Also since I don't know if there will be a feedback form for this event, here are my thoughts:
The difficulty was just right from a NH newbie view point. I got 11/25.
I would love it if there was a 1 egg raffle like how the TBT fair had for star fragments and what not.
If this event returns please do not remove the search function. I think had it been disabled I would have enjoyed this far less.
Finding the first egg was the hardest as a newbie to this. I think in the future it might be a good idea to include a visual guide on what an egg looks like. I saw a lot of people have the same problem early on.
Overall I had a blast, thank you so much to the staff for hosting this.
I was so close on some of the ones I missed, whoops! 2 being the most obvious now that I know it, but I had a pumpkin cupcake in my lineup at the start of the hunt too! Overall really enjoyed this year, I hope you consider keeping the search bar into future years and maybe adapting the clues slightly. It was mainly just a big quality of life help when looking for specific threads, like the locked turnip one for example!
also ngl like the nerd i am i totally thought that fleeting dream thing was a FF reference at some points so i totally did not look up all thread with FFX .....lmaooo.
also that dang idiom clue with crafting materials, i totally thought it was... some actual rule/ban thread thing. i hate idioms i always take them literally.... sigh.
Wow! I knew I had some of the clues right, but i didn't know all the other ways to find them besides scrolling through threads. Bloodshot potion seems so obvious in hindsight though .-. I put death as one of my answers for that lol
This event was so fun, I really hope it makes a return :3 I was on tbt for an egg hunt many years ago, but I only ever found one egg (it was on the expand mailbox purchase in the shop haha)
This time around I found 9 whole eggs
Oooh I actually knew a few more of these but just didn't put 2 & 2 together and find their locations. Good to see I was spot-on on thinking the masked one was persona joker because I really couldn't think of anything else it could have been >,<
Thank you bell tree staff for giving us another fun & enthralling event!!
Meant to write this earlier but I've been busy this morning watching AVGN, practicing piano pieces and overall not doing much of anything. I'm enjoying my morning break
Anyways, I wanted to reflect on these clue answers cause some of them (not surprisingly) are just ridiculous. Though amazingly I figured out quite a few of them. Here's what I think of each one:
Egg #1: I got this one. So I initially thought that this clue had something to do with Carmen the rabbit. I thought of the thread from the Fair that had a cloud shaped like a bunny, but those threads are off-limits now that the fair is over. But then I re-read the clue: it says "Carmine" not "Carmen." After doing some research, I figured out that carmine is a shade of red. After this my mind basically went straight to the Red Balloon World Tour and I looked through the two threads, eventually finding the egg. Egg #2: I tried all kinds of passwords for this one: bells, TBT, belltreebells, mirror/s, houseofmirrors, houghofnightmares, etc. None of them worked. I would have never guessed the answer was "bloodshotpotion." I still don't know how the "tired eyes: part of the clue relates to this. Egg #3: I gave it some thought and I figured that it might have something to do with an Animal Crossing chicken. Although the only blue chickens I know of are Hector (who isn't in any newer AC games) and possibly also Ken. I also gave some thought to it having something to do with Goose because of the fair, but I had no clue where I could look for it. This one was just plain stupid. I did this egg hunt on mobile, so I couldn't see anyone's signature. I'm pretty positive I didn't see anything relating to Goose in Vris's signature. Oh well. Egg #4: I got this one. I knew it had something to do with Zipper, and how he was "uninvited" to this year's Halloween event. My first thought was to go look at the egg hunt thread from last year, and sure enough there it was. Egg #5: So I did my research on what a "domestic goddess" was, and I read that it was basically a woman who was a homemaker, and from there my mind went straight to Cooking Mama. However, I looked around for Cooking Mama threads and I couldn't find anything. I didn't know that there was a controversy thread (though I vaguely remember there being a controversy surrounding Cooking Mama a while back). Egg #6: I would've never guessed that this one had to do with Sahara, though in hindsight it makes sense. Also the specific location made it more confusing. This is one