Instead of just mixing things up, I thought about making a one-theme-only puzzle this time :D
Puzzle: [Link removed]
End: July 30, 2016, 11:59pm
Hints will appear in 2 days.
Good luck, and as always please don't post hints or answers :)

Additional hints:

  1. Every answer is the name of a character (first and last name)
  2. not a character from "The Almighty Johnsons" ← Q4
  3. it's almost always the main character
  4. last name was never said in the show, but is required ←Q5
  5. Q15 is case sensitive ← Q15
8 years ago*

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Are you watching way too many TV-Shows?

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Are all the answers shows or characters, o are there any other formats?

8 years ago
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I guess you will figure it out as you read through the questions :)

8 years ago
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Good tastes sir, good tastes indeed.

8 years ago
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You're right, it's too hard! I nailed some Q but others I'm clueless.
I may not had watched every tv show there is, or if it's too new then I might not know it, ie I've never watched "Family guy" I know enough of it and didn't really catch(?) my eye so...
There's the regional thing too, and aging ofc.

then there's binary that isn't binary, and more stalking that I'm comfortable with (to know your fav show, what you eat and what time you do your --err push ups! XD

May it work as bump :)

8 years ago
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Maybe you want to try again now :) Moreover, no stalking required :p

8 years ago
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Maybe I'll do it, L. maybe I do want to...
I'm sorry that you--- whoops! almost throw a spoiler! XD

Edit.
so I'm stuck at
Q3, 4, 10, 14 & 16
I can think of at least 3 attempts that aren't recognized and I'm surprised they aren't:S

ps. Day one I tried the right ones but were... err.. incomplete!

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Damn I couldn't figure out most of them. Giving up.

8 years ago
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Maybe you are able to solve it with the hints :D

8 years ago
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Thanks ;-) by the way, would you mind telling us what the giveaway is if we solve the puzzle? cheers!

8 years ago
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Can you tell me the format for Q15?
Is it just the first name? Is it capitalized? Do we leave spaces between each number block?

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Answers aren't case sensitive by default according to ITH (and if you have the right name it should work, though I had to do it a few times for some reason.. so something wasn't correct on my "part")

edit: oh, but I see it might matter there, I guess.. maybe that was why I had trouble

8 years ago
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It should work using it, but please remove the link and the edit since this is also part of the puzzle for some people :)

8 years ago
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Thought defining format was fine, but I've removed it. The name thing seems like the most basic thing for you to clarify..

8 years ago
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I tried, but 4 and 5 I will probably needs hints for. 5 seems possible but 4 is in the air to me. No idea if I would have had to watch the TV show to understand this or not.

8 years ago
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Half done! Will continue tomorrow~~

8 years ago
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I'm stumped by 2–5. I'll probably check back when the hints are dropped.

8 years ago
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little reminder :)

8 years ago
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Thanks. Got 2 and 5 now. I'm still trying to figure out 3 and 4.

Edit: Solved

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Hi Petronic,

Could you please verify that question 4 is spelled properly? Have tried a crazy number of answers without success.

Thanks.

8 years ago
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I kind of hope this isn't the problem, but if it was then maybe people might know it.

8 years ago
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Yes, it's spelled right, but I also added an additional answer now.

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Thanks.

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Congratulations :)

8 years ago
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I'm mighty impressed you got Q4. Have done at least 100 tries at it so far here.

8 years ago
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If you don't mind me asking, how the hell did you get question 4? Did you recognize it from a show you knew? That question has me in a bad mood at this point. ;-)

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Bump, I've got half of them but the other half have me stumped :/ I hope these are all modern shows

8 years ago
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I have all except Q2 and Q4. Taking a break for now.

8 years ago
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For Q5: is everything screwed up (huge one time impact) or is he constantly screwing everything up (frequent)?

8 years ago
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The second one.

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That actually helps a lot, I think, even if I won't find it.

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i didn't think it was that hard, but only one solver so far :o I added two small additional hints to the OP, maybe some will follow after the actual hints are revealed.

Edit: also added a third possible answer to Q4

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Tried to keep an open mind with the new hints and tackle Q4 again. I know it's possible since Grosie made it through.

