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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Row 0 almost done.. just need to finish the word equation for food and water. Fun event so far :)

EDIT: Row 0 done, row 1 half way done.. :D

Edit again: Don't want to keep updating but 2 rows finished, 1 row just needs one answer, and working on the other 2 :3

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Thanks for having fun! ;)

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Row 1 done except the puzzle 4 hidden ITH.. I can't crack the code for some reason :( I feel like it's staring me in the face but I just have no clue lol

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Still having problems figuring out how to decipher puzzle 4's ITH for some reason O.o Any hints?

8 years ago
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Figured 4 out finally.. WOW I can't believe it took me that long...lmao

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is it that simple? i still cant figure it out :D

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no you got me wrong. not that one. but the next one where I have to decipher the key. cant figure out the sequenze =)

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C=9, D=16,

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holy cow, ty sir

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Sure!

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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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Bumperino

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Thanks :3 (And hidden bump)

8 years ago
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Nice little hidden bump of appreciation of your hidden bump!

8 years ago
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Hey, since you're not on steam, check the comment i left on one of the gibs just now, i think there is a mixup in puzzles at the top.

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Just glanced at the Pinnacle puzzle before going to bed and saw it when you were at 1 minute past solving. Congrats! I hope to be there tomorrow or Friday.

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Thank you :) And I'm sure you will :3

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Another hidden bump ;)

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Can't figure out the 7th ITH word equation. I have trouble with the "house" image in the end. Are you pointing in the shadow of the building?

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The two houses aren't far from each other... They are actually very what? Rhymes with word in equation just before it...

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Got it!

8 years ago
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nead help with hidden 7th puzzle picture passcode
problems with picture 3

any allowed tips welcome

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One hint given to Fragy just before your comment here.

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that picture i could sove but the picture 3 with the "+" ?

8 years ago
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Same for me here, seems to be a german problem ;)
I can't even guess good enough, because I'm not sure about picture one and two. For both I have two possibilities ;/

8 years ago
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1- name of planet with ring around it
2- when someone pulls down their pants and shows you their butt it is called a what?
3- what kind of numbers is the teacher writing on the board?

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Okay, so at least I had the first one right ;D My boyfriend made me insecure, stating that it could be meant more general ; )
The kind of numbers in 3 always was a thought of mine, but I wasn't sure, because, when I don't have the corresponding letters in the word before, it can't be right ; )
But I'm still lost at 2. Now I know that all my assumption were wrong, but I never heard of a phrase like this. German English classes don't cover pulling pants down and showing your back to others ;) And urban dictionary doesn't come up with something useful, too.

But thank you very much for all your help! : ) Perhaps I will be enlightened if my brain works longer on this ; )

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This might help...

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1- name of planet with ring around it
2- when someone pulls down their pants and shows you their butt it is called a what?
3- what kind of numbers is the teacher writing on the board?

8 years ago
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I'm always getting hungry while solving these puzzles ;D
Pasta.. mhm... delicious!

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Actually eating spaghetti now for lunch! Lol

8 years ago
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Mahlzeit :)

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Enjoy your meal! : )
And I just realised that I had Spaghetti for lunch, too ;D

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Hey Jeff, Hidden #19 is not solvable. I cracked the code and the second code is not accepted. Also for the first one there are only 4 characters given ....

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Ok Ill check

8 years ago
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Grain - crossword ?
Any tip how to assign the 8 correct ordered keywords to colours ? no plan at the moment

8 years ago
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Earlier Comment. Should be the one you are looking for

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thx - this looks fine

8 years ago
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please - nead help with puzzle 6 picture equalation (rice)

have no idea what the 3-picture is called in english? any tip for me

8 years ago
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rhymes with the first picture (and it's not an object)

8 years ago
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first word is name of the fish-- kind

3rd word yea does rhyme with first word...

It isn't about the spot, or blot, or ink but.... something else...

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i was totally fixed on something else - thx for the nudge to see it

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Okay, I tried ignoring it but any hints for Crossword #14. I think I know the person shown but what does it refer to (Land, Role, Real Person)? And the two little girls? Is it about age or is the crown important?

