Today is starting may, traditional time of crypto love ;) From today you can find each day new riddle. All of the riddles will be from the Crypto or Conspiracy category. There is enough riddles to cover whole month.
You will not receive the new information email each day (also called spam). If you want to be informed about the new riddle release use other information channels like RSS, Facebook or Twitter. Meanwhile I will work on some (secret) technical improvements in BQ to move whole project to the next stage.
04.04.13 16:53
Whole new category Orbis Enigmata under Associations with 14 new riddles are already translated. Give it a try, you will like it. Thanx ZaseJa for translation.
01.04.13 14:18
New Easter riddle pack is ready. Pack with 32 fresh new riddles mostly from category crypto and conspiracy. Some of them are not translated yet but will be soon.
14.02.13 10:00
Valentines riddle pack is here. You can find 13 new riddles. All of them are from you. This time you can find riddles from zavinacmia, ramiroja, piol29, lubkoko, pmasarik and zuzkar. There are 9x Crypto, 3x Mix and one Orbis pictus. Also all conpiracies I have moved to Crypto instead of Logic category.
26.12.12 10:00
New xmas riddles pack is here. Unfortunately most of them are not still translated but this will be fixed soon. If you are fun of crypto, you can find there already translated two riddles. Actually there are 15 new ridlles most of them in logic category.
19.12.12 14:05
Christmas is comming and some of you can remember that I'm giving the golden xmas jokers. Now it should be the sixth Xmas with this tradition and I'm not going to change it. Users loves this and some of them are counting on this during the whole year. Rules are following:
Each of you can receive gold xmas joker.
Condition is to send an email to xmas@brainquest.sk on 24.12 between 0:00 a 23:59 (central european time). Emails received earlier or later will not have right to receive the xmas joker. If you are not sure what is the CET time, chek on the web or see the actual time:
Gold joker will be sent to one person for only one riddle. Which riddle, is your choice.
This hint will contain extra information to help you solve your choosen riddle.
Using this joker will be also visible in your statistics.
Another condition is that it is required to have filled all personal information which you can find on your profile, including the picture (avatar).
Important is to send this email from the same email as it is registered to you on BQ.
In email you have to write the name of the riddle to which you want to receive extra xmas joker and also what you have tried to solve this riddle (everything). Reason for this is, because you will receive extra hint special only for you.
You has to be stucked on this riddle at least for 30 days
Also it is neccessary to have solved at least 30% of all riddles
31.10.12 00:00
Second offical halloween party has been opened on BrainQuest. Beside this we are also celebrating the five years of existence which is good opportunity to celebrate this with some new riddles. You will be able to try to beat 24 new riddles. Some of them are not yet translated to english so check it regulary. You can find all of those riddles in six different categories as logic, crypto, stegano, mix and zebra.
Most of the riddles was designed by brainquest users. To celebrate the five years of existence there is prepared four computer games you can win. Specialy for the halloween mood you can win the Plants vs Zombies which can be defined as instant fun. Overlord complete pack includes 3 games. Magical satyric action adventure Magicka. And at last there is the game Trine. The rules how to win will be announced on the web.
I wish you a scary halloween party full of monsters,Monster d'Artagnan
30.06.12 11:00
New adventure Annus Mirabilis was just released. Finnaly after long waiting you can enjou this amazing adventure. You will follow the footprints of Albert Einsten to discover his lost invention. It is your task to find if really he created time machine or not. This mission is highly critical and dangerous which is the reason why you as expert of BQBI are assigned to this task. To create this adventure tooks almost two years, and even it contain at least 14 levels, I believe that you will enjoy it for some time.
First user who will solve this adventure and finish successfuly the lvel with number 13 will win prize. More details will be published later. Translation to english of whole adventure was made by proffesional agency and this time I believe that all of you (including native speakers) will have same conditions. Still if you will find any bug in adventure itself or translation do not hesitate to contact me. I will be glad to fix it as soon as posible. Wish you a good luck.
12.03.12 14:15
A lot of small changes was just deployed. Some of them may affect the system. If you will find anything unusual or something broked please send me an email or just leave the message. One of the changes is using OpenID for logging into the system. If you are using google account, from now you can log into BQ with one click.
31.12.11 12:01
Winner of the second xmas contest with price of Machinarium game is known. The winner is Zaklinacc. This riddle was able to solve 25 users. The best time was 12 seconds and 114 clicks.
26.12.11 13:21
We know the winner of the xmas contest. The winner is pmasarik who solved the riddle Xmas Seve as first. Congratulation.
