Hi all! Thanks again to everyone who participated in this puzzle and congrats to those of you who solved it -- especially those who won the prizes! All of the prizes have been distributed and once everyone accepts their winnings I should be level 10. Hyyyype!

Anyhow, let's get on with the solution! First of all, all of the instructions were in the lyrics:

First of all, I'm afraid there was nothing to do with commenting my name inside the thread itself..

The name of the song Say My Name, other than the first instance was italicized. Why was this particular phrase being highlighted over and over again? Well it meant that you had to say my name: mecorx (and also spell it correctly...)

Okay, but where? Well, the next thing you had to do was look at all of the bolded single letters in the lyrics:

  • First Verse: "d" and "o"
    " Second Verse: "i" and "t"
  • Third Verse: "i" and "n"
  • Fourth Verse: "a"
  • Fifth Verse: "g", "i", "v", and "e"
  • Sixth Verse: "a", "w", "a", and "y"
  • Seventh Verse: "f", "o", and "r"
  • Eigth Verse: "W", "h", "i", "t", and "e"
  • Ninth Verse: "l", "i", "s", and "t"
  • Tenth Verse: "i", "n", "v", "i", "t", and "e"

Put it all together and you've got: do it in a give away for white list invite. Meaning you had to comment "mecorx" in one of mecorx's giveaways. Simple enough, right? A lot of you got that much.

Then there were a few interim changes to make things harder i.e., appease my ego:

  • Part way through the entry period, I raised the minimum entry level to 2 because there were some suspicious folks -- like one lhad iterally created their account a day ago. D: Also, the "already on the list from before" message was for people who were on my WL from ~4 years ago when I last did a puzzle like this.
  • Fast forward to April 6, I got annoyed that everyone kept commenting in Zeno Clash and Beat Cop. C'mon guys, I have over 900 giveaways, why did everyone have to pick the ones on the very top?

So I updated the puzzle by bolding If no one is around you, meaning you had to follow all of my previous instructions inside one of my giveaways that nobody else had commented in previously. Actually, I also accepted comments in giveaways that did not have any other comments pertaining to the cirremt puzzle.

Whenever I was notified of a comment on one of my giveaways that contained "mecorx" , I would whitelist the owner of said comment (provided they met eligibility requirements). It was a manual process so sometimes it took a few hours for solvers to make it onto the WL, and other times I missed comments entirely (sorry), There was no limit to how many times you could try to find the right place to comment my name.

Now, if you spelled my name wrong you were not added to my WL. A lot of people misspell my name for some reason and frankly, it's annoying :|. Also, since the Steamgifts notification system does not send the thread/giveaway owner notifications for replies on other people's comments, so people who commented under someone else's comment were also not whitelisted as I had no way of knowing about these comments...

Anyway, there were a lot of people who thought they solved the puzzle but actually didn't so I was kind of puzzled! I'm curious to know what people tried.

Until next time.
-mecorx

3 years ago*

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At first I tried to use the first 5 bolded characters as a giveaway code. When that didn\t work I wrote them all down (took a few tries, ended up using html to find them all). Then commented in one of your giveaways that had already ended, to avoid spoiling it for other people :)
It was fun, thank you.

3 years ago
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Huh, i never realized I should have posted in one of your old giveaways.
Thx for explaining the solution.

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Lol, I don't remember this.

3 years ago
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Ah, what a shame! Didn't catch that I had to do it in a giveaway without any other comments. Oh well, congrats on your giveaways and soon-to-be level 10!

3 years ago
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Aww I should've payed more attention to "If no one is around you" part.. I thought it meant giveaways that were not around the whitelist ones(meaning zeno clash) but Nevermind, Thanks for the solution mecorx! Until next time indeed! :)

3 years ago
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Hm but those giveaways were right next to the Whitelist ones as they're the last ones I made before the WL giveaways...?!

3 years ago
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"Say my name" was the easiest part. Then I read bold characters that i should be on the whitelist. But I didn't understand where to call name, so I went into discussions and found that thread: https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/pzueI/the-solution-read-walkthrough-puzzleception-train
To be honest, I thought there was a connection between "Beat Cop" and the lyrics that were used as a start - beat is about music and lyrics is about music. But then (at 2AM according to my time zone :) ) I realized the meaning of the phrase "If no one is around you."
It was fun and smart, thanks!

3 years ago
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Oh that puzzle... It was much, much harder, haha. Glad you figured it out eventually.

3 years ago
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I was surprised when there were 2-3 comment pages. but at the same time in GAs were only 5 people. for some reason, people ignored the obvious message and started spamming the name. And I thought, "seriously?"

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A little sad I didn't win any of those, but oh well :) Congratulations on the level 10! Was glad to help :D

And thanks so, so much for such an awesome contribution to the community <3

3 years ago
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10/10 - Mission accomplished, Congrats mecorx
thank you for the ride {°‿°}

3 years ago
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Thanks for coming along!

3 years ago
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told ya :)
welcome to lvl 10

3 years ago
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Yee hawww! Sign me up for all the secret clubs!

3 years ago
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Welcome to the cool club 😎🥳

3 years ago
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Thanks!! :D

3 years ago
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Congratulations. I didn't win anything, but it was fun

3 years ago
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Congratulations on getting to level 10 mecorx :)

3 years ago
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gratz on achieving level 10 Mecorx!

3 years ago
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congrats for reaching level 10. didnt understand the puzzle (i only get the bold letters, but didnt the meaning of them)

3 years ago
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Haha, to be honest I thought that I should mention you in one of my GAs but was wondering how you would be able to check that. :D

+1 for solving the puzzle, -20 for being an old daft fart. :)
Having said that, I didn't mind too much since I only enter a handful of wishlisted GAs these days anyway.

3 years ago
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congrats.
Didn't understand what to do, but I have a low IQ so that's to be expected for me to fail the puzzle giveaways.
I don't expect to win anything anyway.

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