THE PUZZLE IS OVER BUT YOU CAN STILL FIND SOMETHING NICE HERE

First Puzzlemania train! Please, join the group :)

Inside: 15 giveaways for LVL1+ and 2 AAA giveaways for LVL2+

UPD1. 12.12. I see that many people are struggling with the puzzle and many do not quite understand it. So, here I give you two examples (see the attachment to the post), I hope they will help. The answers in the title attributes of the images, so just hover the mouse over an image to know the answer. The examples are probably not the best ones, they are just the ones I quickly came with. Also, the logic used in the puzzle varies a lot. It can deal just with the title, as well as with the plot or with some words playing, etc. So, do not consider the examples as everything you need. They only should point your mind toward the right direction.

UPD2. 12.12 Ok guys, I tried to create a difficult puzzle and I succeeded! Not everyone is happy about that though. People blame me about the vague questions and bad logic... So, I added hints to all questions! Now, the difficulty of the 1st part is a lot lower. Check it out! If you do not see the hints, try answer wrongly any question and then refresh the page. After you solve the first part, please tell me what you think about the questions. Were they bad or good?

UPD3. 12.12. We have first solvers of the first part!! Congratulations guys, you are awesome! Hall of fame is located here.

UPD4. 12.12. The hints have been added to the second part!

UPD5. 12.12. The hints have been added to the third part!

UPD6. 12.12. Congratulation to Migga as he is the first solver of all three ITH puzzles! What an impressive achievement! But will he manage to get access to AAA giveaways?..

UPD7. 13.12. I just added the second hint for the first question in part 1.

UPD8. 14.12. Do you want additional hints? Just vote for them! There are three different polls: for part 1for part 2for part 3.

UPD9. 15.12. The second hint for P1Q2 has just arrived! Now, this question is almost trivial :) Also, another hint added for P3Q5 and P3Q1!

UPD10. 16.12. Additional hints added for all the questions in part 3! Also, added a hint for P2Q3.

UPD11. 17.12. A big hint for the first AAA has been added!

UPD12. 18.12. Many additional hints for part 2 have just been added!

UPD13. 24.12. Only one day left! Many new hints are posted, everyone can solve the puzzle with them!

UPD14. 25.12. Who reached AAA giveaways but did not manage to solve corresponding puzzles, check them again! Solutions are waiting for you!

Hi guys, I hope you are doing great! There will be 17 giveaways in this train because SG does not allow me to create more at this moment.

First, some time ago I creative d my first puzzle, which was a really simple one. Then, I promised to create a more difficult puzzle later. Now, this is the time to do it!

Second, I created a group called Puzzlemania for all the people at SG who are addicted with awesome puzzle we are constantly solving here. I think it has some potential in the future. For example, not everyone has time to daily visit the forum to find out if there are new puzzle trains or puzzle from their favourite author or any other stuff s/he likes. We can post links to new puzzles at the group forum, so people will get notifications about them on Steam. Probably, we even can have some kind of leader board for all the puzzles. There are many ideas but we need to start with something, that's why I kindly ask you to give this group a try and join it :)

Third, the most interesting part, the puzzle itself. The train consists of three cars, you will gain access to each of them by solving the corresponding ITH puzzle. No playing with HTML code, image descriptions, XLATE, etc. Seriously. Zelgh's guide is really awesome but will not help you this time. What will help is logic and knowing some movies. No-no, don't close the page yet. You will not have to guess movies by screenshots. Instead, you will be given a number of pictures, which can serve as covers for different movies. All you need to do is to name them (movies, not covers)! Yes, as simple as that. All titles were taken at IMDB website, so you would better check your answers there.

Fourth, the rules. They are pretty usual: do not share answers, do not share links to the giveaways. Please follow them. If I notice something smelly is going on, I will blacklist everyone who is connected to breaking the rules. In the worst case, I will just cancel the puzzle (very-very-very unlikely, but you were warned, were not you?).

Fifth, the time. All giveaways will end at the 25th of December, so you have 2 weeks. It also mean that you will get your games for the Christmas!

Sixth, the prizes. They are good, although not expensive. There are 15 of such giveaways. However, if you solve all three parts, you will get three pieces of something, which can be used to obtain the access to 2 awesome non-bundled AAA giveaways. So, 17 giveaways in total.

Seventh, the hints. I personally do not like hints, but in case I see that the puzzle is too difficult, I will give plenty of them, so do not worry about this :)

Ok, now you are ready to go! Please, start here, relax, have fun and enjoy your ride!

