Do you hate me?
SOLUTION
As I said, pretty simple.
I had marked the initials of each word on that nonsense sentence (hint 2):
So, this easy give away naturally offers great reactions. Absolute panic handlers, yes?
These letters form the word Steganography. This is a technique used to hide a file, sound or image within another file/sound/image file. You can only remove it if you use a tool, you cannot do it manually. (hint 3)
This tool was on the website ManyTools and the name of the tool is Stegranography itself. But how to find the website?
Reverse search (hint 1) the image. Only 1 website would come up.
OR
Hint 5 first letter of each line formed "MANYTOOLS".
So now you have the website, the tool and... hint 4 gave away the image was the key to the solution. Just upload the image to the website checking the "decode" box and it would give you the link to the train.
Without any hints, what you would do to solve it:
Reverse search the image, find the website, find the right tool (with or without a hint, but the sentence was there since the beginning), upload the image with decode, done.
I hope you enjoyed this puzzle, see you next time! :D
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Googling found software with that name but the link for download is dead.
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Been an hour and not seeing any entries so far. Happily I'm not the only one too stupid to get this.
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It's simple, but it's not easy... don't feel bad :)
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See? I told you! It's very simple!
Congratulations for being #1 (as usual) :D
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i never solve puzzles but i want to solve this for pure principle :l
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Found the off-wagon, but can't find the train itself. There doesn't seem to be any clue at all telling us what we need to do.
A hint would be appreciated.
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Savor that feeling...got up, still can't get yours :P
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I just finished writing my thread with solutions, once the giveaways end I'll hit the "Create discussion" button. You'll see that it was actually a logic puzzle and that it made perfect sense.
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Every puzzle makes perfect sense to the person creating it...even Student123's.
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It makes sense. Everything you need is there, there are already 2 hints... quite a few people completed it in <24h with no further hints.
Pay attention to the details. I will give more hints, just not yet. Want to see who else can do it. There's a lot of time still...
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OHHHHH Thankyou! A puzzle that will give me plenty of time to solve it and meditate on it.... Have until October 11th... I could just hug you right now...!! ;)
Still searching for train!
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Ugh I can't figure out how to find the train for the life of me. :(
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YEAH! That hint led me...somewhere that I have no idea what to do with, same as the rest of what I've pulled out of the puzzle so far as possibly being relevant. They seem to form a tenuous thread, but I can't see how to get to a GA code with it. :\
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So now you found something! First you need to analyse this thread and I can bet you'll solve it! :D
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thank goodness I have some time...I'll work on it tomorrow :)
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Very ironically, the place I found yesterday that I was going to tinker with today isn't working today.
EDIT: It's working again, but not helping...seems to be a dead end and doesn't seem to fit the rest of the hints - still stumped...seems like there's vocabulary in use that I don't understand well enough - makes sense that perrolijo/mandrill solved it, others probably similarly. Will wait for more hints I guess.
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But I just gave a few more hints! Stop must you not, proceed you should!
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Not giving up, just giving up on that approach, and getting some sleep...still plenty of time
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OK, I think I know what you did, but if that's right it's going to take me a day just to understand what I'm reading about how to use it - first time I'm ever seeing this stuff.... :|
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Come on, you can solve it, it's given! :(
You have the mortar and pestle, all you need to do is put something in then grind it. You can do it! Don't overthink, it's simple!
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Gratz! Not too many people think that way, it seems :(
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mmmbump.. da ba doo bump
Great puzzle :)
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Penguin enters the train, really grateful for this puzzle :)
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Bump for solved!!
Cant say it is easy, but it is unusual for sure!
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Yay! Thanks for solving!
I've tried to avoid more of the ol' same, but most people gave up instead... :(
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Don't take it the wrong way - frankly I think I'm just burned out on puzzles at the moment. Too many all at once, I just don't have the stamina to keep banging my head against the wall. :)
I actually really appreciate a new twist normally, even if I don't solve it (provided the solution is posted). This one just feels like more work than I'm willing to put in right now, but you're not alone - I didn't even start perrolijo's, and I'm procrastinating on revilheart's latest period puzzle as well.
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Well, my list of unsolved puzzles is shrinking, so I might get back to this over the weekend. That big long word, and the even longer thing I found to read about it, scare me though :)
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OK, I gave it the old college try with that big long word...I even know enough coding to tinker with it a bit, but I don't know enough about dinosaurs to go much beyond the example and I'm just not finding anything...oh well, I'll be watching for the solution
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Bump for solving Train and Wagon. Thank you for sharing.
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Hello again, folks!
This is another easy puzzle for you and I'm not evil like the others who put one bazillion puzzles in one train. coughkeohookalanicough
All I can say is I'd be impressed if someone can solve it without any hints, even though it's really simple.
No questions asked! No ITH! See?! It's easy!
I've made sure to secure my network cables properly for the enhanced security. :)
And off we go!
So, this easy give away naturally offers great reactions. Absolute panic handlers, yes?
Rules: No sharing.No commiting suicide. No hair pulling. No crying.Level 1+.
Train: 11+1 wagons. Mixed bundles.
Ends: Oct 11, 2015 6:00pm PDT
Hints:
Hint #1: HCRAES (Backwards or...?)
Hint #2: First you need to know what you're looking for.
Hint #3: Ever heard about "inception"?
Hint #4: What if the same object that can lock you up could also be the key for your freedom? Wouldn't that be awesome?!
Hint 5 (and last):
Much sense this puzzle makes not.
All should try and overthink you may not.
Not hard it is.
Yoda I talk like.
This has nothing to do with him, though, just so you know.
Oompa loompa doompety doo, i've got a perfect puzzle for you.
Oompa loompa doompety dee, if you are wise you'll listen to me.
Leeeeeeeroooooooooooooooooyyyyyyyyy... jenkins!
So, anything so far?
SOLUTION POSTED BELOW (POST #1)
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