What am I supposed to do with that exquisite piece of art? XD
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Not a dead end, but I won't give any more hints for this part as it's actually pretty easy :-)
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ok that was easy and not at the same time.
Im getting this message
Valued Customer!
This website access is restricted either due to instructions of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority or because of Policy Implementations by concerned ISP/WebAdmin.
In case you feel this webpage is legitimate and should be accessible, please contact our Customer Care Centre @1218.
Apologies for inconvenience.
Is this suppose to happen?
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Nope. I'm afraid you went in the wrong direction. Past the quiz there's only one part in this puzzle (near the end) where you get a code to put into an URL, and it is a SG giveaway code. Other then that, you always get a complete url.
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Oh, didn't expect that. Still, you should be fine if pastebin works through proxy. Code you get is part of the puzzle.
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"Welcome
Thanks for joining me here, I hope you enjoyed the puzzle. That's it from me for now. See you soon."
Is that really the end of it ? Stuck here and tried everything.
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You guys are probably overthinking it, and by a lot :-P
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Interesting idea, but it would cause too much confusions.
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You're probably on the wrong track. There shouldn't be anything suspicious around the picture, just a straight up link that will take you to the next step. You also don't have to identify any game in this puzzle.
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You still have more than 48h to figure it out :-)
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Don't give up. You must have seen this trick many times.
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Two of the hints in OP should help you with that.
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Probably the last update. 5 hours left and small hint added on YT
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Yeah, I tried but I don't know anything about imaging. Any possibility of receiving a few tips when this is over?
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I'll post a solution sometime later. Where exactly are you stuck?
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Looking at pastebin.
I may be confusing your pastebin with another puzzler's pastebin, which certainly was an encoded gif per the beginning. Doing 8 puzzles at once can end up rather confusing.
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You should look for the source of your troubles to find a solution
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Will you be providing the solution? I got as far as Sherlock Holmes, but I also believe I met the fair lass somewhat accidentally whilst trying to look for the original drawing.
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I got to itstoohard.com then had zero clue what to do.
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I'm working on solution right now. Should be ready in anywhere from 30 minutes to next 2 days :-)
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Typical, found the first giveaway now and what I assume is half of the second.
Edit: Now I've found both. Huh.
I should've tried a bit harder earlier.
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Gift sent. Solution posted. Big thanks to everyone who participated.
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Awesome puzzle, these are the kind I approve of. Difficult without being a laborious Googling exercise. Although sadly, once you've used a certain trick, it's hard to use again in another puzzle.
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Got stuck on the NOPE message, a music part in a puzzle has biten me in a completely new way. I probably should start listening to damn music :] I did try to view file properties but nothing was there hmm checking it as text file didn't occur to me, my bad. Didn't have much time though it was last minutes anyway so just gave up. But was lotsa fun as far as I did manage to get :D
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This is why I could not live without Total Commander.
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Wow, I was over-thinking it A LOT. Got to the video and I thought the screenshots had some meaning. Since I had exactly 3 letters so far from the other hidden stuff and I sorta counted the screenshots as 16, I thought I would have to find some way to transform them in 1s and 0s (such as taking the moments they were taken at and thinking of them as 1s and 0s for odd and even) to get 2 binary codes for the other 2 letters. Guess I'm too crazy thinking for my own good. :D
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Internet Explorer is shit.
Standard rules apply. Do not leak, post answers, suggest hints, or directly link to the prize/giveaway.
You start here. Good luck.
Hint It's just like my quiz says, translator site is useless for this puzzle. It might give you a hint on what to do with the code, but that's all. Don't waste your time there.
Hint When you meet a fair lass, be sure to check her out properly.
Hint If you got a drawing, it is a copy. You need to find original one.
Hint Familiarizing yourself with how sites like pastebin or imgur actually work can go a long way when it comes to solving puzzles.
Solution
Supreme Commander 2 giveaway description is of course an itstoohard code = http://itstoohard.com/puzzle/e1uuLD1Y
After answering the quiz question you get a pastebin link
Pastebin code is an image encoded to base64. If you tried to decode it on the translator page, you might have noticed it says 'GIF89a' at the beginning. What's the easiest way to make an actual image out of it? First, tweak the pastebin url a bit to get a non-raw version. As you can see, this paste has a previous version. Click view the difference.
Now just put both versions together, paste the whole code into your browsers address bar and press enter. Clicky
Those of you who recognized the drawing probably knew where to look, but you can just save the image to your hard drive and upload it to Google Image Search. Either way you should end up here.
Open the Imgur link under Q3 and delete .png file extnsion from the url. Clicky. URL from the image description will take you to the next step.
When you decode the morse code you get just a short message. Dead end? Nope. Download the .mp3 and view it's ID3 tag with your favorite audio player or just open the file with a notepad. YouTube link I put there should be hard to miss. Clicky
It is a short gameplay video of Sherlock Holmes versus Jack the Ripper. I tried to hint at the next step by taking about 15 screenshots and browsing them near the end of the clip.
If you check my Steam profile, you'll see I have only one Sherlock screenshot posted there. Click the link in comments below to see an almost identical image. Take a close look to see that pretty lady has a giveaway code tattooed on her right arm.
Final giveaway
Few brutes got here before completing previous steps :-P
Giveaway code characters in sequence:
Hidden here in the source of OP
Hidden in the source of Supreme Commander 2 giveaway
Description under the Message.mp3
Imgur description of the "Twin sister" image
Hidden in the source of The Last Remnant giveaway
The End
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