Its a place that I will challenge your wisdom and precision with variant types of riddles.
Why you called this the "Greatest"?
To be honest, I don't know. I asked several people and I couldn't find anything similar to this.
Your not native English and your English sucks; Why do you want to waste our times?
yeah, ok! I assume my English is quite understandable but If I ever made a grammatical / vocab Error which was crucial to the game flow; PM me immediately.
Fine.Talk about this game. What should we expect?
Everything! The game is parted into multiple sessions. Each session has its own chained tasks and riddles. I will give you all some time (3 - 7 days) to solve the session and find the answer. At start of each session I will give you a start point post. If you solve the riddle inside it you will find clues about whats after that and so on. After the deadline I will post the answer (in spoilers) and I will announce the results publicly.
How can we get points?
The first person who solve each session gets 10 points. The second person will get a 5 and the rest of the players who solve the session before deadline will get 3 points. There might be some bonus points hidden in the riddles too which the players can get after finishing the main session.
How many sessions has this?
We are going to play so many riddle games together; no worries The results will be reset after each 20 sessions (when we announce a winner and start this all over again! - hopefully)
Can you talk about what we need to know or have to solve these questions?
Sure! You need your brain(!), Access to Mafia scum*, Google, and some other outside MS freeware software's or stuff that I will talk about them whenever they are needed. Generally pay attention to the hints and clues. They will guide you through sources.
* Speakeasy, Site Chat and GTKS might be used for bonus awards - not the main adventures.
Wow! This sounds fun! / ehhh, I like to try it. Where and how can I join?
There is no need to be classy! You may join anytime by posting /in in this thread. Even if we already passed some sessions. You will start the game at a disadvantage though, obviously.
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1. If you believe a mod error has been made or you disagree with any actions I took, please PM me immediately.
2. Please bold all questions or requests to the Mod.
3.
Do not talk about an ongoing session publicly.
4. Don't solve these riddles in groups or with any kinds of help from other users/people.
5. Do not talk about an ongoing session anywhere unless I specified that it is permitted. This includes messaging other players.
6. Do not discuss the onsite ongoing games. Be sure the game never use any data from the ongoing games.
7. Do not play against the spirit of the rules or of the game. Personal attacks will not be tolerated.
8. This rule set is subject to change at any time. The changes will very likely apply between sessions - if any.
9. Any Violation to the General rules or Site rules will be reported to mish mash moderation team and will result in you getting banned from the game.
General Hints:
Spoiler: After Session 1
- There is no reason for guessing randomly.
- don't give up if you get stuck!
- Some sessions can be solved in various ways. That's normal. You don't need to find all ways to solve a session of course.
- you must examine everything! The name of the session, the picture itself, the text, the links, the file names, and don't be afraid of searching the Net if you need some additional information. On the other hand, you shouldn't think that you know everything. Be creative - use your logic and try to see the bigger picture and all the clues together.
- In most cases, there are many hints on a certain level pointing at the very same direction. A player can find some of them useful (sooner or later...), some of them too cryptic or nonsense. (This varies from player to player of course.) So if anything makes no sense for you, try to find other clues on the same page. Ask yourself: can the stuff I don't understand be connected to the other things I found? Are there more sources of information than I checked? What should I do at all on this level?
If you can find no connection between the "Lololol-type" info and other facts - if you can search clues elsewhere too - if you're quite sure about the thing you must do - ignore the peculiar bit of information. If nothing works, reconsider it in a different way.
- For solving some sessions you might need a password. Pay attention that :
1. No passwords contain capital letters, spaces, extra characters (like ;, á, ü, $, [, !)
2. If a username or password consists of more than one word you should type it without any separation. (eg. username: ifeitherofthem, password: consistsof)
3. You won't need to figure out usernames and passwords by random guessing. There are hints to be followed. (Sometimes you'll have to follow two separate threads to get them, though!)
4. Sometimes you need Keys to solve some puzzles. These are not the passwords I was talking about here and they might not follow the 3 above rules!
- There might be some useful information in extra pages in Frogstar World B or on the wiki.
- Pay attention that each forum , topic and post in Mafia scum has a unique number that are used directly in the URL's.
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hmm, generally speaking no as that makes the game unfair.
But I will let people to play in hydras for limited sessions (5 in each 20). They need to announce they are going to do a session in hydra before I start it or I won't accept their answer from hydra.
