TBT's Ninth Annual Easter Egg Hunt
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I was going to write in my final thoughts last night but I went to sleep instead lol
The eggs that eluded me:
5: I went to the "before the mods hatch" thread but I couldn't figure out the rest of this number/letter code business so I never got it
8: for this one I had also gone to the right place but I couldn't find it, I tried going back to the oldest blog tree posts as well as reading through all the old bell tree directs to try to find this one
12: never ever would have been able to figure this out, didn't know FireAlpaca was a thing
Other thoughts:
6: I just love this one and you all deserve all the coffee in the world
10: I had a suspicion about this egg when I saw it posted the first time so I immediately went back to it
thought this was so silly, although if I hadn't seen in before hand I don't know if I would have been able to find this just based on the clue
14: I agree with what others have said about 14, I was really scared to post in the contact the staff thread. If the clue hadn't specifically said "posted" I wouldn't have done it. I was very scared to be bothering the staff for no reason.
Anyway a big thank you to all the staff for putting this event together for us, you guys really spoil us
The eggs that eluded me:
5: I went to the "before the mods hatch" thread but I couldn't figure out the rest of this number/letter code business so I never got it
8: for this one I had also gone to the right place but I couldn't find it, I tried going back to the oldest blog tree posts as well as reading through all the old bell tree directs to try to find this one
12: never ever would have been able to figure this out, didn't know FireAlpaca was a thing
Other thoughts:
6: I just love this one and you all deserve all the coffee in the world
10: I had a suspicion about this egg when I saw it posted the first time so I immediately went back to it
thought this was so silly, although if I hadn't seen in before hand I don't know if I would have been able to find this just based on the clue 14: I agree with what others have said about 14, I was really scared to post in the contact the staff thread. If the clue hadn't specifically said "posted" I wouldn't have done it. I was very scared to be bothering the staff for no reason.
Anyway a big thank you to all the staff for putting this event together for us, you guys really spoil us
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hopefully next year we both do better at the egg hunt though and they release another pretty egg! 
Paperboy012305
Maining Male Villager since 2015
When I posted in there, I was like "Should I dare risk it? I mean, this is the only place I can think of that can come close to where the egg might be.". So I took one for the team and found it.
I mean, I was only scared a little, but if that was where they hid the egg I'm sure they didn't care about 142 people bothering them for useless contacting issues.
Am so thankful for answers being revealed so my brain can stop being haunted by this egg hunt ;www; Thank you staff for this wonderful event (and for making my poor brain cry)
I did much better this time around somehow :’)) I think I got 21 out of 25 and idek how. ;o; 8, 17, 20 & 23 completely threw me though :’)))
Clue 14 was the scariest one to act on but Vris is also super lovely and I enjoyed the “Egg?” “Egg.” exchange ;w;
I did much better this time around somehow :’)) I think I got 21 out of 25 and idek how. ;o; 8, 17, 20 & 23 completely threw me though :’)))
Clue 14 was the scariest one to act on but Vris is also super lovely and I enjoyed the “Egg?” “Egg.” exchange ;w;
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That's such a cute conversation, reading it made me smile. c:
I'm going to join other with my thoughts on all the eggs now the answers have been revealed:
Eggs I Found
Egg 1 - This was pretty easy to work out and find as the prank was very recent
Egg 3 - A quick Google search of Puroland made this one easy to find
Egg 4 - This one took a bit longer and my first thought was that it might be in the 'Basement Dwellers' thread but it clicked when I spotted the 'Discord' at the top of the page
Egg 5 - This egg was fun and one of the quickest for me to solve as I recognised the thread straight away and presumed it would be in Vris's post about the easter emojis, trying to actually get all the way back to that post was probably the only hard part about this egg
Egg 6 - I was convinced for ages that this egg would be in Brewsters Cafe but wasn't sure on which thread so I searched for the ones that had coffee in the title to no luck and then randomly I had a 'eureka' moment in the bath and I remembered where I'd seen the reference to coffee and found the egg
Egg 7 - I didn't have much trouble with this egg as the idea saying goodbye to something made me think of island resetting
Egg 9 - This was quite a fortunate find as I remembered seeing the list of biggest gift givers over the festive season so went back to that thread and found the egg
Egg 10 - The word 'direct' automatically made me think of the 'Bell Tree Direct' thread and then it was just down to finding the correct post
Egg 11 - Realised this was in reference to vitamins and knew there had recently been a thread on them so I went back to that
Egg 12 - I only got this from the first half of the clue as 'express yourself' made me think of art and the 'Arts Programs' thread seemed the most appropriate, clicked on the first spoiler tab and found it. I never read the FireAlpaca part though so hadn't noticed the link till I read the answers.
