That was a fun and creative ticket, plus a decent train behind it! Take the bump, you've earned it.
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I know all the names, tried first name, last name, nothing works. Thanks, but I have to give up.
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I'm not giving any personalized hint, sorry.
Also I'd appreciate if you kept your guesses and assumptions to yourself.
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but a little help would have been appreciated
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Thanks for deleting the post.
As I said, I'm sorry but I'm not giving individual hints, for reasons that should be obvious.
Having said that, there are already a few hints (explicit or not) about what you should be looking for. Plus, several comments in this discussion have useful pointers as well.
This puzzle has been up for less than one day and a half. There's still more than 4 days to go. I was planning on giving some more general hints about it, maybe tomorrow, or on Thursday. But the truth is that many people seem to be solving it without actually realizing the... thing/trick/theme (call it what you like), so I don't know... 😅
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I think I've got the "modus operandi" including lower and upper case
I think I've got the "hints" from your image
but still the page does not exist
so probably one of them is a bit more "foggy"
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I wait for the further clues in the next days
I've tried a brute force on 1 of the 5 but still no luck so the mistake is elsewhere
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EDIT: never mind. There's nothing you've said in this post that hasn't been said before.
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"Nice to meet you! Do you know your A-B-Cs?"
"A-B-C-D-E-F-G-H-I-J-K-L-M-N-O-P-Q-R-S-T-U-V-W-X-Y-Z"
"Terrific! You do indeed. Now, instead of telling you what I think, I'll do something better, I'll invite you to The Alphabet Train! 26 wagons, one for each letter of the alphabet! You need to be Level 3 or more to board it, and you can get on it until next Sunday 10th of May, at 10AM UTC."
(...)
"Oh, right, I'm sorry, here's the ticket."
This train and puzzle are over! Nothing to see here!
(except the solution below if you're curious)
The train ticket included 5 images, so first of all you needed to figure out that each one corresponded to an alphanumeric character, and combining them all together you'd obtain the relevant part of the URL to the first wagon of the train.
Now, I said several times in the discussion that there was some common theme to what you needed to "extract" from each image. And, this being The Alphabet Train it kind of made sense to be something related to the alphabet. Or, maybe, AN alphabet?
Indeed, the thing in question was the NATO phonetic alphabet, and each image corresponded to an element in this alphabet:
1: Victor Vran ---> Victor ---> v
2: A couple tango dancing ---> Tango ---> t
3: Charlie Sheen ---> Charlie ---> C
4: Juliette Lewis ---> Juliet ---> j
5: Sub-Zero ---> Zero ---> 0
All together: vtCj0, which gives us the URL of the first wagon of the train.
The relative sizes of the images was a clue of whether they were upper-case or lower-case. I also made Sub-Zero taller than lower-case but shorter than upper-case in order to indicate that he represented neither, but a number. Anyway, "Sub" doesn't belong to the NATO alphabet, so it was the "Zero" part what we wanted.
Finally, a couple of hours after the puzzle began, I edited the OP so the first letter of each paragraph spelled N-A-T-O, but I'm not sure anybody noticed it :P
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