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My puzzle giveaways were just deleted... by me.

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Nayenezgani

I'm sorry to disappoint everyone, including myself, but after thinking this over for a bit I have decided to delete the giveaways I have been making the last couple of days. I'm posting this thread for full disclosure, to let everyone know what happened and why it happened.

I had a lot of fun making the puzzles and a lot of people have told me they enjoyed solving them as well, but unfortunately some assholes decided to ruin everyone's fun by leaking the answers to the puzzles and even direct links to the giveaways themselves. To be honest I was afraid of this from the start, but I hoped I could count on the honesty and integrity of the SG community. Apparently, I was wrong. Like so often, a few bad apples have ruined it for everyone else. Deleting the giveaways is a very drastic measure, but since there is no way to identify everyone who abused this leak this is the only fair solution I can think of.

I have proof of these leaks if any admin needs to confirm it, but I'm not posting it here to prevent a witch hunt, and to protect the person who informed me about this.

I will think about this for a while and come up with an alternative way to do these giveaways that will hopefully prevent leaks such as this.

I'll edit this post later to show the correct answers to all the puzzles, just like I promised. For those who want to try the puzzles for fun (there will be no prize unfortunately), here they are:
The first one.
The second one.
The third one.
The fourth one.

PUZZLE SOLUTIONS

Note that for many of these there were multiple correct answers, but I will only post the most common one here.

Answers for the first puzzle: (reward was Eufloria)
1 Duke Nukem
2 Mario
3 Link
4 Lara Croft
5 Ryu
6 Megaman
7 Solid Snake
8 Sonic
9 Cloud Strife
10 Doomguy

Answers for the second puzzle: (reward was Torchlight II)
1 Master Chief
2 Samus Aran
3 Bomberman
4 Raziel
5 Pyro
6 Ryu Hayabusa
7 Space Marine
8 Vega
9 Corvo Attano
10 Dovahkiin

Answers for the third puzzle: (reward was Blood Bowl Chaos Edition)
1 Gordon Freeman
2 Guybrush Threepwood
3 Leon Kennedy
4 Jade
5 Dante
6 Agent 47
7 Geralt of Rivia
8 Liu Kang
9 Phoenix Wright
10 Travis Touchdown

Answers for the fourth puzzle: (reward was Max Payne 3)
1 Crash Bandicoot
2 Pac-Man
3 Kratos
4 Ratchet
5 Kirby
6 Sam Fisher
7 Sackboy
8 Alice Liddell
9 Manuel Calavera
10 Harman Smith

12 years ago*

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SaiBork

Too bad, I really liked the drawings. Last two puzzles were too much for me though haha.

12 years ago
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smythe
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As other people have said, they were a nice level. Enough there to make you think and search for the answers, but not overly difficult. I wasn't doing too well, but kept popping back to have another crack.
The hand drawn pictures were a good way to reduce googlablility of answers too.

12 years ago
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Monukai

I'll just throw this out here, in case you decide to do more puzzles in the future. If you look at the entries of a giveaway they are listed chronologically by when people entered, so if you notice a big surge in entries at one time, you can record all the people who entered before that time and then delete and just make a new one specifically for those people (obviously you don't have to, that would be up to you). I doubt i'll do a puzzle giveaway anytimes soon, but if I did, that's what I'd do if mine got leaked, given that I noticed the surge of entries.

12 years ago
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Nayenezgani

That's one option I did think about, but then you'd still be excluding people who got in legitimately but happened to have the bad luck of solving the puzzle after the leak. Basically, the people who have leaked the info would ruin the puzzle for everyone who didn't get in before them.

There are a number of things I could have done, a number of options I considered, but in the end the only thing that was equally fair to everyone (or at least equally unfair) was to simply delete the giveaways and give no one a a chance to win. If there was a clear way to separate the good from the bad I would have done it, but since there wasn't I didn't see another option.

12 years ago
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q00u

I'm pretty sure I've seen a group here that keeps a list of people who leak giveaway links and bans them from the group. In the future, you could do your awesome quizzes through them.

It's not a perfect solution, but I'm not sure a perfect solution is possible.

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Closed 12 years ago by Nayenezgani.