Internet Explorer is shit.

Standard rules apply. Do not leak, post answers, suggest hints, or directly link to the prize/giveaway.

You start here. Good luck.


Hint It's just like my quiz says, translator site is useless for this puzzle. It might give you a hint on what to do with the code, but that's all. Don't waste your time there.

Hint When you meet a fair lass, be sure to check her out properly.

Hint If you got a drawing, it is a copy. You need to find original one.

Hint Familiarizing yourself with how sites like pastebin or imgur actually work can go a long way when it comes to solving puzzles.


Solution

  1. Supreme Commander 2 giveaway description is of course an itstoohard code = http://itstoohard.com/puzzle/e1uuLD1Y

  2. After answering the quiz question you get a pastebin link

  3. Pastebin code is an image encoded to base64. If you tried to decode it on the translator page, you might have noticed it says 'GIF89a' at the beginning. What's the easiest way to make an actual image out of it? First, tweak the pastebin url a bit to get a non-raw version. As you can see, this paste has a previous version. Click view the difference.
    Now just put both versions together, paste the whole code into your browsers address bar and press enter. Clicky

  4. Those of you who recognized the drawing probably knew where to look, but you can just save the image to your hard drive and upload it to Google Image Search. Either way you should end up here.

  5. Open the Imgur link under Q3 and delete .png file extnsion from the url. Clicky. URL from the image description will take you to the next step.

  6. When you decode the morse code you get just a short message. Dead end? Nope. Download the .mp3 and view it's ID3 tag with your favorite audio player or just open the file with a notepad. YouTube link I put there should be hard to miss. Clicky

  7. It is a short gameplay video of Sherlock Holmes versus Jack the Ripper. I tried to hint at the next step by taking about 15 screenshots and browsing them near the end of the clip.

  8. If you check my Steam profile, you'll see I have only one Sherlock screenshot posted there. Click the link in comments below to see an almost identical image. Take a close look to see that pretty lady has a giveaway code tattooed on her right arm.

Final giveaway

Few brutes got here before completing previous steps :-P

Giveaway code characters in sequence:

  1. Hidden here in the source of OP

  2. Hidden in the source of Supreme Commander 2 giveaway

  3. Description under the Message.mp3

  4. Imgur description of the "Twin sister" image

  5. Hidden in the source of The Last Remnant giveaway


The End

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lol u put there the link to the giveaway

12 years ago
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^This. Did you do it on purpose or I'm ovbiously missing something?

12 years ago
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no hints ;p dzieki

12 years ago
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i LOOOOVE this puzzles! the only i can solve!

12 years ago
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Actually you didn't solve it.

12 years ago
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tough one

12 years ago
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12 years ago
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Nice puzzle, thank you BigBadGoat.

12 years ago
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Hah... I thought I was onto something, but apparently not. I'm having fun with this, thanks BigBadGoat.

12 years ago
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Found a drawing, not sure what to do next.

12 years ago
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It's actually quite hard >.<

12 years ago
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was clipping right along, but I seem to be stuck now, one step beyond where I said "hi" :(

12 years ago
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I found the "hi". :)
And stuck at same place.

12 years ago
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Seems neither of us are stuck anymore! :D

12 years ago
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Was stuck there too...but finally solved.

12 years ago
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+1

Damn you Sherlock, what to do with you?!

12 years ago
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There's where I'm stuck

12 years ago
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Completed!

12 years ago
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Wish I had time to do your puzzle :(

12 years ago
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Screw the lab!

12 years ago
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I'm absolutely lost... I'm convinced the link in the question was very misleading

12 years ago
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I still can't do anything with the drawing. Is it possible that while finding it some data might not have been properly decoded and became missing or something like that?

12 years ago
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No, I don't think so. If drawing looks complete, you're probably overthinking this part.

12 years ago
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Should you be able to open the drawing? Because even though I think I know in which file format the drawing is, I am unable to open it

12 years ago
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I googled the text from the giveaway description, and i got to the puzzle, and i found the binary code translator, what drawing are you people talking about, i see no drawing anywhere

12 years ago
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Ok i got the raw paste bin link

12 years ago
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Blah. I never know how to decode those long strings.

12 years ago
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^this :|

12 years ago
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I'm seeing weird characters �. Seems I'm missing something in my web explorer.

12 years ago
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And which browser would that be?

12 years ago
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Probably Hacker or Comodo

12 years ago
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It's Firefox actually ^^

12 years ago
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Are you using some kind of ad-ons?

12 years ago
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Are you talking about the site you don't need to use?

12 years ago
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That's where I get them.

12 years ago
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Yes. Even though I supposedly don't need to use it, fact is that if I do, I get a hint that points me towards a pic format. However, I cannot generate said picture. :S

12 years ago
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and that's all you can get from there. It's useless otherwise.

12 years ago
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I tried everything to generate the picture :S

12 years ago
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All you really need in a non-shit browser.

12 years ago
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So, what browser do you recommend for it? Under Chrome I have the same problem.

12 years ago
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Chrome is not your problem :-) My advice about browser has nothing to do with this site. The site will give you same results in every browser.

12 years ago
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I believe ToR?

12 years ago
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It seems that it could be problem of a browser or Windows. Actually using external tools gave good result.

12 years ago
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I get them too, in chrome.

12 years ago
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how to solve this ?

12 years ago
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clap That's a one of a kind puzzle mate and what should I do with the x?

12 years ago
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e1uuLD1Y

12 years ago
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What do I do with the Raw Paste Bin I recieved?

12 years ago
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If someone wrote about it, it wouldn't be a puzzle anymore.

12 years ago
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I'm not sure if I hit a dead-end, or took a really wrong turn somewhere....

12 years ago
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Umm. OK.

12 years ago
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There shouldn't be any confusion of lower/upper case right?

12 years ago
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No. You should not need to bruteforce casing at any point in this puzzle.

12 years ago
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The itstoohard site is not case sensitive. Other sites may be.

12 years ago
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I feel scared

12 years ago
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Damn. I can't get how to solve that translator part. I had few ideas, but none of them were correct

12 years ago
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Rotfl - so easy. Why am I always looking for some hidden messages, and never trying such easy options :D

12 years ago
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Nice and detailed drawing of ..., well you know what. But now I'm at a dead end -- at least for now :)

12 years ago
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Got a couple of things now, but I hit a dead end, can't figure out how to convert it

It may be because my knowledge of coding and all that is near to 0

12 years ago
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Got the image, I know where it is from, but don't know what to do with it.

12 years ago
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Got it :)

12 years ago
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What the hell am I meant to do with the pastebin -.-

12 years ago
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Closed 12 years ago by BigBadGoat.