Hey OP, will you post the steps to solve the puzzle after it's done? I'm terribly curious what was the password and how the next step looked like. Noticed the puzzle too late and now I haven't got enough time to make anything out of it as I have a project to finish :(
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More like a riddle =P a fun one at that.
Just don't sidetrack too much like i did before ^^
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i don't know how to interpret the hint to the protected page D: pls
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i don't know how to interpret the hint to the protected page D: pls
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yea hueLarge i throw a towel to but me in the password webpage
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Also, I would REALLY love the answers to the puzzle :3.
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Splended, would you please post the solution now that the puzzle is over? I'm dying to know.
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for all brainfucked ;)
look at the sourcecode of this side. In the post of Splended is a hidden link: "<a href="http://7daystodie.com/giveaway.html"> </a>"
it will bring you to the brain.
for the brain take a look here: http://www.splitbrain.org/services/ook
this will reveal the link to: http://7daystodie.com/giveaway2894
here it get's funny:
again in the sourcecode you will find this near the password box "data-hint="dSkn78.txt""
again decoded you will see: "Nope... I'm not the password! It is all in order, like reading a book!"
this hint tells you to read the 7daystodie site like a book ;) this means: home, news,...
in the sourcecode of each side is a part of the password. e.g home has "<!-- +++++ +++++ [->++ +++++ +++<] >++++ +++++ +++++ +.< -->"
if you found all it's s8K2x decoded.
you will get encoded text which you can encode on the same page as before. And this will reveal the link to the giveaway :D
thx again to Splended for the awesome puzzle =D
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THANK YOU. But I don't think that the hint for the password could help me :S. Also, without the hint, how could anybody know that it should be done like that?
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I don't think that the hint was helpful in finding the hidden code in each of the webpages (there really wasn't a significant clue that you should be searching that website for the password), so if you didn't already find those, then the hint just served as a distraction that hindered finding them.
Once you found the code on one webpage (like I did), it was reasonable to check all the pages linked from the homepage for similar code, and once 5 pieces of code were found and decoded (resulting in 5 characters), it was also reasonable that the proper order of those characters would be from left to right, in the order that the links to each page were presented on the homepage.
So I personally think the hint was more distracting than helpful, because once you found one hidden piece of code on one of the webpages, the rest was fairly easy (or maybe that was just me). It would have been easier if the hint was about WHERE to find the codes, rather than what to do with them AFTER they were found (although I suppose that it could be argued that the clue WAS a subtle hint as to where the codes were hidden.)
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Splended did say that he have put the hint there after creating the puzzle page and that it was possible to solve it without using the hint at all.
And if the hint was too obvious, all of you who got to the protected page to begin with would've gotten it
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Splender said that he put the hint because it wasn't obvious. Obviously, as SpaceClick said, if you find one, the others will come by pure logic, even without the hint. Now that I know the answer, I can think, yeah, read "page by page". But why not line by line, or word by word, etc. I wasted a lot of time reading and re-reading all the code of one page, thinking that the "book" was that page, not the whole website :P. I just say, that hint was more distracting than helpful :P (at least for me).
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The hint has everything you need, synonyms, I thought this way: "it's all in ORDER... things in place, order now... purchase now, BUY"
went to the web, enter the buy link, searched the code as was expected and found the same code language as in the brain, decoded, and kept a single number "2", after that, thought of the book part... book, order... from begining to the end... pages... webpage... read in order the web, searched first all the news archive without finding a clue, then checked again the code, and again, there was the code. Went through every link finding the rest of the code.
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The dSkn78.txt was URL again and decoding was the same as the first puzzle.
The other part if you search just the main words - brain and F_cked(without the missing letter) it will come to that you should add to search decoder as well since all on that puzzle page looks like ASCII art(code).
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I was so close! Thanks for a GREAT puzzle, Splended.
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I have created another giveaway, but this time it is much harder.
I will not give any obvious hints as I would like this giveaway to have a smaller entry for people that took the time to figure this one out.
The giveaway lasts 1 week (since this is a harder puzzle).
Please bump this once solved.
You may talk amongst yourselves but remember if you give hints to the public it will just decrease your chances of winning
Good Luck!
EDIT: Bump when you FIND the puzzle since people seem to think there isn't one :P
If you found your way to the second puzzle without solving the first you will be lost.
I have also added a hint on the 2nd puzzle.
Solution provided by blackdragon on page 5
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