I was doomed to never find. Egg #7: Again, I didn't think of clicking on the "What's New" button to look for this egg. I thought maybe it had something to do with a recent event (for example, the Halloween event in NH). Egg #8: I got this one. I know that an archipelago is basically a big island, so I looked in the Island Journal board on the pinned thread. I'm honestly kinda surprised that I found this one. Egg #9: I got this one. It was kind of a surprise, but I knew that "puppets" had something to do with Wix and Pierrot so I figured i would look in the Halloween thread from last year where they (and Jack and the weird woods guy) duked it out. What a fun time that was. Egg #10: I got this one. It was definitely an accident though. I was looking for Egg #20, because I knew that one had something to do with turnips. I initially thought that "Rotten to the root" had some political meaning because the phrase is related to the Miinneapolis police. Idk but anyways, I found this one and that's all that matters. Egg #11: I LITERALLY WOULD HAVE NEVER GUESSED THIS ONE. IT'S SO DUMB. Egg #12: This one makes me mad. I knew that this one had something to do with the New Neighbor Network board, but I literally would have never guessed that I was supposed to click the "Post Thread" button. Though, again, in hindsight this one makes sense. Egg #13: I got this one. When I saw the word "sus" I was like OH BOY IT'S AMONG US. I don't even play that game but I'm constantly surrounded by people on this forum as well as in college who play it and I've heard the word a lot. So I basically knew this one immediately. Egg #14: I got this one. This was another one that I knew right away. It took a bit of searching cause I couldn't remember when Joker was revealed for Smash so I had to really dig through the Nintendo Treehouse board, but I eventually found it. Egg #15: I got this one. This one was obvious, because LambdaDelta's thread petitioning to make the woods the default theme is classic. Egg #16: I thought that this one might have something to do with the Arachnid/Creepy Crawlie Appreciation Thread, but that clearly wasn't true. I wouldn't have guessed that it had to do with the Pumpkin Cupcake. Egg #17: I got this one. It took quite a bit of thought. I initially thought that it may have had to do with Amiibo cards or DIY cards, but then I gave up on that and decided to take a casual scroll through Brewster's Cafe and I found the Tarot thread. At that point I knew that I had it, I just had to scroll though it a little bit to find the egg. Egg #18: I got this one. As soon as I read "it's the new platform for forum hijinks" I immediately knew that it was Xenforo, the platform that the forum transferred to back in March. This was suuuper easy, as well as being the only puzzle that I got this time around. Egg #19: I got this one. I know that the skin is the largest organ, and when I saw the rest of the clue I knew immediately that it had to do with the Skin Care thread. This was a really easy one for me. Egg #20: I knew that this one had to do with the old turnip thread. I spent like 2-3 hours looking for the thread, and I couldn't remember what it was called so I just never found it. I'm really aggravated by this one because I literally knew what it was and yet I couldn't find it. Egg #21: I got this one. "A stone for a stone" kinda gave this one away immediately, and I knew that the egg was hidden in the barter thread in Nook's Cranny. Egg #22: I didn't realize that "City of Dreams" was a link in the fair/direct thread (I can't remember exactly which thread it was in). Again, I did the entire egg hunt on mobile so I couldn't hover my cursor over the link to see that it was, in fact, a link. Besides, why was "City of Dreams" specifically the one to click on? The word "dream" could've had something to do with basically any part of the 2020 fair. Egg #23: I got this one. I use Pinterest a lot so this one was pretty obvious. I am however still impressed at where this one was hidden.Very clever. Kudos to pandapples for creating it! Definitely my favorite clue this year. Egg #24: I knew that this one had something to do with Dodos, but I couldn't find anything about an eponym on it. I still don't understand how "WRIGHT" is an "american eponym" for a Dodo. Like I know that Wright had to do with who the two dodos in NH are named after, but I still would've never guessed this one. I definitely overthought it. Egg #25: I would've NEVER gotten this one. I've played the Wikipedia Random Button Game maybe one time on this forum, and I usually don't even think about it. It's pretty boring to me so I don't pay attention to it at all. This one was definitely a lost cause for me.
