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Newspaper puzzle

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Secret Medal ????? Points

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Secret Medal ????? Points

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Secret Medal ????? Points

Unlock this medal to learn its secrets!

Secret Medal ????? Points

Unlock this medal to learn its secrets!

Secret Medal ????? Points

Unlock this medal to learn its secrets!

Secret Medal ????? Points

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Sudoku master 10 Points

Solve sudoku puzzle

Word search master 10 Points

Solve word search puzzle

Click master 10 Points

Click the pen 100 times

Author Comments

This is an 'Employment Fail' spinoff. Reveal the hidden secrets human resources keep there.

Original idea is that we leave parts of our personal data everywhere around us, and gathering it all together would restore the private data we don't want to disclose. Here it's just a newspaper with some marks in it... or is it?

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"Sharing content that you create." :impostor:

Successfully solved all three puzzles. Now I just need to crack the safe every day for a whole week.

nice sudoki and word search :( no finish game hard for no speak english

DasSG responds:

Thank you for a review. It's a pity there were problems due to language barrier.

English is not my native language so I tried to make the game more accessible even if the player has limited knowledge of it.

I've used proper i18n for dates. All clues are marked in blue and are either numbers (and arithmetic expressions) or parts of dates like weekdays/months which are properly translated (so is the calendar). Chinese zodiac signs are supposed to be in Chinese - it's a part of the puzzle.

Most of the text in a newspaper is just a filler to make it look like a normal newspaper.

P.S. I don't know French and none of my friends know it... it's just the way it is.
I can translate this game into Russian or Ukrainian (but it's kinda pointless on this site), with some effort from my friends it could be Spanish or German at best.
In theory with a lot of effort I can try to translate it into very basic Japanese.

P.P.S. The problem lies not in a translation itself - text can be Google translated, but there must be a person responsible for QA in case machine translation is utter garbage.

P.P.P.S. I strongly believe that every Canadian knows both English and French :)

Not a bad game. I noticed a couple of bugs (no path number circled, broken interactive date), which make winning the game impossible. I do appreciate the word find and the sudoku puzzles - made playing less repetitive, though the sudoku could be done without much effort as it eliminates impossible options.

DasSG responds:

Thank you for a thorough bug report.
I've updated the game and hopefully these bugs are now fixed.

Well, after discovering your method and exploiting it by messing with time as my laptop knows it to be, I feel that it's fair that I give some kind of review on the game.

Much like the section found in the newspaper, this game lives up to its name as it's a 'one day at a time' kind of game, It may be a bit of a puzzle at first, but once you get the hang of it, it becomes a minor issue to tackle and loses its thrill unless there's a lengthy time between this and the next set of puzzles. Everyday will present new puzzles, so it's best not to do what I did to acquire the medals.

One thing to note is your method to achieve the ultimate objective of opening the safe, because it actually hinders those like me who try to race through this. In order to open the safe, one must complete both wordsearch and sudoku of that given session. It's a good way to make us work for it, but I encountered an issue on one occasion. After completing the sudoku and heading to the calendar, I needed to double check the zodiac and element. Upon returning to the newspaper, the sudoku was reverted back like it was never attempted on. I ignored it, continued to opening the safe, but it didn't open when I put in the code. It worked fine after completing the sudoku again, so that's something to consider looking into.

There's nothing really more to say as this game live up to what it's attempting to replicate, a puzzle section of a newspaper that changes daily. It adds a bit a more dimension with cracking a safe open, which is something every content creator needs to keep in mind when translating one media into another; the limitations and the new possibilities.

EDIT: Not needed, huh? Well I can't deny your word, but I swear I did it without completing either of them. I mean, yesterday, I couldn't find that last word, but I had a good idea of the safe's answer, yet I couldn't get through. I did try to back track using the numerology and the circled day, but it wasn't getting me anywhere. Numerology is new to me, so I considered that I was in the fault. So today, I decided to just hardball it and use every day that falls within the respected horoscope of the appropriate zodiac year.

DasSG responds:

Thank you for a kind review.

Actually neither the word maze nor sudoku is required to open the safe.
Finishing word maze adds caption to button groups, finishing sudoku show the numbers on the buttons.
It's harder to push correct buttons without marks - but fully possible. Early prototype had no marks on buttons at all - but it was hard to get that these start from zero (due the keyboard with 1234567890 - safe button layout confuses people)
As for the messing with system clock - it was intended as a continuation of meta-puzzle. (Also very easy to verify since a medal has an unlock date)
Sudoku is easy to solve (maybe too easy) and does not save state because I haven't thought about people returning to it, sorry.

P.S. So far nobody noted that numerology calculation section in the newspaper is interactive...

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