Challenge 1

Twilight Syndrome Murder Case 2: Multiplayer Boogaloo



Today we're going to take a leaf out of the book of everyone's favorite detective-based board game. That's right, it's... Android?

Your tribe controls characters in a multiplayer Phoenix-Wright-type video game. Your objective is to prove your hunches correct, and disprove the hunches of the other tribes. However, there is no evidence in this case -- it's the perfect crime! Still, you just know your hunches are correct, so all you can do is play dirty to get the real killer behind bars.

The suspects are as follows.

Mahiru Koizumi
Sato
Fuyuhiko Kuzuryu
Natsumi Kuzuryu
Shmiyoko Shmionji
Ibluki Blioda

Several names have been changed to protect the innocent.

You will "know" one of these characters to be guilty, and one to be innocent. No two tribes have the same guilty or innocent hunch.

Each tribe will field two players at a time in this challenge. You can tag in and out at any time, though. Any posts by a third player on the same tribe will be ignored (until they are tagged in).

Each tribe has a pool of 20 tokens: four 1-point tokens, three 2-point tokens, two 3-point tokens, one 4-point token, three -1 tokens, two -2 tokens, one -3 token, two alibi tokens, two perjury tokens. Each is randomly assigned a letter (A-T) so that your tribe knows which token is which, but other tribes don't know exactly what you're doing. If this is confusing, check your tribe forum in a couple minutes. Points represent guiltiness of a suspect.

At the end, your tribe gains points equal to the number of points on your guilty hunch and loses points equal to the number of points on your innocent hunch. The tribes with the fewest points lose. In case of a tie, guilty hunches are worth more. If there is still a tie, the tied tribe(s) who most recently placed a token lose.

Should your tribe run out of tokens before time is up, you get a new token pool identical to the first. Yes, this means the letter assignments are the same as well, so feel free to factor that into your strategy.

Point tokens assign that many points to the suspect.
Alibi tokens are worth -5.
Perjury tokens change one alibi token on the suspect into a +5 instead of a -5. If there are not enough alibi tokens present on this suspect to do this, the perjury token acts as a -5 instead, so be careful!

There are several actions you can take by posting accordingly.

Point-scoring actions: (Using these actions in the right order is the only way to score points. You can also use them for obfuscating purposes, or even score points for another tribe.)
Take evidence: Choose a token from your tribe's token pool. You must wait two minutes before taking another action. Once you have taken evidence, your other tribe members cannot take the same token.
Plant evidence on {suspect}: Place your token on any suspect of your choosing. Your suspect choice is known to everyone. You must wait three minutes before taking another action.

Lockdown actions: (These actions are used to stop other players from doing anything, or stop enemies from locking down your teammates.)
Restrain {player}: Stops target, as well as yourself, from taking actions. You may only use this on a player who is not holding any evidence as well as not restraining anybody else mostly because that would turn out really silly. This action lasts until you release the player or another player frees them. You cannot take other actions while restraining a player or while being restrained. You must wait at least three minutes before using another action. (And, unless your target has been freed, the only action you can take is release.)
Release {player}: Stop holding another player. This allows you to use other actions. You must wait at least five minutes before taking another restrain action, but otherwise can act after one minute. You may release players who are not on your tribe.
Free {restrained player}: Undo restraint on another player. You cannot use this on yourself. You must wait three minutes before taking another action.

Defensive action: (This action directly stops another tribe from scoring points or taking your points away.)
Interfere with {player who is holding evidence}: Stop your target. This discards their evidence token (permanently -- it cannot be selected by that tribe again unless they use all their tokens first) and forces them to start over. You can only interfere with a player who has taken evidence but has not yet planted it. You must wait five minutes before taking another action.

Take an action by declaring you are taking it in bold. Use these exact phrases with the names substituted out for the appropriate ones:
{Monokuma} takes evidence token {Z}.
{Monokuma} plants evidence on {Mikan Tsumiki}.
{Monokuma} restrains {Monomi}.
{Monokuma} releases {Monomi}.
{Monokuma} frees {Junko Enoshima}.
{Monokuma} interferes with {Makoto Naegi}.

