Puzzle ended.

Due to me messing up and not posting this thread earlier when I meant to, this is a lot easier than it should be.

Anywho, here's my first attempt at a puzzle giveaway, good luck.

Solve me!

Your clues!

One might hear this shouted a lot if you take a wander around St. Andrews.
Half the amount of letters in the word ostrich.
It's almost the longest river in the UK.
Furthermore.
A prequel to the first.

HINT - The five clues should give five answers, which should lead you to the solution.
HINT THE SECOND - Numbers.

SOLUTION

The answers to the clues are

4 ("Fore!" is shouted by golfers, St. Andrews is a famous golf course).
8 (This was the clue I messed up, as I stupidly did 7 twice - Anyway, half the amount of letters in "the word ostrich", which is seven. I left out the quotation marks to leave the clue ambiguous).
7 (The longest river in the UK is the River Severn, which is almost Seven).
2 (Too).
0 (The number preceding the first number).

48720 is the Steam app id for Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword, which is the solution, and the game I'm giving away.

12 years ago*

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76 Comments

so it has 3.5 letters eh

(otherwise I don't know where to start)

EDIT: This is literally impossible

there is no word that has 3.5 letters and is both a river and a synonym to furthermore

12 years ago

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Piratedcopy

Im lost

12 years ago

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SwipperSwapper

this guy... SHAME.

12 years ago

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SilentSpartan

hahaha who uses yahoo answers...

12 years ago

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probably some 12 year old kid

12 years ago

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Spoiler Alert: They're the same person.

12 years ago

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Oh, whatever happened to integrity? :(

12 years ago

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at first i was like :) then i was like :o

12 years ago

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"You must wait another 722 seconds after your wrong guess!"

Well, I guess I'll stop trying now.

12 years ago

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I'm at 500 seconds... is this a bug?!

12 years ago

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omnitau

Is that a bug or a feature of someone getting it right?

12 years ago

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I thought it was always thirty seconds? Does it increase over time?

12 years ago

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It used to be, I've not used Itstoohard in a while, but I must've tried about 20 guesses before it gave me that huge retry countdown. I guess it's to stop spamming/brute forcing or something, unless it is actually a bug.

12 years ago

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MDuh

well If it's intended, then I'm not gonna use them I guess

12 years ago

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Sometimes it happens. But it seems that how many answers you tried and the time is random. I think it's a bug.

12 years ago

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I've done a lot of Itstoohard puzzles in the past and I've never seen this happen before. The suspicious thing is that it seems everyone has it now (as the number of guesses on that puzzle isn't going up) so it may be a server side problem on Itstoohard.

Edit: I guess it's back to normal now.

12 years ago

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Hmm, I just saw the number of guesses rise.

How unfortunate that this bug is happening :(

12 years ago

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Disturbed0ne

You must wait another 679 seconds after your wrong guess! o_O WTF?!?

12 years ago

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MDuh

wtf, you must for another 666 seconds after your wrong guess!?!?!

12 years ago

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U R TEH DEBIL

12 years ago

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I think I figured out the correct approach but now itstoohard is telling me I need to wait 500 seconds before I can submit another answer for some reason

12 years ago

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SilentSpartan

Thanks for letting me know...I'll make sure to only guess the right answer from now on ;]

12 years ago

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Lol 700 seconds??

12 years ago

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Well... I'm at a loss for the 3.5 letter word.

12 years ago

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that was a joke

I'm thinking it's either 3 or 4.

12 years ago

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Since we're lacking on solvers, I'm releasing a hint. If there are still no solvers in about 10 minutes I'll release a second super-hint.

HINT - The five clues should give five answers, which should lead you to the solution.
HINT THE SECOND - Numbers.

12 years ago

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still makes no senseeeeeee

12 years ago

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Is the game a bundle game, if it is, I'm stopping

12 years ago

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It's not a bundle game.

12 years ago

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Ah good, let my brain go to full power.

12 years ago

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I think I understand the puzzle, but I'm lacking the formatting of the answer...

12 years ago

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I'm in the same boat. I think I figured out the puzzle but cant determine the proper formatting

12 years ago

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I feared this might happen. It shouldn't take too many guesses to get it right if you have the answer though.

12 years ago

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nekolicious

It makes sense, and I think I know what I need to do with what I'm getting, but I'm off somewhere and it makes me sad :(

12 years ago

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You can do it! I believe in you.

12 years ago

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I clued in on this hint, but I'm certain some of my answers are wrong.

12 years ago

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SUPERHINT GOOOOOOOOOOOO

12 years ago

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Gumby4Ever

I am really thinking with full power ! .

still not close =( .

12 years ago

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Cleary the answer is "No". Becasue I cant give the correct solution.
Wait... then is this a paradox?

12 years ago

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nekolicious

It's all numbers and I've futzed with the numbers I've gotten and I must be wrong. Somewhere. And it's driving me mad. Puzzles! ><

12 years ago

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Good spoiler, bro.

12 years ago

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You stole my super-clue >.>>

12 years ago

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nekolicious

OH NO. I'm sorry >< I had a brain meltdown. I'll delete if you want?

12 years ago

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It's ok, accidents happen.

12 years ago

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touche112

I am so puzzled.

12 years ago

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Nitroman

I got feeling it`s a mount and blade game that he is giving ( Which is cool , I really want to win that ) or a Sims 3 expansion ( Which is not good ) . Trying my best !

12 years ago

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The Mount and Blade was in his previous private giveaway. So it's unlikely to be that.

12 years ago

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He just gave mount and blade game away so most likely the sims 3 expansion.

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Gumby4Ever

the game is still in his inventory =) .

12 years ago

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Don't really care about the game... I want to solve the puzzle :)

12 years ago

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LeonMordecai

Interesting puzzle

Also, someone is posted your quiz on yahoo answers and is trying to ask for help and leaking it

12 years ago

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Second clue posted. Maybe it's too obscure/tricky?

12 years ago

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that's supposed to be a superhint? wutt

12 years ago

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It's quite a big hint. Still not getting the answer though :(

12 years ago

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Thanks! That's reassuring.

12 years ago

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Yeah.. I got that fairly early on but have no idea what to do once I have all the answers. As mentioned earlier the specific format required is killing me

12 years ago

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Open for another 4 minutes

12 years ago

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Same.

12 years ago

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SilentSpartan

Give a final hint before time expires!

12 years ago

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Better idea! Reveal the answer 10 seconds before it ends!

12 years ago

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Okay! Take the numbers to Steam for the solution.

(this is probably too late, sorry)

12 years ago

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Gumby4Ever

12 years ago

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Hah, I got the wrong numbers anyway.

Gumby4Ever, it's the AppID for Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword, which is subsequently the answer. I don't think I would have ever had linked the numbers to a Steam AppID though.

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Nitroman

omg I feel really dump , I figured the game but didn`t tried to type the game appid =( .

12 years ago

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I'm confused as to how the second clue is 8. I got the others correct

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