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Hello! Going back to my roots with this one. Alright, that's enough for the preamble. The puzzles start from here

Going to be upfront and truthful here, so here is me getting down to the CRASS TACKS!

Puzzles resent in this post, account for six GAs (all Classics), host, if not all, of which can be solved through the puzzle guide zelghadis posted heRe almost... a decade ago... Wow. Mot Gonna lie, that's a really long time ago. Having joined only few months ago, a decade is a huge number for me (btw as another reminder, all the GAs end on the 2th), so I'm always dazled whenever I see something like that on the site.

Quick link for those who haven't bookmarked it already.

verily, do I proclaim that each of these was chosen for their quality! ...okay, that one was a lie. Most, if not all, of tHese were bundle leftovers that had been clogging up my inventory.

yay...? That said, each of the six does lead to another that's sgtools protected and hich are of a marginally better quality. Mid I forget anything else...? Oh yeah, the basic six GAs are all, of course, lv 1+. And that's it. Hae fun (and here's hoping I didn't get anything wrong)!

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8 months ago*

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Congrats to those who solved it. Anyway here's the solution method for each of the 6 puzzles, ranked by me as to how I considered their general difficulty level.

Lv. 1 - Simply take the bolded letters as they appear and you get the code for first one - CRGoH

Lv. 2 - This one uses the hiding a link in an empty word to make it invisible. If you checked zelghadis' guide this is something very easy to catch, simply inspect the post and you can find the hidden link there. - https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/MhIJ2/math-rescue

Lv. 3 - This one uses two of the methods mentioned in the above guide. First the code has been encoded to Base64 and then hidden using the sg formatting as the description of the image in the original post. - STlrVVA= which after decoding turns to I9kUP

Lv. 4 - For the 4th one, notice there are only 5 paragraphs in the post, once the puzzles start. Simply take the first letter of each paragraph, which I thought was conspicuous enough due to the sudden usage of lowercase for the last two paragraphs, and form the word. - GPQvy

Lv. 5 - The hardest in terms of solve rate which, in hindsight, I can see how it happened. And I know a lot of people were confusing/combining this with the the Lv. 6 one because of their similarity. Anyway, for this one the trick is that there are 5 places throughout the post where a wrong character is used. Simply find them and then replace them with the ones that should be used instead and you get correct code -

CRASS -> BRASS

host -> most

Mot -> Not

Mid -> Did

lv 1+ -> Lv 0+

which gives BmND0

Lv. 6 - Similar to the above but different in that the wrong words are all missing a single character which it needs to become the word that is used.

resent -> p

2th -> 7

dazled -> z

hich -> w

Hae -> v

which gives p7zwv

And that's it! Thanks for playing. :)

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8 months ago*