Test Your Mental Might With The Escapist's First-Ever Puzzle Adventure!

[AssassinJoe]

Wow, hurts when I feel like I should get the clue that others did on 1 and 3. Oddly got 2 and 5 easy lol.

Follow the instructions on 1, its quite obvious when you realize about it.

Thanks alot. It was too obvious. Helps to write it down. Only 3 & 4 now.

Same here, and I've got some people saying the clue for 4 is helpful, others saying it isn't. I'm thoroughly confused.

Think of a recent game where you wouldn't wear something made of linen and lace.

Every shooter ever? This isn't a hint. Thats like saying pick a number between 1 and 100, Hint: Its not 7. Call me picky but I like my hints to be helpful. I say this now, when I figure the answer out I will probably spend the next five minutes just mashing my face into the keyboard.

Do let me know when the face mashing takes place. I was the same when I didn't get it at first.

same, I keep thinking of:

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a recent game involving something hot like fire, but I need more time to think probably

Am I on the right track???

I find that thinking of

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Halloween

Would help you out more.

"Haloween" you say?

...........oh, I get it.

*face-palm*

I can't believe I didn't get that.

 

[YouBecame]

I have them all at last:

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1

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The clue is more lateral

2

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My first guess was Far Cry and it took me ages to make the logical jump from here!

3

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I wrote an anagramifier and just hit "randomize" until the answer hit me. The solution remains 4-4

4

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I came no where near without the hint of the recent reviews. I've never heard of the game

5

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Got due to information on recent press

 

[Ophiuchus]

Got 'em all solved, thanks to a bit of help from this topic on #4 and a complete wild guess on #5... looking forward to tomorrow's installment.

 

[AssassinJoe]

In my case I wouldn't have gotten 4 if it wasn't for that clue.

Dito, but it took quite some time.

3 really baffles me, though...

EDIT: It just hit me. It's something like a

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lightless abyss

, I guess.

Thank you so much!

God that one pissed me off.

 

[Spoon E11]

I have got them all but 2.
#5

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5 is a fish

 

[Da Joz]

Got them all! Thanks to everyone!

 

[joeychuckles]

1,3, and 5 made sense to me, but 2 and 4 took some tiiiiiiime. And facepalms.

 

[sindremaster]

Finally got it, used a long time on number 2 but thanks to some of the clues in this thread i got it.

 

[Folio]

This is like a punch against my intelligence. I'm so bad at puzzles.

 

[anthony87]

Your puzzles can't overcome our collective minds

Are you challenge us? *evil grin*

We can always bring out the ones that were rejected for being 'too hard'. Teamwork is no match for deviousness, as every villain ever to reveal their evil plan right before the hero is about to die knows.

But then doesn't the hero overcome the plan and save the day? Usually with the power of TEAMWORK!!!

 

[Cpt. Red]

For 4 I made a program that tests each game on a list of about 11k games to find ones that fit the condition.

 

[Ringwraith]

Honestly, no. I say by Day 3 you want us all dead in a ditch.

Thanks for the vote of confidence.

Though after some cheating use of stuff I've managed it through day one.

 

[Phishfood]

For 4 I made a program that tests each game on a list of about 11k games to find ones that fit the condition.

That sounds like harder work than just solving it yourself. Regex?

 

[Spoon E11]

can anyone give me any more clues to #2???

 

[Icarion (aka Stockholm)]

Finally got number 4. The hint given... sort of makes sense in retrospect, but it doesn't if you're trying to figure out the title. The same goes for the string of words you have to work with.

If you need a hint:

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Maybe check out some the recent game reviews [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/reviews/]?

Thanks for the hint. Helped me get it.
Anyone who needs help with 5, think about a three lettered fish

 

[CaptainCrunch]

Your puzzles can't overcome our collective minds

Are you challenge us? *evil grin*

We can always bring out the ones that were rejected for being 'too hard'. Teamwork is no match for deviousness, as every villain ever to reveal their evil plan right before the hero is about to die knows.

But then doesn't the hero overcome the plan and save the day? Usually with the power of TEAMWORK!!!

Didn't you just reveal your plans to work together? I think you might be misinterpreting who the villain actually is...

 

[St. Neon]

You still not getting number 1? It must be making your head spin.

 

[i am not god]

Argh, Can't belive it took me so long to get them. If these are just for starters I can imagine the Escapist crew getting a lot of hat-mail by the end of the week.

 

[Ziel]

I got number 2, and I still have no idea what a cold directive is.