Yo dawg, I heard you like puzzles, so I put a puzzle in your puzzle, so you can solve puzzles while you solve puzzles!

Pimp my Quiz!

Reward is Counter Strike: Global Offensive Beta. Giveaway starts roughly in 25 minutes, and ends on next Friday, 7:00 PM, GMT+1. Hints are given away if noone solves it on the weekend. You'll hate me for this...

Tip #1 for Question #5: It's on Steam and it is also free (the Steam version ain't free though). Placed third on a themed competition on TIGSource.

Tip #2 for Question #8: The form in which to put it is something like this: if I was to write down the Pythagoras theorem, then it would have looked like this: A2+B2=C2. If I was to write down the equasion for the area of a circle, then it would look like A=πr2 (where A is the Area, π is pi and r is the radius). It should be extremely easy now

Tip #3: After the quiz, you have to do 3 things in the right order to get the giveaway code. The order in which you do it is up to you, there's only 6 variations anyway and they're easy to do.

Tip #4: The quiz description is vital for solving the puzzle. Read it VERY thouroughly and note that I made absolutely zero typoes and/or mistakes when I posted it. Every detail matters.

Tip #5: Question #3: The green harvestable was called Tiberium. Extremely easy now.

Tip #6: Question #4: It is the single most given-away game on Steamgifts. The developer was kind enough to give away a huge load of it, look up a lot of people, most of them have won it.

Tip #7: Question #5: The theme of its competition hugely involved Lovecraft. See also Tip #1.

Tip #8: Question #7: Use Google. I intended to harden your work by not including some key elements from the box art, yet google brings out the good result when you search for some keywords from the question.

Tip #9: On how to proceed after the quiz, I show you the order in which you'll have to do things:

First, use the results of the questions again, as hinted at in the description.

Secondly, find a clue in the description of the quiz on what to do. It's a bleak hint, but if you look for "errors", you have a good start. Google won't help you with that.

And lastly, you get something familiar. You know what to do with it after that, trust me. (Not the giveaway code yet).

Now I should have made this extremely easy to solve, so have at it!

HUGE EDIT - Sorry for everyone, the second part of the puzzle was flawed by one tiny bit. I posted it below, but here's the fix for it again:


Oh crap, I dun goofed...
You guys were right, I messed up one number from the answer at the end of the quiz. To fix it, just make it that the fourth number should be eight times smaller than its current self.
Sorry for everybody, I failed with this bigtime now D: Let's see if anyone can solve it like this within the next 5 hours, if not, I'll give away the code at the end of the alternative quiz.

Still open for 10 hours, let's see if you can solve it in the next 5 hours.

Last edit here, the giveaway ended and congratulations for our sole entry, Usagi, for winning and solving this actually pretty hard puzzle. Sorry for everyone if you missed this just because of my mistakes in it, I owe you all one. But hopefully there will be another, not-so-flawed puzzle in the future as well.

Here be the solutions:

Questions: 1: Neo Geo, 2:Gina Cross, 3:Command & Conquer, 4: Faerie Solitaire, 5: Eversion, 6: Mortal Kombat, 7: Lula 3D, 8: E=mc2

After you answered all of that, you got something like this:

<ch>
I./5
II./1
III./14
IV./8
V./1
VI./8
VII./1
VIII./2
</ch>

Now, the <ch> thingy means you are looking for characters. The roman numbers represent the numbers of the questions, and the arabic ones represent which character you need from those. So, from question 1 you needed character 5, which was C, as space counts as a character as well.

If you deciphered that, you got this: GGqFEKL=

Now, that should be the familiar thing I mentioned. Most people recognize it as a Base64 code, but your task was not to decode it yet. First, you had to look for another hint, that was mentioned in the Step 2 part. And it was the &amp13; thingy. & in itself is some code to replace the regular "&" symbol, some downloaded files do that to me all the time. The 13 is quite out of place there, and it is your hint. It meant, you had to do a very basic Rot13 decode on your familiar thing first, which made it into this:

TTdSRXY=

Now you had to decode it (base64) which brought you this:

M7REv

And that's it! Thanks all for playing, see you next time!

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Bump! No solvers ot even the quiz questions? come oon!

12 years ago
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I'm stuck on Q5, got everything else . Any tips?

12 years ago
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ItsTooHard

12 years ago
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Not that Hard so far, I have all but Q5

12 years ago
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Updated with a hint.

12 years ago
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Solved the Quiz, Now onwards!

12 years ago
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I was the first one to solve the quiz, but i gave in :l

12 years ago
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I disagree with the provided hint, now that I have solved. The game did not win the compo, although it did very well in the compo.

12 years ago
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Correct, for some reason I rememberd it as the winner. Turns out it placed only at the third place, but should have won in my opinion. Fixing the hint now.

