[Game] Card Treasure Hunt (The Resurrection Attempt)

Maybe my reasoning is quite wrong.

Al'Akir the Windlord?

Nope.

Hint: All the cards have a certain mechanic/engineer theme.

Mechano-Egg?

No.

The riddle is probably too vague, my bad. It's been a while since my last one. Some big tips coming up to make things clearer:

I think it's Wrenchcalibur

For the previous hint I take: Cogmaster's Wrench + Hobart Grapplehammer + Zapp Slywick

The first one, really no idea if it was a good card actually, but it would fit the theme.

The second one I take from @anchorm4n because it didn't come to mind at all.

And I'm almost sure of the "nasty rattles" part is focused on killing Baron with Zapp.

Fedrion has it 99% right, so I'm counting that as correct.

It's Cogmaster's Wrench! anchorm4n got Hobart and Fedrion got Zapp, but the first one was the Cogmaster himself (played in Mech Mage). What connects them is that they all have Cogmaster's Wrench in the art (well, Cogmaster technically doesn't, but he's literally in the weapon's name).

Nice! Really good and hard riddle, and the battlegrounds part was a really nice addition.

I forgot the part of "none of them are in standard", I just thought the first 3 leading to the final answer weren't.

It makes much more sense the way you thought it.

Here I go:

Let's go, let's go! There's little time!

We must reach it before it's too late

Oh no, oh no, it's still not done

And the deck approaches its end.

I've played all my cards, and at last we have it in hand

But now I'll die anyways...

What did I have in mind when I put in my deck

That murloc from the Hall of Fame...

Coldlight Oracle. Or this riddle about another card?

Yeah, it's about an interaction with Coldlight Oracle and the riddle card.

Raza the Chained?

Nope

Dead Man's Hand?

I’m guessing between Shadowstep and Corrupt the Waters (shaman quest from Uldum)

Going by feel alone, I'll guess C'Thun, the Shattered

Or maybe Tip the Scales ...?

Is it Tess? Ok I am done with guesses now XD

So far, nope lol

Hint time:

Bigger hint:

Exactly!

Chef Nomi or Mecha'thun?

Game has turned back into a Mensa meeting again lately. Darn my dumb brain!!!

I’m having trouble with the second hint... it makes me think of a weapon (obviously), and plenty of weapons have seen nerfs, but a BANNED one? Hmmmm

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Game has turned back into a Mensa meeting again lately. Darn my dumb brain!!!

I’d still say this is probably the most active forum game on the website, so we’re in pretty good shape lol

Still, I can’t think of any card that was actually banned 

I'm still mulling over the first and second clues, but I have a hunch that the second refers to Pogo-Hopper? What that means for the King of the Sun, I'm unsure.

1 - Prince

2 - Most likely this is an American phrasing and I can't understand this. Maybe Coldlight Oracle

3 - Snipe

Trade Prince Gallywix?

The more hints given out the more confusing it gets! 

I'm not a fan of these compound ones where you need to guess 3 other cards before you get at it, it's tedious.

Hash tag thumbs down to that

1. Cloud Prince
2. Leeroy Jenkins
3. Explosive Runes

So the solution would be Fireball!

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Alright, I'm sorry. If this isn't solved or very close to solved by 8 pm CET (which is in about 11 hours from now), I'll give you the solution and the next riddle is up for grabs. 

I believe that the 3 to 1 riddles are interesting as well as the usual ones. Just this riddle was a bit difficult. Maybe we should give hints after a whole day without a single response.

Hash tag deal with it.

p.s. We don't have "...on a stick" phrasing in our language. Even related to HS. So it's an american (or insert your country) phrasing. (:

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p.s. We don't have "...on a stick" phrasing in our language. Even related to HS. So it's an american (or insert your country) phrasing. (:

It’s a pretty common term here on the site. I thought it was Coldlight being an Arcane Intellect on a stick, didn’t play enough to know Leeroy was even called that!

as for the third one, the trap got me stuck on literal Hunter Traps (especially because of the “caught with a snap” imagery, so I thought Freezing Trap. Did get the Cloud Prince part though, but I wanted to see if I could solve it before giving a hint solution to the others lul

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Thanks JFK, I'm happy you were able to solve it after all. Don't worry, I won't do something like this again. 

