 years ago
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7/11 done all by myself. And I was right on the one it didn't like before, just didn't know the name for the fruit

8 years ago
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Totally possible that I missed some alternative names... Please tell me in the ga comments when you solve it :)

8 years ago
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Got 8 on my own, now really need dem hints cause Google is useless!

Google basically saying that a tree is a tree and a plant a plant.....o.O........
Big help! LOL

Edit: got another one!

Now only 7 and 9 remain

8 years ago*
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I waited for the hints and they should be ther now, but no...nop, nada, zilz.........SOBs

I need dem hints!

EDIT: yay I got the hints now!

8 years ago
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So far no luck with hints and have to go out now, so solving has to wait :-(

8 years ago
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Yeah please don't hate me for the hint on 7... it may not look like it, but that really is a hint :)

8 years ago
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Got 7 tackled, made the mistake of using the plural.

Now to nail 9.........

8 years ago
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I am totally stuck on 9!

8 years ago
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+1

8 years ago
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Well........I can agree on not hating you for hint on 7 IF I can hate you for useless hint on 9!

I need moar!

Or I am just dumb and this remains unsolvable for me

8 years ago
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:D Yeah sorry ... I'll add a better hint tomorrow. Thought of something that should help. But maybe if you just take a break and return relaxed and fresh you won't need that anyway :)

8 years ago
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I will sleep on it for sure, cause hitting a total blank here. LOL

Thanks for better hint to look forward to! :-)

8 years ago
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And..........STILL stuck!

8 years ago
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Got all of them except #4, #9 and #10. I do know all of them, but I can't get the proper English names for them.
EDIT: got #10, I did get the name of the plant before, but not the fruit.
EDIT 2: I misidentified #9, now I got it right. The only one I'm missing is #4, but the hint I see fits my previous guesses, so if I have that wrong, I have no idea why.

8 years ago*
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Did you remember to use the fruit name, not the plant name? ... Maybe there is some alternative name I do not know ... did you try the name(s) Wikipedia uses?

8 years ago
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I tried both for #4, and yeah, unless there's some very specific name for the fruit itself, I tried every name for that plant I could find on English Wikipedia.

8 years ago
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Bump for solved.

8 years ago
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Bump for solved! Needed hints for Q4 and Q9.

8 years ago
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Bump for in progress. Only got 4 on my own for now even if 2 other seemed very familiar but it wasn't the correct anwser :( I was almost right or had a typo. Anyway, only 2 to go but i'll have to wait for hints. I'm crazy curious bout 10 because it looks exactly like another fruit but ITH told me it's not that.
Will keep trying

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And Solved!!

8 years ago
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I don't know the English names for most of those >.< (and for some I don't think the name I know is the correct one even in German. And some I just don't recognize at all ...)

But thanks for EITS <3

Oh, and congrats for becoming an ex-leech, I guess? ^^

8 years ago
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I did it! And I did not even need the hints. Stupid ITH does not store hint timers per account, so the fact that I waited 40 minutes at work did not transfer over... I guess I'll leave some comments about the images in the first ga :D

8 years ago
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Hmm. Knew 4 of them but they are incorrect, knew another 4 and they are correct. Taking a 5 day break :)

edit: ok, only stuck on #9, but even you dont know it's name so thats okay :P

8 years ago*
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bump

8 years ago
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LOL stuck on 9 too!

8 years ago
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I don't know if that helps, but it seems the hint applies to Dutch too ...

8 years ago
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Nope.

Not helping at all :-(

8 years ago
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I am an idiot! FACEPALM

I thought 11 and 9 were related, so was looking at totally wrong tree names!
ARGHH Facepalming some more

Got it now!

8 years ago
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:D I was just coming here to see if you were back and if I should add the hint yet ... glad you got it! I hope the satisfaction from solving it without a new hint is greater than the frustration :)

8 years ago
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It is!
But have slightly bruised face now ROFL

8 years ago
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Nice challenge, Mandril. I got all but one. Struggling with the phone booth picture. I'll get it in time ;)
Have a bump for now.

EDIT now I have the tree thanks to hints and I believe the fruit as well, but can't get ITH to accept

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Took me forever but that just makes it more satisfying, thank you bump!

8 years ago
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Tried every combination I can think of .....I'm stuck. :/

Edit solved :)

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Bump to thank for the trifactor. :)

8 years ago
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Bump for still being stuck on 9!

8 years ago
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Nice puzzle :-)
Bump for solved o/

8 years ago
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cool puzzle, sadly I don't need the games, cause I already have the ones I wanna play =d

8 years ago
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Bump for stuck on that evil Q9, got the tree (I don't think it's the wrong one with the hint) but... nope x)

8 years ago
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Not sure what was that middle image but I had the right tree last time, bump for solved /o/

8 years ago
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Is 2:1 ratio really "terrible leech" territory?

/ends self

8 years ago
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Well ... that was just how I felt about myself, I wouldn't want to judge anyone. In the end, everyone decides that for themselves, right? ... and I fear if I said anything more I might start a philosophical debate, and maybe this is not a good place for that. :)

8 years ago
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Bump for solved. It was very hard for non-native english/german speaker, because I knew almost all of them, but translations are ambigous at the least.
Thx for this puzzle!

8 years ago
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Not to accuse anyone of anything, just to let's say raise awareness of the actions that this individual has or might've made.
I would advise creator of this puzzle or honestly anyone to look into this discussion as fellow members of SG have come up with some undeniable evidence.
https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/7viKV/puzzle-11-1-question#vajpxtz

8 years ago
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I learned that I know nothing about fruits T_T
Q4 left
EDIT: and solved

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