Hey nice work! Think outside the box for A4 and D1, especially D1.
B2 can be solved in stages - figure out what one part refers to and you can google the other.
If you've never heard of B3, just remember the three possible themes that the questions/answers involve and see what comes up.
C5...the mother-brand is still around, but the social networking stuff has been kinda phased out. You can ctrl+f the answer in the list of (former) services that were provided on the child-brand name's Wikipedia page.
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TBH, those hints didn't add anything new. I've already followed all of those ideas. I can't say anything more here without potential spoilers.
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LOL, I got A4 before I noticed I had a message.
Finally got B2. I thought I had tried every reasonable option there (and kinda still think so).
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Both are accepted for A4.
B2 - There is only one person who fits the criteria once you realise what 'Australian Robin Hood' refers to.
B9 - There are always six of them in these colourful months. If they started in spring, you'd be looking for the second autumn.
C5, D1 - See other hints in thread.
D2 - When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
D6 - It's not the kind of music that one might listen to, but it always involves a story.
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Thanks for these hints, unfortunately none of them seem to help me. lol
From the first time I read B2 I assumed it referred to a certain NK... If not then I am even further behind on that one.
It's 05:09; I should be sleeping but these questions are keeping me up... lol
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I snagged on B9 for the longest time, trying different things from the show (the ship, the planets, etc). It didn't occur to me to try the show's actual name until after right the giveaway had ended! I guess that's what I get for trying to do the puzzle at the last moment.
Thanks for posting the solutions by the way.
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Got B3, basically by brute forcing which variation of the name it would accept.
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Heh, I almost feel guilty for it being too easy. For some damned reason, I am still stumped on C5, though.
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The original brand name was an acronym - in fact a sister social networking service was often referred to as just that acronym. Most of the social networking stuff was later re-branded for a time, and then discontinued/folded into other existing applications.
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I'm stuck on question 3 in both A and B... I've learned a fair bit about Russia in trying to solve these.
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And a bump for solving C (not A or B yet, though).
If you haven't yet, you should give the puzzles a try - you still have about 7 hours!
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Ah. How foolish of me - i was researching lawsuits about firearm usage in films... Now the answer seems very simple.
(A3 solved - thanks!)
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Cause of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chekhov's_gun
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The idea is that if you include a gun and don't reference it later, then that could be called Chekhov's gun. If you do reference it, then it stops being Chekhov's gun because it's not related to his principle. So avoiding it would be to avoid creating a circumstance where Chekhov's gun exists.
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Instead, I present the laziest yet largest puzzle giveaway I've made. Each set of ten questions allows you entry to a shared group of fifteen great games, while also giving you the links for four still-pretty-good games unique to that set of questions. Most require level one, but there are several games not requiring contribution. Many of these games have been bundled by now, but none are what some call 'bundle trash'. Hopefully FTL, AC III, Bastion, Watch Dogs, Castle of Illusion, Endless Space, Mirror's Edge and others interest you enough!
If you know/can remember/can figure out why these questions are lazy despite there being forty of them, then lucky you! However, please keep that knowledge to yourself.
Set A
Set B
Set C
Set D
To console non-participants, KCPW6 wants to help. Giveaways end 7AM UTC 16/4 (ended).
Please do not share answers or links. In familial circumstances, limiting entries to 1 per giveaway per household is fine.
Solutions below
Set A
Set B
Set C
Set D
For the curious, all the questions were taken from an SG chat trivia session you can compare yourself to here, where this was the prize. I re-used all my questions, with some small optimisations. All the old trivia logs are linked here.
One lucky duck managed to win a whole third of the prizes! Some crazy odds there, or SG being weird on giveaways that end at the same time :o
Some minor explanations of my expectations re:
B2 - Aus. Robin Hood = Ned Kelly, 'their kind' = bushranger, so 'longest surviving bushranger' in google gives captain thunderbolt. Also mentioned as such on Wikipedia page for bushrangers.
C5 - There were many failed social media services back then, but out of the 'household brands, I was expecting recognition for MSN/Windows Live Messenger to be right up there, which would lead to either googling 'msn+migrated+wordpress' or the wiki page for discontinued Windows Live services and ctrl+f blog.
If you have any questions/corrections, please post below. Above all, have fun :)
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