Okay, to you over a hundred (wow!) fellow players: it's puzzled out, the round is over. Now come the answers plus high score, and we got everything between one and all points.
But wait... two new forums have joined the quiz, the IGN Italia Board and the Play3 Community. Thanks and have fun!
1) Fez
Answer rate: 81%
Other suggestions: Anthem
2) Professor Layton.
The start screen of the first entry of the series.
Answer rate: 87%
Other suggestions: Control
3) Hero Wars.
The free-to-play game with the annoying online advertising actually has puzzles. However, "Hero Rescue", which has been mentioned several times, is a different game with a different main character.
Answer rate: 54%
Other suggestions: 4x Hero Rescue, Dragon Quest Heroes, Terraria
4) Baba is you
A really excellent puzzler that has rightly won many awards.
Answer rate: 83%
Other suggestions: Deltarune, Hades, Undertale, Youtubers Life.
5) Monument Valley
Answer rate: 70%
Other suggestions: Patapon, Q*Bert
6) Monkey Island 2 Special Edition.
Use the Monkey Wrench on the Monkey Island, here the HD Special Edition.
Solving rate: 70%
Other suggestions: Atelier Viorate, Day of the Tentacle, Putt-Putt.
7) Picross S
Answer rate: 75%
Other suggestions: Sudoku, Battleship
8.) Baphomet's Curse / Broken Sword
Well, which one of you has dared to mess with this goat?
Solving rate: 68%
Other suggestions: Secret of the Druids, Deponia, Discworld, Rusty Lake, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, The Inner World.
9) Return of the Obra Dinn.
"Sudoku with corpses"
Answer rate: 73%
Other suggestions: Melty Blood Actress Again, Sega Rally
10) The Dig
Answer rate: 46%
Other suggestions: Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, King's Quest, Monkey Island 3, Portal, Runaway, Terra Topia, The Pit.
11) Bridge Constructor Portal
Answer rate: 56%
Other suggestions: Exit, Hearthstone, Sega Rally
12) Gabriel Knight 3.
A moustache made of cat hair....
Answer rate: 39%
Other suggestions: Shen Mue, Secret Files Tunguska, Monkey Island, Pirates of the Carribbean, Plumbers Don't Wear Ties, Shaq Fu, Sherlock Holmes, Where in the World is Freddy Mercury.
14) Silent Hill.
My favourite Silent Hill puzzle
Solving rate: 53%
Other suggestions: Black Mirror, Resident Evil, Stories Untold
15) Sokoban.
The original box pusher!
Answer rate: 57%
Other suggestions: BMX XXX, Puzzle Boys, Undertale
16) BoxBoy! + BoxGirl!
The most recent game in the Boxboy series.
Answer rate: 56%
Other suggestions: Block Dude, Pile Up, Wet
17) Murder by Numbers
Answer rate: 51%
Other suggestions: Blocks that Matter, Persona, Pile Up, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
18.) Kwirk
Answer rate: 52%
Other suggestions: Cool Spot
19) Chromagun
No, this is not Portal...
Answer rate: 41%
Other suggestions: 14x Portal, Bridge Constructor, Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, MAG Massive Action Game, Q.U.B.E., The Witness.
20) Phantasmagoria 2
Answer rate: 27%
Other suggestions: Daedalus Encounter, Emergency Room: Private Patient, Lsd, Spore, The Tiny Bang Story, Total Annihilation, Trauma Center.
21) SpaceChem
Answer rate: 50%
Other suggestions: Fable 2
22) Codebreaker.
Not a very good game for the Atari 2600.
Answer rate: 34%
Other suggestions: 3x E.T., Atari Brain Games, Basic Math, Dante`s Inferno, Fun With Numbers, Space invaders, Tetris
23) Pokemon Ruby / Sapphire
Answer rate: 32%
Other suggestions: Zelda, Breath of Fire 2, Earthbound, Fifa 15, Final Fantasy Adventure, Zak McCracken.
24) Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Graphic remake of the 80s text adventure based on the famous novel, and the hardest entry of this round.
Answer rate: 28%
Other suggestions: Antichamber, Overlord, Return of the Obra Dinn, Sega Rally.
25) Minesweeper.
I thought this would be difficult!!!
Answer rate: 87%
Other suggestions: Solitaire
Now here is the puzzle picture again, followed by the solution:
Participants from here are bold, in case of equal scores weighted points decided (less often guessed titles give more) or as an emergency solution the date of the entry.
Wow, 12 people with full points? A whole dozen winners?! That's a first!!!
Well then, congratulations to (in order of first entry) Excelsior, EarthPainting, residentgrigo, marek, TheLastToKnow, Wizdom, Havie, Dream-Team, Nobby_UK, The_BACH, Kong and lifer. .. you all WON and share the first place.
So, now please do elaborate on the hidden theme. I am curious myself!
Seriously? Surely, it can't be a coincidence that the many of the classic adventure games are all represented by their most (in)famous puzzles?
Ah yes, that is true - several times I picked the meanest riddles from adventure classics.
What I'm curious about is the comment on Return of the Obra Dinn, "Sudoku with corpses". I don't get the Sudoku part.
My "Sudoku with corpses" comment was about the mental exclusions you have to do in the game. In Sudoku your mind goes "It can't be the 3 or 4, those are already over there. The box is missing 1 and 2 though, and given that I just put another 1 down here it HAS to be the 2". In Obra Dinn I found myself thinking in a similar way: "This corpse can't be the dutchman or the guard, they both died with the Kraken attack. I don't know where the asian woman or her chamber maid are, and I think the woman left on the small boat so it HAS to be the chamber maid."
Good old time travel is a popular stylistic device to make a story a bit more interesting (dinosaurs! AND laser weapons!). In video games, Max Payne taught us about "bullet time", and some modern titles use time as a gameplay element even beyond slow motion. In this round you have 25 representatives in one bunch, do you know them all?
What date in your life would you like to travel back to? Maybe to the 6th of September so you can think about this quiz longer!? Sounds reasonable.
With this post I'll bring the thread back up and give you some hints.
Clues #1: 1) One series is featured several times in this round. 2) Game 11 is the last part of an older trilogy. 3) In the first line of this puzzle, only #2 has never appeared on Windows PCs. 4) Number 12 was released in this decade.
I'm going on holiday tomorrow, so here are the second and last clues already today.... because I don't have a time machine, unlike many of the protagonists in the games asked this time.
So let's go: 60 people are already participating, and one week from today this round will be over.
Hints #2: 1) You control games 3, 6, 11, 12, 14, 17, 19, 20 and 21 from a first-person perspective. 2) Title 15 is a Metroidvania. 3) There is also a VR version of game number 3. 4) The nine titles with a first person view are joined by five from a 3rd person perspective and eleven with 2D gameplay.
Wow, over a hundred people? With 113 players it's even the most visited quiz of all time. Now the time loop closes, we are back at the beginning of the month, and the solution is coming up. Did you guess everything right?
Let's see:
1) Back to the Future: the game
The Telltale version of Back to the Future.
Solution rate: 100%
Other suggestions: -
2) Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
I usually am quite lenient, but the three people who entered "Ocarina of Time" here don't get a point this time!
Solution rate: 91%
Other suggestions: Ocarina of Time
4) Day of the Tentacle
The second of the two games that really everyone recognized.
Solution rate: 100%
Other suggestions: -
5) Braid
Solution rate: 92%
Other suggestions: Gerrard Way
6) Timeshift
Haze for the ps3 has a similar cover, but there the visor has a crack.
Solution rate: 71%
Other suggestions: 4x Haze, Anthem, Crysis, Dark, Dead space
7) Prince of Persia: Sands of Time
Here we see the GBA version.
Solve rate: 94%
Other suggestions: Aladdin, Assassin's Creed.
