Hi everyone,
in collaboration with :
Nordhbane, jbondguy007, ercalote, jatan11t, zelghadis and lovol
we proudly present you the Puzzle Event : Down the Rabbit Hole.
We will test your Decryption, Encryption, Mathematical and Logical skill the more you venture deeper into the Rabbit Hole.

Contributors Spotlight :
Momo1991, LinustheBold and ercalote


Some insight on the Rewards :

Just Cause 3 XL Edition
Grand Theft Auto V
XCOM® 2
Call of Duty®: Black Ops II
Endless Legend™
Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen
Jotun: Valhalla Edition
Project CARS

and MUCH MORE!


Down the Rabbit Hole

Event's Structure

Dates & Duration

  • Start : 15th of January 2017 00:00 GMT+1.
  • End : 27th of February 2017 00.00 GMT+1.

Puzzles

  1. Puzzles will be divided in two parts :
    • The first macro part will be a Group Puzzle. Here we allow, and strongly encourage, to share ideas, reasoning, and even the method to solve a puzzle. However we will ask to not reveal any link to any stage of this event nor any answer.
    • The second part will be an Individual Puzzle. Here we will not allow any kind of sharing, you will be alone in solving this part. The reason for this is that everyone will have fun with the first part, but we also want to reward who will be dedicated and will persevere trough to end for their efforts.
  2. You will find some checkpoints, those will help us keep track of the progression of the puzzle and will prevent someone sneaking ahead without solving previous steps.
  3. Difficulty will vary. We will start with something easy and gradually make things harder.

Giveaways

  1. Giveaways will also be split in two parts:
    • Group Puzzle : These giveaways are allowed to have protection set by the creator, such as: sgtools rules, level restriction, denied access due to blacklist ecc. Every giveaway will be invite only and will not be shared in any way with whitelist and groups.
    • Individual Puzzle : These giveaways will have no restriction, but if needed will be put behind sgtools filter with no rules to allow us to see who joined and when he did so.
  2. Giveaways will start on the 28th of Jenuary 2017 00:00 GMT+1 and will end 30 days later.

Notes

  1. Sharing answer and/or links to Puzzles, part of Puzzles and/or Giveaways will result in a report to SG Support, your addition to our Blacklist and you will be ineligible to win any of the Giveaways created for the event.
  2. We kindly ask you not to share the length of the Event nor the length of any segment and/or part of Down the Rabbit Hole.
  3. Everything in the event will be important, so don't overlook anything.
  4. Refrain from posting information of everything that has nothing to do with the corresponding section of the event in the "Discussions Giveaways":

Hints

  1. Since nowadays the cool kids use a "Buy the Hints" system we're going to do the same. Every class of Puzzles will have a specific cost :
    • Entrance Puzzle hints will cost 10p each.
    • First Year Puzzles hints will cost 25p each .
    • Second Year Puzzles hints will cost 50p each.
    • Third Year Puzzles hints will cost 100p each.
    • Individual Puzzles hints will cost 150p each.
    • Additional Note : You'll understand the Year division by participating in the event.
    • Additional Note : Once unlocked the Hint/s will be visible by anyone who reaches the stage in which they are unlocked, not just by the Giveaway Creators that contributed to unlock the Hint/s.
  2. Giveaways created trough this system will be placed on the main Page and will be open for everyone who meets the creator's requirements, if there are any.
  3. If you wish to create a Giveaway for the hint the mandatory end is before the 21th of February 00:00 GMT+1 so that any Fake Giveaway created to exploit this system will be spotted before we send most of the Keys.
    • You can set the starting date and the duration freely as long as you respect the limitation on the ending date.
    • If given a valid reason, and if this is not abused, we may, or may not, grant the possibility to delete a giveaway created for an Hint only before its end, however if the giveaway is deleted we will subtract its value from the respective threshold and if delete any Hint that would return to being locked until it's unlocked again.
  4. Points refer to the how many points you would spend to enter a Giveaway.

