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[SDavid]

2 hours ago, caru said:

the shape of our supposed clue only fits these two panels out of all of them, which makes me think the solution involves these bushes

it doesn't really fit tho. the right side is twice as wide almost

48 minutes ago, LavenderLillie said:

For some reason, I've been stuck on a black screen for the past few weeks whenever I go to the ARG page. I've tried refreshing the page, loading it on different browsers--- nothing is working. Is anyone else having this issue or know how to fix it?

I just replicated the same issue here after i repeated the hatch pattern when the hatch was already open. It worked fine before. :/

[GetNerfedOn]

5 hours ago, nome said:

OK, new minor release is ready. The victories journal lets you see what puzzles you've solved and which ones are still outstanding. There's a timestamp where we know it, and a star for the puzzles you solved before we started recording completion times. We're waiting to see what people think before we go back and add it for older puzzles. And yeah, obviously there's a little hint as well.  

Today is January 15th, 2026. This is GetNerfedOn, your host for today, bringing you your (semi)daily ARG news.

There is yes news for today; as per Nome's Statement above.

This has been your daily news for January 15th, 2026.

On 1/11/2026 at 5:11 PM, GetNerfedOn said:

Days 90-91 of writing down the script of the Inevitable short letter by letter until this ARG ends:

Once upon a time several strangers were stranded in a land lethal, loathsome and large. None got along but the one t

Days 92-95 of writing down the script of the Inevitable short letter by letter until this ARG ends:

Once upon a time several strangers were stranded in a land lethal, loathsome and large. None got along but the one thing

okay something caught my eye

There's something that's remained moving in the day side of the Puzzle and it's this array of lights

 

It's been in motion since the day it was introduced after we solved the puzzle for the other array

Upon closer inspection, the number of lights the outer ring has corresponds to the number of dials on the phone (12)

perhaps this is something? i could be tripping, of course

Edited January 15 by GetNerfedOn

[Torpeda]

If this "little hint" is supposed to "be everything we need for this to click" then I guess see you in the next few months, folks. XD

3 hours ago, Malfario said:

the thingy on top sort of resembles that instrument which name i cant remember.

To me it also looked like a tuning fork. I also suggested the bushes near the hatch to be a clue over a week ago.
There are 12 diodes on the panel that the light circles and there are 12(13) bushes arranged in a similar pattern as the rotary thing (even with space between 1st and 12th).
Some other clues were also suggested already. It seems like we're going full circle at this point.

Even if the bushes or the diodes were indicating the keys from the rotary thing, we still don't know how many beats there are, we don't know how many notes are we suppose to use for each beat, we don't know if there are any pauses (and if so whether they should be included or omitted), we don't know which octave to use for different beats or notes, we don't know if the puzzle requires music theory or just finding the right pattern within the ARG. We know absolutelly nothing.

I definitelly spent too much time on this puzzle. My desktop is full of this puzzle-related stuff and music programs I've never ever used or needed to use in my life.
I also feel like losing my mind. 😛

Since we're revisiting old panels, on the attached image the broken device seems to be fixed two panels later (could be another device, tho).

PS Whoever solves this puzzle deserves a beer keg and whoever designed the puzzle deserves a charcoal.

EDIT: I added lofi music from the gramophone with increased frequency. It serves no purpose. I just find the sound to be rather cool, although I realise some may consider it a cacophony of noise. Be warned! Cheers!

Edited January 15 by Torpeda

[Ridley]

Trying to guess what the "hint" here is.

One thing that is obvious is that the other stamps don't contain the answer to their puzzle and they contain assets from within the comics. I think this rules out the big rectangle containing something like a sheet music translation of the Chillhop Wagstaff theme, although the room itself could fill the rectangle. However, the other stamps don't have a lot of empty space, so if the gramophone was the important part, the rest of the empty room should be cut out.

The subject pictured in the big rectangle must force it to take up the extra space. So something from the comics that can't be easily condensed is my suspicion. Maybe it is something like this?

Spoiler

 

 

[AlexAT]

Has someone tried winter feast music? If i remember correctly, notes for this one was published around 2016.

I know it's random but why not give a shot

[Lkledu]

4 hours ago, Torpeda said:

If this "little hint" is supposed to "be everything we need for this to click" then I guess see you in the next few months, folks. XD

To me it also looked like a tuning fork. I also suggested the bushes near the hatch to be a clue over a week ago.
There are 12 diodes on the panel that the light circles and there are 12(13) bushes arranged in a similar pattern as the rotary thing (even with space between 1st and 12th).
Some other clues were also suggested already. It seems like we're going full circle at this point.

