ITH means It's too hard :-) Thats a website where you can create and solve puzzles. Read through the comments and I am sure you will find out what you have to do. Here an explanation how to enter the code http://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/xnwhP/puzzletrain-all-aboard/search?page=2#OncBNFP
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Yeh i got there :P wheres the hint to what we are actualy doing with this puzzle?
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http://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/xnwhP/puzzletrain-all-aboard/search?page=2#bEGIc5t
If this doesn't help you, I will post a further hint in a few hours :-)
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Hey, don't point on me, I have no idea about how to solve this.
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my eyes hurts.
since i dont have many time, thanks anyway
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Final bump! It was a funny train, but I would need years for solving the eighth one.
By far my favourite puzzle was the sixth, I will search for more puzzles of that style.
Good luck people!
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Some days have passed now and approximately 1 out of 9 players solved the first puzzle. I have never thought that this would be such a good filter ^^
I decided that it is time for a new hint for the first puzzle! I can imagine that some people will hate me for that hint xD but there sure are people who will understand what I mean :-)
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I spent some time with the picture, and got through, but I would say it was the part that required the second least bit of work of the parts I saw. Took me maybe 15 minutes.
Without giving anything away:
The first real puzzle took a while to get, I was close on giving up, but as soon as I understood what it was about, I could just grind away to get all ones down.
The "boxes + numbers" was the biggest grind of them all. Don't even know how long time I spent, but I really wanted to get to the next step, so I pushed on.
The "rainbow" one I got after maybe 2 seconds, then it was just to repeat for every step. This was the easiest one for me.
The "geography" one is where I left. Managed two without any help, then started comparing and thinking, but then decided to call it a day. Too many questions, too little time. Judging from what had come up until that point, I'm guessing I could expect spending quite some time with the puzzles further ahead.
Didn't enter any of the giveaways. Maybe it was something for me later on, but I ran out of time.
Thanks though - nice ideas, I had some fun, but for my taste it became a bit too much of a grind to continue.
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Thank you for this elaborate feedback :-)
I already learned that some puzzles may be kind of "grindy" ("boxes"+"numbers" ^^) and I will make it better in future puzzles. It makes me sad that the first quite challenging puzzle ("geography") is the one, where half of the people that passed puzzle 1 + following simply give up :-( We gave you on purpose 3 weeks to solve everything! You all don't need to solve that bunch of puzzles in a few days...I don't understand that impatience :-/
Yet at least two people reached the second last giveaway and I hope that some more will reach the end. I didn't want to make it impossible, but challenging. It's worth it.
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I got the 8 characters on the pokémons, can't find the right order yet since the elevation of some of them is pretty close...
edit: got it, the elevation is quite tricky, I just decided that if they were close enough I just went left to right
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Good :-) next time please don't be that specific how many numbers/letters you found. I have read the message before your edit. That is hmm..not desired, because it is part of the answer others have to find out :-)
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It was a little hard, I had to look for the sprites to be sure that some letters such as As, Cs, Os and some numbers such as 8s were part of the actual pokémons and not your inputing.
I was about to throw the towel when I wrote you that specific question, you might consider giving people the hint of the quantity of caps and letters so they don't torture themselves too much, lol.
After finding Part 2 I had to stop, my brain needs a break and I don't understand the pattern of love yet.
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It doesn't matter if the letter is upper, or lower case. I didn't know that before I added the code to the image ^^ but it is still clear enough. Kju even edited it a little bit, now it is better. When I look at the number of players I know that it is good.
The problem is P1 ^^ but hey..you have two hints. You can do it :-) Mmmmh and since the new hint was posted there was no new solver xD
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well you have a point there! Lots of ITH players, I will try to understand ITH1 with your hints later when I get some more time, thanks for them :]
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For me, it's the total amount of time needed for puzzle solving, not if the puzzle is solvable in the amount of time available. I would rather try a puzzle that you only have 30 minutes to solve, even if I guess that it might take longer than 30 minutes, than a puzzle that takes 4 hours to solve, which you got 4000 hours to solve (puzzle requires only 0.1% of the available time).
If the geography one was the first, I would probably have continued. It wasn't that it was too hard (hard, but far from impossible, just a lot of cross referencing needed), just the time spent up until then, plus the time needed to continue further on was more than I intended to spend on a puzzle. I also dreaded the time needed to get through to the last part ;)
Not complaining, just explaining why I didn't go through with it.
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I see your point :-)
And i am thankfull to hear such explanations, as they may be thought about in future puzzles. After all, this is our first try of doing one ;-)
BUT: It was not meant to be done in one great session. The thought was, to do some puzzeling, then do something else (maybe for days) and then continue with (next) puzzle.
Well, i at least hope you had a nice time so far ;-)
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A Pokémon puzzle? Featuring the originals?!?!? SOLD
Let us begin! HAVE AT THEE!
