You know what it's time for? For another zelgh-style puzzles!

You have a little lett than 7 days to enter giveaway and some1 will get something nice :>

GL

I swear! This time it's MUCH easier than previous two :> So give it a try! :>

Just to Spice Things a little bit, small dose of info about a game to win

  1. Metascore 89
  2. Before my puzzle only 10 times on SG!
  3. no CV required
  4. only 4% of users have this game :>

TIMER

BLACKLIST

LINK?

UPDATE: There's been a small error on TXT in RAR file - DL RAR PUZZLE1 - Pass is the same :>

HINTS:

ITSTOOHARD

Q2: Original post which is the answer contained no spaces.

Q6: Answer is not specific bundle name but whole bundle series :)

TXT STAGE

Big hint (showing you what's the main idea ;p): zelghadis 1750.00

SOLUTION:

Puzzle Ended, Time for Solution xD

First Thing First - hinted game was Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast, you could easily guess it by checking my steam inventory :>

Now for puzzle stages:

Next to LINK? part of forum topic was a hidden LINK Leading to shared Dropbox Folder. You could find it by viewing source of the page :>

In dropbox Folder you would find 2 files. Instructions.txt and PUZZLE1.rar; RAR file was password protected.

The instruction stated that password was 3 characters long. Password was NGE

There were 3 ways of getting the password:

1) it was stated that password has something to do with me myself and my previous puzzles. In many of my previous puzzles there was a part about meaning of mine avatar, and what it's inspired by actual anime. This Anime is Neon Genesis Evangelion, so pass was NGE.

2) you could easily bruteforced password - there are many programs on google for bruteforcing RAR files. Bruteforcing it using GPU would take seconds (one person bruteforced password within 4.5sec xD)

3) You could also solve ItsTooHard Quiz and get a Password as a reward as well as title of the game I was giving away.

ITSTOOHARD ANSWERS:

Q1. Skyrim - famous SG meme

Q2. nice,nice - famous quote of Raseto, creator of given topic

Q3. Toaster - and his challenge finished

Q4. bundle games (also accepted answers: bundle, bundles, bundled, bundled games, bundle list, read FAQ, bundle game, bundled game) - the most common reason ppl are making QQ topics about their CV.

Q5. Mew2 - he and his puzzle group. MewTwo is a name of a pokemon and you could find many puzzle topics by him on forums.

Q6. The Humble Weekly Sale (also accepted answers: Humble Bundle Weekly, The Humble Bundle Weekly, Humble Bundle Weekly Sale, The Humble Bundle Weekly Sale, Humble Weekly Sale) - On 1st two weekly sales it was not bundled, then got bundled why previously stated it would not and it resulted in massive QQ :>

Q7. regret - beware, jade is watching

Q8. Dota2 (also accepted Dota 2) - most common "30$" game people cry they cannot give away

Q9. Kaitlyn - forum topic for this addon

Q10. Notable Odds (also accepted The No) - LINK to last tournament.

When you opened RAR file you would get txt file encoded in binary. You could use xlate or any other decoder to decode it.

When decoded you were getting long list of users and numbers. Most of the lines was just a distraction while in fact only 5 lines were important :>

1st column was a username, 2nd column was CV requirement for Giveaway. For most lines user haven't created a GA with given CV and it was just a distraction.

The given hint zelghadis 1750.00 should point you to this GiveAway created by me, which is my only Public GA with such a CV requirement. in this GA you would see a lot of posts - and it's how all other good answers looked like.

THE CORRECT users - giveaways with links:

Like I mentioned, most of lines in txt file were a distraction. 5 important ones were (each of this users had one and only one Public GA with given CV requirement):

1) cg 3533.01 GA LINK

2) xarabas 89.82 GA LINK

3) NastyHero 0.23 GA LINK

4) MoneyHypeMike 1337.00 GA LINK

5) Rinc3winD 511.00 GA LINK

Many people missed cg and/or MoneyHypeMike - they forgot that format for high CV on SG contains a coma, so why searching for 3533.01 you should actually search for 3,533.01 ^^

You could either search a list manually (which is possible, as some of solvers did it this way, but more time-consuming), or write a script to check all users and dump correct one (what at least 1 person did and solved whole thing in 10 minutes xD)

Each of this 5 GAs contained a number of comments by me, each with hidden link. In each GiveAway 1 comment was not link for a real site but just www.X.com where X is a character. When found and placed in right order the 5 characters would combine into LQzAY which was z code for a GiveAway.

Thanks to all participants and congrats to solvers!

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Sleepy time :> GN and GL :>

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Can I be added to your blacklist? I wanna be special!

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it's not so easy ;p you have to earn this privilage.

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I'm BEGGING you!

