Thanks to everybody that made this puzzle. It has been eight hours of struggle, torment and relief when the answer finally came to me. I can't wait for the next one.
Test Your Mental Might With The Escapist's First-Ever Puzzle Adventure!
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on 4-1 You can...DiMono said:
check the page source to find the javascript code that handles the stuff you do. The id or something (i forget) for the area or something is "stop cheating you little &#$%".
I just tackled all the puzzles in one go, and thanks to everyone here, I finally go it. Now if you don't mind, I'm gonna go lie down and let my brain rest.
And I got the last one with a wild shot in the dark. Damn I'm good.
And I got the last one with a wild shot in the dark. Damn I'm good.
I got it from guessing.Hashime said:
And from massive jumps in logic and trying to decode people's hints since I got lost around the time people were talking about some site with pictures on it.
Almost got it, I think...but I need some help with the final step:
OK...I'm pretty sure of the game. I'm pretty sure that, whatever it is, it goes in part of an HTML. What I *don't* is: a) do I capitalize it, b) does the hyphen need to be replaced with a " " or a "_" and c) is the ".html" part important?
step 1: read through the pictures 13
step 2: find the book
step 3: amazon has good reviews
step 4: the news on escapist are yours clue (use the title from step 2)
step 5: read some Capital Comments and go through the Hole
EDITED BY YOMANDUDE: For step 6, there's a popular math sequence linking the length of the pictures. Go from 0 to 21, and start deleting from 21 down. You'll get it eventually.
Step 7: The cipher is literally quite elementary. Or is it elemental?
And you've solved it!
Nine tails
7 dwarfs
octagon
the chosen one
"number 5 stay where you are"
Nine Inch Nails
high 5
octopus
two girls
saturn V
LOTR:Two Towers
dante's 9 circles of hell
Two Face
7 dwarfs
octagon
the chosen one
"number 5 stay where you are"
Nine Inch Nails
high 5
octopus
two girls
saturn V
LOTR:Two Towers
dante's 9 circles of hell
Two Face
step 3: amazon has good reviews
step 4: the news on escapist are yours clue (use the title from step 2)
step 5: read some Capital Comments and go through the Hole
EDITED BY YOMANDUDE: For step 6, there's a popular math sequence linking the length of the pictures. Go from 0 to 21, and start deleting from 21 down. You'll get it eventually.
Step 7: The cipher is literally quite elementary. Or is it elemental?
And you've solved it!
My favorite part is that the whole thing ends with a big heaping dose of
IRONy!
I think it's good. It prevents people from randomly guessing, as once you've done almost all of the steps you can be almost entirely sure that you know the name of the game. Therefore you will try all possible combinations, that's probably why they only let you do it a certain way.Stryc9 said:I'm in the same boat as you. I would have gotten this last night but I ran into the same issue.xXSnowyXx said:I actually yelled out "ROAAAAAAAAR" when I finally worked out the answer...the bad spelling was cruel and unnecessary. I assumed I had it something wrong somehow when it didn't work the first time no matter how I tried to spell it...but that cheeky space where a hyphen should be screwed me up for over an hour! WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYyy
an artists rendition:
Oh wow, looking back, I just made a logical assumption. If I had stuck with my original idea then the last part would have been much more fun. Oh well, I got almost every other one on my own.
chriswolvie said:
What you put in the url is based off the clues on that page, it isn't the name of the game. And yes, you need the .html still, you put in the right web address by replacing 'youranswerhere' with something else and it will take you to the next clue.
Another game I haven't played, only I have no idea the full solution. It was a guess based some of the hints. Also did
Seriously, if anyone wants to PM or something with the actual steps to the solution after the image with pictures and stairs, that'd be great. I have the badge already.
Edit: on another note, even though I needed tons of help on almost all of them, this puzzle thing was awesome.
the second set of numbers have anything to do with it??
Seriously, if anyone wants to PM or something with the actual steps to the solution after the image with pictures and stairs, that'd be great. I have the badge already.
Edit: on another note, even though I needed tons of help on almost all of them, this puzzle thing was awesome.
I feel the need to point out that you really don't need to make a logical leap to get to the solution of 5-1. You can reason from the picture and the fact that everything is there for a reason, and get to the final step. Just don't be deceived by what the numbers look like. And seriously, it will be a whole lot more rewarding if you solve it this way than if you solve it by guessing.
As for Fibonacci starting at 0, that's literally part of how the series is described: t[sub]0[/sub]=0, t[sub]1[/sub]=1, t[sub]n[/sub] = t[sub]n-1[/sub] + t[sub]n-2[/sub]. The confusion here is that you cannot display an absence of something, which makes it impossible to visualize this in the picture. Rest assured though, this is indeed the definition of the Fibonacci sequence, and as such it does not need to be stated explicitly in the puzzle clue.
Page 3 has the code "You think you're pretty clever? Clever people join the pub club..."burningdragoon said:
Can't believe I've spent the last night to solve day 4 and 5... But damn, it was an amazing trip so I want to thank both the Escapist team AND the community ('cause I wouldn't even have passed day 1 without you, guys). I just can't wait for the next uber-awesome Puzzle Adventure!
Here, have a cookie:
Here, have a cookie:
So I worked my way through and, after getting all steps before it legitimatly, found in the forum that comments made by mods were part of the clue to 5-1 (kind of frustrating if you're not that into reading the forum wall). Anyway, I was waaaay too lazy to root through 50 pages of comments for ones by mods and guessed the final step by the description of the website by posters, not by finding the capital letters and plugging it in. Could someone pm me the site name so I can check it out because I'm curious how it looks?
You bastards.
I suppose it didn't help searching through the .co.uk site instead of .com, looking for something for a little while before buying a scarf instead.
I suppose it didn't help searching through the .co.uk site instead of .com, looking for something for a little while before buying a scarf instead.