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I really don't know WHAT is love? (thinking emotionless)
I'm starting to freak.
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So, aparently I still don't know what the love is... ;/ I found answer for the first question (28). I even thought "Hell yeah, now it's really easy!"... But for the qustions 2-10 my answer was all wrong... What The......?
Those answers are in english?
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Someone else had the same problem. I don't know what's wrong there, but I assure you that the answers are written correctly and of course in english language. Try it again later! You have found it out, very good :-)
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I think I know what's happening... But I'm not sure if I can say anything about this without breaking the rules...
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Hm? Hmm..I added you on steam. I want to know what you have to say ^^
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For everyone who is interested. His problem was, that copied and pasted answers didn't work. He had to write them manually (oh my god ^^) and then it worked. Strange thing, huh? Maybe there was another reason, but I am out of ideas. He is not the first one with the problem that one answer worked, but the others didn't.
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Thanks for the pokemon symbol hunt. The ITH makes no sense "What is love" must be something for native English speakers. Anyways, the symbol hunt was fun, cheers.
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It is definitely NOT only for native english speakers (as we are not either ;-) )
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I think it is something everyone knows (or at least should have heard) but you haven't figured it out yet. I don't understand all that abandonment once you see the puzzle. I have checked and you can even find the answer on google using the hint's words.
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I still don't get P1. I know what the hint is, I just can't find a connection :/
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Looks like I need to add another hint. I have one in mind. A very obvious one, but first I need to discuss that with Kju ;-)
If there will be a new hint, then in a few days, because I just added a new one yesterday. Furthermore there is enough time left..the giveaways will end tomorrow in two weeks :-)
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Wow, I finally managed to do the first puzzle! :D The hints really helped and with a bit of googling and thinking it was not that hard actually. Now on to the next part, thanks for nice puzzle. :)
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WOOOOOOW I love you ^^ you solved it AND left a good word for my hint that actually IS helpfull ^^
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No, the spoiler in the GA1-description. Like this:
Spoiler
... but i guess you meant P3, so read what i answered there :-)
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He posted a small hint for you as reply to the comment you posted in the giveaway before that puzzle.
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Bump for puzzles 1, 2 and 3! Got pretty unlucky with the 3rd one, but not gonna say anything else HERE :) I'm halfway through 4 and it's... well... a GOOD puzzle: annoying as hell to get XD
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Great :-) I'm happy that you enjoy the puzzles so far and don't give up ;-)
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Gaaah! I hate ITH4... D: It's super annoying, because there aren't many remarkable "questions" and I searched the whole thing several times, but I still couldn't find the most of them... :c Still, I really enjoy solving your puzzles! :D
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Well, I got Q1, Q2, Q7 and Q9 now! :D Although Q7 really didn't look like it should've looked like, but at least it was similar so I managed to find it. :)
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OMG Please tell me the P4s are on the same continent V_V
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Psssst! and no fo course not ^^! ;D Take your time..you have much time left! Take some breaks and be patient :-) You can solve P4. And the others that are waiting for you
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Seriusly?
I think I'm the only one stuck in p5 xDDD
I can't find the shorter one
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I'm not a native English speaker so I too had a bad time finding that word. But remember that the questions are alphabetically sorted so you can guess the first letter and just scan it.
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I'm not English speaker neither
And the problem is that I know this rule xD
With paint I clored the letters and yet I can't find it.
Well, I must be blind xD I need to spent more time in front of the computer to see it
or use brute force to solve it ò.ó
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I did the same thing, colored and then just brute forced the options (discarding the obvious ones like AKBJ :P)
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Looks at first puzzle image
Nope... won't even begin this puzzle.
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You don't know what goodies you will miss ;-) But maybe it is better...
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Still sad because I can't pass P1, I want to solve the others!
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But you can solve P1! I swear to you that you can find the answer when you use google and my hint(s) :-) A little bit thinking in addition and you really really can solve the puzzle.
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Bump for making it all the way to the end, it was a great ride, don't give up!!
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In the next days I will add a third hint for the first puzzle. Since I released hint two there were ten new solvers ^^ great thing, but thats less than I expected :D
All I can say by now is that it is possible to find a solution when you use google with the help of my hints. A little bit brainwork is necessary, too, but most of you solve much harder puzzles, so I think it isn't impossible.
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Wuuhuuu :-) Now the famous "unsolvable" puzzle 1 ^^
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I'm stuck on it ^^ I think I get hint 2 but I don't really know how to relate this to numbers
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Hmm.. if you really know what hint2 is, then you should know what the numbers are for ;-)
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IMHO hint 2 and 3 for P1 are misleading.