EDIT: Removed the last part. Was an idiot.

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The color version of this will probably help...

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I was able to make that connection, but I'm unsure of what any set of letters, aside from WM, could be.

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google the name of the person and the number 8

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Tried the actor and the character/person and got nothing that resembled the puzzle. Tried 8 and eight. I'll come back to it.

Thanks for the nudge.

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Try checking Wiki page about that person... and look for 8 somewhere.

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My god...

It would've been a LONG time before coming up with that myself. Thank you.

8 years ago
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this hint helped so much <3

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I tried searching for 8 on the Wiki pages for both the character and the actor, but I couldn't find anything. What am I missing?

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Wiki page on that person... Look right side see picture and small table under pic.. In that table is the number 8

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Wow. Thank you! I completely missed that.

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

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Awesome. I'm running a little puzzle event right now myself. Only 3 people have made it all the way through so far.

8 years ago
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the crown i thought is a bow in hair?

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Hm, looks like a crown for me. Probably one reason I wandered off in a completely wrong direction. Also, I have a problem with vowel code 22.

EDIT: Made a mistake. Need to find the correct word

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Oh my goodness I thought that was a crown too.

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I'm having trouble finding the order of the characters for the the hidden ITH 23, I don't really understand the meaning of the picture in red and the one in orange
Anything could be helpful, thanks in advance

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I still don't really understand for the orange one, I'm talking about the crossword with "Kubler-Ross" at the top left, it's more like a finger pushing a button.
I think I know what I should do with the order of the characters, but does the button have a negative meaning, a positive meaning, or just nothing of these ?
Or I totally misunderstood what was on the picture, and sorry if it's the case xD

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What is the person doing to the button? pushing or another P word... it matches a word that starts with De-

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Okay, thanks for the clues, I'll continue searching later, I'm a little tired right now x)

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

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im an idiot probably but any hints on rice puzzle question 9? i got the first letter yet i tried everything i could think of and nothing worked

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the word is on wiki page starts with rat-

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I've finished all 25 puzzles except 10 and 11, both vegetables elude me. I'm guessing it's mostly a language barrier type of problem. Time for some extensive crossword puzzles now.

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

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Goodnighty bumpy :)

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Good nighty to you!

8 years ago
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can I get some help with the passcode for puzzle 24? I can't figure out how to crack the key

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Bump for level0! (do I start at level -1?)

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You can do any of the first 25 puzzles in any order... So search for where you can get on a leaderboard

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Struggling to crack the code for hidden puzzle 18. I gather it has something to do with nascar any tips?

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Well, what is necessary to do that sport and how is that "characterized"?

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The problem I have is that any list I find is missing numbers and has repeats of numbers. Is it limited to a time frame at all?

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I' not sure anymore. But a simple question: Are those numbers a problem for solving the codes? If the missing are not needed you can ignore them, can't you?

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Good question. I'll try that when I get home in a couple of hours [hopefully not too drunk and late ;-)]

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I have those numbers, but it seems even with the google numbers it's not giving me the SG link.

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Then there are chances you are either using the wrong numbers or you have miscounted somewhere. The list in wikipedia should be sufficient if I remember right.

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I will definitely vote for another form of "puzzle" next time. Just searching answers on Wiki is really tiresome and repetitive. I prefer the March event to this one. :(

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I agree. The crossword puzzles are nice, but the quizzes are a bit boring.

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quiz is there to get something to work with... there are more than quizzes here tho...

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True, but it just feels a bit repetitive. It's 25 quizzes.

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No, that isn't true. There are 30 Quizzes ^^ But you should actually like the Decoding part.

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I actually think now there are less? I got to the grain puzzle and it's not a quiz, so I thought it stopped being a quiz from now on. Am I wrong?

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Consider the Grain one more as an exception (I think this is the correct spelling)

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Yea

That was the vote if you check the voting thread...