25.12.11 17:31
Christmas riddle pack is here. This year, you can find up to 20 new puzzles in five categories. Two pretty mixed puzzles, four cryptos, four logic puzzles with two conspiracy, one barcoded stegano, and 10 levels of Christmas tuned memory game called pexeso with interesting rules in the adventure category.
Besides the all those puzzles you can also win a PC games. This time, it can be two winners.
Try to solve the riddle XMAS Seven as first and you will win the package of three games Trine, Shadowgrounds and Shadowgrounds: Survivor). Another game to win is a great adventure called Machinarium. This game will get the user who will have the best score in the game Speedy Kasparov to date 31.12.2011 at 12:00.
19.12.11 21:03
Christmas is comming and some of you can remember that I'm giving the golden xmas jokers. Now it should be the fifth Xmas with this tradition and I'm not going to change it. Users loves this and some of them are counting on this during the whole year. Rules are following:
Each of you can receive gold xmas joker.
Condition is to send an email to xmas@brainquest.sk on 24.12 between 0:00 a 23:59 (central european time). Emails received earlier or later will not have right to receive the xmas joker. If you are not sure what is the CET time, chek on the web or see the actual time:
Golded joker will be sent to one person for only one riddle. Which riddle, is your choice.
This hint will contain extra information to help you solve your choosen riddle.
Using this joker will be also visible in your statistics.
Another condition is that it is required to have filled all personal information which you can find on your profile, including the picture (avatar).
Important is to send this email from the same email as it is registered to you on BQ.
In email you have to write the name of the riddle to which you want to receive extra xmas joker and also what you have tried to solve this riddle (everything). Reason for this is, because you will receive extra hint special only for you.
You has to be stucked on this riddle at least for 30 days
Also it is neccessary to have solved at least 30% of all riddles
26.11.11 11:34
Do you like irish beer Guiness ? If yes, then maybe you will like also the new crypto riddle with the same name. Riddle was created by user Centurion.
16.11.11 10:35
Monster 2 is translated and ready. Against monsters, this time you can find a man with a hammer and believe me you would not want to be in the skin of those monsters now. Riddle is invented and translated by Centurion.
07.11.11 12:31
We know the winner of the halloween contest. It is vikinka1202 and will get the full game Trine. This riddle has actualy solved 50 users and riddle was solved 232x. Winning time was 219 seconds and 106 clicks.
31.10.11 00:01
First halloween party on BrainQuest. If you are not scared you have to be there. You can meet there a lot of monsters and bloods (ofcourse made only from quality ketchup). What you can expect on the party ? Eleven brand new riddles from four categories. You will meet addams family and together with them you will have an excursion on one beautiful euro farm. With Zoro you will fight against vary bad angry pirate slug. On the halloween party suprisingly will come also Alexander fourth, and a lot more.
This time there will be competition. One of you will have a chance to win epic adventure game Trine, full of skeletons (not suprise). Rules are little bit confidential. Even that all of the users will have same chance to win, not only users from the first places.
If you will feel that riddles are hard as a hell, you are right. You can thank to those monsters: kozzy, defence, vetinari1, lubiq78 a pmasarik. Besides new ridlles was released a couple of small changes. One of this changes are rules for authors of the riddles. Author canot solve the riddle as first. He can solve the riddle not earlier then 24h after first solver. Last thing, in the download section you can find two new wallpapers.
16.10.11 14:00
Aquarius is here and is bringing to us three new logic puzzles in category "play with numbers". If you are tired use the calculator. If you are good in math then you can use pen and paper, but if you feel you are in a good condition it is your duty to beat this puzzles only with your own brain ;)
Idea and graphics made by user divid.
01.09.11 10:02
Today officially started new school year. After the holidays it is necessary to re-engage our brains. To start the engine, returning to school or work there are ready for you 13 new puzzles in six different categories.
What we can expect? Two associations of pleasant dreams and kisses. Perhaps the dream of kissing. Then six images in orbis pictus, with an entirely new category "Raster". I wonder how you will like it. Between crypto riddles there will come continue of Alexander and also Anemones (if you were in the summer by the sea, you may have seen them somewhere). One obviously weird riddle in the mix category, and after a long time a new Spartan stegano. Let's try again to collect your missing diamonds and move up in the ranking table.
15.07.11 20:15
During this Sunday and Monday you can expect temporary unavailability of the page because of the upgrade of web server. Also, I announce that today was refreshed and actualized all statistics and charts.
24.06.11 19:03
Three new riddles where uncle Sokoban will be lost in Crab Nebula and mr Xanthus will remind us that we are still in the Matrix. Hard riddles for skilled users, that means you ! Enjoy.
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