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Post by Kris4g on Nov 28, 2018 22:11:57 GMT -5
Hi. As I mentioned here is my Puzzle Pint inspired set. It's only ever been tested by me which as puzzle designer is a useless way to test! So please have a go and give me some feedback if you want. Some parts are easier than others. The meta puzzle at the end is the one I'm concerned about but we'll see how it goes! Have fun and let me know if you get stuck or find any issues. Cheers! Download here: app.box.com/s/eml7dm9l0oqu8qkvlx53j8el70z8i5drKris
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Post by Geodus on Dec 4, 2018 2:41:04 GMT -5
Just to drown out the sound of crickets, I downloaded this and took a look. It appears quite challenging; I've not spent much time on it, and have made very little progress. I'm hoping to get a chance to make a more serious attempt at the puzzles later during the week.
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Post by Kris4g on Dec 4, 2018 20:04:54 GMT -5
Good to know someone is looking at it! It's so hard to know how a puzzle will be perceived when you know how it works. The first page is actually pretty simple so don't over think it too much. Happy to give hints if you want them.
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Post by Geodus on Dec 5, 2018 12:18:06 GMT -5
I've solved (with online help) the I Spy puzzle. I needed some assistance from Google to verify my answer was an actual word, but the meaning indicates I'm on the right track.
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Post by Kris4g on Dec 5, 2018 12:54:18 GMT -5
Awesome. Yeah I figured you’d have to use a reference to solve that.
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Post by amanda on Dec 6, 2018 0:09:15 GMT -5
Hi Kris, don't know if you saw it, but I sent you a couple questions via PM. one I think I should probably share here, though: Should that N in the second Opposites Attract figure be a D?
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Post by Kris4g on Dec 6, 2018 7:21:02 GMT -5
Hi Kris, don't know if you saw it, but I sent you a couple questions via PM. one I think I should probably share here, though: Should that N in the second Opposites Attract figure be a D? Aah yes it should, thanks and well spotted. I’ll make the fix ASAP.
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Post by Geodus on Dec 6, 2018 11:44:10 GMT -5
Here's my progress so far (Amanda and I have been sharing information, so we're pretty much at the same point). Spoiler tagging all this so I can give more explicit feedback: - I Spy: I didn't see this right away, but I should have been thinking in Puzzle Pint terms... I kept seeing an arrangement pattern in the goats that wasn't there. The geckos got me started.
- Opposites Attract: The cluing ("Letter sequence stays the same") and the incorrect letter put me off track early on and I spend a fair amount of time chasing false ideas. I hardly used the bottom diagram at all and it's kind of superfluous as is. It might be more fun/challenging if you removed the bold circles up above (only had them below) and randomized the arrangement below (btw, the first opposite is mirrored as well as rotated, which I'd recommend avoiding if you went this route).
- Journey of the Beagle: Clues 5 and 18 were particularly challenging. Amanda helped me with 5, and I was only able to solve 18 by backsolving once I knew the initial letter. It wasn't clear that the final step should return you to the Beagle -- I initially ended up with a thematically suitable 12 letter word. It also might help to clue that the Beagle continues moving until it reaches an island.
- Ramblings on Life: I still haven't solved this, but I backsolved the solution using the meta. I have a general how to solve based on the absence of "M" from the "soup".
- The Final Answer: It was pretty easy to solve the clue using only three of the answers (and backsolving the Ramblings one), but I still haven't figured out how to interpret the final clue.
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Post by Kris4g on Dec 7, 2018 20:14:15 GMT -5
Thanks guys for all your hard work on this. I hope it was somewhat fun and not too painful! Good idea for opposites attract, I think that would work. I need to find a way to give a better clue that the opposite words are written in the same order below so the highlight circle works. Journey of the Beagle does say that once your back on the ship but maybe it should be more obvious. Agree though that I should explain to keep moving until to hit an island. Journey of the Beagle - Interesting that you could back solve this, I guess that's a bad thing but well done for figuring that out!. A clue for that might be to think about manipulating the paper and bear in mind the theme of the rambling. For the final puzzle, this is the tricky one I was concerned about, it's a bit abstract. So the got the first part of the answer with is a sentence? If so as it says at the top it only applies to the 4 original answers. Think about survival of the fittest, or strength in numbers or more specifically you don't survive alone
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Post by Kris4g on Dec 7, 2018 20:16:09 GMT -5
Thanks guys for all your hard work on this. I hope it was somewhat fun and not too painful! Good idea for opposites attract, I think that would work. I need to find a way to give a better clue that the opposite words are written in the same order below so the highlight circle works. Journey of the Beagle does say that once your back on the ship but maybe it should be more obvious. Agree though that I should explain to keep moving until to hit an island. Journey of the Beagle - Interesting that you could back solve this, I guess that's a bad thing but well done for figuring that out!. A clue for that might be to think about manipulating the paper and bear in mind the theme of the rambling. For the final puzzle, this is the tricky one I was concerned about, it's a bit abstract. So the got the first part of the answer with is a sentence? If so as it says at the top it only applies to the 4 original answers. Think about survival of the fittest, or strength in numbers or more specifically you don't survive alone
It might be a bit of a stretch but hey that's why I got the best people testing it! And to be a better puzzle designer I have to jump in the deep end ;-)
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Post by Geodus on Dec 10, 2018 11:41:45 GMT -5
Still no luck with either "Ramblings on life" or the meta. For ramblings, I've realized that the size of the letter soup and the narrative text match, and I've tried folding the paper and looking at the letters that overlap, but it's quite challenging because of the thin font weight. I came up with a list of isolated letters (H F E O F K S E S O G S K P E O H O O E U P S K F O E S), but couldn't make any sense of them. For the meta, I came up with this list of letters: L O N E S A C I P G. I've tried anagramming them for the answer, but had solutions which seem correct. I'm assuming that the apostrophe indicates a possessive on the first word, which would indicate that the fourth letter is an "s". For the six letter word, a possible solution is "pigeon", but I'm fairly certain that's not correct.
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