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You made it! Please bump the original thread when you get here.
What do you think about the puzzle? Too easy? Too hard? Let me know!
And good luck for the giveaway!

Grazie per il puzzle. :-)

12 years ago
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Eh, l'italico ingegno vince su tutto :)

12 years ago
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Era piuttosto facile, dal momento che segue la vecchia veneranda tradizione pre-itstoohard. Mi aspetto un po' di persone qui.

12 years ago
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Toh, dei mangiapasta XD. Di un pò, le 5 letterine le ho trovate dopo aver aperto l'ultima immagine in un editor di testo, letteralmente alla fine del file. È il metodo previsto o esiste un altro modo (son curioso)?

12 years ago
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Era quello il modo, se vedi la poesia su imgur dico "alla fine del sentiero" intendendo proprio quello :)

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Eh, mi sa che la poesia non l'ho vista proprio, mi sono salvato l'immagine al volo e ho provato con dati exif, filtri photoshop, steganografia e archivio nascosto. Poi 10 minuti fa m'è venuto in mente di provare con l'editor di testo.

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I knew it wouldn't take you too much, but may be harder for others.
It's been a while since I've seen a puzzle with a pastebin link around here, some of the "younger" users may be tricked by that.

We'll see at the end of the week...

For the games, two or three is not a problem. Go on.

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That's why I avoided that site.

I'll try to come out with something harder just for you next time, for this one the only part that took me more than 5 minutes was creating the gif.

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Thank you Kappei, It wasn't very hard except for trying a lot of things on that image before your fix, but then I've been around for a while solving puzzles =)

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Hello! Thanks a lot, mate.

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Yay, easy after you replaced the 2nd image. I even tried bit.ly and those stuff before that and it did not make sense ;)
Thank you for the puzzle!

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Haha. That 1st image before fix :3
I even google the original image looking for hidden things.
Anyway, thank you, kind sir :)

12 years ago
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Yeah, sorry about that. I trusted imgur blindly, it was just after a second check that I noticed it had replaced the png with a jpg.

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I explained that to Jatan on the Metro 2033 giveaway page. Uncompressed PNGs won't upload as is, but are converted to jpg instead. I'm guessing it's due to filesize limitations in their service.

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I read that, then completely forgot about it. After some researches I've found there's a 1 MB limit for animated pictures and 2 MB for non-animated.

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Already have the bundle but thanks anyway! As for the puzzle, it was quite fun. Being the impatient person that I am, I didn't bother waiting for the frame to change in the gif. After I finally saw it change, the puzzle became easy. And I see that you got some inspiration from the way I hid things in my puzzle. :D

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Definitely an inspiration :)

I must have done something wrong anyway, since the frame shouldn't have changed at all. The idea was to get the second frame through a photo editing tool, but I almost have no experience, so we can say it's been a nice attempt :P

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Thank you for the puzzle and giveaway, Kappei.
I would say the puzzle's difficulty depends on much puzzles of this kind a user has seen before. It was easy for me but I enjoyed solving it anyway. I like the idea of hiding the pastebin id in a .gif frame, haven't seen this in a puzzle before. :-)

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\(>o<)/ Hardy har har! Finally found the road dude!

Puzzle wasn't too hard (still learning though since I'm newb). I actually had more trouble with the binary code thing. Was it base128? Nr. of stars was 128 right?

Anyway solved that by screwing around with binary to hex to base64 to hex again to binary again then the magic URL! Was there an easier way? (-_-!)

Anyway thanks for awesome puzzle Kappei dude!

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No, no easier way, you were supposed to do that. About the stars, well, you've been trying too hard. They were just there to connect to the little "poem" and to the sky/travel theme, I could have simply written the code, but where was the fun in that? :)

Glad you enjoyed the puzzle anyway!

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Ah ok then. I thought having 128 stars was no coincidence and maybe you intended to do that. ... or where there 129 :))

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Oh. Old tricks! Thanks for the fun, Kappei!

P.S. Since I mentioned "old" it was easy for me. Long wait for gif to change was quite a spark here.

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Yeah, I think I've gone a little nostalgic with this one.
I've been expecting you anyway, since you were the first (and only) one to solve the Desidiosus' puzzle.

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The gif image never changed for me, how long was the wait?

Then again I never gave it a chance - saw GIF and went immediately to yank out the frames ohoho~

e: just saw an above comment saying it was never to change - makes sense, I was curious as to why it the layer was hidden, unless secret gif shenanigans had occurred

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It's been my first attempt at creating a gif... I simply put the highest possible number in the main frame delay (the one with the sky) and 0 ms in the one with the stars, but I think there must be some kind of limitation, since many reported seeing it change.

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According to Gimp (which is how I reached the stars), it's a 135680ms-long frame. So a little over two minutes.

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Pazzle toooo eezy. lolololol

Actually, I haven't seen that pastebin step in quite a while. Took me a bit of time to think of where else I could plug in 8 character codes.

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That's why I used it. It seemed enough "oldschool" to me to put off the tracks many, at least for some time.

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Thanks Kappei for the great puzzle and giveaway. Not too easy, and not too hard either. I enjoyed it.

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Loved the puzzle. Thank you, Kappei!

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Glad to know you enjoyed it :)

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Hi there. Thanks for the puzzle. I almost didn't try the last step, the code looked almost indiscernible.

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Thanks for the pastebin hint. I can't believe I forgot about that site.
I didn't have any problems at all with the road picture.

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Oh, of course it was pastebin. I completely forgot it exists. Thanks for a nice puzzle. :)

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I couldn't figure where to try the star code. I only know of itstoohard with such codes.
Your hint made this easy.
I have the bundle so won't enter
Thank you for this.

12 years ago
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I somehow passed first image and now can't remember what I done to see the stars.. lol .. :D Nice puzzle ;)

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Ha! Dead end, seems it's impossible to go further. :-) Like many others, I completely forgot about Pastebin. (Also, thank you. :-))

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thanks, nice little puzzle, I was just stuck on where to use the code from the first picture, your little poem did the trick :)

12 years ago
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this was a great puzzle. not too easy and not too hard. already won this bundle though so good luck to everyone who enters and thanks this was fun

12 years ago
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Sooo, this was the road.... ;p
I already have the games i want from this bundle... thanks anyway! ;p

Oh, good luck to you people!..

12 years ago
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Ha! Finally. I feel silly not noticing the 5 weird letters after the png end. XD Cheers Kappei!

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They were supposed to go unnoticed :P

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Great puzzle, not so hard... ;)

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Cheers, mate.

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