[b][url=http://phpbb.mfgg.net/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=16028]Please read the sticky thread before continuing.[/url][/b] Puzzle 3-1:[spoiler][img]http://i.imgur.com/ecb6dsZ.gif[/img] Hint: The MFGG one. Extra Hint: [ispoiler]This password is hidden somewhere on this site.[/ispoiler] [b]NO LONGER SOLVABLE[/b] Solution: [ispoiler]http://i.imgur.com/rhvSCLN.png Hidden inside Guinea's avatar: zcx62n[/ispoiler][/spoiler] Puzzle 3-2:[spoiler][img]http://i.imgur.com/oBY0paI.png[/img] Solution: [ispoiler]SDR7894[/ispoiler][/spoiler] Puzzle 3-3:[spoiler]Anne (Female), Bert (Male), Casey (F), David (M), and Elise (F) all live in an apartment complex. The apartment has rooms 101, 102, and 103 on the first floor, and rooms 201, 202, and 203 on the second floor. Their hobbies are: Cooking, Jumping Rope, Wood Carving, Biking, and Blogging. No female lives in an even numbered room. Nobody lives in room 202. Anne and Casey are the most athletic. David enjoys blogging about his troubles. Casey has the least respect for the other residents. Bert lives upstairs. 103 is occupied by Elise. The biker lives on the first floor. Anne is often bothered by the noise in the room above her. 6 Character Password - [i]USE ALL CAPS WHEN ENTERING THE PASSWORD[/i] -First letter in the name of the biker. -Fifth letter in the name of the wood carver. -Full room number of David’s room. -The third letter of Casey’s hobby. Solution: [ispoiler]AE102M[/ispoiler][/spoiler]

[i]what a puzzle[/i] any chance we could get another hint? this one's pretty cryptic

What a hint. Looks like I'm too new for this internal joke. Just a question: by "the MFGG one" do you mean the puzzle is about MFGG or there's a guinea pig on MFGG?

I have to clue what's so ever...and that image is playing with my mind giving me some thoughts >.>

My, that was well hidden!

Stupidly cryptic again.

[quote="Novak Djokovic"]What a hint. Looks like I'm too new for this internal joke. Just a question: by "the MFGG one" do you mean the puzzle is about MFGG or there's a guinea pig on MFGG?[/quote] There's a guinea pig on MFGG, and he's running the place.

[quote="Not MIPS"][quote="Novak Djokovic"]What a hint. Looks like I'm too new for this internal joke. Just a question: by "the MFGG one" do you mean the puzzle is about MFGG or there's a guinea pig on MFGG?[/quote] There's a guinea pig on MFGG, and he's running the place.[/quote] That much I know already, but I still don't get what I'm supposed to look for.

Even though I don't want to go further in this contest, I just checked this out because I had nothing more to do. As I thought, it's still as frustrating as before. I can't stop agreeing that the puzzles should be funner to resolve next time.

I've been around for a bit and even I don't know what to do. if it [i]is[/i] a community in-joke then that really shouldn't be the basis for a puzzle. then newbies have an unfair disadvantage. this really needs a better hint. obviously it'd be on this site, so that's kind of a bad hint, no?

I don't think it's an "in-joke" that's hard to get. (It's not even an in-joke, as you kinda have to take it quite literally) [quote="[url=http://phpbb.mfgg.net/viewtopic.php?p=404874#p404874]Mit[/url]"]this really needs a better hint. obviously it'd be on this site, so that's kind of a bad hint, no?[/quote] And it's not so obvious that it's on this site. There are other puzzles for which you have to consult the internet or solve a puzzle on paper or something like that. This puzzle here is hidden somewhere in the forums. I may go a step further and say it's even on this here page :o

I know it has something to do with you, Guinea, But I still can't figure it out!

[s]god damnit i found it[/s]

There's something suspicious, but I think I can't do it on phone...

I liken this to playing your own fangame. You play your own game so many times to test it that it becomes easy to you, but as soon as someone else plays it, you can't understand why they find it hard and frustrating. A stupid puzzle like this may seem obvious to whoever designed it, but to everyone else (as evidenced by half the replies on this page) it just comes off as cryptic and ridiculously no fun to try and work out. Same goes for almost every other puzzle thus far, it's like they're intentionally not fun. Also for the record, it's not a very colourblind friendly puzzle either.

I didn't make the puzzles but I had no difficulties with them so far. In fact, I had a lot of fun figuring them out. They are the typical puzzles you'd find in a Professor Layton game, requiring some logical or spatial thinking, putting together clues and working with pen and paper, and there are humans on this board who give you hints actively, rather than some 3-step-hint system. Layton games sell like cupcakes, so I don't think it's farfetched to assume that people would enjoy this kind of puzzles. Maybe the puzzles are hard for you because you're expecting them to be overly cryptic. They seem quite straight forward to me. Again, I didn't design any of the puzzles, but knew immediately what the goal of each was when I first saw it, except for the pizza one, but even in that case the reason why I didn't figure it out was because I thought too complicated at first. Of course I speak from the perspective of someone who loves logic puzzles (and as such I really hate overly cryptic puzzles), so this event is exactly my cup of tea (and no it wasn't my idea to have this event, either). However, one thing I noticed about your posts in this and other threads, Kritter, is that they are overly negative and seem like you feel personally attacked by the existence of this event, unless I'm misinterpreting them. I know you're only trying to help and improve the next year's Easter Egg hunt, and that's good, but calling every single puzzle "stupid" or "ridiculous", or accusing the puzzle creator of malicious intent doesn't come across as very constructive. You made some good points in other threads, but please try to not take this event as personally as you do. You said yourself that you hate logic puzzles in another thread, so it would only be fair if you'd let those who don't hate them enjoy the event for what it is. Perhaps for next year it would really be better to have each egg cater to a different category of skills to make things more balanced, and come up with some solution to the timezone issue by giving out prizes that multiple people can claim as long as they solve it within the given day or something, and after the day is over, that prize gets deleted from the solution thread.

[quote="Guinea"]However, one thing I noticed about your posts in this and other threads, Kritter, is that they are overly negative and seem like you feel personally attacked by the existence of this event, unless I'm misinterpreting them. I know you're only trying to help and improve the next year's Easter Egg hunt, and that's good, but calling every single puzzle "stupid" or "ridiculous", or accusing the puzzle creator of malicious intent doesn't come across as very constructive. You made some good points in other threads, but please try to not take this event as personally as you do. You said yourself that you hate logic puzzles in another thread, so it would only be fair if you'd let those who don't hate them enjoy the event for what it is.[/quote]I highly agree with this. He seems to look down on every staff decision. I don't do logic puzzles much, but I had a lot of fun figuring out these ones. And since they require some thinking it also feels very rewarding to solve them.

[quote="[url=http://phpbb.mfgg.net/viewtopic.php?p=404890#p404890]DJ Coco[/url]"]He seems to look down on every staff decision.[/quote] Let's not get unfair here.

I did say "props for organising an event". Even if I dislike the thing.

What am I supposed to do at the puzzle after the one above? Any hints? I'm stuck :/