It actually said MOSTLY easy quizzes with some light puzzling but what it actually became was light quiz then heavier puzzling...

https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/MUiET/update-status-of-new-puzzle-event-for-may-want-to-get-all-ga-contributions-saturday-the-7th

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Wasn't the science event even more answer searching? O.o

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But the search was not limited in just one platform, while requiring some actual comprehension, and the structure of each part was different from the rest, so at least there were some varieties. This time all 25 puzzles have the same structure: look up something in Wiki, copy, paste, do a crossword, get to a ciphering puzzle, repeat...

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I understand that. But I think from an objective point it is better. In the sciece event a lot of people where bummed by the difficulty of every single Quiz and some didn't solve any of it. Here they can access at least 25 of the giveaways after some easy quizees.

And those of us who are able to can solve the actual puzzle part: The crosswords and Codes and acess the "better" giveaways. Overall it is the better solution

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True the whole event is different because it has ONE designer so the complete event is like ONE HUGE puzzle... with 30 designers we get extreme variety but an extreme difficulty spike.

There is a flavor difference in both events. I liked the other one MUCH better because I had something to solve and I enjoyed the brains and creativity of the other designers. I learned alot more there.

I suspect we will have more than 30 finishers of this event though... which can be seen as either a good thing or bad. Guess it depends on how you look at it.

Edit: please replace any reference to this as being an event as it being a thing.

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Last time it was an event, this time it is a big game ;)

8 years ago
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Thanks... Fixed!

Got rid of any opening thread reference to this as being an event...

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quiz is small part, just one stage, the rest of the stages are more puzzley

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I'm being left behind. Time to get back at it!

8 years ago
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I'm behind too....
Using paint to get the crossword is slowing me.................................

I'm bad at paint ç_ç

8 years ago
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Try with pen or pencil... There are less mess than with paints and you don't need to wait while paint's drying ;)

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I use Paint too and I use the text tool. It's quicker than having to draw with the pencil.

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Me too

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I use paint too and I use the text tool. It's quicker than having to draw with the pencil.

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Level 1 partially solved! 76 giveaways found so far.

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Youre counting unique GA right not multiple copies...

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Yes, multiple copies aren't relevant to me. I'm just keeping track of where I've been.

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For some reason, I can't get #3 or #5 from Puzzle 30. They look like the answer should be clear as day, but, for some reason, nothing I try is working

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Well, with #3 I had my problems as well. Chances are that you are to specifc. Both are (like always) one word solutions. For #5 I'm not sure what you are doing wrong. You are sure you are looking at the right object?

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ok, so that really was just me being a... well...

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Dingbat? ;)

8 years ago
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Yes?

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Bump for added preview of some of the games added!

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bump for 2/3rd done. or 4/5th. Depends on how you look at it

8 years ago
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I must say, YOU'VE DONE A HELL OF A GOOD JOB. Like, it's amazing how much work you put into making this puzzle tour. Wow. Just wow.

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

8 years ago
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Fruit puzzle part 2 - answer definetely should be Ovary which is not.. Can you check it ?

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To which question? It may be one where multiple answers can be correct. But due to the following crossword only one can be accepted. So always re-check with the provided source.

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Ops forgot to mention the question sorry. It was 9th question.

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I think what you need to use there is the more scientific or latin name. Other than that (if you haven't solved it already) you should press F5. After 30 minutes hints will appear which should give you a good idea of what is searched. As for multiple answers. They are not possible due to the crossword.

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I didn`t know that hints thing, it is good to know now. I ve solved it, cannot remember the answer exactly now but i remember it being also true :)

Btw thank you for your huge efforts for this awesome idea for puzzling...

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Hints only appear on the first puzzle, so don't try it for the decoding part. But yes, I have encountered a few people already who didn't know that refreshing after 30 minutes provides hints.

Also, all your thanks should be directed towards Jeff and to a lesser extent the people mentioned in the opening post. My effort to this event consists solely of solving it.

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

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Thank you and good luck with that :)

8 years ago
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Stages 2 - 6: done 14 out of 25 so far...

Enough for today, but that definitely earned a bump! ;)

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