ARGvent

ARGvent
Annual
Let it snow puzzles!
Type	[[List_of_Investigations#Community|Community]]
Creator	GD Admins
Discovered	12-01
Completed	12-31

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The ARGvent Calendar was created by the Game Detectives admins. It was a puzzle advent calendar, where a new puzzle was unlocked every day from December 1 - 25. As a reward for successfully completing puzzles, players were granted achievements on their Game Detectives profiles, as well as entries into the draw for miscellaneous Steam games.

On December 31, the puzzles were closed, and entries into the draw (as well as the ARGvent achievements) could no longer be obtained.

2016

Prizes

60 miscellaneous Steam keys were given away, with a maximum of 2 keys per person. Here are some of the games that were given away:

• Abyss Odyssey
• The Banner Saga
• The Bard's Tale
• Broken Age
• Chroma Squad
• Contagion
• Galak-Z
• Gemini Rue
• Grim Fandango Remastered
• Infinifactory
• Knights of Pen and Paper +1
• Legend of Grimrock 2
• Lethal League
• Lumino City
• Massive Chalice
• Odallus: The Dark Call
• Psychonauts
• Puzzle Agent
• Puzzle Agent 2
• Read Only Memories
• Republique
• Sam and Max: The Devil's Playhouse
• Space Engineers
• Titan Souls
• The Vanishing of Ethan Carter

In addition, those that were able to finish all 25 puzzles were entered into an additional draw for Glittermitten Grove.

Those who were in a festive mood, and decided to donate a game to the prize pool, were rewarded with the ❤ Thank you ❤ role on the GameDetectives Discord.

Achievements

ARGvent participants were also able to earn achievement badges for their profile. Here is the list of achievements:

Achievement Name	Icon	Puzzles
Candy Cane		1
For Me?		5
Gift Hoarder		12
Special Snowflake		25

Puzzles

The solutions for all 25 puzzles have not yet been made public.

2017

Prizes

In an improvement from last year, 74 (and counting!) different community prizes can be given away, which includes:

• Anomaly 2
• Antichamber
• Back to the Future: The Game
• Bejeweled 3
• Binary Domain
• BiT Evolution
• Bit.Trip Runner2
• Broken Age
• Car Mechanic Simulator 2015
• Chivalry: Medieval Warfare
• Choice Chamber
• Chronology: Time Changes Everything
• Contraption Maker
• Cosmonautica
• Curses 'n' Chaos
• Dark Scavenger
• Deep Dungeons of Doom
• Democracy 3 Collector's Edition
• Dinocide
• Disc Jam BETA
• Dungeons 2
• Eisenwald: Blood of November
• Elegy for a Dead World
• Frog Climbers
• Frozen Cortex
• Frozen Synapse
• Galak-Z
• Goat Simulator
• Golf with your Friends
• Guacamelee: Complete
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• Gunmetal: Arcadia Zero
• Guns of Icarus
• Hacknet
• Hue
• HyperRogue
• Infinifactory
• Kane & Lynch
• Karma. Incantation 1
• Kholat
• Knight Squad
• Legend of Grimrock 2
• Magicka 2
• Multimirror
• Oozi: Earth Adventure
• Out of the Park Baseball 17
• Overture
• Phantaruk
• Pressure
• Psychonauts
• RCT2: Triple Thrill Pack
• Robot Roller Derby Disco Dodgeball
• Rocket Riot
• Saturday Morning RPG
• Shadwen
• Shu
• Skulls of the Shogun
• Space Engineers
• Splice
• Tales Across Time
• Tetrobot & Co
• The Bridge
• The Escapists
• The Way
• TIS-100
• Titan Souls
• Torchlight II
• Toy Odyssey: The Lost and Found
• Train Simulator 2016
• Two Digits
• Ultimate General: Gettysburg
• Volume
• Waddle Home
• Waking Mars

In addition to these prizes, Chrono.gg has kindly gifted more prizes, with the details yet to be announced.

Achievements

For every puzzle that is completed, 200xp will be added to your profile. If you complete a certain number of puzzles as well, you will also receive an achievement badge for your profile. They are as follows:

Achievement Name	Icon	Puzzles
Holly		1
Bauble		5
Unknown (will be discovered on 12/05/17)		12
Unknown (will be discovered on 25/05/17)		25

Puzzles

Here is a listing of all the puzzles and their solutions.

Puzzle No.	Puzzle Image	Puzzle Text	Difficulty Rating (1 being hardest, 5 being easiest)
No.1		N/A	4/5
No.2		↑-↑↓↓-↑↑↓↓↑↑-↓-	2/5
No.3		N/A	3/5
No.4		N/A	1/5 (amazingly tough, gl)
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