Elfstone
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-and you might want to discuss the happening here

Please use Secret tags to avoid revealing the whereabouts of Decorations to other who are still looking.

Good luck and happy hunting!!

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Jatopian
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Let's start off the discussion with me whining about how I'm very confused! Doesn't that sound like fun?!

No, seriously, I am.

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Elfstone
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Jatopian wrote:
Let's start off the discussion with me whining about how I'm very confused! Doesn't that sound like fun?!

No, seriously, I am.

what's confusing you?


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RoboBob3000
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That "Something" can be found right here.

We've been building up to this for an entire month now, and it's thrilling to see it finally released. I can only hope that you all enjoy it as much as we enjoyed making it!

One quick note: All passwords are in lowercase without punctuation or spaces. If an answer has multiple words, smush it all together.

This project has truly been a team effort. It was the brainchild of Stephen4Louise and Elfstone, was assisted by myself, Calamarain, Chaco, Dex Stewart, and Mike Rimer. I have to say that they were all great fun to work with, and I'm really proud of what we've been able to throw together.

I hope that nobody takes offense to our lack of puzzles representing holidays of other religions - I tried to make a menorah puzzle, I really did! In the end, we've got a good mix of non-Christmas (but wintery) puzzles in with the Christmas ones. Remember that we've put these out here just for fun. (And for a sweet gift!)

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Stephen4Louise
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RoboBob3000 wrote:
(And for a sweet gift!)

I'll second everything Robobob said. Especially that last bit
Apologies to anyone whose hold I should have been beta testing and to the HA team who have been one man down for the last few weeks, normal service should resume shortly.
Steve.

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RoboBob3000
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I was just asked which agent would be appropriate to send PMs to. Here is a list of the primary owners of each puzzle, which might help you decide who to poke.

288 Hours - RoboBob3000
Christmas Fun-Time - Chaco
Dungeon Gameshow - Calamarain
Guaranteed Overnight Delivery - RoboBob3000
Chrissword - Elfstone
Sudoku - Stephen4Louise
Checking It Twice - RoboBob3000
Name That Tune - Elfstone
Snowdoku - Stephen4Louise
Candy-Coded - RoboBob3000
Under The Tree - RoboBob3000
Pattern Puzzle - Calamarain
Snowmen - RoboBob3000
Mystery Roach - Stephen4Louise
Snow Delays - RoboBob3000

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Znirk
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So, 288 hours ...

RoboBob3000
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I'll remove the instruction to swap two letters. That was a mistake in the password that has now been cleared up, not a mistake with the blanks.

So swap them back.

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RoboBob3000
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Wow, you're moving right along.

I thought this one might be a problem.



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kie
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Firstly, great idea and great puzzles! Thanks guys.

About Sudoku :


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Sudoku:



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TripleM
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Yeah, I can't work out that sudoku either. Nor the snowdoku, for that matter.

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Sudoku:

I'm curious to hear some progress updates from some puzzlers. You all seem to be going through this quickly.

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Chaco
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I've only solved the first puzzle (288 hours) and am close to cracking Dungeon Gameshow (I hope).

Obviously, I don't need to solve Christmas Fun-Time.

I'll keep an update of my progress in my signature.

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TripleM
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I'm currently stuck on Thinking/Checking it twice, and Snowmen. Have solved the other 3 lowest level puzzles that I can get.

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PM sent.

Still stuck on those two sadly

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RoboBob3000
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"Checking it Twice" is the intended title.

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Ezlo
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Okay, need some help for 288 hours.

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GIYF

Ezlo
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That makes no sense whatsoever, if that's supposed to be a clue or something.

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Google GIYF, maybe?

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Tuttle
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I got through the top two levels without any problems, but the third one is giving me pain. I'm struggling with Guaranteed Overnight Delivery (I think I know what to do, but I'm just struggling to get answers), and Chrissword looks out of the question (I never learnt how to do those things). I'm through Sudoku, but haven't looked at the ones below it yet.

Ezlo
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Huh, I accidentally googled gyif, which didn't help. Man, I love google, it's like a friend to me.

TripleM
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Heh, sorry, I couldn't resist being cryptic. I can't quite work out from your response or not whether you made any progress (it implies yes and no )

Ezlo
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No convenient answer springing out, so I'm going to go google trawling I guess, nothing else to do.

TripleM
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If anyone else is doing CheckingItTwice or Snowmen and wants to discuss ideas, feel free to PM me.. I've gotten nowhere at all, and not going anywhere fast.

Chaco
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Okay, I can finally add Dungeon Gameshow to my list of completed puzzles. No thanks to calamarain for using capital letters in his example for the password fragment

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TripleM
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Hooray! Four lowest-level puzzles down, just snowmen to go. I'm still not sure what I'm meant to be doing with a final answer, though, hm..

Ezlo
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Well, I finally solved my first Sudoku, but I have no idea where to go from there. I saw the hints from earlier, but they're not helping.

EDIT: Also, I stink at guessing tunes. Help?


I need to get to bed soon, tomorrow I go to see Sweeny Todd, I loved the stage production, I love Tim Burton, and Johnny Depp is a standable actor, so it should be good. But I have to solve this first!

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Hmm...I'm on Under The Tree, and found all of the gift givers and receivers. I just can't figure out the password from it.

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