Let's talk about 2021 egg clues!!

[cornimer]

Now that the answers have been revealed....what were your favourite and/or least favourite clues?

I really liked 23 (surprised it was one of the least found)!! It's memorable for me because when I saw it, it clicked IMMEDIATELY, and then I had to stop and be like "woah, how did I even think of that? That's kind of obscure...."

The only ones I didn't find were 17, 20 and 25 so I'm definitely bitter towards those haha

 

[Dinosaurz]

14 deserves to be sent away forever

 

[Megaroni]

The ones I missed and my thoughts:

8. I looked through a ton of locked posts in the new leaf logs. What a mistake.
12. I was so certain that the "flaming camelid mammal" was Sahara. I looked through a ton of posts mentioning Sahara from all the ac games. Then I gave up on that and searched through HHA threads of people saying which amiibo they got to see people that got Sahara.
16. I was so so close on this one. I was on the right track, I understood the parliment part but I missed the academia part. Instead I looked at night owl threads. I also looked at threads with people talking about the night owl ordinance from new leaf. After that I looked through pocket camp threads where people discussed the Celeste and Blathers special items. Then I just looked for any thread that mentioned Blathers.
17. I assumed that this meant someone was selling a blue item. I looked for people selling Chai the villager, Chai's items, and any other blue items. Then I looked for threads where people sold the dog plushies.
19. Thought this was a reference to a previous year's egg hunt where they compared Wilbur and Orville to the Wright brothers so I looked through the threads for that egg hunt. Then I looked through threads that mentioned the Dodo's dialogue (I came across the one about people getting mad over Wilbur sweating, that was an interesting time). Then I looked through threads that had to do with the May Day event.
20. You should've heard me accusing everyone and everything of being the tailor made creature. I searched for Stitches, Biskit, the Able sisters, Zipper, Hopkins, the Celeste plush collectible, the mom's plush collectible, the 3 doll collectibles, the puppy plush collectible, and anything else that looked like it could've maybe been made out of fabric.
23. I started off looking through every single bulletin board post to look through all of the most popular events. Then I realized that the second part of the clue was the description for the museum forum so I went there to searched. My final guess was that it was March 10th, 2005.

Overall, this was a really fun event. I missed the Halloweaster hunt so this was my first TBT egg hunt. Thanks staff for putting this together along with the other really fun events you've made over the years. I can't wait to see what you guys do next (unless it's anywhere near as hard as it was this time)

 

[That Marshal Fangirl]

8 kills me because I went into the Blog Tree archive several times but didn't think to mark anything as read. My favorite clue was probably 14, as the rush of panic I got from submitting a thread followed by relief was a real rollercoaster.

 

[lemoncrossing]

14 gave me mad anxiety but it paid off in the end

 

[Millysaurusrexjr]

I loved the ko-fi one, very clever. The 5x2 puzzle made me feel so dumb!! Of course its the collectible lineups!!! UGH

 

[Nefarious]

Umbrella puzzle made me want to fist fight the rabbit, while the time traveling one made me want to embrace him haha. There was a lot of clever ones that I'm happy I got, some were obvious but flew right over my head. Number 14 just played with my emotions haha.

 

[Kattea]

I can happily say that the ones I didn't get (2, 8, and a bunch of the latter ones) , I would never have gotten, so no need to kick myself. I loved the clues this year, I thought they were very clever and satisfying to solve.

 

[Livia]

I’m super bad at this so I only found 9 eggs: 1, 3, 5, 7, 10, 11, 14, 15, and 24. 14 was so stressful because I was worried about getting in trouble for bothering the staff. I’m glad I tried it out though and got the egg. I thought 2 was talking about Harriet or Shampoodle and I kept trying to type that in the box. A lot of the other clues I had no idea what they meant so I didn’t even try to find them.

 

[Rika092]

#8 was the most frustrating, because I was literally in that sub forum like 20 times just overlooked the specific button I need to click on

Most proud of #2 and #23 - these ones didn’t come to me at first, but magically I figured them out after having some epiphanies

#6, #22, #25 found by stream of luck when I randomly clicked on the forum front page - have to say, if I didn’t switch to using my computer I would’ve never found them using mobile

edit: and I just realized that 3 out of 25 eggs were related to Sanrio topics... goes to say that Sanrio update really is a big deal for ACNH this year

 

[cornimer]

My favorite clue was probably 14, as the rush of panic I got from submitting a thread followed by relief was a real rollercoaster.

