House of Nightmares [FINAL ANSWERS]

[seliph]

Ok, let me throw in my cents here since I feel like my opinion might add some interesting discussion.

I feel like there’s two good solutions to this problem.

1. Discontinue the event entirely. It’s clear that a lot of people get stressed, angry, etc. over this event, and it’s not mentally healthy. I personally never submitted an answer for mirror 3 since I was having trouble trying to distinguish anything despite it supposedly being easy, and tried to stay calm about it, but got really upset when the answer was revealed since I knew who the character was. And in general, this event sticks out like a sore thumb compared to the other events. For the counting event, when people find out they were off in their guess, they may get a little upset, but you don’t typically see them get angry or stressed. I know getting rid of the event may seem like a ‘some people complained so it’s ruined for everybody’ move, but people have fun with Crazy Dream Sequence, they have fun with Counting What’s In The Bottle, and Half-Past Hoodwinked is a comparable event and is generally more well received. The fair is meant to be fun, and House of Mirrors seems more stressful than anything to me.

2. Make the event exclusively about Animal Crossing characters. This would make the playing field more fair for everybody, and cause less of ‘Google searching for hours on end without any idea of what you’re looking for’.

1. not necessary. a lot of people getting "stressed" is just the usual frustration with puzzles and peoples' mental health is not actually at risk. i've seen way more people having fun with event with only two or three people mention any actual mental toll. if the house of mirrors/nightmares was an actual issue and a health risk there wouldn't be so many people participating, i think you're overlooking things here.

2. there are over 400 animal crossing villagers not including npcs so searching for hours can still be applicable, plus many villagers have the same silhouettes. we also saw how upset people got with farley, so would people be upset if more obscure ac characters were added? my bet is yes, and then we'd have a small handful of people say that those familiar with older titles have an unfair advantage and nothing actually changes as far as reception of this event goes.

on the other hand, from my own perspective as someone familiar with ac and as someone who's decent enough at this event, animal crossing mirrors would just be too easy and therefore be immensely boring.

 

[Alienfish]

This is how I felt when I first participated in this event years ago too! I remember the first mirror I ever guessed on was Dr. Mario and I still couldn't get it (I guessed Chibi Robo like what) All the struggle is worth it for the satisfaction of finally getting one right, haha.

lmao i don't remember that one but i was kinda proud in 2017 i got a few lol

 

[kayleee]

friendly reminder this is an optional GAME you can either choose to participate in or not

Think of it like a game at a fair (because this is literally a virtual fair). In those sideshow games the odds are ALWAYS stacked against you. You can try your best and if you don’t win, you say darn it! And move on. You don’t cry to the worker that you TRIED SO HARD and deserve a prize anyway!!! Like that’s life folks if this game is damaging your mental health PLEASE don’t participate!! It’s not worth it!!!

Post automatically merged: Sep 1, 2020

In other news this mirror looks so familiar to me but I CANNOT figure out what it is so I just know I’m going to scream when it’s revealed

 

[hestu]

ok I finally got it and I just wanna say that was CRUEL

(but in all seriousness I really enjoy this event and think it's honestly fine the way it is. the whole point of mirrors is the process of finding the character and the real reward isn't the tickets—it's the friends we make along the way )

 

[Midoriya]

Funny thing is I’ve been on this website for years and I don’t think I’ve ever gotten a mirror right in this type of event. Even so, it doesn’t stress me out and I still love the event. Even if you don’t get it right, it’s fun to at least try every time and see if what you’re thinking could be it. Actually, I think it would be boring for me if it was so easy I kept getting most of them right. There’s other events to participate in in the Fair, so I don’t think anything about this one needs to be changed. I love it just the way it is.

 

[Matt0106]

I'll just add my final thoughts. I originally felt cheesed as well with this event because I have difficulty finding the characters. It's definitely not easy for the vast majority of people, but with that said, the whole reason why there are so many events is so that everyone can find something they hopefully excel at. For example, there are some very smart cookies who live for this event and Half-Past Hoodwinked, while others who enjoy art contests such as Celeste's Observatory (that would be moi). I went into this fair thinking "I NEED TO DO AMAZING AT EVERYTHING," and while they would be amazing, it's not practical, especially since most events fall on the same due dates and unless I rushed, completing every single event while having real-life responsibilities is too demanding.

Therefore, I realized I need to find just a handful of events to have fun with, and I've really been enjoying the art events, since I've been starting to dabble in digital art. This kind of event is more of a side hustle; if I win, that's great, but I would not bring myself to the point of stressing out just for some tickets (Also spoiler: still haven't won a single one of these, and I'm still enjoying myself).

For those who are frustrated, it's understandable, but it's supposed to be hard. You can literally not participate at all in this event and still rack in tickets like it's nobody's business with the sheer amount of other events there are, and that's not even including the Carousel of Contests.

At the end of the day, just try and have fun. That's all that matters.

