Wonderful success for this event! Thank you contributors of GAs, all the hint-help from early conquerors, the hype, comments, and FUN! Many people had massive wins! Some over 20 games won!!

Please if you haven't already thanked contributors for their generous GAs donated to the event-- especially for those you personally won then please do so. I would also like to encourage you to consider contributing some GAs for the next event to show your support and appreciation if possible.

Here is a read-only excel document with all the answers...

WOW what an amazing experience! I had so much fun and appreciate all your kind words. It will take me at least a month to design a new event but in the meantime try Nordhbanes Puzzle Agency Puzzles, Mikalyes Dungeon of Puzzles event, or one of onks adventures -recent onk adventure is closed but keep your eye out for more-- they are amazing!

Next pyramid event will include countries, continents, and cultures... and plenty puzzles of a variety for everyone.


Welcome to the New Pyramid Game?? - THEME: The Food Pyramid!

Note: ALL GAs in complete game are Level1!

CLICK HERE to get a taste of the tasty GAs inside!

Time to get your puzzle on!

There are several stages to solve along the way. Here is a brief explanation of the stages.

STAGE 1: Solve the easy and fun ITH puzzles below numbered 1-25 in any order. You will get a reward GA for each solved!!
STAGE 2: Then take your answers from the ITH and fit them into a crossword puzzle!
STAGE 3: Solving the crossword will give you 8 letters as a result, solve with given clues to deduce the correct order of those 8 letters.
STAGE 4: Find the HIDDEN ITH with the result from STAGE 3! You will get a reward GA for each of the 30 hidden ITHs discovered!!
STAGE 5: Decipher using the Key given the 3 hidden GAs... (5 characters A-Z, a-z, 1-9, 0 IN THAT ORDER) 15 GA rewards
STAGE 6: Solve the WORD equation passcode puzzle and save to use in accessing Puzzles 26-30 at the top! (note down numerical passcode also)
STAGE 7: Each of the TOP 5 Puzzles gives access to an ACHIEVEMENT train! Thus potential to be rewarded 5 GA trains!
STAGE 8: Solve Puzzles 26-30 passcode puzzles and put into the TOP Pinnacle to CONQUER the game and gain access to a 1st List of AAA games!
STAGE 9: If you choose to accept the ULTIMATE challenge then solve the additional PINNACLE puzzle for access to the Master of Champions AAA Games List!!

LEVELS - - - - CHAMPS - - - -
TOP - - - - Pinnacle - - - -
TOP 5 - - 26Puzzle 27Puzzle 28Puzzle 29Puzzle 30Puzzle - -
Passcodes - - R0 PCodes R1 PCodes R2 PCodes R3 PCodes R4 PCodes - -
^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^
ROW 4 - - - 23 Fats 24 Oils 25 Sweets - - -
ROW 3 14 Milk 15 Yogurt 16 Cheese 17 Meats 18 Poultry 19 Fish 20 Beans 21 Eggs 22 Nuts
ROW 2 - - 10 Veg1 11 Veg2 FREE GA 12 Fruit1 13 Fruit2 - -
ROW 1 - 04 Bread 05 Cereal 06 Rice FREE GA 07 Pasta 08 Potato 09 Grain -
ROW 0 - - - 01 Air 02 Food 03 Water - - -

Solving Word Equations-- you will need to refer to the final bank of 20 pictures below to help solve.

Example solution for Puzzle 01- AIR's word equation: (see first attached image below)
(numbers by each picture are how many letters are in the word you must figure out)

TOAST + MOON - TOMATO = ?
TOASTMOON - TOMATO
(TOA)S(TMO)ON (the letters in bold are the letters to be subtracted from TOASTMOON)

This leaves the letters S, O, and N. Rearrange the resulting letters to make a word. Thus, the answer for Puzzle 1's Word Equation Passcode is "SON". Check over the second image below and check off the matching picture that looks like "SON".

Use the FREE GA area in middle of event to ask EvilBlackSheep for help on word equations puzzles.

NOTE: Special thanks goes to EvilBlackSheep for helping design the word equation puzzles and an achievement train, lmxn for 4 Achievement trains and several AAA contributions, jesuswarjesus for a train and one AAA contribution, keohookalani for 2 AAA games, hazelmeade for 2 AAA games and other GAs, Morshock, faragona,and hafilip84 for GA contributions for the event, and one anonymous donation of a AAA game!! AND Nordhbane for puzzle help and inspiration! They are all awesome!

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Bah, stuck on the 26 crossword. I have all the letters and I figured out the baseball player but I don't get how the answer to the baseball player relates to the pictures.

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GOOGLE the word from baseball player with the number 8

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Oh shoot, that helped a lot. Thank you!

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Great!

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New puzzle event in design stage... Goal August 1st to go live!

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5/10/2016 HINT for Puzzle 09 Grain crossword 8-character order! Use this link and find info asked for in the KEY

I used the link you provided but I just can't find a single list that contains all of those colors and corresponding universities, closest i get is 6 out of 8, which is no good...

