I've decided to clean up some of the old bundled games that I have.

To start, have a couple keys: 4ZAJE-I6PR4-B40X2, GL5Z8-MHDEP-9YGEP

Now for the fun!

<Puzzle starts here>
Did you ever have a puzzle you hated? 6 giveaways are hidden in this image. Don't give up just because it's hard! Just look carefully at the image, and I'm sure you'll find them. Complaining is not allowed!
<Puzzle ends here>

Personally, I expect everyone to find the first four. The next one is also obvious to me. The last one is tricky, you'll have to know how I think to get it.

Here's the image: http://imgur.com/9UMu7Lp

If you solve one of the games, please leave a comment and bump this thread, even if you don't enter. It's going to be a long night tonight (the longest ever in fact!), so make good use of it.

Happy Christmas and Hanuka and Kwanza and New Years and Solstice and Festivus and anything else I can't remember.

9 years ago*

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found all, you can do it too :D

9 years ago
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Atm i have 3 for 6 bump

9 years ago
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Bump for 5/6!!

9 years ago
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4/6.

I don't know how you think, so I can't proceed further.

9 years ago
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4/6 , I know I am close to #5 but can''t seem to pinpoint what it could be.

9 years ago
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Bump 4/6

9 years ago
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Solved 1st, 2nd and 4th. I see where rest might be "hidden", but at the moment I don't know "solution" :D

9 years ago
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Forgot to mention that I did eventually get #6, meaning that I now have 6/6.

Thanks for the great puzzles. :D

9 years ago
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well i found 4/6 and think i came to the end of the line for me, thanks for the GAs

9 years ago
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I found the first 2, found more letters but I think im missing something or I added something

9 years ago
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There's still a day left, plenty of time to find the hidden giveaways!

9 years ago
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Got all but #5...ah well. It was fun! Bump, and thanks! =)

9 years ago
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Well, there's over an hour left, and only ten people got #5. So I'll give one more hint.

The squares are significant, and I chose an image host which does not convert the image into a lossy format.

9 years ago
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Even though the giveaways are now over, #5 is going to drive me mad until the end of time. Did the answer involve the colour hexes in any way?

9 years ago
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Congratulations to the winners!

There were actually five giveaway codes in the image.
The first was in the header, next to "won". D9TjH
The second was broken up across and appended to the column titles: 29lHy
The third was hidden inside the "Gifts Received" for Tex Murphy Complete Pack: RIX8a
The fourth was broken up and hidden inside the Closed label for The Labyrinth of Time through Elder Scrolls Argonia: RcItC
The fifth was tricky. The borders around Deus Ex were colored in hex, #733151 and #443500. converting those to text gives us: s1QD5
The sixth and final was a bit of misdirection. The paragraph that contains the link to the image (wrapped in Puzzle Starts Here tag) contains five sentences. It's also phrased awkwardly. Bad luck for everyone that the giveaway contained all caps, and the same number of giveaways that I created. D6DJC

Don't miss my next puzzle in which I'll hide the code inside iambic pentameters!

9 years ago
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Damn, overthought the puzzle. I assumed from the purple box overlapping the brownish box that the answer could be derived from dividing the hex values.

9 years ago
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I was considering a few variations. 5 colors, out of order, colors - colors, reverse, but I decided they would be too complicated. The overlap was actually because I used mspaint and was too lazy to do precision work.

9 years ago
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Thanks for the answers. I got pretty stumped for the last two. I actually tried using an online stenography tool using "4ZAJE-I6PR4-B40X2, GL5Z8-MHDEP-9YGEP" as the key... since you said 34 characters, 4 symbols, and 6 "words".

Good thing I stopped early, I could have spent days on this...

9 years ago
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Oh wow. Hiding a giveaway in a throwaway key. That would be absolutely brilliant.

9 years ago
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I know. I was so excited when I "figured it out". Alas, I was wrong.
However, I had a lot of fun. Thank you so much for doing this!

9 years ago
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Holy shit, I was doing the exact same thing, I stopped after that fortunately ^^

9 years ago
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Can you explain what was meant by "Nope, the hint is there. Six entire words. Four symbols. 34 characters in total."?
The first thing I thought was about "<Puzzle starts here><Puzzle ends here>" but that is 38 characters.

9 years ago
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Idiocy on my part, I wasn't counting the spaces.

9 years ago
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No, that's my mistake. The spaces probably should not be counted.

9 years ago
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Thank You very very much for answers! But could You please explain the sixth one a bit more? I don't see the answer in what You've said :">

Ah.. and silly me was search all the changed names of the games.. Like Elder Scrolls Argonia or Steamgifts the game...

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