flummox
Summary
This entire section is about riddles of different subjects, each one with a format to accompany. The name for this section is a reference to a past puzzle of mine, and how confusing riddles tend to be for me.
Each one will give you a number to add to the final answer, as method to evade bruteforcing for the last one. Will explain at the end.
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The riddle goes as follows:
Filmed in the kingdom of union,
a dramatic story of overcoming adversity.
A man who had many jobs without interruption,
with a lot of range and diversity.
From a clown to a kit-man,
he proved to be magnificient.
Played by an actor known as a german,
a scientist working for a three headed serpent.
Starting off with the first paragraph, it is clear the answer is a movie, followed by it's production year as implied by the format. We can also deduce it was filmed in the United Kingdom and that's it's genre is drama.
From there we are told about what we could consider the main protagonist of the movie: a man that had to work in a lot of jobs, the two most important a clown and a kit-man. Given the genre, it can be guessed that this could be a real person, meaning the movie works as a biography of some sorts. Searching the jobs mentioning we can find as first results Neil Baldwin.
That brings us to the final hint that it's the last paragraph talking about the actor that played as this person, who played as a german scientist working for a three headed serpent, the Hydra. This is a reference to the actor Toby Jones who played as Arnim Zola in the Marvel movies.
I personally believe that with the first three paragraphs one could be able to easily solve the riddle, but the last one it's key to reinforce the correct answer, which is the movie Marvellous. Following the format, the final answer then will be:
Marvellous (2014)
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A short haiku that shouldn't take a lot to solve. The haiku reads:
Animal of venom,
wearing minuscule antlers,
sleeps in Namibia.
The most prominent result for a venomous horned animal in Namibia is the horned adder. Most results show this animal and if not atleast point out to snakes.
The answer is it's scientific name as shown is wikipedia with the proper capitalization, which leaves us to the final password:
Bitis caudalis
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This one is a joke riddle. Just read the following:
It is dry,
it has thunder,
it's a storm,
what is it?
This is a logic puzzle in which we are presented with all we need from the start. The link in the format just makes it more evident and this one itself already references 3 words composing the final answer.
In the end: what is dry, has thunder and it's also a storm?
A Dry thunderstorm
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Last but not least, we have a videogame riddle!
Coming from a game,
a rune of power,
summoning a swarm,
to protect the crying child.
The game referenced in this riddle is "The Binding Of Isaac: Rebirth". In this game our main character is a crying child called "Isaac" (which is hinted in the format(Isaac Newton))
As told by the riddle, we are looking for a rune, specifically a purple one by the text color. The only one that summons a "swarm" is the Berkano rune, which spawns blue flies and spiders.
Finally, the password will be:
Berkano
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The final raffle of this section contains 2 safeguards: the answer to one last riddle and a string of 8 digits.
Here is the link to the riddle page
Have you read all of it? I hope so, because here comes the long con-sequential explanation:
The answer to the riddle is the name of a mythologic character that is a trickster by nature. That should be initial clear thought to have in mind.
Having it clear in mind, the first paragraph makes reference to the fact that the past riddle answers are key to understand this one:
Analyzing all hints, the final conclussion should be that the character we are talking about is no other than...
Loki!
Loki has it's own series in the MCU where he works in a time security agency called TVA. In mythology they are punished with a venomous snake by the Æsir and have a son that is a snake called "Jörmungandr" and a wolf called "Fenrir". They are related to Thor as he has tricked him multiple times, and finally he is mentioned in the 13th stanza of the berkanan rune where a birch tree is mentioned.
That would be the entire first part of the puzzle, now onto the simpler part: the numbers
Inside the entered message (what appears after you enter the raffle) of each flummox raffle you will find a 2 digit code. These are needed to be added directly after "Loki"; hinted by the hidden part of the format in the page with the "#"s. The sequence given the gate raffle is as follows:
16 04 11 14
The ultimate password then will be:
Loki16041114
Fun fact: the digits aren't random. If you add a "1" in the front of each one of them you will get the code "116 104 111 114", which translated from decimal means "thor"!