The Daily Neopets' presents... Puzzle Challenge 2012!

[karmacow]

Oh man, the dominos... I WILL solve it! I MUST!

[Reeves]

I really wish there was a hint button we could use every day!

 

Either this is fiendishly complicated or I'm missing something obvious :grrr:

 

im guessing no one has solved it yet? ive been trying to figure it out for the past 6hrs. o_O mind boggling.

[orifiel]

Perhaps the first domino could help us? ^^

[Sakeru_Kyori]

I'm just not sure if you're supposed to do eliminations or play it ou like real dominios or what :P

[celestialchaos]

ugh, so stumped with this

i've figured out a few things, but still....

 

can we flip the tiles for words to work? i wasn't around for 2008 so i don't have access to the puzzles from that year.

[7_rayne_7]

I'm still stuck on number one. I haven't even bothered attempting number two yet.

[celestialchaos]

I'm stuck on that one too. I know what the items are, I know how they're related, but I can't figure out the numbers... :(

[Haliaetus]

I'm stuck on that one too. I know what the items are, I know how they're related, but I can't figure out the numbers... :(

I'm in the exact same boat. I've been trying to figure it out but I'm stumped. :(

[7_rayne_7]

I'm stuck on that one too. I know what the items are, I know how they're related, but I can't figure out the numbers... :(

 

That's where I'm at. I know that I'm missing something, something simple, but I can't find it.

 

And I just took a look at the second one....ugh...

[celestialchaos]

Yeah, it's apparently something simple, but it hasn't clicked for me yet...

 

Edit: I really thought I had it, but it was wrong :(

[Masaryk]

Just one helpful hint for Puzzle #2. If you are going to cut out the dominoes to try to solve this, make sure you put a mark on them first, so that you know the top from the bottom. Once they are cut out, you can't tell the difference on some of them.

[Izzy ♥]

The dominoes one was one of the harder ones from 2008 - thats why I put it so early, it gives people all month to solve it :) I did not repeat the hardest puzzle from 2008 though, which was the Thade one *cough*

[Darthenia]

Puzzle 1: Done

Puzzle 2: I was wondering if you lovely TDN staff might discuss disclosing the following information to us lowly puzzle solvers. - is there one domino that is in the right place? But please, supposing the answer is yes, DON'T TELL US WHICH ONE!

Would you consider this a fair hint?

 

Yours,

Puzzle Fanatic Darthenia :laughingsmiley:

 

 

P.S: -Gutted not to have known about TDN in '08 and missing Puzzle Challenge! :sad02:

[The Charismatic Enigma]

Stared at both challenges for a minute each and have given up.

 

Patience is not my strongest quality.

[karmacow]

This domino puzzle is a BEAST! Every word I've tried has been a bust. I'm need to step away from it for a while, I think. Maybe I'll have an epiphany while I think of something else (hopeful).

[celestialchaos]

Now that some comments have been made, how are you supposed to read the domino puzzle? Is it 1 line of dominoes?

[Masaryk]

I honestly can't give any more hints for this one, since I haven't been able to solve it yet. :/

 

@Darthenia: The Puzzle Challenge of 2008 is the main reason I became active on the TDN Forums. Best of luck solving all the challenges!

[poptart123]

12 hours into puzzle #2. Haven't made one letter of progress. What makes it so hard is I have no idea what the "theme" of the puzzle is. Like how in the game Wheel of Fortune or in Hangman each puzzle is given a category. That would be super helpful right about now.

[Izzy ♥]

As far as I'm aware none of the dominoes are in the "right" place - not intentionally anyway LOL I basically wrote the phrase then cut it up and moved them all around haha

 

When I did this one in 2008, I didn't give a category and people still got it :P For whoever said last time's had a question mark, this one has an ! to mark the end xD

[Reeves]

its definitely a tough cookie to figure out. seems like all the words im trying to make didnt succeed. D:

[thejokerlaughsatyou]

Wow, the second one is wicked. :/ The first and third ones I understood with no issue... my math teacher gave us brainteasers like this all the time for warm-ups! I just had to look up what the items actually were in the first one, because otherwise I was clueless. But the second one is ridiculously hard! So glad we don't get penalized for taking more than a day to solve it. xP

[Luventas]

One and three were no problem at all, but number two is killing me. ~.~

[SophSoph]

First and 3rd ones were CAKE compared to the second one. I'm gonna keep trying, but I honestly don't think I'll be able to get it xD I wasn't around in 2008, but if it was a question mark at the end it might have been a little bit easier because you know it has to start with a question word like who, what, when, etc.

[Reeves]

Yeah. 3rd one i got it fast. Simple.

But yeah, in the same boat with the majority with regards to puzzle #2. D:

 

Izzy, just curious if anyone has solved Puzzle #2 already :O

 

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[The Bandit]

Yay, I solved a puzzle :D

 

So number 2 is just a random muddle with no logic or anything?

 

That is EVIL!

 

Do we not a get some kind of clue?