Here is the link to greekhouse’s first challenge.
It’s fun. It’s also giving me headaches. I’m nearly through it, I think, but I’m not certain, I guess.
I’m giving greekhouse ten points for the creation of this. Also, ten points to whomever solves it first (email him). Five points to anyone who solves it after that.
If I solve it first, I’ll get five points while the next person gets ten, since I had the benefit of trying for a while for the purposes of game-testing.
The Erik vs. Neil final challenge (a Quiz Show) is tonight. I’ll put up a link to that later. In the meantime, assassinate someone, Romans.
…and no, you don’t get any rules or handbook for the greekhouse thing.
Cutthroat Junction 
I hate you, greekhouse. So, so much.
Cosign.
I’m just
annoyedrelieved that no one gets to see thecleverridiculous guesses that I’m putting in.How for along are you? I’m stuck on 5.
26.
God, I hope you are joking.
I am. I passed 5, which only made me more angry at Greek.
Yeah, when/if I get it, I can tell it’s gonna piss me off.
Agreed. 5 is the worst.
I am hoping greek has some way of tracking our attempts so he can laugh at the stupidity/insane genius of what I’m typing in for guesses.
As far as a name, I think just “Chateau” is about right.
(Disclaimer: this is not an intentional hint, just the name of the WordPress theme of the page and the feeling of navigating from room to room, blindly)
I’m glad it’s not a hint, because it’s a thing that I’ve guessed.
same.
“screwgreekhouse” and other colorful variants also do not work, as far as I can tell.
At this point it might be easier to hack into DG’s browser history than to come up with the actual answer.
Stuck on 4. I’m just tickled I got #3
I…believe I passed #5. However, it’s getting hard to tell.
I’m pretty sure “5” is not the right answer, though it doesn’t tell me to go eff off like everything else I’ve tried.
Daneeka’s Ghost is the first to finish and gets 20 points.
I also did, and I get ten. Would it help if we told you that #5 is the hardest one?
Yes, it helps, but no, it really doesn’t.
That was one where I figured people would get it immediately or really struggle. Perhaps it’s part of my background that I would know exactly what to do with it. Once you get it, you’ll have no question you’ve got the right answer.
I wasn’ty/uj/ jkkk mmmf cjhhh
I wasn’t going to say anything, but #5 wasn’t the one I tm g
I wasn’t going to say anything, but #5 wasn’t the one I spent the most time on.
Damn 1-year old typists.
You guys have made me so happy I created this. 🙂
Ten points for adobery. Third finisher, outta nowhere!
Too bad I was late to the party. Great fun though. Thanks greekhouse! #4 hung me up the longest…too bad I didn’t try the first thing that popped into my head. I was starting to think notpron was for kindergartners. #5 was a breeze.
Kelly should at least try to hide his favoritism towards Brooks a tad…
Also, ten points to whomever solves it first
Daneeka’s Ghost is the first to finish and gets 20 points.
🙂
Shit, did I say 10/5? Well, I guess I need to fix the points.
I’ll go out on a limb and say this is worth 20/10.
So then shouldn’t I get 20+10 for creating it. :O
Yeah, I felt like you were one of the people who would get #5 right away.
Hey. That’s no fair. I just got here! Now I’m way behind.
Though I did somehow just skip from #1 to #4. Hrm.
Yeah, I missed the announcement of this thing, somehow. Was it discussed prior?
Anyway, I’m on #4 now. So far, very good.
Well, I’ve been stuck on #5 for 20 minutes. Which is 15 minutes longer than it took me to do the other 4. Son of a bitch.
I just reached #5 myself. So we’re banging our heads against that wall in tandem now.
Well, now, I’m feeling the pressure.
Yeah, four is still pissing me off
I don’t understand any of this.
Seriously. At all.
If y’all want a break from torturing yourselves to torture yourselves in another way, Rome day Five is up.
This is no help to me.
everything makes me want to cuss.
Oh shit! I think I made it to #6! Yay!