And, as previously mentioned, you can also Tag out for {tribe member} and have another tribe member take your place. Once you tag in, you must play for half an hour before you can tag out again (to prevent abuse). Just be sure to remember that if someone tags out while restrained, they are still restrained, and any restrictions on their next chance to use an action are still in place. Once the challenge starts, tribe members who are currently tagged out may not discuss the challenge other than the possibility of them tagging in, but until it starts you may all strategize together.

Brackets are optional. Player last names are optional. Punctuation is optional. Exactly correct spelling is required, so feel free to try to trip up your opponents with intentional misspellings. Use of font color changes and text alignment changes is allowed. Font size changes are not allowed, nor are spoiler tags or anything I didn't just explicitly allow. You can't have more than one thing that looks like an action in a single post (no misspelling the same action 20 different ways...).

Any action that is invalid for any reason -- misspelling, too soon relative to the period that player needed to wait, the user doesn't realize they are restrained, they choose a token that is not in their pool, etc. -- is treated as though it were not posted at all.

The mods will answer questions when possible, but will not be keeping track of what actions have succeeded or failed and will not let you know what tokens you have left or how many are on each suspect -- that's your job, and paying attention to detail is part of this challenge! We will only tally everything up at the end. So make sure you format your actions properly and keep track of what's going on! If, for instance, you try to reuse your tokens when you still have one token in your token pool, you'll just be wasting your time, since it doesn't refresh until you use them all.

We promise the complexity level of this challenge is not going to be typical.

The challenge starts at X:00 PM on Day and will last two hours. (The challenge takes place in this thread.) Then, the two tribes with the least points (tribes' final scores will be determined by summing all the tokens on both of their suspects, with all values on the innocent suspect counting negatively) will head to their first Class Trials. Please be patient with us after the challenge ends, as we expect it could take an hour or more to tally.

If you wanna be a member of this outfit, this evil organization that rules the world, you gotta show that you're willing to do what it takes -- anything, no questions asked.


When you're ready to begin this challenge, use this Google form to start your time. You'll be given some instructions and a bunch of tasks to perform. That's all you get to know right now! The D.I.C.E. initiation process is shrouded in secrecy, you understand, but you've gotta be ready for anything. None of that "studying" crap you hear so much about. You may want to have some image editing software handy.

The tribe with the fastest average time and the individuals on each losing tribe with the best times win immunity. That means two tribes will lose.

24 hours to start your time. No discussing the challenge until results go up -- what did I *just* say about secrecy?

Rise and shine, ursine! It's time for a test of wits like no other. One that might have you jumping for joy...right off the roof of Hope's Peak Academy!

There will be no trial today. Instead, the student who performs the worst on this challenge will be eliminated. Doesn't that thought just fill you with despair? In order to stay in this game, you must sacrifice a classmate by performing better than them. In a way, that makes you all murderers! 

We also have some motives for completing this challenge... an unknown number of prizes for the top scorers. Just a little extra incentive to trip your friends while you're all running from the wolves... because of this, the results will not be posted in full -- to protect the identities of the reward winner(s). The rewards are all different, and higher placers will get more reward options, but won't know exactly what they're choosing until they choose it.

Here is how this challenge works:

Junko has a special surprise for you! You get to further the aims of Ultimate Despair! Congratulations. All you have to do is watch this video and...wait! This isn't right. The video is all scrambled, and what's worse, it's mixed with a terrible video about hope.

Your job is to separate the two and put them both in the right order by giving the letters that appear on each clip. The letters are all in the same place, but may appear to move around or shrink or change color if the brainwashing is working as intended. [This is a joke, they're not in the same place and will change color. Some letters may be cut off a bit, but you can still tell what they are.]

When you're ready, you will use this Google form to get links to the two source videos and the challenge video. Post your answer in your confessional to stop your time, in bold. Don't forget, you need to unscramble both videos separately! Make sure it's clear how you separated the two.

Number of correct responses is the first criterion, followed by time. The worst performer will be executed.