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12.12. I added two examples to the main post. I hope they will help you. In my opinion, the most pleasent thing in puzzle solving is to solve a difficult thing without any hints. So, I still give you a chance to have this feeling and do not post any hints yet :)

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12.12. Hints were added to the first part!

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Hall of fame for the part #1:

RyukanoHi

Migga

Heeroo

Numeron

Nablez

Metida

Kuzurreesh

aapje

aztech

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Hall of fame for the part #2:

RyukanoHi

Migga

Kuzurreesh

aapje

Metida

aztech

Nablez

SpaceClick

tso184

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Hall of fame for the part #3:

Migga

aztech

Nablez

SpaceClick

ValyrianSteel

tso184

Metida

aapje

sweetcuppincakes

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12.12. Hints have been added to the part #2.

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12.12. Hints have been added to the part #3.

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Polls for hints are available. Just vote to get hints!
for part 1
for part 2
for part 3

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According to the poll results, Q2 in part1 gets a hint, which makes the question very easy!

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P3Q5 received a new hint!

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Hint for P3Q1 is also available.

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All the questions in part 3 now have 2 or more hints each!

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P2Q3 got a hint as well according to the poll results.

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A big hint for the first AAA has been added!

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UPD12. 18.12. Many additional hints for part 2 have just been added!

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Saturday bump!

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I just added a lot of new hints. Basically, I almost posted the answers.

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UPD14. 25.12. Who reached AAA giveaways but did not manage to solve corresponding puzzles, check them again! Solutions are waiting for you!

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Puzzle ended but there are still surprises waiting for you!

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I have no idea how we're supposed to guess the movie titles from the pictures you provided. Can't make any sense of it.

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Consider images as alternative covers ;)

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Those images are just bunch of lines and what not, they make no sense at all. How are you supposed to read those?
Question 4's answer wasn't V for Vendetta, I have no idea what else would those mean.

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They make sense, believe me. The puzzle has been tested!

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how is q4 not twin peaks????

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I just updated the post with some examples. Do you find them helpful?

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The answers for the examples are in the title attributes :) So, hover the mouse and wait for a sec :)

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Yeah, figured it out already. I think your puzzle will need hints, otherwise it'll be near-impossible to solve. Judging from the examples, it's not just movies, it's TV shows too. There are so many shows and movies in the world, hundreds of movies can fit each picture. So finding the one that you have in mind...

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Whoops, sorry for the TV series in the example. Actual puzzles contain only movie titles! Almost all of them are very well known and I am sure everybody at this forum heard about them and the majority even watched them. Less popular movies you can guess just naming what you see at the image.

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As a man who loves movies I was already excited and after the ITH link loaded: I'm dumb... :D I'll try this but I won't promise I'll solve all of those.

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I am sure it will be easier when you solve one. They are not logically connected, but you will understand better what I want from you.

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Is there any relation between questions? Like are the movies all modern ones, classics etc :)

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No relations between movies almost at all :) But most of the movies are quite well known.

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I just updated the post with some examples. Do you find them helpful?

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Yes, thank you for this :) Going to delve in to the ITH a bit later.

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3 4 out of 5, I think that I'm going to do this! And I did it! Not impossible, if I can give small hint to the fellows (I'll edit this out if creator doesn't like it!): Remember to browse movie lists like imdb top lists. I'm sure that everyone has seen atleast 2-3 of these and the rest aren't very rare either. Browsing a list and seeing title names helps to remember movies and relate plots. Atleast helped me!

Interesting puzzle, new and fresh way to give questions :>

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Q1 solved, 4 to go.

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Congrats! Keep solving :)

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Q1 and Q3 down.
edit: add Q2 to that. :)

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Wow, you are doing great! I think you are the leader right now :)

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First part solved, the hints helped for 4 and 5. I was looking in the wrong direction.
Might have figured one out eventually, and with one probably the other as well, like it did now.
But that would have taken a lot longer.

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those are tough. i am struggling to come up with decent guesses

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I promised a puzzle with a decent level of difficulty, here it comes! :)
But it is solvable and logical one. Dont give up :)

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perhaps may make more sense if you could show an example of the logic used?

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I just updated the post with some examples. Do you find them helpful?

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not at all

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Sorry to hear that... Probably it will be more clear to you when some hints are revealed.

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So... there are hints coming?
Might as well wait for those then. And then give it a go.

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The hints are there! Check them at the puzzle page!

