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Summary

The trivia section. You get clues on the subject and/or specific indications and find the information I ask. Only one of these requires more than just doing a simple search I would say.

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There is a lot to digest here, but finding the answer is quite simple.

We know it's a YTPMV and we are given the following line about it:

This indicates that the YTPMV has two characters, those being the TF2 Soldier and Spy, and the song used as reference to make the samples it's Masked Dedede's Theme. Searching on youtube related keywords will give as most popular result this video. It's clear then that the answer will be:

Soldier Vs. Masked Spy

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We first need to find out 7 songs given the emotes on each line. The key is that each one makes reference to a line in that song. Here are all answers:

• 1: Owl City - Fireflies (If ten million fireflies)
• 2: Eminem - Sing for the Moment (Sing for the laughter and sing for the tear)
• 3: Adele - Rolling in the Deep (Throw your soul through every open door)
• 4: Nirvana - The Man Who Sold The World (self explanatory)
  PD: Year added since it is not the original song or Midge Ure's version
• 5: Madonna - Like A Prayer (When you call my name, it's like a little prayer)
• 6: Avicii - Waiting For Love (Monday left me broken)
• 7: Nickelback - Photograph (Look at this photograph | Every time I do, it makes me laugh)

After solving this quiz, the line below talks about initials before correcting itself in relation with the artists. If we take the initials of each singer and/or group we get:

OCEANMAN

Adding the missing space, the final password will be:

OCEAN MAN

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The only non-music related trivia lmao

Given all chomiks we have to find are in the main game area we should check either in-game or in it's wiki section only.

These are the chomiks and location explanation given the pictures:

• Watermelonik: their picture reveals a weird spot in an high place on Blocky. Going there we will find the watermelon-like chomik.
• Choca Cola: we can see it is on the table in the Kitchen area near Chomdwich.
• Hieroglyphik: the area seems like a desert temple with a puzzle. In-game in the Desert area there is a pyramid with a hidden area that leads to this chomik.
• Demonik: the area is hard to find given it's a secret area in the Apartment, but one can find it out easily given the text behind and colors of the area: good and evil.

Following the format the password will be:

Watermelonik, Choca Cola, Hieroglyphik, Demonik

Fun fact: each emote is related to the chomik censored on it's linked picture.

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The most cryptic one in my opinion

The entire puzzle is a reference to Cicada 3301 and the answer is a song created in their first arg.

The word "everywhere" it's attributed to them and the cryptic way the text is written is also a nod to their puzzles, but the main hint comes from the "specter" word.

The audio given is the song we need, but it alone is not enough. That's why I mention the "specters", because one has to check the spectrogram of the audio. You can use a software like "Sonic Visualizer" or an online website. Around half the song, we will see the following:

We are given the image of their logo, the cicada, and the format for the final answer.

Did not say it until now, but the entry numbers in all reference raffles hint towards the relase date of the answers that are songs (the chomik one is the release date of the game), so if we search a 2013 song made for the Cicada 3301 project, we will find our answer. Matching the format, the password is:

The Instar Emergence

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The hint given in the gate makes reference to another puzzle made by Ronald_D_D. In said puzzle the last comment left my be talks about how it would be if we used the method for the answer but with passwords. This means we have to use the same method in the reference raffles with the passwords we have obtained and hopefully you have noted.

The following are the positions hinted in the comments and the characters we take:

• 2, 6 > S(o)ldi(e)r Vs. Masked Spy
• 4, 5 > OCE(AN) MAN > A N
• 3, 11, 16 > Wa(t)ermelon(i)k, C(h)oca Cola, Hieroglyphik, Demonik
• 14, 15 > The Instar Em(er)gence

Once we have all, note that the order is not the usual 1-2-3-4, but 2-3-4-1. That means that our ultimate key is not "oeANtiher", but...

ANtiheroe