The Puzzle Dazzle Game

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The Puzzle Dazzle Game

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Adoptable

Please read the entire post to maximize your chances of winning.
*ABC=1 DEF=2 GHI=3 JKL=4 MNO=5 PQR=6 STU=7 VWX=8 YZ =9 Everything else=0

Hey everyone! I'm back from holiday, with a great new game! (Because apparently I like to give away free adopts :P)
So I absolutely love Puzzles and Maths. I know, that's not too common, but still, I do. For those of you who agree with me, I am making this thread.
So, what will happen here? Obviously, as you can see, this is in the give away forum, meaning you can win Adopts here! And how else would you do that than by solving puzzles? (Disclaimer: Puzzles might include maths!)
But I want this to be an interactive challenge! Since I am only a human and can only come up with so many puzzles in the time that the (hopefully) many minds of you out there are taking to solve them, I want you to send me your own challenges: With prizes please, but without solution!
How to do this: Choose an adopt as a prize and change it's VC to the solution. Send me a message with the puzzle. Only the puzzle if you want to make the adopt ID a puzzle too, if not, send me the ID too. I will then put the puzzle here for everyone to figure out!
How to claim your prize: Go to Pokémon Center -> Add Pokémon -> Insert Virtuadopt ID and VC -> Contact me if it worked so I can set up a new puzzle!
For the first puzzle, let's make it simple. The ID of the Adopt you can win is 4277216. The VC is right before your eyes. I am 98% sure you have read it within the last few Minutes. You just need to decode it. Have fun! :)
* <- This star represents the beginning and end of a puzzle. This puzzle has already been solved. Other puzzles will be put in spoilers a few lines down below. I promise that everything after this or before the first star has nothing to do with the current puzzle. There are just a few more things I have to say to make it a little easier for you :)
The ID of an adopt is unchangeable. If someone was to make a puzzle of the ID, they would have to work backwards.
The VC of an adopt can be changed. It consists of only numbers numbers and up to 10 of them. Multiple adopts can have the same VC.
I want to ask you for a few things. First: Don't type your solutions here before you tried them yourself. Please do share them here if they were wrong, and share your thought process! I want to know which ways people think and it will sure help other people to read your wrong thoughts. Though I wouldn't call them wrong, just not fitting for the puzzle :)
Also, just like in my other game Pansage's 100 doors, I still need prize donations. As said above, if you want to enter a puzzle of your own to the contest, please include a prize. You don't have to, but it would be nice, because the current prize is one of my own adopts and I want to be able to deliver good quality prizes constantly without having to sacrifice all my special dex and/or collections. So if you got any Adopts you don't really need and that you think someone else would be happy to recieve... well, I'd be infinitely grateful for any donation! (Right now it's using the same prize pool as Pansage's 100 doors)

Last, but not least, I want to tell you that this is only a warm up. The next puzzle will be a really hard one, though rewarding on the same level. This is why the prize for solving this puzzle is so small. It isn't too hard, and I don't find it worthy for a big promo. The next one on the other hand might blow some minds, I think it will take around 4 months to be solved. But don't be scared by that, you might find it totally simple and easy to do!

PS: You may ask anyone for help. Your friends, family, cryptologic professor, it's all allowed, as long as you find the solution through the way it was supposed, meaning by solving the puzzle!

PPS: Have an idea how to make this better? Have a question? Anything? Post here!

Puzzle #2 (solved)
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ID: 2546638
*
2 + 2 = 0
20 - 20 = 2
236 - 895 = 4
5973 + 1582 = 3
14488+36244 = 9

89405 - 23968 = ?
144 + 806 = ?
8+8 = ?
89246 - 0 = ?
333 + 666 = ?
*

By Yasha

Solution
Puzzle #3 (solved)
Spoiler:
Started 11. 08. 2015
Prize: Adoptable
*There are 4 dogs, 5 cats and 2 pet rats in Colimburg.
There are 8 men and 8 women in Colimburg.
4 blonde women have cats.
6 black people have pets.
0 white people have dogs.
2 rats are owned by men.
0 white people are blonde.
6 men are white.
2 black men have pets.
How many pets are at least owned by white women?
*
And since I couldn't figure out how to turn the correct answer into a VC, you will just have to PM it to me (with the way you solved it!) and I will send you the code! Saying that, this is not how it should normally work! I am working hard on trying to make the puzzle have a valid number as their solutions, but it doesn't always work :/

Prize by Yasha (obviously)
Hint 1
Hint 2
Final Hint
Solution

Puzzle #4:
Spoiler:
Started 17. 08. 2015
*
ID: 183838?
3+1=9
14+1=74
18-2=15
2+2=?

VC:
On a scale of 1 to X, this puzzle is the most. Minus one.
You can't find all necessary steps on this page.
*
Prize by Yasha

Hint 1
Hint 2
Final Hint
Puzzle #5
Spoiler:
Started 24. 08. 2015
*
Adoptable
MDMD continue the pattern,
| | make this a ladder,
1234 just take the latter,
Y is my very favourite letter.