Egg 13 - I really like the dream feature and visit the 'Dream Address' thread quite often so this one was quite easy
Egg 15 - I had to search what a lagomorph was and the first thing that came up was a rabbit but then I saw something about a Pika and thought this must be referencing Pikachu and Mimikyu from Pokemon but I didn't know anything about a woodland war between them so in the end I decided to settle on the less exciting answer of 'HALLOWEASTER' and it was right so can't really complain
Egg 16 - I knew this referenced owls and books so just did a quick search till I found the most likely thread that it would be in
Egg 17 - This clue suggested this would be in 'Nook's Cranny' and I presumed the 'blue' was in reference to one of the mods so I checked the list of the ones that wrote the clues and went through each one under the 'staff members' tab, quickly scanning through the posts till I found the right one
Egg 18 - This was probably the easiest puzzle for me as the Sanrio villagers are very big at the moment and well known for been island-locked
Egg 19 - I automatically thought about the Dodo Code when reading this clue so it wasn't too hard to find
Egg 20 - I thought this must be in 'Able Sisters' but it took a while to actually find the right thread
Egg 21 - This was an accidental find, presumed the answer would be in a post by Vris due to the goose clue and the egg decorating thread seemed to good starting place but after clicking on anything else I could to no avail I ended up on the giant goose egg and had success
Egg 22 - I'm constantly seeing the poll on the homepage about the Sanrio villagers and always pick up on Etoile been in the lead so this was pretty easy to solve
Egg 23 - The clue was describing the museum so I did a search of 'Museum Day' in the main search bar and checked any threads that seemed the most likely, didn't take too long to find the right one
Egg 24 - I'm really pleased to see I wasn't the only person who thought 'TOES' for this, I was so certain this was the answer that when no variations of it worked I actually considered contacting the staff to say the code didn't work for this egg, turns out that would've been a great help
it clicked later that it was referencing the collectible lineups so I tried both of those and found it
Egg 25 - At first I thought this might be in the 'Screenshots' thread but when I was at the bottom of the forum clicking on all the 'Share' buttons and the 'Contact Us' to try and solve another clue I saw the 'Help' and realised the egg was hiding there
The Eggs That Got Away
Egg 2 - This is so obvious now but I couldn't decipher this clue at all, I tried so many different options that honestly were no where near close to the right answer. I never really use the umbrellas in game so the idea of spinning them didn't click with me but now I've seen the answer it makes sense
Egg 8 - The word 'leaf' was a massive red herring here, I wasted so many hours leafing through the locked threads under the 'New Leaf' as I was convinced it must be there but all I found were lots of repetitive threads
Egg 14 - I grew up watching TMNTs every Saturday morning so it was obvious to me that this was referencing contacting the staff in someway, I got to the correct places but like others decided that they didn't actually want me to harass them about an egg (obviously unless it was about my 'TOES' code not working) so I looked everywhere else that might be about contacting staff but had no luck. I kept going back to the correct place and had picked up on the 'Posted' part of the clue but still didn't go through with it
I would've liked to find all 25 but I'm happy enough with 22 and got the two eggs I wanted most out of the great selection, thank you to all the staff for all the work that went into the event, as well as all the work on the threads in general, and massive congratulations to @Blink. on getting that elusive golden egg!
Eggs I Found
Egg 1 - This was pretty easy to work out and find as the prank was very recent
Egg 3 - A quick Google search of Puroland made this one easy to find
Egg 4 - This one took a bit longer and my first thought was that it might be in the 'Basement Dwellers' thread but it clicked when I spotted the 'Discord' at the top of the page
Egg 5 - This egg was fun and one of the quickest for me to solve as I recognised the thread straight away and presumed it would be in Vris's post about the easter emojis, trying to actually get all the way back to that post was probably the only hard part about this egg
Egg 6 - I was convinced for ages that this egg would be in Brewsters Cafe but wasn't sure on which thread so I searched for the ones that had coffee in the title to no luck and then randomly I had a 'eureka' moment in the bath and I remembered where I'd seen the reference to coffee and found the egg
Egg 7 - I didn't have much trouble with this egg as the idea saying goodbye to something made me think of island resetting
Egg 9 - This was quite a fortunate find as I remembered seeing the list of biggest gift givers over the festive season so went back to that thread and found the egg
Egg 10 - The word 'direct' automatically made me think of the 'Bell Tree Direct' thread and then it was just down to finding the correct post
Egg 11 - Realised this was in reference to vitamins and knew there had recently been a thread on them so I went back to that
Egg 12 - I only got this from the first half of the clue as 'express yourself' made me think of art and the 'Arts Programs' thread seemed the most appropriate, clicked on the first spoiler tab and found it. I never read the FireAlpaca part though so hadn't noticed the link till I read the answers.
