I declare next week to Sci-Fi/Space - week!
To celebrate this occasion I will give away one space or Sci-Fi themed game every day from now until next sunday.
It's not that easy though, you have to solve puzzles first to find the giveaways.
Every giveaway leads you to a puzzle that leads you to the next giveaway.
All giveaways end at 7pm CEST (usually the time the Steam store updates), meaning you have a bit less than 24 hours to enter the first giveaway left, two days for the second, three for third, ..., and a week for the seventh and last giveaway.

All giveaways are already open, so if you manage to solve them all today you could already enter all of them.

Here is the link for the first giveaway, puzzle for the seond giveaway is found in the description.


Some rules:

  • Don't spoiler the puzzles! This means: Don't give hints or solutions for a puzzle in the forum, chat, comments or anywhere else. This also applies to ended giveaways while the space-week is still running.
  • Don't give away the links to the giveaways before the last giveaway ended!

Hints:

  • Tier 1: Question #3 has (at least) three possible answers but only two of them will get you a 'correct'. Sorry about that.
  • Tier 2: You don't need any knowledge about space travel, all you need is in the picture.

There's a link to somewhat Sci-Fi themed music in every giveaway page, they are NOT needed for solving the puzzles, so feel free to ignore them if you don't want to click them. :)


Puzzle ended:

  • At least 275 people managed to click a link
  • At least 157 people can count to five
    Correct answers: 1: Fritz Lang, 2: Stanisław Lem, 3: Ijon Tichy (or Professor Tarantoga), 4: HAL 9000, 5: Do Androids dream of electric sheep?
  • At least 58 people left Earth behind them
    The giveaway code was hidden in the picture left of the rocket. Here's the picture with changed colours and saturation so it's easier to spot: picture
  • At least 46 people speak an alien language
    The text was encoded in Caesar cipher with a 12step shift. A hint to Caesar could be found in the text, the easiest way to find the shift was probably by looking at 'S.O.S./E.A.E.' or at the steamgifts link.
  • At least 55 people mastered the high art of internet stalking
    The code was the file name of the picture of Ghffovai's new computer in his pacebook profile's picture section.
  • At least 42 people were determined to solve these puzzles
    The giveaway code was the determinant of the matrix seen in the picture. I chose the easiest matrix form, so everyone who got the hint could se it immediately but everyone who doesn't know anything about matrices could still get it by guessing (or looking it up on Google).
  • At least 29 people made it back to Earth in one piece
    The last code was hidden in the picture: It wasn't just a picture but a zip-file as well. Inside it was a text file including the giveaway URL. Apparently opening it with notepad showed the URL as well.
12 years ago*

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e: nevermind, I'm dumb. Thanks!

12 years ago
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Very nice idea!

12 years ago
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Very easy, and Thanks :)

12 years ago
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Nice puzzle, not to hard. I have the second game already, so I'll wait for the next puzzle =D

12 years ago
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I might have described it in a confusing way: All giveaways are already open. You find the puzzle to get to the second giveaway in the first one, the puzzle to get to the third in the second, and so on.
Sorry about that. :)

12 years ago
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Im stuck on the 3rd. grrr

12 years ago
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Found, I was looking at the wrong place xD
Now I'm stuck at undestandi how you encoded the 3rd link.
Just a question, are you using the usual QWERTY keybord?

12 years ago
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Almost, I'm using a QWERTZ keyboard.

12 years ago
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I LOVE DAT PUZZLE!

12 years ago
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I have no idea what to do with that picture... looks like end of journey for me unless I;m missing something obvious ^^"

12 years ago
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me too^^
edit: ok got it^^ but now i am stuck at the 4th puzzle :/

edit2: got it^^

12 years ago
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You're Not Alone ^^

12 years ago
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It is very very very easy lol

12 years ago
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I'm in the same boat, mein freund.

12 years ago
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12 years ago
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Nothing to see here figured it out

12 years ago
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It's an easy puzzle, thanks :)

12 years ago
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Man, itstoohard is sooooooo... slow today. :(

12 years ago
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^this

12 years ago
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Nice series they are for casual puzzlers so don't give up easily.

Thank you for all the time spent on creating this, I hope you make more of this kind of puzzles.

