4th Prequel to Small Strife is an easy (but a bit harder than the third), 9 levels, riddle based game created by SmallTool for EG24. While playing you learn (with the help of your fellow players) about the basic tricks used in riddle games. It's the last of four daily games to prepare you to play the real game coming this Friday. Good luck and have fun!Play This Game
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Yay part 4
ReplyDeleteThanks for another fun riddle Small and Jon!
ReplyDeletehi everyone! thanks small-tool
ReplyDeleteyes ta small and don't be afraid to post for help on level 1 it is not so easy :P
ReplyDeleteI'm back for more punishment!
ReplyDelete@mtatt100: A=1 etc. and colors are given in the text
ReplyDelete1=A yes
ReplyDeletestuck on 4. is the comic guy supposed to be oliver hardy?
ReplyDeleteCasual, what is he doing?
ReplyDeleteoh gosh, I am still working through the second prequel... am I ready for this one?
ReplyDeletestuck on level 1 :(
casual gave a good hint above
ReplyDeleteJo-Ann, how could the text give colors?
ReplyDelete@Donas, look carefully at the order of the words in the text. I've got the colors, but I'm still stuck on 1.
ReplyDeleteoops, Donas was giving a hint, not asking for help. FAIL.
ReplyDeletejust count the books does the number ring any bells
ReplyDeleteI have finished the first three prequels later when they weren't live anymore, and I must admit that there were only few levels I could solve on my own. But I have some minutes left to give this a try now, though I won't be helpful - of course stuck in level 1 (I got the colours but don't know what to do with them).
ReplyDeleteAnd small-tool and jonthewatch, excellent work. Thank you!
thanks @Donas727. I have the lower part and trying to find out what the upper part (horse, pony) is about
ReplyDeletemeritneith 4 colours 4 rows
ReplyDeleteCasual, it isn't a whole horse, is it?
ReplyDeletepony need the thing that swishes at the back
ReplyDeleteOk....I got a fresh piece of paper and ready to go!
ReplyDeleteHello everybody. Again Nightmare :)
ReplyDeleteduh! i just read that a few month ago. thanks
ReplyDeleteOh DUH!!! I see it now! lol
ReplyDeleteZoran, the nightmare starts tomorrow! ;)
ReplyDeleteCool ending Level Small very clever ;)
ReplyDeleteLove the RAP Reward :P
Ah, for level one you have to count all the books, not just how many of each color...
ReplyDeleteOh, a new technique! I was writing an answer to mtatt100 what I got and what problems I still had, and suddenly that one thing I hadn't tried flashed into my muddy brain. Voilá! Thanks mtatt.
ReplyDeletestill stuck on 1. 4 colors, 4 shelves, The number of each color of books makes no sense...what am I missing?
ReplyDeletezoz - thanks!
ReplyDeleteZoe, you should have 1 and 21 on the first shelf. Find a way to convert them :)
ReplyDeletehmmm, stuck on level 2 now. I see the similarities, trying to figure out what to do with them...
ReplyDeleteGot level 2 on my own, busting with pride!
ReplyDeleteJo-Ann, do as you are told. Read every picture loud. Four words.
ReplyDeleteJo-Ann, just do what the title says, each should give a letter
ReplyDeleteOoops! meant level 3! THe answer is on the table.
ReplyDeleteon level 2, there may be more than one way to represent a given letter...
ReplyDeleteJo-Ann, what table is often used in riddles? Look at your answers for a similarity, then the table
ReplyDeletemeritneith - I got #2 on my own too!! I know how you feel - lol!
ReplyDeleteOh, Jo-Ann, that is where I'm stuck too.
ReplyDeleteCongrats for finishing Queen!
ReplyDeleteGot #3 now!
ReplyDeletelvl 1 gone. Yupiiiiiiiiiiiii
ReplyDeletemeritneith, sometimes answers are elemental ;)
ReplyDeleteI thought I was being insulted on level 5, but then I saw the picture on level 6, lol!
ReplyDeletePuff, pant, puff pant, frantically trying to catch up :D
ReplyDeleteI'm stuck on 6 now :(
LO @zoz, it's a bit creepy to be sure....
ReplyDeleteJust joining - hello everyone :)
ReplyDeleteHmmm...level 4 is not who I thought it was. The surname of the author that I think it is does not work.
ReplyDelete@Zoe, he's one of the most famous British authors...
ReplyDeleteZoe, remember, no capital letters
ReplyDeletehi annaby - welcome to the torture chamber - lol!!
ReplyDeleteDonas - DUH!!!
ReplyDeletesilly me...
Rambler, the last bit of text should help for level 6
ReplyDeleteis lvl 6 about arranging the nutritions in a certain order?
ReplyDeleteHa! I thought the answer to #5 was strange, until I saw #6. Lol small-tool and jon. Funny!!