We hope that you all will have a good time and enjoy this event.

Thanks for reading and for joining us in "Down the Rabbit Hole".


This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill—the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill—you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. Remember: all I'm offering is the truth. Nothing more.

~ Which one will you take ? ~
Red Pill On this first stage you will have to share more than you think. A lone solver won't even budge the door.What you need here is an army to breach the entrance! Red Pill

Third Year hint for Ercalote's Puzzle bought : GAs
Hint for Nordhbane's Individual Puzzle Bought : GAs
Hint for Ercalote's Individual Puzzle Bought : GAs
Hint for Ercalote's Individual Puzzle Bought : GAs

Train made by Gracee.


Here I'll leave you some cats, because, why not ?

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Admission 078
Section C, Row 3, Seat 4

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Admission 093, already decrypted. Bump!

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Admission 064

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Admission 62.
I put my number and name on the chart, but i don't understand yet how you translate it to a GA. I will try to read the topic more carefully :)

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Read the bar code from top to bottom in binary (white = 0 and black = 1) and you will translate it in 5 characters.

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yep that's what I found too ^^

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Thank you ! I compared your binary to mine, and I was putting too much "0" before and at the end, i did not really know where the barcode was starting and ending ^^"

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Can use this to easily see where the binary bits are.

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Admission 056 Section B Section Row 4 Seat 1

https://imgur.com/a/oX9pe

First time using imgur, hope this works.

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decoded it few minutes ago :D
https://www.steamgifts.com/go/comment/Cl9PIsG

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Thanks for clarifying and the speedy reply!

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Here is my ticket:

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Thanks

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and i'm so lost, can someone explain what are we doing here?

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we're trying to solve huge puzzle event, now we need to decode barcode from every ticket to characters
hot to do it you can check here https://www.steamgifts.com/go/comment/s45C0TM

for yours it's WWE 2K16
"6"

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You guys are too fast :P

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We are gathering informations! Tickets have many informations:
-Admission number (probably an order in each section of the 32 chars we will find)

  • Section the section for your seat (answer for B in the ITH?)
  • Row and seat: They are used when you find the barcode secret GA. Rows give you the word you have to take in the game name (or char string since : can be counted as one word) and seat is the character in this word we will use in the order of admission
  • barcode: They are binary characters who leads you to old GA.
  • When we'll have all characters in a section we'll probably use base32hex to find 7 chars that will be answers to questions A B C in the ITH.
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Every ticket has a unique barcode that represents binary code (black bar - 1, white - 0). The binary sequence can then be translated to a 5 character GA code: FL2Xq. We use the GA game name to find a character like this: row represents which word to use, and seat represents the letter. In this case: WWE 2k16 - so 2nd word and 4th letter. So we get '6'.

We have to collect all the unique tickets before we can try to solve the ITH.

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thanks guys now i get it(kind of), and you are really fast :D

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I've added my ticket info to malabagaa's document

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The thinnest black bars you see represent '1'. Those that are thicker represent '11' and '111', and so on. Same for white - they represent '0'. So when you go from top to bottom translating the bars into '0's and '1's, you get 40 characters. When translated to ACSII text, they become a GA code: ihpRQ. Row and seat represent which word and character to use - which gives you 2nd word and 4th character: '6'.

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Interesting that both 007 and 047 uses same game and letter from it.

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Yeah, I noticed some others too: TIS-100 and 10,000,000 were both used twice. I don't think there's a hidden meaning behind that tho ^^

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Those used different characters though. :) Or positions in the cases of 10,000,000.

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I found another one O: 016 and 043 both used 3rd 6 from Apartment 666. And they're right beside WWE O:

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I was thinking for a while that A = B = C, but quickly noticed it didn't work itself out.

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thanks!

