| 13 JUN 2008 at 2:05pm |
SuperEdyPrivate Detective
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Status : Online | Correct guesses:
1. Shany, Andromus, pollodiablo, Lady Kestrel, Taio, sg7, Blount, Aya, nik2008ofs, Gelert, Revliskci, TechnoSpike
2. pollodiablo
3. Bonsai-san, Andromus, Taio
4. Lady Kestrel, sg7, Gelert, Andromus
5. Shany, Andromus, TechnoSpike, Lady Kestrel, Taio, pollodiablo, sg7, Blount, Aya, nik2008ofs, Gelert, Revliskci
6. Shany, Aya, Lady Kestrel, Blount, Gelert, sg7, Taio, pollodiablo, Andromus
7. Taio
8. Shany, Aya, Andromus, pollodiablo, Taio, TechnoSpike, sg7, Blount, Gelert
9. pollodiablo, Lady Kestrel, Gelert, Taio
10. pollodiablo, sg7, Gelert
11. Shany, Andromus, Taio, TechnoSpike, Blount, Gelert
12. Shany, Taio
13. Shany, Lady Kestrel, Gelert, Andromus, Taio
14. Gelert, Taio
15. Aya, Lady Kestrel, TechnoSpike, Taio, Andromus
16. Lady Kestrel, Andromus, sg7, Gelert, TechnoSpike
17. Taio
18. Andromus, Taio, Gelert
19. Shany, Lady Kestrel, TechnoSpike, pollodiablo, sg7, Blount, nik2008ofs, Gelert, Taio, Andromus
20. Shany, nik2008ofs, Andromus, Taio, pollodiablo, TechnoSpike, Aya, Gelert, sg7
21. TechnoSpike, Taio
22. sg7, Gelert
23.
24. Shany, Andromus, pollodiablo, Taio, sg7, Gelert
Some of the pictures are simple, it wasn't easy to create hard puzzles using only names of adventures (but I still managed to devise some difficult ones [smiley=devil_smiley_grintail.gif])
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| 14 JUN 2008 at 10:21am |
ShanyGuild Master
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Status : Online | Not everyone thinks the same way or recognizes the same things, so this might not be as easy for us as it is for you.
For example, I know exactly what no. 6 is, but cannot think of what game title it reperesents.
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| 14 JUN 2008 at 11:01am |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Offline | this is one of the most clever trivias ever! i may give it a shot, although i think it's pretty tough (recognize 6 and 8 at first glance)
You have gotten the attention of the mysterious lady. She turns to face you. Her face is devoid of any flesh. You are frozen with horror as she begins ripping your body into a bloody mess.
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| 14 JUN 2008 at 3:45pm |
Lady KestrelGuild Master
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Location: US, NJ
Status : Offline | I think I have a few so far but for others either nothing's coming or I can think of several possibilities.
"Where is the fountain that throws up these flowers in a ceaseless outbreak of ecstasy?"
-Rabindranath Tagore
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| 14 JUN 2008 at 3:52pm |
SuperEdyPrivate Detective
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Shany (14 JUN 2008 10:21am)
I know exactly what no. 6 is, but cannot think of what game title it represents.
Are you really sure of what 6 is?
Picture 3 was a bit misleading so I corrected it and I will ignore the wrong guesses I received.
I also simplified picture 22 since it was fiendishly difficult.
My advise is to use the search engine of TheLegacy, you can search for adventures with part of the title.
I'll show you two examples of games I discarded because they were way too easy
[IMG]http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t157/SuperEdy/Titles/imageB.jpg[/IMG]
Spoiler AlertStill Life
[IMG]http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t157/SuperEdy/Titles/imageA.jpg[/IMG]
Spoiler AlertMorpheus
Wikipedia can also help a lot
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| 14 JUN 2008 at 4:17pm |
ShanyGuild Master
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Status : Online | Having found the source of no. 6's picture, I see it has a name I was never aware of.
There are still many pictures which I don't think I'll ever be able to guess, nor have any way to search for them.
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| 14 JUN 2008 at 4:50pm |
Lady KestrelGuild Master
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Location: US, NJ
Status : Offline | SE,
Even your examples of easy ones are not necessarily easy. After going through some of the individual items in your first one, I was able to understand what you wanted. However, since I don't know the character nor the actor in the second one, I couldn't have come up with that answer.
"Where is the fountain that throws up these flowers in a ceaseless outbreak of ecstasy?"
-Rabindranath Tagore
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| 14 JUN 2008 at 5:06pm |
SuperEdyPrivate Detective
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Status : Online | I surrender, picture 3 is still misleading, so I'll just replace it with another more difficult (of course I'll ignore previous guesses)
This wasn't Lights out, Lightbringer nor Connections
[IMG]http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t157/SuperEdy/Titles/old3.jpg[/IMG]
Spoiler AlertDouble Switch
Some of the pictures are just logical puzzles that can be solved with Wikipedia (2, 7, 10, 12, 15, 17, 22)
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| 14 JUN 2008 at 5:11pm |
AndromusGuild Master
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Status : Offline | I have to agree, most of these are not that easy (which is for the most part fine by me). I doubt I would have gotten the first one in your examples of easy ones, though.
