Hey, still don't own a copy of GMod? (Giveaway Closed - Puzzle Answered)

Stuck on q2 and q3 ... xD What does mod4 mean? o.O And.. i can see it, doesnt weigt.. light? o.O Please, give any hints..

Bump for solved:)

Solved. Tricky, but not too hard.

I just want to say...

<3

q2 is clearly the hardes one, i stuck on this..

solved for bump

question 1# is equal to infinity and beyond ! :D Joke

Wow, the first puzzle question I could solve was the #1. Omg! Good thing I saw it on youtube. :D I LOVE THAT QUESTION!

already own gmod :p but solved it for fun.
Reading the first comment I though it would be hard... but this one was actually easier than most puzzles I tried to solve.
looks like watching some random maths vid has some use.

I barely solved it, even though I've got this game. I almost gave up in the end. T.T

Solved, question 2 was the party popper, wrecked my brains. Bumpity bump.

Q2 was nice. I saw Q1 before,but it's already been proven wrong. Q3..Add it to the color black,and it certainly won't be lighter.

Just a reminder that the giveaway ends in 4 1/2 hours if you still want a copy of Garry's Mod. On top of that, if you want to solve the the puzzle just for fun as a number of individuals have, I'll be spoiling the answers on this thread completely after I gift the game.

What is mod4? :((

just solved Q1

Your quiz makes me glad I bought GMod on sale.

Yep it's that hard.

Well, the giveaway is now over and the gift of Garry's Mod has now been given to the winner. So now you guys want to know the answers, right? Well, I will give them to you. But before I do, at the time of this giveaway ending: there was 673 people who attempted the puzzle with only 147 solvers. That averages out to about 21.8%, or just over 1 out of 5 people solving my puzzle. That's actually just about what I expected for the attempt/solve ratio. Why did I mention this? Thought it would be useful for statistical purposes. Now onto the answers.

Question 1: "If you add every number in sequence ( 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 ... ) from 1 to infinity, what's the number you end up with?" Seems like this question is a trick, right? Well, it's not. There is an answer to #1, and it's not what you'd expect. The answer to #1 is actually -1/12, yes negative one-twelfth. Now you're thinking, "Oh, bullshit!" and I'd be inclined to agree except that the question at hand is as rooted in the subject of physics as it is in mathematics. The kind folks at Numberfile can explain this better than I. Here's two videos you'll want to watch before you start complaining that I'm making stuff up. Their video showing the equation Their secondary video explaining it in more detail

Question 2 seemed cryptic, didn't it? "Mod4, most of us have it. The question is: what is it?" Well for this question, you had to think of it from a literal, or physical standpoint. When we're using our computers to surf the internet, like using Steamgifts for example, what do we all have? Well, other than hands, a brain, or anything else mundanely obvious, we'll likely have keyboards and mice. The "MOD" part of "Mod4" refers to a key-binding on a keyboard. The term is used for various areas of software programming, and you may have even seen it a couple of times messing with your control settings in some of your games. MOD4 specifically is the nifty little "Windows Key" on your keyboard(unless your using certain third-party keyboards, or one that was made before 1994). It is alternately known as the "Start Key", "Apple key" or "command key" on your Macs, or the "Super key" or "Meta key" on certain distributions of Linux(like Ubuntu or Fedora for a couple examples). Fun fact: if you don't have a Windows key(or even if you do and you want to try this), you can press the key combination of CTRL+ESC (the control key and the escape key) to perform the same function.

Lastly, question 3: "You can see this, it doesn't weigh a thing, and if you add this to something it actually makes it lighter. What is it?" This seemed to be the one most of you could guess the easiest, and that really didn't surprise me. I basically reworded the old and well-known riddle: "What's weightless, can be seen by the naked eye, and if put in a barrel, will make it lighter?" If this riddle seems a lot easier to solve now, then you likely watched Are You Afraid of The Dark like myself and many other kids from the 90's. This riddle was asked by recurring villain Dr. Vink in the pilot episode of the series, "Tale of The Phantom Cab", and the answer to this riddle is: say it with me, a hole. I also would have accepted a gap because I had a feeling some of you may have answered it like that.

Also, to screw around a bit, I also added in some joke answers to the questions, just because. Q1 had the joke answer "fish" (reference to the cartoon logic of adding 2+2), Q2 had the joke answer "fucking bubbles" (Nostalgia Critic reference) and Q3 had both "are you afraid of the dark" and "stop the taxi" (sort of self-referential). Hope you had as much fun trying to solve the puzzle as I had making it, and I can't wait to do one again.