04-10-2013, 05:59 AM
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Re: A Surprise from the Easter Bunny
These are the approaches I took in solving the puzzles (I put them in the same order as the document):
The Best of the Best
Answer: Veteran
I started off by noticing that all of the users on that list were in the Regional Rankings page. I crossed off the people in the puzzle from the Regional Rankings page and noticed that seven regions had one person remaining, while the other nine regions were left untouched. I figured I had to work with the 7 people, so I tried arranging them in order of the rank in their respective regions. Taking the first letters of their usernames afterwards spells out "veteran." (Also, I don't think this works perfectly now, because some people have moved around in the regional rankings after the puzzles were finalized.)
The Meaning of FFR and Everything
Answer: Files
Hopefully you tried copypasting the blackened out part into somewhere else, or tried downloading the document and changing the text background color. These parts were crucial clues.
The entire "report" is personifying songs in FFR. "Squadron 42" refers to all FFR songs with difficulty 42. This "squadron" has 22 "fighters" total. (I'm guessing "Dif." was referring to "difficulty.") Now that we have a starting point, we need to take a closer look at the report, hint by hint.
"only those who were lucky to have their status over 500 were able to survive"
Songs with level ID 500 or under all "died." Cross off the 6 songs that fit this -- 16 remaining.
"the time of all those that were left were odd at best"
Cross off songs with an even number of seconds in length. 6 "casualties," 10 remaining.
"A later surprise ambush took out what was left of 3 of our sections, leaving only sections A and D unscathed."
The songs left at this point are in 5 different genres, or "sections." Dance, Token, Arcade, Rock, and Misc. Cross off all songs in Token, Rock, and Misc, as only Dance and Arcade songs were "left unscathed." 3 casualties, 7 remaining.
"In fact, the brothers took their lives just yesterday, probably to save their minds from the ordeals yet to come. We celebrate both of their birthdays this month with funerals instead."
This is the part where the date at the top of the letter is important. The letter was written in December. "Birthdays" is referring to the stepchart release date. The "brothers" therefore are Clockwork Genesis and Sunless Daybreak. This leaves just 5 songs.
"All who remain are on a first name basis though. It’s not that hard to remember anymore. What are we anyways?"
Well, let's take the first letters in the "names" of the 5 remaining songs, Frozen Rain, Sly, Lover Reef, Infinity, and Endless Tewi-ma Park - f, s, l, i, e. Shall we do some rearranging? You guys are files.
Letter to the Manager
Answer: Onoken
The first paragraph is simply a general starting point, referencing the FFR Shop.
"represent where my home is very well with the amount I had"
The ZIP code of Germansville, PA (as given in the address of the sender) is 18053. This was the user's credit count prior to purchase.
"the one item that I wanted went in stock not too long ago, but it was 18.48% of my total credits"
Ring Ring Bang, one of the most recently released purchased songs and costing 3333 credits, is around that much. Note: The percentage hint was slightly off, which threw me off a bit, haha.
"I went on to buy that item, and every item that you had that was 500 credits or less, but accidentally clicked one that I originally thought to be 200, but really was 700, and accidentally bought that as well."
How many credits does it cost to buy all purchased songs costing 500 credits or less, in addition to a 700 credit song? 6613 credits.
In total, he bought 9946 (3333 + 6613) credits worth of things. He is then left with 18053 - 9946 = 8107 credits.
"However, in the end, from what I had left, I was reminded of another couple items, not available in your store"
These two items are K8107 and P8107. These are not available in the FFR shop as K8107 is a secret song and P8107 is a skill token (the 21st one at that, which explains the 21 S. Token Drive section).
"However, going back through my inventory, I had realized that I was even further away from obtaining the songs I was thinking of"
This is because he purchased songs, and the secret songs you have are based on your current credit balance. K8107 requires 25k, and if you don't have K8107, you can't get P8107 either.
"the products I have in mind were imagined by a very good friend of mine"
Both of these songs are by Onoken.
Iconic
Answer: Kidnapper
As posted by Dossar in the thread, the pictures are (or were) avatars of FFR users:
The 9 people are all founders/managers of different teams (in order: Unindeed, Blaze, Pokemon, Pony, K120, Dragons_Fury, Raccoon Girl, Fur, and Indeed). Match the team names with the nth letters as provided by the 9 numbers at the bottom (e.g. the number for "Fur," the second one in the third row, is 3. Hence you would take the third letter, "r") to get "eappkdnri." Solving this anagram gives you one legitimate word: kidnapper.
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