If they do a session in hydra, I will cut the score they got in half [rounded up]. At the end players have sores not hydras.
Is this ok in your opinion, everyone?
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Hello and welcome to the first session of GAMS or The greatest Adventure of Mafia scum. During each session you must find clues, solve some riddles and questions and find what I want you to find before everybody else! What is it? That's a part of each session - To find out what you are looking for! The correct answer (which actually means the final thing you must reach during a session) can be figured out in a kind of logical way - in all cases. There's no need to guess randomly. [Even if the answer is q3gz9vxe you will be able to know it without it any doubt!]
First and most important hint is "don't give up if you get stuck"! Riddle games are played neither like a flash action game (eg. kill as much villains as you can in 15 minutes), nor like a typical dvd game (play for hours, save the progress, continue tomorrow). If you tried everything to solve a certain riddle, nothing worked and you're out of ideas, feel free to take a break - You have a long time to resolve each session. It's possible that sometimes you'll be on a task for a long time without solving it - but, next time when you return to the very same page you'll get the answer in a minute.
Some sessions can be solved in various ways. That's normal. You don't need to find all ways to solve a session of course.
Before we start anything I must warn you that you must examine everything! The name of the session, the picture itself, the text, the links, the file names, and don't be afraid of searching the Net if you need some additional information. On the other hand, you shouldn't think that you know everything. Be creative - use your logic and try to see the bigger picture and all the clues together.
The Password is in 3-1-8-1.
In most cases, there are many hints on a certain level pointing at the very same direction. A player can find some of them useful (sooner or later...), some of them too cryptic or nonsense. (This varies from player to player of course.) So if anything makes no sense for you, try to find other clues on the same page. Ask yourself: can the stuff I don't understand be connected to the other things I found? Are there more sources of information than I checked? What should I do at all on this level?
If you can find no connection between the "Lololol-type" info and other facts - if you can search clues elsewhere too - if you're quite sure about the thing you must do - ignore the peculiar bit of information. If nothing works, reconsider it in a different way.
For solving some sessions like this one you might need a password. Pay attention that :
1. No passwords contain capital letters, spaces, extra characters (like ;, á, ü, $, [, !)
2. If a username or password consists of more than one word you should type it without any separation. (eg. username: ifeitherofthem, password: consistsof)
3. You won't need to figure out usernames and passwords by random guessing. There are hints to be followed. (Sometimes you'll have to follow two separate threads to get them, though!)
4. Sometimes you need Keys to solve some puzzles. These are not the passwords I was talking about here and they might not follow the 3 above rules!
Anyway! Jumping from the boring section of introductions to the main game I'm going to start this in the simplest manner (Or not? )! Decode this cipher and you will know where you should go next :
This session has a hidden 8 point bonus point for the ones who can see the difference.
You have 5 days.
This session will end in (expired on 2016-10-19 18:00:00)
ok well done everyone. Congratulations to the ones who solved this session and the ones who find the bonus point! For the ones who didn't don't be sad! you can use the part part guide I put here to try finding the answers on your own. Just don't look at them at once; this way you can try to work on your skills and make yourself ready for our next sessions -which are definitely more challenging.
Just a note : there was no reason for you to solve these stuff in the order I'm writing this guide here. The only thing you needed to find was the final answer so its totally fine even if you didn't notice a part of riddle
Spoiler: part 1
The first clue was in the image itself. There are ...(3 dots) ..... (5 dots) in right right bottom corner of the image. As I told you in the text below that image you should examine everything even the image. even the image name! The image name is "GAMS-Morse" which solves the dots riddle. ... ..... means "S5" or you could read it vise versa "5S" doesn't matter though!
Note : using web Morse translators were totally fine. I don't expect you guys to know what is Morse code. Using google and any source is definitely fine. Just don't consult with each other or other people
Spoiler: part 2
Clicking on the image or exploring randomly on MS you could find an extra page related to game - for Julius Caesar. This game is going to have some extra pages which might be useful for you during the next sessions. anyway you can see the rest of that Morse code under Caesar's image.
".... .. ..-. -" will be translated to "hift" so how can we put the Morse we got from image and this together? easy! "Shift 5" or "5 Shift" now we need to find out what is referring to!