Important note: completing the challenge does unscramble the brainwash video and may doom mankind. But what's a little despair among friends? Puhuhuhuhu!

Good luck...

We're going to be playing a game you may know as Sushi Go. If you spend your time playing card games like some kind of nerd, anyway.

We will run 4 games of 4-player Sushi Go. {X} is sitting out for {A}, {Y} for {B} and {Z} for {C}.

Here's how it works. Each player begins with a hand of 7 cards. For your turn, all you need to do is select one card. You put this card in front of you and pass the other cards to the next player. You then receive a hand of 6 cards, and so on. It's pretty simple! Your goal is to assemble a collection of cards that will score you the most points! Each game will play three rounds.

Here are the cards.

Maki Roll (1, 2, 3): At the end of the round, 6 points go to the player with the most Maki Rolls and 3 to the player with the second most. Each Maki Roll card has 1, 2 or 3 rolls Makis on it.
Sashimi: Collect 3 Sashimi for 10 points. If you don't get to 3, they aren't worth anything!
Tempura: Collect 2 Tempura for 5 points. One alone is worth nothing.
Wasabi: The next Nigiri card you draft is worth triple its value. Does nothing on its own.
Nigiri (1, 2, 3): Worth the number of points it says on the card -- 1, 2 or 3.
Dumpling: Each time you draft a Dumpling, you get 1 more point from it than the last Dumpling you drafted. So 1 is worth 1, 2 are worth 3 total, 3 are worth 6 total (1+2+3), etc.
Chopsticks: When you draft a card, if you have Chopsticks on the table already, you may use it to draft a second card as well. If you do, Chopsticks is added to the hand you pass along.
Pudding: Does not go away at the end of each round. At the end of the game, the player with the most pudding gets 6 points and the player with the least loses 6 points.

The contents of the deck are as follows: [contents of deck]
3 Puddings are added to the deck between each round, while any Puddings you gather are not shuffled back in.

At the end of 3 rounds, the scores are tallied. Placements within your game are not important, your score will just contribute to your tribe's score. So make sure to score as many points as you can! However, if a tie could be broken by summing placements within each game, we will use that metric to do so.

All 4 games have the same decks and starting hands, and each tribe will have each starting position in one game. This ensures that everyone has a fair shot! It also means that players whose games have started may no longer discuss strategy.

We would like to run this semi-live if possible. Based on the availability you filled out, we have assembled groups that we hope will be able to find a time to play together. We anticipate this taking up to 2 hours.

Ultimate Cube Folder

What the heck's a cube folder? Why is that an ultimate talent? Don't tell me this is one of those stupid challenges where the mods got lazy and just pasted images from the theme onto something...

For this challenge, you will look at cubes with different designs on each face. You will be given a list of possible answers. When folded, only one should match up correctly to form the cube.

You will get several of these:



And you will need to select which unfolded cube is the one that corresponds to that cube.

The player who finishes this task with the most correct answers in the fastest time will win immunity. To start, go to this google form, enter your name, and begin.

You have 24 hours to complete this challenge.

Warriors of Boom

This game requires you to answer trivia questions. You are not allowed to use google or any other outside resource. You must answer these based on your knowledge. You may not discuss the questions. You may not do anything to answer these questions apart from using your own knowledge.

Each tribe will be given several categories. You must decide between yourselves which categories to give each player. Once each player has their categories, they will be given the questions for that category.

Each question will have several answers, which are represented as wires attached to the bomb. Your goal is to defuse the bomb by selecting the correct answers to the questions. You must list the answers you wish to select for each question, which will be the wires you cut. For each correct answer to the question you provide, you will earn n points, where n is the number of correct answers. Thus, if you provide two correct answers, you will receive 1 point for the first answer, and 2 points for the second answer, for a total of 3 points. The more correct answers you provide, the better your score. However, if you select even one wrong answer for a question, the bomb goes off, and you will receive 0 points for that question.

When all players have answered their questions, the total points will be added together for the tribe. The tribe with the best score will win, while the other will face a Class Trial.

