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Thanks for telling me that. First time dealing with imgur.
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A little hint: Third picture is the NASA's Opportunity Rover 's last words to Earth.
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Yes, that's the one. As for the charade \ riddle, I meant something that needs to be figured out in general.
I will of course write the solution. Apparently I overdid it with the complexity.
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Hmm, if you didn't mention being naughty, I wouldn't think that way. I see what you mean. But is that just a joke or I do have to think naughty?
I'm very much worried that I now have about dozens of permutations of the 5 characters since I'm not sure the exact topic of a couple of them, and with how sometimes the browser reuses the wrong capitalisation, my odds are pretty much down to zero XD
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Ah, I've no doubts about the order - I've gotten that one down. If I'm right there's one character where the order is not explicit so it is down to elimination. My various permutations are more pertaining to the vocabulary/word choice since if I got the word wrong (think naughty? Think neutral?), I'll get the character wrong. Even so, I've tried the dozens of combinations that I had in mind but none worked, so obviously I had indeed gotten the vocab(s) wrong somewhere...
Thanks for dropping a hint! (though not the hint I wanted XD)
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ah... bump for solved. My hint on the thing I was stuck on for 6 hours is podium 2's confetti/non-existance is not a euphemism/censor for the nsfw action
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Prize: Garden Life: A Cozy Simulator, Global, 3+, Ends tomorrow, 7pm CET.
I made a riddle for friends in discord, but only 1 person solved it, some couldn't, others just refused =\
I hope there are many more puzzle-solving enthusiasts here. :)
I don't mind participants sharing hints as long as it's not an obvious answer.
Direct link to imgur if images don't work : Start
Hint 1: All 5 symbols are in the first 3 images(charade, rover, Robocop). The remaining 2 are for... something else.
Hint 2: The last 2 images show the order.
P.S. Sorry for the short duration of the GA due to the reason above, and the slightly naughty\18+ first picture ;)
UPD: Solution
I used deepl to translate this much text.
So. There's the first picture. Obviously a charade. Each pic in it is one word. So if you try different variations, you can get “Eye will lick your [kitty] til you scream.” Eye sounds like I. I indicated in the description that this image is slightly naughty, so at the very least it should make you think you're on the right track.
Next, you have words\text and some numbers. You need 5 characters and their order. There's “1, 3, 4” in the first picture, “3” in the second and “17” in the third. There are words and numbers, numbers and words. And you need to get a symbol. The word Will and the number 1. That is the first character, w. Lick and the 4th character, k. [kitty] and the 3rd character, s (I'll explain why I don't use another word later). Next picture, with a rover. Text and the number 3. Same logic, take the third character, b. Third picture, text and the number 17, same logic, get the symbol f.
There are 5 characters, but it is not clear in what order and what case to put them. For this we have the following 2 images. The podium for the winners, which by itself and by numbers indicates the order. Space comes first. The one image closest related to space is the NASA rover. That is, the resulting symbol stands first. The second place is empty. In third place, Robocop. He was in the previous image, where we got the symbol f. So the symbol f is in third place.
Next picture. John Travolta and Uma Thurman. She shows 5, he shows 2. Next to them are images of Will Smith and the licking dog that were in the first image. From Will we get the symbol w, from the dog k. Accordingly w is in fifth place, as Uma shows, k in second place. Also, the up arrow is supposed to hint that k is in upper case. The absence of such an arrow for other letters should suggest that all other letters are in lower case.
We have 5 letters and the order of 4 of them is known. Accordingly, the remaining unused space for the remaining letter is the fourth.
We arrange the letters in the required order and get bKfsw. The end.
Honestly, I didn't expect it to cause such a quandary. Pardon me if I caused negative emotions, naturally that was not the intention.
A few fun(?) facts about the creation.
1) I saved the charade about 6 years ago and in the comments almost no one had problems guessing what it said, only a few people failed. So I didn't even allow for the idea that someone wouldn't be able to guess.
2) I originally wanted to place all the characters exclusively in this picture, but unfortunately the SG didn't give out the right characters available in those words. I only wasted a few slots.
3) I tested the picture on chatGPT (or rather on a stripped down discord version). After 2 tries it solved 6 words out of 8.....
4) I use the word [kitty] instead of the right word because I'm not sure what level of vulgarity the original word has. I asked chatGPT how appropriate it is to use [kitty] in an informal discussion, and he responded with several paragraphs. For the first time I felt like I was being scolded by an AI, but to highlight the main point, his quote: “Using the word ‘[kitty]’ in this context can be considered vulgar and offensive, especially in a public forum or online discussion.”
I guess no [kitty] allowed on SG :D
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