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| 14 JUN 2008 at 6:29pm |
SuperEdyPrivate Detective
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Status : Online | I changed the scoring system, so you won't be penalized for wrong guesses, there's still a limit on guesses anyway
I agree with Lady Kestrel, some of the pictures require previous knowledge of something, but it's the same as guessing screenshots, you can't guess Milo if you don't know of its existence and I thought that, after 3 Matrix movies, Laurence Fishburne was too familiar (not to mention its cool raincoat)
It's curious, the first thing I think watching a still life painting is "another still life", maybe it's just me
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| 14 JUN 2008 at 6:52pm |
Lady KestrelGuild Master
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Status : Offline | I was just pointing out why I don't think these are particularly easy, SuperEdy, but that doesn't mean I'm not enjoying the challenge. [smiley=thumbsup.gif]
"Where is the fountain that throws up these flowers in a ceaseless outbreak of ecstasy?"
-Rabindranath Tagore
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| 16 JUN 2008 at 9:47pm |
SuperEdyPrivate Detective
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Status : Online | 2 new entries:
Shany 10
Andromus, Lady Kestrel, pollodiablo 8
Taio, sg7 7
TechnoSpike, Blount 6
Aya 2
nik2008ofs 1
I simplified picture 15 since nobody was guessing it
Some of the pictures require intuition but they can be guessed, even 23 (it's difficult, I know, but it's more logical than some puzzles in Secret Files Tunguska)
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| 16 JUN 2008 at 11:18pm |
GelertPrivate Detective
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Thanks SuperEdy. A fine quiz indeed. My attempts are on their way to you.
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| 17 JUN 2008 at 5:41pm |
SuperEdyPrivate Detective
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Status : Online | There's a crowd at the top:
Shany, Taio, Gelert 10
Lady Kestrel 9
Andromus, pollodiablo, sg7 8
TechnoSpike 7
Blount, Aya 6
nik2008ofs 4
On Thursday or Friday I'll post a hint for the pictures still unguessed.
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| 19 JUN 2008 at 4:12pm |
SuperEdyPrivate Detective
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Status : Online | A battle is raging at the top:
Taio, Gelert, Andromus 13
sg7 11
Shany 10
Lady Kestrel, pollodiablo, TechnoSpike 9
Blount, Aya 6
nik2008ofs 4
Bonsai-san, Revliskci 1
I posted a subtle hint for the pictures still unguessed.
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| 21 JUN 2008 at 5:09pm |
SuperEdyPrivate Detective
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Status : Online | This score includes the bonus points:
1. Taio 15 + 2
2. Gelert 16
3. Andromus 13
4. sg7 11
5. Shany 10
6. Lady Kestrel, pollodiablo, TechnoSpike 9
9. Blount, Aya 6
11. nik2008ofs 4
12. Bonsai-san, Revliskci 1
Of course the last one will be totemized and/or eaten by a grue
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| 22 JUN 2008 at 4:02pm |
SuperEdyPrivate Detective
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Joined: 30 MAR 2007
Status : Online | Latest score:
1. Taio 17
2. Gelert 16
3. Andromus 13
4. sg7, pollodiablo 11
6. Shany 10
7. Lady Kestrel, TechnoSpike 9
9. Blount, Aya 6
11. nik2008ofs 4
12. Bonsai-san, Revliskci 1
I'll post the solutions in 24 hours (more or less), so you have still the opportunity to guess some of them
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| 23 JUN 2008 at 10:47pm |
SuperEdyPrivate Detective
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Status : Online | The title of best puzzle solver goes to Taio (and the title of wildest guesser goes to Lady Kestrel )
1. Taio 20
2. Gelert 16
3. Andromus 14
4. sg7, pollodiablo 11
6. Shany 10
7. Lady Kestrel, TechnoSpike 9
9. Blount, Aya 6
11. nik2008ofs 4
12. Revliskci 2
13. Bonsai-san 1
These puzzles caused mass hallucinations, with people seeing queens, shells and all kind of gates and islands coming out of nowhere
A bit of explanation:
2. Gast means 'guest' in German and Dutch, if you google with "guest huesped invite ospite hospede" you'll find the Wiktionary page for guest containing the word translated in several languages (that's where I copied the Chinese, Korean, Russian and Arabic versions). This one was quite difficult, I know. I wrote 8 words so the picture couldn't be confused with "the 7th guest", yet...
3. The car is a Toyota 4Runner Urban Runner (I think the 'urban runner' edition of the '4runner' model). You can see the solution in plain sight on the main page of www.toyota.com.
