SO I had a puzzle train that had 313 guesses, 46 players, 1 solve.

I was the only person who solved it, when I tested it, so 0 real solves.

Yes, there was a leak in the first 2 minutes, which was pointed out and sorted. when I went to bed 2 hours later there were no unauthorised entries, when I woke up 2 users have managed to enter most of the GA's without solving the puzzle.

So, I have cancelled the whole train, I apologise to the 46 players who spent what I am sure was a frustrating few hours trying to get it right.

I have included a GA for Shadowrun: Hong Kong Extended Edition

I won't supply an answer to the 1st puzzle just yet as I wish to reuse the puzzle later. But I will say that you needed to consider every word, not just the ones that seemed important.

6 years ago

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Shit happens 😄💙

6 years ago
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New Train will unfortunatley have to be in 11 days, as I have only 1 slot left, which I just used, until the cancelled ones expire.... give me some more time to refine that question I guess.

6 years ago
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Perfect then Liege. And no problem. Sometimes it happens, so blacklist to the guilty users, and try to solve the ITH again :)

6 years ago
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Good Idea, hadnt though of that. I can only remember one of them now, I didn't realise you lose all access to your giveaways once deleted.. still better than nothing.

6 years ago
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It's true... But well, better 1 than nothing. Even you can report that user you remember if SG can do something about it.

6 years ago
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Abusing such leaks is also a punishable offense AFAIK, so if you notify support with their names, they might get trouble. Rightly so.

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I'm afraid the cancelled ones will not expire giving back your slots. You lose a slot permanently each time you delete a giveaway.

However, not all is lost because you can always ask for more slots from support. Just send a ticket and explain the situation with your puzzle which btw is totally evil because I couldn't even think of a single approach to try :)

6 years ago
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Oh, I did not know that, I will have to submit a ticket then.

And as for the puzzle, you will get another chance as I will definately be bringing that one back... maybe at the back end... blocking GTAV or Nier:automata... or something similar :P

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If you can provide the proof..support can suspend the offenders.. But in your case I'm not sure.. afterall it was a leaked GA, which I am assuming you provided the wrong link.
You can always use SGtools to protect GA and trains. Support can use Sgtool's data as evidence for rule breaking. And also you can request for ban on every SGtool protected GA's or train if you like.

6 years ago
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Thanks for the info, I'm not going to chase support as it was leaked for 2 minutes at the start but damned if I'll let someone win who did nothing when everyone else was toiling away..

I'll probably use SGtools next time.

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I know how you feel. And BTW you don't have to wait 11 days just so that you can create a train. Ask support to expand you GA slots, explain why GA were deleted, and you probably will get the slots.

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You can always use SGtools to protect GA and trains. Support can use Sgtool's data as evidence for rule breaking. And also you can request for ban on every SGtool protected GA's or train if you like.

This! Got to combine puzzles with SGTools to avoid/figure out leakers and report them.

6 years ago
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Such a lot of work. Thank you Liege for doing this for us pal...for your time and giveaways. God bless you.

6 years ago
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Support has already replaced my slots. Next SGtools puzzle train will start this weekend, when i finish nightshifts. Thanks for the suggestions everyone!

6 years ago
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Sorry to hear about the bogus entries.

6 years ago
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Ah, so sorry about that, hopefully it was not my fault when I clumsily posted about the leak... :(

Anyway, thank you for the effort and the GAs, we appreciate it.

(I took a look at first one and tried a few things, but did not have the time yet to really try it.)

Cheers!

6 years ago
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Don't worry, you were okay, there were 3 users, I knew you were one of them with my permission as you found the leak and informed me. The other 2 were the issue.

6 years ago
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I missed the entire thing, lol. Or did I? Uhhh, didn't see a puzzle anyway...

6 years ago
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It was a whole other thread which only lasted 8 hours before I closed it.

6 years ago
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...unless this is the puzzle?

It is not.

6 years ago
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Oh ok...
searches

:P

edit: Uhoh...might have solved puzzle1, or atleast am on the right track,...should I try?

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if you have the ith link and can keep it to yourself, I'd be interested to know.

obviously no reward except a head start for next train as will be reusing.

6 years ago
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Yikes... a lot of work to have to cancel and remake ... so sad that people leak things like this and cause hardship on puzzle creators.

Looking forward to the puzzle coming back soon.

6 years ago
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Me too, I want to try puzzle 2, think I solved part 1 :P

6 years ago
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i hope you have, so then i dont have to change it. if 1 person can work it out, everyone else should be okay when the cryptic clues start

6 years ago
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There you go, it clicked almost instantly for me...almost because I was hanging out the laundry, not at my computer :P

6 years ago
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Awesome, sometimes thats the best way, when you're not directly thinking about it,.
This will be gate 3 in the next train, so you'll have to get past 2 others first.

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Sounds good, I'll try to get by those :)

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Yes, there was a leak in the first 2 minutes, which was pointed out and sorted. when I went to bed 2 hours later there were no unauthorized entries, when I woke up 2 users have managed to enter most of the GA's without solving the puzzle.

Hrrm. Not sure if I'm understanding the description correctly.

What kind of leak are you talking about, and how did someone leak a puzzle that no one solved? Unless you mean you messed something up and forgot to close part of the puzzle or a GA which exposed the rest of the train. Not exactly a real "leak" though, unless maybe you'd also classify yourself as a "leaker". I suppose its just semantics, though I suspect it might just be shading connotations based on some words tossed around in the thread.

Personally I think I'd have a hard time faulting either user for entering based on my own mistake since they did still did 'solve' it, finding the GA with what you gave them. That is unless it was clear those users didn't see the mistake and got in from link sharing like cheating any private GA. Are you assuming the leaked 'illegal' entries are from people sharing the link with each other?

Doesn't really seem like 2 people entering after you've fixed the link tells you much of anything by itself. It was accessible at the time and it's fairly reasonable that both could've bookmarked the link or kept the tab open until they had more points or time to enter later on. Maybe you were a bit premature cancelling the whole thing? shrug

6 years ago
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You are correct in surmising that I left a GA Link open by mistake and was notified in the 1st minute. I managed to fix it then. The user who notified me entered the GAs with my blessing. For the next 2.5 hrs no one else entered as I checked before I went to bed. Sometime in the next 5 hours two.seperate users entered without completing the puzzle. If they had of entered in the first thirty minutes or even hour, I probably would have let it go.

You could be completely right as to what happened. I just don't know. So I cancelled the puzzle and will be putting.them up again tonight. Lesson learnt for me. In the end it was only my time wasted as I will reuse the puzzle that no one could solve, So 46 people had a.sneak preview.

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