Bump for solved!
Thanks again for this event it was amazing!
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Just needed that pesky Q4 to go away. Grats on solving!
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Man that first quiz with the egyptian Gods/deities is more hardcore than anything I've seen in this site, regarding quizes... Countless guesses and net reading. After god knows how many hours I'm at last at 6/8. :O Hopefully the 2nd one should be easier than this.. The MF God and the one with the hint, still escape me hmm..
Edit: SOLVED at last!
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Bump for solved! Now I've finished the pyramid, I'll go back to my planet soon!
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I just find your name so cute. <3
Like a kawaii C'thulhu that just wants to nibble a bit on your soul.
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On an unrelated note: I know your true name Conway. And I could swear you did recently a random quote but I can't find in the thread here. Did you delete it or was it somewhere else?
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Don't you know the name of your former avatar or am I remember things wrong?
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My former avatar was a pixel art version of my Nordh detective alterego. :P And the first one I used was a zombie from PvZ from their avatar creator (in a few different versions, mostly B/W), so it was custom made by myself.
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Bump for solved! Thanks for the great distraction from studying for exams!
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Bump! Got only 2 questions remaining in the top pyramid :D
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Bump for a temporary setback for not knowing the reference or where to begin looking for Q3 of the top of the pyramid.
hopefully something'll come to me in the next couple of days
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Bump for stuck at q4 and q6 of Ancient Egypt (it's been over a week . )
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Bump for Solved! Thanks Nordbane! Special thanks to all the people who made giveaways for hints. Especially Deathx9, it was hint 5 that finally got it for me.
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Bump for reaching the Egypt level. Thanks for the puzzles so far, I'm really enjoying it!
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Q3 in the Alien communication Quiz is driving me nuts... I have no idea what you expect on it....
It reminds me of an old puzzle of yours, but it's probably completely unrelated.
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Indeed, but also the one with the "leaves". Like a combination of those two... crazy stuff...
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Leaves... The baconian painting you'll see that one again soon enough ;)?
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Hehe. It's the truth you've made some unforgettable puzzles in this site m8. :)
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Well, I can at least tell you I made the image, but I did not make the language. :) So it's not some cryptic encryption I made up. :P
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Yeah I figured that was the case. Still could not find anything remotely close to this language no matter how much I searched. In different ways too. So I guess that's it for me this time. There's literally no easy way to search for this stuff. Maybe its a movie or series I should have watched and haven't... Maybe not. In any case I guess it requires amazing amounts of luck in the search which I don't seem to have at this moment.
EDIT: Solved! that was pure evil. never heard of it before...
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I can find it in 10 seconds with a commonly phrased search term on google. It's a rather known language, heck, it's even in the conqueror video I linked to a page or so ago. :P Not that I think you'll have much luck finding it via that video, since it's just there as a very small easter egg around 2:10. I fact I didn't even see it until after I had posted the video. :)
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Bump for the end :) Thanks for the fun I had solving this in the past two days and for so many chances to win :D
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Well done! And not only many chances, but also high chances of winning since there aren't that many entries. :)
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Dunno how to play the game in top pyramid :p
Lazy to learn it, checkmate
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All bonus keys in the top are now gone. Not a single one of them was ninjad. That's quite good. :)
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If you're referring to Violett, someone did announce they took that one.
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Had I missed marking that one off? Removed them all since they were all gone, so can't check. :P
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Ah, yeah. It was in a reply to himself, so probably just missed it. Then no keys were ninjad. :)
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Sorry, didn't think that you'll miss it since i posted it right after my original comment so i assumed that when you'll read the comment you'l read the reply too :)
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I'm using a script, so I'm replying directly from the "Messages"-page instead of going into the thread/GA. :) Saves a lot of time, especially now that there's so many notifications every day.
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Yeah, it makes sense :) Didn't know that though :)
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I can reply directly from the messages page without using a script. A lot of script features are making it on to the site itself.
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Oh, perhaps that option was already there, never noticed it until just now, and just installed revilheart's script so I thought they were related. :)
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Misread what you said (trying to give up caffeine, soda, and candy for 2017 resolution)
I just hit permalink and that takes me directly to the message, and I hit reply.
A lot of features from scripts do seem to be making their way onto the site though.
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Then no, I'm replying straight inside the Messages window. Saves time to not have to go to each GA and thread for each reply.
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jeffuy asked how much time it took to prepare the whole pyramid in one of the GAs, and I decided to answer it publically in case others are interested.
From start to finish, about 3 months with a lot of procrastination. Just look at the creation date of the main thread, that's when I had already done the first ITHs and was starting to lay down the pyramid structure to see how I would visualize it.
