Event over - Solution and chart posted below


You have to find either hole 1 or 2 first!

I've hidden it somewhere secret.
Maybe inside a hovercraft or assault rifle.
Its for a Just Cause


Hints

  • Surface : You can get this one without digging

  • Hole 1 or 2 will lead to hole 3.

  • Hole 4: You may want to revisit the gala giveaway page and look for the extra secret from a certain bald doctor who shall remain nameless.

  • Hole 5: The doctor has yet another depth level!

  • Hole 6: After meeting the doctor for the second time, the killer lady decided to dig a nuclear hole.

  • Hole 7: Listen to the doctor's advice after finding the lady!

  • Hole 8: The surface may have a ladder to that one

  • Hole 9: A little yellow fellow is lost and phobic of water :( , help him (he thinks hes a cowboy)

  • Hole 10: The wolf dug us a hole not too far from here.

  • Hole 11: The wolf has a helper !!

  • Hole 12: "They can snipe the dot of an eye, no trouble."

  • Hole 13: Look at the source of the first water. (note: not easy)

  • Hole 14: The doctor's ladder will lead you to the hole of terror

  • Hole 15: Foxes like to dig holes too. You'll have to follow the fox and inspect closely. Don't startle the fox!

  • Hole 16: Once you've found the fortified castle, the killer lady awaits inside with gold.

  • Hole 17: After you found the fox at dawn, you can point your finger at him and laugh "Ha Ha".

  • Hole 18: After you've laughed at the fox, and thrown him into the water, you can steal his bacon! Can you find it?

  • Hole 19: Similar to the wolf, The Beard is not far! Some of you have been talking about greed.

  • Hole 20: It looks like some plants grew up into the surface!

  • Hole 21: When you're greedy you might encounter a map of randomness from Sam pointing at the key fragments for the hole.
    Collect the fragments (from 5 different giveaways) and put them together.

  • Hole 22: After you found Sam, Admiral Ackbar will lead you to this hole

  • Hole 23: Orcs want the bacon!

  • Hole 24: This video will show you what to do. (if you cant see it - here )

  • Hole 25: A Traveller's Journey. You may need this MAP

  • Hole 26: Space monkey and his friend have a mount and blade for you to fight the orcs.

  • Hole 27: The anomaly fish will tell you

  • Hole 28: The fox now helps the wolf dig, his hole may lead to an anomaly

  • Hole 29: Whats inside the anomaly? @.@

  • Hole 30: Can you find the wizard? Where could he be? >>.<<
    Perhaps the fox can lead you there


Rabbit Hole Event Solution

  • Hole chart

  • This started a few days ago as just 2 small public giveaways I created.
    I decided to start digging deeper. Over time people joined, and it turned into the amazing Rabbit Hole event.
    Good job guys.

  • All hole giveaways closed! Thank you guys for participating.

  • I would like to give a special imaginary puzzle trophy to Toff and Aironfaar for extra creative, well planned puzzles.

  • Hole chart coming soon

Identities and special thanks:


  • Surface - Just Cause 2 DLC Monster Truck - Injection
    Location
    All you had to do was click it.

  • Hole 1 - Just Cause 2 Agency Hovercraft - Tzell
    Location
    Was public giveaway by Tzell. Had to find it by either browsing through public giveaways, or through Tzell's steamgifts profile.

  • Hole 2 - Just Cause 2: Bull's Eye Assault Rifle - Tzell
    Pretty much like Hole 1.

  • Hole 3 - Indie Gala 2 - The Carebear Bundle (4 Copies) - Tzell
    Location
    Was a pretty visible click on either Hole 1 or Hole 2.

  • Hole 4 - Indie Gala 2 - The Carebear Bundle (2 Copies) - dys
    Location in hole 3.
    Some were decoys, some lead to the real giveaway.

  • Hole 5 - Indie Gala 2 - The Carebear Bundle - dys
    Location in hole 4.

  • Hole 6 - Nuclear Dawn - killergp123
    Location in hole 5

  • Hole 7 - Hydrophobia: Prophecy - dys
    Location in hole 6

  • Hole 8 - Indie Gala 2 - The Epic Gala Bundle - dys
    Location in 'surface'

  • Hole 9 - Sniper Elite - megagiga34
    Location in Hole 7.
    'Afraid of water' was a hint to look in "hydrophobia" giveaway.

  • Hole 10 - Trine - tibnew
    Location in thread.