Regardless, I got 13 eggs out of this hunt, and I'm pretty proud of myself for that. I was able to get both of the eggs that I really liked (the cobweb and candy corn eggs) so I'm content. There were a few clues that I was pretty irritated that I couldn't find them, but I basically accepted, before the end of the hunt, that I wasn't gonna find them (mostly because I'm really tired due to school). I'm glad I found the ones that I did.
Thanks again, staff, for another awesome egg hunt! I really enjoyed it!
Meant to write this earlier but I've been busy this morning watching AVGN, practicing piano pieces and overall not doing much of anything. I'm enjoying my morning break
Anyways, I wanted to reflect on these clue answers cause some of them (not surprisingly) are just ridiculous. Though amazingly I figured out quite a few of them. Here's what I think of each one:
Egg #1: I got this one. So I initially thought that this clue had something to do with Carmen the rabbit. I thought of the thread from the Fair that had a cloud shaped like a bunny, but those threads are off-limits now that the fair is over. But then I re-read the clue: it says "Carmine" not "Carmen." After doing some research, I figured out that carmine is a shade of red. After this my mind basically went straight to the Red Balloon World Tour and I looked through the two threads, eventually finding the egg. Egg #2: I tried all kinds of passwords for this one: bells, TBT, belltreebells, mirror/s, houseofmirrors, houghofnightmares, etc. None of them worked. I would have never guessed the answer was "bloodshotpotion." I still don't know how the "tired eyes: part of the clue relates to this. Egg #3: I gave it some thought and I figured that it might have something to do with an Animal Crossing chicken. Although the only blue chickens I know of are Hector (who isn't in any newer AC games) and possibly also Ken. I also gave some thought to it having something to do with Goose because of the fair, but I had no clue where I could look for it. This one was just plain stupid. I did this egg hunt on mobile, so I couldn't see anyone's signature. I'm pretty positive I didn't see anything relating to Goose in Vris's signature. Oh well. Egg #4: I got this one. I knew it had something to do with Zipper, and how he was "uninvited" to this year's Halloween event. My first thought was to go look at the egg hunt thread from last year, and sure enough there it was. Egg #5: So I did my research on what a "domestic goddess" was, and I read that it was basically a woman who was a homemaker, and from there my mind went straight to Cooking Mama. However, I looked around for Cooking Mama threads and I couldn't find anything. I didn't know that there was a controversy thread (though I vaguely remember there being a controversy surrounding Cooking Mama a while back). Egg #6: I would've never guessed that this one had to do with Sahara, though in hindsight it makes sense. Also the specific location made it more confusing. This is one I was doomed to never find. Egg #7: Again, I didn't think of clicking on the "What's New" button to look for this egg. I thought maybe it had something to do with a recent event (for example, the Halloween event in NH). Egg #8: I got this one. I know that an archipelago is basically a big island, so I looked in the Island Journal board on the pinned thread. I'm honestly kinda surprised that I found this one. Egg #9: I got this one. It was kind of a surprise, but I knew that "puppets" had something to do with Wix and Pierrot so I figured i would look in the Halloween thread from last year where they (and Jack and the weird woods guy) duked it out. What a fun time that was. Egg #10: I got this one. It was definitely an accident though. I was looking for Egg #20, because I knew that one had something to do with turnips. I initially thought that "Rotten to the root" had some political meaning because the phrase is related to the Miinneapolis police. Idk but anyways, I found this one and that's all that matters. Egg #11: I LITERALLY WOULD HAVE NEVER GUESSED THIS ONE. IT'S SO DUMB. Egg #12: This one