New Year 2026 Quest

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Quest Logo

In January 2026, the fifth "THE GAME" quest took place in ProTanki. The quest was a continuation of the Summer Quest 2025: the difficulty remained high, but the number of steps was noticeably reduced. This, however, didn't prevent the average daily solution time from reaching 8 hours. Hundreds of players participated in the quest.

The first clue, as in the previous quest, was a video referring to a game term, which began the day's solution. The full solution for the entire quest is presented here.

Day 1

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Map in Video

Introductory Video

The introductory video shows gameplay of a game called "Tanks," and at the end of the video, a siren sounds to alert players of the Gold Box drop. It's easy to see that the map is very similar to the Tribute map in the game.

Therefore, we immediately get two solution branches: the Tribute map and the Gold Box.

Tribute

We go to the in-game map. Under one of the bridges, we find an entrance to a small secret room, in which we see Karl Bryullov's painting "The Last Day of Pompeii."

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Entrance to the secret room
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Painting inside the room

Vesuvius

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Password entry form

The painting depicts the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, a reference to the removed kit. By going to its description on this wiki, we find a barely noticeable question mark next to the title. Clicking on it takes us to the survey.

After completing the survey correctly, we receive an image of Forrest Gump and the Chinese flag, as well as a link: https://game.pro-tanki.online/what-a-great-day, where we enter the password.

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Vesuvius kit card
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Final survey page

Ping-Pong

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Coordinates and seed
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Map on chunkbase

By combining "Forrest Gump" and "China," we get a reference to Ping-Pong: specifically, ping-pong Forrest Gump played in China in the film.

On the in-game map, we find a secret room, which we've encountered many times in previous quests since the TO era. However, this time, useful information for solving the mystery was hidden in this "secret room": the collision at one of the props walls was disabled. After driving through the wall, we find the Minecraft 1.8 logo, coordinates, and a world seed.

We need to figure out what's located at these coordinates in Minecraft 1.8 with the specified seed. To do this, either open the game of the required version or use the chunkbase website. After entering the required parameters, we see that the coordinates lead to a taiga biome.

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Secret room view

"Find the Tank"

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Page view

By going to the "Taiga" description in the garage, we find a clickable word. Clicking on it takes us to the page with the title "Find the tank."

The tank isn't in the picture itself, but it's on the page: just scroll down a bit and try to catch the "running away" tank a few times. Catching it and clicking on it reveals a picture of a gift called "Percent." The word "percent" will be the key to decrypting it further.

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Tank and picture with gift

This completes the "Vesuvius" branch, resulting in the final form and the key to decrypt percent. Return to the beginning to complete the Golden Box branch.

Gold Box

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Photo of a street in Brest
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Skybox on the map

After going to the crystal boxes page (where information about Gold Boxes is also located), we find a link in the tab title: https://i.imgur.com/LQ0HfJP.jpeg.

Brest

After following the link, we see a photo of a street in the French city of Brest, which obviously refers to the map of the same name.

Upon entering the summer-themed map in the game, we notice that the skybox is exactly the same as the skybox from the Rio map.

Scattered throughout the map are 10 props, each representing 10 plants corresponding to 10 letters of the Latin alphabet:

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Rio and Costa Rica

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Picture with plants

The Brest skybox refers to the Rio map. In the map preview in the game, we see a large Costa Rican flag, which refers to the Costa Rica paint.

On the paint page, we find a picture of plants—exactly the same ones we saw on the Brest map. Now, by matching the plants and the letters, we get an encrypted message: ilvdinnimwwpqtn.

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Rio Preview
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Wiki Page

Final

All that's left is to remember the percent key found in the parallel solution branch. Using it to decrypt the ilvdinnimwwpqtn message using the Vigenère cipher, we obtain the password for final form: thebeautifulday. We enter it and get a picture with the answer:

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The picture shows the hands of a person doing accounting work, a barista with coffee machines, a pizza delivery robot, and a laser tag game. All of this points to the Shaft gun; just read its description in the garage.