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hmmm... wonder if page got changed....
you saw the column in the table that says colors I would guess...

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yeah, I tried following that order, and also using those with the one t he key asks for but they don't really correlate, as I said, there's 2 that don't even show up on that 2014 thing that are displayed in the colors table

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All eight are there under Prestige -National academic rankings...,

look at ranking for what key is asking for 2014 USNWR and rank 1,2,3,4,8,11,15,16

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I had to check like 10 lists and about 20 or more different google searches to come up with one that had the right specific order, not sure if I did something wrong and it was blatantly obvious for everyone else but for me it felt overly specific, thanks for the help anyways :)

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Everything was found on the page I gave in hint... Can't Understand why you had to go anywhere else...

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I tought the hint was only for the colors and didn't even think about looking for the other thing right there as well, I suspected I was doing something wrong as it felt way too hard, but I guess I should be used to it by now, when something seems too hard it's because I overlooked it ):

8 years ago
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Level 3 conquered! Took me a while.

8 years ago
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Yea it has most puzzles...

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I need some hints for the Pinnacle crossword order @v@

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think prominent users of this site...

8 years ago
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thanks. I did find them, tried the registered date and rank but didn't get it right

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The two dolls are the clue for ranking

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stuck on crossword order as well...

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The two dolls are different in what way??

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New puzzle event in design stage... Goal August 1st to go live!

8 years ago
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stuck on the post pinnacle number line, some help would be appreciated

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Have you checked site 7&8 in this thread? There are some hints lying around. If you don't find it or still have problems I can come back to you. Just make a sound.

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Check this for previous help:
https://www.steamgifts.com/go/comment/08uvZfs

8 years ago
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Did you get past numberline?

8 years ago
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I did, thank you! The hints on pages 7 & 8 helped a lot!

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I am completely stuck on the numberline. I've read all the previous hints in the thread, but none of the cyphers I've tried resulted in a valid code :(

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Can't find the source for Hidden ITH puzzles #18 and #19. Tried for hours to match a list, nothing works. Any tips? :(

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Both have to do with sports. I assume you have figured that out already? If yes, say so and I can provide some more help.

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I did, completely different sports... found lists for both, but they just don't fit.

For #18 there are different "kinds" of the sport, found many lists but they don't work...
For #19 for example if I put the A-Z it kinda fit, a-z overlaps over A-Z and 1-9 can't cover all the substitution cases.

Need further help...

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For #18 you first need to consider what everyone doing this sport needs and then how this "thing" is "characterized" by the watchers.
For #19: How can A-Z overlaps with a-z? You need to find the number associated with those names and the team is important as well. It is some form of respect from the team towards the specific player.

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For hidden 18 cipher key you can't create a full one but if you use the numbers associated it works.
For hidden 19 it's the same.

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The numbers repeat or are missing, tried that but couldn't find something to overlap with the A-Z/a-z/1-9/0 covering all names...

8 years ago
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You might just need to google name and something about sport to get the number you need for each individual name instead of find a complete list somewhere...

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Awesome, #19 is solved. #18 still makes no sense, still trying.

Got Q1 and Q2 from #18, Q3 is just not working so far. :(

Aaaand solved. Thanks everyone :)

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Any help for #18? I can't find Q1/2 but can get 3.

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New puzzle event in design stage... Goal August 1st to go live!

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Stuck on Q5 for #10-Vegetables, have read other clues for this. Not helping (first thought was mint but it is a 5 letter word starting with L so :(.
Nevermind, just started trying 5 letter L words and struck lucky. Still no clue why this is right though.

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The wiki page given at beginning to get answers from has a list of vegetable names... The answer can easily be deduced from the list from the picture hint given.

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Lol, yes, twigged when I was doing Veg2...was rereading the list and found it. When stuck on Veg1, was simply going alphabetical and stopped when that word worked (which is one above the "certain" answer in the list). I have a lot of those face-palm moments...I just keep going forward until I either get there or run out of time :)

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You'll make it-- we still have 2 weeks! ;)

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Thanks, will see :)

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So, stuck on order for colours for 10. Tried ascending, then descending so have used wrong source maybe.

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The wikipedia page is what I used with no problems. Just check the year you're looking at maybe?

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thanks, used another site (one of US gov sites). Will check wiki :)
Edit: brilliant, done, thanks

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Awesome!

8 years ago
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Q4 in Puzzle 1(Air) is bugged, the right answer doesnt work.

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Make sure you use plural form of the word... Question asks about what the holes are called... 7 letters

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Sorry but it have no sense....I can't write here what solution I'm putting but is literally what wikipedia is showing "Plants take in carbon dioxide through holes on the undersides of their leaves known as"

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I fixed it, try now...

