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| name        = ARGvent
 
| name        = ARGvent
 
| image      = File:Argvent_logo.png
 
| image      = File:Argvent_logo.png
| imagewidth  = 250
 
 
| description = Let it snow puzzles!
 
| description = Let it snow puzzles!
| creator    = GD Admins
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| creator    = [https://wiki.gamedetectives.net/index.php?title=Meta:Staff Game Detectives Admins]
| type        = [[List_of_Investigations#Type|Community]]
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| type        = Investigation
| status      = Annual
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| status      = Completed
| discovered  = 12-01
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| discovered  = 2016-12-01
| completed  = 12-31
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| completed  = 2016-12-31
 
}}
 
}}
  
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| 25
 
| 25
 
|}
 
|}
 
=== Puzzles ===
 
The solutions for all 25 puzzles have not yet been made public.
 
  
 
== 2017 ==
 
== 2017 ==
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| 5
 
| 5
 
|-
 
|-
| Unknown (will be discovered on 12/05/17)
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| Gingerbread Man
 
| [[File:ARGVent 2017 Tier2.png|100px|none|center]]
 
| [[File:ARGVent 2017 Tier2.png|100px|none|center]]
 
| 12
 
| 12
 
|-
 
|-
| Unknown (will be discovered on 25/05/17)
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| Shining Star
 
| [[File:ARGVent2017 Tier3.png|100px|none|center]]
 
| [[File:ARGVent2017 Tier3.png|100px|none|center]]
 
| 25
 
| 25
|}
 
 
=== Puzzles ===
 
Here is a listing of all the puzzles and their solutions.
 
 
{| class="wikitable"
 
! Puzzle No.
 
! Puzzle Image
 
! Puzzle Text
 
! Difficulty Rating (1 being hardest, 5 being easiest)
 
|-
 
| No.1
 
| [[File:ARGvent2017 Puzzle1.jpg]]
 
| N/A
 
| 3/9
 
|-
 
| No.2
 
| [[File:ARGvent2017 Puzzle2.PNG]]
 
| ↑-↑↓↓-↑↑↓↓↑↑-↓-
 
| 2/9
 
|-
 
| No.3
 
| [[File:ARGvent2017 Puzzle3.png]]
 
| N/A
 
| 4/9
 
|-
 
| No.4
 
| [[File:ARGvent2017 Puzzle4.PNG]]
 
| N/A
 
| 1/25 (amazingly tough, gl)
 
|-
 
| No.5
 
| N/A
 
| U VKCHL MCZJIKX IL RUEH SHJHOJCGHZ
 
 
RUEH SHJHOJCGHZ QUZ LIFWSHS CW 2015 JI CWGHZJCRUJH JMH EXZJHKCHZ ZFKKIFWSCWR JMH ZJHUE 2015 QCWJHK ZUBH. IKCRCWUBBX OUBBHS ZJHUE ZUBH SHJHOJCGHZ, JMH OIEEFWCJX'Z WUEH QUZ ZMIKJBX OMUWRHS JI HWOIETUZZ EIKH UBJHKWUJH KHUBCJX RUEHZ.
 
 
ZCWOH JMHW, U SHSCOUJHS RKIFT IL OIKH FZHKZ MUZ ZIBCSCLCHS. RUEH SHJHOJCGHZ CZ WIQ EIZJ QHBB-YWIQW LIK CJZ WIJUVBH KIBHZ CW JMH ZIEVKU UKR, LKIR LKUOJCIWZ 2, UWS JMH QUYCWR JCJUW UKR. JMUWYZ JI JMH HLLIKJZ IL QCYC HSCJIKZ, JMH RUEH SHJHOJCGHZ QCYC MUZ VHOIEH JMH SHLCWCJCGH ZIFKOH IL CWLIKEUJCIW IW JMHZH (UWS IJMHK) UKRZ.
 
 
JMUJ ZMIFBS VH HWIFRM JHNJ JI OKUOY JMCZ OKXTJIRKUE, MHKH'Z JMH TUZZQIKS: IVZOFKCJX
 
| 9/9
 
|-
 
| No.6
 
| [[File:ARGvent2017 Puzzle6.png]]
 
| N/A
 
| 8/9
 
|-
 
| No.7
 
| N/A
 
| Greetings, detective.
 
