TBT's Ninth Annual Easter Egg Hunt

[Bluebellie]

I had the most fun finding clue 5 , and the Puzzles. For some reason, the puzzles all made sense to me right away.

Clue 6, totally found by accident.

 

[0ni]

I was also terrified about following through with my hunch for Egg 14 - literally posted my thread with "pls don't ban me". Would've been a very sad end to the egg hunt if that had happened lol

So miffed to see how close I was to getting some other clues

Egg 18's puzzle... I tried Amiibo/and SANRIOAMIIBO whyyyy why didn't I just try sanrio on it's own lmao

I was also in the Art Programs thread, and had figured out the wording of Egg 12's clue to mean something like flaming llama, or alpaca... I think I was just running out of steam at that point because I have no idea what caused me to lose the plot there.

The last clue I figured out was actually 25 - It was 3am-ish my time. I just clicked 'Help' because at that point I was clicking everything lmao (also probably a desperate cry for actual help) - saw the smilies and then it clicked into place.

All in all I managed to get 12 clues, which isn't too bad for a first time. I only started the egg hunt yesterday evening - wish I had been able to spend more of the weekend on it but I dunno if it would have helped me figure out any more clues lol

 

[That Marshal Fangirl]

I guess I'll jump on the "list the clues you got and didn't get" train.

Found:

1. Blinded by darkness.: This happened literally a few days ago so this was pretty much immediate.

2. A stylish spin, rain or shine.: This one took a bit but "rain or shine" helped me stumble upon the answer.

3. The inbound 3:26PM flight from Puroland has been delayed.: After a quick Google of Puroland, I knew the answer right away.

4. Chaotic chatter crossing channels.: I'm on Discord constantly, so this one was no problem.

5. Quick, there's an 577 in staff incubation unit #ABB,BAD!: This one was one of my favorites because it was so satisfying to get. Partially what helped me was the activity from the Fair that required decoding.

6. Currencies accepted here: coffee.: Being that I'm always on TBT, I scroll past the Ko-fi link all the time. I really liked the egg graphic for this.

7. One year later, wanting something greater. Is saying adieu, worth something anew?: Resetting was the only thing I could think of for this.

9. Honored with our latest and greatest gift givers.: I was around for the Christmas event, so I went straight to that thread.

10. To be direct, you've seen this egg before. Time travel back to 16:14 EDT on March 22nd 2021 to see it again.: This one was actually a little tough for me, but I found it eventually.

11. Zinc, C, B, or D? Help from the sea if you go to page 3.: I don't go in Brewster's very often, but I did remember there was a thread about vitamins.

12. Want to express yourself using electronic apparatus? I recommend a flaming camelid mammal.: This one was absolutely awful and took me until the very end to find. I actually found it while looking for #23.

13. A dozen digits yields many sweet dreams.: A few minutes of thought led me to remember that dream addresses have 12 digits.

14. A surefire means of contacting Donatello's weapon. Posted!: This was both satisfying and a bit terrifying to get. I didn't want to bother the staff with an unimportant thread but I didn't see anything else it could be.

15. The name given to the three-day woodland war fought between a lagomorph and a ghost. Halloweaster was both fairly recent and an egg hunt, so of course I remembered it.

16. A hooting parliament gathers to turn endless pages.: I didn't actually catch onto the reading part for a while since I was so focused on the "parliament" aspect. I did eventually find it though.

17. You'll be searching every nook and cranny for this blue's clue.: This one was kind of difficult I feel, but I did land on it after frantic searching.

18. Limited stock, people will flock, They must have the neighbors, Who are all island-locked.: Like many people, I'm well aware of the Sanrio villager craze right now.

19. Make this extinct bird call and TBTers will line up.: I knew this had something to do with Dodo Codes, and since I had already created a thread for an egg I wasn't afraid to try it again.

21. Quail Quail Goose: I associate Vrisnem with Goose now, plus I remembered there was an egg graphic with Goose on it in the decorating contest thread.

22. Once a runner-up, now flies ahead in the baallots.: My initial thought was Vesta, but I remembered Etoile was a runner-up in that contest.

24. 5x2, In full view, Always right there under you: I'm a collectible nut and spend way too much time on said lineups.


Not Found:

8. If you'd be so bold as to leaf through the locked logs, then you may check this clue off the list.: This one was incredibly frustrating, especially since I later found out it was in the Blog Tree archives I had been in and out of. I just didn't think to mark anything as read.

20. Take a step back and you'll be able to face this tailor-made creature.: I never go into the Able Sister's subforum, and even if I did I don't think I would have clicked on that particular thread. I was honestly convinced this was about the Build-A-Bear collaboration coming up.

23. On this day, we appreciate fan-art, signatures, stamps, poems, songs, or anything else made by you.: I knew this was about the Museum but could not find the right thread. I found #12 while searching it.

25. Help! I forgot how to smile.: I've never clicked on the Help feature before. I did so for the first time after the answers were announced.

