GIVEAWAYS ENDED, SOLUTIONS POSTED

Tier 1 Solution
Giveaway: Brutal Legend
First known solver: EDUSAN

Tier 2 Solution
Giveaway: Trine 2: Complete Story
First known solver: ErrEff

Tier 3 Solution
Giveaway: Mortal Kombat Kollection
First known solver: ErrEff

Tier 4 Solution
Giveaway: Lord of the Rings: War in the North
First known solver: Ethan

Tier 5 Solution
Giveaway: Batman Arkham City GOTY Edition
First known solver: abc567

Tier 6 Solution
Giveaway: Bioshock Infinite
First known solver: kajoona

Thanks to everyone for participating in the puzzle. I hope it was as much fun solving as it was making. Next time I'll try and make the prizes even bigger. Hope to challenge you again soon!


YAY! PUZZLES!

Been a while since I've done one of these. Usual rules, no leaking/sharing answers ect. People on this magical list approved by support need not bother with the puzzles, as they may not enter the giveaways. Please do not add me to ask why you are on the blacklist.

It's a multi-step puzzle with a few different prizes that gets progressively more difficult. The first two giveaways have a CV limit of $30.01, all others have a CV limit of $0.01.

The prizes:

  • Tier One: Bundle game
  • Tier Two: Another bundle game. Yippee.
  • Tier Three: Non-bundled, average metacritic score of 40-60
  • Tier Four: Non-bundled, average metacritic score of 60-80
  • Tier Five: Three year old AAA, average metacritic score of 90+
  • Tier Six: Recent AAA, average metacritic score of 90+

There will also be several keydrops along the way. The puzzle ends in 10 days (9/30). Enjoy

Due to steam issues tiers five and six will not be avalible until ~24 hours from the creation of this post.

EDIT: If you cannot see the pictures on itstoohard, right click them and copy the URL

EDIT 2: Changed out the link, pics should be fixed.

EDIT 3: Itstoohard is back up, but due to the downtime I haven't been able to complete the last two tiers. They should be up within 24 hours of the update.

Edit 4: All tiers are up and functioning, including the last two.

Edit 5: Puzzle for Tier Five has been slightly modified to make it clearer.

Tier One Hint: I own all the games in the screenshots.

Tier Two Hint (Well more of a clarification): The 47 does not have anything to do with the puzzle.

View attached image.
11 years ago*

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The fifth tier has been breached! Only one remains untarnished.

11 years ago
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;-)

11 years ago
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Tier 3 is mocking me ... :(

11 years ago
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I cannot find tier 3 :(

11 years ago
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same here

11 years ago
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me2 :(

11 years ago
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My main problem with tier 3 is being uncertain in what direction I need to take to solve it. Although trying to do this and work at the same time isn't helping me at all.

11 years ago
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Same,I've tried so many things. Cudos to those who have solved it, but idk what to do here. Hope therewill be a hint up soon, cause I've tried everything I can think of.

11 years ago
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I can't figure out what to do with the clue at the end of tier 2!

11 years ago
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Stuck on Tier 3 :D

11 years ago
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11 years ago
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All tiers have been reached!

11 years ago
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Oh, it seems I'm lagging behind a bit.

11 years ago
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That means we need more tiers!

11 years ago
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I'd get to the last one yourself for asking for more ;)

11 years ago
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Only one solver of the last tier and they already owned the game.

11 years ago
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Any chance of hints on what to do with the thing?

11 years ago
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I chip in: hints :)

11 years ago
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Heh. I got through the first "thing", stuck on the next "thing"

11 years ago
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Hmm... At least I know it's probably not a giveaway code then.
But what else could it be...

11 years ago
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I have an idea what it might be, but so far no luck in proving it.

11 years ago
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According to what you said, you already passed the step I'm stuck on.
I meant the thing leads to another puzzle, and it's not an encoded giveaway link.

edit: Or maybe you didn't? Getting confused.
Anyway people are attempting to brute force something, but I don't even have anything to brute force yet.

11 years ago
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I thought you already solved it! oO (Edit: Because there was suddenly a second comment on GA page)
Now all hope is lost :(

11 years ago
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Solved it finally after days of trying different "things".

