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Badge Drop #9: Copious Commentary!

by mariah




WHOOOOOEEEEEE, Summer Gamers! Now that we're DEEP into SG Season, things are getting INTENSE!



This week we've got badges that will send you to the HIGHEST HEIGHTS — flying with noted night bombers, rooting out records in the final frontier, and even shimmying up a (bean)stalk for EPIC ADVENTURE!



But OF COURSE, that's not all! We wouldn't leave you hanging ALL THE WAY UP THERE, so we've balanced all of that out by GETTING DOWN (in a DEEP GEOLOGICAL sense) with one badge that is TOTALLY THE PITS!


2017 Badge Drop #9
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BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE! We reassured you last week that WE WANT TO KNOW WHAT YOU THINK! But we really really DO, and often your fellow gamers and library users do TOO (ESPECIALLY when you might be helping your fellow gamers DECIPHER TRICKY BUSINESS and earn MORE BADGES)!



So UP THAT CHATTER! Ramp up the remarks! Hit REPLY to add your voice to this thread, or the MANY, MANY others all about Summer Game and all the BEST STUFF happening at YOUR LIBRARY, and you will be richly rewarded with the COMMENT MASTER badges!



And... speaking of REWARDS... STAY TUNED for a shop drop later tonight!



As always, THANKS FOR PLAYING!!!


Comments

I fervently hope these comment badges don't result in all the posts here being spammed. Following everyone's hints and piecing replies together will get harder if the comment volume explodes.

@Ferielp

There usually is a significant increase in comments after the comment badges drop, if I remember correctly.

OK... Here's a new comment - and one that might actually be of use to someone.
(Because it would be a Bad Thing to make pointless comments, just to score points and get badges, right?

Speaking (usefully) of those badges ...

If you are collecting the Explorer badges, Do Not wait unt the last week to go to U-M North Campus.
The exhibit, The Wonder of Learning, closes on Sat Aug 26.
That's Before the Summer Game ends.

So don't wait. Don't be late.
Go get that badge.

-HERE949
And a friend, BLUE993

Sara, we hoped to get your badge out tonight, but we ran out of time. Stay tuned! Shop drop in progress!

@betsywil

Thanks for the reminder about "The Wonder of Learning" closing date!

It's always nice to have earned badges without realizing it. I had done lots of commenting! :)

@betsywil
Thanks for the nudge, I've been putting it off because it's so close. Al oat let it pass me by!

Yea for new badges! We've been loving the exploration badges this summer!! Thanks AADL!!! (Able776)

I'm stuck on the Gilmore Girls clue. W.w.t.c.b.d? Storebought? I thought I knew this series. Even watched the reboot miniseries. Help?
TB

Yikes! These badge drops make me realize how behind I am on getting badges :/
Nevertheless, I can't wait to try some of these badges (if time permits)!

New badges! Yeah!
I can't wait to get working in them and see what we get to learn about this week!
~TRUTH344

Those who post their summer game username could you please stop doing this and try to engage or write helpful comment under any event. Thank you

The new badges are so much fun!! I'm looking forward to earning few more before the end of the month...

Please add me as a friend -- my code is SWEET646

This is precisely why I've only done about half the badges this year, having to keep running all over town and to all the branches multiple times through out the summer... who has time for that!?

@Thomas B Brown

You don't need to know the Gilmore Girls to get the code, just search for a cookbook using the adjectives in the clue.

@kathsco

I mean, I just finished the branch explorer badges, and now I have to go back to all the branches to get the goblin codes if I complete those badges. I haven't even started.

I need help with the 4th clue of The Real McCoy. I know the invention but not what to do with it.

Nevermind its been solved.

To all the summer gamers out there,
I am working on the "Back by Popular Demand" badge and I need help finding the third code word. I have looked just about every where for it and still have not found it so I am hoping some of you gamers can help me out with a couple more clues to help me find the third code word.
Thanks so much for the help
Lmd3577

Loved the NO SORCERY NEEDED Badge! I'd never heard about these women before and they were amazing!

Jack and the Badgestalk

When I enter Jack's last name (as found on two different pages) I get:

» Sorry, your search produced no results.

I searched Jack and the Beanstalk 1734. I used the wikipedia site and his last name starts with an S.