Our servers have received some suspicious traffic - possibly the work of an enemy agency. Although the traffic itself was not malicious (we think), they may be using our resources to transmit messages.
 
Please investigate the following logs, and let us know if you find any codewords or commands.
 
 
 
'''- The Administration'''
 
 
-- Connection 1 --
 
 
3 proxies detected
 
Traceback to host:
 
 
- 24.232.189.xxx (Salta)
 
 
- 186.137.221.xxx (Cordoba)
 
 
- 138.0.184.xxx (Rosario)
 
 
- 181.124.113.xxx (Asuncion)
 
 
 
-- Connection 2 --
 
 
2 proxies detected
 
Traceback to host:
 
 
- 121.29.98.xxx (Handan)
 
 
- 115.190.64.xxx (Wuhan)
 
 
- 222.191.251.xxx (Nanjing)
 
 
 
-- Connection 3 --
 
 
3 proxies detected
 
Traceback to host:
 
 
- 105.235.130.xxx (Medea)
 
 
- 197.205.124.xxx (Constantine)
 
 
- 41.98.4.xxx (Setif)
 
 
- 197.113.176.xxx (Ouargla)
 
 
 
-- Connection 4 --
 
 
5 proxies detected
 
Traceback to host:
 
 
- 130.79.179.xxx (Strasbourg)
 
 
- 91.194.108.xxx (Bielefeld)
 
 
- 139.18.2.xxx (Leipzig)
 
 
- 213.133.107.xxx (Nuremburg)
 
 
- 139.162.148.xxx (Frankfurt)
 
 
- 217.253.91.xxx (Munich)
 
 
 
-- Connection 5 --
 
 
4 proxies detected
 
Traceback to host:
 
 
- 68.102.96.xxx (Wichita)
 
 
- 75.72.7.xxx (Minneapolis)
 
 
- 134.124.228.xxx (St. Louis)
 
 
- 75.167.208.xxx (Cedar Rapids)
 
 
- 137.48.95.xxx (Omaha)
 
| 7/9
 
|-
 
| No.8
 
| [[File:ARGvent2017 Puzzle8.png]]
 
| N/A
 
| 5/9
 
|-
 
| No.9
 
| N/A
 
| Experiment Log - BH-54-C
 
This experiment aims to quantify Subject BH-54’s unpredictable shifts in temperature, as discovered in experiments BH-54-A and BH-54-B.
 
11:17 AM - Subject BH-54 submerged in containment unit, filled with distilled H2O
 
11:17 AM - Industry-grade mercury thermometer (±0.01 °F) introduced to containment unit
 
11:17 AM - Initial temperature recorded as ‘C’ (as per custom shorthand scale)
 
11:18 AM - Temperature has dropped by 3.6 °F
 
11:19 AM - Temperature has increased by 5.4 °F
 
11:20 AM - Temperature has increased sharply, by 30.6 °F
 
11:21 AM - Temperature has dropped sharply, by 32.4 °F
 
11.22 AM - Temperature has risen again, by 21.6 °F
 
11:23 AM - Temperature continues to rise, by 10.8 °F
 
11:24 AM - Temperature drops slowly, by 3.6 °F
 
11:25 AM - No temperature change recorded
 
11:26 AM - No temperature change recorded
 
11:27 AM - No temperature change recorded. Temperature measurements have levelled out. Any chemical reactions caused by BH-54’s introduction into water appear to have ceased.
 
| 6/9
 
 
|}
 
|}

Latest revision as of 15:05, 18 August 2018

ARGvent
Completed on 2016-12-31
Argvent logo.png
Let it snow puzzles!
Type Investigation
Creator Game Detectives Admins
Discovered 2016-12-01
Completed 2016-12-31

Main Page > List of Investigations

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
ARGvent tier0.png
1
For Me?
ARGvent tier1.png
5
Gift Hoarder
ARGvent tier2.png
12
Special Snowflake
ARGvent tier3.png
25

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
  • GUILTY GEAR XX ΛCORE CORE PLUS R
  • 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
ARGvent2017 tier0.png
1
Bauble
ARGVent2017 Tier1.png
5
Gingerbread Man
ARGVent 2017 Tier2.png
12
Shining Star
ARGVent2017 Tier3.png
25