Remember my post history riddle? Or the “cop folded shoplifters” one? Don’t worry about the difficulty dude, it was a neat riddle :D 

Alright, a simple one. You're only looking for one card this time:

To live, or not to live, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in locked war to suffer
The pings and damage of outrageous power,
Or to take Fury against a Field of trifles,
And by inferno end them...

Is it... Lord Jaraxxus?

Lord Barov?

Jaraxxus it is!

Just bumping in case @Dermostatic didn’t see this

..... chirp .... chirp ... chirp ........

Let's make a limit on the answer within one or two days for everyone?

The answer shouldn’t be limited, but the riddle-giving could be

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The answer shouldn’t be limited, but the riddle-giving could be

That's what iI'm talking about

The Knight from G&G can.

While Moustached guys cannot.

It can fetch you a Macabre op.

Or a Duelist who's a flop.

Care for a hint?

This riddle has a bit of nostalgia involved in it. The Moustached guys are not any form of Mr. Jackson (I'm sorry Reno, I didn't mean to make your daughter cry, I apologize a thousand times)

Any questions...? It's really not too hard. I think it's just hidden in how obvious It is.

Think action verbs top 2 lines, the last two are game  particular

Same. After I didn't find any knights in gvg, I thought it might be a paladin card. But I don't have any guess anyway.

Bolvar Fordragon?

It's not OP in any ways, but it's a knight.

The first two lines are that bit of nostalgia I was referring to. Think retro. One character was even reprised into a very popular vs. style game somewhat recently.

Card does not generate. Much of your post is in the right direction, ⚓. I updated the riddle.

Getting tired of waiting.  Have you guys never played Super Ghouls and Ghosts?????? On the SNES....

The Moustached guys are Mario and Luigi!!!!!!!!!!

Guess I forgot that most HS players play only HS. Thought someone would pick up on the retro reference!

It's Double Jump.

Mario and Luigi in the old games couldn't double jump but Arthur from G&G on the SNES can.

It can fetch you [Hearthstone Card (skull of gul'dan/card], the macabre op… Or star student who is a duel character.

Sorry but that was agonizingly long for me, especially after that break. You all lose.

I feel like I'm torturing you so I give up my turn. I didn't win it anyway. Game is up for another riddle again : D

How about this riddle then?

GHAZSCPTAUCHRH

The code is hidden in these cards!

So GHAZSCPTAUCHRH is an open key, and 5511338913801370538053044158 (can be a bit different) is a closed key? It remains only to find the correct cipher.

Perhaps. Where’d you get the numbers from?

From the cards page link on this site. Not those numbers?

Tiny hint: no, not that

Ok. Then it's should be a cost, attack or health numbers...

Hint

Dunno. Let's try... Onyx Magescribe

Nope 

Iron Juggernaut

Wrong. You’re thinking in the wrong direction entirely

Not taking the extra steps to figure it out, so I'll be just trying to hack this (I assume R is too). Dark Possession?

Nope. I can say fairly safely that you won’t be able to brute-force the answer 

Yay, another impossible one. You guys couldn't get my one that I thought was pretty easy. Good luck with this

I could not find a correct cipher. Unless there is no such cihper calculator online. Or maybe I was  badly looking for it or missed something...

"Wrong direction"... So it's HRHCUATPCS ZHAG? Like Optimistic Ogre.

If we name each card in the game, then eventually we will find the answer (:

“Wrong direction” figuratively, as in “misunderstanding the riddle’s catch”. I will say that it’s not a cipher (cipher riddles just get obliterated by cipher decoders on the internet anyway)

focus on the given cards, it is highly unlikely you’ll be able to cheese your way out of this one >:)

Honestly, I've been thinking without replying just to brainstorm myself, and I can't figure it out.

I always thought the solution was in the cards provided, but I can't really figure it out... First is a gain armor cards, then a weapon which interacts with you having said armor, then a minion which allows to go face ( I thought it was Mayor Noggenfogger by that point), then I turns into a non collectible non targetable cards, then to a non collectible card with an elemental tag, then to a beast with Adapt if you sacrifice, and then to a damager/buffer. 