12 years ago
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The suitcase is giving me a headache. All the other stages were solved (by me) in less than 5 minutes. Anyway, you are great!

12 years ago
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same, that damn suitcase D:

12 years ago
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Same.

12 years ago
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same^^

12 years ago
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Yes, this is where I dropped out. Found no hints in the text (well, actually I assumed plenty, but they all turned out to be dead ends) or the picture, let Google take me to the strangest placest and still totally clueless.

12 years ago
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The solution is in the OP now but I still don't get it.
The jpeg file downloaded from tinypic.com was actually a zip file?
o.O

12 years ago
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i don't get the picture of second giveaway.
when this puzzle is over, can you say what i had to do with it?

12 years ago
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hehehe, it's soooo easy :D

12 years ago
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Apparently not.

12 years ago
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Yes, I will post all solutions here after the last giveaway ended.
And for the picture: You still have plenty of time to try again, sometimes coming back to a puzzle after a little break makes things a lot easier. :)

12 years ago
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Why am I not getting question 3 right?! D:

12 years ago
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i'm stuck at door's code :D
maybe i'll try again later. thx for the puzzle :D
btw, may i ask you something? in all those space giveaway, is universe sandbox one of them? :D

12 years ago
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Thank you for all the giveaways!

12 years ago
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I cannot figure out the second puzzle for the life of me, I've tried everything, even looking up the flight itself....

12 years ago
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This is too awesome... I'm intrigued to come back solving puzzles for one, thanks a lot!

12 years ago
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Are there going to be any clues? I can't figure out that picture.

12 years ago
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How I'm supposed to answer a question without knowing it? I was looking really closly but I didn't find anything special.

12 years ago
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I tried everything: combining with the name of the picture, changing contrast and gamma, looking closer to almost every pixel, reading about Apollo 4, checking your profile on SG and SC, reading articles with this picture - NOTHING! All of those things didn't give me any giveaway code. Please, give us a clue or I'll shoot myself.

12 years ago
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well, i will just tell you - when (if) you find out the anwer, you are going to laught :D

12 years ago
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Hah, the 2nd hint was really helpful. I tried on PC and everything is easier now. :D

12 years ago
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Stuck on Apollo as well. Do you have to name something on/related to the picture and use it for giveaway code? Do you have to find the right combination of the pictures name code for a giveaway code?

12 years ago
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No, that's the funny part - tinypic randomly generates the name.

12 years ago
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Ugh, then I'm clueless I guess. With the picture I get 1.37 million 5 letter/digit words/numbers/stuff popping into my mind.

12 years ago
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thanks for this. :)

12 years ago
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got the 1st one. :)

12 years ago
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Stumped at apollo too, but this is a really cool idea.. Thanks man!

12 years ago
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I added two hints, I can't say more about tier 2 without giving away the solution.
Several people already made it to the end, so I think there won't be anymore hints.

12 years ago
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Great effort thank you!

12 years ago
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May we please have a hint 'bout the suitcase?
Thanks!

12 years ago
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this :)

12 years ago
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+1
I'm thoroughly stumped!

12 years ago
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same, that damn suitcase :D

12 years ago
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+1

12 years ago
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No, the last giveaway already has 21 entries, so there won't be any hints.

12 years ago
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Well, that's me hosed then. Ah well.
Thanks for the inventive puzzle giveaways, I enjoyed what I managed a lot! Makes a change not to need a degree in Cryptography to take part... =)

12 years ago
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Is the suitcase the last puzzle?

12 years ago
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Yes, it's the last one.

12 years ago
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Boggly Eyes

Ah, ok then. Thanks for the reply though.

12 years ago
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does this have to do something with the picture? because it is the same like the original (if i am not mistaken)?

12 years ago
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Yes, all you need is in the picture.

12 years ago
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Gargh!

Eyes pop out of head

SO. Hard!

12 years ago
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ok... then i am to stupid for that... and you realy cant give a very little hint? but anyway... thank you very much for the giveaway

12 years ago
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+1 stuck at the suitcase...

12 years ago
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Finally I made it! Great puzzles, but last one is too simple. Thank you again. ^^

12 years ago
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Simple? Obviously I'm missing something...

12 years ago
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Simple?!

What is it simple relative to?

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Closed 12 years ago by ReinekeFuchs.