Even if the bushes or the diodes were indicating the keys from the rotary thing, we still don't know how many beats there are, we don't know how many notes are we suppose to use for each beat, we don't know if there are any pauses (and if so whether they should be included or omitted), we don't know which octave to use for different beats or notes, we don't know if the puzzle requires music theory or just finding the right pattern within the ARG. We know absolutelly nothing.

I definitelly spent too much time on this puzzle. My desktop is full of this puzzle-related stuff and music programs I've never ever used or needed to use in my life.
I also feel like losing my mind. 😛

Since we're revisiting old panels, on the attached image the broken device seems to be fixed two panels later (could be another device, tho).

PS Whoever solves this puzzle deserves a beer keg and whoever designed the puzzle deserves a charcoal.

EDIT: I added lofi music from the gramophone with increased frequency. It serves no purpose. I just find the sound to be rather cool, although I realise some may consider it a cacophony of noise. Be warned! Cheers!

it's not everything, just everything at night time in puzzle xD

I was looking at the solved puzzle book code and the stickers have rotation degrees. I'll post them here just in case someone wanna use it for something.
toolbox: -2.2 degree

key: 2 degree

grasshopper: 1.1 degree

bush: 1.9 degree

circle door: -3.3 degree

1bottle: 3.6 degree

2bottle: -2 degree

3bottle: 1.2 degree

4bottle: 2.4 degree

5bottle: -3.5 degree

sirup bucket: -5.6 degree

[keats95]

Does anyone have images of the journal without all the stickers? What do they look like before we earn them?

[GetNerfedOn]

have people tried the classic don't starve menu theme and the original dont starve together menu themes?

 

[Harthur90]

I say we brute force this and write an algorithm to try every 1.79 x 10^143 possible combination  

[Edible Coal]

1 hour ago, Harthur90 said:

I say we brute force this and write an algorithm to try every 1.79 x 10^143 possible combination  

are you trying to ddos klei severs 

[user1464576869]

wake me up when September ends

[Swiyss]

11 hours ago, SDavid said:

it doesn't really fit tho. the right side is twice as wide almost

I just replicated the same issue here after i repeated the hatch pattern when the hatch was already open. It worked fine before. 😕

this also just happened to me after I replicated the hatch pattern. Page is just empty black.

I can't access the puzzle.

@nome I believe this is a bug.

[Spicybullfrog]

4 hours ago, keats95 said:

Does anyone have images of the journal without all the stickers? What do they look like before we earn them?

Edited January 15 by Spicybullfrog

[Malfario]

2 minutes ago, Spicybullfrog said:

Having watched this, are we sure the clue is in the notebook ? has anyone else found other changes on the puzzle, because by watching this i am starting to think that maybe the musical door is a two part puzzle, each of the parts represented matched together

The 643 note

The bank receipt with 1275*

Now the clue from the notebook

The rotating animated lights from the day puzzle

The wagstaff sound from the night puzzle

This are all the pieces of the puzzle that remain disconected from anything we had to do so far, one of them has to be the key at least

[Nikki Darks]

27 minutes ago, Malfario said:

Having watched this, are we sure the clue is in the notebook ? has anyone else found other changes on the puzzle, because by watching this i am starting to think that maybe the musical door is a two part puzzle, each of the parts represented matched together

I still think the missing sticker in the notebook refers to this panel. They seem to be the same shape/layout + This was a sound puzzle. A combination of sounds that opened up the next panel. However, I've no clue how to puzzle door operates so Idk how to even try out the sound combo in this puzzle on the door.

[user1464576869]

6 hours ago, Nikki Darks said:

I still think the missing sticker in the notebook refers to this panel. They seem to be the same shape/layout + This was a sound puzzle. A combination of sounds that opened up the next panel. However, I've no clue how to puzzle door operates so Idk how to even try out the sound combo in this puzzle on the door.

Possibly, but, the shape of the right-most panel isn't close enough in my opinion to have any confidence in the connection. See how thin and tall the empty sticker marker is compared to how still rather square the real panel is.

EDIT: And, After seeing the other empty versions of other stickers, I'm starting to feel like trying to interpret the shapes as panels is a mistake. As they are mostly just shaped after the final sticker more than any actual panel. (unless, they also happen to match up with the panel they came from? They don't, right?)