Answer: Shaft

Minimum solution time: 53 minutes.

Day 2

Logo small.png Did you know that...

The "Field Medic" kit was added to the game on July 7, 2025, and immediately won the hearts of players.

The kit's main advantages are its high versatility, incredible survivability, and endless charisma.

The main disadvantage is the fact that it can only be purchased once.

__NOCACHE__

Introductory Video

The video shows a commercial for a Jaguar car, which alludes to Jaguar paint.

On its Wiki page, the interesting facts section ("Did you know...") didn't change when refreshing the page, and the content described the "Field Medic" kit, using terms that are quite unusual for a Wiki encyclopedia.

This prompts you to check out the Field Medic kit on Wiki.

At the same time, the description of the paint in the garage contained a link: https://game.pro-tanki.online/bebebe. By clicking it, players discovered a still from the cartoon Gravity Falls:

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Still from Gravity Falls

This is an obvious reference to the Gravity map in the game.

Gravity

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DMC DeLorean on Gravity
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Future Map Preview

On the in-game map, we find a picture of a DMC DeLorean, which was used as the basis for the time machine in the famous film "Back to the Future." Realizing this, players moved to the Future map.

Future

On the page of the map, we find the password: sandbox_forever, as well as the formula for nitrous oxide (N2O), which refers to Nitro.

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Password
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Formula N2O

And in the in-game map preview, we see twenty-one twos. This hints at the number 2²¹ — the price of the "Gold Tank Battle City" gift.

Gold Tank

If you hover over the gift name on the page on the Wiki, you'll see the text ".../the-poster" in the corner of the page. This is the address on the quest website: https://game.pro-tanki.online/the-poster. Clicking the link will reveal the image:

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The image is a poster for the film "Blackboard Jungle," based on the novel "The Blackboard Jungle" by Evan "Hunter." Let's move on to the hull of the same name.

Hunter

In its description in the garage, we find link to a questionnaire. All questions are encrypted with a Caesar cipher with a shift of 1. The first question is "Password." Remembering the password from the Future Wiki page, we shift all the letters in "sandbox_forever" by 1, getting "tboecpy_gpsfwfs" and enter this as the password.

The next questions are simple, but the answers also need to be "shifted." After answering correctly, you'll receive a link to the final form: https://game.pro-tanki.online/once-upon-a-time.

This subthread is complete; let's return to the Nitro branch.

Nitro

On the Supplies page, in the "Nitro" section, try dragging the image of the garage view: you'll notice an Easter egg. Opening the image in a new tab will allow you to see it better.

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On the supplies page
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The image itself

Hex-color Codes

The captions "Combine" and "#00" in the image mean that you need to take the hex codes of the three specified colors and somehow combine them at "#00." Here are their hex codes: Template:Color, Template:Color, Template:Color.

Note that these colors only have one channel filled, and each has its own. Adding up the values, we get the color Template:Color. It has its own name: "SpringGreen." This name refers to the map Spring Falls.

Spring Falls

On the Spring Falls page, we find a link to an image of Mount Rushmore. This has no use at the moment, just something to remember.

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The Nitro sub-branch, like the Gravity branch overall, is complete.

Field Medic

Returning to the beginning, to the "Field Medic" kit, in its description on the Wiki, we find a referral system icon Friend invitation.png, as well as a link to an image of Richard Winters from the TV series "Band of Brothers" with the caption "July 1, 1944".

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Kit Card
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Link to Winters image
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Winters image

The Winters image refers to the rank of Captain: this is the rank this character received on July 1, 1944. The referral system icon obviously refers to its page.

Referral System

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On page
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Image with nicknames

After going to the referral system page, we notice that the last character of the "Inviting new players" section title is upside down. Clicking on it takes us to an image of several players. Among them, the only "suspicious" one is thegame2026_gtx.

