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How to Solve Phase 3 Compound Noun Puzzles to find Hidden GAs!

NOTE: make sure after clicking and dragging the pictures in each puzzle to match them... to CLICK the CHECK button to check your answers!

Load one of the Compound Word Puzzles and drag and match two pictures together to make a compound word that can then be found in a picture in either word bank. Example in Word puzzle 1 the first pic is of an iron with STEAM coming out of it... drag the picture of GIFTS or presents to match it to make the compound word STEAMGIFTS. Look for the answer in one of the 2 word banks to match. You see the picture of spacecat popping up-- this is the correct match. You then see the first character for discovering the first hidden GA is the number "1" as seen on the spacecat pic. The first 5 answers give you a 5 character code and the next 5 give another 5 character code. Thus each Compound Word Puzzle you solve will help you to find 2 hidden GAs.

More explanation on how to take the 5 character code and make it into a GA html address:

https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/ZEsI7/squeezone is a GA address...
it can also be accessed with just https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/ZEsI7/
So when you find the first 5 matches in word bank... take the characters in order found on the 5 pics and put it in the address correctly and don't forget to put the last / symbol.
So if the 5 pics were pointing to the above GA the answer you would get would be:

ZEsI7

you must put in the area here where ????? are:
https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/?????/

Spoiler: If you are finding it hard to figure out the compound word each picture in the word banks represent then use this Helper Document

Note: There is also a metapuzzle to solve-- details are given once you get there.


Compound Word Bank 1

Compound Word Bank 2

Reserved

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Hm, got stuck with Puzzle 2's 2nd character code...
Got all the words, but nothing fits with the last character even after trying them all :P

7 years ago
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let me check

7 years ago
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The last pic matches something..

The second word that matches is one of the symbols on the suits in a deck of cards...

7 years ago
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I know what the final word is and I think I know what it matches, but when using all the 5 characters to go to the GA page, it was sending me to SG's home page, so that code doesn't exist.
This made me go and recheck the other 4 characters, the only one that I wasn't 100% sure was the 2nd character due to the 1st picture of it, since it can kinda be two things and the 2nd picture can also be two things and both had words to it. I tried the 2nd option and I got it.

If there is any spoiler in my comments, let me know to edit it.

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Damnit.. stuck in the 2.4 puzzle last 5. cant seem to figure out the code. 3rd and 5th place ones messing with me. I'm gonna move on to phase 4 for now,.

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For Puzzle 1 I got all the pictures in the right place but when i type them into steamgifts they aren't giveaways.

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Make sure you put the / at the end of the html address...

http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/?????/

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I got the first one working but the second one redirects me to steamgifts homepage

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I got it

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Is puzzle 3 part a ok? I'm sure I did it, but I have a wrong code, any help? :(

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Did you ever figure this out? Because I'm stuck on puzzle 3 as well, even though everything until now has worked. My "check" works on the puzzle page, but when I translate them into letters with the word banks, I can't find the giveaway. I tried a number of different variations (capitalization, 1 l I -type things, etc.), but I can't find the first giveaway link. Actually I did get the second one, so at least that part works okay

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the puzzle is right, my bad english was my mistake. btw you should be doing something wrong, try to check it calmly. :)

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Okay thanks, maybe I will try it again later.

7 years ago
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Section solved!

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I can't figure out the cases of the 4th (second) one, and I'm not even sure if I have the right letters...

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I don't get the 2nd 5 character of Word-Puzzle 1 working. Did you make a mistake in them(false lower/uppercase)? The letters given from the pictures of the combined words don't give a valid adress.

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All lowercase except for last letter..

No numbers

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What? But I got a number from the picture??? Or is the 4th picture not the same for the word solved???

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Word puzzle 1 - 2nd 5 character is GA2

Word puzzle 2 - GA 4 is lower, upper, upper, number, upper

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I've got everything except for 2b (the 4th GA)
I can't seem to understand what the first word of this is, but the only picture I haven't used is wrong
I get UlUnU is that correct?

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The letters in the mail have the words Past Due on them... so what would they be called?

7 years ago
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oh I mixed the first and the second word
thank you

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