Hey there!
I was planning on making a cakeday puzzle like I did last year, but let's say I'm a bit late for that, so it's gonna be a Xmas puzzle! It will last untill the 25th.

Skippable premise:
I used to draw a lot as a child and some people used to say I had potential, but while growing up, for reasons I still don't totally comprehend, I've stopped drawing altogether. Only recently I started drawing again from time to time, when I feel like it.
What you'll see here is not perfect, I lack practice and technical knowledge, most of all when it comes down to draw human faces or coloring, but I think it's decent overall. If you find some color choice odd, consider that I'm colorblind (if the light is not optimal, I have problems descerning light green from yellow and some shades of brown from red) and that my scanner darkened the colors a bit for some reason. Anyway I'm open to any sort of criticism.

Puzzle content:
you'll see a series of drawings portraying different characters. Each character is the result of other two "famous" characters merged together (let's call them "source characters" from now on). The source characters are from videogames, comics, books, TV shows and/or movies (but almost all of them ended up in videogames anyway).
You have to:

  • Match each drawn character with the corresponding ITH question. Publishers/editors/authors/creators names of their source characters are paired there to help you with that. Double pairs have hints in order to discern which is which.
  • Name each drawn character. Their name is the result of the merge of their source characters' names. For some you have to simply overlap/substitute ending-starting syllables/letters, for others you have to switch or add them; for some is easier, for others is less intuitive. I put all the possibilites that came to my mind as right answers.

That's it. I hope it is nothing too weird/hard/nonsensical/stupid for you. If it's the case, I'll try to help a bit depending on the number of solvers.

I had to divide them into two batches because ITH has a 20 questions cap; there's a total of 31 characters (15+16).
The prize for solving the 1st part is a train with my HB leftovers from the last few months (some of them are region locked, sorry for that);
the prize for solving the 2nd part is Disco Elysium.
You have access to both parts right away:
1st part [ENDED]
2nd part [ENDED]

Enjoy!

>>>>> SOLUTIONS <<<<<

5 years ago*

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Important, choose wisely.

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Potato
Pomato
Totato
Tomato

Rockstar + Remedy -> Bully + Max Payne.

5 years ago
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Not participating but thanks for the original puzzle, loved your fanarts.

Happy holidays!

5 years ago
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Amazing drawings and puzzle in general , thank you :)
But I'm stuck at P1Q14 and can't wrap my head around what goes there :( hint didn't help

5 years ago
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Thanks ;) The solving rate is pretty high at the moment, so I don't plan to give away any more hints, sorry. I will just tell you that the hint about me playing games on steam is the one that should help you the most with that specific question. Once you get that one, the other hint about that question should help you completing the answer.

5 years ago*
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Solved, thanks and bump :)

5 years ago
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That was fun; nice unexpected way to kill some time. I felt pretty silly after some of the solves.

5 years ago
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Another one bites the dust bumps the thread :) solved both parts

5 years ago
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i guess i just suck at combining names cuz i am pretty sure i know every character but have zero clue how to combine them.

5 years ago
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Whoo... finally got a second weekend to finish this off! Round one was a wonderful cinch, but round two was definitely a tough one! Finally made it through though! Thank you again, and -- solvumped!

5 years ago
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You have a style :-) Thanks for the puzzles!

View attached image.
5 years ago
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bump

5 years ago
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nice drawing. too hard for me

5 years ago
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Bump! :3

5 years ago
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Got both, though it was quite a struggle and took some very creative googling. Really enjoyed the puzzle, so thanks for all the effort that went into the drawings!

5 years ago
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Bump for everything, very nice.
If you still accept feedback: Q1-09 took me ridiculous amount of attempts and I have no idea what extra files are meant for.

5 years ago
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Bump for finally solved. That Q2-02...

Thank you for the quiz

5 years ago
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nahh, too many

5 years ago
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This is fun, but I'm stuck on Q1-8 (can't find the marvel part).

EDIT: Thanks for the hint! I was looking in the wrong medium. Thanks for all the fun!

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There's an "H" on his head.

5 years ago
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Bump

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NOTE:
Seems like I messed up with the GAs ending times. They were all supposed to end at 10am CET. Well, Disco Elysium GA ends at 10pm CET.
That means that you still have roughly 12 hours for part 2, while part 1 has endend.

Oh, MERRY CHRISTMAS!

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finished some, but don't have enough time to finish them all.
anyway good job with that, its been a while since I have seen such cool puzzles

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Closed 4 years ago by DogOnSG.