makes me mad. I knew that this one had something to do with the New Neighbor Network board, but I literally would have never guessed that I was supposed to click the "Post Thread" button. Though, again, in hindsight this one makes sense. Egg #13: I got this one. When I saw the word "sus" I was like OH BOY IT'S AMONG US. I don't even play that game but I'm constantly surrounded by people on this forum as well as in college who play it and I've heard the word a lot. So I basically knew this one immediately. Egg #14: I got this one. This was another one that I knew right away. It took a bit of searching cause I couldn't remember when Joker was revealed for Smash so I had to really dig through the Nintendo Treehouse board, but I eventually found it. Egg #15: I got this one. This one was obvious, because LambdaDelta's thread petitioning to make the woods the default theme is classic. Egg #16: I thought that this one might have something to do with the Arachnid/Creepy Crawlie Appreciation Thread, but that clearly wasn't true. I wouldn't have guessed that it had to do with the Pumpkin Cupcake. Egg #17: I got this one. It took quite a bit of thought. I initially thought that it may have had to do with Amiibo cards or DIY cards, but then I gave up on that and decided to take a casual scroll through Brewster's Cafe and I found the Tarot thread. At that point I knew that I had it, I just had to scroll though it a little bit to find the egg. Egg #18: I got this one. As soon as I read "it's the new platform for forum hijinks" I immediately knew that it was Xenforo, the platform that the forum transferred to back in March. This was suuuper easy, as well as being the only puzzle that I got this time around. Egg #19: I got this one. I know that the skin is the largest organ, and when I saw the rest of the clue I knew immediately that it had to do with the Skin Care thread. This was a really easy one for me. Egg #20: I knew that this one had to do with the old turnip thread. I spent like 2-3 hours looking for the thread, and I couldn't remember what it was called so I just never found it. I'm really aggravated by this one because I literally knew what it was and yet I couldn't find it. Egg #21: I got this one. "A stone for a stone" kinda gave this one away immediately, and I knew that the egg was hidden in the barter thread in Nook's Cranny. Egg #22: I didn't realize that "City of Dreams" was a link in the fair/direct thread (I can't remember exactly which thread it was in). Again, I did the entire egg hunt on mobile so I couldn't hover my cursor over the link to see that it was, in fact, a link. Besides, why was "City of Dreams" specifically the one to click on? The word "dream" could've had something to do with basically any part of the 2020 fair. Egg #23: I got this one. I use Pinterest a lot so this one was pretty obvious. I am however still impressed at where this one was hidden.Very clever. Kudos to pandapples for creating it! Definitely my favorite clue this year. Egg #24: I knew that this one had something to do with Dodos, but I couldn't find anything about an eponym on it. I still don't understand how "WRIGHT" is an "american eponym" for a Dodo. Like I know that Wright had to do with who the two dodos in NH are named after, but I still would've never guessed this one. I definitely overthought it. Egg #25: I would've NEVER gotten this one. I've played the Wikipedia Random Button Game maybe one time on this forum, and I usually don't even think about it. It's pretty boring to me so I don't pay attention to it at all. This one was definitely a lost cause for me.
Regardless, I got 13 eggs out of this hunt, and I'm pretty proud of myself for that. I was able to get both of the eggs that I really liked (the cobweb and candy corn eggs) so I'm content. There were a few clues that I was pretty irritated that I couldn't find them, but I basically accepted, before the end of the hunt, that I wasn't gonna find them (mostly because I'm really tired due to school). I'm glad I found the ones that I did.
Thanks again, staff, for another awesome egg hunt! I really enjoyed it!