 

[skarmoury]

This is just me at this point but adding participation tickets for this game feel like "hey I should be compensated for the 5 hours I wasted trying to research this character" when staff only ask you to guess at the bare minimum. If this were a trivia quiz show they'd probably only give you 10 seconds to guess, which is in essence a low-effort task. If you want to challenge yourself and get the right answer, then that's cool but that's on you; you're willingly using your time to take an extra step in trying to get the correct answer knowing you can get 0 tickets if you get it wrong and staff can't measure how much effort each individual is putting into guessing. Compare this to the art events where staff ask you to do a medium/high-effort task of coloring/drawing, where low-effort outputs aren't accepted, it's only right to give you compensation for the actual effort you've done. Plus, staff can probably tell if someone put very minimal effort in coloring; if I submitted an art that was just a single shade of blue I'd probably be rejected.

ANYWAY my dumb brain was so preoccupied with coloring that I almost forgot to submit my guess I'm 70% sure I'm wrong but I don't have the time to second-guess anymore hdjfksdf

 

[Insulaire]

This is just me at this point but adding participation tickets for this game feel like "hey I should be compensated for the 5 hours I wasted trying to research this character" when staff only ask you to guess at the bare minimum. If this were a trivia quiz show they'd probably only give you 10 seconds to guess, which is in essence a low-effort task. If you want to challenge yourself and get the right answer, then that's cool but that's on you; you're willingly using your time to take an extra step in trying to get the correct answer knowing you can get 0 tickets if you get it wrong and staff can't measure how much effort each individual is putting into guessing. Compare this to the art events where staff ask you to do a medium/high-effort task of coloring/drawing, where low-effort outputs aren't accepted, it's only right to give you compensation for the actual effort you've done. Plus, staff can probably tell if someone put very minimal effort in coloring; if I submitted an art that was just a single shade of blue I'd probably be rejected.

ANYWAY my dumb brain was so preoccupied with coloring that I almost forgot to submit my guess I'm 70% sure I'm wrong but I don't have the time to second-guess anymore hdjfksdf

My guess is that if that was the case anyone could get a ticket without even trying to solve— they could guess “Mario” every time. Maybe if you were required to post an explanation / picture you could get participation points, but that sounds like a lot of work for the moderators so I doubt it would ever be implemented

 

[seliph]

Maybe if you were required to post an explanation / picture you could get participation points

tbh when people post their overlays/outlines for their wrong guesses after a mirror is revealed and are like "YOU GUYS CAN SEE WHY I GUESSED THIS RIGHT?" 90% of the time i'm like ".....no?????????? do u have eyes?????" so idk how that'd even be possible for the mods lmaoo

 

[SensaiGallade]

 

[Dinosaurz]

Didn’t even submit a guess lol

 

[shawo]

I mean functionally speaking effort is relevant to skills.

Someone who's practiced art all of their life might be able to pump out something that's considered high quality in 10 minutes, while someone who's artistically inept can spend like an hour on something and get it rejected by the mods (I will fully admit that it was low quality but man did I spend time on it.)

The same can be said about people who spend a lot of time playing videogames, recognizing a character because someone plays VIDEOGAMES on a VIDEOGAME forum... like... this isn't an art forum.... it's a forum for all things but primarily it's a group of people who all play the same game.

Anyways that's just my two cents. If you wanna put the time into researching there's a pretty fair way to go about it, I mean if I didn't recognize it at first glance, obviously I didn't think it was "kirby with feet".

Well that's just my two cents to the people who are complaining. All in all I think it's a fun event and being able to search through nintendo characters I haven't seen in a long time is real nice.

Also the mods clearly have spent a lot of time making their edits unbreakable. I tried to reverse engineer the third one and I really had no idea how to go about it.

So yeah, great event by the mods.

I guess I just don't like the negativity that this thread has from time to time, from various people who just give up on guessing.

 

[SensaiGallade]

... I hope I got first

 

[Llunavale]

Good luck everyone. Hope your guesses were correct and your tickets are plentiful.

 

[Asarena]

I hope I got it right this time. I spent hours searching, but I couldn't find an exact match, so I just guessed one that looked similar

 

[Damniel]

im pretty sure its ariana grande

 

[Justin]

Nightmare Challenge #4
What Nintendo character is this?
3 Tickets

The Reveal

Spoiler: Click here to reveal the answer!

Diantha!

Shout-out to Zane for submitting the correct answer first in 8 minutes!

Congratulations to SensaiGallade for submitting the correct answer another 8 minutes later to win the Shooting Star Collectible!

Zane already won the previous Challenge #2 collectible prize, so I've decided to give it to the runner-up SensaiGallade.
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Correct Answers	Incorrect Answers
55​	92​
37.41%​	62.59%​
Most Popular Incorrect Answers​	Favourite Incorrect Answers​
Fi​	Yuna from Final Fantasy​
Lucina​	Ooccoo​
Rosalina​	Birdo​
Zelda​	Serena​

This mirror was created by Laudine! Direct your love hate to them!

If you successfully guessed the mirror, you should see an Accepted label applied to your submission in the Private Contest and Event Submission Board soon. I will post when this has been completed and tickets will be distributed to Accepted entires later.

If you believe there has been a mistake and your correct guess has not been marked as Accepted after I've posted confirming marking is complete, please message me then.​

 

[Vizionari]

Yesss, got it right this time =w=

 

[Asarena]

I got it wrong again... Why am I such an idiot

 

[JellyBeans]

made it onto favourite incorrect answers with ooccoo so at least there's that! never would've guessed this one anyway