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Closing Notes:

One final thank you to everyone who participated. All the line operators and contributors... I can't thank you enough for supporting this event. It wouldn't have happened without each and every single one of you.

One Special Mention goes out to jbmccune for putting up with me nonstop while I was working on the tool that made all this work so smoothly. He deserves special thanks for that. :)

Thanks again to everyone who took the journey with us.... I'm sure we all made some new friends :) We hope to see you again at some point in the future for a new Let's Train event or just around SG in general :D

Line Operators	In Alphabetical	Order
adam1224	CrystalGamer	eeev
Faraday	^_^	HiroHiro
jbmccune	Klinge	Momo1991
Per3zat	^_^	SadisticChicken
SexyBudgie	Sinovera	Tiny&Purple

^_^	Contributors	^_^	In Alphabetical	^_^	Order
aboveaveragejoe	acolis	alexcefi	ambidot	bluewolfca	boox
canuckrat	caractacus	crystalgamer	deltabladex	eaglewing25	eeev
entropia	erdbeertoertchen	falcogr	fishworm	fragy	geoglitch
gequila	gooregu	ha66	hbnayr	hirohiro	hitscan
igel2005	iracional88	jabbergeist	jbmccune	josgba2002	justinsane059
kingcalifornia	kkcryptic kletar	klinge	lmxn	malabagaa	^_^
mbcoder	metygame	momo1991	morbid237	nagelfar87	nellyneko
nightshifty	oclaymoreo	oppenh4imer	paxnit	per3zat	perrolijo
peteozzy	phestacles	plyrstar93	randall	sadisticchicken	sexybudgie
silentguy	sinovera	soullesssoup	stlpaul	stoner5252	suhosin
superfabs	superkiller2	tewam	thatsok9	thesuperstar	tinypurple
tistao	tmon	todrzyk	treeb	trentjaspar	ugaman
vee79	venhiem	watary	waxlor	zibo86	^_^

If you're looking for the puzzle solutions for my puzzles.... Click here.

Final Update!

A big thank you to all the people who commented and enjoyed themselves! I'm so glad you had such a good time exploring the network.

As I've said to them multiple times, thanks to the operators and contributors. Without them this would not have happened!

Cross your fingers... It's only a short time now to find out if you've won! If you missed something, now's the time to get it done :D

Update #1

Thanks for all your kind words, I took a mini break after finishing this because I needed to just relax. I was 100% sure that any errors could be ignored for the time being and that they probably numbered few and far between. I've commented at this time to everyone who left a comment on my GAs. I will be back for the main post itself in a bit :D

Please continue to enjoy the train!

UPDATE #2

The final puzzle and all extra stops made by me are completed!
You just have to follow me home for clues. But then you might have to go elsewhere.
The sooner you start, the better as the hints take quite some time.

Good luck, and remember, it isn't required for you to do the puzzle, you choose to if you want to.
But I will give a hint: AAA I have never given before :)

Update #3

There was a tiny issue with one of the GAs involved in the puzzle. It was missing a link to vital information. My sincerest apologies. While I can't tell you which GA that was, because that'd be telling, I can say it's walking distance from the Ringbahn :)

Update 4

The S3 operated by Deutsche Bahn has begun operating between Hannover and Berlin. You can catch it from Berlin Hauptbahnhof, or start at Hannover Hauptbahnhof.

Let's Train! Ich bin ein Berliner Edition is finally open!

For the past couple weeks, we've been organizing and collecting GAs and getting descriptions sent out. Finally, everything is done.

Originally there were 480 spots to signup for Giveaways for this event. I'm almost positive at this point, we are over 600 GAs from side additions and extra things that have been added in!

A Giant thank you goes out to all Line Operators and Contributors!

A big thank you goes out to the following people who worked tirelessly and put up with me throughout the preparation for this event. These people worked quite hard to help bring you this event. Please, consider them for a whitelist spot, even if just for the duration of the event: HiroHiro, Klinge, SexyBudgie, jbmccune, CrystalGamer, SadisticChicken, eeev, Sinovera, Faraday, Momo1991, adam1224, and Per3zat.

Another special thank you goes out to MBcoder for helping me create a special line when I was running low on time.

