That's odd... there should be hints after an hour? Maybe I didn't set it up properly or something. I am heading out in a min, but can leave a hint here shortly.
Refreshed once again after several minutes and they showed up. Could you check the answers, since the letters still don't seem to match? (e.g. I bruteforced Q4, but this seems to be the answer for Q3)
Or maybe the right letter is also some kind of a puzzle? :)
finally solved it thanks! is a genius what you did, very well played, I had not ever thought of looking there and it's very simple, I tip my hat to you
May I know if the end point(s?) of the puzzle also have level requirements higher than 5+?
I am relatively proud for coming this far, but my time is limited today and it would be frustrating to solve the puzzle to find another giveaway which I cannot enter.
Don't want to appear thankless though, I appreciate the puzzle for the effort you put into it and being able to solve it at all even without the required level to enter the giveaways. ;)
Yes, once you figure out the puzzles, the two giveaways have no level requirements at all. Good you asked, and I think I added it to the bottom of my cake day train page. I have seen it happen to others who went through the trouble to solve them, and that would not be a very good way to reward somebody for solving a puzzle!
If I have all 5 required letters from the correct answers, is there a way to tell how to combine them?
I think I tried all 120 possible combinations using a Permutator, but I did not find the solution. :(
Sorry for asking so much in so little time, but as I said, I don't have unlimited time today and fear the giveaways might end before I am able to solve the way to them. :-/
If there is a way to know the combination, a simple 'Yes' or 'No' is perfectly fine. ;)
Yes, when you get all 5 correct, they are in that order from first to last. Knowing what to look for is the hardest part, I guess. The biggest hint is that it's 1 - 5 though. None of them are 6+ once you manage to find the giveaway. The descriptions in each question will point you directly to it if it's the right one, and it will be correct. Nothing has to be changed from the actual giveaways, since they are on each page at the designated spot from the ITH page.
Firstly, thank you very much for the generous hint.
But as I said, I solved the ITH puzzle and aquired all 5 letters from the answers, but if I put them into an URL like this: steamgifts.com/giveaway/XXXXX/ in the order of the questions, Steamgifts strangely redirects me back to the main page.
Well, I will check everything once again and hope for the best.
If you think your comment contains a little too many tips then you may delete it because I don't need the information (anymore). ;)
Edit: I feel so dumb now! -.-
The ITH answers are not case sensitive and while I was trying to figure out how the puzzle works I was lucky to find two letters through brute force which now were the wrong case, so they didn't work with Steamgifts! x.x
Well, about 1h for trying all the combinations (of the wrong letters) gone to waste, but at least I will not do the same mistake again in the future. :-/
I thought they would be case sensitive, so I guess that was an oversight on my part, but when you look back over each giveaway you plugged them into, they have the proper case that should be used ^_^
This was fun! I tried way too many ciphers and stuff... this was my first cryptogram, I got the idea all wrong at first! Thanks to your hint I understood the basic rules of your puzzle and managed to crack it, thank you very much :D
Yeah thanks! Now I'm trying to understand part 3, I got 2/5 so far but I can't find the direct correlation to find the others... I might have just been lucky, lol. I'm looking at Part 2 too for patterns though.
thanks a lot!
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Thanks! =]
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7hanks again fabs!!
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Thanks!
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You're welcome! I think I go to them all ^_^
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Tanks! A lot
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You're welcome!
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Waiting for ITH hints, since the letters don't seem to match :)
Edit: now I see there are no hints... :P
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That's odd... there should be hints after an hour? Maybe I didn't set it up properly or something. I am heading out in a min, but can leave a hint here shortly.
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Refreshed once again after several minutes and they showed up. Could you check the answers, since the letters still don't seem to match? (e.g. I bruteforced Q4, but this seems to be the answer for Q3)
Or maybe the right letter is also some kind of a puzzle? :)
Edit: oh, I was so blind...
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nevermind, maybe i am on the right track ;D
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Yeah, almost there!
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I can not solve the puzzle, I have no idea how to do it :S
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Did you get the hints there yet?
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that of "One of five possible alphanumerics"? I have no idea which refers to, I look the giveaways of the train and I still do not understand it
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finally solved it thanks! is a genius what you did, very well played, I had not ever thought of looking there and it's very simple, I tip my hat to you
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thank you, and glad you got it!
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omg another puzzle...is this a puzzletrain?
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You're fairly close to the end, not much further to go... I made it much shorter than I had initially planned, since it was my first try at a puzzle.
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May I know if the end point(s?) of the puzzle also have level requirements higher than 5+?
I am relatively proud for coming this far, but my time is limited today and it would be frustrating to solve the puzzle to find another giveaway which I cannot enter.
Don't want to appear thankless though, I appreciate the puzzle for the effort you put into it and being able to solve it at all even without the required level to enter the giveaways. ;)
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Yes, once you figure out the puzzles, the two giveaways have no level requirements at all. Good you asked, and I think I added it to the bottom of my cake day train page. I have seen it happen to others who went through the trouble to solve them, and that would not be a very good way to reward somebody for solving a puzzle!
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If I have all 5 required letters from the correct answers, is there a way to tell how to combine them?
I think I tried all 120 possible combinations using a Permutator, but I did not find the solution. :(
Sorry for asking so much in so little time, but as I said, I don't have unlimited time today and fear the giveaways might end before I am able to solve the way to them. :-/
If there is a way to know the combination, a simple 'Yes' or 'No' is perfectly fine. ;)
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Yes, when you get all 5 correct, they are in that order from first to last. Knowing what to look for is the hardest part, I guess. The biggest hint is that it's 1 - 5 though. None of them are 6+ once you manage to find the giveaway. The descriptions in each question will point you directly to it if it's the right one, and it will be correct. Nothing has to be changed from the actual giveaways, since they are on each page at the designated spot from the ITH page.
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Firstly, thank you very much for the generous hint.
But as I said, I solved the ITH puzzle and aquired all 5 letters from the answers, but if I put them into an URL like this: steamgifts.com/giveaway/XXXXX/ in the order of the questions, Steamgifts strangely redirects me back to the main page.
Well, I will check everything once again and hope for the best.
If you think your comment contains a little too many tips then you may delete it because I don't need the information (anymore). ;)
Edit: I feel so dumb now! -.-
The ITH answers are not case sensitive and while I was trying to figure out how the puzzle works I was lucky to find two letters through brute force which now were the wrong case, so they didn't work with Steamgifts! x.x
Well, about 1h for trying all the combinations (of the wrong letters) gone to waste, but at least I will not do the same mistake again in the future. :-/
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I thought they would be case sensitive, so I guess that was an oversight on my part, but when you look back over each giveaway you plugged them into, they have the proper case that should be used ^_^
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This was fun! I tried way too many ciphers and stuff... this was my first cryptogram, I got the idea all wrong at first! Thanks to your hint I understood the basic rules of your puzzle and managed to crack it, thank you very much :D
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You're welcome! I tried to describe in the best way I could without giving too much information away. Glad it helped some!
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Yeah thanks! Now I'm trying to understand part 3, I got 2/5 so far but I can't find the direct correlation to find the others... I might have just been lucky, lol. I'm looking at Part 2 too for patterns though.
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