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you don't enter GAs anyway, so what's the point? ;p

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Ach, I can only get questions 1, 4, 5, and 8 on the SG quiz. Dx Time to start looking stuff up about SG :p

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I'm only missing Q6, it must be the phrasing or something.

EDIT: Got it.

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Well, I got Q9. The other ones are gonna be a lot harder to search for

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Missing Q6 and Q10 :S

Edit: Got Q10 now...

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Q6 is easy :>

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Missing Q2, I mean I found "that", but I'm not sure what's the format of the answer :S

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format is a famous SG quote ;p

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still can't figure, I guess I should just give up :/

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brute forced pw, now what :o

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now solve the damn puzzle! ;p

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Missing Q6.

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then write name from official site :>

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Damn stuck on 2,5,6,7

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damn stuck now on 2 and 7 lol

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why im in your blacklist too? tough we are friends :/

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Meh, bruteforced the pw, saw what was in it and now i wish I didn't :(

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agree lol reason i am trying puzzle

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Yeah even after converting it doesn't make sense to me :S

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I was about to start bruteforcing it manually, but then I did the math and realized that there are 46,656 possible passwords that could be used.

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There could be uppercase (or lowercase depending on how you calculated that) or special characters too. There are actually more than 830,584 (I'm not sure exactly which special characters are allowed, so I just used ascii).

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With only A-Z, a-z and 0-9 it would be around 230k I think.

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Good point; I was only calculating based on 26 letters and 10 numbers.

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Google can be so useful.

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:>

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right, so, I cracked the passwd and g0t... the thing
now I am stuck only on #2 and I shouldn't... lol

edit: oh, ok, getting the new rar file

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Did a few questions then searched for a bit.. got a few more and now I'm stuck xD

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I've gotten into the txt and made it usable (by doing process x), and I have gained nothing.

What does it mean?!

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Missing Q2.
edit: Think I know what it's about. Formatting problem maybe?

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Same here, I've never heard of this quote before.

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nope, the original quote had "non-starnard" ;p

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Typo? Intentional?

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ok, a small hint - original post written by this certain person contained no spaces ;p

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Wow, 5 hours and still not a single solver (going by the lack of entries and/or comments on the giveaway).

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okay i found the txt but i don't understand what it means, any hints?

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I really hope there are no special symbols in the password itself, otherwhise it will be impossible to bruteforce.

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In puzzle.txt, after "decoding", is that part solvable say a week from now or does it have to be done now? What I mean is will the solution change over time?

Bruteforcing password using GPU just took a few seconds.

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the txt part will be as solvable next week as it is now, worry not :>

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I would like to have the links for the previous giveaways (now or after this one ends)
To compare the difficulty level.

Also, I hope you'll give us the solution after the giveaway. I really wanna know it !

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previous puzzle are googleable.

i ALWAYS post solution afterwards :>

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Opened the .rar decoded the .txt and gave up after I checked your previous puzzle ^^

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this one is easier, at least idea behind it :>

If noone manages to get it i will give just one, yet big hint :>

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dude, i begg you, put me on your blacklist !!

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you have to earn this privilage :>

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I think I should be on that amazing list. :(

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Yeah, his blacklist is badass.

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Psssh, amateur, not that list.

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sorry - i was picking at random :( If I made it out of every user who ever been active it would be REALLY UNSOLVEABLE ;p

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Haha, no worries. Still not too sure what to do with that list anyway, have some ideas but nothing much.

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keep trying :>

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The password is too easy :D

Thanks for the puzzle ^^

I have no idea what to do...xD

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Just to Spice Things a little bit, small dose of info about a game to win

  1. Metascore 89
  2. Before my puzzle only 10 times on SG!
  3. no CV required
  4. only 4% of users have this game :>
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I wanted to complete the puzzle to find out what the game was, but with that info, I now know what it is. I'd already brute-forced the rar, I don't think anyone would have guessed the password even if they did read your past threads :)

Good luck to whoever can decode the second puzzle.

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and here you're wrong - I know of at least 5-6 ppl who guessed password right away :>

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Haha, they must know you too well :P

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or just be good in using google :>

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i guessed it coz i read his past threads :)

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I'm not sure how much of a difference this would make, but was the original txt file made in Notepad or a more advanced editor?

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to make things easier for me i created it elsewhere, to easier import data and then put it to txt file, but it's irrevelant at all :> if you want it to be more readable you may want to export it to spreadsheet thus separating username data and numeric data, but it will only make it easier to read. It's unnecesarry to use any kind of special software or skills to solve this puzzle (well, it is if you decide not to take one of 2 other ways in password step, so deciding for bruteforcing - bruteforcing will require software ;p). But if you read txt file you're already past the password stage :>

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