I lost it completely when I saw the Laughing Sister, and I thought maybe the The Lich King, since he can make your minions untargetable, deal damage or heal with his DK cards, but I don't think that's the answer so... I'm at a major loss.

Another hint, let’s see if this makes it click:

G - gain, H - has, A - attack...? Or it's wrong direction?

Hey

I was hoping you’d make some guesses using that logic... but no, that’s not it

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Nope. I can say fairly safely that you won’t be able to brute-force the answer 

Really? I'll see you in 2,801 guesses.

Shirvallah, the Tiger

@MurlocAggroB got it! :0

Is he really gets it or you don't want this to continue? (:

How to solve this riddle?

Nah I was just kidding lmao, keep trying

Does the order in which you showed the cards matter?

No. Thinking back it could be a good idea to give them in order... guess I know my next hint

The way I understand it, the letters given in the code can be changed to spell the name of a card. And the key to deciphering the code can be found in the cards below.

My initial guess was to count how many times a letter from the code appears in the cards and then go that many spaces down the line. (For example, "G" appears five times in the cards below, and "S" is the fifth card in the code, so that would be the first letter in the card's name). But that doesn't work since "A" appears thirty four times, and "Z" appears zero times.

You said that you didn't put the cards in any particular order, but then you implied that the order of the cards does matter. Which leads me to believe we can use the code to sort the cards in some way revealing the answer, but then again we run into the problem of there being no "Z".

You then said that by adding Xarl to the list you could change the "Z" to an "X". Since "X" is the first letter in the cards name, I get the impression that we could use the card's name to figure the code out, but then again we run into the no "Z" problem.

However, by adding Xarl you replaced the "Z" with an "X" which makes things more confusing since it implies that certain cards can remove as well as add letters to the code. But if adding Xarl and changing the "X" with a "Z" leaves the answer the same, then the "Z" without Xarl works the same as the "X" with Xarl. But I can't think of any way in which "Z" relates to these cards.

All that being said, I think the answer is probably Murloc Tinyfin

Nope, but keep thinking on that. You’re on the right track with the X being interchangeable with the Z because of Xaril. Meanwhile, here’s the correct order of the cards (now with Xaril included):

GHAX SCPTAUCHRH

Laughing Sister

Flame Elemental

Xaril, Poisoned Mind

Disciple of C'Thun

Ravenous Pterrordax

Bladed Gauntlet

Dr. Boom's Scheme

Tundra Rhino

I got the same order before, using sets of two letters and finding them in each cards name.

So I tried looking at the cards again, and in each word where the two-letter combination was, I looked at the letters before the combination (but only in that word) and I noticed this:

laufldigs - if you read it out loud, it could be "lawful digs"

So, finally, what is a word for lawful digging? Excavation.

Is it Excavated Evil?

First spoiler is the way to go, after that you took the wrong direction 

I tried looking at the letter after each pair and got "imaiesenei" which doesn't look or sound like anything. Then I tried taking the letter before each card and got "uldisgsa" which also doesn't seem to mean anything.

The main thing that's stumping me is how the riddle works either with or without Xarl, and what exactly was the "Z" supposed to mean?

Here’s a hint:

Wow. With this hint I can...

The Coin but specifically the new one that looks more like a pastry if you ask me.

Wrong direction again. Xaril, Poisoned Mind could be replaced by Dark Inquisitor Xanesh and Xavius, and as mentioned, by Z (which then doesn’t require a card), but NOT by Waxadred 

May I ask, could Dr. Boom's Scheme be replaced by Acherus Veteran?

Yes!

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Wrong direction again. Xaril, Poisoned Mind could be replaced by Dark Inquisitor Xanesh and Xavius, and as mentioned, by Z (which then doesn’t require a card), but NOT by Waxadred 

So X letter should be first letter in a word and A letter should be next to it? And the same goes for other words?

If Acherus and School can replace the word Scheme, then the names of cards are not necessary to solve this. Everything changed except the group of letters "CH" and its position in the word (always the 2. and 3. letter.).

In the Xaril-Xanesh-Xavius example, the letter "a" which is second in each word is literally just a coincidence. The only HS cards with words that start with "x" are Xaril, Xanesh and Xavius, so there's no way to tell that it's a coincidence without a different example - which is why I asked about Acherus Veteran.