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Bump for solved. I'm a late MASTER of CHAMPIONS! :)

Also, told him before many times, but THANK YOU Jeff, this was an amazing puzzle, super fun. THANK YOU to all supporters as well!

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Q5 for puzzle #11 What common vegetable can be found in the letters used in the creatures name below?
I just have no clue, I read the whole list and nothing rang a bell, the ones that I thought did just don't work

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I had no clue either, only realised once the clues popped in...think it is the Canadian version of this creature which then gives the vegie

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Yeah, that helped, thanks mate!

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Okay, hit a wall this time, with 13-Fruit 2. Up to the hidden ITH and have no clue with the key, just none, sick of staring at pictures of piano keys.

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Google piano key referencing

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Thanks, but it looks like the same stuff that got me through 11 and 12. So am still clueless.
Edit: is this key just another version of the one for 11? Just expressed differently? Will go look again, thanks

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No, that idea was rubbish, so back to no clue. Used the piano key reference to get me through 11 and 12. Cannot make it work for 13 though

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Slightly confused. The pinnacle puzzle says I should have 23 leftover words, but I have 25. And I've double checked the crosswords.

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I might have messed up... Let's somehow compare notes on this...

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I've done the word search and crossword. When I get the crossword ordering, I'll post in a GA there which 2 words I have left.

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Thanks!

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*If

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Am I missing something? I've found 6 of them with some searching, but I have absolutely no idea how to find a more comprehensive set.

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7 was enough to brute force it (and make a guess), so never mind.

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New puzzle event in design stage... Goal August 1st to go live!

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About time I revisit the giveaways to enter the ones I'm interested in. I hope I don't add too many games to my backlog again.

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I can't figure out question 10 on puzzle 30. It's not on Arby's website, and none of my guesses are working.

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I think it is on their menu. But I only got after the hints showed up. Have you already worked 30 minutes or more on the ITH? Then press F5 and look at the hints. It should be pretty easy after that.

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Hasn't been 30 minutes yet. It's not on their website at least: http://arbys.com/our-menu/drinks-desserts

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Fun Fact: On the site you linked the item is there ^^

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OK. Never mind. I got the hint. It's on the menu. I was just thrown because the one in pyramid is some kind of berry shake, so I thought it had to be that flavor.

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crossword in puzzle 7 destroyed me, sigh...

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Did you beat it, tho? If so don't stop. If not yet let me help you over the hurdle.

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For the pinnacle crossword, I can't find the green or red users. Also, I think I found the yellow user, but it looks like they changed their profile pic to something similar?

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https://www.steamgifts.com/users

Look under support, super mod, and admin on left side

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I figured there had to be a list like that. I just couldn't find it. Thanks!

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I just finished!

This has been the most addictive game I've played in a long time, and it didn't cost me anything (just a whole lot of my time). so thanks a lot!

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Awesome! I'm glad you really enjoyed beating this puzzle pyramid!

Your kind words made my day! ;)

I'm so impressed with all those who conquered it... You guys are amazing!

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any hints for the crossword order? I did figure out the rank and user, tried to allocate them 1 by 1, but still can't solve it :(

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The colors should help you.

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oh, so it's not about rank but it's about color?!

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The dolls are the hint how to order them

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Wait. Ignore what I said. I was thinking of the next puzzle.

Like jeffhowe said, the dolls are the clue to the order.

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The dolls are the hint how to order them

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well, need to give up at the very last stage....totally have no idea about the hint.
Used age, lv, register year, rank (how to categorize those same rank), all failed

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You sure are talking a lot about the problems you are having.
(This is not an insult)

8 years ago
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That first dolls name is Cathy, you pull a string that is on her back...

The other doll is a mime...

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Time to conquer some food!

View attached image.
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Stuck on puzzle 28 crossword. I googled what I see but I can't find the connection with those letters :/

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Are you sure you have searched for the correct stuff and have a suitable source? The meaning of the letters should be clear after that. Take a look at this. Maybe it will help you.

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Thanks, I searched for wrong stuff the whole time xD

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Ha. Another levelup! (level 4)

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hidden puzzle 8, AL before AK? sorry but I cant understand it.

abcdefghijKLmnopqrstuvwxyz

EDIT: Ok, you use the order in wikipedia.

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Blame the United States. Those letters shown are abbreveations. The full names are ordered alphabetical.

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Yeah, I solved it. I used the order in wikipedia.

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New puzzle event in design stage... Goal August 1st to go live!

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31 solvers already. That's great!

Let's bump for that!

8 years ago
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And 33!

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Isn't that great? :)

8 years ago
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Ok, mastered it all!

That was amazing!

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Fantastic! Carry your pigeons with you to the next puzzle! Jk. :)

It's amazing so many are beating the whole thing when you realize the amount of puzzle cracking it requires!

We have got some awesome brains on this board!

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Finally solved everything!
Thanks for all your effort putting together all these puzzles and giveaways :)

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Fantabulous! And appreciate your appreciation!

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