Can I just take minute to send out some huge KUDOS to the person/ people who came up with the Goblin game! It is so creative and fun! Thanks for all your hard work, it is a blast to play!

Thank you for sharing the info about the exhibit! I haven't made it over there yet and I didn't know it would come down.

@Sara
Can you please give me a hint on the second clue? I tried Fa---- and looked for everything but didn't find any code.

Also, I love the new goblin exploration badges! It helps to get the toddler in the house involved and having fun too.

Hi all,
I need help on the "Back by Popular Demand" badge. I tried different combinations of the words in the clue for the last code and just didn't go anywhere... Any help is appreciated....

Well... I have to admit that the Expiration Date Badges are my least favorite... I am stuck at Chapter 7 third code and Chapter 8 first code... For Chapter 7 I tried to figure out what experiment and what city but I just can't figure it out.... For Chapter 8 I managed to find the card lists but none of the 23 letter ones are the code... I am lost... This is really bugging me! Help please!

@elizatsou

I'm stuck on the cards part of Expiration Date as well. But, someone commented about the other code you are stuck on- you want to search the city they live in, not the one you are probably searching for.

Help with new Goblin Badges

There are three separate things you are searching for:

Goblin Gold - one code
Playing Cards - one code (you find the cards and enter the letters in numerical order)
Riddles - three codes (you read the riddle and solve it to complete the code. There are three riddles not grouped together.)

Good luck!

For the card and weapon, if you search for the type of weapon and the name of the game, the very first hit will be the name of a card on the maker's official site. And WHOOOPS it's actually 24 letters not counting spaces or punctuation. I'll fix the hint.

I am working on the back by popular demand badge and I need a couple more clues to find the third code word
Thanks so much for the help
Lmd3577

Expiration Date Help?!

23 letters, 24 letters.... I've found lots of games with cards having that weapon as a card, but nothing works. Most of the games containing the card have 20 letters. Just don't get the first clue.

The goblin badges are fun. I wouldn't mind seeing those again next year. But it would have been nice to have them available earlier in the game. I had just finished my 4th branch hours before these badges were released. I don't know if I'll be able to pack up the kids and get to each branch again.

To all the summer gamers out there
I am working on the back by popular demand badge and I need help finding the third code word
Thanks so much for the help
Lmd3577

I am still way behind on the badges, but still trying. Thanks for all the new ones, and the fun. :)

Sara

You have to google the weapon together with the game that is in the pillow case. The first link in google will take you to the right card.

The goblin badges are genius!!! I'm really excited for a reason to go to the other branches!

Can anyone provide some hints for the 4th code on Expiration Date: Chapter 8? I have no idea what famous 2-day blackout that stretched from Michigan to Maine I'm looking for, and web searching this is a needle-in-haystack situation. Help a non-native Michigander out!
-TALL963

@ ferielp

I searched for "giant blackout Michigan to Maine history" and it came right up. Good luck! :)

WOW!!!

Expiration Date IS unnecessarily difficult

I know the day of the week and date, have entered it all sorts of ways trying to follow the hint, but nothing is accepted. What's the trick?!

Hey, I'm actually getting a few badges done this year, despite having to cut back my participation a lot compared to previous summers. Hope everyone is having heaps of fun without me. ;)

aadl I have a new badge idea wwe theme badge hope you like the idea you don't have to do if you don't like it .i would like a French bulldog badge reply soon please.

@elizatsou and @Sara, I agree on Expiration Date. it came together easily for me this week, but I struggled with it last week!

The code for chapter 8 is the name of the weapon and the name of the card game -- google together and you get the name of the card.

Sara, there is no trick. If you aren't IN THE DARK about the event, you enter it as day of week spelled out, month spelled out and then day and year in numerals. The event actually took place over two days; you want the first day.

Looking forward to the new branch badges, Someone asked how anyone has time for those. I find them more fun than the online badges -- I work ~50 hours a week and find it a fun weekend thing to do.

@gardenfaerie

Thanks! I finally got it. The "trick" I was trying to do was to add the date and year together as the hint said to do.

Now I am entering the architect and school in, and getting code not accepted. Arrrrrrrr!