If you count the date I created the idea and most of the subjects (vikings, etc) it was in June 2016 when I was pitching the whole idea to Jeff. I originally intended it to be a collaboration with him doing the pyramid and me doing the puzzles. He had his whole world landmark puzzle test and planning going on, and I was hoping to tie it in with a continuation from that. (Still waiting for that one, Jeff ;)) We ended up collaborating on the Dot-to-dot challenges instead, which will have its finale reward thread when Jeffs personal life allows it.
The first real thing I did was the thing you're collecting a bunch of codes for, 2nd of october I created it.
Here's my pitch to Jeff:
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Hmmmmmm, that red line though ..... let me guess. It contains a hint for the puzzle at the top ^^ Other than that Egypt sure got promoted. I think doing something like this with two people is faster since you can't procastrinate as much or you have more of a feeling to do something.
Other than that as soon if my life allows (read: I get a job for ////'s sake in a far far future) I would be interested in a collaboration. I have the idea already, would just need gifts and really prefer if I could use this gallery thingy you used for the dot-to-dot ^^
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Actually a bit of a spoiler of the story ending. ;) It was way before I came up with the main puzzle.
Oh, and warcodes got turned into WW2, which has way more to write about than egypt, so it was a more logical solution.
The wordpress plugin I used for the dot-to-dot is called Contest Gallery.
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Yea, that ending was .... unexpected. As for the last part you already sent me the link before ^^ (and I was actually sure I bookmarked it, seems it went away O.o). I would just feel safer having someone with more knowledge at the side. But this is stuff we can talk about after I get my life structured (unless you really are against the idea).
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Thanks for the answer! I am really enjoying this. Thanks for doing it. Great work!
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Bump for solved after a week break, thanks for this great event!
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If you write in the final GA I will remind you to recheck if there's any new GAs you haven't seen.
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Don't you just hate it when you have notifications for new messages, but when you open up the message page there are no (or at least fewer) new messages than the icon says? I always wonder, is that delete message posted here, or in a GA, and if so, which GA. And what did they want to know that I can now never answer. They were probably stuck, or figured they had posted a spoiler, but perhaps it was a cry for help, and now spacecat has kidnapped them and deleted the evidence. But I'm onto you spacecat! I will rescure all those poor souls making desperate attempts to contact me via those deleted messages.
Also, bump.
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The Puzzle Agency Storyline has been going on for almost a year, and this is the 9th part. No previous experience is required though, so join us on this adventure, and enjoy the event.
Solutions
Optional Story:
When you arrive back from your mission to take down the Order of the Jigidi, you're met by a young girl who introduces herself as Katie. Nordh tells you he met Katie and her mother Cathy almost a year ago while working undercover inside Quiz HQ, a building shaped like a pyramid and home of the International Terror Heathens, or ITH for short. Even though they worked there, it was noticable that the staff didn't have any idea what was really going on behind the scenes.
"While mom, Cathy, was investigating some strange things going down at the Quiz HQ she just disappeared", Katie explains. "I haven't heard from her in over a week, and she told me if things went bad I could always count on Nordh here to help me."
Katie hands you her Security badge from work. "You can use this to gain entrance to the bottom level of the Quiz HQ. Nordh tells me you did an excellent job undercover in the last place and if he trusts you, I do as well. So, please, find my mom and bring her safely back home."
Well, you asked when the next one was going to be, but you had at least hoped there'd be a short time to rest up between missions. And while you knew you had to take on ITH one day, this new development makes it even more important.
Ancient Egypt Passcodes to reach the next level
Ancient Greece Passcodes to reach the next level
Vikings Passcodes to reach the next level
World War 2 Passcodes to reach the next level
This Puzzle Agency story takes place in two different locations. Nordh will help you from the Puzzle Agency mansion to try and guide you to the top of the Quiz HQ pyramid. There will be a set of quiz-like ITHs that symbolizes the different floors of the pyramid. You must start at the bottom and solve the first 5 ITH links before you can unlock the next level. Between each floor a more proper puzzle has to be solved to continue on your way upwards.
Codes deciphered are used on itstoohard.com.
No more hints can be bought.
Hint system
You can buy hints for everyone to use by creating GAs and sending me links privately. Let me know if you're interested. The GAs will then be added as rewards for solving the different levels, and a hint(s) for that level will be added.
Level 1 (WW2): 1-4 points GA value
Level 2 (Vikings): 5-9 points GA value
Level 3 (Ancient Greece): 10-19 points GA value
Level 4 (Ancient Egypt): 20-29 points GA value
Level 5 (The top): 30+ points GA value
You can, for example, create 3x10 point GAs for a level 5 hint. Or 1x8 points can give you two hints for level 1. You can even make a train with someone else to reach a higher level if you hand them in together.
As an addition, it should be games. No clickteam fusion GAs ;P
Last chance to buy hints will be January 16th, after that I will remind all complete solvers to check the top for any new GAs that may have arrived so they have a chance to check them out.
If anything seems wrong with an answer, tell me what question it is and I'll give it a look. You can try to drop subtle hints on what the answer should have been.
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