Egg 13 - I really like the dream feature and visit the 'Dream Address' thread quite often so this one was quite easy
Egg 15 - I had to search what a lagomorph was and the first thing that came up was a rabbit but then I saw something about a Pika and thought this must be referencing Pikachu and Mimikyu from Pokemon but I didn't know anything about a woodland war between them so in the end I decided to settle on the less exciting answer of 'HALLOWEASTER' and it was right so can't really complain
Egg 16 - I knew this referenced owls and books so just did a quick search till I found the most likely thread that it would be in
Egg 17 - This clue suggested this would be in 'Nook's Cranny' and I presumed the 'blue' was in reference to one of the mods so I checked the list of the ones that wrote the clues and went through each one under the 'staff members' tab, quickly scanning through the posts till I found the right one
Egg 18 - This was probably the easiest puzzle for me as the Sanrio villagers are very big at the moment and well known for been island-locked
Egg 19 - I automatically thought about the Dodo Code when reading this clue so it wasn't too hard to find
Egg 20 - I thought this must be in 'Able Sisters' but it took a while to actually find the right thread
Egg 21 - This was an accidental find, presumed the answer would be in a post by Vris due to the goose clue and the egg decorating thread seemed to good starting place but after clicking on anything else I could to no avail I ended up on the giant goose egg and had success
Egg 22 - I'm constantly seeing the poll on the homepage about the Sanrio villagers and always pick up on Etoile been in the lead so this was pretty easy to solve
Egg 23 - The clue was describing the museum so I did a search of 'Museum Day' in the main search bar and checked any threads that seemed the most likely, didn't take too long to find the right one
Egg 24 - I'm really pleased to see I wasn't the only person who thought 'TOES' for this, I was so certain this was the answer that when no variations of it worked I actually considered contacting the staff to say the code didn't work for this egg, turns out that would've been a great help
it clicked later that it was referencing the collectible lineups so I tried both of those and found itEgg 25 - At first I thought this might be in the 'Screenshots' thread but when I was at the bottom of the forum clicking on all the 'Share' buttons and the 'Contact Us' to try and solve another clue I saw the 'Help' and realised the egg was hiding there
The Eggs That Got Away
Egg 2 - This is so obvious now but I couldn't decipher this clue at all, I tried so many different options that honestly were no where near close to the right answer. I never really use the umbrellas in game so the idea of spinning them didn't click with me but now I've seen the answer it makes sense
Egg 8 - The word 'leaf' was a massive red herring here, I wasted so many hours leafing through the locked threads under the 'New Leaf' as I was convinced it must be there but all I found were lots of repetitive threads
Egg 14 - I grew up watching TMNTs every Saturday morning so it was obvious to me that this was referencing contacting the staff in someway, I got to the correct places but like others decided that they didn't actually want me to harass them about an egg (obviously unless it was about my 'TOES' code not working) so I looked everywhere else that might be about contacting staff but had no luck. I kept going back to the correct place and had picked up on the 'Posted' part of the clue but still didn't go through with it
I would've liked to find all 25 but I'm happy enough with 22 and got the two eggs I wanted most out of the great selection, thank you to all the staff for all the work that went into the event, as well as all the work on the threads in general, and massive congratulations to @Blink. on getting that elusive golden egg!
Bluebellie
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I love how this message has an acceptance markBan panda from making more clues, ever
oceanchild8
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I even passed by the correct thread a few times too and thought no, it can't be in there. *sigh* I kept going through all the art contests.
I was hesitant to do it not because I’m afraid of the staff but i didn’t want them to be inundated with false threads if that didn’t turn out to generate the egg. I ended up doing it anyway and it worked in my favor lol
Tiffany
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I got 12 eggs, not bad for my first egg hunt. But I did go to several spots that had eggs that I missed.
I went to the bell tree direct link multiple times but missed the tiny "you found an egg" line. Maybe next year yall could just use the egg pics?
I went to the before the mods hatch thread but didn't understand the rest of the clue.
Like a lot of people I didn't do the contact the staff cause I didn't wanna get in trouble.
I feel like I technically got the last puzzle right because I typed collectibles, I had never head the term line up used for that. I think either one should've be accepted.
For number 8 I thought when they said locked logs it referred to island journals but obviously I was wrong.
the one about the tailor made creature was the last one I got. I for some reason thought it said monster not creature. I typed monster in the search bar and the egg was in the first post that came up.
