So I finally hit 2k CV Milestone! So I created a great adventure for you guys and gals :>

All you need to finish is google maps and spirit of exploration!

You should start HERE (there are no multiple stages this time ^^

BLACKLIST

GL ALL! I may or may not update this topic in time ;p

And you have 1 week :>

I repaired Q3. If it's sltill not workicng copy-pasta: https://plus.google.com/photos/108648089614826670458/albums/5876816590520671505/5876820170502896626?pid=5876820170502896626&oid=108648089614826670458

Credits to Smythe for awesome idea xD


SOLUTION:

All questions could be answered using google maps street view :>

  • Q1: After travelling mentioned 24 steps you were supposed to look right and then you would see big-ass lego bricks :>
    Lego Bricks
    Accepted answers were:
    LEGO The Lord of the Rings
    LEGO: The Lord of the Rings
    LEGO

  • Q2: After finding roundabout you should go left, at the level of Carntall Rd if you turn right you would see mentioned characters :>
    Wallace & Gromit
    Accepted answers were:
    Wallace & Gromit
    Wallace and Gromit
    Wallace'n'Gromit

  • Q3: After clicking Photo Details at right side of the page you would see clickable google map with location of where this photo was shot. It was Köln in Germany. Close to this location is koelnmesse where mentioned event takes place :>
    Original photo with googlemaps link
    gamescom location
    Accepted answers were:
    gamescom

  • Q4: The given location was for Kremlin in russia. If you look around exactly at given location you'd find this picture:
    Samsung at Kremlin
    Accepted answers were:
    Samsung

  • Q5: Looking at google maps you could see there's a Ghibli Museum in the same park as given location. At lest side of museum is entrance, and there you could see those flags:
    Starting Location and Ghibli Museum
    Flags
    Accepted answers were:
    Green

  • Q6: Plaza as atated in definition is A public square or similar open area in a town or city. And there is one right next to Eiffel tower. You should street-view the only location viewable on this plaza (not at the road!!) and you would see this (X is one of PS controller buttons):
    West Pillar of Eiffel Tower
    Accepted answers were:
    Pilier Quest (i failed at reading it first ;p)
    Pilier Ouest

  • Q7: At many places next to the track you could see him :> He's a famous person from UK TV Show Top Gear.
    The Stig
    Accepted answers were:
    Stig
    The Stig

  • Q8: After moving mentioned 25 steps you should look right and up and see this:
    CDProjekt building
    Accepted answers were:
    The Witcher
    Witcher
    Wiedźmin

  • Q9: Take 4 steps north and then turn camera backwards. You should see this:
    Bird Attacks!
    Accepted answers were:
    seagull
    seagulls
    gull
    gulls
    bird
    birds

  • Q10: On link given there was a link to google maps and it was your starting location. After going 9 steps south you should look at stairs on the right. Sitting there is a girl wearing bikini and nun-hat :> 1 step further you could see that other girl sitting behind her wears same hat as well as that if you look closely you can see her actual hair under the hat :>
    Bikini Nun
    Accepted answers were:
    bikini
    swimsuit

  • Q11: At the middle of the road you could see the mentioned car with company name written on a door :>
    Strachman Car
    Accepted answers were:
    Strachman

  • Q12: Take 4 steps east, then turn right and go 3 more steps in this direction. Turn around - you should see Red Bull Logo on door and above it theres Crowned Logo of a beer.
    Crowned beer
    Accepted answers were:
    Oranjeboom Bier

  • Q13: Go 4 steps west and turn right. Vader is right behind blue car. Now turn around and you can see this banner:
    Vader
    Banner
    Accepted answers were:
    Mars Needs Moms

  • Q14: After 24 steps you could see this car parked at right :>
    Garfield Van
    Accepted answers were:
    Garfield

  • Q15: You should follow main road called Mińska all the time until you get to the level of McD. It was 105 steps away, but I accepted answers +5 and -5 from it. You could also bruteforce answer, as with +-5 margin you'd only have to check 90 possible answers :>
    Starting Location and road to follow
    McD Location
    Accepted answers were:
    100
    101
    102
    103
    104
    105
    106
    107
    108
    109
    110

LAST STAGE: After all this you were given a simple puzzle: sqrt(4)(1 letter) MOST COMMON BAN ON STEAM(3 capital letters) v(1 letter xD).