ReplyDeletestill struggling with 6. I thought the periodic table would help, but Noooo.
ReplyDeleteFunny tidbit. I made some homemade sauerkraut this morning!!
ReplyDeleteDonas your hint at 10:23 was perfect! thank you!
ReplyDeleteFor level 6, read the title and the last bit of text
ReplyDeletelast things last...
ReplyDeleteThanks @Donas, got 6 now :D
ReplyDeletelvl 2 stuck pleaseeeeeeeee
ReplyDeleteZoran - say things out loud. For instance the first picture is of the sea - what letter of the alphabet is that?
ReplyDeleteAnd 7 is done too...
ReplyDeleteZoran, name each picture to get a letter, the first is "sea" so letter C, for the next letter, who is it pointing to?
ReplyDeleteLevel 7 - I see the mistakes, but the corrected letters don't make up a word...missing something.
ReplyDeleteOh, time for food, back soon. Hopefully I'll finish and then be able to help...
ReplyDeleteZoe, you are right the correct letters don't work, what else do you have?
ReplyDeleteHad a phone call... Thank you donas! On to 4.
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ReplyDeleteDonas - the wrong ones!!!
ReplyDeleteROFL - didn't believe my answer for level 2 would work - and now I see why it did!
ReplyDeleteLOL, Zoe!
ReplyDeleteoh no, level 5 reading music! Ackkkk! I tried one site and got gibberish. Will have to try another site.
ReplyDeleteLOL, Annaby, wait until you see level 6, it took Small-tool hours to get that make up on!
ReplyDeleteDoh! Treble clef not the other one! Onwards!
ReplyDeleteHi ! starting ...
ReplyDeletethank you small-tool and Jon (was waiting for this !!)
LOL @JoAnn! Remember that you said that later!
ReplyDeleteDonas - I HAVE to ask - is that really small-tool???
ReplyDeleteIn level 4, does the second picture mean a horse or its tail?
ReplyDeleteHave seen the hints for level 5 and 6, music should be easy for me.
I'm trailing way behind here, but I want to say to small-tool, thanks for the edutainment! :)
ReplyDeleteAnd if you find time, could you post a link to the pic for Pt. 1 #6? I wasn't able to finish it. In the middle of pt. 3 now...
I'm finding 3 easier than the first two! Depends on your predilections, i guess...
Because I googled images for "cabbage face" and don't see that pic anywhere....hmmmm....
ReplyDelete@zoz - Great hint for Jo-Ann!! lol!!
ReplyDelete@Zoz YES! LOL
ReplyDeleteI'm stumped on 7. I thouht it was binary, but nope.
ReplyDeleteZoe, just joking ;)
ReplyDeleteMeritneith, for level 4 its tail.
ReplyDeleteLevel 8: WTF???
ReplyDelete@Zoe, I just exhausted the binary route too.
ReplyDeletelevel 8, it is binary, don't get dizzy reading it!
ReplyDelete@Zoe, maybe binary but somehow twirling to ghet the code? Oh I hope not!
ReplyDeletecan you please give me the letter for the golf ball pic on 2 ?
ReplyDelete@new, when I play golf I tee the ball up..
ReplyDelete@Donas - LOL - Small's make-up is great!
ReplyDeleteNew, what is the golf ball sitting on?
ReplyDelete@New, the golf ball is on a golf ?
ReplyDeleteStrike. Thanks, c0fe...!
ReplyDeletehello :) Just joined the everyday dose of torture :) so nice :)
ReplyDeletealready stuck on lvl 2
I understand clues but have a problem with the picture of a golf ball - how to say it to spell a letter? nothing comes to my mind of not English-mother-tongue-person :)
what? @Donas do you mean we have to do a binary translation of the numbers starting in the middle and spiraling out? Please say it ain't so!
ReplyDeleteThank you all !!
ReplyDeleteRambler EGTwentyFour thanks a lot!
ReplyDeleteZoz, don't start in the center, follow the swirl from top left
ReplyDeletejust1, here is the pic for Prequel 1, level 6
ReplyDeletehttp://imgur.com/weD5Eaf
feeling silly... stuck on level 1. Each shelf has 26 books. picked colors, then A=1 etc. Not making any words.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy, you need only one color on each shelf, 8 letters
ReplyDeleteoh will try thank you donas
ReplyDeleteNot getting level 6 at all :-(
ReplyDeleteTried putting them in numerical order, with or without converting units, but nothing is making sense.
EnJoy - I was really stuck on 1 too. Look at where each colored book is on the shelf. The first is green, so where is each green book? Then think: A=1, B=2, etc...
ReplyDeletegetting some progress by starting at the outside and working my way in. But I'm about to go cross-eyed!
ReplyDeleteAgain. lvl 6 pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
ReplyDeletepuzzled - you're overthinking! It's not "first things first" - it's a twist on that - "last things last" is a better clue.
