Survival Quest #5

[Espozito]

Survival Quest #5
Alien Spaceship

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This is the time when yet another spaceship encounters Earth to destroy the humanity. Luckily, humans have finally realised the potential of mind over muscles. A team of smart and intelligent people was trained to get on the spaceship and find a way to stop the disctruction of Earth. When they entered, alien security system located their shuttle and destroyed it. The team of Survivors has no way back now.

Rules:

1. Each Survivor has 5 lives.
2. Each turn all players must solve a puzzle sending me PM with his solution. If a Survivor doesn't send anything within 24 hours from the puzzle revealion or his solution is incorrect, he loses 1 life.
3. Once Survivor loses all of his lives, he dies.
4. There must be only one Survivor left.
5. Each turn a Survivor can send me PM saying "-Private Puzzle". In that case during the next turn he will be solving his own puzzle secretely instead of the ordinary puzzle. If he fails to solve it, he will lose 2 lives. In case of success, he will be given a game bonus (for example, blaster, medkit, immunity for 1 turn, etc.). The bonus isn't revealed until it's used.
6. Only one person solves Private Puzzle per turn. If more than one volunteers would want to do it, one of them will be picked randomly. However, the same player can't be solving Private Puzzle two turns in a row.

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Episode 1. Packing up (Ending)
Episode 2. Scouting the area (Ending)
Episode 3. Intruders (ending)

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Survivors (at least 10 needed for start):

1. powerofdeath the orange prince; SQ#3 Champion;
2. RLVG the Ruler of Living Vicking Gamers;
3. NoctiZ the Face of Noc
4. Glip the ocalypse; SQ#1 Champion;
5. Citrus the Apple
6. Hypersniper the Hatshot
7. Numbertwo the actual SQ#4 Champion
8. 42shadow42 the Forty-Two
9. ika the chuuuuu!!!!!!
10. creedkingsx the not green anymore?!?!?!

[powerofdeath]

/sign

[RLVG]

/Sign

Spoiler : Bad meta story is bad :

And so after the epic battle, RLVG was sure to win but died a premature death.
The observing aliens felt so bad that they abducted his dead corpse and revived him...
... But because he was the most lonely of all vikings, they teleported him to a random group of humans in the same ship.

[NoctiZ]

/sign

[Glip]

I was told I should sign for this. So...

[Citrus]

/gisn

[Hypersniper]

Yea /sign

[Numbertwo]

/sign

[Numbertwo]

I thought i was the winner of SQ4 and not Rlvg

[RLVG]

I thought i was the winner of SQ4 and not Rlvg

It's a referrene to SQ3.

[42shadow42]

/sign

[ika]

/sure

[Hypersniper]

yea i shhot hats

[creedkingsx]

/sign

[Espozito]

The team of 10 survivors is ready. Game will be started in less than 24 hours. Until then you may still join.
Also, joining the game later than puzzle 1 will result in losing the amount of lives equal to skipped turns. Considering that, the latest time a player can join to SQ#5 is before/during Turn 5 with only 1 life left.

[Espozito]

And, we are starting!

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Episode 1. Packing Up

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Realising that you are left alone on the alien spaceship, you decide to pack everything you have left in your inventories. But this is not an RPG game where you may carry 10 axes and 8 staffs with you.

• There are different objects of different color that you need to put in your inventory without any item left (inventory is a white table).
• Items mustn't cover each other!
• Items cannot be rotated!
• Send me PM with a picture of your solution.

Spoiler : Puzzle :

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This turn ends in 24 hours, but Episode 2 will start 2 hours later after that.

[Numbertwo]

Hmm. what do you mean when you say that items aren't allowed to cover eachother? im a noob at puzzle games.

[Espozito]

Hmm. what do you mean when you say that items aren't allowed to cover eachother? im a noob at puzzle games.

Imagine moving items in Diablo inventory.

[Numbertwo]

Imagine moving items in Diablo inventory.

so it's like playing tetris without beeing able to rotate the blocks?

[RLVG]

It's so EZ.

See, you put the shape into the other shape, then wrap it around... Add it to the oven, voila, Lé Broulé Waffel.

[Espozito]

so it's like playing tetris without beeing able to rotate the blocks?

and without falling from up to down, yeah.

[Glip]

Guys guys guys! I figured it out! It's really quite a simple trick, once you figure out. I really can't believe it took me this long to figure it out. You'll kick yourself once you realize how simple it is.

All you have to do is:

Spoiler : Solution :

Drop all the useless blocks and find some REAL items to put in your inventory

[Espozito]

Correction in case of misunderstanding:
If you wish to solve a private puzzle, you'll need to solve the current one anyway. You'll be solving Private Puzzle during the NEXT turn.

[Hypersniper]

i cant see the picture

[Espozito]

i cant see the picture

https://s9.uploads.ru/O8Dre.png

Does anyone else have picture problems?

[RLVG]

Does anyone else have picture problems?

I managed to see it, so there's no problem.

[powerofdeath]

Cant see it on mobile.

[RLVG]

Cant see it on mobile.

RLVG to the Rescue.



Main Puzzle :

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Bricks :

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[42shadow42]

What to do with my extra space?

[Espozito]

What to do with my extra space?

Empty spaces are ignored. You only need to include all the items in inventory.

[Espozito]

Episode 1 ending

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During the pack-up one of the survivors couldn't find his flashlight and almost fell out from the platform in open space looking for it. Luckily, he wasn't harmed... basically.

