Two giveaways. No contributor required. Ends in ~5 days. This is not a group puzzle. No sharing answers/hints or asking for outside help.

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Solution:

  1. Image linked in the OP suggests to look in the source. There is an imgur link hidden there.

  2. Bucket fill with white to get

  3. Use the Pigpen Cipher (##XX) to translate. You get
    rotthirteen(string of stuff)

  4. As suggested, perform a rot-13 shift on the rest of the string to get
    atbash(string of stuff)

  5. As suggested, perform an atbash decode on the text to get the following:
    imgurmmtcapUcapLcapMcapY(string of stuff)

  6. This leads you do this imgur link, a picture of a mirror. This suggests for you to reverse something. You can proceed in two ways from here. Either translate the rest of the string back into pigpen code, reverse, and then translate. Or you can go back to the original code, reverse it, apply rot-13 and atbash to get:
    imgurcapVoccapNmthreecapC(string of stuff)

  7. Now you have this picture. It tells you to rotate the pigpen code 90 degrees counterclockwise. Once you do that, convert the pigpen back to english and you will get the following string:
    capWponesixzerocapKcapWcapTjcapD

  8. Thus, the two giveaways are
    KWTjD
    Wp160

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Thanks for Fortix!

11 years ago
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D:
Don't even know where to start. /effort

11 years ago
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Hmm, Puzzle of what? Maybe u'r avatar? :D , clearly not awake yet... need more coffee.

11 years ago
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I see symbols (even words made of them) but have no clue what to do. I'll back to it later :)

11 years ago
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Nice easy one, thanks :)

11 years ago
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2nd part, nfi :(

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Was easy, but stuck on mirror.

11 years ago
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Solved for one of the 2 giveaways... Will try later on to get the next one. So far it has been a wonderful puzzle, very logical :)

EDIT: Solved the second one, was looking in the wrong part :)

11 years ago
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half life 3 confirmed

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have no idea of what to do. hue

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dammit i feel stupid

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Except for the 2nd and 3rd steps, the instructions are pretty much laid out for you. Hint for the end: both giveaways are are given at the end of the string. Just take the first 5 (noticeable) characters for the first and the last 5 for the second.

11 years ago
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still cant figure out the font of the symbols u_u

11 years ago
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It's a pretty common substitution cipher

11 years ago
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Anything you could say about the mirror?

11 years ago
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its shiny?

11 years ago
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Uhhh... what happens when you look in a mirror?

11 years ago
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The obvious thing that comes to my mind gives me nonsense. I see some vague patterns at the first half and second half though.

11 years ago
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Same :/ Tried going back to different steps but nothing from any of them.

11 years ago
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I'm not sure what hints I can give that wouldn't just give away the whole thing. shockedfrog has the right idea though. Go back a couple of steps and apply.

11 years ago
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I already solved it. :)
Just didn't bother to edit this.

11 years ago
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Hmm, well I got to the first set of mysterious symbols, but I don't have any idea what those little things mean...

11 years ago
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Boxes and dots all the way! What does it mean? Allll the waaaay.... XD

11 years ago
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I think to know what cypher is used but i don't know how to use all those words...

11 years ago
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must be doing something wrong, people keep talking about sets of symbols but all i have is one set of boxen lol

I like this puzzle.

11 years ago
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and the one thing I thought to line the boxen up with wasn't it...hmm

11 years ago
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no idea no idea...i know it may be easy for some but i have no idea where to start... D:

11 years ago
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Got me stumped with the letters. I've picked out some pretty obvious patterns but can't figure out what to do with them.

11 years ago
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heh, I didn't even get to the letters just the squares :)

11 years ago
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me too ._.

11 years ago
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A tip for what to do in IMGUR?

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You look at the picture and interpret what it wants you to do o.o

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What if I already did that and I'm facing an 'IMGUR' again? T_T

11 years ago
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As in, you have found a second imgur?

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As in I have found "imgur[...]". Not a picture yet.

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imgur links are 7 characters nowadays

11 years ago
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Is that a hint? Because I've got the boxes and the dots, I thought I knew their meaning (aka how to "translate" them and what to do with the result), but I end up with the "Quiz or key not found!" error again and again :/

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None of the steps should lead you to an itstoohard quiz

11 years ago
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solved. very interesting puzzle, thanks :)

11 years ago
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Hm. I write down cipher, solve the beginning and do what it says in the start of the cipher, but still end up with gibberish. am I doing something wrong?

11 years ago
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Same.

11 years ago
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Sounds right to me. Perhaps some of what you think is gibberish is not?

11 years ago
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yep, solved that part already. I'm at the 2nd (or 3rd? the one with the F) imgur. Looks easy, will continue from there tomorrow.

11 years ago
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Arrived to imgur and now?

11 years ago
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Interpret what the image means. Perhaps you need to go back a couple of steps and apply.

11 years ago
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No, the problem is that i have not found the image but only the host. You know what i mean.

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Like I said above, imgur links are 7 characters. Is there anything else you see after translating?

11 years ago
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Yes, something like 20-30 characters after imgur. :3

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Closed 11 years ago by jatan11t.