Friday 7 September 2012

Free Game Saturday: Dracula's Riddle

Due to Saturn month, I've once again not been playing all that much free stuff, but I want to share with you a "game" that took me and a group of about 4 friends over a month of solidly playing it to beat.

It's quite old so I imagine there are already a lot of people who know what the deal is, but for those who don't Dracula's Riddle is a series of stupidly hard puzzles that you must solve in order to banish Dracula.  These puzzles are fucking hard hard as well, you may find that you will breeze through the first few only to hit a massive block as one puzzle stumps you for days on end. 

That said, none of the puzzles are unfair or have bullshit solutions, they just require you to use every ounce of brainpower that you have and when you do eventually figure out one of the super hard puzzles, the feeling of satisfaction from seeing the browser load the next riddle is unmatched.

So the way you play this game is simple.  Every riddle contains a picture, a bit of flavour text that sometimes contains a hint, and the page source which will almost always contain a hint.  When you solve the riddle, you replace the last part of the URL with your answer, and if it is correct, it'll load the next one.  If you are wrong, it'll come up with a little message saying "YOU ARE LOST!"

So if you're into puzzle games and you think that all the currently puzzlers are too easy for you, give this one a shot, you'll be scratching that noggin for weeks.

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