ReplyDeletepuzzled, sometimes first letters work, sometimes it's last
ReplyDeletegot it
ReplyDeleteduh, thank you Donas. It was pretty obvious once I looked in the right spot.
ReplyDelete@zoz - What are you doing? Is the first letter "a"?
ReplyDeleteLevel 7 - "follow the swirl from the top left" - Huh???
ReplyDeleteI need further help. Blame the Guiness I had for lunch :D
Annaby, maybe another Guiness will help! start in the top left and read around to the middle
ReplyDeleteI think I'm getting 7 now...just taking a long time...
ReplyDeleteThank you Donas for pic! At first I thought the blank square was the clue, since it's about blindness! Then I read the comments...
ReplyDeleteI got levels 5 to 8 on my own (I used to play piano so 5 was the easiest ever), and I have the question from level 9 but I do not get the right answer!
ReplyDelete@Donas, what do you mean "around to the middle"?????
ReplyDeleteoh crap - I messed up somewhere in the middle ...
ReplyDeleteZoran, write those numbers down on paper and go clockwise like that swirl, mark those you have written down. Remember, binary alphabet codes always have eight numbers, you will get eight letters.
ReplyDeletemeritneith, google may help
ReplyDeletestuck at lvl 7, I've got 5 letters, cannot make a word
ReplyDeleteannaby - me too. I wrote them down and then got messed up. I only have 6 letters. I'm not sure I'm up for this one....maybe later.
ReplyDeleteMako, level 7 needs 6 letters
ReplyDelete@meritneith, I am talking about lvl 7. Thanks for the next lvl tho :)
ReplyDeleteZoran, the "around to the middle" hint is for level 8, for level 7, find 6 mistakes
ReplyDeleteZoran, not always it's good to barge in, sorry! ;-)
ReplyDeleteAnd Donas, google doesn't help when I type in that question.
LOL, complete confusion for Zoran...
ReplyDeletemeritneith, the maze leads to many "red herrings" Are you sure you have the right question?
ReplyDeletemeritneith, also try looking at the maze to answer your question
ReplyDeleteI think so, when I go in at the left side and follow that path I get out the right side.
ReplyDeleteI don't want to post that question here but some of my wrong answers were starttoend, beginningtoend, lefttoright. Would they make sense to the correct question?
omg I shloud buy glasses I guess, I swear I read that poem every letter by letter two hundred times.. :) but finnaly into lvl 8 :)
ReplyDeleteIf you have the right question, answer it with a letter to a letter
ReplyDeleteBy the way, those red herrings are so well done, you should read them also!
ReplyDeleteFinally got the word for 8 after driving myself insane. Is that a real word??? Anyway, on to 9. I think I'm going to join annaby - Guinness sounds like the word in 8 right about now!
ReplyDeletewith your hints lvl 8 was simple, thans!
ReplyDeleteDamn! Thank you so much, Donas, that was sneaky. More than sneaky. Before that I tried things like alphatoomega... ;-)
ReplyDeletesmall-tool, great game again! I hope I can drop in tomorrow for a live walk, although I won't be able to help anyone. Thank you a thousand times!
Lol Zoe, it is a real word, leave it to Small-tool to find one so obscure!
ReplyDeleteCongrats meritneith! well done :) thanks for playing! (Small-tool, couldn't be here today)
ReplyDeleteStuck lvl 1 I read the whole thread on this level, but I can not understand it, there are repeated colors, someone help me?
ReplyDeleteAnd thanks to all you guys who asked and answered in the first three prequels and helped me to get through although they weren't live.
ReplyDeletepichi, first find the color hints (caps) in the text. Then use those colors on each level. First is green, 1st and 21st books. 1=A, 21=U
ReplyDeletestuck on level 8. Binary doesn't work. Help please
ReplyDeleteSo...on 9 I got through the maze, but don't know the answer. Any help? I've read the above, but there's not many hints for 9 yet. I don't understand what "follow a letter to a letter" means.
ReplyDeleteMorgana, meritneith gave a very good hint at 11:37
ReplyDeleteMorgana, don't read the codes in rows but in a swirl. You should write them down so you can mark the pattern.
ReplyDeleteZoe, on what letter did you start? end?
ReplyDeleteMorgana - Binary DOES work. Start at the very top left and follow all the numbers in a swirl - like the black swirl. It helps if you re-create the numbers on a paper and cross them off as you write down each set of 8 binary numbers. It took me a very long time to get this one!
ReplyDeleteZoe, you start at a letter, you end at a letter. Beware that and read my false answers as some hints to to put the correct letters together.
ReplyDeleteBut that is just another hint, not the final answer. Use your chemical knowledge (basics will be enough, not hard)...