You have no idea how much I relate to this LOL, I was like "what if I'm wrong and I just spammed the CTS board for no reason??? They'll hate me???"

 

[Snowesque]

Spoiler: My Laziness

8 - Had the place, just didn't press the button. I kept thinking there weren't many forum feature related clues for how many I got, so it was sad I didn't put this together lol.

12 - Had the place, didn't open the spoiler. IIRC there was at least one egg previously hid in a spoiler, so why I didn't think to click was just so lazy of me. Since the wording is less specific (for me), I could of easily assumed it was a pinned thread that was easy to get to.

14 - Sort of ties into why I missed 8 as well. I was messing in that area, I just didn't create the thread. Also, I didn't correlate bo staff with staff at all for some reason which is so silly.

17 - Knew the general location but missed the thread when looking through staff posts.

19 - Thought it was the dodo code entry in the editor in your existing thread, not new ones.

21 - I knew it meant the decorating thread because of the quail clue, but didn't click on the image (ouch).

22 - I knew what it was referencing, and I thought I checked that thread at one point just browsing (if it was the one that was pinned on the front page). Otherwise, no idea how I missed this.

23 - Understood it was about museum day due to stamp clue, but didn't think to search for the thread.

25 - 100% missed this one. For some reason I thought it would be a Brewster thread?

Overall same as Halloweaster, just need to follow through with it more; I miss a lot of eggs because I get lazy lol.
I did manage to get all the puzzles though, somehow! I think that's a first for me.

 

[hestu]

I just want to say I went through 109 pages of the blog tree before I went back to the start and found the egg. ALSO #14 gave me anxiety but I'm super glad I went through with posting in contact the staff anyway.

Overall my favorite clues were probably 14 & 19!

 

[Dunquixote]

My favorite clues were 15, 22 and 24. I am so grateful for search being allowed, otherwise I wouldn't have figured out egg 24. I thought that one was interesting since it made me look at earlier posts and threads.

My most hated one was 8 and 17, though all the ones I didn't finish, I am a little annoyed with.

I had a lot of fun in spite my frustration.

 

[Mr.Fox]

The 5x2 one was irritating me something fierce...I don't know how many times I tried COLLECTIBLE/COLLECTIBLES...then I went more literal and tried FINGERS and TOES.

Thankfully I stumbled upon someone mentioning their LINEUP, and tried it.

 

[LadyDestani]

I found 16 out of 25, which was my best result yet. I was surprised that I got all of the puzzles right on the very first try.

My favorite clues were:
#5 - I felt so smart for figuring this one out.
#14 - I was so nervous I was wrong and didn't want to get in trouble so I apologized in the message I submitted.
#19 - I immediately knew what the clue was referencing, but it took a while to find it. It was really well hidden.
#21 - Somehow I just knew that image of Goose was going to be an egg so I clicked it a couple of times earlier in the hunt to test it. As soon as the clue popped up, I knew exactly where to go.

Clues I could have/should have gotten:
#8 - I was in the right place. I clicked through so many posts. I never thought to try one of the forum mechanics.
#16 - I was convinced this had something to do with the short story contest and combed through page after page of those threads. I even thought about the 'What are you reading?' thread because I post there occasionally and for some reason didn't check it.
#22 - I knew this had something to do with the Counting Sheep Event, but couldn't find the old threads related to it and gave up. If I had thought about it a little more, I might have figured it out.

Other than those 3, I don't think I ever would have figured out the clues I didn't get, so overall I'm really happy with how I did.

 

[Xara]

my favourites were #1, #3, #9, #10, #11, #13, #18, #21 and #24 as they were the easiest for me to solve and i knew the answers to them straight away. i also liked #4, #6, #7 and #22 as despite the fact i initially was looking for them in the wrong spots, actually finding them was a nice feeling and left me with a sense of accomplishment! #2 and #15 made me giggle a bit as i wasn’t expecting “umbrella” and “halloweaster” to actually be the answers lol. and i honestly liked #8 and #19 because as hard as they were, i’m genuinely really proud of myself for finding them. in all honesty, i like almost all of the clues in one way or another! except for #14. #14 can choke LOL.

