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Darktober Mysteries: Solved!

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Posted: Mon, 02/11/2015 21:14 (9 Years ago)
Thank you very much Riako for taking the time to put this together. i thought it was very well thought out and actually fun. its a shame that so many people had to ruin it like that but i wish you would reconsider making more like this. i know there is no way to make people play by the rules but the 30% of people that did probably agree with me when i say that we would love it if you could make more like this.
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Posted: Mon, 02/11/2015 21:14 (9 Years ago)
Congrats to the three who won!
I won't hide this - I admit, I "cheated". The " are there because I don't consider it cheating, but I won't say I'm completely innocent. I DID indeed ask for hints on the codes and the final word, because some of these clues really were smart at hiding the answers. Never would have thought about the Growlithe in the Forest one. I DID ask for a hint on the final code (I would never ask for the answer, there's no fun in that) but got no response, a quick Google was a huge help (does that count as cheating?). I certainly did NOT spoil anything either. I may have Palpad'd a hint or two, but I'm just giving back some help instead of take take take.
So I'll say, thank you for taking me out of the winners raffle and allowing those who really deserve it have a chance.
PleaseDon'tBeatMeIAdmittedICheated;w;

EDIT: After reading PROPERLY through the text Riako posted, I understand that he no longer wants to do anymore big events if it means filtering out cheaters.
As one of the cheaters who was asking for hints on the final word, I owe everyone an apology.
Riako, if you see this post, I hope you have a change of heart, that at least 1 cheater understands the devastation that it has caused. Please, do continue more events like this in the future - It was fun, and you'll certainly have 1 less cheater to filter out.
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Posted: Mon, 02/11/2015 21:14 (9 Years ago)
the main reason people "cheated" was because they were under the impression that telling people the answers to the mysteries wasnt cheating.... i have no idea why??? but please dont let their ignorance ruin future events, i really enjoyed this event and even though i had absolutely no chance figuring out the code word lol, i still got to have fun with the mysteries :) . so please please dont let the cheaters ruin our events, it was great and most of the cheaters were just ignorant. (despite plenty of hashtag prodding and pleading not too give answers away :( )
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Posted: Mon, 02/11/2015 21:15 (9 Years ago)
I well... I didnt spoil the final word I just gave like 6 people a little nudge to help them find it but I didnt really give them a big help I just said that the code word is a very important detail but some of them still didnt get it anyways. And one of my friends was under level 15 and he didnt have time to get to level 15 before the event ended so I hinted him 3 letters just so he could have a chance.

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Posted: Mon, 02/11/2015 21:15 (9 Years ago)
Wow.. thats quite a bit of cheaters.. Theres always someone out there that will ruin the fun But.. Hey it was a great event (Now i can get a darkrai!)
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Posted: Mon, 02/11/2015 21:16 (9 Years ago)
It was actually fine to give hints to the little mysteries as answered by the mods. But it was absolutely not ok to spoil the last code word. So there's that.
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Posted: Mon, 02/11/2015 21:16 (9 Years ago)
Thanks for the event Riako it was really fun, I'm sorry to hear about all the cheaters during this event and I'm sorry to put you through that... (I had some suspicions about the code word, not that I knew about ceasers code... I'm glad that I was right for a change) grats to all the winners! And thanks again for the event Riako!
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Posted: Mon, 02/11/2015 21:18 (9 Years ago)
It is sad to see how many people have cheated to win..
It sure is painfull to see all your work ending up ruined.
I'm so sorry that that happend.

I still want to thank you for putting so much effort into the event.
I enjoyed it a lot, I would love to participate in an amazing event like this again. Though I understand if you don't want to do something like this again after this.