So what does this mean? I'm guessing the position of the letters is the key to solve this, but I've got nothing so far.

To further bamboozle your theories I’ll say that Dr. Boom's Scheme can also be replaced by Chromaggus, but not by Charged Devilsaur

A N Y O N E ?  O R  H I N T ?

I have a final dead giveaway hint prepared, but I really want people to guess it before that

Kind of riddle we should be getting paid to solve...

I'm just here because I like to write short rhymes. Puzzles like this are why I stopped posting in this thread.

Anyways, Molten Giant. I'm gonna get there eventually.

Alright, alright, here’s the final hint:

Phase Stalker

Told ya lol

@JFK got it, well done! 

Okay, we're due for an explanation on how that was solved. I gave it a cursory review saying the names out loud and all it confirmed is that either I'm daft or that the riddle was too eclectic. Let's hear it.

Again, as much as I admire these types of riddles they really alienate a lot of the traffic to this thread.

@Live4vrRdieTryin Basically, GHAX SCPTAUCHRH is a homophone of PHASE STALKER if you pronounce GH as in “Laughing Sister”, A as in “Flame Elemental”, X as in “Xaril, Poisoned Mind”, SC as in “Disciple of C'Thun”, PT as in “Ravenous Pterrordax”, AU as in “Bladed Gauntlet”, CH as in “Dr. Boom's Scheme” and RH as in ”Tundra Rhino”. As you can see it’s easy once you know the catch, the real challenge is coming to that line of thought.

And yeah, I understand where you’re coming from, but I still want to shake things up once in a while, since just rhyme formats get pretty boring after 86 pages. I really don’t think this one was too outlandish, it just requires a bit of a non-traditional approach to code-cracking

edit: oh, @anchorm4n beat me to it lol

Clever. Sorry for being a spoilsport, I guess. I didn't even bother to dig into it to be fair, and hearing the answer is a real facepalm making me wish I didn't give up so easily

Ah, my English is bad. No chance to solve riddles like this.

Interesting choice for a riddle, a shame I'm not a native maybe it would have put things easier.

Rhymes never caught my attention, but this was my type of riddle, it was fun staying until the end to see the answer. Also, clever hints, keeping it tense. Well thought out, DestroyerR :)

The converse joke

- What do you get when you combine a turret and a safe?

- Cleaved timber!

Mulchmuncher

Nope.

Sneed's Old Shredder

No

Kun the Forgotten King

Can either refresh your mana crystals like Turret Sentinel from puzzle labs or can gain armour which is kind of safe related.

Sorry for no response, it's not Kun.

Hint:

I had that in mind already, but none of the words here have an antonym... how else would reverse come into play here?

Nope, and nope. It's not entirely a deduction riddle, there is also another way of thinking you'll need to figure it out.

Foe Reaper 4000?

Nope.

So “converse” here could mean:

A) the antonym of the words here (Impossible)

B) the things in the question swap with the ones in the answer (“cleaved timber” “turret and safe”)

I have a feeling we’re supposed to swap the current words with synonyms, THEN do option B. So cleaved timber could mean... Splintergraft? “Splintered” instead of “Cleaved” and “graft” instead of “timber”?

Not it, but you're really close!

Greybough then?

Still close, but no.

Cenarius? Two treants with taunt is a turret of stats and pretty safe for the taunt part. "Cleaved" can also be for the choose one part.

KETO SNACKS THAT ACTUALLY TASTE GOOD?

Nope. The closest was Splintergraft with flavor, but Greybough was closer with effect.

Hmmmm... a bit of a blind guess, but just to get it out of the way: Lucentbark?

Nope.

Rattlegore? Similar to Greybough in effect and to Splintergraft in flavor.

Hadronox

Lucentbark?

None of these.

Try reversing the second line. The third one is just a hint.

I guess the only plausible way to reverse the second line in a meaningful way is to make it “what do you get when you separate a turret and a safe”? But that doesn’t really make sense... or am I reversing it wrong?

Not Fandral. In fact, it's not a Druid card and it's not a legendary card either.

anchorm4n's idea is on the right track though, just make it more backwards.

I don't think it is Voidlord but I'm going with it because you get 1 turn of almost guaranteed safety unless the opponent has some "cleave" after the deathrattle.

