Forum Hunt

[Raiyuuni]

5897454the - Some template from the Runouw Wiki / Super Mario 63 LD Guide Part 1

[Doram]

I just realized that I accidentally gave Raz a few clues at the beginning of all this, cuz he got me talking. I think I'll drop a freebie custom hint in each other team forum. Just to keep this all fair.

For you, Team Magma, you seem to be in second place, so just a little (but important) hint for you.

!	The places you find codes put them in sets. The sets are what define the mini puzzles.

[Harmless]

Wait, you're not giving us lesser hints because we're in second, right? :s

Sorry if that's not the case, it's just unclear for me

[Doram]

Yes. Last place has found less than 10 codes. They needed a big help, so I gave them a more detailed hint than I gave you, mostly because you are already working on a lot of the logic that comes at the second stage of figuring all of this out. You have already figured out some of what I just told them, so, yes, it is less of a hint for you. First place has already figured this out, so I'm giving you guys a helping hand to make it to the second half of this on almost even ground with them. There are more hints in the Forum Hunt Thread, so keep checking there, too.

EDIT: And, just so you know, the code in Nan's profile is a fake. He's apparently trying to prank the rest of you.

[Harmless]

It does feel a little rubber band, especially now that we have a lot more of our team active again, but... eh, okay.

[Doram]

Since Shroom asked for a custom hint and got one, now everyone gets a custom hint:

!

You have all the wiki clues in hand, just not in the right order, and there's another hint, where I confess at getting the math wrong, which will help with that puzzle. And as for the profiles, you've found all but one, and he's not staff, but he is a legend. Finally, think about the difference between the active staff and the rest in terms of their clues.

[Konradix]

Thanks for that, but I have no clue what the password is. I'll think about that later, but I really do think that I've exhausted my abilities.

And about the wiki hints:

the
tenth
search
power
to
ten - Probably change to one hundred

tenth power search to the one hundred?

[Doram]

And, in honor of The Crystal Clods solving it all, here's another clue just for you:

!	You've got the wiki puzzle words out of order, and there's hints that would help.

[Konradix]

Right now I'm not worried about this, I'm worried about cracking the code. The wiki puzzle is unimportant until we get into "Crack the code". Man I'm bad at this stuff.

Doram said the first 4 words of the 2nd sentence is the first hint. That'd be "There's suddenly secrets everywhere" (or "There's suddenly secrets")
Since we know the puzzle refers to both Voldemort's puzzle and Bilbo Baggins' puzzle, I think this may refer to the Chamber of secrets, the book where Voldemort reveals his name.

End of the sentence is the pointer to the forum, obvious. ("crack this event open")

"Both halves of the clue refer to the riddles that those characters made, specifically either the starting place or the finishing place for those riddles"
"It's 6 words, 3 from each half of the clue"

This means that it uses 3 words from their respective riddles. However that yielded me nothing, I tried many combinations which I've posted at the front. The other thing this could mean (at least the starting place bit) is where those riddles were given (in this case "Chamber of secrets" and "goblin town"... but that's 5 words) or maybe what book they were given in ("chamber of secrets" and "riddles in the dark" but that's 7), however I've also tried that and that's STILL not the answer.

"Voldemort would appreciate it (...) as unfair with my riddles as Bilbo Baggins was"

Unfair riddle, this is probably referring to "What do I have in my pocket?" (answer being the ring, since there was no way of knowing this).

It's obvious that it has to be in words, hence "leave it all in lowercase and run it all together". However I'm not sure if that excludes signs. My guess is that it doesn't.


I'm sure Doram is screaming internally right now. I have a feeling that there is no way you can make it any more simple without just revealing it. I just cannot see it.

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We still have one more profile code left also. "He is not a staff, but he is a legend"... hmmm...

I found this in NaN's profile, but I'm pretty sure this is fake (the code says so) 882246fake
However I don't know who Doram may be referring to... I think that's about it for us, 18 codes.

[Doram]

It's a good thing I looked through your list of tried passwords. I'll swoop in with this bonus hint:

!	That's not just any ring in his pocket. It has a title.