[Trivia/Screenshot Contest] In the Spirit of Giving - House Giveaway!

Dream of having a warm house to live in and celebrate with friends and family? Just want a piece of Eorzea you can call your own? With Christmas drawing near, I'm spreading the holiday cheer by giving away 10 small houses! All you have to do is participate!



Start Date: December 12 (from the time of this post)
End Date: December 22 at 0000 PST.

Contest is closed. Thank you all for participating!

The rules are simple:

• All entries must be posted in this thread, the Reddit thread, or my google doc. Entries posted elsewhere will not count and I will not even look at them. For those without forum accounts for any reason, please use the Reddit link instead or message me in-game with your submission and I will post for you.
• Each player may submit only one entry. If multiple entries are submitted, only the first one will be looked at and the rest will be ignored.
• Once an entry is posted, you may not edit the post. Any edited posts will be disqualified. This is to ensure early posters can not go back and change their answers since they have an advantage in a tie-breaker scenario. Therefore, I strongly encourage all participants to double-check their entries before submitting.

Edit: One more rule: Your character must appear in screenshots along with the objectives. Apologies to anyone who may have already started.

Other important things:

• This forum has an image limit per post so you might not be able to fit all of your screenshots into one post. Please use an image host and submit links instead or if you choose to use img tags, clearly label your screenshots and split them up into two posts.
• While not required, I would encourage participants to use the spoiler tags to hide screenshots.
• Please mention your character name in your post. If there is no name on your post, I will assume it is your main character selected for these forums.
• While anyone is welcome to participate, please be considerate and leave this contest open to those who are less fortunate instead of looking to claim your 10th alt house.

Five winners for this contest will be chosen by the posts with the most points awarded, one point per correct screenshot. In the case of ties, the winners will be the first posts made. Five more winners will be randomly selected (using random.org) from among all remaining participants. Prizes will be distributed on Tuesday, Dec. 23. If you know you will be gone by then, please mention that in your post and I will friend/mail you the gil.

If you have any questions, please ask me in-game or on Reddit.



This contest is a mix of riddles, trivia, and attention to lore. I tried to make sure many of these were easy and accessible even to newer players, but the deciding points may come from the more difficult or obscure ones. So with that said, here is the list of things I want you to find:



1. There are several entries to the Coil of Bahamut located throughout Eorzea. Among them, you can clearly see the doors in Eastern La Noscea, inside Castrum Occidens; Eastern Thanalan, at the Burning Wall; and Coerthas, in the middle of Boulder Downs (though not directly related to Coil, it's still an Allagan door >.>). I want a screenshot to one of these doors. It's up to you to decide which door I want.

Only one of the following statements is true.

A. I want the door near Wineport.
B. I want the door at the Burning Wall.
C. E is the correct choice.
D. A is the real answer.
E. I want the door in Coerthas.
F. C is right.

2. A camp between pride and peace (one screenshot).

3. Take a screenshot of mobs that use each of the following attacks (5 screenshots total). There may be more than one correct answer for each and any correct ones will be accepted.

A. Sticky Tongue
B. Stone Gaze
C. Bombardier
D. Sickly Sneeze
E. Flatten

4. The number of guilds (DoM, DoW, DoL, DoH) in Limsa Lominsa marks the spot in a land covered in snow. Take the number of Sasamo's sins, divide it by the number of items the Itinerant Moogle sells, add the number of NPCs aboard the Astalicia, including the one hanging from a rope, and finally subtract off the total number of the guilds in Ul'dah, the number of Lalafell NPCs found in the Eternal Sleep, and the level you start the game with and you will see why I made you do all this random counting and math (one screenshot).

5. Let it go ♪ (free style, winter-themed, one screenshot).

6. The first of many mistakes (one screenshot).

Order of Rhalgr
Detective Briardien
The Floating City of Belah'dia
Operation Louisoix
Sheep of Dalamud
Senna's Gift
Blue Labyrinth
Royal Syndicate Sunway
Brown Serpent Gate
Tonberry's Grudge
Fury of Halone

Hint: Many references to skills, locations, or lore.

7. Your favourite place to afk (free point!).



And that's all! Good luck to everyone. ^^


Edit:

Solutions

Scores

For privacy concerns, only last names are shown in the chart.

http://i.imgur.com/WhU8qsS.png

Winners
For the highest points, 3 people got a perfect score! The next highest was 10, so the first two people to score 10 are also among the 5 winners. They are:

Qhon Tayuun
http://i.imgur.com/EEDUETC.jpg

Lauren Miller
http://i.imgur.com/zXRJ2C1.jpg

Suki Jinjahl
http://i.imgur.com/0BnLy7K.jpg

Lol Drg
http://i.imgur.com/AOoWy10.jpg

D'yaeven Lift
http://i.imgur.com/uHlvO5Q.jpg


The remaining participants were numbered in order of submission date/time and thrown into a RNG.

http://i.imgur.com/Qn0d33H.png

The random 5 winners are:

Kukura Kura
http://i.imgur.com/lDY6EzU.jpg

Ali'ae Liathano
http://i.imgur.com/uF8Es7k.jpg

Vaiken Kisen
http://i.imgur.com/pBQUDMH.jpg

Y'oh Lionclaw
http://i.imgur.com/vutRRqv.jpg

Wulf Kazuto
http://i.imgur.com/1LZkI8s.jpg


I will try to search for the winners in-game over the next two days. Winners, please contact me to facilitate the process (so I don't have to stare at the search screen all day :p).


