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Puzzle time! (Large puzzle with multiple giveaways) (CLOSED, SOLUTIONS POSTED)

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TartFlavor

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.
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damjan21

Am I retarded or something, can someone give me the link to the puzzle?

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Enissay

look into the source coode >.>

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TartFlavor

Solutions posted!

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dal3k

Are you going to post the solutions to the solutions? I still don't get the Tier 4 :p

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TartFlavor

What don't you get about it specifically?

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dal3k

I had to mirror the QR code?

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TartFlavor

Umm... flip horizontally.

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TartFlavor

It isn't the link in the QR code. The link is hidden in the QR code, I believe it's near the bottom left.

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dal3k

Wow, found it, it's in the bottom right after flipped.
That was well hidden, good job and thanks for all the giveaways :)

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Enissay

WTH, I tried to decode it 20 online decoder before I found this post... And still I couldnt find any text in it ... I swear Im not blind even If i'm wearing glasses :<

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Notional

You don't convert the QR code, that's a dead end. The link is hidden in the picture of the QR code.

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AeonianChacma

Got up to the Kerbal screenshot, no way I could imagine what the code was

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kajoona

I was stuck on this. I read the wiki about KSP and noticed they are always called "xxx Kerman". Then I assumed there was something hidden there.

Congratulations to the winners! As always, no luck for me ^^

Thank you Tartflavor for the giveaways and the puzzles. I enjoyed them very much. Waiting for the next one!

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scaliana

Also stuck on there, "claude zorman" could also be an anagram for "random clue za" (or az). But that didn't help me :D
Tried brute-forcing combinations of gEtGoOd4...

@TartFlavor: Thanks for making the puzzles and thanks for the giveaways!

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ThePonz

I feel so stupid for not having been able to go past that corn.. and I even checked your friends list.. >_<
still can't find the link in the QRcode.. I must be getting blind.. XD

thanks for everything anyways, too bad I couldn't reach tiers 4&6

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Sorapak

Hey TartFlavor. Since there's no way to contact you via private message(Hence the second time I tried adding you),just wanted to say sorry for adding you to ask about the GA,read the Profile Description after. Cheers. :)

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