Player Profile

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Paint in Profile

Go to profile of this player on the official ratings website, where we find a very unusual "paint." Its name is "The GAME," and the preview is a QR code. Scanning the code gives us a link to a mini-game where you shoot balls with a shaft: https://game.pro-tanki.online/shooting-range.

Minigame

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Minigame Result
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Minigame View

Even after knocking down all the balls, players received only the standard congratulations. The correct solution was to notice that there were exactly 47 balls. What else is 47, related to the game or to today's decision? US presidents.

The previously mentioned Mount Rushmore is carved with the faces of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln—the 1st, 3rd, 16th, and 26th presidents. Knocking down the balls with these numbers yields an image with the inscription "Alphabet?", an image of the Desert Eagle, and an illustration of the Atbash cipher.

So, we need to apply the Atbash cipher to the "Desert Eagle" with a special alphabet. Where can we get it? Let's return to the Captain branch.

Captain

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The "Play" button on the Captain page

On the page of this rank, we find the "Play" button. Clicking it plays the soundtrack from the game "Farm Frenzy," which takes us to the Farm map.

Farm

On the game map, we find 5 letters: D, F, R, S, T:

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This set of five letters will become the alphabet we use for "Desert Eagle" with the Atbash cipher. Encrypting the word "desert" this way, we get teferd.

Final

Enter teferd into the final [1] form and receive an image with the answer:

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Answer: Lapland

Minimum solution time: 13 hours 3 minutes.

Day 3

Introductory Video

The introductory video shows Terry Davis, creator of the TempleOS operating system, playing a game he created. This provides the only reference—to the Lost Temple map.

On the page of this map, all the text has been given the same "texture" as Vortex paint.

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TempleOS Game
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Text on the Temple page

On the in-game map, we find a yellow smiley face and a secret room with 28 props depicting Monopoly figures. The entrance to the secret room was in one of the"towers," at the top of which collision was disabled.

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28 figures
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View of the secret room
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Entrance to the secret room
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Smiley face on the map

So, we have many forks at once:

  • Vortex Paint
  • Smiley
  • 28 figures

Vortex

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Paint Texture

The texture of this paint has been changed in the game: an icon from the Communication/Community section of the Wiki has been added to it.

Search

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Text in Search Bar

On the Communication/Community page, the search bar now says "Everything will be found!" Simply type "everything" in the search bar, and it will take you to an old video advertisement for "Tanki Online." The video features the track "Diesel Power" by The Prodigy, a reference to the Prodigy paint.

Prodigy

In the paint description in the garage, we find a link: https://game.pro-tanki.com/one-small-step. We see a video of Neil Armstrong uttering his famous phrase upon first setting foot on the lunar surface. This refers to the map Moon Silence.

Moon Silence

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In-Game Preview
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Titan Image

The in-game map preview has changed: several mines have been added, which refers to the How to Use Mines article (linked directly in the mines section of the supplies article).

Also, a platform appeared under the in-game map. You had to fall onto it to find the cover of the book "Alice in Wonderland," as well as the inscriptions "IX" and "- = 2." The map also featured an image of a hull. Titan.

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Platform. Top view
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Platform inside

Minigame

On the "How to Use Mines" page, we find a link to the minigame: https://game.pro-tanki.online/restore-the-configuration.

The minigame consists of restoring the configuration of a certain atom, that is, setting the required number of electrons at each level.

Recalling the image of Titan from Moon Silence, we set the configuration to match that of a titanium atom: 2, 8, 10, 2. After restoring the configuration, we get a link to final form and a decoder for Lost Temple images with the "[A-Z]" indication, meaning you need to get a combination of Latin letters. An additional decoding hint: the "Base-6" in the tab name.

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Minigame view
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Restore result

Getting the word

The resulting decoder associates each figure with its own number: the last six cells of the table are Mayan numerals from 0 to 5. Thus, from the Temple map, we get the following sequence: 1553440031325532005324222552.

