Afraid of wall of text? Don't worry. Just skip to Bigger hints below under 'hints' section.

Bigger hints below under 'hints' section. You will finally be able to solve it. I guarantee!


Foreword.

This puzzle is a tribute to this brilliant puzzle made by Award.
At first it was intended as both a revenge and a contribution. Sadly it never evolved into a contribution but stayed revenge instead (nobody solved it). But I am satisfied now so I beg you to solve this one! Please! It's just a little bit harder in one piece and a little bit easier in other pieces.

End of foreword.


Puzzle. ---------> No hints, answers, solutions or any kind of spoilers!

  • For your first seed to grow do not seek the help of either dwarfs, little indians or kings. Instead look for the courage of knights and the council of watching angels.

  • Your second seed will rot if planted on black Friday by black women in the name of Kali with the help of the Devil and his circles.


Tips.

Part 1.

  • There are two giveaways. No contributions are needed :D

  • You really want to read Award's puzzle and its solution. Here

  • You want to check if his solution is real :P

  • You don't need to understand symbols and faces

  • You want to understand what alpha function is. For that answer Q1 and Q4 of Award's quiz correctly.

Part 2.

  • You don't want to use alpha function in its original form, you need its essential part modified

  • You want a code that's not giveaway code

  • You need two seeds. Only they STAND out. Only they have this in common.

End of tips


A quiz to help you.

It contains hints which should be available in 2 days time. 1 solver is me :P

Timer!


Hints.

  • 1. It should be easy(?) for those who solved Award puzzles.

  • 2. I've divided TIPS into 2 parts for better understanding

  • 3. Q1 and Q2 of my quiz are for the 1st part of TIPS, Q3 and Q4 for the 2nd part.

  • 4. If you get right answer to Q3 and don't know what to do - explore!

  • 5. Answers to Q1 and Q2 can be input in only one possible way (one of the TIPS in Part 1 will tell you exactly how to do it).

  • 6. General plan (but you figured it out already, didn't you?):

    • Apply an alpha function to get 2 giveaway codes
    • To properly apply an alpha function you need 3 parameters: a seed, a sequence of shifts and ...(not revealed yet but you do know what)
    • To confirm these parameters you need to solve the quiz
  • 7. "Kings" from Q1 and "black women" from Q2 are from the same source.

Big hints!

End of hints.


Presents

Mount&Blade:Warband

Bastion

End of presents

12 years ago*

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Reserved.

P.S. I wonder what I reserved this place for...

Edit: Ok. If anyone sees this as a first comment ---> see BIG HINTS above under 'Hints' section!

12 years ago
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noo i hate these puzzles

12 years ago
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Be my guest :P

12 years ago
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Ooh ooh. This time more time on the timer, time to time my time to get the solution on time. One hopes, time and time again.

12 years ago
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I have certain hopes invested in you. Particularly!

12 years ago
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There's 1337 in the url, no way I can solve this.

12 years ago
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Ha! You just need some courage!

12 years ago
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So nobody solved it before?

EDIT: nice, I found the code but what am I supposed do with it? lol

12 years ago
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Congratulations! I think that's the hardest part. I will give hints later if few or none solve it in 3 days.

12 years ago
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Added some hints. I still don't think the puzzle is hard.

And one more thing. It's my birthday today so time for presents. See above!

12 years ago
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Happy Birthday! It's my sister's birthday as well today, for some reason her only wish is to have pizza. :P

12 years ago
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Happy birthday to your sister! Just let her have that pizza and see what she wants next!

12 years ago
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"say goodbye to 23489$"

12 years ago
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Happy birthday (I have to complete the puzzle made by Max before of starting yours).

12 years ago
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Oh happy birthday, man :D I still haven't tried hard enough. Let's see new batch of hintz :3

12 years ago
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thanks, but Q4 doesnt use alpha function ;)

12 years ago
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I think you're talking about Q4 of Award's Quiz. It doesn't but correct answer will mysteriously help you. If it doesn't make sense I'll give more hints later :)

12 years ago
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the fact is there are to many possibilities i can think of and none of them gives direct answer so i dont know which one to stick with :D

12 years ago
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Hint #5 might help you. Or not. Depends on what possibilities are :)

12 years ago
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nah, i probably wait till there will be less than 24h and then get into this puzzle as i did with Awards :D

12 years ago
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Oh,my. Just realized there might be problems with answers to Q1 and Q2. Added hint(#5) about this.

12 years ago
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Yeah. The tactics of waiting till more hints appear is fruitful. Here's another one (#6).

12 years ago
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I see you have seen through my grotesque tactics! Drats! But since they are working... >.>

Although hmm yess, #6 is something kinda obvious still thanks for confirming :D

12 years ago
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Little hint to reduce guessing (#7).

12 years ago
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Finally! You've all been waiting for it to happen! Big hints!

No excuses this time! If anyone wonders, "1 solver" is me.

12 years ago
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Shit, my paranoid in-private browsing habits have bitten me in my arse again, due to system restart the countdown timer to in-quiz hints has just restarted for me :/ Well looks like they still show up before the puzzle ends.

Now let's see your big hints here :3

I really gotta allow to store cookies from itstoohard.com, eh :/

12 years ago
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Disregard them because bigger hints are bigger! Anyway I'm gonna right those hints here once I'm at home.

12 years ago
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Thanks! I have almost aced the BIG HINTS quiz! And well seeing I'm the actual alpha function creator that would be silly not to. It confirms my one hypothesis and I'm cautiously optimistic that it gives me some new ideas for the puzzle. Just the last question is what I'm missing :3

12 years ago
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It's your scourge!

12 years ago
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I have solved your original revenge! xD Too late of course T_T

And your BIG HINTS quiz got a solver that is not you, too xD

12 years ago
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Ha. So you have the easiest part left. See you there soon.

12 years ago
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Gotta say the big hints didn't give me any new info I wasn't sure about by the time I saw them, but still nice to see my thoughts confirmed.

EDIT: OK, one (but minor) piece I wasn't sure about :3

12 years ago
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Hmm. Ok. If it's THAT hard I'll make more hints later.

12 years ago
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OK. We have one solver to Big hints (the other one is me)! He's now ready to face real quiz!

P.S. Meanwhile I edited the post just to rearrange some parts better. It might have become worse in the process...

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Closed 12 years ago by chour.