The CTRL + ALT + F4 Easter egg cheat
Hawk offered CTRL + ALT + F4 as an Easter egg cheat. Other players supplied supposed rewards and further keyboard advice.
Involved: Hawk [2080065] , Riot [974353] , Seba_Nile [1782274] , Nola [2103158] , iribuya [2103695] and 4 more
The cheat
Hawk [2080065] started “Egg Cheat #2” in General Discussion on 21 Apr 2020.[1]
The last post was made on 23 Apr 2020. The archive contains 28 posts from 21 different players.[1]
At the archive's last fetch, the thread had 27 replies and 839 views.[1]
Hawk's instructions
Hawk [2080065] described holding CTRL + ALT + F4 while exchanging an Easter egg set and getting a result they called creepy.[2]
Hawk [2080065] said they had heard that another player received a free energy refill and 3 extra lives. Community speculation[2]
iribuya [2103695] suggested moving the thread to the Bug Section. Hawk [2080065] replied that they would hate to get in trouble for an exploit.[3][4]
More secret rewards
iribuya [2103695] wrote that the cheat also worked with eggs bought from the market while holding the mouse in Inventory.[3]
Eggnoir [2529343] reported a “+1 neve” and “+5 energy” result. Seba_Nile [1782274] wrote that they received a cesium.[5][6]
Awesome-O [2356036] wrote that the trick freed them after they were “fedded” and added $1,200,000 to their vault.[7]
Nola [2103158] said the poll options made them think they had entered a MarlonBrando thread.[8]
Riot [974353] advised Windows users to delete system 32, which they described as a secret egg-suppression script installed on the back end of Torn.[9]
h3110 [2493776] proposed making another account to obtain twice as many eggs. ASHENED [2231991] later prescribed Ctrl + Alt + Delete followed by tapping Enter twice for a whole egg set.[10][11]
Timeline
Original sources 11
- Thread "Egg Cheat #2" (General Discussion) ·
- Post by Hawk [2080065] in "Egg Cheat #2" ·
- Post by iribuya [2103695] in "Egg Cheat #2" ·
- Post by Hawk [2080065] in "Egg Cheat #2" ·
- Post by Eggnoir [2529343] in "Egg Cheat #2" ·
- Post by Seba_Nile [1782274] in "Egg Cheat #2" ·
- Post by Awesome-O [2356036] in "Egg Cheat #2" ·
- Post by Nola [2103158] in "Egg Cheat #2" ·
- Post by Riot [974353] in "Egg Cheat #2" ·
- Post by h3110 [2493776] in "Egg Cheat #2" ·
- Post by ASHENED [2231991] in "Egg Cheat #2" ·
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