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Janslike

Giveaways are now over.
http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/6575I/jamestown Congratulations to: Hipnox1
http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/HWN9B/dungeons-of-dredmor Congratulations to: lazytev

00011100 01001100 11001100 10001100 00101100 10010010 01001100 01100010 10100010 11100010 10100010 10011100
1) When translated: LÌ?,?Lb¢â¢? [gibberish]
When reversed and translated: 9EGEF2I41328
When this output is reversed: 82314I2FEGE9

b) Split it: 82314I2 FEGE9

b,3) Split double digits: 8 23 14 I2 FEGE9

d) Count the characters on your fingers substituting it for the opposite character set: H W N 9B 6575I

5) Make sure the characters are uppercased and paste steamgifts.com/giveaway/6575I, steamgifts.com/giveaway/HWN9B

http://www.puu.sh/cyK5

1) Turn around two times

b) You only split thrice

3) Remember 10

d) Translate on fingers

5) Uppercase output

Games generously donated by nimbulan [Soup]. Thank him but don't bother asking what they are, he's sworn to secrecy. And he doesn't know the solution either :D

Solve the puzzle but have the games? Give the links to a very dear friend who is without

http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/3ElNo/x-superbox
http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/nE9dL/luxor-5th-passage
http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/XrhqP/deathmatch-classic
http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/3pxzY/section-8-prejudice

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funymunky

Your hints are so cryptic. You're either brilliant or completely mad.

12 years ago
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Farao

Is tip numbering something I should look at? (1b3d5)
Yesterday I thought 'Translate on fingers' was allusion for decimal, now with 'Remember 10' I can't come up with anything.
another thing with 'Translate on fingers' was to assume 'a' as 1 'b' as 2 and so on
hmmm, maby its %10

Turn around two times - only good thing I come up with is bit shift

You only split thrice - absolutely nothing, 12 bytes into 3 parts gives us 3x4bytes

Oh and I used only ASCII encoding, anyone used some other?

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zhur

Moreover "split thrice" might also mean to split the twelve bytes three times getting 4x3-byte hunks.

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Janslike

Edited OP.
Fun ends in 19 hours.
Full solution and explanation of hints then.
Good luck.

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robertas33

Ummm... doesn't "turning around twice" just return it into its primary state??? also, how to translate on fingers?!

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robertas33

how much time left?

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lazytev

About 10h

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robertas33

cmon, thats not fair... now its 21.00 here :D

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Aldaris

So it's gonna be a loooooong night :)

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robertas33

yeah... lazytev, plz give me at least a tiny hint, i feel so stupid...

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Janslike

Solution will be posted shortly after 1 AM EST

12 years ago
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Janslike

Giveaway is over.
Solution in the OP.
Congratulations to the winners.

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Sueet

...
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Still very confused

12 years ago
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ManiacB

Janslike, a really good one.

I didn't think the first translation was a gibberish and split the letters (there's a lot of logic there).

Thanks for the puzzle and the solution!

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Boo

I don't get how you did the splitting. It seems completely random.

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Monukai

this is why i'm bad at riddles: connotation :<
figured "translate" meant to one consolidated output (all letters or all numbers) oh well, still a good puzzle if i didn't get it and grats to the winners and thanks to nimbulan (and janslike)

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twipps

LOL I feel like I'm constantly being trolled by Jamestown...

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robertas33

omg... i had this: 82314I2FEGE9 but didnt know what to do later...

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LucasMP

I got the 82314I2FEGE9. But to split it the way you wanted... it didn't make any sense!
From that point the rest was pretty obvious.

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Tiny

I don't understand what you mean by "Count the characters on your fingers substituting it for the opposite character set." A great puzzle, by the way, thank you.

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twipps

A = 1, B = 2, C = 3. And conversely, 3 = C, 2 = B, 1 = A.

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Qerf

damn, i was close. i had the turn around 2 times right, even the split i did right. only the final step of changing the numbers to letters and letters to numbers i didnt do :(

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jacktim

Fuuuuuu... I got hung up on the turn around 2 times.... I even guessed that it would have been spin the group and spin the sets... ^_^ Next time I'll try harder....

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funymunky

Man, I got every step except the splitting the double digits. I even knew what you meant by translate on fingers. So close :(

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Closed 12 years ago by Janslike.