Easter Egg Hunt

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The Great MFGG Easter Egg Hunt was an event hosted by Not Mips in a temporary subforum in the General Chat. Users had to solve puzzles to find the password to Easter Egg forums. These forums contained prizes, which were games on steam, the first person to post in these forums claimed the prizes, in addition to getting an Egg Badge. Everyone else to post got the badge.
This event spanned across 5 days, each day a new set of puzzles would be revealed.

2014

In 2014, the first Easter Egg Hunt event is hosted in Meadow Planet, a subforum in the General Chat. The five Easter Eggs are Yellow Egg, Green Egg, Red Egg, Blue Egg, and Purple Egg.

Accessing Meadow Planet

On Sat Apr 19, 2014 Not Mips Posted a thread in General Chat Titled "Greetings from Meadow Planet!" To access Meadow Planet, and enter the Easter Egg Hunt, users had to solve a simple puzzle. EehPuzzle1.png
The correct answer to this puzzle was "GGE" which was the password to access Meadow Planet.
There were no prizes for solving this puzzle.

The Yellow Egg - Day 1

On Sun Apr 20, 2014 Not Mips revealed one of the puzzles to get in to the Yellow egg. From this point, users would need to use the forums search function with the answers revealed by the puzzles, in order to access the next puzzle, and eventually open the forum.

Puzzle 1:
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Solving this Sudoku puzzle would reveal a code to enter in the forums search function, to reveal the next puzzle.
The correct answer was "583627419".

Puzzle 2:
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Divide the body without cutting up the 1s.
Cuts should be made from where the legs meet the body.
a-b refers to the slice between a and b
The correct answer to this puzzle was "42392349", when entered in the forums search function, revealed the 3rd puzzle to access the yellow egg.

Puzzle 3:
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Move from Q -> X
You can go up or down a floor as long as there isn't a wall in the way.
Solution is the floor order you visit.
The Correct answer to this was "1234345656", this was the password to access the yellow egg.
Due to it's difficulty, Xgoff contributed a Visual aid to help those who had trouble solving this puzzle.

The prize for accessing this egg was: Earth 2150 Trilogy (Steam Game) + Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (Humble Bundle Link)
Puddin was the winner, however he declined claiming the prize.
Hypernova claimed the prize.

The Green Egg - Day 2

On Tue Apr 22, 2014 Not Mips revealed another puzzle, to start the search to access the Green Egg

Puzzle 1:
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This was a simple font puzzle, translating the font to standard English characters revealed a code, to enter in the forums search function.
The correct answer to this puzzle was "ARG269"

Puzzle 2:
179 181 191 ___ 197 ___ 211 223 227 229

Solution is the six digits with no spaces.
ex: 123456
The correct answer to this puzzle was "193199".

Puzzle 3:
-6P+9A+20S-9W-3O-7R-8D=-21
-16S-6A+8W-12O+18R+6D-12P=18
-15P+16A+19S+8W+2O+2R -20D=55
8P+7A+6S+5W+7O-18R-8D=-58

O = 1
R = 9
D = 4

The correct answer to this puzzle was "62775194"

This egg contained: Bad Rats (Steam Game) + Incredipede (Humble Bundle Link)
Novak was the winner of this egg.

The Red Egg - Day 3

On Wed Apr 23, 2014 Not Mips posted the first in the next string of puzzles, to access the red egg.

Puzzle 1:
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This puzzle is no longer solvable by standard means, The answer was actually hidden in Guinea's Avatar at the time.
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The answer to this puzzle was "zcx62n"

Puzzle 2:
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Solution: SDR7894

Puzzle 3:
Anne (Female), Bert (Male), Casey (F), David (M), and Elise (F) all live in an apartment complex.
The apartment has rooms 101, 102, and 103 on the first floor, and rooms 201, 202, and 203 on the second floor. Their hobbies are: Cooking, Jumping Rope, Wood Carving,
Biking, and Blogging.

No female lives in an even numbered room.
Nobody lives in room 202.
Anne and Casey are the most athletic.
David enjoys blogging about his troubles.
Casey has the least respect for the other residents.
Bert lives upstairs.
103 is occupied by Elise.
The biker lives on the first floor.
Anne is often bothered by the noise in the room above her.

6 Character Password - USE ALL CAPS WHEN ENTERING THE PASSWORD
-First letter in the name of the biker.
-Fifth letter in the name of the wood carver.
-Full room number of David’s room.
-The third letter of Casey’s hobby.

The Correct answer to this puzzle was "AE102M"

This egg contained: Bad Bots (Steam Game) + Puzzle Indie Pack (Steam Game)
Xgoff won this prize.

The Blue Egg - Day 4

On Thu Apr 24, 2014 Not Mips posted the first puzzle to access the blue egg.

Puzzle 1:
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The answer was revealed by folding the puzzle into a cube.
The correct answer to this puzzle was "acfbed"

Puzzle 2:
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Bill’s Will:
Regarding my fortune of $4,545,840-
I leave $1 million to each of my sons with the exception of the oldest, whom I leave my home instead (worth approximately $1.5 million). $550k to the daughter born to the
unmarried man. $600k to my first grandson. $400 each to the incestious children. $500k to my remaining grandchild. $100k to my great granddaughter. Divide the
remainder of my wealth into equal parts for the women who married into family, including my own wife.

How much does Nova receive?
The correct answer to this puzzle was "198760"

Puzzle 3:
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Every number refers to a different letter.
The colored spaces are all real words.
The words that go into the colored spaces are all related and reveal the order to pull from "eggcellent" for use in the password.
Use all lowercase characters.

The correct answer to this puzzle was "gcllee".

This egg contained NEO Scavenger (Humble Bundle Link) + Evoland (Humble Bundle Link).
The winner of this egg was Hello, however he declined claiming the prize.
Mit Claimed this prize instead.

The Purple Egg - Day 5

On Fri Apr 25, 2014 Not Mips posted a puzzle to access the 5th and Final egg.

Puzzle 1:
THEPASSWORDISNOTHOW
The correct answer to this puzzle was "NOTHOW"

Puzzle 2:
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Solving this crossword puzzle would reveal a code to enter in the forums search function to find the next puzzle.
The correct answer to this puzzle was "9zbckwdh".

Puzzle 3:
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All letters have a value between 1 and 26.
The values of a word is the sum of the value of the letters within it.
The correct answer to this puzzle was "151"

This egg contained Shelter (Steam Game) + Action Indie Pack (Steam Game).
This prize was won by Hello, However he declined claiming the prize.
Xgoff claimed the prize instead

Random Statistics

The Yellow Egg had the most solvers with 18.
The Green and Purple Eggs were tied for the least solvers with 8 each.

The egg most quickly cracked was the Blue Egg by Hello in 24 minutes.
The egg least quickly cracked was the Yellow Egg by Puddin after 88 minutes.

The eggs were cracked a total of 56 times.
Over 1750 collective minutes were spent cracking the eggs.

Novak, Slash, Myte, Xgoff, Hello, and Guinea cracked all eggs.