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You made it far traveller, this will be the first big test of your skills. After this gate, we'll start the real thing...
Believe it or not, but you already have everything you need for passing this one. All you need now is your imagination. Good luck!
Number of giveaways you've seen up to this point might have something to do with it
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That was a nice way to hide it! :D
And puzzle6 especially!
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finally
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This event so far has felt sorta like Notpron, with the url changing and clues in source code and in metadata. I guess I'm stuck right now but I'm really enjoying the event.
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This already tested my imagination to my normal limits now
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:alte:
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Ok. Time to sleep now.
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I have no idea how i got here
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So here's the start where i have to find a vulnerability never known to man and hack your website archi?
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tfw >.>
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Okay it took so much help for this one TTTT
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Grats
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fucking finally \o/
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:3
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Finally i can stop dreaming of Alan Wake. Thanks for the help!
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finally here ;____;
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ok, reached the next step
but only with help
jeez, i am quite a noob regarding sourcecode stuff
... well, and many other things xD
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The way the answer was concealed was extremely clever, but I do have a hard time grasping how so many people got stuck at that point considering that you get told you were on the right track when you get to the video. I guess it's just that looking at source code is not something people have much knowledge about.
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well i did not know i could get the sourcecode of a page i can not reach
thought i need to open the page and then firefox or whatever reads the sourcecode out of this page
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I just typed the URL then pressed Ctrl+U right after and it worked. After that I found out there was a way to get the source without loading the page but it hasn't proven useful yet.
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just to be sure
i do not have to be able to see the vid?
bc it is blocked here (yes i could use unblock, but atm i am only at my tablet)
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So, since I'm stuck on the next puzzle, and since the rules for the event allow it, I'm leaving some hints in hopes someone might return the favour later. They'll be in ascending informational content in order to give a direction and not just spoil the answer.
1. The original version of this puzzle lacked the last line. It's the most important thing to keep in mind.
2. The information you're supposed to use is not in the website. It's all on SteamGifts.
3. There were 5 giveaways up to this one. There are 5 characters in a giveaway ID (giveaway code).
4. Each giveaway contains an alphanumeric that forms the ID (code) for the next giveaway.
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Thank you again, man
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Is there a pattern or are they random picked?
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There is a pattern, yes.
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I may have tried 15 different patterns on giveway game titles without any luck. not sure what I do not see...
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Not game titles, it's the IDs on their URLs
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Wow. Interested by the amount of GA you have to make to have the ability to reach this possibility...
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There are 62 possible characters, so by the pigeonhole principle you need 63 GAs to guarantee that each character in at least one of the IDs has a corresponding pairing. The problem here is the unlikely scenario that two GAs share more than one character, and no other GA does, in which case the number of GAs you need is actually 68 at most. (Edit: Actually, I think it's 66? Each of 2-, 3-, and 4-matches add an exception, and there can never be two 5-matches.)
There's also the problem of finding the 6 matching GAs, but that's something you can make a script to find out.
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Is the capitalization the same or I need to try each one?
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Capitalization is the same
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First of all, thank you! 💙
Now I am stuck @ the Discord puzzle (is it a red herring?)
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Any hints about that pattern used?
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I can't believe I didn't think of check there to find this giveaway, oh well time to do the next :3
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The hint save the day for me yay 😋
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Wow, thought I solved it but found a random private giveaway from 4 years ago instead.
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^^
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So the one who gets all this gets a job for Archi B.V.? :D
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I tried 20 combinations and give up for now. Hope for first letter.
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The first letter is 9
second number is C That should get you the pattern for the rest
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Thank you, that really helped.
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Just in time and wanted to say hi!
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Nice! Thanks for all your effort in the event, and thanks for the game!
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