Due to the playful nature of OTTers, OTC-related games have become a popular pastime within the Time fandom and even beyond.
Games Created by OTTers[]
Some forum users have created and played games that are OTC-related and/or have found some popularity among fellow OTTers.
- Sandcastle Builder
- Monomolpy
- Timeventure! (discontinued)
- Catapult game
- Chirpy Raptor
- Q04B (ottification of 2048)
- Sandcastle Architect (Description)
- Two Words
- MolpyUp! (Description (Mirror))
In-Thread Games[]
- OSH (OTTer Scavenger Hunt in Time): A small portion of a newpix is posted, usually a single character or object from Time. Other players guess which newpix the piece is from.
- Telephone Pictionary: OTTers alternate posting sentences and pictures in an artistic version of the telephone game. The latest post is here.
Outside Puzzles[]
OTTers have made puzzles using Outside websites and OTT images. More puzzles not yet added to this list can be found here
OTTer-made Puzzles[]
OTTers have also uploaded original ottified puzzles into the One True Thread. More information about the puzzles and how to solve them may be found in the original posts, which are linked to in the left column.
NP # | Uploader | Type | Puzzle |
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532 |
mathrec |
Sudoku | |
575 | mathrec | Sudoku | |
633 | mathrec | Sudoku | |
635 | mathrec | Sudoku | |
674 | mathrec | Sudoku | |
1333 | intheshax | Sudoku | |
1370 (Mirror) | intheshax | Sudoku (see also "The One True Puzzle" below) | |
1409 | intheshax | Multi-Part Puzzle |
The One True Puzzle
Part 1: Sudoku-Style Grid (underdetermined) This became part one of a multi-part puzzle because I could not find a way to meet my three design goals simultaneously: 1) use letters to spell things; 2) lay them out symmetrically; 3) create a sudoku that required more than basic solving techniques. I had found many decent puzzles based on this starting grid, but none were symmetrical, and many symmetrical ones, but none of them were very hard. I decided to select my favorite one, post the part of it that met the first two goals, and use another puzzle to show how to fill in the remaining (asymmetrical) clues.
Part 2: Cryptogram All we have here is a cryptogram. It is a verse I wrote using only the nine available letters from the sudoku grid, as inspired by mathrec's puzzles. I played with the layout in a silly way, which I knew would hamper solving but which I hoped would enhance enjoyment afterward. I figured the added difficulty would be balanced out once it was figured out there were only nine letters to choose from for the solution map. The code block/image format is meant to convey that whitespace is significant. Figuring that out is essential to finding the words and the spaces between.
Solution to Part 2:
Part 3: Encoded Instructions to Complete Sudoku Grid Clues
These are coordinates and letters for putting the rest of the clues into the grid and making the sudoku solvable. This became a puzzle when I decided to post no instructions. I had intended to define the coordinate system, which would have made this part straightforward, but this way involved some figuring.
Solution to Part 3: The letter map is, as established in part two: c = o That generates this: (2,9) = w In each matched pair, the first number indicates a nine-cell area in the grid, and the areas are numbered like this: 123 The second number indicates a cell in this area, and the cells are numbered the same way. I chose this system not really as a puzzle but as my favorite in the sudoku domain. Partially by design and partially by luck, the next two most obvious systems (the ones using two axes and having either top left or bottom left as the as the origin at (1,1)) are directly rendered invalid by conflicts with existing cells. I hoped this fact would lead to the third option, the correct one, by virtue of it being a system that allows the grid to be filled in at all, and that filling it thusly leads to a valid sudoku.
Part 4: Cryptogram
(1,1)(6,3) (5,9)(5,5) (3,3) (5,5)(3,3)(2,3)(8,7) This is another verse built from the nine available letters. All you have to do is fill in letters from the solved sudoku. I realized with all four parts going out that this verse could be solved before the sudoku was and used to backfill into the grid. I tried to facilitate this, in case the sudoku was giving anyone trouble. The title and first line come directly from the givens, but as you go down the verse, the coordinates begin to come from later in the sudoku solution, where possible. There are some coordinates in the last line that, if backfilled, make all advanced sudoku solving techniques unnecessary.
