Hello again! Missed my puzzles?
Left behind me some turbulent months, but among other things I now have access to a computer again,
which means more elaborate challenges for you!
Also, I just reached Lvl 6 on this lovely website.
Solve this puzzle for a chance to win games like Dark Sky, The Stairway 7, Sprite's Honor, DIG - Deep In Galaxies, Hellstuck: Rage With Your Friends, CUBE ROYALE, and more!

In case you're new to this, usually the objective is to obtain the unique 5 characters code to a private giveaway:
https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/XXXXX/

Hint
Frame+colors will tell you what to do with shapes.
But if you're attentive enough, all you might need are the shapes.


Puzzle
I created this artwork of a Christmas Three to wish you happy holidays!


Solution:

  1. The hexagonal frame hints to the use of hexadecimal.

  2. We can extrapolate the hex color codes from the background using an online or offline tool like PS or Gimp:
    Green: #446f20 Blue: #426173 Red: #652033
    Let's convert these from hexadecimal to ASCII:
    446f20426173652033 becomes "Do Base 3".

  3. In order to convert from Base 3, we need to identify the three digits of the system.
    What's a system of three things that we haven't used yet? That's right, it's the shapes.
    Circle=0, Triangle=1, Square=2
    This is hinted in the picture itself, if you look closely, it shouldn't be hard to see.
    Here's the transformed text:
    010010010212010202001012011100011020011000001012010220011021001012001210002000010202010200001220
    Which converts to "The url is 06ec3".
    This is the only website that will work, as far I know. Which is why I provided it in one of the links, as the image description itself in Imgur.

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Completely overhauled the puzzle.
I uploaded a new picture.
Hopefully it should be easier now. Sorry about the confusion.

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2 days left bump!

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Frame+colors will tell you what to do with shapes.
But if you're attentive enough, all you might need are the shapes.

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The solution is out. See you next month!

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bump :) also congrats on the level 6 (yipee)

edit: heh, i'm lost!
edit2: Alright I think I got the "instructions" but still confused.

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bump for solved :)

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Good job!

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Hmm... I think I'm on the right track, but all "results" I got so far seem like gibberish

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solved bump

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I think I made some progress, but I'm still missing something. I have to sleep on it. Bump!

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They say night brings good counsel. Have a good rest!

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Bump, solved the new puzzle (didn't see the original) - thank you and happy holidays!

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Good to know, thank you and happy holidays to you too!

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Have a bump

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Bump for solved! ;)

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solved the puzzle for fun.

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You're my kind of guy

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I fear I might be too dumb for this

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I spent over an hour with your puzzle and still have no idea how to solve it XD

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Bump!

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Bump :)

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Bump for solved

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I got one digit wrong while typing it in converter and, consequently, I got one letter of url wrong. Didn't find the error after checking the shapes, so I left the puzzle thinking I missed something important with frame or colors. Turn out I was on the right track all along, and need to be more attentive.

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