The category options are as follows:
Li'l Ultimate Social Studies (History & Culture)
Li'l Ultimate Drama
Li'l Ultimate Art (& Music)
Li'l Ultimate P.E. (Sports & Health)
Li'l Ultimate Homeroom (Grab Bag)
Li'l Ultimate English (Literature & Grammar)
Li'l Ultimate Science (Physics, Chemistry, & Biology)


You have 36 hours to assign your categories and answer the questions.

You will fill in a blank grid which you'll fill in using clues we give you. What you'll need to do is place pairs of colored endpoints on the grid using these clues. Each pair of matching endpoints are the same color. You will need to fill in every single square in the grid to solve the puzzle, connecting each endpoint with an unbroken line of the same color. An example of a correctly solved puzzle is below.



So basically, in order to set up this puzzle, you need to answer questions about the game. The answer will be binary and will tell you what color endpoint to place and where.

Example of a clue you might have: "If Monokuma is the best mod and greatest being in existence, put a red endpoint on square A1. If not, put a pink endpoint on square B2." In that scenario, the first statement is false, since Monomi is obviously the best mod, so you would need to put a pink endpoint on square B2.

Once all the endpoints are placed, solve the puzzle.

The winner is determined as follows: Most endpoints in the correct places > fewest mistakes in endpoint colors > puzzle solved correctly? (just yes or no) > time.

Here's your blank grid:

If you prefer, you can use a different 12x6 grid. The letters and numbers on the rows and columns will be used to denote locations on the board.

When you're ready, use this form to get your prompts.

Are You an Esper?



This challenge requires you to answer a series of 20 questions. However, you shouldn't necessarily answer honestly -- instead, we want you to try to read the minds of the other players. Then we'll know for sure that the winner is an esper.

In essence, we are playing a modified version of What Were You Thinking. You will answer all of the questions at once, and they will then be processed in order, starting with Question 1. Your goal is to avoid having the least popular answer(s). You score points for each answer you give equal to the number of players who gave that answer, so long as that number is at least 2. Lone answers score no points.

Instead of the usual "drop a level" system, you will simply be eliminated from contention if your score for a round is worse than any other player's. Your remaining answers will still be used to score the remaining rounds. Ideally, one player will drop out each round, so we should only need about 9 rounds, but if there is a tie for the worst performance in a round among still-surviving players, no one will be eliminated.

Should more than one player survive all 20 questions, we will use total score as a tiebreaker.

You may not discuss the challenge in any way with your fellow competitors until the results are posted. The use of outside sources for this challenge are strictly forbidden.

Here are the prompts:

1. Name five colors.
2. What are the four most culturally significant cities in the world?
3. Which three challenges in this game have been the best ones?
4. Name four marine animals.
5. Name five elements of the periodic table.
6. Which two players in this game are or were the most entertaining?
7. Who are the three greatest writers in history?
8. What are the three most important films of this decade?
9. Name three famous serial killers.
10. Are you an esper? (Answer options: yes, no, or maybe.)
11. Name three gay icons. (Here is a definition.)
12. What are the three worst games ever created?
13. Which three Danganronpa characters are the best? You may use outside sources for this question only.
14. Name three cat species.
15. Who are the three greatest artists in history?
16. What are the two most-watched TV shows of all time?
17. What three non-essential [i.e. food, water, shelter, clothing] items would you least want to part with? Animals are not items, thank you very much.
18. Monokuma or Monomi?
19. If I told you there was a bird outside my window, what three birds would you most expect it to be?
20. What are the three most common plants in the world?

You have 24 hours to answer in your confessional.

Gonta gentleman! Gonta introduce friends to bugs at bug meet and greet networking event! Then everyone friends with bugs like Gonta is!

It's time to test your bug identification skills! When you are ready, you will be given a link to a google form with several images of bugs. You can use google to help you figure out what the bugs are. You may not perform any reverse image searches or use any other method of outside assistance, but it shouldn't help anyway. Put your answers in the form and submit it to stop your time. For some questions, denoted by a "B" next to the question number, a bonus point is available for an extra-specific answer. For these questions, a correct but non-detailed answer is worth one point, while a more specific answer is worth two. For instance, with this image as a prompt, "chameleon" would be worth one point, while "Jackson's chameleon" would be worth two. We're generally looking for a specific adjective with these: what kind of ant, or worm, or whatever? The most points in the fastest time wins.