Since "[A-Z]" and "Base-6" were specified, we understand that this number is in the hexadecimal system and needs to be converted to text.

About ASCII and bytes
Numbers are used to represent characters in computer memory. One of the most common representation methods is ASCII table, where each character is assigned a number from 0 to 255.

This allows each character to be written with exactly one byte (8 bits). Two characters can be encoded with two bytes, that is, two numbers, each from 0 to 255. In the binary system, when divided into bytes, this notation would look something like So: 01101110 01100101, which represents two characters: "ne".

At the same time, this notation can also be viewed as a 16-bit number. In this case, the binary 110111001100101 is equal to the familiar 28261. By reversing this operation, we can obtain the text "ne" from the decimal number 28261.

Similarly, we can obtain text from a hexadecimal number by converting it to binary and dividing it into bytes.

We convert this number to binary notation, adding a leading 0 for a multiple of eight, and dividing it into bytes, we obtain:

01101110 01100101 01110110 01100101 01110010 01101101 01101001 01101110 01100100

Converting this sequence to the ASCII table or using the online "bin to text" converter yields the word: nevermind.

The Vortex paint and Lost Temple figurine thread is complete. Let's move on to Smiley.

Smiley

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Link (highlighted)
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Scrabble 42

NOn the Smiley page, we find a link to an image showing a still from the film "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy": a Scrabble board with the words "What do you get if you multiply six by nine?" The answer to the question posed in the film and the original novel series is the number 42. The answer is correct using the thirteenth-base number system.

Year 2042

The number 42 is an obvious reference to the well-known map. Behind the hangar at one of the bases, we find a prop announcing a hunt that will begin on November 3rd.

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This is a reference to the "Dead Hunt" event, which took place on Halloween.

Dead Hunt

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Numbers on the event page

On the event page on the Wiki, we find the following sequence of numbers: 1473 297 511 715 818 2070 36 1857 2359 899 1448 2205.

Let's summarize. We have:

Final

Roman numerals often denote chapter numbers in books. So, combining "IX" and "Alice in Wonderland" yields Chapter IX in this book.

"- = 2" can mean both "minus equals two" and "hyphen equals 2." "minus equals" is meaningless if there's no variable on the left (think of the "-=" operator in programming), leaving "hyphen equals 2."

Combining this fact with the presence of Chapter IX from the book and the sequence of numbers, we can assume that this is a book cipher. "- = 2" means that words separated by a hyphen should be considered two words, and the sequence of numbers is the sequence of word numbers in the chapter (or the first letters of these words).

Taking original text of the chapter and decrypting it as described above, we obtain the string: asmijfvbnvpg.

Decrypting it with the Vigenère cipher with the key nevermind, we obtain norestnokill. This is the password for the final form.

Enter the password on the page https://game.pro-tanki.online/yeeah-you-did-it and get the final image:

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These images feature stills from films in the film noir genre. In the game, only one item is associated with it: paint.

Answer: Tank Noir

Minimum solution time: 8 hours 35 minutes.

Day 4

Intro Video

The intro video shows stills from the game "Syberia," in which the main character goes in search of living mammoths. The reference to the Mammoth hull is immediately clear.

In the Mammoth's description in the garage, we find a link: https://game.pro-tanki.online/thecounter. This page features a counter that counts down the seconds. The seconds are counted from February 14, 2023, the day the Skirmish map was added to the game.

On the Wiki page of the hull, the game logo is slightly rotated. If you click on it, the page will flip, and at the "bottom" (formerly "top"), the coordinates will appear: 51.229865, 6.779650.

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Counter Page
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Wiki Coordinates

The coordinates lead to the city of Dusseldorf.

This leaves us with two possible paths: Dusseldorf and Skirmish.

Skirmish

When creating a map in-game, we notice a modified night preview: it now features the silhouette of an Abrams tank—a reference to the [[Product Kits#Abrams|kit] of the same name.