Big thank you to everyone for participating! It was a lot of fun looking through the submissions and I hope you all enjoyed this too. I've also learned a few things about running these sort of events so I'm definitely looking forward doing something like this again next year and hopefully with more/better prizes (gil allowing :p)!

Edit: I have added a google doc for private submissions if you do not wish for others to see your answers.

Props to your generosity, how exactly does one give away a small house?

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Originally Posted by PapaSteel

Props to your generosity, how exactly does one give away a small house?

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After the contest ends and the winners are chosen, I will contact the winners and they can meet me in front of the plots they want. There, I will trade the gil needed for the plot + house + some extra furniture money. So basically, I'll trade you 3 million gil* if you win.

* Actual amount may vary, since some plots were recently vacated and reset to 4+ million, but 3 million will be minimum.

On an unrelated note, one of the problems seems to be confusing a lot of people but one person has gotten it right so far so ... I don't know. >.>

Fluffle Puff here. I submitted my entry gallery (imgur) through the Google Docs link you set up. Didn't wanna share any spoilers! :D

The math part has me confused.

Is #6 just one screenshot using all of what is listed below, or a screenshot for each of them?

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Originally Posted by Pankypie

Is #6 just one screenshot using all of what is listed below, or a screenshot for each of them?

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Using all. You submit only one screenshot for #6.

Does any of this have different implications as far as ps3/4 user and pc users go? Such as keyboard commands etc?

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Originally Posted by Hrothgar138

Does any of this have different implications as far as ps3/4 user and pc users go? Such as keyboard commands etc?

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No. I wasn't sure how easy (or difficult) it would be for PS3/4 players to share screenshots but I tried to make made sure all questions were fair for non-raiders as well as PS3/4 players. That's also why I spam the reddit short link in-game instead of the link for this thread since it's easier for PS3/4 players to type.

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Originally Posted by Lyrinn

Using all. You submit only one screenshot for #6.

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To reiterate, are we to use all the eleven names to figure out the riddle or just choose one?

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Originally Posted by LadyKrona

To reiterate, are we to use all the eleven names to figure out the riddle or just choose one?

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In fairness to those who have already submitted their answers, I cannot answer that. Sorry. ><

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Originally Posted by Lyrinn

In fairness to those who have already submitted their answers, I cannot answer that. Sorry. ><

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Fair enough, thank you ^^

Since it's getting close to the closing date (half a week left!), I'm posting the list of names I have received submissions from (in alphabetical order by first names) so far. If your name is not on the list and you believe you have made a submission, please resubmit or contact me ASAP. Thank you!

Aara Alwynn
Ali'ae Liathano
Cerise Carina
D'yaeven Lift
Fluffle Puff
Hrothgar Leraunche
Kukura Kura
Lol Drg
Mnem Osy
Qhon Tayuun
Solveig Laurenholt
Vaiken Kisen
Wulf Kazuto

I submited my entry via google Doc, Thank you so much for doing this!.

Sent my submission via google doc!

Sent mine via GoogleDoc! Thank you for sponsoring this awesome contest! <3

@__@ couldnt crack the code on the sixth's one

So the contest ends in about 20 mins?

Contest is officially closed!

Solutions

1. Only one of the statements is true. That should immediately raise a red flag on any answers that agree with each other, since if one was true the others would also be true. If A was true, then D would also be true and there would be 2 correct statements. Similarly, C, E, and F all agree with each other. This just leaves B as the correct answer.

http://i.imgur.com/Iqx4EgK.jpg


2. No symbolism here. The Ehcatl camp is located between Proud Creek and Peacegarden.

http://i.imgur.com/mvT3FAw.jpg


3. A. Any toad mob was acceptable for this problem.

http://i.imgur.com/HxZ9o9i.jpg

B. I originally based this off of the Lake Cobras in Mor Dhona. Many people answered with Basilisks, which was also correct and accepted.

http://i.imgur.com/cf61wAs.jpg

C. Any beetle mob was acceptable for this problem.

http://i.imgur.com/evEVLDd.jpg

D. The correct answer is Highland Goobue. Some people answered with other types of goobues but the green ones use Moldy Sneeze and not Sickly Sneeze.

http://i.imgur.com/H3sYRGj.jpg

E. Any crocodile mob was acceptable for this problem. The boss of T13 (not naming due to spoilers) was also acceptable.

http://i.imgur.com/NwCbZTY.jpg

4. The first line was a play on the phrase "X marks the spot." Here, X was the number of guilds in Limsa Lominsa, which is 7 - Arcanist's Guild, Fisherman's Guild, Rogue's Guild, Culinarian's Guild, Marauder's Guild, Blacksmith's Guild, and Armorer's Guild. Note that guilds was specifically defined to be DoW, DoM, DoL, and DoH so the Adventurer's Guild did not count. Land of snow clearly refers to Coerthas.