4. It's a frame from the movie "Journey to the Center of the Earth" with James Mason and Pat Boone. I really like that movie
5. In Cold Blood is the name of a book by Truman Capote.
7. The highlighted flight is the longest journey in the timetable. This is probably the most devious puzzle.
8. It's the cover of the Pink Floyd album "the Dark Side of the Moon". I guess someone will buy the CD just to destroy it
9. Nothing mysterious about that island, it's Maupiti Island, it really exists near Bora Bora
10. It's an 80 days period.
11. Mirage is a character from the movie "The Incredibles".
12. NiBiRu is the Romaji transcription of the 3 katakana characters in the picture. Wikipedia contains the table of all the katakana characters
14. Isabelle Adjani. Next time I'll use Isabelle Huppert so nobody can guess it [smiley=devil_smiley_grintail.gif]
16. Traitors Gate is a part of the Tower of London. You can also see it in Sherlock Holmes Nemesis.
17. The mathematic expression equals d. Even if you don't remember how to solve integrals, you just need to notice that the expression contains only a, b, c, d, x, y and there aren't many adventure games with only those letters
18. He's Genghis Khan, Temüjin was his real name
19. I didn't edit the picture, it's really a black dahlia, a hybrid of course.
21. Mojo is a supervillain from the Marvel universe
22. All 8 persons are called Guest (some from Wikipedia, some from imdb) so the girl in the circle (Lady Kestrel's personal nemesis ) is the 7th Guest counting from left to right
24. 505.93 Kelvin degrees are approximately 451 Fahrenheit degrees.
I almost forgot, there's no solution to puzzle 23 yet, I'm sure that, if you join your forces, you'll get to solve it by yourselves. You can use this thread as a sort of playthrough, I can tell you it's neither "Big red adventure", "the sleeping dragon" nor "dragonsphere"
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| 23 JUN 2008 at 11:46pm |
AndromusGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Congratulations to Taio, and a big thank you to SuperEdy for creating a truly fascinating puzzle!
Regarding number 23,[spoiler midtext] I found out that it's a coin from England, specifically from the reign of Edward the 7th. The depiction is of St. George defeating a dragon. Can anyone else fill in any points of interest about it, perhaps some clue regarding the color?
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| 24 JUN 2008 at 1:46am |
TaioPrivate Detective
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Status : Offline | Thanks! And thank you SuperEdy for making this tourney. It was so much fun!
Just for curiosity, can you tell us the name of the people in picture 22? :-?
www.youtube.com/user/Taioo
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| 24 JUN 2008 at 4:23pm |
SuperEdyPrivate Detective
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Taio (24 JUN 2008 1:46am)
Just for curiosity, can you tell us the name of the people in picture 22? :-?
Don't you know that curiosity killed the cat? I had to search the net all over again >
Anyway, they are Christopher Guest, John Josiah Guest, Jo Guest, Edgar Albert Guest, Rayne Guest, Lady Charlotte Guest, Cornelia Guest, Thomas B. Guest
I only knew Christopher Guest before (since I saw "Best in show" recently).
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| 24 JUN 2008 at 5:29pm |
GelertPrivate Detective
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Thanks Superedy. It was an excellent quiz and must have taken lots of work. I design quizzes myself, so I know how much effort is involved.
By the way, the solution to 23. had better be good as I thought my first guess was absolutely brilliant! I thought my answer to the Brazil one was pretty decent too. Aah well! Can't win 'em all (or... ANY! ).
Jo Guest is a porn star by the way! Nice one!
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| 24 JUN 2008 at 6:06pm |
TechnoSpikePrivate Detective
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Status : Offline | Thanks Superedy. It was a great quiz a extremely devious, and like I thought there were a couple of DUH images for me (Journey to the Center of the Earth, Urban Runner, The Space Bar, Fahrenheit 451 - forgot to check if there were other games called Fahrenheit), and The 7th Guest and The Longest Journey were very, very devious (at least for me )
Number 21 was a little devious also, because in case you have never read Marvel Comics (or at least watched the x-men animated series) I guess there would be no way in hell (except maybe lucky guesses) to answer it correctly. Taio, have you ever read Marvel Comics or watched the TV show?
What the hell is picture number 6 and in what way does it have to do with Labyrinth, by the way?
TechnoSpike
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| 24 JUN 2008 at 9:17pm |
pollodiabloSorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By TechnoSpike (24 JUN 2008 6:06pm)
What the hell is picture number 6 and in what way does it have to do with Labyrinth, by the way?
The labyrinth is a system of fluid passages in the inner ear, including both the cochlea which is part of the auditory system, and the vestibular system which provides the sense of balance. It is named by analogy with the mythical maze that imprisoned the Minotaur, because of its appearance.
Beta-tester of 'The Path', 'Rhiannon', 'Scratches', 'Hope Springs Eternal', 'Time Stand Still', 'Frasse and the Peas of Kejick', '1893: A World's Fair Mystery', 'Carte Blanche' and 'Oakhaven Plantation' a.o.&&
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