Thank you for the fun puzzles! They are always great to try even if I can’t solve them all.
Friends and I had great fun with the games! (Friends aren’t steamgifts users so aren’t level 3, and I already have BG3 so we did it for the fun of playing!)
What was the solution at the end to get the BG3 giveaway? Tried binary and couldn’t seem to get a working giveaway link. Would love to know what the solution was.
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Same here, would love a solution! My wife and I worked through all ten levels in the minutes leading up to the end but couldn't quite crack the code in time. Lots of fun, super neat!
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You had to combine the nibbles (4 bits) found in each giveaway to form a 40-bit mask, XOR that with the 10 giveaway codes after converting them to binary and finally convert the result back to ASCII.
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If you read the OP:
The mighty wizard Xor can kiss my ass!
XOR is a binary operation, see here: https://www.loginradius.com/blog/engineering/how-does-bitwise-xor-work/
At least there was a dungeon key to a loot chamber after each rescue.
Loot chamber = giveaway
Dungeon key = giveaway code
[Xor] locked himself in with all dungeon keys and the nibbles from the loot chambers and he's "working on it"...
Every giveaway has a "nibble". A nibble is half of a byte, aka 4 bits (ones and zeroes).
So collect all 10 nibbles from every giveaway. Combining all 10 halves, gives you 5 full bytes.
A byte (a number < 256) can represent a character in the ASCII table. For example, the number 97 represents the letter 'a'. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pattis/15-1XX/common/handouts/ascii.html
This is also a good article on bits, bytes, and ASCII: https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs101/bits-bytes.html
So 5 bytes equals 5 letters. We need 5 letters for a giveaway code.
But first you still have to perform a XOR operation on the 5 bytes we collected. But with what? If you read the hints in giveaway #10, you will find out that you have to use all 10 giveaway codes.
So you must XOR all 10 giveaway codes and the 5 bytes you collected from the nibbles. The final result is the code for BG3.
Does that help? :)
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Really nice explanation. I deleted mine because yours is better.
Though I would like to add for someone who might not be familiar with it or can get confused as to how to exactly do it(sequence/order etc.).
The order in which you do it doesn't matter.. you can ^xor them level 1 with level 2 then the result with level 3 etc.. and when do all levels then lastly with the gotten nibbles.. But as I said order doesn't matter you can start with the nibbles first or even add them between levels or even go level 1 with level 10, then the result with level 5 etc..
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I don't understand. Can you be more clear?
For example, this is what I did, in order :
I was getting crap like Q*s) ...
I tried 3 different websites to do the XOR'ing. Something is missing.
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Hey, I did exactly how you did but my first time was with 11th entry being the first in the order but it failed... (the order doesn't matter)
The problem was with your/my websites, chat GPT -3.5 failed me too. and some other website also failed.
You could have done it by hand also/ in notepad as the operations in themselves are quite simple...
This is table for what you do when you xor a bit:
| x | y | x^y |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 |
example:
0100
^ 0011
------Result: 0111 => (7)
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Thank you so much for your reply. I did indeed use GPT 3.5, which I noticed was all over the place with it's XOR calculations. I tried using a few different websites, and they too were off, sometimes leaving off 0's, which threw my answer off. I was close many times, getting ptZU' or something similar, but as you said, the inaccuracy threw results off. Have a great one
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I did this and still was getting 5 digit answers with non printable (special characters) ascii.
I had a list of 11 40 bit, 5 byte sequences. The 10 dungeon keys + 1 the nibble key, concatenated to form 40 bit, 5 bytes. So 11. Then I XOR'd them. Didn't matter. Still got gibberish answers that could not be used in URL... such as Q*s), or PT'zu. etc.
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ptzu is pretty close. You may have made a mistake somewhere.
Here is part of the solution. See if you can get the same result or if something is going wrong.
The first 5 byte sequence is from the nibbles. The order in which you XOR the keys doesn't matter, the final result is always the same.
0101000100101010001001000001100100010000 b'Q*$\x19\x10'
0101011101110100001110000101100101010000 b'Wt8YP'
--------------------------------------- XOR
0000011001011110000111000100000001000000 b'\x06^\x1c@@'
0000011001011110000111000100000001000000 b'\x06^\x1c@@'
0101010001000001010101110101000001010000 b'TAWPP'
--------------------------------------- XOR
0101001000011111010010110001000000010000 b'R\x1fK\x10\x10'
0101001000011111010010110001000000010000 b'R\x1fK\x10\x10'
0100010001000101001100110110101100110111 b'DE3k7'
--------------------------------------- XOR
0001011001011010011110000111101100100111 b"\x16Zx{'"Comment has been collapsed.
Looking at your conversion of Wt8YP to binary
I got this which is what I was using. :|
01110111 01110100 00111000 01111001 01110000
went to another online tool got this ..
01010111 01110100 00111000 01011001 01010000
how would I know which is right?
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I didn't manage to solve on time, but I'd love to know the solution to the puzzles if you have them!
Some of them had me stumped.
Thank you again though for the well thought out puzzles and GAs!
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Hey Robin, I posted a solution just above 😉
https://www.steamgifts.com/go/comment/ebOoW5f
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How many entries did it had by the end? Aka how many solved it?
I like self contained puzzles so this one definitely isn't for me as even the solution looks like Chinese to me.. But for this to be done, it's an INSANE amount of work for very few people that solved it and to those that tried.
The minigame was fun as well! I still haven't beaten the last 2 lvls xD
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172 entries for Baldur's Gate 3, other giveaways somewhat same but most a little bit lower. You can press on OP and just check.
But I do agree for people who are in IT or CS(who mostly studied it) it was quite simple... As for just regular folk it might seem overwhelming even though the solution is quite simple...
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Love this puzzle. But level 4 has got me failing bad
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The mighty wizard Xor can kiss my ass!
First I got to rescue a damsel in distress. Ten times over!
Of course, she demands her lost treasure be collected in full before she'll leave the dungeon. Little brat.
At least there was a dungeon key to a loot chamber after each rescue.
And now, after all this Xor tells me the final prize is hidden in a way that only he himself can fathom. He locked himself in with all dungeon keys and the nibbles form the loot chambers and he's "working on it"...
Jerk. I hope he knows what he's doing.
start here
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Level: 3+
Regional restrictions: None on BG3 - some of the bundled games have restrictions according to the EU version of Humble Bundle
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