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Not even sure what it is we're supposed to solve. Trying to get any reliable foundation on this feels like stepping into The Da Vinci Code territory. Far too many variables.
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Unless I'm mistaken: too many red herrings.
Kansas city shuffle-style.
And yes, still trying, looking at it, dying inside.
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Yeah but the KCS requires the participants to be aware and yet misled. Such as letting them know you're trying to con them, but they're misled in thinking your dice are crooked, or your three cups are rigged... wheras the con is actually elsewhere.
This is more like somebody just set up a table and put random pieces from random games on top of it, offered no rules and then says "there is a prize if you win" . That's not really a KCS scenario, that's more just logic spaghetti of a Da Vinci Code approach, so unless the con is secretly in wanting to waste people's time (aka : the only way to win is to not roll the dice), we need to hire a crack team of UFO abductees, Elvis spotters and conpiracy theorists to break this one. Unless it's staring me right in the face and I'm just too dumb / too clever to see it, and grouching over nothing but my own incompetence. \:3/
Interested in seeing the solution once the giveaway is over (and how they tried to streamline it). Constructing a good cryptic puzzle must be a gigantic pain, but also so easy to get wrong. I reserve the right to wield both a pitchfork AND a torch if it doesn't meet my impossible standards though!
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I hope it was impossible enough for ya :P
(very similar to that witcher 3 puzzle)
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Newp, it missed my impossible standards. IT'S CLOBBERIN' TIME.
It's as I expected. Far too many red herrings and not remotely enough breadcrumbs to let people form a basis for their search on. This is of course based on the fact you haven't actually told us what breadcrumbs were supposed to be followed, all you've done is shown us the solution. Care to clue us in, here? I am assuming it was a simple diagonal across the codes of the previous giveaways, with the first digit of the last giveaway signified by the reverse "#1:", right? What kind of hints and breadcrumbs did you actually use to lead people towards this? I really hope there is more to the hints than what I'm seeing, because what little there is can be interpretted waaaaay too broadly, to the point of verging on absurdity. :P
As I said before, it's your giveaway and yours to do with as you please (and any giveaway is an act of charity that helps keep SG afloat!), but unless enough due consideration is taken in making a puzzle, you're inviting people to burn their time away under false assumption of a clever puzzle with a sporting chance. If you make it so deliberately vague, any tiny mistake you drop will lead people to a thousand other search efforts that waste time. It's why I made that previous, because there was a typo in the Hatred giveaway's description..
(shall burn the...)
What part does the illuminati symbol with "LITCH" faded onto it play?
Were the upper-case letters you removed from the descriptions just purely there to mislead?
Mixing your clues so much without following some kind of standard method means that a heavy part of it comes from pure guesswork rather than trying to unravel a sequence or detect a hidden meaning, y'know? When you added the reversed "#1:" you also reversed the giveaway name in the link, which would then actually make the correct letter no longer the first, but the last, if you were reading it backwards. You see how labyrinthine it gets? Don't get me wrong, I'm under no illusion that my own shit doesn't stink, making elaborate or detailed puzzles is hard, but too many red herrings and suddenly PITCHFORKS AND TORCHES.
Ah well, at least you know that whoever got the game was desperate enough to really work overtime for it? Haha :)
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I assumed most people got that the descriptions didnt matter when i kept changing it completely lol, if i gave any hints i usually dont change anything important after 1 person has already solved it lol.
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So all that remains is that you just thought people would enter random letter combos from the 5x5 grid until they got it, and figured the reversed "#1:" correctly with no other context or guide for it's operational value? Yeaaah that's still mostly just endurance rather than deduction, IMO. |3
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WHY DO YOU KEEP CHANGING THE DESCRIPTIONS? I CAN TELL, YOU KNOW!
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It feels like the first puzzle is finding the puzzle
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either 9 or 10 people solved, i stopped counting :P
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Sigh...spending hours trying every clever solution I could think of was apparently a huge waste of time. I can only assume the solution is not clever...especially considering the fact that only 11 people have solved it. This has pretty much turned me off to steamgifts puzzle threads.
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bump...i can't get it...oh well....lucky winner of the game i hate you .C
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Congrats to the winner! I'm curious what the solution was. Thanks!
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The solution is posted! Congrats to the winner ;)
And yes, same puzzle as witcher 3 :)
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Thanks for posting the solution. and for the giveaway.
And yes, same puzzle as witcher 3 :)
I'm new to this, and didn't know about your witcher puzzle. Knowing how you've done puzzles in the past was actually an important factor here.
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Indeed, the constantly changing descriptions didn't put people off from ignoring descriptions.
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Man I tried the first letter, second letter thing... Just didn't swap the last link :/ That actually makes me so sad, I was so close ;__:
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I had thought the 1 in the last link meant it was the start of the code, not that you reversed what letter to pick at the end :c
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Giveaway ends September 18th
http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/A1Lul/the-witcher-3-wild-hunt
http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/sa53f/far-cry-3-blood-dragon
http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/iPKv3/final-fantasy-type-0-hd (Shhh) http://i.imgur.com/KeN0LLR.png
http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/Dhc4c/hatred
http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/LmVJq/yrots-etelpmoc-2-enirt
Goodluck!
The Solution is http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/AaK4L/
Get it?
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