Ohh! I loved reading your thought process towards each egg As for egg nr. 2: tired eyes can appear 'bloodshot' I only got that one by systematically trying all collectibles though, and only later made the connection once I knew the actual answer
It's funny to see you went to search in some of the same places as I did: For 16 my first thought was that arachnid appreciation thread as well. Only after that I went to check on the pumpkin collectible
Meant to write this earlier but I've been busy this morning watching AVGN, practicing piano pieces and overall not doing much of anything. I'm enjoying my morning break
Anyways, I wanted to reflect on these clue answers cause some of them (not surprisingly) are just ridiculous. Though amazingly I figured out quite a few of them. Here's what I think of each one:
Egg #1: I got this one. So I initially thought that this clue had something to do with Carmen the rabbit. I thought of the thread from the Fair that had a cloud shaped like a bunny, but those threads are off-limits now that the fair is over. But then I re-read the clue: it says "Carmine" not "Carmen." After doing some research, I figured out that carmine is a shade of red. After this my mind basically went straight to the Red Balloon World Tour and I looked through the two threads, eventually finding the egg. Egg #2: I tried all kinds of passwords for this one: bells, TBT, belltreebells, mirror/s, houseofmirrors, houghofnightmares, etc. None of them worked. I would have never guessed the answer was "bloodshotpotion." I still don't know how the "tired eyes: part of the clue relates to this. Egg #3: I gave it some thought and I figured that it might have something to do with an Animal Crossing chicken. Although the only blue chickens I know of are Hector (who isn't in any newer AC games) and possibly also Ken. I also gave some thought to it having something to do with Goose because of the fair, but I had no clue where I could look for it. This one was just plain stupid. I did this egg hunt on mobile, so I couldn't see anyone's signature. I'm pretty positive I didn't see anything relating to Goose in Vris's signature. Oh well. Egg #4: I got this one. I knew it had something to do with Zipper, and how he was "uninvited" to this year's Halloween event. My first thought was to go look at the egg hunt thread from last year, and sure enough there it was. Egg #5: So I did my research on what a "domestic goddess" was, and I read that it was basically a woman who was a homemaker, and from there my mind went straight to Cooking Mama. However, I looked around for Cooking Mama threads and I couldn't find anything. I didn't know that there was a controversy thread (though I vaguely remember there being a controversy surrounding Cooking Mama a while back). Egg #6: I would've never guessed that this one had to do with Sahara, though in hindsight it makes sense. Also the specific location made it more confusing. This is one I was doomed to never find. Egg #7: Again, I didn't think of clicking on the "What's New" button to look for this egg. I thought maybe it had something to do with a recent event (for example, the Halloween event in NH). Egg #8: I got this one. I know that an archipelago is basically a big island, so I looked in the Island Journal board on the pinned thread. I'm honestly kinda surprised that I found this one. Egg #9: I got this one. It was kind of a surprise, but I knew that "puppets" had something to do with Wix and Pierrot so I figured i would look in the Halloween thread from last year where they (and Jack and the weird woods guy) duked it out. What a fun time that was. Egg #10: I got this one. It was definitely an accident though. I was looking for Egg #20, because I knew that one had something to do with turnips. I initially thought that "Rotten to the root" had some political meaning because the phrase is related to the Miinneapolis police. Idk but anyways, I found this one and that's all that matters. Egg #11: I LITERALLY WOULD HAVE NEVER GUESSED THIS ONE. IT'S SO DUMB. Egg #12: This one makes me mad. I knew that this one had something to do with the New Neighbor Network board, but I literally would have never guessed that I was supposed to click the "Post Thread" button. Though, again, in hindsight this one makes sense. Egg #13: I got this one. When I saw the word "sus" I was like OH BOY IT'S AMONG US. I don't even play that game but I'm constantly surrounded by people on this forum as well as in college who play it and I've heard the word a lot. So I basically knew this one immediately. Egg #14: I got this one. This was another one that I knew right away. It took a bit of searching cause I couldn't remember when Joker was revealed for Smash so I had to really dig through the Nintendo Treehouse board, but I eventually found it. Egg #15: I got this one. This one was obvious, because LambdaDelta's thread petitioning to make the woods the default theme is classic. Egg #16: I thought that this one might have something to do with the Arachnid/Creepy Crawlie Appreciation Thread, but that clearly wasn't true. I wouldn't have guessed that it had to do with the Pumpkin Cupcake. Egg #17: I got this one. It took quite a bit of thought. I