The crystal icon next to the price of this bundle is now upside down, and clicking on it changes the tab name to a link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmjVWMNY1EQ. The video shows a pre-rebalance bug with the Highland map in the Final Form.

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Map preview
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Video still

Highland

A secret room has appeared on the Highland map in the game. Inside, you can find the words: "Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing..."

These lines are from Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven." The word "nevermore" is repeated many times in the poem. This will become the password for the final form.

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Entrance to the secret room
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Lines from a poem

Returning to the Dusseldorf branch.

Dusseldorf

On the winter map in the game, we find a QR code and a screenshot from Silent Hill. The QR code leads to video with an "Epic Snowball Fight," a reference to the festive mode. This screenshot from Silent Hill references the Fogtown map, designed in the style of that game.

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QR code on the map (in the sky)
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Billboard on the map

Snow Battle

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On the Snow Battle page

On the page of this mode, we find a picture of a Bloody Mary cocktail, which refers to the Mary paint.

Mary

On the paint page, when we zoom in on the tank preview, we get this image:

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Here's a truth table for the exclusive-or (XOR) operation, along with the quest site address.

So, we'll need to use XOR somewhere to get the quest site address. This subthread doesn't provide any more useful information, so let's return to Dusseldorf.

Fogtown

Go to the page of the map on the Wiki. There, we discover that one of the Easter egg screenshots now has the words "IMGUR" and "6gEOYuQ" written on it. This leads us to the link: https://imgur.com/6gEOYuQ. Following the link, we see an image of Woody Woodpecker against a Soviet flag, with the words "10 HZ" written in the corner.

This is a reference to the Soviet Duga radar, which, at a frequency of 10 hertz, produced a sound similar to a woodpecker's tapping, earning it the nickname "Russian Woodpecker." The radar was located in Chernobyl, so the image alludes to this map.

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Edited image with Easter egg
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Image of Woody

Chernobyl

We find two Easter eggs on the in-game map: gold teeth (or rather, grills) and a printer icon. On the page of the map on Wiki, we find a QR code leading to a page with a puzzle: https://game.pro-tanki.online/tanki-newyear-puzzle

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Puzzle

After completing the puzzle, we get the second part of the image from Mary's page, the continuation of the link: 2EB=4?>X,FW[/H".

However, the presence of special characters makes it clear that this is not a real link – we need to find the second part and XOR them to get Working link.

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Puzzle page view
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Completed puzzle

So, we have:

  • "Address": 2EB=4?>X,FW[/H"
  • XOR reference
  • Golden grills
  • Printer icon

Getting the second part of the link

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Executing XOR

Golden grills are, so to speak, golden "skins" for teeth. In the game, golden "skins" are XT equipment.

The printer icon refers to the print function in any modern browser.

To get the second part of the link (the one to XOR), click "Print" on the XT equipment page. When previewing the print, you'll see the following at the bottom of the page:

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^: game.pro-tanki.online/S1.XULJ!C332K!V.

This gives us the second part for the XOR operation. We perform a character-by-character XOR of 2EB=4?>X,FW[/H" and S1.XULJ!C332K!V and get: atleastyoudidit.

Final

On the page https://game.pro-tanki.online/atleastyoudidit, enter the password nevermore and get the final image:

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The image shows a mammoth in a Graffiti paint texture, British singer Seal, Navy Seals, and simply Seal. All of this refers to the Seal kit.

Answer: Seal

Minimum solution time: 7 hours 43 minutes.

Day 5

Intro Video

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Still from "The Avengers"

The intro video shows a scene in which the Avengers attempt to lift Thor's hammer. This hammer has a name: Mjolnir. This leaves us with two solution branches: the Hammer turret and the Mjolnir kit.

Hammer

In the turret's description in the garage, we find Link: https://game.pro-tanki.online/epic-chase, where we see a video of a subway chase from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. This refers to the Subway map.