The Eighty Sins of Sasamo is a flight of broken stairs just outside the Gate of the Sultana in Ul'dah.

http://i.imgur.com/QJFbuWS.png

The Itinerant Moogle sells 4 items, Slime Earrings, Dodo Earrings, Cactuar Earrings, and Bomb Earrings.

The Astalicia is a ship near the Fisherman's Guild in Limsa. If you carefully count all the NPCs on board and the poor fellow hanging from the rope, you will get 22.

http://i.imgur.com/6Unmv3k.png

The number of guilds in Ul'dah is 7, Pugilist's Guild, Thaumaturge's Guild, Gladiator's Guild, Goldsmith's Guild, Miner's Guild, Weaver's Guild, and Alchemist's Guild.

The Eternal Sleep is an unmarked inn in Camp Drybone. If you count the number of lalafells there, you will find 3, one behind the desk, one in the second room, and one in the last room at the end of the hallway.

http://i.imgur.com/M73ThC0.png

Finally, you start the game off at level 1. The last clue was why in italics and underlined. It's Y. Putting all of that together,

X = 7
Y = (80 / 4) + 22 - (7 + 3 + 1) = 31

If you look for x7 y31 in Coerthas, you end up at the Fury's Gaze.

http://i.imgur.com/pteqQJf.jpg

Solutions Continued (Due to Image Limits)

5. Free point! I received a lot of great pictures so here are just a few!

http://i.imgur.com/4yVGFEO.jpg

http://imgur.com/iXtGeCV

http://i.imgur.com/34K86cm.png

http://i.imgur.com/2KIHZD2.png

6. This was the most missed problem, largely in part due to how vague the instructions were so I'll explain my thought process behind this one.

First off, the only clue was "The first of many mistakes." If you go down the list, you can find a mistake in every single line. Most people gave me the first line as their answer, focusing on the "first" and not the "many." If you explore a little further to see why I might have made 11 of these ...

Below is a list of the mistakes on the left and a list of the correct names on the right.

Order of Rhalgr <--> Fists of Rhalgr (from MNK story)
Detective Briardien <--> Inspector Briardien (from Hildibrand questline)
The Floating City of Belah'dia <--> The Floating City of Nym (Landmark)
Operation Louisoix <--> Operation Archon (from main story)
Sheep of Dalamud <--> Lambs of Dalamud (from main story)
Senna's Gift <--> Senna's Pride (Landmark)
Blue Labyrinth <--> Red Labyrinth (Landmark)
Royal Syndicate Sunway <--> Royal Allagan Sunway (Landmark)
Brown Serpent Gate <--> Yellow Serpent Gate (Landmark)
Tonberry's Grudge <--> Everyone's Grudge (Tonberry ability)
Fury of Halone <--> Rage of Halone (PLD ability)

If you look at the first letter of the mistakes, there is nothing discernible, but if you look at the corrections, the first letter of each line spells out "Final Prayer."

The intended answer is Final Prayer, a location in Eastern Thanalan.

http://i.imgur.com/Ceo4afF.jpg

7. Another free point and more great pictures! I wonder how many of you actually afk in these places frequently. :p

http://i4.minus.com/i7pPGM65rPFkh.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/EEPGnOh.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/vpdcbGK.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Q31DnVw.png

Awesome! I got them all right but the peace and pride one! ^_^

Scores

For privacy concerns, only last names are shown in the chart.

http://i.imgur.com/WhU8qsS.png

Winners
For the highest points, 3 people got a perfect score! The next highest was 10, so the first two people to score 10 are also among the 5 winners. They are:

Qhon Tayuun
Lauren Miller
Suki Jinjahl
Lol Drg
D'yaeven Lift


The remaining participants were numbered in order of submission date/time and thrown into a RNG.

http://i.imgur.com/Qn0d33H.png

The random 5 winners are:

Kukura Kura
Ali'ae Liathano
Vaiken Kisen
Y'oh Lionclaw
Wulf Kazuto


I will try to search for the winners in-game over the next two days. Winners, please contact me to facilitate the process (so I don't have to stare at the search screen all day :p).


Big thank you to everyone for participating! It was a lot of fun looking through the submissions and I hope you all enjoyed this too. I've also learned a few things about running these sort of events so I'm definitely looking forward doing something like this again next year and hopefully with more/better prizes (gil allowing :p)!

Thank you so much . . . the consolation prize is excellent! ;-)