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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bump for lvl 0 solved :3

8 years ago
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Awesome job!

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

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Have a last bump while i'm going to bed :p

8 years ago
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Thanks for a night time bed bump! (That sounded bad... sorry)

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It is better going to sleep instead of trying to complete level 1. At the moment I can't find a way to order the letters for crossword #9. I found the ranking more or less but I don't know how to associate the numbers with the colours which is needed to order them correctly. So have a bump.

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Try finding key on puzzle in this link

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_League

8 years ago
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Ah, I thought it has to do something with that plant. But I couldn't associate it. Now I just have to find the correct ranking list.

8 years ago
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the ranking list is on the crossword.

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You mean a link? Then I didn't see it. If you mean the hint. Yea I already used that to determine the order and solved it. Right now I'm more or less at crossword #27 and try to figure out the hints.

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Oh ok, well first you need to do a google search of some key words... each of the pic icons are on a platform called what? and there are 8 of them... then what is the name of the drink that is fuzzed out? and look at the smaller writing on can...

tell me if you find something...

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I'm completely confused. I know the drink, the tv channel, the platform, and I'm still clueless
Searching all three key words doesn't solve it

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there are 8 platforms the little figures are on what are those called?

Youre gonna need to find a video to watch to solve. If you get an error saying cant be viewed then tell me...

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Hi, it's me again. I matched names with colors and then I found listings of the ranking, but none is working for me. 1-6 rankings were the same only the last 2 I found changing.
Is it a specific source you used for this?

Edit. Apparently I confused the 2nd with the 7th (>ლ)

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first part of the pinnacle done. I'm calling it a day

8 years ago
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Awesome job!

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Awesome 16 completed Row 01 and acquired Achievement awards!

8 years ago
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Plants doesn't breath carbon dioxyde, they breath oxygen just like us. They just do some photosinthesys first to obtain that oxygen.
I needed to take that out of my system.

That said, nice puzzle!

8 years ago
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sure Ill make that in the puzzle...

8 years ago
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Fixed, thanks! ;)

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

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Enough for today... Only 4 puzzles left from stage 1 :)

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I made it so it would need a month to solve... LOL so savor the moments!

Great job buddy... see you tomorrow!

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Stuck on decrypting the letters for crossword 25, any hints? The color code doesn't seem to be a substitution, and tried "Therapy" as the key for a keyed caesar, no dice.

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Do a search for psychology and 8 stages

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Got it! Had to sleep on it, but that was a rewarding feeling this morning when it clicked into place!

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

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thx solved

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You should check again the crossword for the bread puzzle. I solved it and the words are fitting there. So maybe rearrange them. For the crosswords in general. First (obviously) you need to determine the letter of the marked tiles (colour often) and then you need to figure out the ordering process which is a bit more complicated. For the water puzzle for example you can refer to this comment from Jeff.
For the others just ask specifically and Jeff or someone else is most likely to give a hint.

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Yesterday I was too tired, so I'll write this down now:
I really appreciate all the work you've put into this and want to thank you and all your helpers again!
Especially the kindest sheep in SteamGifts hopefully I don't offend any other sheeps with this ;), who helped me so much regardless that we both were tired ;D
You really saved my day with your puzzle :) Before starting to solve it I was kind of depressed with thoughts like "Why can't I do this? Why I am too stupid for that?" and your puzzle was just easy enough to give me a boost of self-confidence "Yay, I solved it all by myself" and at the same time challenging enough to fuel my ambition. So thanks to you a bad day turned good!

TL,DR:

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So happy you got a fun outlet and reward for accomplishment from the event! The rest of the event follows the same pattern so keep it up... when you solve the final pinnacle puzzle at the top you will be doing happy dances around the house!! ;)

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Thanks for your kind words btw (I just saw this comment now) <3

8 years ago
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Thanks for the puzzles! I just finished the first row and as a biotech student I have to say I approve of the theme :D

8 years ago
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Thanks for the thanks! Awesome field of study... next time Ill get your expert help in making the puzzles! ;)

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I'm always willing to help if I can ^^

8 years ago
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Awesome! Great crew here on SG!

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

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Pls - nead help with the planats at cereals. The colours and sizes look strange and dont fit to my reference site (http://www.astronomie.de/das-sonnensystem/basiswissen/entstehung-des-sonnensystem/) - any help welcome

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Sure Ill get a better reference for this in a few minutes

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Try this

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Did the pic from dingbat help?

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not at the moment - moon is no planet ? maybe 1 = second planet to s.. is the wrong starting ?

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Note the order shown in the picture as well.

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but why are there three red planats ??? starting with P.... or N..... - i´m totally confused
The order in the picture is wrong - see my picture

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The color is a bit off, but there are only 2 orange, 1 pinkish yellow. And size does matter. Mercury is tiny, Mars is about 2/3 of Earth, while Venus is a bit bigger. It's not hard to determine, really.