Subway

In the summer version of the map, we see a large wall of a three-story panel building. Note that each "block" consists of two horizontal panels and three vertical panels, and some windows have lights on.

This is reminiscent of Braille: it also uses 2x3 rectangles. If a window has a light on, we put a dot in the corresponding Braille cell; otherwise, we don't. We get: ⠍⠑⠞⠁⠍⠕⠗⠏⠓⠕⠎⠊⠎, which translates to metamorphosis.

Opposite this panel, we see a section "Community" icon on the wiki, hinting at the use of in-game chat.

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Subway Panel
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Subway Icon

On the winter version of the map, we find two images that map the arrows to the Smoky and Twins turrets: Smoky to the left, Twins to the right.

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The part with the turrets and arrows is a dead end for now.

Chat Command and Spectrogram

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Command Execution Result

Following the instructions from the Summer Underground (using chat), we enter the command /metamorphosis into the game chat. We receive the text "Command Failed." However, this is a scam—just clicking on the text redirects the player to the page: https://game.pro-tanki.online/dial-up-modem.

The only thing on this page was an audio recording of the modem connection. However, at the end, a very strange sound is heard, completely unlike the usual connection sound. The tab title says "Spectrum."

All this hints that the information is hidden in the sound structure itself. Indeed, it is necessary to download the audio recording and analyze it with any sound visualization tool. In the spectrogram of this entry, you can see the text: .../the-grand-finale-0120.

This gives us the final form: https://game.pro-tanki.online/the-grand-finale-0120.

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Spectrogram with text

The final form is complete, the branch is complete. Only the arrows and turrets from the Subway remain unused.

Mjolnir

In the description of this kit, we find the inscriptions "The truth is inside. Look deeper" and "Qcoju6B.jpg":

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Picasso Painting

The second part strongly resembles the file name on imgur.com. Indeed, at https://imgur.com/Qcoju6B we find a Picasso painting, which refers to Picasso.

First, let's go through the Picasso branch.

Picasso

In the paint description in the garage, we find the link: https://game.pro-tanki.online/glory-glory-man-united. This link takes us to a video of a football match at a large stadium, from where we go to the Stadium map.

Stadium

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"Noisy" preview

On the page of the map, we notice that the winter preview is "noisy." After downloading the image, we notice that it's called stadik_archive.jpg.

A favorite technique in ARGs, already used once in "THE GAME", is combining .jpg and .zip files in a single file. To solve this, simply rename the file to "stadik_archive.zip" and open it with WinRar, for example. The archive contains the files "Event.tara" and "map_staduim_winter.xml."

Map with Library

"Event.tara" is the file containing the prop library, and "map_staduim_winter.xml" is the file containing the map.

To open the map with the library, simply upload the "Event.tara" file to the "library" folder in ProTLVK and select "Open Own" in the program interface.

Opening the map in ProTLVK, we can find a maze leading to the number 1427, written in the Attic numeral system.

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We can't take anything else from here for now; let's return to the image of the kit.

Message inside

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Text inside image file

The caption on the image, "The truth is inside. Look deeper," hints that we need to look "deeper," that is, inside the image itself. If you open the picture in a text editor, for example Notepad, you will see the text at the end:

Very good. You have done well.
There are three prime numbers associated with the original final.jpg image.
**** is one of them. You will have to find the other two.
Multiply all three of these numbers together to find the next step.

This map leads not just to a place, but to action. Find its name and fit it,
like a missing cog, into the clockwork of the universal catalog whose symbol
you'll find right there.
uggcf://tnzr.ceb-gnaxv.bayvar/uvqqra-gernfher

Good luck. Goodbye
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Book Cover

The first part is a direct instruction to find 3 prime numbers, and an indication of the number of digits in one of them. The second part tells you to find a name and insert it into the "universal catalog," whose symbol will also be found there.

The link uggcf://tnzr.ceb-gnaxv.bayvar/uvqqra-gernfher, encrypted with the Caesar cipher (https://game.pro-tanki.online/hidden-treasure), leads to an image of the book cover of "Treasure Island," which links to the Island map.

