Ok, this wasn't supposed to be all about finding the entrance, and I certainly did not expect the first step to give people this much trouble. I'll be posting hints until there are a healthy number of players. Appy-polly-logies to the early birds.
I have also thrown something else in there to sweeten the deal. Look for carrots.
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Ok, I don't get it. How is there a hidden giveaway? I see no links or digits.
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me neither.^^
are the hints really hints?
nice puzzle @Ishmaeel you got me
will look into it for a while maybe I can find something. ;-)
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no its really tooohard for me.^^
at first i was happy that i found it too xD, but this is really something.
edit:
waited for the hint to appear but still way toohard. ;-)
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I feel now that I am not one of sharper tools in a shed, or I have no idea how this is supposed to be "played". In Itstoohard puzzles I know what to do. But here I tried to check your games, giveaways, profile, steam profile, yet no luck. Shame on me.
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I have NO idea what the answer of the puzzle is. NONE! ^^
Using Soundhound, Shazam and Google.
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Damn, i had that one a hour ago... but missed a part of the title. ^_^
Okay, now for the bonus. :)
And thanks for the puzzle / giveaway BTW!
EDIT: And done. ^_^ Already have it, but thanks anyway again! :)
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your hints are for finding the cake.
When you find it there is nothing else but this one thingy.
and this one really is frustrating.
i gave up the third time now.
just send me a message when its over with solution. ;-)
I'm really wondering about on how we should supposed to be to get an answer with that information given there?
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I actually found the hidden puzzle in the source code of fortix really fast.
But didnt know the recording of 1977 so the puzzle itself was very hard for me. (I'm too young! LOL)
I only saw a YT-video without any hints to get the answer. xD (the one hint there was was not useful with winning no awards)
but thx for the solution.
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If one could catch a few words, they could land this in the first page of Google, perhaps even as a first result.
But yes, people who had familiarity (or nativity) with the languages had an edge with that one.
On the other hand, I promise the next one is 100% English.
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Bump for solved :D that was not that hard sir! xD
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congrats ;-)
I feel like I just are not clever enough for this one.^^
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I am also very interested in solution. I would like to know how is it possible to to identify that song when I never heard it before, shazam and soundcloud finds nothing and I dont speak any of languages in song. I tried to put few words to google, but no help since I cannot write down two consecutive words for better search results.
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bump for winning the main giveaway xD waiting for the prize :D
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yep i did.. lol.. thanks.. i guess i won't join the new puzzle.. it would be a bummer if i win it again(Read : i don't understand the new puzzle).. >.<
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lol.. i'll try.. stuck on Q1 atm thou.. no hints? :S
EDIT : Okay solved it.. lol
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...In something hidden. Just for kicks.
Thought I'd let you know.
Hint #1
Hint #2
Hint #3
Solution
The ItsTooHard link was hidden in the source code of my contribution to The Ultimate Fortix Giveaway. Something hidden referred to my private giveaway. The other something hidden was of course the link itself.
The quiz consisted of a single question, embedded as a Youtube video. It contained a series of phrases in several different languages, pasted over a nice loop. These phrases are actually the recorded greetings that were thrown into space in 1977, aboard Voyager spacecrafts. The answer was the name used to refer to the records on Wikipedia.
Afterwards I added a bonus quiz, the answer to which was any of the languages I used in the "song".
Trivia: The single dot, used as the background image of the Youtube video means "greetings" in Tralfamadorian.
Post Mortem
During the course of this, I posted some hints, bumped the other thread simultaneously with this one and ultimately revealed the link but still, finding the entrance proved to be harder than the actual puzzle. Which is a shame because I wanted more people to have a go at it. The puzzle itself turned out to be quite easy with a success rate greater than 50%.
As apologies for frustration caused, I decided to make another giveaway. Apparently, mind reading puzzles are all the rage nowadays, so I hopped on the bandwagon with something that occurred to me spontaneously a little while back. So good luck with the consolation prize.
Oh before I forget, the hints in advance:
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