@Sara
I agree. I actually gave up all the expiration badges (for now anyway, it's been taking too much time) and focus on other more fun badges:)

Thx, AADL badge designers. Some of the badges are easy, some mediun-difficult and some are real head scratchers. I love the challenges involved in solving the clues!
LINE393

Hello I'm stuck in the 4th code of "Yeah, We're Goin' Down" badge, it says to search for Ned Middleton's book in the catalogue, but you don't seem to have his book...
Thanks for any hint.

I just have to share another way that the summer game teaches us and enriches our lives.

I am currently reading "Al Franken, Giant of the Senate," and in it he says, ".....there was something Jonathan Swift wrote about the Potato Famine". I only understood the reference because I had recently completed the Little Write Lies Badge. So thank you summer game makers. Because of that I felt like I was in on an inside joke.

(FYI, the Franken book is excellent so far)

Haint Misbehavin'. Code 4. I've been trying for weeks. Frank Podmore's theory's? I really need help. Thanks!
TB

@Thomas B. Brown: Try the Wikipedia entry for the type of haunt you're looking at for this badge. That one took me a while to dig up, too!

I am stuck on the last clue in Overly Tanky -- I thought someone had commented on it but I don't see it now. In any case, the exercises have to be bodybuilding and weightlifting, but that comes up with four catalog items, and none has the clue. I also entered them separately... and tried them as the code itself. Help! Thanks!

can someone be helpful and tell me what the code is for''Between the Lines''

my friend code is flip494

someone please help. are the goblin words real words or made-up nonsense words? because I went to Traverwood today and got the letters and codes, but can't unscramble them to make any real word. It just seems like random letters.

The cards have both a letter (or two) and a number on them. The blanks on the code each have a number underneath. Fill them in with the letter on the corresponding number card. Don't forget to include the letter that the code starts with and is already on the sign. For example, at Westgate it is F_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.

I really wish this was explained before I went to the library. I just wrote down all the letters and now have no clue what they spell.

The goblin codes don't spell anything. Just made up words. I was stumped for a minute because I didn't know some of the cards had TWO letters on them. Good luck!
TB

I have a pretty awesome life, but the Summer Game has seriously increased my quality of life this summer. For one thing, it motivates me to get out and about with the kids, which I should do anyway, but I'm not great at. Also, some commenters are down on the Expiration Date badges, but I love them! I especially like the clues that are closely linked to the story, like based on places and events in the city where the story happens. Good work!

Also about "Expiration Date": I wonder if Chet and his weapon are a reference to Darrien Hunt, a multiracial young man who was fatally shot in the back by Utah police in October 2014 while carrying an ornamental weapon of the same type.

@gardenfaerie

I just figured out the final code on the Overly Tanky badge! Hint: try putting a space in one of those compound words.

@Mandyghutton, thanks! That would not have occurred to me! I swear I run into the most problems in the supposedly easier badges!!

I finished the expiration date badge for this week. I'm looking forward to next week and being done with this badge series.

I haven't really earned a lot of badges yet this summer, but I'm hoping to remedy that!!

One and all, please add me as a friend -- my friend code is: SWEET646

Wow, these goblin badges are hard. I'm trying to put together a 13 letter word with 3 vowels and no hints :/
The rest has been really fun so far. Loved the little displays and the riddles!

Sending out huge kudos to the person who came up with the goblin badges. They are fantastic!
Such a creative idea and so much fun to complete!

Hey there GMs,

Would you mind unlocking these "expired" badges from 2016?
-Rudyard's Roots (under "Jungle Bookland")
-Centennial Celebration (under "Parks for the People")
-BFGG (under "Juno to Jupiter")
-The Ballad of Shakey Jake, A Brief History of Poop (under "Ann Arbor Stories")

Many thanks!

I agree. The Goblin badges are a lot of fun. I've only done one so far but I like the idea a lot. It is a pain to have to run to all the branches again though... Gotta have to find some time to do that.

I read the last chapter of Expiration Date today and I have to say, I'm not impressed with the ending. I wasn't particularly impressed with the entire thing, actually.

If you're stuck on the goblin badges, and are able to revisit the branch(es), take a closer look at the playing cards they're printed on. This tripped me up at first, as the words are made-up, but there are built-in hints!

@SBNB - I read your comment so I went and also read the last chapter of Experation Date. I guess I won't say too much so other people can read it without a an open mind, but if someone wasn't alreadyreading it for the badge, I would not recommend the story. Too bad we can't review it for 50 points....