initially thought that it may have had to do with Amiibo cards or DIY cards, but then I gave up on that and decided to take a casual scroll through Brewster's Cafe and I found the Tarot thread. At that point I knew that I had it, I just had to scroll though it a little bit to find the egg. Egg #18: I got this one. As soon as I read "it's the new platform for forum hijinks" I immediately knew that it was Xenforo, the platform that the forum transferred to back in March. This was suuuper easy, as well as being the only puzzle that I got this time around. Egg #19: I got this one. I know that the skin is the largest organ, and when I saw the rest of the clue I knew immediately that it had to do with the Skin Care thread. This was a really easy one for me. Egg #20: I knew that this one had to do with the old turnip thread. I spent like 2-3 hours looking for the thread, and I couldn't remember what it was called so I just never found it. I'm really aggravated by this one because I literally knew what it was and yet I couldn't find it. Egg #21: I got this one. "A stone for a stone" kinda gave this one away immediately, and I knew that the egg was hidden in the barter thread in Nook's Cranny. Egg #22: I didn't realize that "City of Dreams" was a link in the fair/direct thread (I can't remember exactly which thread it was in). Again, I did the entire egg hunt on mobile so I couldn't hover my cursor over the link to see that it was, in fact, a link. Besides, why was "City of Dreams" specifically the one to click on? The word "dream" could've had something to do with basically any part of the 2020 fair. Egg #23: I got this one. I use Pinterest a lot so this one was pretty obvious. I am however still impressed at where this one was hidden.Very clever. Kudos to pandapples for creating it! Definitely my favorite clue this year. Egg #24: I knew that this one had something to do with Dodos, but I couldn't find anything about an eponym on it. I still don't understand how "WRIGHT" is an "american eponym" for a Dodo. Like I know that Wright had to do with who the two dodos in NH are named after, but I still would've never guessed this one. I definitely overthought it. Egg #25: I would've NEVER gotten this one. I've played the Wikipedia Random Button Game maybe one time on this forum, and I usually don't even think about it. It's pretty boring to me so I don't pay attention to it at all. This one was definitely a lost cause for me.
Regardless, I got 13 eggs out of this hunt, and I'm pretty proud of myself for that. I was able to get both of the eggs that I really liked (the cobweb and candy corn eggs) so I'm content. There were a few clues that I was pretty irritated that I couldn't find them, but I basically accepted, before the end of the hunt, that I wasn't gonna find them (mostly because I'm really tired due to school). I'm glad I found the ones that I did.
Thanks again, staff, for another awesome egg hunt! I really enjoyed it!
I can totally sympathize with these takeaways- this is my first egg hunt & I think what I learned overall is "click on buttons, exhaust all options before you travel to your next train of thought". i simply wasn't thorough enough
some of them i couldn't help, like the first clue- i simply didn't know there were TWO red balloon tour posts, but when you said
"I literally knew where it was and yet I couldn't find it" I FELT THAT on a molecular level lmaoo, this is basically how i missed several clues- especially with 'stone for a stone' because i ended up in that barter & trade thread TWICE & NEVER CLICKED ON THE EGG. because it was right-justified & i thought it was a signature.
I'll be back with a vengeance next year!
Not to say i'm not overall happy with my results- I got 13/25 eggs & solved almost all 4 puzzles.
I forgot to say as well, that I'm impressed the staff pulled off an event of this magnitude so quickly after the fair. I'm impressed & grateful just to participate in another event so quickly. Thank you guys so much for putting this on for us!
Thank you for the event! I got more eggs than I expected to. The eggs I didn't get, for the most part, were the ones I had absolutely no idea about in the first place.
Most of the locations make sense, but some I still wouldn't have gotten, like the Cooking Mama one, any of the puzzles (thou the Xenoforo one makes sense) or the Wikipedia one.
Still, being my second year I think I did pretty darn well, esp from last year. Might be cause I was pretty active this year, so I got most of the ones involving past events.
I can NOT believe I missed the entire hunt!!!! I worked sat at 3, Sunday I had to back track to do the Halloween event on ACNH so I didn’t even check tbt lol and then back to work at 3 and the I worked Monday from 10:30-9:30 Lol so sad! I luv egg hunts!!!
also, upon careful consideration, I've decided laudine's clue #16, 'People may think I'm creepy, but I swear I have a sweet side as well!', is the worst one of this year's eggs
specifically because I did think of the pumpkin cupcake at one point for it, while I was running down through all the sweets collectibles in my head, but immediately discarded the idea, because it's about as creepy as a puppy
silly me!!
