Thank you Mike for the generous giveaway. That was really a hard guessing game. The only thing I was really certain was 8 for ate - it's bit hard on non-English speakers, I guess, but that's also something you can find online. For a long time I thought half of 8 is o. Even fail wasn't an obvious answer. Well but your hints certainly did help, especially the third one.

Me too! I brute-forced only the 3rd letter!

How I solved it:
I just came from a lecture where there was a strange typo on the screen - "8" instead of "s" and I said "OMG" - I need to get home quick!

Thank you for the giveaway and impossible puzzle! Already got Skyrim though :)

Edit: the actual typo was "10Ba8e-T" instead of "10Base-T"

Had the hardest time jesus/god. Was pretty sure about 3/5 though. Thanks again for all the giveaways mike

Christ, this one was difficult! Spent quite a few hours on it - glad my boss did not notice...

Your 4th hint, about what you get on a question when you get it wrong (and to keep it simple) was kind of an eye-opener though.

I was so sure that God and Jesus referred to the holy trinity; I guess I thought too hard about that one.
I had picked x as my 3rd letter...until you changed the clue, making me (and probably many others) think it was F, until you changed the clue again.
Really, the only one I was absolutely sure about was the last one.

Thanks for the giveaway.

Fun times. Cheers.

hard puzzle thank u so much Mike! truly hope to win

tnx - god plz let me win

Thank you Mike! You Legend! Can't believe I managed to solve this puzzle, lol, was certainly the hardest one I've cracked so far but I wasn't going to let it beat me >:D I wants SKYRIM! Lol. Thank you again Mike :D Your giveaways are always epic!

Well hello there. The latest hint definitely helped, I was sure f instead of x. Now I just need to get points from somewhere >_>

Thanks for the puzzle, and giveaway.
I kept thinking 1. should be "o" for a long time :)

Thanks for the giveaway! cool puzzle. Keep them coming. Only thing I wasn't sure was the 1st one where I looked at my keyboard and got it. :D

I was thinking I was wrong on the God part, when it was really question 1. I had tried "o" and "u", and then finally actually wrote an "8" to see where you were "stopping halfway."

Thanks a lot man!

Took me forever. I kept thinking half of 8 = o, didn't think of s. Silly me.
Thanks!

Thanks, I had a hard time with 2 and 4 an till I reread the clue about them.
thanks for a fun puzzle!

Wow, can't believe I solved it. Anyways, thanks for this giveaway!

Wow, great puzzle, thanks!

Thanks for the giveaway!

That took a lot of guesses. Thanks Mike!!

Thanks for the opportunity, sure was hard now just some luck is needed ;) Fun puzzle as well as frustrating. I had most combinations but got a lil help from the comments on the forum with the Fail part, tought it was F,0 or o before. As for the rest I had

1. o e(3 is E and then u make it non capital ^^) s a t(pronouncing eight gives a and t)
2. x (cross) 1 (they form one and are the same) 3 (3-unity)
3. f O and 0
4. same as 2.
5. 8 (the only thing I was certain on ^^
   Anyway thx a lot Mike and sorry for the long post but just wanted to share my ways on how I got around the problem =)

Thank you very much...
Always thought the half of 8 is o...oh, when I realised my mistake...

I guess I should say I was lucky that when I saw the thread you'd already given all the clues so far, so I didn't spend a great deal of time on it.

1 is a cheap answer tbh. My first instinct was o1x1a, then I got than wrong so thought "ok maybe you're being a little sneaky with the last 1,so 8"
Then when I got that wrong I thought 2 and 4 were '3' for trinity, but nope. So I tried brute force for 2 and 4 and when I got nowhere I started getting irritated.

I thought, you're being sneaky somewhere else then, so I looked at all the ways to half 8. "Could the very middle piece be an 'x'? Is it 'u' or 'n' for the bottom and top? Is it 'B' that he made lowercase? 's'?"
Luckily I chose 's' but I still got it wrong because I kept the '3' for trinity. For some reason instead of using the different letters for the first one I decided to brute force 2 and 4 again. And here I am.

People argue that you are too vague on 2 and 4, but I don't think that's the case. I think you are misleading on 1.
People think 1 is 'o' and that can't be wrong, so they second guess 2 and 4.

And this is the part where I thank you for the giveaway. I think I will be very disappointed if I lose this.
I didn't even know there were private giveaways, it's a bit more exciting.

Thank you.

took me like... 20 minutes and it was the first answer which really eluded me till the end. I kept thinking it was o for the whole damn time cause I started by looking for more hints in the comments. also, now I got here and don't have enough points, ha