Solution to Part 4: For OTT, After We of a fate |
1422 | intheshax | Sudoku | Solution |
1455 (original version) 1457 (corrected version) |
Ebonite | Word Search | |
1459 | BlitzGirl | Crossword | Solution |
1460 | BlitzGirl | Crossword | Solution |
1461 | BlitzGirl | Crossword | Solution |
1469 | BlitzGirl | Crossword | Solution |
1471 | BlitzGirl | Crossword | |
1472 | Ebonite (extended by intheshax) | Word Search | |
1473 | BlitzGirl | Crossword | |
1489 | BlitzGirl | Crossword | |
1492 | BlitzGirl | Crossword | Solution |
1500 | BlitzGirl | Crossword | |
1557 | Eternal Density | Wordsearch | |
1581 | BlitzGirl | Crossword | |
1593 | BlitzGirl | Crossword | |
1605 | Eternal Density | Seven OTTish Words | Use the following letter groups to make OTTish words:
HO IK INE PU AW ES LPI NS ERS TD GRA MO OG NE VE AL LE PA EA NTH PEV ED Each letter group is used exactly once. So if you use LE and ED to make LEED, you can't also use HO and ED to make HOED since that uses ED twice and there's only one ED available.
Clues with word lengths:
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1605 | Eternal Density | Seven OTTish Words | Use the following letter groups to make OTTish words:
BL WPI OT ZI AW SH FF SIL XB UTH MOL MO IT NE PY AT SE PI ON NG EP BU YH OL Clues with word lengths:
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1605 | Eternal Density | Seven OTTish Words | Use the following letter groups to make OTTish words:
OT RE PER EL EFO PO TH ONS TIF IT RA STO DAK LO RMA CH NG TY RTY ATI DUN LL UP KET EL IC RD NDA PEH Clues with word lengths:
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1605 | Eternal Density | Seven OTTish Words | Use the following letter groups to make OTTish words:
AI OL ON SB CHR AG COM PYM PY NN IN THE YMO EL ERI LPY TY MON MA HON MO LP LL AMO ONO EVE VE IG SS OLP SDR PYT TH YM MOL RI LP ETY YLE SE YST Clues with word lengths:
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1605 | Eternal Density | Seven OTTish Words | Use the following letter groups to make OTTish words:
ATI ST RO PIE OTI MBO MO RE LPI MOL TR NDA NTS RE ND TR TIF OT DU RME EPE WE IC EE TI ON ER SH Clues with word lengths:
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1605 | Eternal Density | Seven OTTish Words | Use the following letter groups to make OTTish words:
ISH CK APY SN MEA RTI TZB ENE WO CU NE IS LU ITS FTE LID SS TI EFU OM GS WTR YON BLI LS WS ES ME EE AW Clues with word lengths:
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1605 | Eternal Density | Seven OTTish Words | Use the following letter groups to make OTTish words:
IP RAN DAC MEV AKE POL OTS OMO TU WIG IX TA RE LP ET LLB TI DA CO BI RE CU EN DUN HD RT GL NY ES EO Clues with word lengths:
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1608 | Eternal Density | Seven OTTish Words | Use the following letter groups to make OTTish words:
TI HEL NTA GHA LA CH CHR PR PIN RN AGG ICM RS SE ING GU ME GBU EN MAG SY NT IN IR EMB ND ECI VE PLA BA ING CE RRI ERE OU RE OMA Clues with word lengths:
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1608 | Eternal Density | Seven Cuegan Quotes | Use the following letter groups to make Cuegan Quotes:
EHA EAI YE SI OR TH NO SW NTK IM ST IV IDO DW HUH AH FA YU HIS SRI ES NG CK TT NNA PT NOW WA SE Word lengths: 4 9 9 9 11 11 14 |
1609 | StormAngel | Fourteen Inquisitive Words and/or Phrases In Two Groups of Seven | Use the following letter groups to make the proper OTTish words:
cr ams go sef hl uta rp os fwe ew ns ien fic ar rea ri ont ch sk es sbe apo cy neo ie su dle se fe rut het fan hbl mf vot ica air ges ahb er tcu ere dun th ifo ych at rms lah ons lde nic re adt hec har co bla ack shi sof Word lengths:
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1651 | mrob27 | Crossword | |
1742 | BlitzGirl | Crossword | |
2278 | BlitzGirl | Crossword |
Note: Spelling error in 26-Down, see definitions. |