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=Ο€r2 (where A is the Area, Ο€ 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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What do i do if i have all correct?

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i have all correct too

12 years ago
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if you had you'd have the giveaway code and entered by now :)

12 years ago
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damn, need only Q7, first I though it was Leisure Suit

12 years ago
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questions are relatively easy the problem is when you solve the quiz xD

12 years ago
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I just did and I'm trying to get something familiar :P

12 years ago
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well, that also is easy, problem is it ain't working :\

12 years ago
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That part is not easy.... this is my 3rd day trying to figure it out and I am in the same place I started.

12 years ago
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The only error in the description that I can think of (except for that amp13,rto 13 encryption maybe?) is the domination is misspelled by having two letter backwards.
Is that the hint? If so, how to use it?

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you are right, and you are using it already, read the phrase again :)

12 years ago
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this is so frustrating. I tried something and got 5 letters and 3 full stops. Though that was the giveaway code until I read OP post again :(

12 years ago
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I have tried quite a few things and gotten quite a few different results.... not sure if I have already gotten the result I need or not. At this point I just want to know the solution lol

12 years ago
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same here, I drew a graph with every possible letter combination from the solution. No luck so far.

12 years ago
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if I am right the puzzle site has a problem handling lower and upper case
I'm quite sure I got it even if the 8th answer after the first quizz looks fishy to me...

12 years ago
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The Domination misspell is not a clue, that's one of my clumsy mistakes. Sorry for the confusion :(

12 years ago
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Too hard >.<

12 years ago
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that's the fun of it, I even don't really care about the game :D

12 years ago
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The problem is I can't even answer half of the questions >.>. I only got 1 - 3, and 8.

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I think I'll have to give up on this due to technical stuff. The OP says upper and lower case are important, and damn I know why. I tested with Firefox all the answers in CAPS and all were correct, so I'll never be able to finish it :\

12 years ago
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Good on you for trying as long as you did. I gave up on this puzzle when the OP appeared to adopt the position of "stump the dummy".

12 years ago
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I honestly can't find the answer for Q5, I've tried everything and nothing was correct, bah.

12 years ago
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Tip 7 is what made me get it.

12 years ago
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Hint 1 told me what I needed to know... took me a few minutes to figure it out though.

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Yeah I have to say that Tip 1 is confusing me "It's on Steam and it is also free (the Steam version ain't free though)"... I just can't figure out what it is in the end, also that TIGsource is not helpful at all, only game I found there that won 3rd place and is horror based indie game is Realm of the Mad God which is not right answer for me.

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You are close, just use tip 7 on that website. Use the keyword

12 years ago
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Ah I got it now, your tip was very helpful, and I didn't quite understand OP Tip7 about what competition was it about, thanks man.

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It means you can get the game for free, but if you get it from steam you have to pay. Also, it is definitely was in a competition on TIGSource, you just have to look.

12 years ago
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Ok, I'll go do some more research, thanks for help guys.

EDIT: Managed to finish questions, thanks!

12 years ago
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no problem good luck with the next parts :)

12 years ago
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just tested with IE9 and all answers were accepted with CAPS... :\

12 years ago
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itstoohard.com does not differentiate between lowercase and uppercase when typing in an answer. I think the OP was hinting the capitalisation or lack thereof does matter for the second part.

12 years ago
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well if you want to get in the second part you must know the proper upper and lower cases
of course I used the best candidates and not all caps...

12 years ago
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Ok I see what you are getting at now. I guess we won't know unless the OP decides to drop another clue.

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I bet most of us are stuck at "And lastly, you get something familiar. You know what to do with it after that, trust me.", well I can say for myself that I don't know what to do with it haha. Oh man it's killing me...

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Since it became a bit unclear, the upper and lower cases only matter in the answers. As Caerbannoq said, itstoohard.com won't care about them at all. Just make sure you type the answers down really correctly, as they usually appear anywhere else (like Wikipedia and stuff).

You are really close to solving it now, there's everything you need to solve it, also mentioned in this thread now. It really is easy, but if you fail to heed the advice of Tip #9 and not follow that order, you will get lost.

If there's no entries around 6-8 hours from now, I'll make you that new quiz I mentioned earlier. Hurry up for a better chance! You really are close.

12 years ago
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I did and understood well the Tip #9. Maybe VIII is spoiling it for me.

12 years ago
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I'm stuck at Q7 and google ain't helping. The results are too distracting. XD

12 years ago
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Not even sure how to make an entry.

Got the answers and all, but I don't get it.

12 years ago
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Is [edit] anywhere close to something useful?

12 years ago
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Edit or delete it, or you could be banned.

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banned for what?

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Read the FAQ:
"Puzzles: Do not leak, post answers, suggest hints, or directly link to the prize/giveaway."

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then what am I supposed to do with it? I was just asking if I was even on the right track.

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What is &amp13?

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According to the OP: nothing.
The misspelling of "domination" is apparently also an accident.

This is despite him telling us to look for errors and saying "note that I made absolutely zero typoes and/or mistakes when I posted it. Every detail matters."
So I'm pretty much giving up at this point, since there's been too much misinformation already and it's impossible to trust that he hasn't made a mistake with the solution as well.

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I've tried all possible methods to decipher what the solution.
I say you did or wrote something wrong with the solution.
Please review and tell us if the solution is correct.

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Agreed

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me too, sry, but was great fun and I believe me and stevonzo pretty much were near the door

12 years ago
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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.

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so... the fifth number is 0,125??

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I'm wondering the same :S

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Well, if the 5th isn't divisible by 8, then find a number that is. ;)

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Man... what the blistering fuck is wrong with me today, it's the 4th number, not the fifth. Gotta pull myself together.

12 years ago
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Well, even now I don't get it
I give up.

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In one or two hours I will reveal the alternative quiz's link. I'll wait at least this much because I messed up with this a bit. If someone finds it until then though, it's all his/hers and I'll leave this as it is.

EDIT - Reserved. We got one entry! Woohoo! That means it's solveable so you have exactly four hours from now to enter, no alt quizzes. Good luck!

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Well I appreciate this quiz you made, but even when I write down part 2 I still don't know where to use that result :S

EDIT: Talking about this "And lastly, you get something familiar. You know what to do with it after that, trust me."

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last minute bump! around 26 minutes are left actually. You can do it!

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So is it over now? Or at 7:00 PM GMT +1 like you initially said? Because right now it is only 6:38 PM GMT +1......

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Thank god!!

12 years ago
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Solutions posted, thanks for playing!

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Closed 12 years ago by TheGreenFairy.