You may find that we have taken some... interesting measures to prevent reverse image searches from helping. Please ignore these measures, they are obviously not part of the bug.

The winner will be crowned the best gentleman and best friend to bugs and will be rewarded with a bug infestation in their dorm! I suppose they also win immunity.

You have 24 hours to get this challenge started.

goo.gl/forms/TGHkOubNZy6qdSnD3

answers:
1) thread-waisted wasp
2) firefly
3) water strider
4) dipluran
5) rhinoceros beetle
6) fruit fly
7) weevil
8) painted lady butterfly
9) stink bug
10) honey bee

I have a beary special maze for you to complete! Puhuhuhu~

Your goal is to navigate Chiaki through the dangerous maze. To do so, you will give directions to her. Starting at the spot labeled entrance, you will guide her. However, there are colored gates that are impassable until you've touched a square with a corresponding power-up.

When you touch such a square, you can then walk to a gate of that color to lower it. You then lose the power, and must touch a power-up square again to lower another gate of that color. Once a gate is lowered, it is gone forever. The power-up spots are permanently in play, so you can use the same one as many times as you like.

To win immunity, you must post a valid list of instructions. The possible instructions are "north," "south," "east," and "west." Shorthand instructions such as "north 3 times" are fine but that would count as 3 instructions. There is no need to indicate when you are gaining a power-up or lowering a gate.



Here is a pair of regular rooms with regular gates. You can only travel by going through gates -- so, for example, you couldn't travel north in either room because that's a wall, not a gate.


This is what a locked gate looks like. You initially cannot pass through this gate from left to right (i.e. in the direction the arrow points) unless you have the red power-up. Once you lower this gate once, it stays lowered forever.

Whoever completes the maze in the fewest moves wins. If there is a tie, we will use time. If no one provides a valid solution, whoever made it the farthest without screwing up will win, with ties again broken by submission time. 

When you are ready to start your time, you will be given the password to the Class Trial forum. There, you will find a story about a murder that has taken place. The story will contain several "truth bullets" that have information relating to the crime.

After the story, the characters will participate in a debate. In each round, you must find the contradiction or the important point in their statements based on information gained during this challenge and use the right truth bullet to push things forward. This may mean contradicting a lie or illogical statement, or supporting a statement that is accurate. If you think you have found it, you can try to prove it to advance the story. Some statements will have a part that is in between square brackets '[' ']' which are locationswhere a truth bullet may contradict what is said. Some things will be in curly braces '{' '}' and a truth bullet you have may corroborate what is said. [] means you disagree, {} means you agree. Either could be the correct answer to the nonstop debate.

The password will be the phrase in brackets you wish to prove or disprove, an underscore, then an underlined bunch of letters on the truth bullet. It will look like this: "thestatement_bullet" all lower case. Everything will be lowercase. Names, bullets, statements all lowercase.

Behind the password protection will be more to the story and more statements to refute. When you figure out the next password, you will input it the same way.

Eventually, behind one of the forums, you will find a puzzle called "closing argument." You will find a quiz on the events. You will need to put this into your confessional, and fill in the blanks. When you think you have all the answers correct, post that you are done in bold to stop your time.

If you get stuck and cannot get past a certain point, take a screenshot of the forum you are stuck on and post that you are done in order to stop your time.

The winner of this immunity will be the one who gets the most questions correct on the final quiz in the closing arguments section. In case of a tie, the winner will be the one who finished the fastest. If no one made it to the end, the winner will be the one who got the farthest the fastest.

Please fill out this google form when ready. It will give you a password to the forum to start your time. You have 24 hours to find a time to do this, but this challenge may take a while, so if you need more time, let us know.

Luckiest Student!

This one should be easy enough for even you guys to handle! One of these sacks contains something lucky, and whoever picks it isn't a total loser! Cool? Cool.

Just, like, post telling us which bag you want, ok? We got bored.