Guilds Puzzle League!

[Zawadx]

Bump! Little less than a day remains!

[Fippe94]

I sadly didn't have time to do this after all

[Zawadx]

Next round delayed till I get better; so give it upto 5 days.

[Zawadx]

Sudden death took its toll, and three teams had to be eliminated due to not sending in entries. Surviving teams:

Bunchie Peace Embassy
OtyUnity
Thunderbolts

A simple solution to the maze was:

The Middle-Top room rotates clockwise. The rest turn counterclockwise.
ees(e)se(s)essw(s)es(e)see
which is 18 steps.

Round 4

The Guildmates braved the horrors of the maze for a long fortnight without any food, water or light, walking on and on through the shifting walls... ok 10 days isn't in the territory of a fortnight, not even a short one. But half of them perished in the journey, so it was a pretty significant period of time, ok?

Finally they reached a pyramid, one which thankfully seemed to have stable walls. They sighed, wistful that they were the ones who had made it this far under such unfortunate circumstances. With one final glance at each other, they took the first step forward together.

That's when some of the Ghosts of the Past crept up.

We're sorry to spoil the mood and all, but this is an outrageous hazard of a trip and you'll have to do some more stuff with your heads before going forward.
"But we just got through so much hardship..."
Nothing very mentally challenging though, am I right? I kept telling that guy he should've put a kept more of the Ctulhu mythos around. All that brainwashing and insanity really stimulates craniums.
"This isn't particularly fair, is it?"
Hey the narrator is now pulling an RR, you think that's fair? Think of how much better our dialogue could've been.
"But he's not very good at pulling off an RR."
That's the worst part.

The entrance to the pyramid seemed to have another maze engraved on it, but on closer inspection it turned out to be a sudoku. Easy enough for hardened puzzle-solvers, but looks can be deceiving at times.

THE TASK

The Sudoku is as follows:



Find the solution and send it to the Guildmasters within a week. We hope to avoid further delays like this one in the future!

Time left for Round 4: None

[dragtom]

this is very easy to do, in 2 mins, if you use a sudoku solver.
I've asked zaw about this, and it isn't really in spirit of the event.
For honours sake, I ask everyone to do this manually.

[Zawadx]

A little over a day remaining!

[Zawadx]

All teams managed to find the solution to the Sudoku! Huzzah!

The solution:

Round 5

The interior of the pyramid had an eerie glow to it, as the torchlight glared off the ancient walls made of elements unknown. The Guildmates navigated through the hidden doors and thankfully avoided all the booby traps and mummies. After an hour of traversing the boring pyramid, they finally reached the fun part: the primary burial chamber.

A huge sarcophagus was placed at the center of the chamber, though it was still too small to accommodate any valuable treasure. So they searched the rest of the room, until they found an engraved little cornerstone. Ancient Elementals didn't have hieroglyphics, but they did have their own weird code. The last will and testament of the entombed lord was not for all to see.

THE TASK

The code follows this key:
a=1, b=10, c=11, d=100, e=101, f=110, g=111, h=1000, i=1001, j=1010, k=1011, l=1100, m=1101, n=1110, o=1111, p=10000, q=10001, r=10010, s=10011, t=10100, u=10101, v=10110, w=10111, x=11000, y=11001, z=11010.

The code is as follows:
101001000100110011 100110011 101001000101 110011001110100 10111111110010100 1111110 1100111110010100 110101111011010110010100111101111.
1001110 11001111110101 101111001100111000 101001111 11010011110100, 100111011011011 11111010110100 101001000101 1101001111011100 1010010010110011100.
101001111 10010011001111111110010100 11110100 1011010010110010111010011010011001, 11110100 101011100111111110100!
111001100 110011111001010010011 1101101011001110100 1000101101100 101001000101 11111001100, 11110100 111010110111 11110010101110100 10111111110010101110011 1101101011001110100 10101 10011111110101.
11110100 11101111 10100100101011100111010110010101 110111110010 11001111110101. 101001000101 1111011101 100110011 1 11001001101.

Also, if you can find any insights on how to solve this puzzle elegantly, include it in your PM! The team with the most elegant insight will earn Immunity next round if it is a Sudden Death.

Find the solution (plus any insights) and send it to the Guildmasters within a week.

Time left for Round 5: None

[Zawadx]

Bump! 10 hours left.

[Zawadx]

All teams managed to find the solution! Ok, let's crank up the difficulty a few notches.