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Posted: Mon, 02/11/2015 21:20 (9 Years ago)
Congrats to the winners I really hope that the ones that cheated hadn't ruin something like this happening next year since this was really fun to do, though it took me a bit to figure out some of the mysteries.
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Jaeger
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Posted: Mon, 02/11/2015 21:21 (9 Years ago)
Guh I never win raffles ;; anyways, congrats to the winners ♥

You should make more contests like this :> I do think a rule where people are most certainly not allowed to even mention the code word would be nice though

People kept posting feeds like "nighty nightmares ohhh" and stuff like that ;; maybe if you do another event like this, you could make it where they get disqualified if they post the code word or something like that

Overall, I did enjoy it very much <33 thankyou~
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Posted: Mon, 02/11/2015 21:25 (9 Years ago)
I figured out the first mystery by myself, without cheating... but was unable to obtain an Umbreon to put into my party to "officially" solve it. I gave up after that, assuming that the whole thing was targeted more towards people who'd been on the site long enough to have a broad array of Pokemon at their disposal.

Kinda sad that so many people cheated... though it doesn't surprise me. I used to do moderator work for another "pet raising" type site, and cheating during official events was commonplace there too. Lots of people assume that because it's online, they can get away with it and not get caught... and the desire to have the often valuable and highly sought after prize overwhelms any sense of fair play.
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Posted: Mon, 02/11/2015 21:27 (9 Years ago)
Man those code word spoilers were just saddening, the only thought I had on this event when I saw the code word was the letter shifting, it felt like a detective movie, and I loved it, it's a shame so many cheated, congrats to the winners. and enjoy those eggs!! :D Won't deny though, I got help with a couple of the individual mysteries, however otherwise, my code word was legitimate.
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Posted: Mon, 02/11/2015 21:30 (9 Years ago)
Congratz to the winners and thank you Riako for the event it was really cool

sucks that there were cheaters though this would've been a cool annual/special event, i didn't see many people saying the code more of offering stuff for it which sucked cos people were buying into it even if the prices weren't worth a chance of shiny darkrai

and i figured out the code after someone said "Caesars code" and "google is your friend" found the answer on a Wikipedia wasn't hard when i accidentally got some of the answers like the daycare and fountain
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Posted: Mon, 02/11/2015 21:30 (9 Years ago)
I can see why people cheated.

problably they don't got what the riddle says because

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-anyways, congrats to the winners!
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Posted: Mon, 02/11/2015 21:31 (9 Years ago)
This was my favorite event of them all :3
Thanks Riako for making it beacuse i have always been wishing for an evnet like this ^^ Even so i'm worried i was seen as a cheater... well that doesn't matter it was fun and i did my best

Congrats to the winners!

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Professor_Elm
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Posted: Mon, 02/11/2015 21:31 (9 Years ago)
"But be careful: Do not tell anyone your code word! Remember that the more users who submit the correct word, the lower are your chances to win."

If this was a rule, it should have been written like a rule, not like an advice. Just saying.

Anyway, I really liked this event. Thank you Riako and thanks to all who helped you :)
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Posted: Mon, 02/11/2015 21:32 (9 Years ago)
If helping and getting a help in the small mysteries counts as cheating then I'm really sorry. There was only a note about the big one under the mystery fields. Anyway, the event was great and now, even when there are aswers for mysteries I'm still wondering what's the whole story of the old man and darkrai.
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Posted: Mon, 02/11/2015 21:37 (9 Years ago)
Hello, thank you for this event, however, such huge number of cheaters was to be expected. Everything (and I mean everything) can be found on the Internet. Using friends is an option, too. These days a lot of people (same goes for me) are just too lazy to bother playing fair. Yet, there is no joy in obtaining everything easy, so I am glad that winners are those, who deserved it.
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Posted: Mon, 02/11/2015 21:37 (9 Years ago)
Loved the event, definitely took a few hours to figure out the codeword. Almost woke up the house when I figured it out sometime in the morning hours haha. Though I did ask a question about the codeword I didn't get a reply back and if that was considered cheating then I have to say sorry. Definitely enjoyed the event and the amount of work that went behind it.
Grats to the winners. :)
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Posted: Mon, 02/11/2015 21:39 (9 Years ago)
I disagree on the defining of cheating due to people like me. Im 21 and have personally never even heard of gravity falls. I even googled the blue triangle with the eye to try to solve it and I couldn't get anything to come up besides the all seeing eye of god. Should have been solely based on what you can solve yourself and things on the site.
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