This is a giveaway for the Hitman Collection, including :

Hitman: Codename 47
Hitman 2: Silent Assassin
Hitman: Blood Money
Hitman: Absolution
Hitman: Sniper Challenge

If you don't own MORE THAN TWO of those games you're welcome to participate. You must be at least level 2 and have a profile in good standing (no unactivated gifts, no gift won twice, no VAC ban). The giveaway ends in a week.

You can start here

It is hard, but it's not broken, so disregard people stating that they found a link that "doesn't work".


HINT : Many people seem to have a problem with my handwriting. Fair enough, if you find what you are supposed to find there's no reason to get stuck just because I write like shit. So, here's the format for that thing you found but couldn't figure out :

lowercase letter, lowercase letter, number, lowercase letter, number.

HINT 2 : For the part that is not handwritten... Be careful with the font. It makes everything look like it's uppercase.

HINT 3 : An user who just solved the puzzle warned me about something : when you get to the second dropbox image, DO NOT SAVE IT by right-clicking it. Instead, use the dedicated button in the dropbox interface.

That should be enough.


SOLUTIONS

1) A puzzle about bald guys :
1 - John Travolta
2 - Patrick Stewart
3 - Verne Troyer
4 - Barbie
5 - Britney Spears

Answering correctly gives you this link

2) First dropbox image :
If you look carefully at the image, you might notice in the upper-left corner, some text hidden in the HUD : i.imgur.com/fgL5wVH.jpg

3) Imgur image :
If you look carefully at the image, you will probably find letters hidden in the background. They are - obviously - upside down, so just twist your head at 180°, ouch, and you'll see the letters are ef1t6.

You know what do do with 5 characters codes if you are, let's say, a steamgifts user : www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/ef1t6/

4) Hitman Absolution giveaway :
Wait, what, this giveaway ended a year ago ! But a message tells you you are in the right place. Up until now my puzzle was about pictures, so it's safe to assume it's the same on this step. Just have a look at the image posted on the giveaway and you might notice these words : "reserved for bumps".

When I created this thread I made a "reserved for bumps" post, at the top of the page (or at the bottom if you're using an addon for SG). There is a super duper secret url hidden in this post. Just look at the source code to find it : https://www.dropbox.com/s/g7euyuhu1a6nddo/01.jpg?dl=0

5) Second dropbox image
If you've spent too much time on this picture I'm certain your face started looking like the one in it. Sorry about that, some people like it challenging and I had to change my method a bit.

There's a reason why this picture is not hosted on a "regular" image hosting site. Putting it on such sites will slightly modify it and strip it from informations that might have been hidden, for instance, secret text written in the data of the image. Download the image and open it with a text editor. At the end of the code, I added an url : www.itstoohard.com/puzzle/gO9ZfQFx

6) Second itstoohard puzzle :
1 - 640509-040147
2 - 5
3 - Merces letifer
4 - romania
5 - WA2000
6 - silverballer
7 - rubber duck
8 - smith

Variations of the format for the answers were included, so that you could still get it right if you wrote "5 fathers", "five", or "five fathers" for instance.

Solving this itstoohard puzzle gives you an url : http://www.sgtools.info/giveaways/b8233484-ec42-11e5-8d20-04019cc0dc01

7) Final dick move :

However, if you just click the link, it takes you to a DiRT showdown giveaway of mine that ended a while ago. Instead of clicking the url you've been given upon completing the itstoohard puzzle, Just copy the url and paste it in your browser, it will take you to the correct giveaway.

I hope you had fun working on it, please let me know, feedback is always useful.

8 years ago*

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ok, tried to figure out the dropbox image but guessed it wrong =(

8 years ago
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Hmmm. I found something, but it's a Red Faction: Armageddon giveaway that I don't have access to.

8 years ago
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Whoa. I'll add you, I need to know how you got there, I don't think that's part of my puzzle.

8 years ago
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Hmm, is it the reward that sucks, is it that all the SteamGifts puzzle solvers died of old age ?

8 years ago
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My guess is that most people have at least one of those Hitman games. Especially since Hitman 2 was given away for free in the last november, so yeah. :/

I think if you change the requirement for owning at maximum 2, more people would be able to join

8 years ago
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Thank you for the suggestion, maybe I'll do that.

8 years ago
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stucked at association q7, what could it be? google refuses to help me(

8 years ago
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Just a bit more research.

8 years ago
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I do not quite understand the question, btw. How many words the answer contains?

8 years ago
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I'm in the same situation... google has nothing to help on that

8 years ago
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there is a link in the image of dropbox but imgr returns: Image removed

8 years ago
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No, it doesn't, you just didn't write correctly, I can assure you.

8 years ago
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Ok, at least I know the puzzle is supposed to work but I've been at it for some time now and started to get tired. I mean... I already entered everything I could come up with (backwards, all caps, entering 5 digits in a SG GA link, .........) and can't find nothing.
Maybe its just too difficult or I am not seeing something obvious.

