01010100 01101000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01110111 01101001 01101101 01101100 00100001 01100011 01100100 00100001 01110101 01101111 01110100 01100000 01101101 00100000 01100110 01101001 01100011 01100011 01100101 01110010 01101001 01110011 01101000 00100001 00100000 01001000 00100000 01110100 01101001 01101000 01101111 01101010 00100000 01110010 01101111

Not as easy as it seems but it's still quite easy. No contributions required. Here, have a timer.


Hint #1: Having some knowledge about binary could prove useful.
Hint #2: You only need to decode it once.
Hint #3: What you need is hidden in plain sight.
Hint #4: Decoding is the last step.


The solution is pretty simple. The binary code that gave the giveaway code was hidden in the LSBs of the original binary.

Here's the original binary in a clearer format:
01010100 01101000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01110111 01101001 01101101
01101100 00100001 01100011 01100100 00100001 01110101 01101111 01110100
01100000 01101101 00100000 01100110 01101001 01100011 01100011 01100101
01110010 01101001 01110011 01101000 00100001 00100000 01001000 00100000
01110100 01101001 01101000 01101111 01101010 00100000 01110010 01101111

When all but the LSBs are removed, you're left with this binary:
00110111 01101110 01001111 01101000 01010001

And when you decode it, you get the giveaway code which leads to this giveaway.

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here is in hex code 54 68 69 73 20 77 69 6d 6c 21 63 64 21 75 6f 74 60 6d 20 66 69 63 63 65 72 69 73 68 21 20 48 20 74 69 68 6f 6a 20 72 6f

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Puzzles: Do not leak, post answers, suggest hints, or directly link to the prize/giveaway. You should delete the posts suggesting some kind of solutions to the puzzle as this is not a group puzzle.

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5 spaces!!!

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but i dont understand once i translate those from binaric , i just get tons of random numbers.
do i like guess from here on and pick random letters and numbers untill i guessed it right? seems wrong
then what should i do?

you say its hidden on plane sight.. maybe if i look right i might make a word or something close to it out if this?

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When solved correctly, you will get the 5 character giveaway code. If your end result is not 5 characters, you're doing something wrong.

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Yes , but There is only ONE decoding stage , and its result is 5 times 5 characters..
you are hiding something , or im missing something.

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You're not solving it correctly then.

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My Pc

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how about we get 1 more hint?

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Maybe tomorrow.

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i think its quite graphical... isnt it?

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Nope. No graphical shenanigans in this one. :D

12 years ago
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ok It took me 5 minutes to solve... Hint #4 is huge help.

12 years ago
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No idea what I need to do with those bits before decoding.

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Less than 2 days left to solve. 7 solvers so far.

12 years ago
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I still only smell herring

12 years ago
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No herrings or other sneaky shenanigans here :P

12 years ago
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Omg that is freaky. I opened the timer and it was EXACTLY on flipping over from 24 hours to 23:59:59.

12 years ago
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Bip. Beep. Bip. Beep. Bip.

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I tried everything, and I have no clue.

12 years ago
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Hm, I've figured out the third rule, but I can't seem to transform it into a code.

12 years ago
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Eh, Screw it. I'm out.
I got so far, but there were so many possibilities.

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could you be so kind to post the solution after this is over?

I´d really like to maybe learn something for future giveaways.

12 years ago
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Clever Clever. ;P

12 years ago
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Solution is now up.

12 years ago
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Darn. I was trying to XOR the bytes, grabbing a digit from each byte, etc.

12 years ago
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This will be total gibberish! I think so

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Closed 12 years ago by Desidiosus.