  • sqrt(4) means square root of 4 and it is 2.
  • MOST COMMON BAN ON STEAM is VAC.
  • and well v is v ;p
  • so GA code was 2VACv

QUESTIONS IDEAS:

I got asked where did I come with ideas for each question, so here's an answer:

Q1. I googled lego, but didn't wast something as obvious as Legoland, then I found address for this shop and it had big blocks next to a road xD

Q2. Found on some site with interesting locations on street view :>

Q3. I've been to gamescom in koln and I've been on this bridge with all these locks - it's actually very close to where gamescom takes place - so that's where idea came from :>

Q4. I have many friends from russia in my Steam Groups and wanted to do something for them, and when I think Russia - I think Kremlin - so I wandered a little on Kremlin using Street View looking around and then saw this Samsung Logo :>

Q5. An big Manga nad Anime fan I wanted to do something related based in Japan. But also wanted it to be something more popular, not just a niche few otakus would know about. So 1st I researched Studio Ghibli - but it was normally looking building, just with small name-plate in front - but during research I found location for Ghibli Museum :> I wandered around a lot and generally loved the whole park, so that's idea behind that question :>

Q6. This one I designed especially for Nonos xD I was thinking France, and when you think Frane you think Eiffel Tower :> and I found this little spot with street view from plaza, not from a street, looked around, seen Cross and thought "Cross = PS Pad" xD

Q7. This one I found here. I love Top Gear, so I love Stig so had to add it there :> just walked a little bit so he wouldn't be visible right away :>

Q8. I'm from Poland so I had to add it here :>

Q9. Found it looking for "unusual" street view pictures :>

Q10. Found a nun on StreetViewFunny, then looked around and it turned out the closest hotel have it's webpade with link to google maps, so I used it :>

Q11. Wanted to do something in New York - Originally Q was about counting how many cars are parked between Broadway and Amsterdam Awe, but as I didn't know should I count this white car and wasn't sure for some others are they parked or just staying there for a moment I decided to go with White Car that was just parking :>

Q12. When I was in Holland I loved the small narrow streets next to canals, all these boats etc, so wanted to do something here, Was wandering around on Street View and I found this pub :> Wanted people to explore a little bit, look how beautiful it is, that's why you needed to turn to find it :>

Q13. Found Darth Vader on StreetViewFunny. Then looked around for something I may ask about and seen this giant banner at other side of the street. Also if someone doesn't find Vader it's hard to bruteforce, as there are shitloads of banners on whole Hollywood Ave :>

Q14. My friend who always solves my puzzles and I was sure he's gonna solve this one as well loves Garfield. So I researched for something Garfield Related on Street View and found that xD

Q15. It was designed as a lazy time-waster and it's easy to misscount especially when street view lags, so I thought it would be an awesome idea to mess up with solvers :>

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Nice quiz. Pretty tough too

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it really is not tough compared to my usual puzzles :>

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Yeah, I can't anywhere in most of your puzzles. Mah brain don't work propah

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then try this one - already 15 ppl solved it in first 12h ;p

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Just the nun left. Think I've found the nun but can't get the format for what the nun is wearing right, unless I'm writing the wrong item. hmmmm

11 years ago
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i guess you masy have found wrong person if you donk know what nun is wearing straigh away :>

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done it :-P

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gz :>

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I don't find the nun... XD

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look at the heads xD

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meh

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Am I the only one stuck on Q15? I don't know if you're taking shortest the route as if you're driving by car or you're walking or you're purely going direct with disregard of if it's possible to travel like that in the real world (i.e. shortest map distance). At the moment I'm just brute-forcing the answer :(

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like mentioned in question itself: following main road till McD is horizontally on level Google Car is. No shortcuts, no fancy shmancy way design - just following main road from point A to point B :>

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I just realised that somewhere along the lines, your initial co-ordinates turned into "Samborska" in Google Maps for me, which is another road nearby and is why I was having difficulty as then there are multiple routes. Got the answer now :/

Consider this a bump and congrats on your milestone :)

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and congrats to you for solving it :>

11 years ago
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Now this is a puzzle , thank you zelghadis .

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You're welcome :>

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You know, it would be so cool if someone here actually lives nearby one of the locations and has trouble solving that related question:

"Screw Google Maps, I'm going outside to solve this thing!"

11 years ago
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well my original idea was for last step to update photo of location to google maps and have GA code on the photo, but google rejected my picture xD

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As for the Q6 , do you mean that whole text ? because it's pretty big and unclear

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then you're looking in wrong place :>

11 years ago
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Great puzzle, bump for completing :)
Gratulację z okazji 2k :)

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dzięki, cieszę się, ze sie podobało :>

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THANKS FOR THIS.