(Sorry for the spam, I'm trying to give you some feedback)
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Hmm, no :-/ I don't think they are misleading..You know what hint2 is? Or what I mean with hint3? Then I don't understand how you think they are misleading :-(
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I know what you mean with those hints because I know the answer, but people that don't know the answer could try several different possibilites before the actual answer.
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That's what hints are for in my opinion. I don't want to give away the answer directly, just push your thoughts gently in the right direction ^^ And I think it is not uhmm.. bad if you don't find the answer directly.. I wanted the people to think (especially with hint1).
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Curiously for me hint 1 is the best hint of all. First and last hints lead you directly to the answer, while hint 2 and 3 go round.
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Hmm okay. Some poeple told me otherwise, but opinions are different and "varicolored" :-)
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Hello again dear SG people :-)
This time my best friend Kju and I made some giveaways for you and together we created puzzles for each one. It is a puzzle train :-) The train contains 8 puzzles and giveaways – bundled and non-bundled games.
To reach the first puzzle you have to find the letters for the ITH link in this picture. The letters are ordered like occidental comic book speech bubbles ^^.
Please don’t share any links or answers, you would break my heart if you do this.
We will both listen to you if you have any problems and help as well as we can but won’t provide any answers.
You have time until wednesday, may 6th 23:00pm (GMT+1)
Feel free to bump this thread and tell me what you think about the puzzles. I want feedback to improve the quality of future puzzles :-)!
EDIT: Manual for the poké-picture - The letters for the link are ordered line by line from left to right
HINT for P1: WHAT is love? Think rational, no emotions. Use Google + brain
HINT2 for P1: nice picture
HINT3 for P1: What are the building blocks of everything?
Major Updates (27.4.):
P2: I know it's much, but it is not hard, so keep on solving ;-)
P3: General advice - You need a tool to solve this puzzle.
P4: Added some more hints I omitted the last time I updates this puzzle ^^
P5: Ehm..Here I added some hints too. I think is is clear when you see them.
P6: Nothing new. Everything is fine ^^ Same rule as in P2.
P7: Changed some hints - hopefully to more precise ones :D
P8: Same as for P7. I also added a second hint for some questions.
New small Update (4.5.)
P1: If you don't get it now, I can't help you anymore :-/
P8: New hints and/or altered existing ones.
Here are the solutions to every puzzle - I included the link to the puzzles as well, so you can have a look at them :-)
Puzzle 0 – Finding and arranging the code to the first puzzle
Puzzle 1 – Love (= Chemistry)
28 = Nickel
71 = Lutetium
111 = Roentgenium
36 = Krypton
87 = Francium
52 = Tellur/Tellurium
93 = Neptunium
12 = Magnesium
46 = Palladium
64 = Gadolinium
Puzzle 2 – Sudoku
Sudoku1
Sudoku2
Sudoku3
Sudoku4
Sudoku5
Sudoku6
Sudoku7
Sudoku8
Sudoku9
Sudoku10
Puzzle 3 – Rainbow!
47aac3
9a0c7a
42e012
e0a812
24e3b4
180e44
f93d3d
fdfade
510ba0
533c3c
Puzzle 4 - Reise Reise
Iceland/Island
New Zealand/Neuseeland
Hungary/Ungarn
Nigeria
Paraguay
Fiji/Fidschi/Republic of Fiji
Belarus/Weißrussland
Cambodia/Kambodscha
Panama
Zimbabwe/Simbabwe
Puzzle 5 – Bird is the Word
Solution
Puzzle 6 – Can you catch’em all?
Knofensa/Bellsproout/Madatsubomi
Seeper/Horsea/Tattu
Raichu
Abra/Casey
Knuddeluff/Wigglytuff/Pukurin
Sandamer/Sandslash/Sandpan
Puzzle 7 – Art Atack!
Gustav Klimt
Vincent van Gogh
Franz Marc
Claude Monet
Frida Kahlo
Henri Rousseau
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
Marc Chagall
Albrecht Dürer/Albrecht Duerer
Pablo Picasso
Puzzle 8 – It’s all about Music
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of time
Portal
Braid
Banjo – Kazooie/Banjo-Kazooie/Banjo Kazooie/BanjoKazooie/Banjo and Kazooie
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
Pokemon Red/Pokemon Blue/Pokemon Red Edition/Pokemon Blue Edition/Pokemon Yellow/Pokemon Yellow Edition/Pokémon Red/Pokémon Blue/Pokémon Red Edition/Pokémon Blue Edition/Pokémon Yellow/Pokémon Yellow Edition/Pokemon Red Version/Pokemon Blue Version/Pokemon Yellow Version/Pokémon Red Version/Pokémon Blue Version/Pokémon Yellow Version
Magicka
Final Fantasy (Here VII as example)
Super Mario Land
Super Metroid
Phew..that’s all ^^ See you to the next puzzle :-)
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