 

[cornimer]

I literally stalked @Vrisnem 's posts in the post what you look like thread thinking one of their pics would give me an egg for egg 25. I'm so dumb. Also I failed at number 8

Thought I was the only one who did this LOL
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Thanks for the event staff! Honestly it's the only Easter-y thing I did this weekend so it was a good break from reality lol. The clues were really fun this year!

 

[Chris]

I literally stalked @Vrisnem 's posts in the post what you look like thread thinking one of their pics would give me an egg for egg 25. I'm so dumb. Also I failed at number 8

Thought I was the only one who did this LOL
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Thanks for the event staff! Honestly it's the only Easter-y thing I did this weekend so it was a good break from reality lol. The clues were really fun this year!

I'm aware I don't smile in photos but I didn't foresee this as something people might think of!

Glad you enjoyed the egg hunt!

 

[Rinpane]

...So much for doing better this round, I couldn’t work out anything in the second batch and then with my busy weekend I forgot to participate. Still had fun though; thank you, staff!

 

[Lavamaize]

Personally, my favorite clue was 25! I liked how it involved a few steps to solve!

 

[Cirice]

The number of time I went into the Contact the staff thread but I would've never dared to post something just to see if there was Egg 14 omg

 

[Dinosaurz]

I was so scared to do Egg 14 (Donatello's Weapon) because I didn't want to actually commit to writing a message and possibly cluttering Ask Staff... I also thought maybe I should contact Bobo (the weapon is also called a Bo lol) and Bobo is a staff member.

Egg 25 (Smile!) was super clever, as was Egg 8 (Leaf through Locked Logs).

I had the exact same thing with 14!!! Double bow staff made me think “Bobo” so I stalked their profile and thought about messaging them lol.

 

[litilravnur]

Gosh... I was so close to finding some eggs! I had a general idea of where could they be but failed terribly

Thanks for the fun event, staff!

 

[Hat']

that was so fun and the clues were so clever!!! i guess way too many of them were too clever for me heh
hgfjkdlsm i was on the right thread of SO MANY of them and yet i only got 7 i'm so pissed at myself
i literally opened EVERY spoilers in the 12th egg thread EXCEPT THE FIREALPACA ONE i remember this so clearly and i want to throw my computer out the window
i'm so mad because i literally was on the 9th egg page and i remember scrolling up and down a thousand times and i didn't see it
i also got egg 15 right except i typed in some egg hunt related codes so i didn't get it
...not me seeing the huge egg for the 21st clue and not clicking it because i've already clicked hundreds of picturs in vain.... bye
man pandapples' clues sure were really hard to find lol i was on the right path for some of them but i guess they were too specific or something
i didn't hate the 14th one but i didn't like it that much either because i always see the contact staff thing as like an emergency or something so i would've never thought it was actually required to post something in there

overrall i had a lot of fun and i got the egg i wanted so that's all that counts to me!!! i'm mad at myself for not digging deeper or paying more attention lol!
a huge thank you to all the staff who worked hard on this! it was really fun and the burst of serotonine i get everytime i find an egg is always much appreciated! the egg collectibles also look amazing!!! thank you!!!

 

[Bluebellie]

I was able to decipher the fire alpaca one...

However, I thought it was a reference to Sahara. Since she is from the desert. Thus “ flaming camelid.” The desert is hot. She is a hot camel.

I was there trying to find this non existent Sahara thread or rug thread, etc.

Anyways, that is how my mind works.

 

[.: Meri :.]

Here's my thoughts on all the clues! My final total was 19/25.