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you're welcome :>

11 years ago
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Still at $31.xx? Aww.

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Thanks and bump for solved!

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gz

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Bump for solved .

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gz

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I don't get what pic do I have to look for q3..

btw, gratz for the milestone ;)

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ok, bump for puzzle solved :D

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gz :>

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Q12 kills the man. Seriously, I've looked through every street and every alley and found absolutely nothing. Nothing at all.

The other ones I've got reasonably fast but this...I've spent more time on this question that the rest of the Qs combined.

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you clearly havent look through every street and alley if you haven't find it xD 10 steps is really small radius xD

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Bump for solved. Also: I love, LOVE your avatar zelghadis ;D

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thanks and congrats :>

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Bump for solved!
Great adventure :)

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Q6 is impossible, theres tons of signs that looks like PS symbols and its not clear where to look, i typed everything i could read and nothing fits, also that freaking underground road always messing my view when im trying to look around. Will see if there will be any hints, but i give up for now.

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you're looking in wrong place :> you were supposed to be at PLAZA like stated in a Question - and you're driving a road ;p And quite possible I believe as 32 ppl already solved whole thing :>

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Are you sure its to the NORTH-WEST? There is only one place where you can zoom in before the bridge or is it over the bridge?

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I'm pretty sure it's north-west as a lot of people already found it xD

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Found it eventually by pure random...

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don't call it "random" if you were looking in wrong place all the time, even if question was very specific that you should look at PLAZA ;p

If you're going to drive a streets ofc you're gonna to encounter lot of these symbols as street signs - yet it have nothing to do with random, as you're looking in different plae that you've been asked to explore.

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I cant call this thing plaza by any chance, but yes its to north-west of the tower.

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lolwut? maybe you need to use some dictionary then? ^^

plaza - A public square or similar open area in a town or city.

Tell me again - how this thing isn't plaza by any chance?

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Well you got my point.

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please edit - it's too big of a hint :>

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NOOOOOOOOOOO I missed the hint... :(

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Bump for fun puzzle ^_^

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thanks sleepy :>

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yay, blacklist.

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yup, so?

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Alt+QQ

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I was confused for a second.

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and why was that? :>

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I guess its ninja nun, cause she hides very well... still searching.

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Haha, same XD

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Yeah, that was the one question that drove me crazy. I left it on the side, so it was the last that I solved, but boy did that took some time to find her.

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bump one question left! Nice puzzle

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good luck!

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arhhh, stuck at Q1, can't find the picture

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there's no picture - you have to walk 24 steps usung street view then look around for something unusual :>

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whohoo, solved, very interesting puzzle

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arhh, stuck again at Q3,Q6 and Q7. Q7:i can' find anybody here.Q6: idk where's the plaza. Can u give a hint? thanks

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Q3 - no way I'll give a hint here - one of the easiest questions there is! ;p

Q6 - you have to look at plaza like stated in question, no driving roads near plaza.

Q7 - then you didn't walk around enough if you can't find NOBODY.

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Ok for q10 is the item in question on the persons head or is the clue "Look at people's heads!" just meant to help us find this mythical nun creature?

Edit: This is now the only question im missing and I can honestly say the rest of them were no where near this hard.
Also awesome puzzle, reminds me a lot of Geoguessr

Edit: Got it! Also curse you! I thought after I got this it would be easy :(

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After you got this it is pretty easy :>

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Can i add you? I have a question and i think it might spoil the puzzle.

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sure

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What is the game?

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game title is one of the puzzle questions - so congrats - you haven't even clicked link to a puzzle.

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where does everyone's blacklist come from. I cant believe that my name is on it. Some idiot accused me of begging even though it was joke, and bobofat I love you but you whirl that ban hammer way to fast. After speaking it was agreed it should be innapropriate behavior, but the ban was the same time. Now i am on everyone's blacklists.

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I don't know why I am on his blacklist either. Yes, I have 2 deleted giveaways but just because Steam fu*ked up and keys I had didn't work anymore for anyone.
I haven't begged, I haven't leaked puzzle answers (I have given riddle type hints that people still had to solve), I have activated all games I've won. I haven't done any of those things he has mentioned there. Atleast add a reason to every person otherwise that list is useless because I don't know why I am on it.

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Solved for bump!!!

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congrats! :>

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Closed 11 years ago by zelghadis.