12 years ago
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Can i request a clue for part 2.

12 years ago
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A clue is already cleverly hidden in the description of the quiz, hell, actually 3 clues are there. It requires 3 steps to get to the giveaway once you solved the quiz.

12 years ago
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Didn't have any problems with anything except question 8. I've tried about 50 names but nothing so far. Any hints at some point?

12 years ago
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The last question doesn't require a name if that's what you mean, but rather something the person came up with and became famous about. The format of it is simplified in the answer; I actually typed it as fast down as I could, no formatting, etc.

12 years ago
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Ah, right. Got it now, thanks. Just working on the after-quiz puzzle.

12 years ago
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too many tits lol

12 years ago
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Updated with 3 new hints, will give out more if there's still no solvers. This turned out to be harder than I thought.

12 years ago
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:(

12 years ago
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5 solvers for the quiz, none for the giveaway. Giving out hints on demand now, tell me what keeps you clogged up.

12 years ago
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Bumping this for one last time, if noone will solve it until Friday, I'll just make the link public in this thread and you'll be defeated muhahahhahaha!

Anyway, my offer still stands; ask for any kind of hint and I'll help ya. 6 solvers for the quiz only (seriously...) and noone for the giveaway.

12 years ago
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Well, I knew/found 7 answers within minutes, but that one left is making me crazy. And it's not even a hard one, so I feel really stupid. :D
But there's enough time left...

12 years ago
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I'm stuck on Q3, Q5 and Q7 =/

12 years ago
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Would love a hint on where to start with part 2.

12 years ago
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all solved except Q4.... wth...

12 years ago
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im stuck on Q3 Q4 and Q5, help plz

12 years ago
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Adding hints in a moment, hang on.

12 years ago
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Done.

12 years ago
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12 years ago
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Okay, how about this new deal; I give out only one more hint, so the first person asking for one gets one and that's it. If noone can find his way to the giveaway until Friday, I'll make the exact same quiz, where the answer will be the giveaway code (or if I can edit it somehow, I'll just give that as the answer). So, an incentive is there for you; either find the giveaway and have a high chance for winning, or wait until Friday and have moderately high chances still, but not extremely high. If only one person can find it, then only one person wins it!

Good luck to you all!

EDIT: All who asked for a hint so far have got one, look in the opening post, in case you haven't noticed.

12 years ago
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I'm having a rotien time figuring out if spaces and symbols count. Either I'm ascking the wrong thing or going about it in the rong way. Maybe I should shif onto something else considering I already have the game.

12 years ago
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A space between words is a character as well, so yes, they count. Symbols too.

12 years ago
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thx finally solved Q4 :D

12 years ago
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I got something familiar yes but -> "You know what to do with it after that, trust me. " <- not really no hehe,

12 years ago
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I haven't even managed to get "something familiar"

12 years ago
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"And don't you forget. The questions are a path to be walked twice"

12 years ago
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Yeah, I have read all the hints and I can't grasp what they mean. In the description it says, The questions are a path (like you just posted), but in the hint here it says, "use the results of the questions again"..... I have different ideas of what I am supposed to do, but none of them give me any usable results (as far as I can tell anyways).

12 years ago
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yes, after answering the questions you have a result at the bottom, you need to use that again on questions and you will end up with something :)

12 years ago
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Yeah, I have been trying to do that since yesterday afternoon when I finished the questions.... I just don't know exactly how to use it. I have tried every way I could think of and haven't come up with anything that I find to be usable.

12 years ago
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You will see what I've attempted in the misspelled words two posts above. I think the OP may have misunderstood the intent of that post. I was fishing for a clearer idea as to what type of cryptography he is using while giving hints to other users.

EDIT: Corrected grammar mistakes and hopefully increased readability of this post.

12 years ago
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Yeah.... still not having any luck :/

12 years ago
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actually found out what to do with it but no luck so far, still trying combinations :\

12 years ago
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Everytime I see these I'm like "like I'm really gonna sit here and think for a game... HA" /lazy

12 years ago
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there you go, game doesn't matter at all. it's the fun of it :D

12 years ago
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Umm... No not really.

12 years ago
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Only 14 hours until I reveal the link for the solvers of the quiz. I'll give you a new link to a new quiz with the same exact questions and answers, only the reveal at the end is the giveaway and not the second part of the puzzle.

If anyone solves the second part until then, I'll leave things as it is though, so that smart person will have an extremely high chance to win it. Good luck!

12 years ago
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I'm so almost there :D I am wondering if the HTML code error is to be accounted as an error the & &amp13; bit

12 years ago
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I'll help you this much: no.

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Closed 12 years ago by TheGreenFairy.