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thx -i got it

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honestly, 5 of them are easy, and I brute-forced the remaining 3 (only 6 possibilities)

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i´m a totaly dau (dümmster anzunehmende user) in brut-forcing

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sorry, I don't speak nazi.

assuming the other five are correct, there are 3 of unknown order, for 6 possibilities:

ABC
ACB
BAC
BCA
CAB
CBA

If all else fails, try those 6 possibilities

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I added a hint in the RESERVED hint section at beginning of thread on this...

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OK, I've done first set of crossword + hidden ith decoding + finding word and number passcodes...

Now I can see how huge and complicated whole event is...

Great work @jeffhowe! Absolutely great!

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Thanks so much for your kind words-- and you aint seen nothing yet-- wait till you get to the pinnacle puzzle! Muhhhhhahahahaha!

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No kidding. Gotta ponder the one that pops up when solving the pinnacle puzzle for a while.

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Over 333 comments on day 2 so 1/3 of the way to getting to 1000 comments... We need to up the goal... Let's say 2000?

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There have one more while i jump in bed :3

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I would put in something else for the event if only I hadn't had to pay my tuition fee. Now I understand why American students are in so much debt...

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no worries-- we got alot of gibs contributed--- and appreciate the ga you did provide... ;)

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

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For the grain puzzle, last code, shouldn't 11D read JD?

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Yes, fixed thanks!

8 years ago
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yay two rows done
time for a break

8 years ago
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Row0 and Row4 ! Awesome!

8 years ago
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is there a mistake at the key for hidden 23?

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I'll check..

8 years ago
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Did you solve 22 yet? That hidden ITH solved will help.

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not yet, but i did solve hidden 23
i think the third part of the hint is wrong
or maybe i'm missing something

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someone solved it named tinoo so it must be right...

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that's me actually :)

8 years ago
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ok, let me go over the key... hold...

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Yes you're right z should have been 783,000... thanks so much for the catch! Fixed it.

Bravo on your deduction skills!

8 years ago
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may be that it is just me
but the pic of question 5 from quiz 10 vegetables does not load :(

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This is the pic...

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if it works for you it seems to be just me
only get a 404 (and at the first try on the page a warning that it is not safe)

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Does this work?

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yes, thank you! :3

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sure np

Ill change it on the puzzle!

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Do you use https everywhere plugin or something similiar? It gives 404 for this picture in my case. When I switch off plugin image is loading... Maybe that helps you in future solving ;)

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uhm... i don't know
but i tried it on my IE, which is my plugin-free backup for things like that, and it didn't open there too...

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

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Have problem with solving right order in crossword 12. Order by total points and by goals scored I took from the wiki doesnt work =(

8 years ago
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Just updated the Reserved Hints with a hint for that...

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Ah, its because of image with ball from WC 2014

8 years ago
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Please send me a correct pic and I will replace....

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maybe it's just me.. i saw ball related to WC 2014, so googled results only for this one championship, not for all time.
now, as you already posted hint on main page, maybe this pic fit better http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fifa_club_world_champion_badge.svg

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changed to this picture in crossword... thanks!

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

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I think I need some clue for crossword order from 11 Vegetables (part 2)... Everything I could find about those pictures for clue are numbers "from - to"... So if I have for example: 12 to 15, 12 to 19, 12 to 19 and 14 to 19 I don't know what's the order... And I'm not sure if I correctly recognized pictures at the first place...

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google them with "by size". you will get most of them on one pic

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Oh, so it.s by weight, not by head-and-body length... When I saw standing ones I was sure it's about length... Thank you!

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if that doesnt work then we can ask EvilBlackSheep cuz he helped me with that puzzle....

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Your link from above was like instant solver... So I think no further help is needed ;)

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awesome!

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I looked at individual wikipedia pages and wrote down the average weights... let's just say it doesn't match that picture

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row 0-2 done, ith only so far
now i will go to bed, will continue when i find the time again
thank you! :3

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Great progress... please return and continue when you like... ;)

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Okay, this will have to wait till tomorrow. I'm stuck again ^^ This time with the letter ordering of the fruit 2 puzzle. I thought it has to do something with time but couldn't find a sufficient list. Also the word size in the crossword irritates me in that context. So chances I'm somewhere unrelated are good.

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Size order from largest to smallest... the largest is obvious as it includes everything in one icon pic...

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So I got row 0 done now (Took me 3 hours x-x) But i don't know how to add the numerical passcodes for the achievement train ._. I'm sure I got the right numbers but it won't take them

Edit: Nvm got it now...lol

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Fantastic!

8 years ago
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I got the same problem, ¿some hint pls?

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

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

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Puzzle 27 video is not available in my area (and in France or UK as well, if that matters)

8 years ago
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Ditto and just posting here so I can see any updates to this.

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You can use a VPN or proxy to view it, like I did.

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Germany as well. But I spoke to Jeff about it yesterday. He has an alternate link. You just need to tell him that you can't view the video and he will give it to you. Should also be updated in the hints on page 1.

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Thanks. I ended up using a free VPN (cyberghost if anyone wants to know).

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If anyone needs the alternate link just ask... Cool you guys found a work around!

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Can't find a video with the hint search...
Can I have the link?

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seems its available only from american IP. tried some european and asian proxies - no result, US proxy works fine

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