  • Hole 11 - Machinarium - Mebahell
    Location in hole 10

  • Hole 12 - Hydrophobia: Prophecy - thejadefalcon
    Location in hole 9
    dot of an eye.

  • Hole 13 - Fortix - thejadefalcon
    Location in hole 7 source code.
    You had to view the source code to get to that one.

  • Hole 14 - FEAR 3 - SnarkovX
    Location in hole 8.

  • Hole 15 - Warhammer 40000: Dawn of War II: Retribution - BlackMuse
    Location on Tzell's Steam profile.
    All you had to do was follow the fox

  • Hole 16 - Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West - killergp123
    Location in hole 13
    The link had the reversed code. You had to follow the clue and reverse it.

  • Hole 17 - Hydrophobia: Prophecy - madnessnewb
    Location in hole 15
    The clue was a reference to madnessnewb's icon.

  • [Hole 18](The Baconing) - The Baconing - Colazor
    Location in hole 17, which lead you to a youtube song.
    There you had to press 'show more' to reach the code, which you should've entered as the giveaway link:
    http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/7kwta/

  • Hole 19 - Greed Corp - Aironfaar
    Location on thread
    ctrl + f for 'greed' should've lead you to the proper spot

  • Hole 20 Plants vs Zombies GOTY Edition - Colazor
    Location on 'surface'

  • Hole 21 - Serious Sam: The Random Encounter - Aironfaar
    Hole 19 left you clues as for where you have to look to get all 5 pieces of the giveaway link code.
    Holes: 1,7, 9, 18, 14, 18

  • Hole 22 - Blur - BlackMuse
    Location on hole 21.
    you had to press the third 'dot', the rest was a decoy.

  • Hole 23 Orcs Must Die! - Minus21
    Location on hole 18.
    You had to press the middle part of the link 'orcs', the rest was a decoy.

  • Hole 24 - Supreme Commander 2 - Colazor
    Location on surface, which led to Location in hole 1.
    The enigma video was a hint, go back to the beginning. You should've reached it through both 'surface' and hole 1.
    The hint 'return to innocence' written in hole 1 should've let you know you're looking in the right place.

  • Hole 25 - Monkey Island: Special Edition Bundle - Toff
    The map shows you which holes to explore for 6 letters to collect from Toff's travel journey.
    The arrows show the order of the letters
    The highlighed 'bit ly' parts, is a hint you should've used bit.ly shortening service to find the link.
    bit.ly/Jv5wCm

  • Hole 26 - Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword - KaneTheBigRed and lejyoner00
    Location in hole 23.
    Link was posted in 2 parts. You had to add them together. mLX + i7.

  • Hole 27 - Half-Life 2: Episode One - Calculator
    Location in hole 28
    One of the dots held an actual link, you most probably had to view page source to find it, or get extremely perceptive.

  • Hole 28 - Anomaly: Warzone Earth - chour
    Location on thread.

  • Hole 29 - Lightfish - Minus21
    Location in hole 28.
    It was mainly a hint for the next hole, meaning the same dot pattern will be used and hide something else.

  • Hole 30 - Wizorb - Wormy
    Location in the Riddlers Labyrinth group.
    The video was a hint you were suppoesed to look in the Riddlers Labyrinth, which is quite visible once you scroll down Tzell's profile.

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Well, I stopped at #17. Hopefully I'll find the most of the next 12 (or more?) tomorrow morning, before it's too late. :)

12 years ago
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Sleep well little yellow fellow.

12 years ago
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can't find holes 21 22 25 27 28 29. im almost out of points but still wanna find them :\
any aditional tips for any of those ?

12 years ago
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Found all of them again...and am down to 8 points. Eep! We need some public giveaways to recover!

12 years ago
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Why did Dota's value have to go down at this time?!!? :(

12 years ago
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Thank you so much to all the giveaway-ers, this has been an insanely fun giveaway!

12 years ago
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Found 1-23 and 26-29, but 25 still beats me (I get the shortener, but that's all).

Edit: Also, trying to solve what to put in it is leading me into shady sites.

12 years ago
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If you have the correct idea, there's no need to do any blind tries, really.

12 years ago
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That helps in ruling out things, thanks. Now it's time to actually find the correct idea!

12 years ago
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Having all of the giveaways open + this page and the surface + facebook really makes it hard to navigate through them all :P

12 years ago
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hole 24 posted! ohman.. you're gonna hate me

12 years ago
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Naw, I'm gonna hate YouTube. The video is blocked for German IPs.