8.) Life is Strange
Solution rate: 65%
Other suggestions: Gone Home, This Is The Police, Viewtiful Joe 2.
9) Blinx the time sweeper
Here's where you've been creative: Blinx the "time creeper, time sleeper, time cat".
Solution rate: 89%
Other suggestions: Nyx the cat, Ratchet & Clank.
10) Viewtiful Joe
Solution rate: 70%
Other suggestions: Ghost Trick
11) Timesplitters: Future perfect
I thought the main character (bald head and sunglasses) would have been more familiar.
Solution rate: 37%
Other suggestions: 5x Duke Nukem Forever, 4x Duke Nukem, Bioshock Infinite, Mass Effect 3, Saints Row 4, Serious Sam, Wolfenstein: The New Order
12) Death Loop
Solve rate: 57%
Other suggestions: Borderlands, Cyberpunk 2077, Quantum League, Time Splitters.
13) Super Back to the Future 2
A platformer about the second Back to the Future, with hoverboard of course.
Solution rate: 78%
Other suggestions: -
14) Singularity
Solution rate: 61%
Other suggestions: Bioshock Infinite, Crysis, Time Splitters.
15) Timespinner
Chrono Trigger would have lent itself to this quiz, but I've already had it twice in other puzzles.
Solution rate: 61%
Other suggestions: 4x Chrono Trigger, CrossCode, Secret of Mana, Shantae, Timekeeper.
16) Back to the Future 3
Solve rate: 88%
Other suggestions: Brokeback mountain
17) Titanfall 2
Solution rate: 63%
Other suggestions: Dark Souls, Quantum Break, Tinesplitter.
18.) Mario's Time Machine
No point without "Mario".
Solution rate: 58%
Other suggestions: 3x the Time Machine, Cambridge vs Oxford, Enigma Machine, Explora
19) Quantum League
Solution rate: 33%
Other suggestions: Atlas Reactor, Cyberpunk 2077, Deus Ex, Ghost, Infamous, Lemnis Gate, Overwatch, Perfect Dark, Quantum, Quantum Break, Time Splitters.
20) The Forgotten City
Solve rate: 49%
Other suggestions: 11x Bioshock Infinite, Assasin's Creed, Close to the sun, deracine, Dishonored 2, Midas touch.
21) Outer Wilds
Solution rate: 43%
Other suggestions: Half Life, Kerbal space progam, Portal, Portal 2, Quantum Conundrum, Thinking with Time Machine, Time Stall, TimeSplitters.
22) Past Cure
A not very good 3rd person shooter.
Solution rate: 34%
Other suggestions: 10x Control, 9x Quantum Break, Max Payne 1/2/3, Infamous, Constantine, John Wick, Plague Tale of Innocence, Remember Me, The Evil Within 2.
23) Time Machine
The hardest game of this round, fitting as it was quite confusing to play.
Solution rate: 28%
Other suggestions: Commander Keen, Ghost Trick, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Maniac Manson, Space Quest, Time Traveler, Zac McKracken.
24) Future Wars
I'm impressed that you guys could tell just by the scenery!
Solution rate: 37%
Other suggestions: Another Planet, Another World, Cybarian: The Time Travelling Warrior, Out Of The World, Red faction, Surviving Mars, Terminator 2, The Dig, The Silent Age, TIMEframe.
25) Time Slip
Trivial action game, but the clock fit in so nicely
Solution rate: 30%
Other suggestions: Civilization 2, Explora, No Time, Professor Layton and the Unwound Future, Trinity, Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego.
Here is the puzzle image again, followed by the answer:
This time we honour a former giant. Quite a few classics can be attributed to Atari Inc, which rose to become the biggest manufacturer of video games in the early 80s. We all know how the story ended, but much like the SEGA corporation (see related puzzle a few months ago ) a whole lot of hardware has come together over the years, with quite a few titles... I won't be able to please all fans and have left out some classics, but I still want to put you to the test: Whether console, home computer or handheld, exclusive or multiplatform - do you recognise these games?
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