Spoiler: part 3
Lets decode the cipher in first post! using the above hints "Julius Caesar" and "Shift 5" and a simple web search you would realize the cipher is a 5 shifted Caesar cipher or Shift cipher where each letter in the original message (called the plaintext) is replaced with a letter corresponding to a certain number of letters up or down in the alphabet (In this case 5). so A is replaced with F , B is replaced with G and so on!
will be translated to "The key is in a wiki page. The page is in Username/Password. Username is this session. The Password is in User Control Panel. To write go right To read come down"
which is certainly interesting!
You could try and decode this simply by finding out the pattern as well. The word "f" could be simply deduced to be "a" for solving it directly without the Morse code and stuff.
Spoiler: part 4
Finding the username is really easy! As I said the username is this session - hence the session title. I will categorize all new wiki pages I make after that session finishes cause those are the rules of wiki. Special thanks to CC and wg for letting me use these this stuff
Spoiler: part 5
To find password you definitely need more clues than where you can find it. I gave you an address though. right after the sentence I invited
you all to see the bigger picture. yeah found the little text? it says "The Password is in 3-1-8-1." huh
that is an address. go to user control panel. open the third tab "Board Preferences"; from the navigation menu stay in first tab "Edit Global Setting". then go to the 8th thing there "My board style:" and the first thing in that is your password which is "MafBlack"
ATTENTION : I warned you that the pass is all with not capital letters
There you can find the key you need to end this session!
Spoiler: part 7
The answers to those riddles in wiki page are:
1. default //see the first line in wiki page?
2. gun //there is a gun in those themes but not in the other two. I really tried to find something else with 3 letters but I couldn't If there is then I'm sorry
3. Indonesia //Google is your friend
4. A mob has formed //seriously this one was easy ...
5. Truth
6. Love
7. Valentine
8. Life //ehem maybe it wasn't to obvious; sorry
Spoiler: part 8
Assembling the key shouldn't be hard. The first letter was in the first thing you saw "the image of the session" - look at that ' after g ; isn't it beautiful?
so putting all the letters before ' make this the key "geagiimhhvveife"
Spoiler: Bonus
The bonus was for the ones who could find the difference. For finding difference you need to have two similar things don't you?
The text I gave you in extra page about Julius was a copy from wikipedia
My version "Gaius Julius Caesar, known as Julius Caesar, was a Roman politician, general, and notable author of Latin prose. He played a critical role in the events that led to the demise of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire. In 60 BC, Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey formed a political alliance that dominated Roman politics for several years. Their attempts to amass power as Populares were opposed by the Optimates within the Roman Senate, among them Cato the Younger with the frequent support of Cicero. Caesar's victories in the Gallic Wars, completed by 51 BC, extended Rome's territory to the English Channel and the Rhine. Caesar became the first Roman general to cross both when he built a bridge across the Rhine and conducted the second invasion of Britain."
The wiki version "Gaius Julius Caesar, known as Julius Caesar, was a Roman politician, general, and notable author of Latin prose. He played a critical role in the events that led to the demise of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire. In 60 BC, Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey formed a political alliance that dominated Roman politics for several years. Their attempts to amass power as Populares were opposed by the Optimates within the Roman Senate, among them Cato the Younger with the frequent support of Cicero. Caesar's victories in the Gallic Wars, completed by 51 BC, extended Rome's territory to the English Channel and the Rhine. Caesar became the first Roman general to cross both when he built a bridge across the Rhine and conducted the first invasion of Britain."
well The difference is in the last sentence. Julius was the
first
roman general who invade Britannia and it was guessable from the context.
Results coming soon!
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1. There is a new subcategory on Wiki for this game containing all the wiki pages which are used in previous sessions of game. If your want to solve them on your own don't wonder around a lot
2. From Session 2 forward no-one can get a bonus point unless after finishing the main riddle game itself. I forgot to include this in rules for first session
3. Sorry for all errors I made - and got forced to fix during session. I even double checked this before putting this out ; I will triple check next ones!
Hello and welcome to second session of The greatest adventure of mafia scum! Before anything, if you didn't solve the first session or if you did and want to make sure your not missing anything please read the general hints section in second post in this thread. It has the hints I explained during last sessions which are general knowledge for this session forward.
Anyway! Me and Caesar were talking the other day about GAMS and Halloween and we decided to run a Halloween party in here! He said "I know about a stolen treasure. Its all golds and silvers which were plundered from a temple in Delphi years ago."
He looked around carefully then added "The treasure must be somewhere around Rome I'm sure." then he took out a weird peace of paper.
You were like "ehhh, what?!"