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Decoded giveaway: https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/8uv80/tis-100

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"0" here
ps add ".png at the end of link to make attach works correctly :)
something like that:

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Thanks for your help!

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you're welcome! :D

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Added all the data of my entry to malabagaa's document.

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Can you post it here as well? Since we're several people working in different ways with them.

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Here it is ^^
The GA is this one

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Thanks.
"f"

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Maybe there should be another thread where the progress would be displayed, as I am already lost here. Could someone, who is gathering the ticket informations, make it - malabagaa or Nordhbane perhaps? In the heading there could be clearly seen, what we are working on actually and what is already solved.

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https://www.steamgifts.com/go/comment/55lpfPg
Not really exposed, but better than nothing for now, I guess :P

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Yes thanks, especially this post is very useful.

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Just updated it with 2-3 more entries.

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Here's my ticket, please have it!

http://imgur.com/a/OkYLh

Admission 035 Section B Row 3 Seat 3

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Wow, I go to sleep and wake up to find the first part almost already solved! mutters something about the lightening speed of brainiacs and me being old and slow :-p

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Missing tickets:

037
052

If you have one in the list, let us know!

List of known tickets.

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I will add to the spreadsheet, but don't know how to decode

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thanks, what does the 6 represent?

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6 is the 4 chars of the 3 word in the game name. It's a char we will have to use for the next step.

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ahh ok, thanks for clarifying!

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May I ask you why so few are missing?
Perhaps I missed some passage but shouldn't they be rows*seats*sections? 7*9*3=189

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Because not all seats are filled. Each section has 32 spots, 3 sections. Which means 96 total admissions. At least that's what I'm going with.

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So it's just an assumption.. hope you're right 'cause 96 are easier to retrieve than 189 =P

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Well, we're already getting duplicates, and none so far are over 096, and we can see that 1-32 is in section A, 33-64 in B, and so on so if we were to get more than 96, where would 97+ be? And what numbers would the rest in section A have? Logic dictates 96 is the max.

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if we had 189 tickets we must have seen 100+ already since we have also a lot of double appearing now ^^

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Just got back from dinner and added them. Thanks for reminding me though. :)

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Thanks.

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073 here

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073: 2

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I have no idea what is all about and I'm too lazy to transate it

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Already have that one.

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That's what the site gave me, idunno ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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And site doesn't give me another one, only this.

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I know, we're getting duplicates, because all have been handed out. It's so we can solve the puzzle.

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Dayum I got an awesome seat! That's all I care about. ^^ I'm really bad at this, so I might have messed up but I got a link to this: https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/uZbeu/123-slaughter-me-street

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084: 3

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I also got a ticket. I'll see if I can decode it later this evening, but if someone wants to have a go with it: go ahead.

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Thank you for decoding it.

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Looks like we're sitting next to each other!

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Have a beer then!

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Step right up SG puzzlers! Take a ticket, post a pix of the ticket, have fun!

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I just got the following ticket. The giveaway I got should be :
https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/VJTRk/the-secret-order-2-masked-intent

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066 - a

Use the direct link (:

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Well never uploaded or linked an image here before :D thanks

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To participate I don't think but if we can't have all the tickets we won't be able to reach next step ^^

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Can you please try again?

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I think seat "8", you can upload ticket to somewhere and then post link to image here

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would be 080 - b

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And please post a pix of your ticket :-)

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:-p Apparently it is fixed now? Try again?

Old, slow Momo strikes again!

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Something went wrong, please try again. =/

Ah ok it works now after several tries =).

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Can you please try again?

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nvm:-P

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can you post your ticket please?

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yes already did

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didn't see it, thanks :)
https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/SguxS/doom-3
009 - 3

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Off to bed... When I wake up it'll be solved, yes?

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Solved or not we'll have more tickets! :D

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046 - "1"

ticket posted here https://www.steamgifts.com/go/comment/tK8La8r

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Thanks for sharing :D
061 - "2"

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