Went back and tried all the main characters from 6 different shows. Have made almost 150 guesses since this morning and still no go. Not sure how we're supposed to guess what you're looking for here, google doesn't seem to help narrow it down much.

Hoping the hints coming tomorrow help :-)

8 years ago
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Ha... I really hope the name is listed as-is on the IMDB character pages because some don't list a last name and I don't really want to look up dozens of these characters last names. I added 118 names in notepad++ and I'll go down each even though I've used a few already. Plus the hint added excluded a show I already tried, so it might.. make it easier. After these, I guess I'll hope the upcoming hint helps... and wonder if the difficulty was underestimated.

Grosie did give you more of a hint as a response, though, instead of just answering your question which makes me wonder why.

8 years ago
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Google actually is helping, that's why I don't understand why it's so hard to figure it out :D And with the right use of the hint tomorrow it will be even easier ;)

8 years ago
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Well there are 6 shows that i kind of have a way to associate with the clue.. i've tried every main character (as given by imdb) for every one of those shows, and no joy.

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bump

8 years ago
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Bump for last day :D

8 years ago
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last bump

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Some of the questions are way too vague, will wait for hints.

8 years ago
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Stuck on Q5
Nothing I tried worked.

Q11 is pretty devious.

Some questions require you to write the name differently than it is listed on IMDB, so you might want to add those options.
(a Robert=Bob kind of thing)

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Not asking for the answer at all, but i'm curious if you got Q4?

(FWIW, I finally got Q5 after a while, with only Q4 remaining.)

8 years ago
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I'm only missing Q5.
Q4 is a bit of a leap, but it's solvable. So far Q5 doesn't ring any bells to me or google...
I have a feeling that I'll get it and think that the question/hint was BS

Edit:
Solved
I had actually tried the answer, but without the last name since I didn't know it.

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Lol funny, that's exactly how i'm feeling about Q4.

Good luck.

8 years ago
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It will be a pretty big hint, I'm sure you'll get it :D

8 years ago
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Well done, congrats :D

8 years ago
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Could we get a hint about how old the shows are? Like what year did the oldest show in the list start? :D Just a thought because I'm not sure if they are all recent shows, some questions make me think about shows from the 60s and then try to come newer from there.

I see people had trouble with Q4! I'm suddenly very thrilled I got it instantly, yay.

8 years ago
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All shows are from 2000+, except Q9 which is still airing
Good job :D

8 years ago
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Thank you! Now to only figure out Q15... I was sure I had it but my pick turned out to be wrong. Fight continues!

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Bump

8 years ago
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Victory bump! Great puzzle!

8 years ago
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Bump for solved :)

8 years ago
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Weird. I had #5, but I guess I misspelled it ;_;
Now for #4.

edit: I also just got question 4 even though I made a txt file and it's the first name on the list (and I had actually entered it before a few times too.) Maybe it had a space at the end and I didn't notice. Kind of annoying whatever the reason.

another edit: I really wonder why some of my answers didn't seem to work before because it does work with spaces at the end.. even multiple spaces.

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I was stuck on Q3 and Q4 until today. Weirdly, I thought I had guessed the right answers already (Q3 I recognized immediately), but they weren't accepted at first. Maybe I inserted extra spaces or misspelled something.

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I'm the only person stuck on Q3 it seems. Way too many shows about the job Q3 references. Is it in the same universe as Saul? Edit 2: Solved.

Edit: I removed the spaces from my answer in Q15 and it didn't work, but when I kept them it did work.

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Nope, I too am stuck on 3. Got 4 and 5 almost immediately. But stuck on 3 and 11.

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I'm also stuck on 3.

Edit: Solved

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Was it obvious or not so obvious? I'm assuming the answer to that doesn't count as a hint otherwise feel free to abstain from answering.

8 years ago
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Not obvious at first because I haven't seen the show. Hint 3 in the description helped. I just looked up the main character of another show related to that profession, and it worked.

8 years ago
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THANK YOU! That was the missing piece for me. I was sure I had the right answer, and with the spaces it finally accepted it :-)

8 years ago
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Yeah, it's one of those things that seemed like a pretty fickle thing that could prevent you from getting the right answer so I thought it was noteworthy.

8 years ago
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solved

8 years ago
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Bump for solved!

8 years ago
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Closed 8 years ago by Petronic.