I did look in the egg decorating thread for the quail quail goose one and I thought I clicked the giant egg but I guess not.
Some of these I found just by looking around and seeing something that made me think of a clue.
It was fun even though it was hard and I'll definitely participate next year
I went to the bell tree direct link multiple times but missed the tiny "you found an egg" line. Maybe next year yall could just use the egg pics?
I went to the before the mods hatch thread but didn't understand the rest of the clue.
Like a lot of people I didn't do the contact the staff cause I didn't wanna get in trouble.
I feel like I technically got the last puzzle right because I typed collectibles, I had never head the term line up used for that. I think either one should've be accepted.
For number 8 I thought when they said locked logs it referred to island journals but obviously I was wrong.
the one about the tailor made creature was the last one I got. I for some reason thought it said monster not creature. I typed monster in the search bar and the egg was in the first post that came up.
I did look in the egg decorating thread for the quail quail goose one and I thought I clicked the giant egg but I guess not.
Some of these I found just by looking around and seeing something that made me think of a clue.
It was fun even though it was hard and I'll definitely participate next year
Paperboy012305
Maining Male Villager since 2015
I do wish I could tell the tips to help finding eggs better to improve on next years, but I feel like it's against the rules.
There's no need to worry about posting in CTS, we've never warned or banned anyone for posting in it before. We try to come up with more unique clues such as this one to make the hunt more interesting overall, instead of scattering all 25 clues across 25 threads. CTS was a natural choice for the clue to avoid the threads being created publicly. This was an example of one of the more unique clues we were fortunate to have this year and I hope it made you all think outside of the box. Better luck next time!
Miss Misty
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Since a lot of people are doing it, I'll walk people through my thought process of the eggs I found/didn't find:
Egg 1 - Seemed almost too easy, but it was there when I looked so I didn't complain
Egg 2 - I loved spinning umbrellas as a kid in the original game so it just kinda came to me
Egg 3 - I knew that the Sanrio cards were due around that date and that Puroland was a Sanrio reference
Egg 4 - Channels = discord to me
Egg 5 - This one took me a while until I noticed the "Quick Before the Mods Come" had been changed to "Quick Before the Mods Hatch" and then it all clicked
Egg 6 - This took me an embarrassingly long time and it was more of an accident than legit figuring it out. Clicked on it and got an egg like 'oh'
Egg 7 - Again, pretty easy. I had a feeling it was about resetting islands around the one year mark. Figured it if was going to be anywhere, it'd be on the official thread.
Egg 9 - Also easy. I assumed it was the top gifter thing from Christmas.
Egg 10 - Had a feeling it was a Bell Tree Direct, so just went to the post at the time indicated.
Egg 11 - Zinc sort of gave away that the C, B, and D were referring to vitamins.
Egg 12 - Honestly, I'd never heard of FireAlpaca, I was just looking through Museum threads based on the 'express yourself' thing
Egg 13 - Knew this was referring to Dream Addresses
Egg 14 - I spent more time hemming and hawing about going through with submitting the contact thread than I did thinking about what the clue could mean.
Egg 15 - I remembered Halloweaster was a thing last year.
Egg 16 - I figured it was something to do with books being discussed in Brewster's.
Egg 18 - I knew this was related to the Sanrio villagers because they're island-locked.
Egg 19 - Knew this meant Dodo Codes.
Egg 20 - I had a feeling it was something in the Able's subforum, and the monster thread jumped out as a likely option.
Egg 22 - I forgot Etoile came in second, but I saw her doing well in the Sanrio poll so I clicked on it.
Egg 23 - I spent a lot of time in the Museum looking for this before I remembered the Museum Day event from ACNH.
Egg 24 - Once I thought about it, it came to me.
Egg 8 - I had a feeling it was about the Blog Tree posts, but it never would have occurred to me to mark all as read. I just kept looking through people's personal New Leaf checklists.
Egg 17 - It never occurred to me to look at username colors, so I was looking up Nook's Cranny threads made by people with Blue in their username, people looking for the puppy plushies (since Blue's a dog), and people looking for blue objects.
Egg 21 - I admittedly didn't pay super close attention to the egg decorating contest so that was lost on me. I was looking through phobia threads for someone afraid of geese since quail can also mean 'to cower'
Egg 25 - I clicked Help a bunch of times like 'goodness I need help' but I didn't actually click through the actual options there lol. My mind went to people joking about forgetting how to smile since they wear masks so often so I was scrolling through covid and mask related threads.