Niiiice 

Yup, it's Festeroot!

Basic or common? 

Leeroy Jenkins?

Angry Chicken

Tauren Warrior? I mean, it has enrage and it's a cow tauren, which can be considered a last meal? Maybe Bloodhoof Brave, because it can be cooked rare? lol I'm out of silly puns...

Jokes aside, I'm going with the former, Tauren Warrior.

Gurubashi Chicken?

I’m so dumb, I thought it referred to valithria dreamwalker (only minion with no rarity with a “while damaged” effect), but now it’s obvious it refers to Gurubashi Berserker. Overthought this one by a mile...

Night is almost my second name.
And it's almost my first name too.
Every time I'm here I do the same.
I will make the way break through.

The Black Knight?

Yup

Nice!

"Here's a toast for the fallen today

Billy headbutted a whelp and died

Tommy went against a blade, that didn't end up well.

Johnny was an anomaly, he barely survived.

And here I am, face to face with you."

I freaking loved that train of thought! 

But sadly no, you're on point that they all have something in common and with the anomaly, though is not that one.

Ok, so Johnny is an Arcane Anomaly and Billy probably has 1 Health (headbutted a whelp and died, so died to a 1 Attack minion, unless this is one of the collectible whelps... and why “headbutted” specifically?). Tommy is the biggest question here, there are a LOT of blades in the game which he could’ve died to...

for the sake of guessing, Master Oakheart?

I'm guessing Billy is Leeroy Jenkins and we know that Johnny is Cosmic Anomaly. These cards both rotated to wild at the start of the year of the Phoenix. This is similar to having "fallen". I'm not sure about Tommy but I think the answer will be another Year of the Raven card linked to "face to face". Is it Face Collector?

Nope, nope and nope.

Anomaly is the word, but not that anomaly.

Asides from that, stop thinking too much in elementals.

Edit: Didn't see the post of @anchorm4n it is Cosmic Anomaly, not the final answer but part of the riddle nonetheless. 

Billy - Evolved Kobold

Tommy - Azure Explorer

Johnny - Cosmic Anomaly

4 cost common minions with Spell Damage +2 and low stats. So final answer is Squallhunter?

Nope.

Hint:

So Cosmic Anomaly is right, but others are not? These cards were not elementals, but do they related to spell damage or not?

Not spell damage, and think why the other brothers died, they came against something, just the anomaly and face one survived.

They came against something with 2 damage? Headbutted - Batterhead? I got nothing except this.

Nope. And "they" didn't rotate yet.

Hint:

Exactly!

What? Why? Where’s the Anomaly here?

Indeed, that's the right order, the last part of the riddle (face to face) was to point out why it survived, that hunter is known to be the "face" class just adds flavor to it.

But then why did you say that Johnny WAS the Anomaly?

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Nope, nope and nope.

Anomaly is the word, but not that anomaly.

Asides from that, stop thinking too much in elementals.

 

Edit: Didn't see the post of @anchorm4n it is Cosmic Anomaly, not the final answer but part of the riddle nonetheless. 

Never said it was the card, I said it was tied to the final answer, which it is.

But you said “Johnny was an anomaly, he barely survived”... oh whatever, poetic license I suppose 

Yeah, I can't argue that, I suppose I should have phrased it "For Johnny was an anomaly...", fair point.

But it would have lost the rhythm of the names first.

Cryptogram solver says this corresponds to “ASHTRAYS REDOUBLING”

... I’m guessing it’s not a cryptogram  

This is probably wrong, but I'm going to guess Kathrena Winterwisp because it's the correct number of letters.

Jeez Louise, this game lately ...

Ok, if we shift the first letter back by one, the second by two, the third by three, and so on, we get Sylvanas Windrunner.

Glad that got settled fast. Dial it back big-brains XD

Ah, nice... a crypto-cryptogram ^^

Okey dokey, I've had this idea for a little while, it might be way to easy or hard but here goes:

Dr Boom wants to combine these mixed up minions, it's a pity one of them isn't a mech.

1) Wrong-Lot

2) Shine Dim Old Bite

3) Grated Tummy

4) In Footy Palace

5) Stage Leerer