Dang. I put it aside for a while, I’m so stumped. Is there a way to beg for abstract hints?
Whoops, I think I made it to six too.
Nice. #3 was really simple, though I knew of an easy shortcut.
I think I maybe got number 4
eh, maybe I didn’t
Well hey… I’m stuck on #4 now, at least, so that’s something!
I’m stuck on #7. I’m going to cry.
I feel like I’m at a disadvantage for not knowing Greekhouse at all.
The answer is right under your nose.
Also, trying to solve #9 lead me to learn that there is an Amish Mafia…and a show about it.
Matthew “uberminz” Gilman is the fourth to finish.
Really challenging and fun. Greekhouse, you are to be commended. Please do more of these.
Thanks, man! I’m glad everybody liked it–even if it was frustratingly hard at times.
Frustratingly hard to make? Or frustratingly hard for us solvers?
Incidentally, I’ve wanted to do something like this since I discovered notpr0n a few years back. I just don’t have the html savvy to make it happen. But I’ve got a good number of puzzle ideas…if you ever wanna collab on another one like this sometime…
I agree with uberminz, and I hope there are more of these, whoever makes them.
I’m still stuck on 5. I think I’m going to have to give up the points for a hint so I can try and get stuck on a different level.
It’s at this point that I should point out that some people will never ever get number five and spending multiple hours on it will only end in tears. I have no idea who this applies to, however.
Me. I’m crying right now.
Is this an option? Can we take fewer points for a hint/answer on one level? That seems like a good way to work this.
I thought of that as I was typing- I’m more than willing to not get any points since I basically need to cheat, but it would be nice to give up a point per hint and still have a chance at getting some points.
I rather like this “trade a hint for a point” idea.
Email me, let me know how far you’ve gotten with it and I’ll go from there.
Your World Champion and mine, Erik Dikken, is finisher #5.
HE’S NOT MY CHAMPION! I BEAT HIM! I AM THE REAL WORLD CHAMPION OF THIS BLOG!
Shhhh, shhhh. Everything is okay. One day I’ll pound you in a heads up competition and you’ll realize how silly you’re being.
Just started trying to tackle these again. Seriously number 4 makes no sense to me whatsoever grrrrrrr.
I hear ya man
I also hear you men.
Four points for bhiggum, who got it (he used a hint on #5).
I dunno, that makes the rest fruit from the poisonous tree. I think he only gets 2 points. 🙂
…oh, maybe you were using the Brooks Scale…so I guess 4 points was right. Nevermind.
Just for that I’m not gonna give you the shortcut 🙂
I got number five!!!! I thought it was hinted fairly well, but I agree with kg that some people may never get it. I’m more angry at Greek for #4
I got number 4 almost immediately. The answer was actually right in front of me.
I needed to do a hint for 4 and 5. Now I am stuck on 9. Blech.
Agreed. Four was a bitch. I had to cheat for that one.
I need the clue on #4. Who do I contact?
Three points for todahshy. Hints on four and five.
I think it should be noted that this game cannot really be played from a smartphone. Five would have been impossible.
I was thinking the same thing as I did it. Usually I would have played from my phone and am so thankful I didn’t.
also, with a smartphone one can cheat and skip ahead fairly easily.
Heck, I managed to do that from my PC. Sorta by accident, though.
When I realized that you can skip ahead like that it mostly just made me annoyed that I never lucked into it.
O.k. I have no clue what’s going on with this. Not one.
Three points for AMR, who used clues on 4 and 9. Yep, this is still going on.
Yay me!
Clue on #9 was me saying: “No More! I wanna get this behind me and bank what I’ve earned so far.” I feel dumb about it though.
I would have never gotten #4 without the clue though.
I have the clue for #9 and still haven’t figured it out 😦
It took me way longer than it should have.
I’m at least happy to not be the only one: that someone else on
this site has had problems with it.
I’m still stuck on #4. Right now the biggest barrier is time.
Two for Beau. 4, 7, 9