Above all, I think there was a nice mix of clues. Some were easy which was nice for people who only wanted one or two of the cheaper eggs, some of them really tested your knowledge of every option available on the forum software, some of them tested your knowledge of prior events. I like when there's a mix of eggs I can get relatively easily and eggs that give me a hard time. Having about five eggs at a time I couldn't work out was a nice sweet spot where I wasn't bored searching for only one but wasn't overwhelmed with 25 clues I had no idea about. Great job, staff!
Egg 1 - Seemed almost too easy, but it was there when I looked so I didn't complain
Egg 2 - I loved spinning umbrellas as a kid in the original game so it just kinda came to me
Egg 3 - I knew that the Sanrio cards were due around that date and that Puroland was a Sanrio reference
Egg 4 - Channels = discord to me
Egg 5 - This one took me a while until I noticed the "Quick Before the Mods Come" had been changed to "Quick Before the Mods Hatch" and then it all clicked
Egg 6 - This took me an embarrassingly long time and it was more of an accident than legit figuring it out. Clicked on it and got an egg like 'oh'
Egg 7 - Again, pretty easy. I had a feeling it was about resetting islands around the one year mark. Figured it if was going to be anywhere, it'd be on the official thread.
Egg 9 - Also easy. I assumed it was the top gifter thing from Christmas.
Egg 10 - Had a feeling it was a Bell Tree Direct, so just went to the post at the time indicated.
Egg 11 - Zinc sort of gave away that the C, B, and D were referring to vitamins.
Egg 12 - Honestly, I'd never heard of FireAlpaca, I was just looking through Museum threads based on the 'express yourself' thing
Egg 13 - Knew this was referring to Dream Addresses
Egg 14 - I spent more time hemming and hawing about going through with submitting the contact thread than I did thinking about what the clue could mean.
Egg 15 - I remembered Halloweaster was a thing last year.
Egg 16 - I figured it was something to do with books being discussed in Brewster's.
Egg 18 - I knew this was related to the Sanrio villagers because they're island-locked.
Egg 19 - Knew this meant Dodo Codes.
Egg 20 - I had a feeling it was something in the Able's subforum, and the monster thread jumped out as a likely option.
Egg 22 - I forgot Etoile came in second, but I saw her doing well in the Sanrio poll so I clicked on it.
Egg 23 - I spent a lot of time in the Museum looking for this before I remembered the Museum Day event from ACNH.
Egg 24 - Once I thought about it, it came to me.
Egg 8 - I had a feeling it was about the Blog Tree posts, but it never would have occurred to me to mark all as read. I just kept looking through people's personal New Leaf checklists.
Egg 17 - It never occurred to me to look at username colors, so I was looking up Nook's Cranny threads made by people with Blue in their username, people looking for the puppy plushies (since Blue's a dog), and people looking for blue objects.
Egg 21 - I admittedly didn't pay super close attention to the egg decorating contest so that was lost on me. I was looking through phobia threads for someone afraid of geese since quail can also mean 'to cower'
Egg 25 - I clicked Help a bunch of times like 'goodness I need help' but I didn't actually click through the actual options there lol. My mind went to people joking about forgetting how to smile since they wear masks so often so I was scrolling through covid and mask related threads.
Above all, I think there was a nice mix of clues. Some were easy which was nice for people who only wanted one or two of the cheaper eggs, some of them really tested your knowledge of every option available on the forum software, some of them tested your knowledge of prior events. I like when there's a mix of eggs I can get relatively easily and eggs that give me a hard time. Having about five eggs at a time I couldn't work out was a nice sweet spot where I wasn't bored searching for only one but wasn't overwhelmed with 25 clues I had no idea about. Great job, staff!
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I'm probably in the minority here, but I really loved that clue. It was clever, and while I was initially hesitant about posting there, I also knew that the clue wouldn't have lead us there, or perhaps even existed if there was a problem with us posting there. So I posted with a, "please give egg?" Also, props for working in TMNT.
Roxxy
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I think a lot of us feel that we don’t want to bother the staff unless it is something really urgent. They do enough at all times and in this one event @Vrisnem did so much so possibly a lot of us wouldn’t want to give him more work
It was a stressful challenging event. I got my dream white frag thanks to a trade with @BungoTheElf
Please can I thank all staff for so many hours spent organising an amazing event. The staff team here are simply the best
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daringred_
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at the risk of sounding rude, i did say i have severe anxiety which means even in spite of knowing i wouldn't get warned/banned, i still couldn't help panicking/worrying/stressing. just like i panic/worry/stress when the phone rings despite knowing i can ignore the call and/or that nothing bad is going to happen if i answer it. obviously i can't say that's the case for everybody, i'm probably the exception, not the standard. i'm all for unique clues and appreciate the creativity, and don't expect every little thing to cater to me, but it's still maybe something worth considering in future.
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