Caesar laughed. "Its not going to be easy you know! Anyway, I'm sure they moved the treasure from there and its really unlikely that you can find any traces about it in there. There are some bunch of crap written in the back of that letter as well."
The more strange part was the handwritten crap under that weird , thing!
It was like someone already cracked the code and put down some hints for the next adventurers.
There are two bonus points in this session , one worth 3 points for the ones who know what is the treasure Caesar was talking about and another worth 2 points for the ones who can tell me the name of the person who joined.
You have 5+2+2 days.
This session will end in (expired on 2016-11-02 18:00:00)
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Ok guys I'm going to extend this for another 2 days. the deadline in opening post and session will be updated as well.
a note : This session is supposed to be hard - way harder then the first one. don't really take hard on yourself if you can't solve stuff. I made this session as session 2 to show you how much hard can my sessions get mainly and to introduce you (as first 5 sessions will mainly introduce you to some Technics you might find useful for rest of game).
but don't give up. You can find the solution if you try to consider all the clues and guess which one of them is how relevant. Concentrate on the relationships and categorize your progress.
Well As I said this was a bit harder than first challenge but still it's main purpose was showing the tools you must use for solving the game more than starting the main story and challenge seri you shall see. the treasure haunt Caesar introduced in this session was not concluded In this session - and that's fine! The hints we got during this session (which will be told again in future related sessions) must be all putted together like peaces of a larger puzzle to make sense.
Anyway to solve this session:
Spoiler: part 1
Lets start with treasure haunting as we need the clues we find there for main passage of session.
The treasure is in the road - in the way back to Rome. The newbie thread is called "The Road To Rome".
Spoiler: part 2
The letter legend is giving us a key for encrypting decrypting texts.
"ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
They will be seen similar both ways = 0 _ 10. "
Using this two line and by knowing we can understand that we have 11 letters which will be seen similar both ways we can say:
A:0 H:1 I:2 M:3 O:4 T:5 U:6 V:8 W:8 X:9 Y:10
and it seems in this code the rest of letters will be replaced with '?' question mark character.
that means "TEN = 5??" and "Y='10'" so for Y we use '10' instead of 10 which means "HA"
Spoiler: part 3
Decoding the letter we get :
c
: 1545
f
: 50
t
: 59502
p
: 6349555
Spoiler: part 4
Ok this is an address obviously. With the previous hint we can deduce its pointing to a newbie topic. Pay attention to site url's. (f=50) is for "Completed Newbie Games". Newbie Game number "1545" is the "59502"'th topic of site which was modded by Baezu. So we can use all these stuff to see if we're in right track or not! translating the game title (assuming all letters are captalized)
"THECAMPINGTRIP" = "51??03?2??5?2?" which without question marks is 5103252
post 5103252 of mafia scum is in here which is a simple In and can be translated to "2?"
Spoiler: part 5
using the last number in the letter "
p
: 6349555" we can reach this post in the same game, which is a flip post from mod - flipping a town cop in there.
Now we need to extract the data we want from this post and Fix the weird riddle to finish this session
Spoiler: part 6
Lets go and solve the main questions of this session. There are 4 lies that we don't know their order. Obviously the ? letter is E making that word "External" seems like the first is pointing at the first letters of "External" , "Ugly" , "Undefeatable" and "Trivial" and we know the current order of them is a lie. Obviously we need to use the other text for fixing the order.
Spoiler: part 7
If you focus on the image of this session you can see some numbers : 1-3 5-3 2-31 . using this numbers you can find the 3 blanks in the post we found in the treasure haunt section.
You are Uneasy
Maybe Tonight
This is Easy
Spoiler: part 7
Ok now we need to figure out the order. The first tells the order! means the first letter of the blanks you just filled. UX2 , T , E means the order is E T U U so the "Evil is External" must be the first one
You just needed to report back "Evil is External" as a lie to me.
The most dangerous kind of Evil is inside me and you ourselves!
Happy Halloween!
Spoiler: Bonus 1
The treasure is "The Gold of Tolosa" which was plundered from Apollo Temple in City of Delphi by Gallic invaders of the Volcae.
yeah, ok! I assume my English is quite understandable but If I ever made a grammatical / vocab Error which was crucial to the game flow; PM me immediately.
The results will be reset after each 20 sessions (when we announce a winner and start this all over again! - hopefully)![:]](./images/smilies/icon_smiling.png "Cheerful Smile"){kind=icon}