11 years ago
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Congrats! I think I will fail this one :/

11 years ago
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it seems I'm 4 days late.. but I still have time :D

ps: quite a blacklist you have there

pps: stuck between T2 and T3 :|

11 years ago
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Same here - no idea where to go from there, even after extensive searching and pursuing dead ends way farther than necessary :(

11 years ago
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I'm stuck between T2 and T3 too. I already found a clue, but now I'm tired... We still have 6 days to solve.

11 years ago
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Bump for same.

11 years ago
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Bump for page 1.

11 years ago
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Bump

11 years ago
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Since it's almost done... maybe help n00b ppl stuck at tier one with more hints :-/... They're out of race anyway...

11 years ago
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you still have 4 days

11 years ago
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Over 100 people have solved it.

11 years ago
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I just hope when it's done, to give hints to n00bs Tier by Tier... Dont just throw all in our face... I really wanna solve it myself :<

11 years ago
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Where's the freaking puzzle start? i cross-checked every letter and every symbol for a link three times now!! god i am so angry aaaaaaaaaaaa!!!

11 years ago
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Where is the freaking start of the puzzle???? I cross-checked every letter and every symbol three times now!! i am sooo angry aaaaa!!!!

11 years ago
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Whats with all the double post?

11 years ago
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Tier 3 solved.. stuck on 4 ofc :S

11 years ago
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Am I supposed to find an animegirl? I think I'm lost :S

11 years ago
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Not sure how you got to that O_o

11 years ago
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Arg can't get to tier 4. Maybe I'm reading the code wrong or something..

11 years ago
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Well now that the solutions are up I can say I found the code in the QR, but I tried everything, even mirroring it. It WAS 3AtAo (or mirrored oAtA3) right?

11 years ago
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oAtAE, not 3.

11 years ago
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See I didn't think of that and now I feel really stupid :(

11 years ago
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How the hell do I even get to the puzzle? This is ridiculous.

11 years ago
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That would be part of the puzzle.

11 years ago
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not bothered to do it

11 years ago
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Thank you for the constructive response.

11 years ago
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Any chance of a hint for the first part of tier 6?

11 years ago
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Nope

11 years ago
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And on the second part? :D
Edit: Does it require brute-force?

11 years ago
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I'm not that mean.

11 years ago
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Thanks ;) I already tried a brute-force way without success :/
Have to figure out a different way..

11 years ago
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But I had to brute force one of the game screenshots from your game list. :p

11 years ago
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Got the first two but that's it. Thanks anyways...

11 years ago
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Any chance for a hint on Tier 3? I've tried everything I can think of. I must be missing something obvious, but nothing's making itself clear.

11 years ago
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I think I've given enough hints.

11 years ago
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Not much longer left on the puzzle!

11 years ago
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After the puzzle is finished, are you going to give the answers? I'm dying to know what the answer of tier 1 Question 5 was.

11 years ago
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Yup!

11 years ago
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~19 more hours remain!

11 years ago
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GAH QUESTION 5

11 years ago
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The 3rd tier makes absolutely no sense to me, I'm so bad at those puzzles. :(

Could you post explanation for all tiers when the giveaways end for future reference? Because I really have no clue how to approach those puzzles. XD

11 years ago
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Yup!

11 years ago
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Yay, thanks! :D

11 years ago
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Made some tier 6 progress!
Can't see anything that I could do next though...

11 years ago
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Bump for breaching the final wall.

11 years ago
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How in the hell did you do it? I'm stuck at tier 4.. hidden code does nothing! >:( I swear to Bacon, that if tier 4 is Remember Me, and I'm not there, I will murder the next COD n00b I see!

11 years ago
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who are you and why am I on your blacklist ?

11 years ago
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THE GIVEAWAYS FOR THE FINAL 2 TIERS HAVE ENDED.

Tiers 1,2, and 4 still have 1 hour. Tier 3 has 2 hours.

11 years ago
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I can't wait to see how the last one was solved

11 years ago
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Nice final giveaways, I failed at tier 5. I had an idea as to what you'd done, but couldn't turn that knowledge into anything meaningful.

If it's not what I thought it was and instead was something obvious, then I'm going to go kick a puppy.

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Closed 11 years ago by TartFlavor.