ABC=1 DEF=2 GHI=3 JKL=4 MNO=5 PQR=6 STU=7 VWX=8 YZ=9
1!

5%
7/
0=
*
Hint 1
Hint 2
Puzzle #6 (solved)
Spoiler:
Started 31. 08. 2015
*
Adoptable
I have a house
with five doors
five tables
six windows
seven chairs
six rugs
four clocks.
How many toys, pens, books, beds, sinks and letters do I have?
*

Hint 1
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First: Huge Thanks to you, Recent.Snowfall! I really love that you provide us with games and artwork :D

I will PM you for a puzzle I have myself and a few prize donations, but first I want to riddle a little bit ;)

OK, then here are a few solutions I tried but which didn't work:
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PUZZLE DAZZLE --> 6794221942
First I transferred the letters into numbers like the key from above says
6799420219942
Then I cut out the 0 because it can't be part of the VC. Still 12 numbers. It has to be 10 at max. Since Recent.Snowfall wrote "98%" I thought this could mean we have to cut out some more. I decided on the double-numbers.
6794221942
Didn't work, though.

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love --> 4582
Because it's the only thing written in bold letters. Didn't work either.

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427721698
ID + 98%

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984277216
98% + ID

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98
Only the %


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4277216
Maybe ID is VC?
I'm feeling dumb xD
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I tried:

love: 4582
math: 5173

45825173/51734582
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Recent.Snowfall, well I just saw your new game thread and I had to join the party.
And I got it. \(°∀°),
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Great idea for a game, thumbs up. Should I say what was the solution? :p
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Well, that was a quick one ^^ I expected someone to figure it out pretty quickly, but still, well done ^^
You can tell the others the solution if you wish, but please put it in a spoiler so people who want to find it themselves don't read it by accident. Also, make sure to change the VC before posting the solution, since if anyone else finds it out, it can be stolen from you!

I'll post the next puzzle in a few minutes!
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Here comes the spoiler, enjoy. :]
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Sometimes you need to watch the text closely.
Or you might get lost from the path you should go.
Like it or not, it's just part of the game.
Use your brain to figure it out.
Thinking is the key.
It's not so hard when you really try.
Otherwise, the game becomes too much for you.
Now you get it?
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Haha, nice one ^^ Next puzzle is up, puzzle and prize are by Yasha!
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Good work ;D I needed more time the first time I tried it :)
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Kacpix777, hahah, you welcome! :)
Yasha, Nice done. :) good thinking :D
Recent.Snowfall, great idea, waiting for some more puzzels now :) maybe I get lucky this time ;)
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Uhm, with the VC thingy you tell us to change, because others could "steal" it: doesn't it change by itself if you trade or claim it?^^'
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Akemie, yes, I change it ^^
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Akemie, Yeah, I tested that yesterday, it does ^^ So you don't have to change it, it does it by itself.

Thank you all for the massive support on only the first day! Puzzle #3 is up now, have fun solving it!
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Hmmm... :p
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Im telling you, this thread starts to be one of my favorites in forum games.
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Definitely easy and tricky :P

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Arise, messages of errors! I made a small mistake in that I put rats and mice into the equasion, whilst obviously, they are supposed to be the same. I fixed it, but you probably didn't even notice yet :P
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Recent.Snowfall, but, apart from that, everything's right? Hmmm. I need to think about another way to solve this one. :geek:
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more than 4 days and no right solution yet! So let me give you a hint:

There are 7 dogs, 5 cats and 4 pet rats in Colimburg.
There are 9 men and 8 women in Colimburg.
3 blonde women have cats.
6 black people have pets.
0 white people have dogs.
4 rats are owned by men.
0 white people are blonde.
6 men are white.
2 black men have pets.
How many pets are at least owned by white women?

This puzzle has the exact same solution.

And, just fyi, it might help if you post your thoughts here. Honestly! ...if it doesn't help you, it might at least help someone else :P

Last of this post, I announce a change of concept. Every Monday there will be a new puzzle! The old one doesn't have to be solved for the new one to appear, but the old one can still be solved to get the prize! (That means there might be multiple puzzles at the same time) Also, 4 days, 7 days and 14 days after the appearance of a puzzle there will be a clue to how to solve it :)

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Recent.Snowfall wrote: Puzzle #4:
Started 17. 08. 2015
*
ID: 183838?
3+1=9
14+1=74
18-2=15
2+2=?

VC:
On a scale of 1 to X, this puzzle is the most. Minus one.
You can't find all necessary steps on this page.
That's another tricky one. =D
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I might have forgotten to post the second hint for puzzle #3 yesterday, so here you go:
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The answer is in the question.
And thanks to Alive for posting the new puzzle here for everyone's attention ^^

I am missing a little bit of activity here though, tell me, are the puzzles just so hard that you have absolutely no clue what to do? (Or are you just afraid of giving the other players tips? :P)
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Recent.Snowfall, huh, no need to thank me. ^ ^
Well, I can solve puzzle #3 only by logic (as I said by pm'ing you before), so I guess I can't find more solutions. :p

As for puzzle #4, I tried many VCs, but none seems to work. Maybe it's claimed already. :p
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