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mieau mieau

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Tried lots, some even made sense, solved nothing yet though :P

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Yeah, I'll come back next week :)

edit: got Q5

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I just updated the post with some examples. Do you find them helpful?

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Bump for solved... Q1.

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good job! only 14 left to reach 2 awesome AAA giveaways :)

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I just updated the post with some examples. Do you find them helpful?

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Yep, little. But it still hard.

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can i bump my own thread? yes, it worked :)

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Its a new way of solving these puzzles, so an example should be there on how to approach and what approach was used.

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I just updated the post with some examples. Do you find them helpful?

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After solving Q5...yes and no :P
It's all still very obscure. When you know the answers I'm sure it makes lots of sense.

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You made a good point. Maybe I will start dropping hints in a couple of days. I just love abstract things a lot and wanted to share some of them with the community :)

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I just see so many possibilities. After 10 guesses per question you tend to just give up.
I have the perfect answer for Q1, but it is incorrect, ragequit! :P

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I regret a bit that I put that movie for Q1. It is not the most simple question and probably I should not have started with it. But two guys who wrote something in this thread solved exactly and only Q1, so it still should be quite doable. If you solved Q5, maybe Q4 will be quite easy for you. The movies are not connected but the logic is similar.

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Got Q4 now too, but the rest, no idea. (yet?)
Although I think my Q1 is correct too :P

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I enjoy puzzles but i have no idea with this.

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I love movies, I like puzzles, but really cannot make anything with those ;). I looked at examples, I would probably guess "Harry Potter", I don't think I would guess the other one though. I think it may be especially hard for people from different countries that are not very familiar with English movie names (and believe me, they can be very different XD). Still, interesting idea :).

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The hints are there! Check them at the puzzle page!

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1 day, 0 solvers. The result says it all, the normal puzzle steamgifters can solved within a minute. Seem like we need hints, can't jump in your mind and know what are you thinking :(

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The hints are there! Check them at the puzzle page!

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wow still hard, but understandable :D thanks!

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Bam solved the third one :) But I still don't why the 4. isnt V for Vendetta^^ I was so sure :D

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The hints are there! Check them at the puzzle page!

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Ok i solved Q1 Q3 Q4 and Q5^^ The Hints are pretty good just Q2 I have no idea :(

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Q2 is a bit tricky indeed! I did not write a proper definition of the thing I meant, so you cannot just google it easy. Although this is not a good definition, it should still make sense. Think hard :)

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Ok finally solved :D I thought of that like 10 times before but never actually put it in cause i thought it's to absurd. Thanks for the awesome puzzle... Took me like half of my afternoon but it was fun :)

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Congrats man! I am really happy you had some fun :)

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AHhhh the next puzzle :D I got the 5th one already...^^ but that was pretty easy^^

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I added the hints for the part #2 :)

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Sweet :) 1-5 Solved :)

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Nice! Check out the hints for the part #3 :)

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Solved 1-3 of part 3. Q2 was really hard but now the picture is awesome :) Although I guess without hint i would never have solved it.

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I've only solved Q2 so far.

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I don't get the last 2 :( I tried like all movies that have anything to do with shadows, and the last one... I absolutely have no clue...For a second I thought "The meaning of life" would be a good answer but that didn't work.
Oh God: Q5 solved... so easy once you got it...
Edit... Solved... But I didn't know that movie... had to search the IMDB

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I'm stuck with Q4 too, and it's the only one left question :(
Nothing fits and now I'm out of these shadow movies already, crying in despair x)

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Well patience :) And don't abandon the shadow thing :) I don't want to go into more detail since it isn't my puzzle but focus on yourself and your shadow. I'm sure you can do it :)
I gotta go now :) Good Luck everyone!

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At least you get to be stuck in another puzzle than the first :P

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P3Q4 is the last one I'm stuck on :(

I thought for sure it would be Groundhog Day.

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Congrats, очаровательная Metida!
Have you suffered enough? :)

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Thanks!
Well, yeah :D I have almost given up, but now with the new hints everyone can solve it, I think :)
Though I'm only level 1 and that's the end of the puzzle for me. Maybe I should start creating some good christmas GAs to increase it (and to make someone happy, of course! :D) ^^

Also thank you for the puzzles! Some of them are really brilliant :)

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I am glad you enjoed them, at least some of them :) And I agree that Christmas is the perfect time to level up ;)

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Clearly there's something wrong when zero people have solved the puzzle. Also, in your example, Two and a Half Men isn't even a movie. Does the puzzle include TV shows as well?

