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Well, Dual, if you start the game....

Shades of Greye

@Bulbapuck:

Give me a call and I'll help... 

Nope. By spot on I meant the way to decipher. But in this case, you need to use another key.

You need to use

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a keyboard.

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Not just any...

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the one of a laptop.

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You're spot on! And the tool: make it portable, not every machine has the right 'decoder'....

Alright. Sentinel and Imperial are both the same phenomenon.

A little more:

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Sentinel can also be found as meadows or cone..

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The phenomenon:

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They're both geysers...

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The location:

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should be easy to find now...

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I now see how fast Google works.. ;-)
And I also see I made a typo on the other page: it's not explosions, just explosion. And yeah, that was cryptic as well...

A very nice one. Although I'm not really into platformers/shoot 'em uppers, the story and graphics are really nice. Maybe a talkie version when ready? It would add to the atmosphere and there aren't too many lines.

And that's what DualNames already said:

The only complete part of the game I know how it's coded is the

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boss fight..(on which i also noticed a bug, I got two shotguns! (one empty, one reloaded)

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What Crimson meant was that

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you can use the recipe itself instead of the beer with the blender and still get the result as if you had a beer.

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Don't get me wrong. It still took me about 7 hours to finish. I started right after the release and was constantly working on the puzzles, either on or off screen, in mind or on paper. Had good fun. But as with a lot of adventures as well, when you've played them a lot, you recognize the meaning of the riddle. It's more the trivial things that take more time.

I happened to know #12

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because of my honeymoon (btdt) and my appreciation for the work of Arthur C. Clark.

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I stumbled upon #19. No clue at first and this one took about 1½ hrs of googl'ing. What I like about that is that you find a massive amount of sites (totally unrelated but) with a wealth of information for general knowledge (or ignorance).

The numeric puzzles are fairly easy (there are not much possibilities) and having a musical background (in a previous life so it seems) helps as well. Being trained as a system engineer solved the tick tock.

Having a large general knowledge, spending (way too many) hours on internet and gifted with a healthy interest in almost everything (and remembering a lot, even the most useless facts...) it's always a pleasure to play these games.

Alright... I'll tell you.

I've finished the game myself.  But I'm too proud to cheat. If you want I can tell you how I found/know the answers myself.

But there's a much easier way to cheat this one: Domithan, read, weep and learn for the next one!

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copy the .exe and rename to .txt. Open the file with notepad and search for a part of the riddle. The answer is written there as well.

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Domithan, you've explained the solutions in the same rooms as the riddle, making the text visible and very easy to combine with the riddle. For the next you might want to encrypt your texts or make them as objects/images  instead of text strings.... Texts of objects are compiled different and not (completely) readable.

Dual... I quickly played to that point and saved the game..

One part is the other part. This gives you a location.

Phew... couldn't get it more cryptic.

What can "The Sentinel" be? (other than a movie/video game).

The name:

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Try to find out what's called "the Sentinel" and where it's located.

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The object:

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Try to find out what imperial explosions can be. Think natural phenomenon..

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The location:

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Search for natural phenomenon in nature reserves in the USA.

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Please do... I can't wait!

I must say, 19 was the hardest. I stumbled upon the answer by accident while Googl'ing...

Wow. I'm really, truly impressed. Kinda sad, too! I was hoping it would be longer that before someone beat it I suppose that makes you the first. I guess I'll give the award to whoever the first one is to send me each answer, just to make sure they've done it.

Don't bother.. you can read them already..

The third is a very famous one... But count very carefully.  ;-)

@David:
Yes you are..

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but try to say it in other words...

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@Mintymint:
There are more of those... can you tell me which one?

@Snake:
Like I said:

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Take the first line of the riddle very literally.

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I did... see my first hidden text?

Nope, not at all. Just look at the hint section...

Nice game. Reminded me a bit of "The Stone" I used to play. And all you have to do in this game is ...

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open the door.

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Some solutions could have been handled a bit more flexible I think... and the text you write a bit more visible in some occasions. Maybe you can take the color of the background into account when choosing the font color?

Found another bug... When you press F9 to restart, there's no way to give an answer. Since you don't have a mouse cursor and the keys won't work you have to crash the game and start all over. Effect is the same but not very elegant... ;-)

Furthermore, the bug with puzzle 18 gave me the solution because...

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when I count correctly and the first puzzle is room 1, the next room you encounter should be 18, not 19 since the question is asked in room 17... or am I wrong somewhere? Nevermind. I can't count properly.  

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See? I'm too stupid for these games..  

Visible:

Don't get distracted by the numbers....

Less obvious:

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Take a good look at the first line and....

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The clue to it all:

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Take the first line very literal.

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@Bulbapuck:

Look at the picture and try to find words to describe it....