12 years ago
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I can confirm this.

12 years ago
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can you still find a way to view another version of this clip?

12 years ago
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If you get a copyright notice, you can't usually even see what the video IS.

12 years ago
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You can see the title even despite the copyright notice, actually. That's what helped me to find this one, which works for Germans.

Solved it before watching the vid though, lol. I saw the video in the past and recalled what it was like. No idea where the memory came from...must be an ancient one, lol.

12 years ago
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already did when you made the hole number 25

12 years ago
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hehe that one is not my fault :D

12 years ago
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Aww...now I feel ignored. Why didn't you hate me when I created hole 21? :(

12 years ago
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Don't feel ignored Sam, I have plenty of hate for 25. Though 24 could provide competition.

12 years ago
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Heh heh, there's an easy yet always damn irritating piece of advice: Don't think too complicated. It's really quite basic in both cases.

12 years ago
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i hate when i almost blow my mind trying to do solve a puzzle and later i realise the answer was pretty simple xD
anymay, i'll try again tomorrow when i have points to join the giveways ^^ thx for the puzzles, they're really fun

12 years ago
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now i know who sam is ¬¬ and im still cant find almost all of the holes after 20

12 years ago
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My attempt of number 24 ended up here: Twitter xD

12 years ago
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For the fish (27) do I need 24 or 25 for it? Cos I am missing those two.

12 years ago
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You don't need neither 24 nor 25 for 27.

12 years ago
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Nvm. I found all 29 holes now. My eyes!

12 years ago
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28/29. Not even sure if I'll try to find number 24.

12 years ago
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No idea what to do for 24 and 25

12 years ago
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What, 29 rabbit holes? Didn't have time to do that before and in the meantime they seemed to have grown exponentially! Well let's see how many I can find instead of going to bed now... ;)

12 years ago
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1 hour later and still some holes missing. Seems I'll have some more fun left for tomorrow while having breakfast! ;)

12 years ago
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  • added a little note if you're having too much trouble with hole 24
  • added another little fix to hole 24 in the notes
12 years ago
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Still, 24 is hard. But that's ok, I have no points anyway.

12 years ago
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I started at about 260 points and now i'm at 12 :( (including the 2 or 3 other giveaways I entered :P)

12 years ago
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something like that here too :p

12 years ago
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After some sleep, found all new giveaways too. Is there more to come?

12 years ago
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I'm not sure yet, perhaps if more people participate :3

12 years ago
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Ufff... 29/29, and still have some power for more of such.

And no points as earlier :)

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12 years ago
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I'm being defeated by 9,10,11,12,13,16,19,24,25,26,27,28,29
Edit: just found 24 and 26

12 years ago
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i find the yellow fellow !! oooh

12 years ago
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Finally found all 29! :D

Wish I could contribute more (we need a round number!), but the one game's all I've got for now.

12 years ago
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We should do this forever and the puzzle will be harder and harder :D

12 years ago
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I think it's already getting too hard for Tzell to handle :D

12 years ago
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I think he likes challenges :D

12 years ago
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he should make a separate site for giveawayceptions :p

12 years ago
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I give up, there's just too many holes :O

12 years ago
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you don't have to find all of them

12 years ago
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Thank you guys for doing this!! I think I'm too late for the most part of the puzzle but I found some active ones. I think I'm the only one who can't find the 2nd hole!! lol. I've found 1, 3-11, 14, 20, 24, 28 O_o so far. I'll have a break and I'm going to continue later.

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lol ok I found 2, 19, 29 also.

12 years ago
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I just bruteforse 21 lol

12 years ago
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All done (For now), thanks everyone for the fun and donating the games!

12 years ago
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Currently have 1-23 and 26

12 years ago
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Totally lost at number 24 and 30... kinda sucks^^

12 years ago
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Got them all, except for #25 -- I know where the map is from, but I am hoping I do NOT need that information to solve it... :(

EDIT: Finally found #25. You people are CRAZY!
Thank you so much, it has been fun!

12 years ago
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There is something on each one of the holes mentioned, together they will take you to hole #25

12 years ago
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Hmm haven't found hole 2 and there doesn't seem to be a hint on how to get there.

Found it, previous comments helped, 2 was tricky given that there was no hint :)

Wow, 25 was indeed tricky. I had a suspicion, but it took me a while to see it :)

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Closed 12 years ago by Tzell.