We already know two prime numbers: 1427 and 7001. The first was obtained from the Stadium map file. The second was obtained from the names of the initial videos: 7001, 1956, 9000, 8289, 1001. Only 7001 is prime.

Island

We go to the winter version of the game's map. We notice a suspicious bush that wasn't there before. If you fall off the map directly under it, you'll end up on an invisible surface.

After driving along a winding path, we reach a platform with the MediaWiki logo (the wiki engine used to create ProTanki Wiki) and the word "API."

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Suspicious bush
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Platform under the map
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Path to the platform (prop collisions)
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Inscription on the platform

Obtaining the third prime number

Recall the instructions from the Mjolnir file: find the name and paste it into the "universal catalog", whose symbol will also be found there. So, the "universal catalog" is the game's Wiki, and the name is "Island."

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Page with "error"

Let's find the "Island" article on the game's Wiki website using the MediaWiki API. You can find out how to do this on the official MediaWiki API page.

By going to a URL like https://wiki.pro-tanki.com/en/api.php?action=query&titles=Island, we'll get to the page https://game.pro-tanki.online/404-not-found-error.

The page disguises itself as an error message, but actually contains link to an image:

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The image gives instructions: replace Smoky and Twins with their impact force, concatenate (that is, simply "glue" the strings together), and then find the largest prime factor.

Let's recall what we have:

  • The labyrinth from the Stadium (we only took the number from there, but the labyrinth is there for a reason: otherwise, why include it in the map file instead of just in the game)
  • Correspondence of arrows to cannons
  • Instructions for obtaining a prime number from cannons

Next, a purely mechanical task: track the turns from the beginning of the labyrinth to the end (the places where the number 1427 is located). We get the sequence: right, right, left, right, right, left, right, left, left.

We replace them with turrets according to the arrows from the Subway: Twins, Twins, Smoky, Twins, Twins, Smoky, Twins, Smoky, Smoky.

Now we replace them with their impact force values (M3): 160, 160, 330, 160, 160, 330, 160, 330, 330.

Concatenate: 160160330160160330160330330.

And we get the largest prime factor: 160160330160160330160330330 = 2 * 5 * 41 * 43 * 332611 * 27312788086910881.

So, we have three prime numbers:

  • 1427
  • 7001
  • 27312788086910881

Final

We multiply all three numbers to get the password 272866415548752812136187, which we enter into the final form, resulting in the final image:

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Answer: Hornet_gg

Minimum solution time: 9 hours 41 minutes.

Prizes

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"GAME 2026" Paint

Prizes included crystals, supplies, days of Premium Account, the special GAME 2026 paint, and the "Dream Tank" — a hull, gun, and paint of the winner's choice, at the highest level available to them based on their rank.

Full list of prizes:

Place Prize
1 Dream Tank + 150,000 or 350,000 crystals of winners' choice, 21 days of Premium, 2,000 of all supplies, GAME 2026 paint
2 250,000 crystals, 15 days of Premium, 1,500 of all supplies, GAME 2026 paint
3 150,000 crystals, 10 days of Premium, 1,000 of all supplies, GAME 2026 paint
4-10 100,000 crystals, 7 days of Premium, 750 of all supplies, GAME 2026 paint
11-25 50,000 crystals, 3 days of Premium, 250 of all supplies
26-50 25,000 crystals, 150 of all supplies
All other tankers who didn't make the top 50 but scored at least 25 points received 50 of all supplies.

Winners

First place went to tanker PrideBlack.

Second place went to player Rift, and third place went to Burst. A total of 406 players received prizes.

Top 10 winners
Place Nickname
1 PrideBlack
2 Rift
3 Burst
4 Pashok
5 4yBaIII
6 TT.P.O.B.O.P.H.bl.U
7 Tofi
8 Cat
9 prada
10 Sorry

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