All giveaways have been found. Congratulations to all of the participants!


8

Ready?

Are you sure?

It's time for a group puzzle!

Now make sure you follow the rules.

Break them, and you are disqualified!

Oh, here's a hint.

Wikipedia for spelling and punctuation.


Rules are as follows:

You May:
* Share itstoohard answers  
* Share puzzle methods  
You May NOT:
* Share itstoohard codes or links  
* Share giveaway codes or links  

Follow these rules at all times, unless specifically told otherwise.

Rules Example:

There are many different puzzles you may encounter  
6 of them could be extremely difficult  
xcept there may be hints hidden around the place  
Zzzzzzzz  
l am falling asleep, so you need to work faster
You may say:
* Take the first character of every sentence to construct a giveaway code.  
You may NOT say:
* The giveaway code for this puzzle is T6xZI

Additional rules:

You may NOT share youtube links, but you may share steamgifts forum links and itstoohard puzzles NOT made by me stage 3.
Basically, my intention is for everyone to at least know how to do all the steps of the puzzles. I don't want random freeloaders taking the work of everyone else and just getting directly linked to the giveaways.


Other notes:

  • Giveaways start on Sept. 11 and end on Sept. 25. Sorry for starting a couple of days earlier than planned :P
  • I tried as many hints as possible without giving the puzzles away, but if they still are very esoteric, there's a reason why it's a group puzzle. Bouncing ideas off of each other is both allowed and completely encouraged.
  • Needless to say, work together! You can't solve this on your own.
  • I'm usually in chat, so feel free to contact me if you think I've made a mistake.
  • All answers are in english.
  • The quiz questions are themed by platform.
  • You don't need to brute force any of the puzzles. If you don't think you have enough information, you probably don't

Now get cracking!

You may want this for later

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What was I thinking when I made the giveaways last so long?
Ahem. Anyways, End of Day Two Update
Stage 0: 325 solvers
Stage 1: 68 solvers
Stage 2: 52 solvers
Stage 3: 47 solvers
Stage 4: 42 solvers
Stage 5: 41 solvers
Stage 6: 35 solvers
Stage 7: 14 solvers
Stage 8: In Progress. Puzzle has not been deciphered yet.

12 years ago
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Maybe you underestimated the SG puzzle solvers?

12 years ago
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I actually thought it would take about 5-6 days to solve everything if I didnt give out any hints. I wanted to give the people lagging behind a chance to follow the puzzles to the conclusion. In the end, I just gave out entirely too many hints for the first few giveaways. For example, I am almost positive that Stage 1 would have taken a couple more hours if I hadn't given out the RRLRRRLR so quickly. Also Stage 4 would have taken at least a day without hints.

Well, anyways, I'm not giving out hints so liberally anymore, so I expect the last 2 stages to take another 2 days. I really need to extend it so that the giveaways actually START before you guys finish all of it haha

12 years ago
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Bump for fresh eyes. Still looking for ideas on how to find our way into the stage 8 quiz.

12 years ago
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And now we're there. :)

12 years ago
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Ok guys, how i can pass the fake stage3?

12 years ago
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Scroll up. Most of the discussion on stage 3 happened in this thread, not on the giveaway page.

12 years ago
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The solution path is in this thread, posted by Lunk

12 years ago
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He seems to have figured the vast majority of the puzzles, or at least all the main posts I've read are made by him, to which I have to take my hat off to.

I have no idea how you lot have figured out the answers. The Steam Gifts hive mind scares me.

12 years ago
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thanks guys, i finnaly catch up with the group, so im working on the 9th puzzle

12 years ago
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End of Day Three Update
Stage 0: 353 solvers
Stage 1: 82 solvers
Stage 2: 67 solvers
Stage 3: 61 solvers
Stage 4: 56 solvers
Stage 5: 56 solvers
Stage 6: 53 solvers
Stage 7: 50 solvers
Stage 8: 24 solvers
Stage 9: In Progress

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Bump! One question left on what looks like it might be the last quiz. Anyone who has played a bunch of PC games (probably older ones) and has a good memory for music is encouraged to make their way to Stage 9. We have cake*!

*Not really. Sorry.

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There's also one more secret giveaway to find.

12 years ago
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im sorry i dont understan that ceaser shift thingy the "key" that lunk provided in his converter were 10 but i can't solve that part any hints? i know im dumb

12 years ago
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10 is just the default value on the converter. You can change it to whatever you want. You need to switch it for each letter you shift, using the appropriate Final Fantasy game number (Mecorx posted the full list of games on the giveaway page). The tool I provided does not work for the 2 numbers in the pattern, but you should be able to figure those out with simple addition.

12 years ago
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ah ok thanks alot that makes sense =P

12 years ago
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Any other hints on how to make it work? I can't seem to get a useable code :( Pretty sure what im doing is right, but i guess im missing something

12 years ago
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we still need 5 and 9 of stage 9!

12 years ago
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only 5 actually

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I just double-checked it and it still works fine (thought they might have released a new DLC or something :p). Some points that might be tripping you up: if you're using the control+f trick to skip through the list, be mindful of the fact that the base game itself costs $39.99, so make sure you don't accidentally count that. Have you adjusted the capitalization pattern to match the one he gave, and performed the addition necessary for the 8th one?

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The list was completely changed in the past day, so if anyone is still stuck on this part, I just updated the puzzle.

12 years ago
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All giveaways have been found. Good job guys!

12 years ago
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Thanks again Jatan! Group puzzles like this are great!

12 years ago
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Idd it was lots of fun mixed with enragement to push forward :D
Nice one!

12 years ago
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Five days left.

12 years ago
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21 hours left until all 15 giveaways end. It's not too late to catch up!

12 years ago
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Took me 6 hours to catch up. That was EPIC. Thank you, jatan! And thanks to all who contributed to answers!

12 years ago
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Only about 2 hours left.

12 years ago
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If anyone wants the solutions for this puzzle, please tell me and I will post it. Otherwise, I will assume that the scattered comments throughout the giveaways is a good enough guide for people to follow.

Also: here's the giveaway I promised for completing the bonus question at the end:
http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/M9IqZ/

12 years ago
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Can I have the answers for the secret stage 3? (themes of quizzes) Thank you!

12 years ago
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Sure, accepted answers are:

  1. NES, Nintendo, Nintendo Entertainment System
  2. N64, Nintendo 64
  3. Sega Genesis, Sega Mega Drive
  4. Dreamcast
  5. PC, Personal Computer, Computer
  6. SNES, Super Nintendo, Super NES, Super Nintendo Entertainment System
  7. Playstation, PS, PS1, PSX
  8. Nintendo DS, DS, NDS
  9. Game Boy

All of the other quizzes followed this format. Q1 was always a NES game, Q2 was a N64 game, etc.

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ok, thank you!

12 years ago
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Closed 12 years ago by jatan11t.