Hello, Steamgifts.

It's been over a month since I've made a puzzle giveaway and I decided that it's time I made a new one, only this time things are a bit different.

There are 10 puzzles/quizzes and 10 giveaways in total, but out of those only one giveaway is for a fairly nice non-bundle game whereas the rest are for cheap, bundled games. Each of the bundled giveaways has a minimum CV requirement of $5 while that of the non-bundle is $30.01.

I will not tell you which is which and you will only be able to find it by solving or by getting lucky. The order of the puzzles is quite random and so are the giveaways for most part. As Award would say: "Each puzzle requires a different kind of knowledge.", but Google should be able to help you overcome most of the obstacles. Some puzzles will definitely prove more difficult than others, but as we all know, difficulty is relative and subjective, so I expect to see at least a few solvers on each.

All current giveaways will end on May 24th at approximately 6 PM GMT. Right now, my plan is to make a second non-bundle puzzle and giveaway that will only be accessible to those who have solved ALL the previous puzzles and that will last until the end of the month, but this entirely depends on the number of people who manage to solve them all. It may or may not happen.

I've checked all the puzzles to make sure that there are no mistakes, but I did not manually solve them all as I believe that the first 10 solvers deserve their places on the Leaderboards. So if you are sure that there is a mistake in one of the questions feel free to post here and I will check it again for you, but because I want to avoid the unpleasant experiences from my previous puzzles, if you report a mistake, I check it and there is nothing wrong, your future reports will be ignored. I don't want to be mean, but I also don't want to see the thread filled with fake reports.

As per usual puzzle rules, please do not share answers, links, do not work together (this is not a group puzzle) and do not try to cheat in any way. If you need hints post in this thread and I will see what I can do. The more hint requests I receive, the easier it is for me to figure which questions actually do need them. I might also add additional giveaways to the puzzles that prove to be the hardest (except for the non-bundle one).

Please post here when you solve a puzzle and also bump it as often as you can because I want the puzzles to get as much exposure as possible.

The puzzles are completely unrelated and solving one will not help you solve another, please don't waste time trying to find connections between them as there really aren't any.

Solutions are now included here and I will also highlight the questions that some of you found to be more difficult.

Puzzle #1 - For the last question, the name of the game could be obtained by combining the first letter of each of the previous answers.
Puzzle #2
Puzzle #3
Puzzle #4
Puzzle #5
Puzzle #6
Puzzle #7 - Collective nouns
Puzzle #8 - The English version of my name was posted on my profile along with my country. All you had to do was to translate it.
Puzzle #9 - Nothing to add here, now that the solution is posted.
Puzzle #10 - This puzzle was created using the murloc translator that is available online, you had to answer in the Murloc language and the last question required some googling.

My Blacklist is being enforced on every giveaway so I am posting it here too as to save those on it some time.

Alright, that is all I had to say, the official starting date of the puzzles is May 16th.

Good luck!

EDIT May 18th 2014:

As some of you may have already figured, the initial non-bundle giveaway was #9. I've now made a few changes, so now #7 also has a non-bundle giveaway and I've decided to add an additional bundled GA to #10 due to how unpopular the first title was.

EDIT May 25th 2014 - Added the solutions.

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Edited two of the pictures in Puzzle number 9 to make it even easier.

10 years ago
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Bump for solved the first one :)

10 years ago
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Bump for totally stuck in Q2 in the 2nd one :P

10 years ago
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bumps for solving P4
[edit] also P1 and P5

10 years ago
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How are we supposed to figure out Q7 from puzzle 1? There's nothing at all in the puzzle about the game that you are giving away, and it's not like there are any Pokemon games on Steam.

EDIT: Bump, solved 1 and 5.

10 years ago
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The Answer that you seek is in a puzzle. I am not one of those people who enjoy making other suffer by making them use the brute force.

10 years ago
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Okay, that makes more sense then :)

10 years ago
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Ha! Somehow that helped me solve Q6, thanks! :)

10 years ago
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1 through 5 down.

10 years ago
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Just solved P10, so here's a bump for my sixth solve. The total lack of solvers on P7 and P9 isn't really encouraging me to start working on those. P2 is making me feel stupid, and I feel like I know what P8 wants but I don't know how to answer.

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There we go, P2 down for a seventh solve. P9 is bugging me, since I'm usually much better at that kind of thing and I can barely get any of them. P7 seems to be too cryptic overall (has anyone even managed to get one answer there yet?). And P8 seems to be exactly what you want it to be - if you don't already know, good luck.

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It seems that P7 proved to be harder than I thought it would be. Also, there will be no hints for it. Maybe in the last 24 hours, but that's not very likely either.

And in order for me to offer hints for P9 I will need more intel from people so I can figure which ones really need them and so far only scaliana has helped with that.

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I haven't solved 3, 5, 7, or 16 yet. Of those, I feel like I've exhausted all my most useful guesses on 3, 5, and 16. And yes, that's including the new image for 16.

EDIT: Got 9. Edit 2: And 8.

10 years ago
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I've just added a hint for Q16 since I've always felt that it was dull and unimaginative and it was sort of a filler anyway. It should be more obvious now.

10 years ago
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Alright, I got 16. Nobody has the whole puzzle yet, but at least one person has solved each one now.

