Hello,
I know there exist some special codes, but when I consider only the most common type XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX what digits and letters steam code does not include. I am sure with O and 1. Maybe S? What else?

2 years ago

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In my list of keys I wasn't also able to find a "U", but that's all I guess.
What are you trying to do, brute force activate some steam keys? :D

2 years ago
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Same thoughts for this professor

2 years ago
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Omg its the Money Heist professor! He figured a new heist!!

Oo im excited for a new season, the professor vs gabe!

2 years ago
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Or Professor vs Gabe Store!

2 years ago
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Brute forcing would be a strenuous endeavor as Steam's activation process locks you out after a couple of failed attempts.

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Thank you
No, someone sent me invalid keys and I am trying to recognize them among others.

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Thank you

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im sitting on like 20 keys, im not gonna dig deep but your post made me interested in looking. i can confirm my keys contain no S,U, or 1. i did see zeros

2 years ago
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I checked a list of something like 120 keys, and the only ones missing were: S, U, O and 1. Didn't realise this was a thing, but good to know

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Thank you for confirmation

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For anyone on SG that has won a lot of games and wants to look through a large list of keys, just go to your won page here and all the keys you won are listed.

You can use the find on page function of your browser to highlight all instances of something on the page and check each page of keys.

Edit: Done. I checked all letters and numbers against the almost 300 Steam keys I have won here and these are the results.

Confirmed characters used in Steam keys:
A through N
P through R
T
V through Z
numbers 2-9 and 0

O, S, U, and 1 are not in any of my almost 300 keys.

It actually wasn't that difficult since all the characters that are used showed in keys on the first page and I only had to go through the full 7 pages to verify that each missing character didn't show up anywhere.

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That seems to be a feature to prevent mis-reading keys. e.g.

1 = I
5 = S
0 = O

But I'm confused about "U".

U = V ??
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Yeah, that does seem odd, but it is definitely missing. I just double checked and it is not in any of my keys. Maybe they had an issue with U and V looking similar on printed codes back in the 90s when you buy a physical product and have to activate it with the code. They might have got rid of it back then and just never used it again.

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Yes, the U and V looked very similar with the dot-matrix style printing they used to use back then when they included the key printed on a card in the box or jewel case of a B&M bought game. Especially when it is not printed completely straight due to high-speed printing.

2 years ago
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maybe it's dropped for convince (since computers work in base 2) for 36 valid characters rather than 37?

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if they went down to 32 then that could be the case, but you still need enough bits for 1-64 in order to handle 1-36 always encoded as the same number of bits.

base 2 converts easily to and from other number bases that are powers of 2, not just any even number. that's why hexadecimal (base 16) and base64 are common. octal (base 8) also works but you don’t see that much outside of the chmod command.

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yeah, mean to type 32 rather than 36.

so full set it 36 (A-Z,0-9), excluding 4 leaves out 32.

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Many characters that would print similarly to another character can be substituted as that other character.

If you have a code with a 0 (zero), for example, replace it with an O (oh), and activate the key. It should still work.

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One of my key contains a letter S, and interestingly when i redeemed the game, i overlooked the code and typed "5" instead of "S" by accident, but the key still works.

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Also, this old discussion has some good info, for the curious.

https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/qVJ3U/how-many-steam-keys-are-possible

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A-NP-RTV-Z02-9 are valid (in regex notation)

Though you can use (1, S, O are mapped to I, 5, 0 so they still do work)

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Meaning A-Z2-46-9 is also a valid option?

Edit: But now that I write that out, seems Z/2 is a missed case?

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