Donas - I started on "H" and ended on "O"
ReplyDeleteGod, I feel so smart right now. Leave me to that until tomorrow, I'll be humble soon enough! ;-)
ReplyDeletemeritneith- yes, I'm tryng easttowest, northtosouth and other directions...and I saw your 'false' answers too. I feel like it's just on the tip of my tongue, but no light bulb yet!
ReplyDeleteThanks Donas got it!
ReplyDeleteZoe, right, you went from "H to O"
ReplyDeletedamn that swirling binary! my word started out great but ended in "fugl". One more try...
ReplyDeleteOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT. Thanks to everyone. Nightmare begins now.
ReplyDeleteWell, westtoeast would have been a better trial, but nope..
ReplyDeleteCongrats Zoran!
ReplyDeleteZoe, you're close to the end as Donas affirmed. Cry out loud!
ReplyDeleteGot 8 thanks to the hints. But stuck on 9. See only one logical question. And my answer is yes
ReplyDeleteH to O. I feel silly not getting it. I tried hijklmno, and ijklmn. I tried "hello", since it starts and ends in those letters.
ReplyDeleteOut now, thank you all and especially the authors :)
ReplyDelete@Zoe let's drink something cold.
ReplyDeleteZoe, what was your first answer in prequel 1?
ReplyDeleteCongrats Mako!
ReplyDeleteMorgana, read Zoe's answers. Maybe she meanwhile has knocked out herself in a face palm moment... ;-)
ReplyDeleteZoe, read your last comment loudly. You won't have to read far!
ReplyDeletelevel 1 color order - first letter of each word in text
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ReplyDeleteI would have gotten 8 faster if I thought that was a word!!!
ReplyDeleteOh I'm so STUPID! I actually had to delete my last comment because I finally see how silly I am not to see the answer!
ReplyDeleteOuch - sore forehead!
meritneath - saying it out loud was the palm-to-forehead moment!!!
ReplyDeleteHoly crap - tomorrow is 60 levels!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteHaha, funny when you know it, eh? But I wonder how someone could get that without any hints.
ReplyDeleteCongrats Zoe!!!
ReplyDeleteLvl 2
ReplyDeleteI did not speak English, so less is the pronunciation, I try to listen to every word in the translator but it is almost impossible. I need a good help, because then I will not be able to continue. Thanks
(face palm) got it!
ReplyDeleteThanks guys for all the good hints!
See you tomorrow
Congrats Morgana!!
ReplyDeletemeritneath - that's the truth! Very sneaky double meaning question!! Actually, starttofinish would have been a close hint, maybe!
ReplyDeletecame back bf'd the last 3 letters on level 8. The maze will have to wait until tomorrow.
ReplyDeletegreat riddle - thanks S-T and Jon - and to Donas for being here today
Pichi, every picture shows something which is monosyllabic in English. If you say it loud, it will also spell a letter. Write those letters down, every row is a separate word, so you'll have four words which are the answer. Maybe that little boy is confusing if your English isn't good. Hint: What he's doing sounds exactly the same as that green little ball in the same row.
ReplyDeletepichi: the first words are:
ReplyDeletesee, you, tea, and then E
say these out loud and make them into letters: spoiler below
C U T E
btw - thanks so much Donas and meritneith. Of course I'd probably still be on level 1 if you weren't there!
ReplyDeletemeritneith Zoe thanks I keep trying, but the problem is not knowing the language
ReplyDeletepichi: sorry, the first word is NOT see, it is sea (ocean)
ReplyDelete@meritneith, great hint for 9 at 12:31. Although Beer to Whiskey would be more like it for me!
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome, Zoe, but read the beginning of the page, mtatt100 had to help me a lot for level 1. That and the last one were the hardest for me.
ReplyDeleteAnd as always: I'll scratch your back, you'll scratch mine.
pichi - what is the problem? Not understanding the pictures?
ReplyDeleteLol - if it took me this much time today, I think tomorrow's riddle will take me about five weeks to solve!
ReplyDeleteZoe I understand the pictures, the problem is the pronunciation but I keep on trying. Thanks
ReplyDelete@pichi:
ReplyDelete1st word spoiled above.
2nd word, a pet (animal).
3rd word, slang term for body part.
4th word, shortened term for image commonly used here in walkthroughs
Hope that helps :)
I thought it must be the wrong answer till I saw the 'pic' for the next level
Pichi - I got level 2 by writing down the letters I knew with dashes for the others and then was able to guess words.
ReplyDeleteNeed more hints for level 6 please.
ReplyDeleteThanks all fro playing and congrats to all finishers.
ReplyDeleteBtw. almost 200 comments, so new comments will be on the next page.
Robin Rob, last letters this time.
for level 6 - look at title .. not always first things first. so maybe last things first? look at the last part of the ingredient list
ReplyDeletegreat game !!!!!
ReplyDeletei ll try the real game ,lets see how far i can get LOL
Thank you all !
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