 

[zumhaus]

Ah, posted in the other thread before finding this one! I'll reiterate here
Found: #1, #2, #3, #6, #7, #9, #10, #13, #15, #18, #19, #21, #22, #24, #25
Missed: #4, #5, #8, #11, #12, #14, #16, #17, #20, #23

I think my favourite to find were:
#25: I stumbled upon this on COMPLETE accident while looking for either #5 or #8, or maybe both. Loved the 'yep, you found one!' message

#1: The one that inspired me to actually log on and participate in this egg hunt in the first place! The April Fool's prank had me rolling from the shadows negative space of TBT


The ones I missed that I'm 'meh' about:
#4 and #12 merely told me how out of touch I am because I've never heard of Fire Alpaca and I've neeever touched Discord.
I knew I had no hope on anything from the Basement, Museum, or Brewsters because I don't interact or lurk there (but I DID somehow notice the change from 'come' to 'hatch'!)


And the silly ones I missed:
#5 had me IMMEDIATELY thinking of hex colours because I have a graphic designer in the family. I ran around TBT in a ridiculous snipe hunt/wild Goose chase, looking for anything TBT/TBT staff-related (including eggs in staff lineups??) that had this colour, otherwise known as #ABBBAD. BIG fail.

#8: Leafed around the logs in the Blog Tree but didn't connect the dots all the way. Started wandering around anything log, locked, or leaf worthy, and had 'The Rain In Spain' intermittently tongue-twisting itself in my head for some extra chaos.
I eventually stopped the madness once I had found most of the later 20s eggs.

#14: I know nothing about TMNT and after a quick Google, I thought Donatello wielded a pole and looked through posts from mostly March/2020 about acquiring a vaulting pole in early NH.
Coincidentally enough, I did wander across the CTS board while on my wild chase for #5, briefly thought about CTS'ing, but I'm a TBT rookie and didn't think much about there actually being an egg there. (also b/c I didn't find the cursed #ABBBAD colour in CTS)
Whoops!

 

[Paperboy012305]

My favorites:

#6
#8
#12
#14
#19
#25

My least favorites:

#2
#17
#22
#23

I might say my most favorite has to be #25 because I love the message the egg says when you find it.
As for my most least favorite, it would have to go to #17. I looked for everything blue related, if only I stayed true to the Nook's Cranny Board and looked for a blue username.

 

[~Kilza~]

The only ones I don't think I ever would've gotten are #8 and #14. #8 I thought referred to a locked thread in the New Leaf section, lol. #14, well, first it didn't click in my head after looking up Donatello's weapon that it was referring to the staff, and second I never would've posted a thread in the "Contact the Staff" forum anyway, lol

Some other misses:

• #6 - I thought this was referring to the currency search filter in Nook's Cranny, that I had to find a thread that only accepted coffee. Still, I was hovering over some of the links on the main page, if I was a bit more thorough I would've gotten it by accident
• #12 - I thought this was referring to Saharah selling an "electronic apparatus" (which I took to mean a circuit-board flooring/wallpaper), and couldn't believe it wasn't in this Airport thread, which lined up perfectly with my train of thought. Though, that said, I did end up looking at the Art Programs thread when looking at other clues, but I never opened the first spoiler (nor actually read any text in the thread) so rip.
• #13 - I thought it had to do with the TBT Fair at first because of dreams, then realized dozen digits had to mean something, but at that point I was kinda too frustrated to try and rethink what it meant, rip
• #16 - I don't really have much for this aside from initially thinking "hooting parliament" might be referring to the staff. My brain just refused to really work for this batch (13-16) tbh, which I'm gonna blame on the time it was posted
• #17 - I knew this had to be in Nook's Cranny, just too lazy to actually bother searching for it, lol, since I would've brute forced it otherwise
• #20 - Also figured this would have to be within the Able Sisters or Pattern Gallery subforum, began to open up threads but I just got discouraged right away and stopped searching, rip
• #25 - I didn't scroll down far enough to remember that the Help page existed, or else I would've gotten it, lol. My initial reaction was that it was in the "What Do You Look Like?" thread or some thread involving teeth in Brewster's Cafe

Also for #2, I couldn't get it for the longest time. I thought it was related to the Flourish reaction (because you spin around), then the Dodo airplane, and even Pave and the Festivale. Then it finally clicked that I should try umbrella because you can spin it in-game, and it worked.

Also my favorite clue was 25, only because the clue is a m o o d.