Lol, I have not been reading Expiration Date beyond what I need to to do the badges. It's just too hip and cool for me!! :)

I'm going to do the goblin badge at Mallett's right now. Does each branch have its own code and then you make something out of the letters of all badges? I guess I will ask a friendly librarian!!

@Zekicmom

I know! I finally have a strong opinion about something and I can't review it. The summer game always gets me in the reviewing mood. In July, I found myself crafting a review for some butter or something I had just tried and then remembered that I can't review food products in the library catalog.

We've been to two branches for the new Goblin Games badges and found the puzzles pretty self-explanatory. The cards with the letters are numbered, so you just need to put them in the right order.

We especially have enjoyed the new riddle codes posted at the branches!

On my daughter's account and on my husband's account, I just now noticed a "geekly intervention" on their scorecards. I'm not complaining (so please don't delete it), but what is that?

@SBNB, I got it too. The GM told me it was a refund of points for anyone who ordered more than 3xcoffee (or perhaps other shop items) than they were able to procure this week. So when I picked up my 4xcoffee order I got 3 bags, and a refund of points in lieu of the 4th. They did it to make sure more people could sample it, which I think is perfectly reasonable!
-Tall963

I need help with the 4th clue of 'the real McCoy' badge.. What's with the FIVE HUNDRED AND SEVEN in the clue?

Just finished four of the five goblin badges (Traverwood tomorrow!) and thoroughly enjoyed them. Swiffnorts! (That is not code, but the codes are fun!) Gwestex! (That is not a code either.) If you haven't done these badges yet, I highly recommend them!

Love the goblin badges!!

{{ Anyone/everyone!!! Please feel free to add me as a friend -- my friend code is: SWEET646 }}

The Expiration Date badges have been my favorite this year: challenging but (barely) achievable. Thanks for the challenge. And a good story too!

@maywang Hiya! When people post dozens of comments in a row that aren't part of a conversation, it can look like spam, and so we delete it to keep the site clear and useful for everyone! We also delete answers and Game Codes posted in the comments to keep the game fun for every player! We love when people add their voice to our site, but comments, tags and reviews still get moderated by your friendly neighborhood Gamemakers to make sure that Summer Game zeal doesn't make the catalog or the comment section an un-fun place to be! If anyone ever has a question about this please feel free to send us a Contact Us message! Thanks for playing!

@nicole, thanks for the reply. I'm sometimes way to excited, so I post tons of comments. I'll try to say useful things and shorten the non-useful things. Do you still take away my points?

@nicole, would you post your reply it in badge drop number10? Thanks a lot!

Edit: Maybe in 11?

Wow, I can't believe I didn't think of putting the goblin cards in order! I just wrote them down and used Scrabble letters to unscramble them. I had my copy of the B.F.G out for help, I'll admit (once I unscramble the first one)

Is it just me, or do other summer gamers also feel that the badges should be worth more points? Some of the badges are really quite a bit of work with a small payoff, don't you think?

[ { friend code: SWEET646 } ]

good hunting for the goblins! I had some bad trouble at downtown on aug 21, but hope to make to other libraries before game closes

I'm still stumped on the 4th clue of The Real McCoy badge.
I left it for a few days and just came back to it, thinking I'd get it this time.
No luck - five hundred and seven??
Perhaps a hint from one of the 127 players who made it through this badge?

Finally. The fourth code on The Real McCoy.
Why do I try to make it more complicated than it is!?

The 4th clue of Haint Misbehavin' was really buried - took me a long time to get it!

I'm still stuck on the Ann Arbor stories for this week. I must have tried 40 or more variations on the second clue. The sound chimes, and he says: "Their names were brother and sister, the featured attraction of the zoo." The clue is just to "listen up."

I've been able to get through the ones that were stumping me in the past by revisiting it or trial and error, but I just can't get this one. Anyone have any hints?

The goblin riddle badges at each branch were so much fun! I think they were my favorite part of the game this year. Thanks!

The goblin badges were fun indeed.

On Sat, I got to speak with the AADL person who created them, and tell her how fun those badges are.

Thank you AADL staff for a fun summer!

HERE949

and new player BLUE993

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