http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/xxxxx

To get the address, replace "xxxxx" with the solution of this. (the same image, but on imgur)

(Puzzle idea shamelessly borrowed from one ciphering competition. Ends in 1 week.)

Hint #1: Solution requires the knowledge of a certain existing coding method (such as Morse code). It is fairly well-known, and the details can be found using Google/Wiki.

Hint #2: another version of the image

Hint #3: Those who know what the puzzle looks like probably don't know the code by heart. Those who know the code by heart probably don't know what the puzzle looks like. (There may be some rare exceptions.)

I HAVE POSTED THE SOLUTION IN THE THREAD

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It's Baudot code.

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how the heck.... Baudot is in 5 bits, so I'm super confused now

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Yea.... not gonna happpen.

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thx for the puzzle hope im gonna win it :D

13 years ago
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Me too :)

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Here, this might help some of you with that obsession with number 5. ;-)

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nope

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Oh, that would be quite an elaborate way of using Morse code. Also, the method you used to skip some of the lines seems interesting. :-)

13 years ago
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really i think hes somewhere close. i started to use the morse abc to understand its lines and dots ;D lets hope i find it ;D

13 years ago
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Damm i like these puzzles if i get teh hint how to start ;D someone agrees ? :D

13 years ago
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Few More Hints Will Be Helpful :P

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just so you know, chuckie001... this is driving me nuts. :D

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So far 4 entries, 5 days remaining. Take a break, and later, maybe you'll see the puzzle from a different perspective and it will fall into place. ;-)

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I think I may be approaching it from the right angle, just need to figure out what I'm looking at! :P
Good to hear there are entries!
And thanks for this! It definitely makes the giveaway more interesting. :)

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I'm going to try :P

13 years ago
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Man, this was so easy to figure out. Letters are t, r, o, l, l. ;P

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So its over ?

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Open for another 5 days :)

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Wait .. arent the answer

t, r, o, l, l. ??

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Of course, ..... NO ! :D

13 years ago
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Sir you've just been trolled.

13 years ago
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HAHAHA I found your puzzle @ yahoo answers

Somebody wants others to solve the puzzle for him/her :)

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That's kinda sad

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Dear Jodi, I'm quite disappointed. You could have at least told the people that they are helping you to get a free game.

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LULZ Isn't that what you were doing when you were searching for the puzzle online? I already told you guys, it's "troll".

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Nope, I was searching for coding methods. Not for somebody to solve the puzzle for me.

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Nope, spent 2 hours trying to decrypt... I have no idea.

Anyone got any idea what language the code is in?

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The code isn't in any language. The solution is a group of five random characters, without any special meaning. The characters may be lowercase letters, uppercase letters, or digits (not all three possibilities are necessarily included).

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Nah.. I give up!

Thanks for the puzzle that wasted 6 hrs of my life! Lol.

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This is really... difficult... Which is why I should commend you, chuckie.

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I see it now. :P now I just need to use the information I've obtained. >:D

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this is more complicated than it looks

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Perhaps you need to look at it from a different perspective. :-)

(Three days remaining, one entrant says it took him about 10 minutes. Yes, I know the last sentence isn't helping much. :-] )

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I'm pretty sure I'm looking at it the right way. ;)

yeah I'm sorta jealous of that entrant right now. XD

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Challenge Accepted : P

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Has anyone even got in?

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Five people so far (only four of them have entered).

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wow :/
thats a huge number considering the level of difficulty

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Sigh, I am taking a break from this. So far nothing productive.

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I already know 3 of 5. The other too i can't discover, this is really hard. But good job on this giveaway :)

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I'm afraid you might be on a wrong track there. I strongly think this puzzle is all-or-nothing. (Give or take one detail that some of you might consider ambiguous, and which might cause you to try 2 codes before you find out which of them is the right one. But even then, you would know which two codes to try.)

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Jeez, I'm still clueless.

You are going to tell us how you encoded it after it's over, right?

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Six people in. :D :D :D :D :D

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ffffffffffffffff, DOES NOT COMPUTE.

My head hurts, I'm taking a break for it :(

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After the giveaway is over do we get the answer, im sure it's sending me crazy trying to find out what it is. The challenge of breaking it seems to be more important then entering it now.

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Hey! Does nobody can translate it? ))

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haha you said "shit" really funny

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I found the right direction guys just count stuff i'm not gonna give it away but thats a point in the right direction im still not done but i think im onto something

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A few people successfully made it, so this will probably be the last hint:

Those who know what the puzzle looks like probably don't know the code by heart. Those who know the code by heart probably don't know what the puzzle looks like. (There may be some rare exceptions.)

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i c wut u did thar.

but I still can't solve it. :|

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I think I figured out the pattern(PERSPECTIVE!), but it didn't help much. My eyes are bleeding from trying to compare my idea to other "images".

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Closed 13 years ago by chuckie001.