EDIT: And your new hint for 5 took me all of two seconds. I was ignoring the element that you made clearer.

EDIT 2: And 3 just clicked, so now I just need to spend some time messing around with 7.

10 years ago
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Expect no hints for that one anytime soon.

10 years ago
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Either I'm totally on the wrong track or I just can't seem to find the right word(s)...
Edit: Or it is not available in my steam store :/

10 years ago
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Well, feel free to add me and tell me what keywords you're thinking of.

10 years ago
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Bumping this with my progress:
P1 - Q6 and 7 missing
P2 - Q2 missing... tried every cover singer i found.. =/
P3 - Solved
P4 - Stuck on Q5.. any hint? (im definitively not a youtube guy)
P5 - Solved
P6 - not yet
P7 - not yet
P8 - your name? (stuck)
P9 - 0 solvers (what can i say ?)
P10 - WTF? (stuck)

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I guess that I know nothing.

10 years ago
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And surprising absolutely nobody who saw that wall of "got this one, got that one" a few posts up... bump for the first solve on puzzle 9.

Now to hit my head against the wall on 7 and 8 until something useful pops out.

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9-1,4,7,8 are making me rage in anger...

10 years ago
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Gonna chime in with my progress again. I've gotten puzzles 1 and 5, I'm still stuck at Q2 of puzzle 2, and I've also gotten the first 2 questions from puzzle 10. On the subject of puzzle 2, I've tried every artist I can find who's done a song by that title, covered or otherwise, and I'm stumped. Is there some kind of trick to it? A particular format? And with puzzle 10, I can't see how questions 3 and 4 can have objective answers. Again, any tips?

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i'm in the same position as you, P2 Q2 tried every artist and none was the correct one =S.
and same with P10

10 years ago
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Bump for solved... On puzzle 7. Now if only I could figure out 8, I'd be all set.

10 years ago
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Somebody finally did it. Well done.

10 years ago
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Congrats! I think I need a lot of thinking out of the box to solve that one...

10 years ago
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Maybe, maybe not. The title is relevant and it's also the reason why I'm not planning to give hints for it.

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Wouldn't that be a hint? ;)

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Maybe, maybe not. Well, the title was already there.

10 years ago
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You mean 'drinking' not 'thinking'?

10 years ago
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Tried that - didn't work either!

10 years ago
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Puzzle 9 makes me wanna cause harm to myself.

10 years ago
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Uhm...

10 years ago
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And to those around me... o_o

10 years ago
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Solved puzzle2... The rest is too hard for me. But still trying! My poor brain :/

10 years ago
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Yay, also finished puzzle3,4,5) +Bump

10 years ago
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Solved one out of ten. Not so bad when you consider I only tried to solve one.

10 years ago
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Bump. Solved #5. Totally lost on the last one of #6 tho.

10 years ago
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Bump for solving #1

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Still stuck on P9Q1 and I think I won't figure it out without any hints. I went through most of the games available on Steam, but none of the title seems to fit (Didn't try each one of them though). Either I'm misinterpreting the image or I had (again) a spelling mistake on one of my earlier tries.
I'm wondering why the image is displayed twice, is this relevant?

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I've just added a tiny hint and to answer your question: Yes, but not directly. I will most a bigger hint on Wednesday though, that one should help you figure.

10 years ago
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Okay, thanks. Maybe it'll help me :)

10 years ago
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Here, I fixed your hint up a bit for you. http://i.imgur.com/qcKV25v.gif

10 years ago
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Nice, thank you. Edited.

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Bump

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I still feel like I know the answer to Puzzle 8 and I'm just putting it in wrong. A hint along the lines of "first name only" or "first and last" or "full name" or "the whole response" would help a lot with the feeling that I've already put in the right answer, but didn't format it right. Or if you don't like that style of hint, the number of blanks that need filling in would do just as well. Just something to make it obvious that you're looking for "Ash" or "Ash Ketchum" or "You're Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town, aren't you?" as opposed to the other two. Right now, every guess I make has me wondering if I've already given up on the right answer because I picked the wrong format.

Spoilers: I don't actually think the answer is Ash Ketchum, that's why I used him as an example.

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Lol can't get P1Q7... no idea about the game you would giveaway (well obviously it isn't pokemon)

10 years ago
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Quick bonk. 2/10 atm.

10 years ago
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Solved 8/10, giving up. "Name the game" is not my game, and in "Capture one" can't grasp what you ask for. I'll give it a try before it ends (maybe you will give some hint(s) that get me thinking in right direction).

Overall very nice set of puzzles, a bit too googly, but subjects were interesting. Thanks for the experience )

10 years ago
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Hint added for Q1 P9.

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Offers zero new information :|

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I didn't say the information wasn't useful, what I said was that the information was not new. Nothing in today's added hint offered one iota of information to which I was not already privy.

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Same here :(
I feel stupid and can't think of any more keywords...

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The verb is associated with a sound. Figure what makes the sound and you have the keyword... and I can't make it more obvious than that.

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I give up, my English is not good enough for this. I'll wait for the solution...

10 years ago
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Don't lose hope yet. I might give an additional hint on Friday.

10 years ago
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Puzzle #7 should be a lot more obvious now, thanks to the new title and description.

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Closed 10 years ago by Jokin.