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

[Virgil]

Damn. Those are tough. What kinda sicko does The Escapist staff have woring for them anyway? The Riddler?

The puzzles were made by [user]Encaen[/user], [user]ThyNameIsMud[/user], and [user]Landslide[/user]. They are all deranged individuals in their own way

 

[Landslide]

Damn. Those are tough. What kinda sicko does The Escapist staff have woring for them anyway? The Riddler?

Thanks for your tips everybody. Here a few from me;

1. 90 degrees? Everybody knows normal people use fahrenhiet you square!

2. Oh crap! Shit just got real!

3. Its kinda dark in here. and empty!!

4. Ewww. Its all over my clothes! THE MASK DOES NOTHING!!

5. Its all about the deniability.

Riddle me this, riddle me that, who's afraid of the big, black Bat?

 

[ayuri]

Damn. Those are tough. What kinda sicko does The Escapist staff have woring for them anyway? The Riddler?

The puzzles were made by [user]Encaen[/user], [user]ThyNameIsMud[/user], and [user]Landslide[/user]. They are all deranged individuals in their own way

So... that's a yes?

 

[Martin Clarke]

Masterful, the puzzles have to be difficult as the staff at The Escapist clearly know that we will be googling the hell out of the answers. Anyone who doesn't is either a liar, clairvoyent or a genius!

These puzzles were a brilliant idea!

 

[Landslide]

Oh, you crafty little...

I just realized how to work out #4.
You need to use a couple of different codes
Feeling a little smug now.

*cackle*

 

[i am not god]

I'm going to go insane by the end of the week at this rate, but finally managed to get the day 2 puzzles. Very devious Escapist.

 

[Landslide]

Any one have any ideas for day 2 number 4? It's obviously not straight Morse code or straight Braille. Perhaps some binary? For anyone interested there are 28 different squares each made up of a 5x8 set of dots and dashes.

I tried binary, but at the 2nd grouping, it the value was way above 26.

Ok, i'm back to binary. 28 groupings, 14 different patterns. Then perhaps a substitution cipher. There are 5 instances of one pattern, I'll make a 'e'.

You are on the wrong track. Kind of. You do have to translate from binary, but you need to turn it INTO binary first. Try finding another common code, and see if it works.

Bloody Hell, That's awesome

It is, actually. Just, after I've translated it from binary, I've gotten kinda stuck...

if you google your answer, it should show up. hint: location.
from there, who was he?
*Edit*: I think this is the best one so far.

Tee heee.

 

[Ophiuchus]

Done for the day, all credit going to the help given in this thread. Either I'm having a really stupid day, or the difficulty and level of head-fuckery just got massively ramped up. Suspecting it's the latter, shuddering at the thought of what's to come tomorrow.

#1 is a brilliant clue though, if only I'd known who the cartoon character was...

 

[Daedalus1942]

Can anyone help me with #1 3 and 4 for Day 2 please...? I got #2 thanks to a spoiler one of the people gave me on here...but the other spoilers I didn't understand in the least. I'm sorry for being slow, but I really want to pass this. Please help!

Spoiler: (1)

solve the word puzzle. if you open the box, what is the cat? (read the wiki article for the puzzle solution if you aren't familiar with it)

3) I have no idea ( this isn't I hint, I can't solve it (yet))

Spoiler: (4)

use an "American Standard" for the alphabet and binary

I've gotten to the point of 1.523.2.? Nfi what this means... is it an IP address? lol...

 

[Susan Arendt]

Damn. Those are tough. What kinda sicko does The Escapist staff have woring for them anyway? The Riddler?

The puzzles were made by [user]Encaen[/user], [user]ThyNameIsMud[/user], and [user]Landslide[/user]. They are all deranged individuals in their own way

So... that's a yes?

*evil lol*

 

[The Salty Vulcan]

Damn. Those are tough. What kinda sicko does The Escapist staff have woring for them anyway? The Riddler?

The puzzles were made by [user]Encaen[/user], [user]ThyNameIsMud[/user], and [user]Landslide[/user]. They are all deranged individuals in their own way

So... that's a yes?

*evil lol*

Well I'm friegtened.
:|

 

[Daedalus1942]

One, two and four done. Even converted the binary in my head and still didn't get it fully until reading a couple of hints here.

Spoiler: For number two I'd recommend...

using Google translate, from English to English and listening to it.

It works incredibly well.

Still not sure on three though.

All the words in the title are in the anagram. the words are mixed in with each other. One of the words isn't Mexico. that had me annoyed, I kept seeing mexico.
It is a really long title too >.<
-Tabs<3-

 

[GeorgW]

Second day. The first 2 were easy, once I found out the pianist's name. But the last 2 I wouldn't have gotten without your help! The last one's clue were really far-fetched!
And once again, quote/message me if you need any clues.

 

[ComicsAreWeird]

These were pretty challenging. Kudos to the people who came up with this idea, it´s a lot of fun. Bring on Day #3!

 

[CaesarsSalad]

I read the hint for #1 with the

Spoiler

cat in a box.

I immediatly knew the answer immedietly after but how do you get to this point?

Spoiler

Whow do you get "Schrodinger" from a guy playing a small piano? I understand the "inger" but where does the "Schrod" come from?

#4 was awesome. But there is a small error in some of the spoilers that bothers me.

Spoiler

They're saying greek mythology but it's actually roman mythology. The hints are still helpful of course.

 

[AzraelSteel]

I immediatly knew the answer immedietly after but how do you get to this point?

Spoiler

Whow do you get "Schrodinger" from a guy playing a small piano? I understand the "inger" but where does the "Schrod" come from?

Spoiler

Who's the Peanuts character in the first picture?

 

[The Salty Vulcan]

utterly stuck on puzzle 3 of day 2 the hints on here are helping me think outside the box but its just URRRRGGGHHHH! lol

Maybe you should relx. You know The Way You Make Me Feel when you get riled up. Just take a moment and maybe you'll get it. Who wants to watch a movie? Im in the mood for a Thriller. Hey Vincent Price is on!!

 

[Vohn_exel]

I don't know what irritates me more. Puzzles, or when I can't figure them out. I'm too tired to do these right now to begin with, but something tells me I'm never going to come back to these. I hate puzzles, and I don't know enough of the game titles it's probably spewing at me anyway. I'm not big into pc games, I don't know alot about indie games, and DLC and anything not on PS3 is something I'd have no clue to, even if the puzzles were easier. So I guess I'm just gonna pass on this and try not to irritate myself with trying to pass it every day.