The Netz is officially open for all passengers! But first you need to decide how you got to Berlin?

There are several options:

Major Airline or Intercontinental Flight? Then you probably landed at Berlin Tegel Airport.
Minor Airline like Ryanair or Easyjet? Or perhaps you're just very close. You might have landed at Berlin Schönefeld Airport.
Perhaps you caught a Train into Berlin? You've likely arrived at Berlin Hauptbahnhof.
Maybe you didn't have that much money and you caught a bus? Welcome to Zentraler Omnibusbahnhof.

The Train Network will be open until May 1st at 12:00 UTC. So start riding if you want to get as much out of it as possible!

Does it matter where you enter? Not really, we just thought it would be nice to give you the option of where to start your journey.

Before you embark on your exploration, you should probably talk to an information desk and take a map. You can of course forgo having a map, many people prefer to explore on their own. But in case you need it, there it is.

Blacklisted by a contributor? Sign-out of SG and continue along the path, or use incognito mode to follow it.

What can you expect to find? A lot of giveaways and a lot of Train stations. Some even have extra things attached to them. You might find a few puzzles, or mazes, but they are not common.

"But I don't like puzzles or mazes!"
No worries, they are not required to ride the official lines. They are all extra things put in by different contributors.

Outage Notice: Due to issues with the Berlin Transit Authority, the S9 is operating only on a night time schedule. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause to our passengers.

There is no service interruption on the S2, however, some vandals have defaced signs on the S2 and posted the incorrect final destination. Work crews are out and trying to fix the errors as soon as possible.

Special Notice: My final puzzle is not complete. If you find something that seems like it should have something, and it doesn't. Bookmark it and come back later. I will announce on the thread, when everything is done. I still have to make a few more GAs but as they are not stations, they could wait.

There are two main network systems that make up the majority of the train systems in Berlin. The U-Bahn short for Untergrundbahn had its named copied by the S-Bahn (formerly known as the Stadt-, Ring- and Vorortbahenen).

These two networks make up 334 stations that people use to get around the capital city of Berlin.

At present the exact number of GAs is unknown. I will update later once I have time to account for all the side routes.

Thank you for your patience and please enjoy your Train ride!!!

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Solution for my puzzles/quizzes:

Step 1:

You had to find this GA
Really not hard, you can get to it from the U2.

To enter the first set, you had to face a clown wielding a puzzle.... Yes... still WTF.
To get to the ITH Quizzes you had to pass a super hard Jigidi Puzzle:
24 pieces, German Flag. Really actually not that hard at all. Can pretty much tell where all the pieces go just by looking at them.
The German Flag

Step 2

That led you to a GA where you had to face the doorman who had 10 questions for you.
ITH #1

Q1: Hellweg - Answer found here

Q2: Tegel, Tegel Airport, Berlin Tegel Airport - Answer found here

Q3: Schlachtensee - GA Here only connected to Schlachtensee Station on the S1.

Q4: Die Berliner Icefabrik

This was found by carefully reading the description at Ostbahnhof. Toward the end, above the Random Experience, there were Shadowy footsteps... suspicious... if you looked carefully at that mini paragraph, it had 5 characters that were bolded and italicized: eT4Wg. If you constructed a sg ga url out of them (i.e. http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/eT4Wg/) it'd take you there.

Q5: glasses

A lot of people thought they tried glasses and realized they actually hadn't later. I used the exact noun phrase as specified in the story here

Q6: The Brain - Answer found here

Technically my answer is incorrect supposedly, as an official source I saw later, said it was actually: The Berlin Brain ... but no one ever said that... they just said, "The Brain"

Q7: Rüdescheimer Platz, Rüdesheimer Platz (I accepted both answers as I had made a typo in the station name) - Answer found here

Q8: Zoologischer Garten - Answer found here

Q9: Rathaus Schöneberg - Answer found here

Q10: Kottbusser Brücke - Answer found here

Step 3

Providing that you answered all the questions, correctly, you were provided with this link: https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/2fCgQ/ and you pressed the wrong button for my apartment, and a neighbor asked you 10 questions.
ITH #2

