Thanks, but steam says it is not valid. Should I try again later?
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"I'm legally obligated to tell you that I ain't a real voucher."
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So if it's not a Steam voucher and it's not a real voucher, what kind of voucher is it? Very puzzling, indeed.
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Lies! I don't recognize the hint at all! No matter what I do with this voucher, I end up with too many characters to use anywhere that I'm familiar with.
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You solved the puzzle (the Nimble Quest one, yes, that is the only puzzle), and had to answer 'yes' to a question clearly saying what is overrated.
Are you using the "xlate" page for converting binary, hexadecimal, charcodes, ASCII, etc.?
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Would you look at that? It turns out that I'm the liar because I didn't know that I knew what the hint referred to. Now I know what I knew all along!
I am playing with the xlate page but have yet to get anything meaningful but, then again, I'm not really sure what I'm looking for. A GA code?
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Yes, a GA code. You will need what is overrated, and you will need something else. Read the voucher. What is not true becomes true with Hint2. And what is no, that is no, see kukeemon's vain attemp with sex sites below.
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Works with Firefox, but I couldn't access it with Chrome
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Strange, Chrome is my primary browser, and I have not encountered any issues. Writing from mobile now, but I will check later. Happy riddling!
EDIT: checked with Chrome from my workplace, and it seems to work fine (although I admit my Chrome wants to restart, so it is not the most recent version)
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I tried the code on all the XXX sites I know of; none of gave a subscription :-\
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Fun fact: in Hungarian, FAÉK means wooden wedge. Of course it means the same in lower case too.
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I foresee the vast majority of everyone who tried to solve your puzzles and failed to be like...
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(quasi-spoon-feeding added)
Ermahgerd, your spoon is basically in my throat now.
That's hot.
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The Ermahgerddon is coming, but I would never hurt a happy winner
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Thank you teve :)
Anyhoo, I was wondering about the very last hidden thing that I have found... uh, some parts for.
Is it really unsolvable sans bruteforcing at the moment?
Also, bump.
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As of now I would like to have the untouched things just time out and will recreate the bigger one as a whitelist GA for everyone who solved at least one of the puzzles.
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Fair enough, at least I know now that it is in an unsolvable state. It was driving me slightly insane ;)
Also, bump tick tick.
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It says 7 hours to go. That may be a bug related to summer time handling.
Anyway, if one more entry comes for this one, that would make 5 entries => CV.
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Do you know I've been trying to find the giveaway and just realized it was the same I had found already? ...
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ZHFL2-YLV24-FAKE32-NOPORN
Take only the first half,
remove the hyphen,
convert ZHFL2YLV24 from base 32 to base 64 you get ycq9YXXX
remove the XXX you get ycq9Y
then... you know
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And I didn't realize FAKE32-NOPORN was a hint and I tried to find another giveaway with weird combinations on xlate xD
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Oh my, I converted once to base 32, but not the second time with base 64. So silly!
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I don't understand, I tried this (and a lot of other things with base32 and base64) but when I encrypt ZHFL2YLV24 in base32 I get LJEEMTBSLFGFMMRU, and when I encrypt this in base64 I get TEpFRU1UQlNMRkdGTU1SVQ==
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Thanks. I have no idea how this actually works so I wouldn't have guess ^^
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At last, I have one: ZHFL2-YLV24-FAKE32-NOPORN
Hint1: Some things are overrated -- Anonymous Puzzle
Hint2: Some things are overhyphened - is there such word?
Hint3: the puzzle can be solved without Hint1. Hint2 is more important, though partially self evident
Fun fact: in Hungarian, FAÉK means wooden wedge. Of course it means the same in lower case too.
No wooden wedges were harmed when creating this voucher. But what could 32 be? And what is that nonsense at the end? Porn is just everywhere...
xlate.
Solution (although appears below, it may be better to have it here)
The voucher explains itself in the second two parts: FAKE32 is a reference to Base32 encoding, and it is fake because Base32 encoding uses no hyphen. NOPORN is just no porn.
The explanation part is not to be decoded, so after removing the hyphen from ZHFL2-YLV24, ZHFL2YLV24 can be fed to the famous Base32 decoder on xlate, which is actually down at the moment, but works most of the time.
EDIT 14/07/2015: When xlate is down, a viable alternative is the "ONLINE TOOLS" section of tomeko.net
Decoding leads to various garbage in the boxes, Base64 will contain ycq9YXXX. This is where the NOPORN part comes into the picture: the XXX has to be removed. The remaining 5 letters lead to Pinball FX2: Walking Dead, LVL1.
Hint1 refers to the puzzle in http://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/zOZcP/puzzle-no-vouchers-there-are-some-hints-in-the-comments, one of the questions asks if Base64 is overrated, and expects 'yes' as answer.
Hint2 just tries to point out that the hyphen has to be removed in order to get a correct Base32-encoded sequence
Hint3 is what it says
Fun fact and spoon feeding are trying to point out that there are readable words in the voucher.
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