The Hunt: Edition II

[Xoplazma3 2]

Please don't say that I'm gonna have to buy a golden wrench to win this thing...

[Maaz4556 1]

hello guys ! This is my first time doing these kind of things. Kindly  can anyone explain what are these things??

[yellowghetto 3,206]

5 hours ago, Maaz4556 said:

hello guys ! This is my first time doing these kind of things. Kindly  can anyone explain what are these things??

read the entire Forum here, it won't take long/

[Hex 11,520]

5 hours ago, Maaz4556 said:

hello guys ! This is my first time doing these kind of things. Kindly  can anyone explain what are these things??

Hey!

The Hunt is a clue-based contest which requires you to search for hidden clues, gather information from them and then proceed to the next one, repeating the cycle till you reach the final clue. This final clue will then either tell you what the code is or present another challenge that has to be completed to obtain the code. This code is then submitted into the Google Form. The winners in this contest are decided by the timing of their submission - how fast did the player submit the final code?

To start, you will need to read the first post in this topic really carefully as it goes over how you will be participating in this contest. There's still enough time to participate and snatch one of those prizes! So if you, or anyone else that hasn't participated yet are thinking about doing so, then...

Tick-tock, detective.

[Mular 145]

Defo wasn't first, but defo top 20... One of the first in Discord too  GL!

[legendary_kaitlyn 1]

ANYBODY GOT CLUE

 

[Viking4s 10,791]

2 minutes ago, legendary_kaitlyn said:

ANYBODY GOT CLUE

Read the first pages of this topic, it is all there.

[legendary_kaitlyn 1]

what is the clue

 

[legendary_kaitlyn 1]

Viking4s did u get the clue\

 

[Benefactor 6,888]

14 minutes ago, legendary_kaitlyn said:

Viking4s did u get the clue\

 

Maybe he doesn't have a clue. 

[Viking4s 10,791]

59 minutes ago, legendary_kaitlyn said:

Viking4s did u get the clue\

Even better... I have the answer.
If you want to get the player to see your answer/question either quote their message or had a tag @ followed by the nickname.

As you kindly follow my account I will help you. The hunt will make you navigate through the wiki, the help site and the forum.

The first clue is in the first post itself...
Either it is A/ Flipping Over or B/ The Golden Wrench. 
The later is the right one. But the former help you skip a few steps.
Which one do you chose? A or B?

Edited May 20, 2020 by Viking4s

[legendary_kaitlyn 1]

Please tell the clue please i have followed u

Edited May 20, 2020 by legendary_kaitlyn

[The_frist_avenger 21]

Guys, we have already reached the final clue, which is the Frost Sprinter event. Inside the picture for the event you can find what the code is, on the right part of it, in very small letters....

Edited May 20, 2020 by The_frist_avenger

[yellowghetto 3,206]

On Page 11 highlight my comment?

[Helios 718]

@Hexed

Hey I believe that today 21st is the Conclusion of the Hunt event ! May I please know when will the winners be announced ?

Thanks

[Stratosphere 2,234]

1 minute ago, Symbolz said:

@Hexed

Hey I believe that today 21st is the Conclusion of the Hunt event ! May I please know when will the winners be announced ?

Thanks

Winners will be posted in this topic at around 17:00 UTC, bit later today.

[Helios 718]

4 hours ago, Viking4s said:

 

The reporter paint was flipped to ! 

Edited May 21, 2020 by ControlledChaos
Kindly do not fully-quote large posts, or use a spoiler when so.

[Helios 718]

So excited for the winners ... will know them in a few hours !

[Stratosphere 2,234]

The Winners

• 1st Place: @T879
• 2nd Place: @Pun
• 3rd Place: @HeyDaddy
• 4th: @coconuttree
• 5th: @mdzb

Fifteen random players from among those who got the code right:

Spoiler

I_pessimistic
Lose
muqeettanker
Tomida
poke971
Pudding
PAKISTANI-THE-LEGEND
titaniumjesterpvz
The-XP
Colebug11
R4ID
Ivory
Dina
A_W_A_I_S
r_kkkak2

 

Top notch work, detective. Expect a letter of promotion and a few... gadgets on your desks by Monday.

[Helios 718]

Great all my hardwork went to grave. Anyway good job winners

[Mirza7 235]

 Randomness is my enemy it never give me what I want.  for winners

[subrocks 23]

R.I.P To All The Loser out there -_-

[Hex 11,520]

Hunter's Guide to The Hunt

Being a clue hunter is no easy task - and while this contest was no easier for even our community's best detectives, let alone all the recruits, let's take a look at how our new Lead Detectives solved The Hunt!

