Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Klueless 9 Answers, Clues and Spoilers.


The Kall of the Klueless



It’s that time of the year again when thousands of people world over are gearing up for an arduous, but supremely satisfying, adventure through a convoluted maze of riddles that not only puzzle but delight, and constantly keep them on their toes and asking for more. Klueless, as this fiendish adventure is called, is an online treasure hunt that is a part of Ahvan, IIM Indore’s annual management festival. It has garnered a cult following in its eight years of existence, and the 9th version promises to redefine online riddling and raise the bar a notch higher. The previous version of the game, Klueless 8, registered 1 million hits from 110 countries, with over 20000 unique players, and its live blog generated 5 comments per minute- testimony to its huge popularity among online puzzlers.


"Caution: The game is so addictive that you may not be able to work, sleep, and eat over the next few days which may lead to something disastrous like you being fired from your job or something pleasing like, sudden reduction in body weight owing to lack of sleep and food.!! So, are you ready to challenge your mind, body and soul?" (Some of the text are copied from other blogs. Hope they don't mind)

Here's the link: http://klueless.in/klueless/klueless9/default.asp

And here you can see the people who sweated their way into the Hall of Fame: 
http://klueless.in/klueless/klueless9/k9eg.asp

Most levels will require some amount of lateral thinking combined with some help from our good ol' friend Google. Images can also be reverse-searched using Google/Tineye. 

Usually, the clues for each level can be found in Page Title, URL, Images and their names, Page source, 



Klueless 9 Level 1: Jus click. Even my grandmother could do it. 

Klueless 9 Level 2: As there's no answer bar, you've to change the last part of the url. Change it to what's shown in the pic. Not its name. 

Klueless 9 Level 3: Select your route. This may be the easiest level in any Klueless. 

Klueless 9 Level 3a: See the source.. The Fs has been replaced with N. Now you can think of a word from the word which is often associated with the word republic. It will direct you to a country and what happened there in 2010. Search the specific term in Wooplr. you can easily identify the answer. 

Klueless 9 Level 3b: Install the Wooplr app in your smartphone. Search something specific from the level in that. You'll reach a page about a game. The missing level of which is the answer. 

Klueless 9 Level 3c: Facepalm.. As it says.. It's not so easy dude. Go back to the hard ways. 

Klueless 9 Level 4: Lupin and Howl is your biggest clue. Five of them are there in the pic. Find the sixth one. Hope you GoT it. :)

Klueless 9 Level 5: Nine Versions so far. Each pic will give you a version. Now find the missing version. Not it's technic but its sweetness. :)

Klueless 9 Level 6: Find out whose weapons are those. Find out the owner or the master. Or in other words whose's mutant is he. TMNT.

Klueless 9 Level 7: Find what the Pictures are. Search them in pairs. How to pair them, that's up to you. Then there's a theme connecting them. If you do  gaming addict you'll find it quickly. 

Klueless 9 Level 8: Find the characters using Bulbapedia. Find its properties. As the source says you've to find another series. This time with numbers in it. Name the next one and you're through. 

Klueless 9 Level 9: Yet another Game of Thrones Level. They seems too fond of it this year. It's a simple cipher. Solve the equation. Get five words. One from each equation. Google it. Find out who said those words. First names only. No idea whatsover what Credit Rating AAA means. Perhaps USA. 

Klueless 9 Level 10: I love any levels of Klueless based on this theme. This's such a cool level. Here you need to find a file. After you get it, make the picture move. It'll give you the ingredients. If you're a fan of this, then it's a cakewalk. Otherwise google is your only friend. P.S: What are you brewing? Put it as password (without spaces). 

Klueless 9 Level 11: The pictures points to evolution. Find the first thing that happened. The image name tells you what to look for. The TV show depicting the character helps to get you close. Answer the source question and move forward. 

Klueless 9 Level 12: Each picture in the image corresponds to a letter in CAMIFS. Find the 7th letter and you're through.

Klueless 9 Level 13: It's a bit tricky. Find the dates of two events in the image. Now refer image name and find another date. Now find what source code asks you to find. Now don't get FLOORed!

Klueless 9 Level 14: Here find the country corresponds to Surat. Think about the codes in telecommunication. You'll get a movie about some characters escapes from a ___ The ZooZoo is only half you knw. :) Find the year in which it was incepted. Find what happened in India then. One word answer. 

Klueless 9 Level 15: If you're a fan of this, you'll crack this in seconds. For laymen, those are the statistics in a season. You can guess the game from the background and the points system. The numbers in the source corresponds number of 3s and 1s in the image. to Or else you could leave all that and search for the professor in the game. :)

Klueless 9 Level 16: You know the game. Find what was there before the game. Select your path. Three animals gives three different routes. Answers are from Season 1, 2 and 3 respectively.

Klueless 9 Level 16a: Simple. Just find the image name. Who's she? For that you need to connect four different pics. Last two images combined and the first image will give you one big clue. Now relate that with the main level. For an answer find what's associated with her in season 1. 

Klueless 9 Level 16b:  This's really easy. Find a person from the images, source clues, image name etc etc. Googling always helps. For an answer, find what's related to him in season 2. 

Klueless 9 Level 16c: This really's the toughest one in this level. If you don't know how to connect, then you could be searching the needle in a haystack. Easiest way is to find the actor and the charactors he played. One of the charactors will help you get to the answer. For he's a social reformer and have a national historic site on the banks of that river. He helps you to pick the answer from season 3. 

Klueless 9 Level 17: Forget the clues. Look at your key board and follow your finger while typing those random letters. Find the pair for an answer. 

Klueless 9 Level 18: The image and source combined gives you "the original five families." Now find the original families. Their combined initials in alphabetical order is the answer.

Klueless 9 Level 19: 




"A good objective of a fellow Kluemonger is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better."

The Klueless team maintains a good blog in which there are lots of klues. Find out them here: 
http://kluelessnine.wordpress.com


If you still feel you need more clues, you could comment below or write to me at dinnubasker@gmail.com

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Credit Rating AAA---> a lanister always pays his debt