This giveaway for L.A. Noire starts 18th of May and ends 26th of May.

You know where to start.

http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/DxXxX

D (and only D) is a digit.

No, you are not supposed to bruteforce it.


"I think I made fish too hardcore"

Okay, after I got some sleep and looked at my puzzle once again I decided it may be a little too difficult. But you can still solve it. And every day you don't people will die, starting tonight. Oh, and I will also add hints to this post.

Because today is a special occasion (the day I add the first hint) you get five cryptic hints for the price of one!


Hints

  1. You start here.
  2. Absolutely no pigeons are involved in this puzzle.
  3. Most of the links are important because of pages they point to. But not all of them.
  4. Not every hint is useful.
  5. When numbers are involved, flush right.
  6. This hint contains all the information you need. Seriously. It even bypasses all the puzzle steps, but two.

Solution

By looking at the source of the page you can find 4 hidden links in this message (not counting hints).

First:

Sorry

You lose

Second:

Key to winning

12 40 25 44 10

Third:

Hint

When you lose, use 0b124 with a key.

Fourth:

Negative part of the key

It is 0b20

0b is a prefix for binary constants (Hint 2). 124 is 1111100 (01111100) in binary. Exactly five 1s, just like there are five letters in a giveaway code.
"When you lose" hints to the first link. You need to take a part of it that looks like a giveaway code and apply the binary mask to it. If you are not sure about adding the leading zero hint 5 tells you to flush right.

http://pastebin.com/vANqAD7b
vANqAD7b
01111100

This leaves you with "ANqAD". But the hint tells you to use it "with a key". "The key" is in the second and third links.

First, there are five numbers. You need to add or substract them from the character codes of the letters. 20 (10100 in binary) is the "negative part", so you substract the first and the third and add the rest.

This results in 5vXmN. And there you have it.

With Hint 5 you don't need to concern yourself with getting the correct key or converting numbers to binary. Otherwise it is the same.

12 years ago*

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intrestinge ...

12 years ago
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You are missing an 'e'.

12 years ago
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true XD

12 years ago
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No, it just migrated

12 years ago
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intrestingee?

12 years ago
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(http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/305/235/07a.jpg)
mindfucked no idea what to do.Any more hints for the Dog with low IQ :P.

12 years ago
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ANYone cracked it yet or im just dumb enought not knowing where to start?

12 years ago
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ee

12 years ago
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lol ?

12 years ago
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I have no idea where to start.

12 years ago
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You could go on and guess the rest. 1aaaa, 1aaab, 1aaac, etc.. I would rather not.

12 years ago
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No thanks!! Have spent too much time brute forcing anyway!

12 years ago
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Wheatley style.

12 years ago
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TROLOLO

12 years ago
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I made a giveaway too. It's "Steam complete pack, every game on steam!"
Link here http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/xXxXx
First x is digit or letter. Go!

12 years ago
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thx for skyrim

12 years ago
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Thanks, now lets see if i can crack your puzzle :D

12 years ago
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too many informations...

12 years ago
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That's a really hard puzzle. Well played.

12 years ago
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This is not a puzzle, this is death trap.

12 years ago
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No bruteforcing is required if that is what you mean.

12 years ago
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Is easy to find, but I don't know how to resolve that -_-

12 years ago
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lol there are 3125 combinations(5^5 fix me if i am wrong) - sounds easy

12 years ago
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No, its 10x36x36x36x36 = 16796160 combinations.

12 years ago
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Where the hell did you get 36 from?

12 years ago
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No there is way more of them its actually 10x26^4(9x26^4 -> there is no 0 in codes so it should be 9)

12 years ago
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It's 4569760 actually (10x26x26x26x26). But you are not supposed to bruteforce it.

12 years ago
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Thus other 4 symbols aren't digits! Now guys we are much closer :)

12 years ago
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You are right, it wasn't clear enough. This information is not really required, but I'll update my post anyway.

12 years ago
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and probably isn't the same letter... so we can get a little bit closer! yeah!

12 years ago
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I have no idea what I'm supposed to do :)

12 years ago
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hmm, I'll work on this after my finals.

12 years ago
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Cute :D now to solve it!

12 years ago
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Only 5314410 different links? You are depreciating asians.

And do those xXxX show capital and lowercase letters?

12 years ago
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Yes.

12 years ago
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Any entries yet?

12 years ago
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dafuq

12 years ago
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maybe a little hint ??

12 years ago
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I'm lost :(

12 years ago
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anyone got in ?

12 years ago
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"You know where to start."
Yea, right..

12 years ago
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I think i will pass this ;)

12 years ago
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Am i the only one that doesnt get puzzles like this? How can you even call this a puzzle.

12 years ago
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I'm sorry. I'm lose. I don't understand key to winning. Please one more hint.

12 years ago
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Can't figure what to do with a key o_O

12 years ago
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You are not alone...

12 years ago
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sooooo not alone...

12 years ago
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i believe i've found the clues...
just not sure the answer now haha (the problem is... if i know 4 of 5 there isn't how i know if they are right or wrong.... meh)

12 years ago
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lol :D

12 years ago
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Closed 12 years ago by ktd.