Thanks for another great Egg Hunt, Staff! I especially want to thank whoever is responsible for the evil Zipper stuff, it's quite fun. Also that Isabelle artwork is adorable.
I managed to find 13 Eggs this year. I was stuck at 3 for the longest time but eventually cracked a few more clues and got 10. I planned to stop there because I thought I had reached the limit of my ability, but then managed to find 3 more. It was stressful but fun and I did better than I thought I would.
The Eggs I Missed
Egg 1) A passionate town meeting to start the calendar.
Never even considered that, but it seems obvious now that it's pointed out. I looked in other places like the forum Calendar, the Valentine's Flower Week thread in The Bulletin Board since it looked like it was the first event of 2019, and I dug through the New Leaf subforum because people tend to restart their games every year. Bummer that I didn't think of this.
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Egg 3) Original, vintage, seasonal, and... wider?
I never noticed that the Classic Easter Egg was wider than the rest of the eggs. I was never going to get this puzzle.
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Egg 4) Bop It! Twist It! Pull It!
Despite being a 90's Kid myself and knowing exactly what a Bop-It! is, I didn't think the clue was actually referring to it because I neither noticed that thread while looking nor expected it to be so straightforward. At some point "bop" made me think of the Toy Hammer and I fell into a hole I never managed to crawl out of. A shame, I could have gotten this one.
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Egg 5) 3 + 6 = 12, good luck!
Didn't really pay attention to what the winning numbers were for the Kaliedoclovers other than the final ones since I won one in that final drawing. As such, the "good luck" didn't click so I didn't even consider this.
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Egg 9) 42,741 + 85,482 = what about You Found an Egg?
I initially figured it would have something to do with Threads and Posts made in the various subforums, but that quickly fell apart and I never really got much farther on this one. After that, I figured it had something to do with members to some degree but didn't put that together and thus didn't end up trudging around for it.
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Egg 15) Leaf Tickets: Now at The Bell Tree!
Up until I was writing this post I thought I had found this one, but I had actually found Egg 10. I figured
something out but it was by happy accident. I thought of the Leaf Ticket Egg from last year's Egg Hunt and found the Egg in that thread. Thereafter I mentally checked this off the list, sealing my fate. Unfortunately I didn't find this one as a result.
Sidenote on Egg 10 since I thought I was still looking for that one, I had thought Egg 10 had something to do with Joker/Persona since unmasking to achieve your Persona seems to be a theme in Persona 5 and Joker was just released in Super Smash Bros. recently. I also thought it had something to do with Facebook or the What Do You Look Like? thread pinned to the top of the Brewster's Cafe subforum.
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Egg 19) Watch out, we're going down! Soon all of us will fall into an impossible deep slumber.
I figured this was some sort of video game reference or had something to do with either dreams or death (although that second one was a bit of a stretch). I don't play a great variety of games so figured that it would be some reference I wouldn't get. This led to me guessing stuff like Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild (because I know Link sleeps for a century in that) and a thread about the Link's Awakening remake (due to the name, admittedly.) It should probably be obvious from that line of thinking that I've never been big into Zelda so it was an easy trap to fall into. Oh well.
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Egg 21) There's seven of us so far, but the sum of our parts is so many more.
148?!
Bruh.
I guessed it had something to do with Pok?mon collectibles (Pikachu Egg, Eevee Egg, Togepi Egg, Happy Ditto Egg, Pok? Ball, Love Ball, Moon Ball), forum staff (since I wasn't sure of the exact count of Mods and Admins at the moment and I think there have been former Staff who have since retired), and Egg Hunts (since there have been 7 now, but this made more sense before the clue was updated at 6:00 PM yesterday.)