Bump for not solved or tried.
But it seems like a nice puzzle :D
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thanks, but it's not hard puzzle, if you have some experience with maths and programming, and you knowing some ancient alphabets. :D
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I'm quite sure I've seen the first symbol somewhere...
2nd is more common
rest looks rather straightforward
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I have confidence in the last 3 characters.
not even the faintest idea for the rest. waiting for hints unless something hits me.
edit: giving up
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What's the game behind the GA? Seems like a difficult puzzle, so would be great if we knew the game beforehand.
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Sure. A bundle with three games behind the GA, not one.
https://steamdb.info/sub/92888/
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Thank you. Now I know I can take it slow, or just wait for the solution. I hope you'll be posting the solution after the GA is over?
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Sure, I will posting the solution, if the GA is over but some hints will come too.
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Oh, then I'll be sure to check back again after some time. Even though I am no longer interested in the GA, I like puzzles.
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I have high confidence that I got 3 characters right, not sure what to do to get the last two.
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Imagine the last two characters are actually string but it's coded in numbers.
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can anyone tell me how this works? Say someone hypothetically solves the puzzle and gets the resulting letters and digits do they post that solution here then?
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- You solve that Puzzle
- Revel in your genius, and enter the resulting Giveaway link.
- Keep your genius to yourself
Optional: Taunt others like myself who are terrible Puzzle heads.
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What CultofPersonalitea said. Just want to stress the fact that you "Keep your genius to yourself", do NOT share the solution here, or anywhere.
Upon solving the puzzle, you most likely end up with a random 5 character string that that you can use to generate the link to the GA, or might end up with the link directly. Depends on the one who made the puzzle.
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Struggling to find the first character, got ideas for the rest.
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Hmm, so many variants. If I got it right I decoded 5 chars, but they don't seem to work,at the same time there's something which suggests a possible transformation of the text. Now I'm not sure whether it's the decoding part which is wrong or I'm missing a step. Any hints whether there are additional steps involved?
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Bump for still chasing red herrings. I already found like 4 or 5 old GAs :P I must be overthinking something
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The first letter is tricked in some way? Or am I just can't find it in the "alphabet"?
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Bump for solved. Thanks for the cool puzzle! I like the slightly higher difficulty!
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Would you be so kind to share a solution? I'm wondering where my reasoning went astray.
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Sure. The code was EC86y. The first two strings were decoded in old "hungarian" alphabet. The second part was binary code. You needed to convert this to decimal numbers. The last part was the 79. It was tricked, but not hard. It was hex numbers, and if you did converted this to text, you got the "y".
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Oh, So I was stuck with the binary. I treated it as V or translated it as Roman number to 5
Thought of treating 79 as y but always ended lacking 1 char, so I tried various other possibilities like Au, ca(mod24 then A1), gi(A1), even 6L or few other possibilities with a mix of upper/lowercase
When I lacked a number I treated mirrored E as 3. Also tried T instead of C due to the plural form of alphabets, as I thought maybe you used two set of runes and second char was actually from Futhark.
I was chasing so many red herrings, instead of just looking for alternative translation of the binary part 🤦♂️
Thanks for a nice brain teaser
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I never thought of treating the binary as a number instead of ASCII, and the number as ASCII and taking it as number variations brought me nowhere because I was so sure the binary was a letter /facepalm
Nice puzzle nonetheless. I don't resolve everyone, even when the maker thinks it's easy and uncomplicated.
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treating the binary as a number instead of ASCII
I think many recent puzzles have binary to text problem, and they have clouded our mind.
The Sith has been success.
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Solution: The code was EC86y. The first two strings were decoded in old "hungarian" alphabet. The second part was binary code. You needed to convert this to decimal numbers. The last part was the 79. It was tricked, but not hard. It was hex numbers, and if you did converted this to text, you got the "y".
!!Hint 1: The first two characters are ancient alphabets.
!!Hint 2: Ancient alphabets from "hungry" country
!!Hint 3: Last two numbers is a string, but you need to decode them..
!!Hint 4: The middle part of code is binary code. Perhaps you need to translate it...
Ends: September 8, 2.16PM (CET)
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