Q1: Cowboy - Answer found here

Q2: Alexanderplatz - Answer found here

Q3: Güterbahnhof Pankow - Answer found here

Q4: blue sapphires, or sapphires - Answer found here

Q5: World of Subways 2 – Berlin Line 7 - Answer found here

Q6: CK-99 - Answer found here

Q7: Nollendorfplatz - Answer found here

Q8: The Weinerei Forum - Answer found here

Q9: Mauerpark - Answer found here

Q10: Kinderkrankenhaus - Answer found here

Step 4

Again, with the correct answers you were then provided a link here: https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/8qTJx/ where you entered the Stairwell to my apartment. You only had to go up 5 stairs, as I lived on the Hochparterre. Once you knocked on the door, someone inside demanded you answer 4 more questions... Probably the hardest of the bunch.

Q1: blue

Answer found here: https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/pbVQ5/train-fever - This confused some people as I wasn't talking about a bridge that is used to cross gaps... but rather, the bridge of a Ship, or in this case... a starship :)

Q2: 360

Answer found.... You had to google that information. As the Reichstag was a SGTools restricted GA, kind of like how entry to the Reichstag is restricted, I purposely didn't put the information in the GA. Googlen will help you here. (Oh, and if you're curious, many Native Germans agreed that was the infinitive form of "to google" in German.)

Q3: Sangiovese
Answer found....

First comment: Some people didn't like that it wasn't half a bottle, bottle of, etc. However, they persevered typically and got the answer. Yes, I realize I could have included more options.
Second comment: How did you get here in the first place?

Starting here: https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/TO5Tm/over-the-hills-and-far-away you could walk down the street and arrive here: https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/0OUoy/

Once you were lost in the forest, you just had to locate the italicized characters where were in the description: ufUMJ - Again, assembling them into a GA link would give you the following link: https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/ufUMJ/

Finally once there, you needed to look east.... in the source code for the page. If you did, you'd find this: O7ORh.
Again, assembled into a GA link would provide http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/O7ORh/

Heading to that GA would lead you to the story about being kicked out of Teufelsberg by the owner who later when found me loitering around outside waiting for friends, gave me the rest of his bottle of wine :)

The infamous Q4...

Before I give you the answer... You'll have to take the journey with me there...
It started here
Once there, the last paragraph read as such:

But while you're here, why don't you go shopping and look around. If you search hard enough, you might find something you want. Personally I always want trading cards, but you know, whatever. Heck, Trading cards and TIc could make for an interesting find.

What did you need to do? Well, I gave you the second part of the GA code.... TIc. You needed the first two characters.

If you visited the link I provided to the Ikea Game
You'd see the game had no trading cards. Hiding things on steam is not new, but I did give you some clues. What do you do if you want Trading Cards on a game? Request them in the discussion forum.

If you searched the discussion forum there for "Trading Cards" you'd find this post I made.
Notice the end? kG.

Combining kG with TIc would give you a 5 character GA code: kGTIc.
Assembled would lead you here

Once there you had access to five more GAs. Each one had a heading of where you were inside Ikea plus a character at the end of the heading. I figured if you'd already found your way, in, I wasn't gonna make it too difficult. Aseembled gave you: Fv58l

GA link again: http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/Fv58l/ led you to the exit from Ikea.

This led you to the GA NO THING which I found amusing as you bought nothing from Ikea during your visit. In the description text was a flashing sign reading Ikea Security Code. If you looked at the two images on the GA, one was a funny graphic I found while looking for Ikea images, which was the inspiration for the security code. If you read the hover text on the second image, it read "Security Code: Extra Parts"
And who hasn't found extra parts in Ikea stuff from time to time.

Upon successfully completing this last ITH, you were provided with some text: bb0a3cc3-05f9-11e6-a85e-04019cc0dc01
What the heck is this? Well some of you probably recognize it on sight... it's the identifier for an SGTools protected GA.
Assembled gives you: http://www.sgtools.info/giveaways/bb0a3cc3-05f9-11e6-a85e-04019cc0dc01

This led to my final GA for the Train: https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/Ek86z/

Hope you enjoyed yourself and I hope this wraps up any lingering questions about my puzzle in the train. It was nice sharing the journey with you and glad so many people were interested in it.

(All other puzzles were created by other contributors. You'd have to ask them if they wish to share their solutions or not. )