everyone does =P
maybe looking at zelghadis magic guide to basic sg puzzling could give you some. ;)
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First of all, if you have absolutely no idea of what's going on here, take a look at zelghadis magic guide to basic sg puzzling, it will help you find something in the text above that will take you to somewhere in/on the internet.
After you solve the first step, you should have something that makes no sense to you - but worry not! you don't have to do any hard cracking or similar.. look at the image it's almost impossible to do by hand but you have a computer in front of you, use it!
I'd say a 3rd part software is required (once you find that something, their extensions should clearly tell you which type of software you need) but almost all the solvers so far did it another way (read: by accident) so I won't say that =P
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Yea, it's also the most overlooked thing :)
People try SG, ITH, sometimes venture to pastebin and then they move one to different tactics. I used big hints to imgur in mine to make sure they got there. And as you see, I knew that and still forgot to check imgur myself...shame on me :P
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Hi :)
There's no need to check them. Once you solve the puzzle you get the code to access the giveaway.
If you are new to the puzzles on the forum, have a look at zelghadis magic guide to basic sg puzzling ;)
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If you have solved it, you have now a code that links you to the giveaway, just http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/put-code-here/
If you are new to the puzzles on the forum, have a look at zelghadis magic guide to basic sg puzzling, it can surely explain things better than me :)
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It's not that difficult.
Let's say those (ENIGMA &co.) are exmples I put there to let you know what the "field" of the puzzle is.
That guide I've linked before could give you an hint on what to search and how to use it.
After you "solve" this first part you'll get something that will give you the code, once cracked (this is what I'm testing: if this last step is doable.. oh, and someone alredy managed to arrive to the GA, so it's possible) :)
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got ¼0ÒN»7 so i think i'm in the right way. lol
im going gamming, thanks for the chance
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well, it can be.. maybe the zelghadis magic guide to basic sg puzzling could tell you how.. ;)
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I did look at that and used various decoding methods. Generally they don't change the number of characters though, which means it doesn't match up with the amount of characters for ITH or a GA
and fried chicken. Because chicken. And because fried.
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Same thing, either 7 or 10 letters. I suppose those 7 are from ITH ID and I have to figure out the last, but I'm kinda lazy to bruteforce it.
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some basic hints can be found in the zelghadis magic guide to basic sg puzzling.. more coming later ;)
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for me the intro is to hard :(
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i used my brain but cant find any other logical code :)
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Okay - thanks - found part 1
But i dont have any expensive photo-program to get further
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Ups - it would be kind if a solution would be posted after end.
I use "harrys filter in irfanveiw" but cant find anything
Now i have tryed gimp - but i´m not using this program normaly so i dont know what to do
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I see you're pretty new here. First of all, welcome ^_^
Hidden giveaways are a common thing here in the forum, so you should totally check zelghadis magic guide to basic sg puzzling, since it gives you many hints on how find them :)
Also, other than the hints I've given in the main post, there are others given as answers to other users in this thread :)
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Hi again, Fellows! :)
A couple of days ago I was looking for something on the internet and, as pretty often happens, I ended up reading of a completely different subject.
A journey that started probably in the ancient Greece, passing through Caesar and Vigenère, and led me to ENIGMA.
And so, this very idea was born.
Thus I decided to do this ONE-TIME experiment 1st, to know if I can re-use it in the future.
You have about 9 days to, hopefully, give me some feedback on the difficulty level.
Everyone can try. Again, everyone. For sure, noone is excluded.
Of course there's a bundled game waiting for you at the end, so don't quit if you don't succeed at first :)
So here we go, hope you have fun solving it.
Check the remaining time here
HINT TIME!
First of all, if you have absolutely no idea of what's going on here, take a look at zelghadis magic guide to basic sg puzzling, it will help you find something in this message (only above the line) that will take you to somewhere in/on the internet.
After you solve the first step, you should have something that makes no sense to you - but worry not! you don't have to do any hard cracking or similar.. look at the image it's almost impossible to do by hand but you have a computer in front of you, use it!
I'd say a 3rd part software is required (once you find that something, their extensions should clearly tell you which type of software you need) but almost all the solvers so far did it another way (read: by accident) so I won't say that =P
SOLUTION
I've been requested to post the solution, so here it is.
butitstoohard.com/puzzle/code-here
http://imgur.com/code-here
.zelghadis' magic guide says that not every code is for ITH and also mention imgur as an alternative; I've given even bolder hints for this in the comments below.
This was the real experiment, as I had taken for grant that people knew what to do with the codes.
The ancient Greece, Caesar, Vigenère and ENIGMA were hints about what to do to crack it and so was the word στεγανός, which reads "steganos", can be translated with "covered/hidden" and it's the first part of the word "steganography".
Another hint was the image itself, which shows two parts merging in one.
I thought this was a required step but, as already stated, many players solved it "by accident", like having both images open and quickly switching between them. So you could do it even without external program (btw, there's GIMP which is free, and some even solved it with Paint).
Or you could have printed both images on transparent sheets to see the results =P
steamgifts.com/giveaway/code-here
tl;dr
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