In the contest topic, there were two routes from the start. 

• The starting paragraph read "grind your tank's golden gears and...". Golden Gears is a paint in the game. If you visit the Golden Gears page in the Wiki you will see that the see also mentioned the Engineer paint. Paint pages almost never mention another paint as part of the see also template. 
  • The P.S. note at the end mentioned the Golden Wrench, which is a gift.
  • Upon clicking the Golden Wrench image in the Gifts Wiki page, an image of another gift popped up: To Heal and Protect which has a depiction of Isida  - therefore leading us to the Isida page.
  • The Isida page had a reference (hidden text "Viking") to the Viking page.
  • In the skins section, there was a flipped Viking image - an important clue in itself. You will have had to remember it to solve another clue later in the contest. As there were no clues after Viking, this route had reached a dead end.
• The Engineer Wiki page had a well-hidden hyperlink in the form of a period which was only visible if you slid your cursor over it.

• Clicking the hidden dot takes you to the Happy Tankmen Day! topic from September 7th, 2012. Fun Fact: This is the oldest visible topic in the News Archive! In the first and second posts of are two small images of Dictator and Titan respectively.
  • The Dictator page had an unusual statement listed an interesting fact. The clue itself suggests the player to visit the Newspaper section.
  • The Official Newspaper section has an image and some text above all the topics. Players who had keen eyesight might have spotted that the text had weird spaces in between them. These were caused by hidden text that made up: AITSNRG. Solving this jumble puzzle reveals the word "RATINGS".
  • Instead of going to the actual Ratings site, you now needed to visit the Ratings page in the Wiki. Scroll down and you would have seen an image of the Tanki Online Wikipedia page. Compare the image to the actual Wikipedia page and you would notice a slight difference.
  • Upon reaching the Reporter page, you would see that the paint thumb image is actually flipped - again, an important clue that will need to be remembered for later. Since there were no clues after this, this route was yet another dead end.

 

• The Titan page mentions that it was the best hull according to the discussion the TOF 2019 Discussion topic. This is a topic on the forum in the eSports Tournament Archive section.

• One of the comments in that topic is posted by the player Jade, who had a very different avatar. The avatar is the cover photo of Imagine Dragon's album ƎVOLVE (Evolve). One of the singles in the album is called "Thunder" - therefore leading us to the Thunder page.

• This was another page that had a hidden hyperlink, this time being the impact force icon in the main table. Clicking it takes you to the Material Megathread topic in the forum.

• The topic where we are at now had three clues: a message saying "P.S. Read the P.S.", a QR code and some hidden text. The QR code was linked to a topic that can't be accessed normally. However, if you look closely you would see that the link was just another version of this same topic. Now comes in "P.S. Read the P.S." - which is just a secondary clue to try and prepare you for an upcoming clue. The hidden text said to follow Tanki Online on Instagram and Facebook, leading us to their respective social media.

• Three previous clues combine together at this stage to help you crack the next one. Remember the flipped Viking and Reporter images? Remember how the P.S. had italicized words reading "flipping over"? Both social media posted a image of a flipped Viking which had Reporter paint equipped - this confirming that this is your next clue. If you read the description of the images, it required you to search for another Easter egg within the texture of the paint, which turned out be "help". 

• You're now at the Help Site. Scroll down and you will a weird category listed as an InvalidResponse error together with a (valid.id::382269) and a snowflake image on the left. This snowflake image was an important clue for later!

• Clicking the Sample Text took you to an article in the Help Site which had a Mercedes Sprinter van image in the middle. Both these clues make up the words "Frost Sprinter" - "frost" from the snowflake image and "sprinter" of course from the van.

• Frost Sprinter is an official community event, and it also has its own forum topic. To confirm this was the next clue, the numbers from the valid.id were actually the forum topic numbers of the Frost Sprinter event. In this topic was perhaps one of the easiest-turned-hardest-turned-impossible clues in the whole contest. It was there in plain sight, but everyone kept sailing past it again and again. If you zoom in on the main image onto the right side wall, the almost-hidden text read "The code is the name of the map."

• Thus the final code was "Magistral".

 

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[TheCongoSpider 8,942]

Aww man, I had a feeling there was a Hyperlink on one of those tester names, I just couldn't get to it on a mobile device. 

[Viking4s 10,791]

lol, Hexed hunt was so convoluted that we just all end up being lucky... somehow.