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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Click the link and all I see is the srouce logo, is this the start of the puzzle?

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yes thank you found the start..time for some puzzling

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bump for solved! very fun puzzle.

11 years ago
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Bump for solved! :)

11 years ago
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Ugh... shattering... I feel like I'm so close, but so far away

11 years ago
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After mirror. Found the F image...but does the gibberish at the start mean anything or do you just need to find the f image? Cause im now stuck at the F image
tried doing what was implied but yeah to no avail. So i was thinking maybe the gibberish was important.

EDIT: Took a longer look at f img...omg genius! Solved the puzzle thank you...My first puzzle and it was super fun

EDIT2: Solved the second giveaway, Had to guess.. Could be a mistake you made or i missed something..Check you're giveaway i typed what happened on it

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I responded to you

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At the 'F' image (I suppose)...I believe I'm proceeding correctly but I'm not getting anywhere. Bah. I'm probably over thinking it

11 years ago
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Solved it... part of me dislikes you... the other not so much.

11 years ago
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I don't know if I made a mistake or not, but if you reach the F image and get stuck, try going the opposite direction.

Edit: nvm, F image is correct. I just checked.

11 years ago
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FYI, I think people understand the opposite of what you mean. I solved it using reverse engineering :)

But in any case, solving it is easy after reaching that point.

11 years ago
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Ah, people think that's what I applied rather than what you're supposed to do :P

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Bump for give up! I don't wanna leave hints... I did get somewhere with the second ya know and found the "key" but either I'm not creative enough to come up with the right "combination" or just can't be bothered enough.... anyway. Congrats to those who got it!

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Less than 24 hours left :3

11 years ago
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its a game engine :OOOO

Where's my free game?

11 years ago
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Bump for solved. First puzzle in a long time I almost gave up on. Very nicely done.

11 years ago
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Solved at the last. Hwv last clue was wrong, i think.

And won.

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lucky, lucky :3

11 years ago
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Gave up at stage three :) Thanks for the solution! ^_^

11 years ago
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You won this time :P

Thanks for the puzzle!

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Oh Christ, I was stuck on the mirror and simply just reversed the string of text (wnkywnaywnrfywnvikeurcyoxpccyonksjrggcyoc) and was staring at that for hours.

Very nice puzzle, Jatan11t, as usual. Very logical and well thought out, just a shame I didn't crack it :)

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I'm not sure in what way I'm screwing this up, but even with the solution I still can't get anything from step 6.

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Picture. The top is the original message, bottom image has the middle line mirrored correctly. Bottom line is mirrored and rotated correctly. In both cases you have to apply rot-13 and atbash again.

11 years ago
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I might be me, but I can't even complete step 2. :')
Using MS Paint, get a full white image. Using Photoshop, I get something slightly different, but still crap.

11 years ago
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Really? I can't fathom why that would happen. The black color is not pure black, it's one unit brightness brighter than the black of the symbols. Plus, there are the black dots you can see that a bucket fill should not touch.

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Closed 11 years ago by jatan11t.