Egg 1 - Found this one in no-time; I knew it was the April Fool's joke.
Egg 2 - I like to spin my umbrellas, so I thought of the answer to this one straightaway.
Egg 3 - This one took me a minute! I'm not super familiar with Sanrio, so I did some searches for "Puroland", thinking it was maybe in someone's airport thread, but when I learned that Puroland was a Sanrio theme park, I knew it had to be in the official AC x Sanrio thread.
Egg 4 - I don't use Discord much so this didn't come to me immediately, but I had a feeling that "chaotic chatter" was refering to The Basement. I looked through the Discord/Chat Group directory for a bit, but then noticed the link to the Bell Tree's official Discord, and found it there!
Egg 5 - As much as I play Quick, Before the Mods!, I'm a little embarrassed by how long this took me. OTL I was trying to figure out what a "code 577" was, thought #ABB,BAD was a hex code, looked at the staff pages... and then the phrase "incubation unit" hit me like a ton of bricks. I actually remembered the page number because I'd gone back to that post a couple times to double-check the new rules, so it didn't take me long to find it once I realized.
Egg 6 - I was so convinced this had to do with Brewster's, until I finally remembered the whole "buy me a coffee" thing on Ko-Fi, and then I knew it was something to do with the Bell Tree Ko-Fi page.
Egg 7 - First I checked the New Horizons one year anniversary post, but I soon realized the second line was probably about resetting one's island.
Egg 8 - Never found this one; I never thought to click the mark read button. ;; I checked the Blog Tree Archives, locked threads in Island Journals (read through all of dizzy bone's island journal thinking it would be there, lovely island though!), practically all the locked threads in the Bulletin Board (thought for sure it was going to be in one of The Woods threads), locked threads in the New Leaf section... I learned a lot about the site at least.
Egg 9 - Knew where this one was right away, thanks to my research from #8.
Egg 10 - Same with this one! #8 saved me again.
Egg 11 - I knew about the vitamins thread, so this one was easy too.
Egg 12 - I was really focused on the "flaming camelid" part, and despite how much digital art I do, I didn't know about FireAlpaca! I thought about the Firefox browser but didn't think that could be it (because foxes are definitely not camelids ahaha), then I looked for Saharah, then switched to looking through Pokemon threads for Numel and Camerupt. At this point I decided to quit focusing on that part of the clue, and guessed that "expressing yourself via electronic apparatus" was probably about digital art, so I went to the Museum forum and checked out the list of art programs. Then I saw FireAlpaca right at the top of the post and was like "OH"
Egg 13 - Knew this was about dream addresses!
Egg 14 - First I looked if it was in a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles thread, then I googled what Donatello's weapon was because I never watched the show ahaha. I got really stuck on "bo" and thought maybe it was referring to Beau? And then when I saw "Contact the Staff" in the forum list, it hit me. I was still pretty hesitant to post there despite the "Posted!" part of the clue, so I checked Ask the Staff and the Information Desk before finally going for it and posting a thread there.
Egg 15 - Thankfully, I remembered Halloweaster before I went down the weird folklore rabbithole.
Egg 16 - Was looking all over the place for stuff relating to Blathers and Celeste, checking the Museum threads, and finally decided to look in "What are you reading?" on a wild guess. I... didn't think I was actually going to find it there.
Egg 17 - I looked all in Nook's Cranny but never found pandapple's thread, though I did check the post by dizzy bone. ;; Also checked the Official Blue's Clue's Fan Club Megathread and was super disappointed it wasn't there. I even looked in threads about colors and music, but alas.
Egg 18 - I think I was tired by this point because I got really stuck on the house collectible restocks. Finally figured out it was Sanrio though!
Egg 19 - Checked so many threads about Dodo codes, never thought to try and post one.
Egg 20 - I thought this was about one of the doll collectibles, or Zipper T. Bunny.
Egg 21 - Knew it had to be in the Egg Decorating thread and clicked the Goose egg picture first thing!
Egg 22 - I found some old voting threads with Pietro and thought it would be there, but I eventually clicked the link in the Sanrio poll and found it.
Egg 23 - Had no idea about the Museum Day thread, so I kept checking Bell Fair closing ceremonies.
Egg 24 - Thought this was about signatures for a minute, but quickly realized it was actually lineup!
Egg 25 - Looked in the What's Bothering You and What Are You Happy About Today threads, but I didn't search super hard for this one because I was ready to call it a hunt at this point.

Anyways, big thanks to the staff for all the work put into the Easter event! ^^ I had a lot of fun, got a good workout for my brain, and came out of it with a lovely Dragonscale egg. Although, "egg" has stopped looking like a real word to me.

 

[Bekaa]

we’re all looking pretty foolish now in the staff’s eyes for #14

they probably knew we’d all be scared to post in contact the staff, i kept thinking nah what if someone had an important issue they need taken care of and all of a sudden i send in “yo where’s my egg” thought i was boutta get all my eggs taken away and be in debt. lesson learned, trust staff, but don’t trust staff

I am certainly not scared of staff, and will post to them if I genuinely have a question; however I thought of this as the potential solution to this clue, however, like many others, didn’t want to clutter up their inbox/did not think that was appropriate. This is the only item on the clues list that has me frustrated.

 

[xSuperMario64x]

I was able to decipher the fire alpaca one...

However, I thought it was a reference to Sahara. Since she is from the desert. Thus “ flaming camelid.” The desert is hot. She is a hot camel.

I was there trying to find this non existent Sahara thread or rug thread, etc.

Anyways, that is how my mind works.

this was kinda my thought process, though once I realized an alpaca is also a camelid I realized pretty quickly that the clue referred to the FireAlpaca program.

 

[Parkai]

i missed this

 

[Bekaa]

Having gotten #14 off my chest , let me emphasize that I thoroughly enjoyed the egg hunt, as usual. I know the staff work extremely hard to put together a really fun hunt, and they manage all of us with our various quirks with such grace. (I’m always amazed at how smart they are to think up this stuff!) All in all I was greatly relieved that there were no clues that I hit myself on the head and went “ugh” about. Thank you staff!

 

[Sheep Villager]

I actually had FireAlpaca open when I was looking at clue 12 so it came to me almost immediately. ​

 

[Valzed]

I was on the right track for so many but just couldn't figure out exactly where they were located. That's okay. I had fun anyway. Thanks again for a fun event!

 

[jadetine]

Oh sweet relief, the answers! I would never want to be partnered with Justin or Pandapples when playing Contact because we are totally not on the same wavelength, lol. The staff is so stellar; we love y'all!