YAY! Just won 500th GA on SG earlier today :> And you know what it means ;) It calls for a puzzle/quiz ;)

This time something easy, as it's late here and I'm a lazy bastard ;p

You have time to solve till 11:55PM 31.07.2014 GMT+1 ;)

If you have problems, remember that you can always check a guide ;)

BlackList

GL&HF!


SOLUTION

  1. In the OP there was a hidden link. You could see it by viewing a source. The link was http://www.itstoohard.com/puzzle/RkhYd2tqVkQ=

  2. Puzzle ID was encoded using BASE64. Using XLATE or any soft/webapp of your choice you would get actual ITH puzzle link: http://www.itstoohard.com/puzzle/FHXwkjVD.

  3. Solution to ITH

9 years ago*

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wow 500 o.o and i thought my 20 was good

9 years ago
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Why I can't get Q6?

9 years ago
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don't ask me, this one is pretty obvious, so maybe spelling error? try copy-pasting title from steam store.

9 years ago
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Got it and it was easy indeed. I was deceived by the hint :)

9 years ago
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Bump for solved! Thanks Zelgh and again, congrats!
:)

9 years ago
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Q6 is the one giving me trouble - narrowed everything down but the answers come back all wrong. I am pretty sure which game the picture belongs to but the answers aren't accepted (even when copying and pasting it from steam store) :(

9 years ago
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you did something wrong, as this Q is 100% correct and also puzzle is already solved by a bunch of ppl

9 years ago
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Wow! Congratulations on your 500th (now 501) win

9 years ago
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Congrats Zel :)

9 years ago
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507?way too fast:|

9 years ago
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witing for 508th to be delivered ;p

9 years ago
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I think HINT already useless now, since you already won 507 (On going) & your won games list has been change XD

9 years ago
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it's not useless, as you can just move the game list per each page by 7 ;p

9 years ago
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Finally Solved :3

Thanks :3

9 years ago
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Ding for complete?...

9 years ago
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Baffling. That works out at roughly 1 win per every 22 entries.

Oh wait, they're all group wins. Carry on~ xD

9 years ago
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majority =/= all ;p

89 were non-group GAs ;p

9 years ago
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That's still roughly one win for every 125 entries, which is absurdly lucky.

9 years ago
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Over 500 in 1 year? Wth? I also registered 1 year ago and I only have TWENTY-SEVEN wins...

9 years ago
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closer to 2 years than a year to tell the truth ;) And it all depends on what GAs you're entering ;)

9 years ago
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Roughly 27 times the amount of wins you do, and you have a few more entries too.

Though like I said before, the majority of their entries were on group giveaways, which would have had WAAAAAY less entries to compete against.

9 years ago
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Pczelda comments: 240
zelghadis comments: 15,967

Correlation?

9 years ago
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So you only enter what I can assume are steam groups games given that the majority of the games you enter for have less than 20 entries each?

9 years ago
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I do not enter Group GAs only, but having a choice to enter GA with 20-30 entries and GA with 2000 entries which one do you choose? for me it's obvious and anyone claiming he would enter 2000 one for sake of entering public non-cv gas only is clearly lying

9 years ago
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Congrats! :)

9 years ago
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Free bump for Zelgh :D

9 years ago
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Pffff, you still need more entries than me to 584! :D

I should get active on sg again, just to crush you ;D ^_^

Gogo zel! ;)

9 years ago
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^^

9 years ago
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Ok, I am completely new to SG and this is my 1st encounter with puzzles such as this, and I only got as far as finding the ITH link but was not able to open it- it is blank. From previous answers and the guide I know I'm supposed to modify it but for the love of all I can't figure out how except by brute force, and it's a bit too late since I only have 20mins left xD So, what I'm hoping is that you'll put up a step-by-step solution so I can at least know what I was supposed to do. :)

9 years ago
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worry not, I always put solutions to my puzzles :>

9 years ago
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Thanks :)

9 years ago
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it's up ;)

9 years ago
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Ha! And I copied the entire guide in a Word document to find out any obvious misspellings that could get me the correct Itstoohard link. xD

9 years ago
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Ah, and I tried the blasted converter... -.-'

9 years ago
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What's the second SteamWorld Dig giveaway that apparently noone found? Mistake?

9 years ago
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I've been digging for it for a couple of days. But probably it was a mistake since it had no CV requirement.

9 years ago
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I was wondering about this too like I thought I saw some white thingies on 5 of the pictures and was wondering is this another puzzle in the puzzle?

9 years ago
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Does ITH have a bug or something? The only one I had left was #20 because it never accepted my answer for some reason. Check screenshots here. I don't see any difference from what I have in the answer box and the solution.

9 years ago
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Did some research. It shows that the quotation mark in the solution is a UTF symbol U+2019 (hex), not the usual apostrophe U+0027 (hex).

Edit: more research shows funny things. Direct copy/paste from steam:

  • Assassin's Creed 2 Deluxe Edition (regular apostrophe)
  • Assassin's Creed® Revelations (regular)
  • Assassin’s Creed® III (U+2019)
  • Assassin’s Creed® Brotherhood (U+2019)
  • Assassin’s Creed® IV Black Flag™ (U+2019)
  • Assassin's Creed™: Director's Cut Edition (regular in both cases)
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Oh. At least I now know I wasn't hallucinating about that question.

9 years ago
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ehh, I copied all titles from Steam Store on purpose to avoid anyh spelling errors this time. Turns out it was a bad idea as well - to be honest I simply didn't notice the apostrophe to be any different, if I did, I'd add different answers including normal one :/

9 years ago
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I copied from "Buy Assassin's Creed Black Flag Digital Standard Edition" portion and just added IV when it didn't work without IV. I guess the ' in the title of the page and in the purchase boxes below are different o.o

9 years ago
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Ubisoft! xP

9 years ago
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Zelghadis, you got me sooo hooked on puzzles now! :D

9 years ago
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Glad to hear that! :> There are lots and lots of different puzzles on SG and we have quite a big community for these so good luck and have fun with solving them! :>

9 years ago
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Not to brag but I even managed to solve 3 since yours ended last night ;)

9 years ago
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good for you ;3

9 years ago
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Closed 9 years ago by zelghadis.