I have none of the Hitman and would like to participate though... oh well... Maybe I'll give it another try later.

Thank you! :)

8 years ago
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remember, the image shows : "i.imgur"

8 years ago
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I got past that... by oculting the ".jpg" ?!!?!... now I'm stuck at "reser....mps" still trying to figure it out! :)

EDIT: solving "itstoohard" puzzle! :) I hope this is the last step.

8 years ago*
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I was like you. Then i looked that link carefully and i solved. Actually it is not that hard.

8 years ago
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does it have any kind of twist in the URL or is it just plain pasting the URL in a browsing?

Because if that's that there is something wrong with my browser / internet because the end result is allways the same. removed.jpg

8 years ago
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Stuck at the landing platform. Found a hint there, but it does not seem to lead me anywhere.

8 years ago
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edited the OP with help regarding this.

8 years ago
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Oh, thanks, that did it.

8 years ago
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I found hint on platform too. but link isnt working for me

8 years ago
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check the OP for hint

8 years ago
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what is OP? my English i not so good to understand that)

8 years ago
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Original Post. The head of the thread, above. The part that says HINT.

8 years ago
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Now "I`m in the right place" but it looks like the end for me(

8 years ago
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the giveaway ended =(

8 years ago
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No. Please edit your post as this is potentially leaking.

8 years ago
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may be the link isn't right ? because i have Ended 1 year ago

8 years ago
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another mystery i guess , but i couldn't solve

8 years ago
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Stuck on a handwriting part but thanks for the fun so far ^^

8 years ago
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check OP for help regarding my handwriting. I hope you get to find it since you own none of the games and gifted quite a lot in a short time :-)

8 years ago*
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Stuck on the link

8 years ago
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Bump for solved.

8 years ago
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Well played ! Don't give answers ;-)

8 years ago
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l find only hitman absolution :/ but cant find nothing on that picture

8 years ago*
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C++

8 years ago
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thx but that not help me to much

8 years ago
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I just say that I'm there too =d

8 years ago
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Bump for finally solved! Thank you!)

8 years ago
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you actually gave away such collection 1 year ago...

8 years ago
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Thanks for hint 2. I think that's as far as I'm gonna get so I'll leave it there :D

8 years ago
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any hint for attachment on absolution giveaway page? that picture is hard for me, realy can see anything on that, 2 guns, head and dark. L will give up here, if there be any hint l will back and try again.

8 years ago
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give up.

Solved the ITH, but no idea what to with the result of link given

8 years ago
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I found the handwriting part, but I don't understand how to use it (even with the hint...).

I mean: I tried some combinations, but maybe I'm misidentifying some letters/numbers. :(

8 years ago
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Stuck in Paris, that face is too distracting.

8 years ago
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I'm on the same boat. That face !

8 years ago
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+1 dat face
I've tried everything but the image is a devoid of clues as that face

8 years ago
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I'm honestly out of ideas, I'll wait and hope hints are given out </3 Good luck to you! :D

8 years ago
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The problem is, I would really like to help, but I also consider those who made it without hints, and I have to not make it unfair for them.

8 years ago
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Can we at least get aan image with a better resolution ? It really feels like all those pixel sized blurs are an obstacle to finding it

8 years ago
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For which image are you requesting a better resolution version ?

edit : nevermind, I know which picture you're working on.

8 years ago
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If you look at the solution now you'll see that the resolution had nothing to do with the visibility of the hidden code - at least not with the Paris image.

8 years ago
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Totally understandable and I'm actually glad you're doing that, I guess !
I just hope I figure it out at some point.. I feel soo close to the end </3

8 years ago
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Bump for being stuck on bump. :o
Rebump for having passed bump but still being stuck. ;)

View attached image.
8 years ago*
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Got to the "man without a face" image. R.F.B "bump" because I'm not seeing anything else to do.

  • edit: haha. Never mind. I some how glossed over the level 2 requirement. Think I need to get some glasses.
8 years ago*
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You solved the man without a face ?????

8 years ago
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I don't think so. I found some text hidden in the image when I messed around with it in photoshop, but no link. & then I gave up because I actually fully read the initial post & realized that my level was too low to enter - that & I was starting to get an headache.

8 years ago
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Oh nvm, wrong image, though you meant something else

8 years ago
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like what? I was talking about the image linked in an old giveaway thread. That's as far as I got.

8 years ago
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Stuck on the awful handwriting... not sure if hint helps much.

8 years ago
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Hello.
Something should be on the second picture or it's just the picture? :D

8 years ago
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Hi ! If it's there...then it has something to do with the puzzle

8 years ago
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Can't find anything on it :(

8 years ago
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Well, keep looking, it's there :-O

8 years ago
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Bump for solved.

8 years ago
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couldn't pass handwritten part yet :( even with hint

8 years ago
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add me to tell me what you have

8 years ago
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