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Spoiler : Solution :

There were many possible solutions as this is the first puzzle. For example, here's mine one:

Spoiler : Results :

Numbertwo - 5 (PP)
Glip - 5 (PP)
NoctiZ - 5
ika - 5
Citrus - 5 (PP)
42shadow42 - 5 (PP)
creedkingsx - 5
powerofdeath - 5
RLVG - 5 (PP)
Hypersniper - 4

[creedkingsx]

What's the PP for?

[Espozito]

What's the PP for?

Optioned in for Private Puzzle. One of them will be solving Private Puzzle instead of usual one.

[Espozito]

Episode 2. Scouting the area

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You scout the area of spaceship and find a door hat is locked. The password system gives you 5 lines of symbols with 1 missing in each of them. Complete the lines with the right symbols.

Spoiler : Puzzle :

% # $ ^ _ * ( ! @

^ & @ ! ( % _ $ *

! ( _ # $ @ % ^ &

* % ( & _ ! $ @ #

$ @ ^ * % # & _ !

Send answer as code containing the missing symbols from up to down: _ _ _ _ _

Numbertwo will be solving a Private Puzzle (sent in PM). In case of success, noone but him will be notified what bonus did he gain unless he uses it.

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24 hours until the end of this turn.

[RLVG]

That was EZ. It's an animal.

[NoctiZ]

Alien penis.

[Espozito]

Episode 2 ending

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Some of you decoded the locker easily. Someone made a mistake. Others didn't try. And the one who was trying to solve Private Puzzle failed.

Spoiler : Solution :

Each line had shifted numbers as symbols. And each line had no symbol repeated. So every missing one is the symbol to make up the whole line of non-repeating characters.

% # $ ^ & * ( ! @

^ & @ ! ( % # $ *

! ( * # $ @ % ^ &

* % ( & ^ ! $ @ #

$ @ ^ * % # & ( !

The answer: & # * ^ (

Spoiler : Results :

Glip - 5 (PP)
creedkingsx - 5 (PP)
NoctiZ - 5 (PP)
42shadow42 - 5 (PP)
ika - 5
RLVG - 4
powerofdeath - 4
Citrus - 4
Numbertwo - 3
Hypersniper - 3

[Espozito]

Episode 3. Intruders

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Once you enter, alarm starts screaming. All of you have headaches and have to shut your ears otherwise you feel they're going to explode! To shut it down, you must add the missing color to the system (you will know what I mean once you open the spoiler below).

Spoiler : Puzzle (prepare your eyes, don't watch in the evening) :

*Click it*
Task 3.gif

As answer, name the missing color.

Glip will be solving Private Puzzle.

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You have 24 hours.

[RLVG]

Spoiler : Solution :

Each line had shifted numbers as symbols. And each line had no symbol repeated. So every missing one is the symbol to make up the whole line of non-repeating characters.

That's exactly what I did, except that I've may have used the Replace Macro wrongly.

Oh well, I was probably too tired to see my own mistake even though I was correct in my own way.

[Espozito]

That's exactly what I did, except that I've may have used the Replace Macro wrongly.

Oh well, I was probably too tired to see my own mistake even though I was correct in my own way.

Yes, you solved the puzzle right actually but made a typo. Well, better luck next time.

[RLVG]

Can we get a list of available colors in case we don't know what colors are what? Example, Indigo.

[NoctiZ]

Episode 3. Intruders

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Once you enter, alarm starts screaming. All of you have headaches and have to shut your ears otherwise you feel they're going to explode! To shut it down, you must add the missing color to the system (you will know what I mean once you open the spoiler below).

Spoiler : Puzzle (prepare your eyes, don't watch in the evening) :

*Click it*
Task 3.gif

As answer, name the missing color.

Glip will be solving Private Puzzle.

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You have 24 hours.

From what color pool do we choose from? I mean, technically there would be many colors that could be addable. I probably do know the answer already, but I'm wondering if you could specify.

[Espozito]

From what color pool do we choose from? I mean, technically there would be many colors that could be addable. I probably do know the answer already, but I'm wondering if you could specify.

The easiest ones:

Basically, you can pick from mafia name colors (but don't think this puzzle's about mafia).

[RLVG]

So EZ. All I'm worrying about now is those with basic epilepsy. Do they get an alternate puzzle?

[Espozito]

Can we get a list of available colors in case we don't know what colors are what? Example, Indigo.

Red, blue, light blue, purple, yellow, orange, green, pink, grey, dark green, brown, lime, white.

[powerofdeath]

Ahh, I missed the second puzzle

[Espozito]

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This is an alternative vision of this puzzle suggested by RLVG due to inability to see the actual puzzle GIF from mobiles. (colors are shuffled)

[42shadow42]

There appear to be multiple valid solutions for this puzzle, anyone agree?

[NoctiZ]

There appear to be multiple valid solutions for this puzzle, anyone agree?

I would have agreed if Espozito had not posted the "list" of colors, helps in finding the correct one. Although if he says that the chosen solution is wrong then Imma go fuck him up because then it would really be as you say. :P

[42shadow42]

I would have agreed if Espozito had not posted the "list" of colors, helps in finding the correct one. Although if he says that the chosen solution is wrong then Imma go fuck him up because then it would really be as you say. :P

O.o I have 2 valid solutions in the suggested list. The most viable solution actually is not in the list.