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No, no TV shows, and the example does what it needs to do, movie or not.
But yes, it's slightly on the very very difficult side :P

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Too ambiguous. Had some movie titles that fit the pictures but weren't accepted. Stopped trying after a dozen or so. I rarely enjoy mind reading puzzles.

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The hints are there! Check them at the puzzle page!

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Thanks got them now. Much easier with the hints.

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Q5 solved, 4 to go but those are impossible

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The hints are there! Check them at the puzzle page!

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Thnx, got Q2, Q4 and Q5. Others still no idea, maybe I'll give it another try tomorrow

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nice ide to collect puzzles :)

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Only got q1 rest i dont know
Edit Q1 and Q4 ok

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Did you see new hints?

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hints are the attached pics ?
Edit find them

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Nope, the hints are on the puzzle page. Try refreshing it if you do not see them. In case they still do not appear, answer wrongly any question and refresh once again.

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i'm not seeing any hints, or even a hint timer.

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Try inputting something for any question, then press F5 to refresh the page. You should see the hints then.

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Managed to solve Q5 with the hint. Others still seem impossible for me to solve. Maybe I'd be able to bruteforce Q4 though...

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Q4 should be really obvious with the hint! Just use your imagination and remember everything you know about Romania! Really, I think almost everyone know the needed fact about that country, so googling will probably make it more difficult for you because you will google a million other facts :)

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I thought the hint is supposed to tell us the movie was shot in Romania. Tried bruteforcing with all the well-known movies shot there but nothing was correct.

I know absolutely nothing about Romania lol, even though it's not that far from my country.

I'll have to give up from the puzzle, unless you provide more hints. Ones that aren't so vague.

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Come on man, I am sure you know this one :)

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No idea, there are too many choices I don't wanna bruteforce every single movie ever shot in Romania. All the ones that I know, and that are well known were incorrect.
Also I am disappointed the answer for Q3 wasn't "The Man from Earth" after reading the description of it in the hint =P

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The movie in Q4 was not shot in Romania. The title just has a really strong relation to Romania. I changed that hint a bit to make it a bit less confusing.

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I figured it out! I forgot that was in Romania. But I feel silly for not figuring it out based on the picture itself, it's so obvious.

Three more to go, however the hint for Q2 and Q3 can apply to way too many movies and I can't read your mind. Hint for Q1 confuses me more then it helps (maybe I'm stupid because it seems most people solved that one quickly).

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I updated the hint for Q2 because that movie is not very well known and the original hint was not very obvious. Well, now it is :) I do not want to give hints for Q3 though... It is quite a famous movie and the hint together with the image are good. Maybe later.

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Solved Q4 with the hint, have no idea about the rest :D

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Missing Q1 and 2, probably havent seen those :/

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The Q2 you probably did not see, but I am almost sure you watched Q1 or at least heard about it many times.

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I solved Q3 as well! The picture is a bit misleading though. I think it should start with the small "pillar", increase in size until the middle one, then decrease in size after that. That picture would make much more sense for that movie.

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You are probably right here, but if you read the description of the movie, it corresponds with the current image.

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I may be the first to solve it.

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Wow, you really are! Congratulations!!

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The hints helped. Q2 is a pain, and Q1 is awkward, but I mean, I got them all.

I'd say they're all pretty well known movies except maybe Q2. I actually really like that movie, but it's pretty obscure.

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The puzzles are probably going to all need clues to be reasonably solvable.

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I guess you are right here. I will add hints to next parts soon.

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Lots of solvers now, guess I don't watch enough movies :P

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Still only 3 full solvers.

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3 people isn't a lot ^_^

For the last year or two I rarely ever watch any movies, I don't even remember when is the last time I watched one. After I started watching anime I lost interest in movies.

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LOL, i saw that edit ;)
But, yea, I hardly watch anything these days. Only watched a few on a long flight recently :P

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I added the hints for the part #2 :)

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Got Q3 and Q4.
These hints make it totally obvious for me now when I already know the answers, but not helping with the rest :(

UPD: got Q5. The film was correct, but I tried the wrong title, so checking IMDb is a really good advise.

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Well, now only Q2 is left. And it's said here that this one isn't so well-known...

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...but you don't have to know this one really. Solved!
Thanks, it was interesting :) now to the next parts ^^

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Congratulations! Good luck with the next parts, they both are with hints now :)

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