The hint helped to guide me into the correct direction.
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Nose, AI, Nose, AI, Compute, Model, Anatomy, In, Under, Brain, Boogers, Snot...
...GAH! I know less than twenty people have gotten this, but I know I'm still gonna feel so stupid when I wake up tomorrow! What's the connection?!
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I tried asking the AI, and it's pointing definitely towards one specific direction, but none of the permutations in that direction seem to be bearing any fruit.
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If I got the answer at some point but misinterpreted one character, ohhhhhh dear. Even then, the AI gave a pretty weak rationale, so this might still just be up in the air, out of reach.
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Figured it out 2 hours late, but at least I got it eventually.
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Oh my god... I was trying to find out what ciphers could be related to "nose" and I got one called the Nostradamus cipher (this seemed too fitting to not be the answer...) It perfectly fit with the code you used since it also uses a letter then a number... It told me the number denotes how many spots to go forwards (or backwards) in the alphabet from that letter... so I was confused how come the answer couldn't possibly be HccwG (For example - A7, would become H) Or a bunch of other variations I tried!
Although when I try to google this cipher it doesn't come up... so maybe the AI was making nonsense up on me
Very creative puzzle :)
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Ooh that's a cool cipher, I might use it in the future now that I know about it
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Damned inconsistent AI! 😄 Tried several times with several bots, and none of them made the keyboard connection.
In retrospect, it seems they kind of ignored the Q, I guess? Apart from just suggesting a cypher, they repeatedly focused on the fact that A and Z being the beginning and end of the alphabet must have some significance 😅
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I think I considered using the keyboard as a guide at one point, but the AI seemed like it was specifically trying to make the idea of it being keyboard related seem ridiculous, because it claimed that "z" is right underneath "3."
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Cool puzzle. Being one of the unfortunate AZERTY bros, it didn't immediately occur to me to use the keyboard as a reference but it wasn't that oblique that I wouldn't have thought about it eventually I'm sure. I guess a hint in that direction could have helped the AZERTY peeps
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In case you're new to puzzles, usually the objective is to obtain the unique 5 characters code of a private giveaway:
https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/XXXXX/GAs include The Excavation of Hob's Barrow, Loddlenaut, SATANIC PANIC 666, Heretic's Fork, Edge of Reality, and more.
As always, I will provide hints if nobody gets it, and I will share the solution when the puzzle ends.
Have some music, good luck solving the puzzle!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8LNaPz6iIM
[HINT]
Stuck in the nose part? Maybe you should ask someone Artificially more Intelligent than you for help.
Solution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8LNaPz6iIMis part of the real url, the rest is superfluous...VGhlIGFuc3dlciBpcyByaWdodCB1bmRlciB5b3VyIG5vc2UKQTcgejMgYTIgcTYgWjc=once decoded becomes
The answer is right under your noseA7 z3 a2 q6 Z7.This is a code that depends on your keyboard (under your nose).
If you ask an AI chatbot for help on this step, it will probably not gonna be able to solve the puzzle itself, but it should be successful at guessing it has something to do with your keyboard.
I made sure to create a code that included the letters Q, A and Z for a reason. If you're using a default QWERTY keyboard (the standard keyboard used worldwide, sorry AZERTY bros), you will notice that these are the first letters of each row of letters.
The number stands for the nth character on that row of letters.
The capitalization of Q, A, Z indicates the capitalization of the resulting character.
z3 = c
a2 = s
q6 = y
Z7 = M
The code you're looking for is JcsyM
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