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 0Finding 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 :-)

9 years ago*

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Bump for fully solved!

9 years ago
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A W E S O M E
P U Z Z L E S

Bump for fully solved!

A W E S O M E
G A M E S

9 years ago
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I would thank you this whole "game", but thanks to that precious p1 my brain is tearing apart and I cant think of anything else. :c
JK. I will beat that puzzle. Thanks for the GAs :d

9 years ago
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From the shapes on the Pokemon the link is just OOOOoooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOooooooo. I'm doing something wrong.

9 years ago
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Probably ^^

9 years ago
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What time will you give us that überfantastisch third hint? :c

9 years ago
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The überfantastisch hint will come either in a few hours, or tomorrow evening (ca. 24h). I still need to think about it, I don't want to make a too obvious hint ^^ :P I want you to think about it...

9 years ago
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Thank you :P

9 years ago
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I added a third hint for the first puzzle ^^!!!.
I also updates some other little things in the puzzles and gave you some general advices. You can find everything in the description :-)

9 years ago
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Ooooh now I get P1.
Still don't get the connection to love though.

9 years ago
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Leave a comment in the first giveaway and I will enlighten you if you want to ^^

9 years ago
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Great to see some more hints! Will try to complete P7 (or is it P8? I don't even remember :D) soon. :)
Btw, I just started my own puzzle if you want to check it out. :D

9 years ago
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I will check it check it out as soon as I have a little bit spare time :-)

9 years ago
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3 hints and i still cant figure out P1 :(

9 years ago
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Bump for finally solved completely.

9 years ago
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Bump for love. Wouldn't have been possible without your last hint though.

Now to ITH2... oh crap, I hate that game. I will try to search for the tool you mentioned.

9 years ago
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The tool is for ITH3 ;-)

9 years ago
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nevertheless I was glad a tool helped me on ITH2 hahaha after I say ITH3 I understood I needed a tool, I'm just wandering which... ;)

9 years ago
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Bump for half of the train completed! I'll leave P5 for tomorrow or my head will explode...

9 years ago
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I found all of the characters in P1, but can't seem to get the right order :(

9 years ago
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Hmm..The order is explained in the description. For more information you can read throug the comments, but if you understand the principle you will quickly know the codeorder :-)

9 years ago
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Yeah, I get that, but the letters aren't working, unless one of them is uppercase when it looks like it's lowercase.

Edit: I removed a hint that you probably didn't want, but I'm out of ideas. Oh well.

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Upper and lower case does not matter :-)

9 years ago
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bump for solving P1! :) Smart :)

9 years ago
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Bump for solving half of the puzzles!

edit: 6/10 of P5 :]

9 years ago*
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Ok this is as far as I can go, P6 is way too difficult and I lack the time and desire to do it. Thanks for the rest of puzzles though, they were quite the challenge!

9 years ago
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Bump for 4 days left! :-)

9 years ago
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Aggg Only las puzzle-Q7 left D:

I must try it harder

9 years ago
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Q7 from the last puzzle? Hmm..I KNOW you heard it before ;-) Don't give up :-)

9 years ago
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This is still going? Blagh.

9 years ago
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Wow...how nice from you.

9 years ago
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Cuz bruteforcing the guess the country is still really annoying. :/ No logic in it; just wait 30 seconds while you go through a list of countries on wikipedia.

9 years ago
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You don't need to bruteforce :-/ Have you even tried? I added very helpful hints I thought they weren't necessary, but here they are. Nobody before you said, that is was bruteforcing, or something like that...
And that you said your effort hasn't been worthy enough is very mean -.-

9 years ago
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Oh no, I have been trying; I bookmark puzzles I get stuck on and try once and awhile, even after the giveaway has ended. I'll see if any hints ever popped up or if the puzzle creator gave any hints (like you have over the weeks) to see if those help. I've been stuck since there were only 3 solvers. :P And again, that's mostly because I didn't want to sit through a list and Copy/Paste to victory.

The only one I've gotten right is Q7. I don't know how many times I've tried on the others; ITH doesn't track that I think?

Honest constructive feedback: morphing the countries wasn't really necessary as it still would have been a roadblock for many, but for those that are somewhat decent at geography, it's not very rewarding.

9 years ago
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I must admit that some countries can be little bit out of shape because of their size. But most of them a pixely perfect shaped...man, it took me so much time to make is as accurate as possible... :-(
Does the addition of continents really not help you?

9 years ago
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I thought it would but I didn't really go another strong attempt after those hints were added.

I did Q10, knowing what it SHOULD be (there are a few similar to that shape on that continent) but didn't get it. Even with a list from wikipedia for that continent didn't come up so I chalked it up to some weird spelling difference.

9 years ago
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There are no spelling differences. A name is a name. I used Wikipedia for the "exact" names...

9 years ago
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I managed to solve some of the countries without the hints, but when the hints came, it was not too hard to find the remaining ones. Use a world map and you should get it, there aren't too many countries with the certain shape in a continent.

9 years ago
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Certain someone challenged me so I bruteforced my way through.

Thanks for the tips!

9 years ago
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I bruteforced it too. Shapes of the countries depend on the projection used (Earth is round after all, and maps are deformed 2D projections)

9 years ago
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Man, can't believe you got through the puzzle with the "notes".

9 years ago
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Me neither

9 years ago
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I been stuck on this for a while, and totally agree. I didn't understand what "twisted" meant. I assumed maybe just rotated, then I saw one that was inverted. Still would've been not been too bad if they were drawn/copied to represent the exact country outline. But like number 3 looks like a potato to me right now after trying to compare it to all countries in the region it was suppose to be in.

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Yes, twisted = rotated..that is a better word, thank you ^^

9 years ago
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Bump for letters found
Edit: Stuck on puzzle 3

9 years ago*
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Great puzzle, I'm stuck on three though, any hints?

9 years ago*
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Bumping for being way further through

9 years ago
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bump for FULL solved!!!!!!!

Thanks for all these puzzles and games ^^

And thanks too for all your helps and for answer everybody ;D

9 years ago
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We do our best :-) ... glad to hear, if you had some fun time with it ^^

9 years ago
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Stuck at P6. Kinda gave up; took too much time. ;_;

9 years ago
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Hey, you still have some time left :-)

9 years ago
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Sadly not. There will be a lot of things going on this week, leaving me with a small amount of free time. But it was fun, so I'm grateful that you did this puzzle thing. So yet again; thank you!

9 years ago
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Added new hints to puzzle 8 and/or altered the existing ones a little bit :-)
Go, go, go people ^^ you can still reach the end of the train :-)

9 years ago
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9 years ago
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Okey, I added one last hint for P1..and I can do nothing more for you, if you still don't understand, what I want from you.

9 years ago
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Bump for reaching the art puzzle, but i think i'm gonna give up now.
EDIT: bump for reaching the music puzzle :))

9 years ago*
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Bumping for fully solving, everyone should give this train a go

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