The solution:

This is the last word of lord Zanzarino.
If you wish to find, seek out the final trail.
To discord and eternity, and beyond!
All lords must heed the call, and new great works must be done.
And no treasure for you. The cake is a lie.

The gem is a lie is also acceptable for the last sentence, though it obviously makes no sense.

No one had any insights beyond the obvious. It is a challenging puzzle form, so don't feel bad!

Round 6

"The Final Trail, where could that be?"

"No clue."

"Of course we have clues! That's what we've been after this whole goose chase!"

"Then let's lay out the clues."

"But what if the others find out?"

"Then they will have to be prepared to be puzzled." (The sound of a drum roll could be heard echoing in the distance)

THE TASK

Send a puzzle to the Guildmasters within 5 days, with its solution in spoiler tags. The puzzle can be of any form but it must be solvable with all the information provided. You should also try to avoid using the puzzle forms from previous rounds, and try to make a creative and challenging Puzzle.

After all the puzzles have been submitted, they will be made public and the two other teams will have to try to solve them within TWO days (If you feel like two days is insufficient, please post saying so in this thread). You earn 1 point for each team that cannot solve your puzzle, and 1 point for each puzzle that you solve successfully. The team with the lowest score will be eliminated.

This will be a sudden elimination round, so in case of a tie we'll consider the quality of the Puzzle you chose. Puzzles will be graded on two aspects: How creative they are (a.k.a. is it simply a copy of a common pen-and-paper puzzle? Or did the team come up with something never seen before?) and how challenging they are (how difficult they are to solve). Good to you all, and happy puzzling!



Time left for Round 6: None

[worldwideweb3]

2 days for 2 puzzles is not enough.

[Zawadx]

Time extended by 2 days.

Not sending in any puzzle disqualifies you from Puzzle League.

[Zawadx]

Thunderbolts is out due to not sending in a puzzle. So this round might be our finals!

Spoiler for OtyUnity's Puzzle:

The following message has been decoded by your guild's secret service, (as doing yet another cryptography puzzle is boring), but they cannot find out what the V.T.I.S.S.T.I.H.N.N. PIN code is. Can you?

~WeWereWarriors3 and JustCuteJeans are chatting:~
WeWereWarriors3: Hey...
JustCuteJeans: Hello.
WeWereWarriors3: I had the luckiest match the other day
JustCuteJeans: What happened?
WeWereWarriors3: I was trying out this deck idea in pvp2...
WeWereWarriors3: Creating Singularities, combining them into a chimera, and then freezing and catapulting it...
WeWereWarriors3:

Hover over cards for details, click for permalink

Deck import code : [Select]

5rp 5rp 5rp 5rp 5rp 5rp 6u3 6u3 6u3 6u3 6u3 6u3 6ve 6ve 6ve 6ve 6ve 6ve 74g 74h 74h 77l 77l 77l 77l 7gn 7q5 7q5 7q5 7q5 8ps

JustCuteJeans: Sounds Risky.
WeWereWarriors3: Everything was going well, but the opponent was using a weird - duo...
WeWereWarriors3: He played Inundation...
JustCuteJeans: Didn't the Singularities make themselves immaterial?
WeWereWarriors3: They didn't at all during the game...
WeWereWarriors3: They did give themselves a lot of HP though...
WeWereWarriors3: But the opponent also used Shard of Divinity >.<
JustCuteJeans: RIP
WeWereWarriors3: He never used anything on my singularities.
WeWereWarriors3: And my creatures managed to get just enough HP to kill the opponent.
WeWereWarriors3: Next turn, my opponent'd have killed me...
JustCuteJeans: Now thats lucky
WeWereWarriors3: Oh, that's cool... The singularity in slot 1 has twice as much hp as the singularity in slot 2, which has twice as much hp as the singularity in slot 3, etc...
JustCuteJeans: I don't think that works...
WeWereWarriors3: Oops, no, the singularity in slot 1 is 1 hp away from that.
WeWereWarriors3: If you read their HP's from left to right on the field, as if it is a single big number...
WeWereWarriors3: I changed the PIN code of our V.T.I.S.S.T.I.H.N.N. to that.
JustCuteJeans: V.T.I.S.S.T.I.H.N.N.?
WeWereWarriors3: Vault That Is So Secret That It Has No Name.
JustCuteJeans: I have the number. I'll inform the others.

Spoiler for BPE's Puzzle:

Kakuro

Spoiler for Puzzle:

To send in your solution to the others' puzzle, you have no time left.