For our contest give away, we will be handing out 6 never to be made again SC2SEA tees. The winner of each contest will receive an all expenses paid Tee courtesy of SC2SEA!


nirvAnA is sick of being the most hated admin and so has decided the time has come for me to torture the citizens of SEA instead. So starting this Sunday at noon AEDT will be the fifth birthday contest - a puzzle hunt spanning four days.

Each day a set of puzzles will be released. The contest is first past the post, but the final stage is relatively straightforward and does not require blind guesswork or interpretation of what's in my mind.

If you don't like puzzles, hopefully you can laugh groan at the story instead. :)

Start here.

You may notice the word "month" is dropped from the title. That's what happens when someone like me tries to do creative writing.

Solve statistics
1.0	3	8	0	3	0
2.0	4	6	3	1	0
3.0	4	3	0	2	0
4.0	0	3	1	1	1
5.0	5	5	0	2	0
2.1	-	2	3	0	2
3.1	-	0	5	1	3
4.1	-	0	4	1	1
3.a	-	-	5	2	1
4.a	-	-	0	4	2
5.a	-	-	0	6	0
5.b	-	-	0	7	2
Meta	-	-	-	0	2

Congratulations to Pox who was the first to solve the metapuzzle at 3:50 PM AEDT on Thursday.

Answers are now available on each puzzle page, and the full guess log is available here.

[nirvAnA]

hahaha let the torture begin!!!!!!

[TheGentleman]

Awesome!!!

[Dingobloo]

My body is ready.

[syfChadMann]

Hardy boys - UNITE!

Quick Comments

	Bash:	whats their hourly rate? wtb
	syfMiley:	we do it for the love of the game baby

[crAzerk]

I would be disappointed with anything less than some extremelycomplicatedcomputermambojumbo

[RVxReaper]

Interesting !

[FS.Kezz]

Must have that t-shirt!

[xpaperclip]

Day 1 puzzles released. Good luck!

Start here.

[crAzerk]

Grr got 3.0 and 5.0, making no progress on 1, 2, 4.

EDIT : ok all solved except 4 - prob will never do it even if those songs weren't jumbled together because I don't know songs

[VB_Blake]

I am so not winning that tee T.T

[mGGAequitas]

What teh fark is four point oh?>???!?@!$!?@%?

[ToRLuneth]

I don't get any of them >.<
oh well, next time

[crAzerk]

Lol solve rate of 0% for 4.0. The clue needs to be the most detailed and huge one!

[nGenLight]

too much effort

Quick Comments

crAzerk:

yea, exactly what i said. the prize needs to be bumped up imo

[crAzerk]

I think that the prize should be bumped up for this - the amount of effort put in by paperclip + whoever solves everything seems disproportionate to the prize.

Anyone else thinks so too?

[xpaperclip]

Day 2 and hints for day 1 released.

Much easier puzzles today.

(Edit: as in they are all '1-step', you get the answer straight away, it's not a hint to more stuff. I've probably traumatized you by day 1 that you are just over-thinking them.)

Quick Comments

mGGAequitas:

EASIER? IN WHAT WORLD ARE THEY EASIER??!?!?!?!

[TCPKerO]

I have zero idea on any of them.... trying to figure out what it all means and how it relates to something sc2ish. its like puzzleception

[mGGAequitas]

Originally Posted by crAzerk

I think that the prize should be bumped up for this - the amount of effort put in by paperclip + whoever solves everything seems disproportionate to the prize.

Anyone else thinks so too?

yep, based on the difficulty a first prize of $10 000 seems enough, with places 2-10 getting $1000 each

Quick Comments

mGGNemesis:

lololol

[crAzerk]

I'm pretty sure there's a mistake in 2.1, 2nd row 5th letter should be an 'R' not a 'D'. But maybe having it as a D works too, but for me I solved it when it was an 'R'.

Quick Comments

	TCPKerO:	somehow this prompted my brain to think of the answer :)
	xpaperclip:	2.1 is correct as is.
	mGGAequitas:	agree with crazerk it should be an r. was stuck on this for ages coz of that

[xpaperclip]

Day 3 released and hints for previous days released.

I was planning on releasing day 4 in the evening Australian time but crAzerk has been working on it quite a lot and I feel that would disadvantage him being in the US. What is everyone's preferred time for it to come out?

Quick Comments

	TCPKerO:	as is
	crAzerk:	same as before, australian mornings

[xpaperclip]

Ok, so ignore my comment on crAzerk's post. Apparently the version I fixed wasn't the one I published. The error has now been corrected and apologies for overlooking it.

(Edit: To be clear, the "D" and "R" were swapped in the centre-top sub-box.)

[mGGAequitas]

+ [Spoiler Alert!] +

last level is called "level nu"

[TCPLemminks]

Will we be able to have custom names on the shirts or are there no custom names with these ones?

[crAzerk]

Would be nice if it was released as per usual, in mornings of Australian time, as the past few levels have been. Not sure why you changed it on the last day, unless it's a matter of personal schedule then it's ok! It's your contest after all

[xpaperclip]

OK, I'm going to release it at midday Australian as usual.

The original idea was that people would be all done with the regular puzzles by Wednesday. Since the last stage is a race to first place, I didn't want to disadvantage anyone who was busy during the day (I sort of assumed more people are free at night). However as so many puzzles remain unsolved, that issue doesn't really apply anymore.

[xpaperclip]

Final stage and more hints released.

Good luck!

[TCPKerO]

Meta so meta

[xpaperclip]

More hints up. If no progress is made on the meta puzzle by 1PM AEDT another hint will be given for it.

[TCPLemminks]

Freaking pox out of ******* nowhere

[TCPKerO]

I knew I shouldn't have helped him lolz :P. GJ Pox

[xpaperclip]

Congratulations again to Pox who was the first to solve the metapuzzle.

Answers are now available on each puzzle page, and the full guess log is available here.