Interpreting it as being a two part puzzle seems more plausible right now, that it does need to be combined with something we're overlooking 

[Nikki Darks]

15 minutes ago, user1464576869 said:

Possibly, but, the shape of the right-most panel isn't close enough in my opinion to have any confidence in the connection. See how thin and tall the empty sticker marker is compared to how still rather square the real panel is.

EDIT: And, After seeing the other empty versions of other stickers, I'm starting to feel like trying to interpret the shapes as panels is a mistake. As they are mostly just shaped after the final sticker more than any actual panel. (unless, they also happen to match up with the panel they came from? They don't, right?)

Interpreting it as being a two part puzzle seems more plausible right now, that it does need to be combined with something we're overlooking 

You might be onto something tbh, I was mostly thinking it's this because it's a puzzle using sound, and the + made me think of the valve on the hatch.

[user1464576869]

Then again that's difficult to call a clue, I think a lot of us were already under assumption that we're probably just missing something elsewhere despite playing around with the doorbell a lot.

I never mentioned this before because I find it difficult to assume it would be relevant. And maybe I'm mistaken. But the blinking lights changed it's animation pattern, did they not? They used to blink in the same order as the ordered input you're supposed to press them in, no? And now it's just blinking in a circle.

[Kehvran]

Shouldn't it be stars on the potions, bush and the hatch panels? Because we already completed it, right?
I'm not going to lie, but I get the feeling that these panels are connected to the last panels in some way, but I do remember nome saying that the potions weren't related to the doorbell at all... So I don't know...

Edited January 15 by Kehvran

[user1464576869]

1 hour ago, Kehvran said:

It shouldn't be stars on the potions, bush and the hatch panels? Because we already completed it, right?
I'm not going to lie, but I get the feeling that these panels are connected to the last panels in some way, but I do remember nome saying that the potions weren't related to the doorbell at all... So I don't know...

That might have been specifically about the numbers on the potions

edit: A thing I do get caught up on is the order of the stickers in the journey book. They certainly seem to correspond well with the reading order they appear in the puzzle...? So by looking at that order- I keep convincing myself that the missing piece is in the two panels were Wagstaff is wandering through the tunnels just before the doorbell. But as always, I can't find a single thing there myself of note

Edited January 15 by user1464576869

[landromat]

2 hours ago, Nikki Darks said:

I still think the missing sticker in the notebook refers to this panel. They seem to be the same shape/layout + This was a sound puzzle. A combination of sounds that opened up the next panel. However, I've no clue how to puzzle door operates so Idk how to even try out the sound combo in this puzzle on the door.

so on left pannel hatch points to 13pm and on second one that's 11am

[Grifffffffff]

19 hours ago, nome said:

OK, new minor release is ready. The victories journal lets you see what puzzles you've solved and which ones are still outstanding. There's a timestamp where we know it, and a star for the puzzles you solved before we started recording completion times. We're waiting to see what people think before we go back and add it for older puzzles. And yeah, obviously there's a little hint as well.  

ok this is cool but i dont know how this helps us solve anyhting

Edited January 15 by Grifffffffff

[Nikki Darks]

24 minutes ago, landromat said:

so on left pannel hatch points to 13pm and on second one that's 11am

It took me a moment to get what you meant, but that's a really nice catch! I didn't even notice it the first time.

[Asarilce]

19 hours ago, Nikki Darks said:

I guess the thing missing on the bottom left is the musical door puzzle? Now just to figure out what the hint in here is.
我猜左下角缺的就是那个音乐门谜题？现在就来弄清楚这里的暗示是什么。

 

 

 

 

 

 

There're so many arrows on the stamp, can they be some kind of hint for next stage?

[Asarilce]

3 hours ago, user1464576869 said:

That might have been specifically about the numbers on the potions
那可能特别针对药水上的数字

edit: A thing I do get caught up on is the order of the stickers in the journey book. They certainly seem to correspond well with the reading order they appear in the puzzle...? So by looking at that order- I keep convincing myself that the missing piece is in the two panels were Wagstaff is wandering through the tunnels just before the doorbell. But as always, I can't find a single thing there myself of note
补充：我经常纠结的是旅程书里贴纸的顺序。它们确实和谜题中出现的阅读顺序非常吻合......？所以看着那个顺序——我不断说服自己，缺失的拼图就在门铃响前的两个面板里，瓦格斯塔夫在隧道里徘徊。但像往常一样，我自己在那里找不到任何值得注意的东西

I wonder what can be in that door , since it is not related to the potions, but was put before them?