GIVEAWAYS ENDED, SOLUTIONS POSTED

Tier 1 Solution
Giveaway: Brutal Legend
First known solver: EDUSAN

Tier 2 Solution
Giveaway: Trine 2: Complete Story
First known solver: ErrEff

Tier 3 Solution
Giveaway: Mortal Kombat Kollection
First known solver: ErrEff

Tier 4 Solution
Giveaway: Lord of the Rings: War in the North
First known solver: Ethan

Tier 5 Solution
Giveaway: Batman Arkham City GOTY Edition
First known solver: abc567

Tier 6 Solution
Giveaway: Bioshock Infinite
First known solver: kajoona

Thanks to everyone for participating in the puzzle. I hope it was as much fun solving as it was making. Next time I'll try and make the prizes even bigger. Hope to challenge you again soon!


YAY! PUZZLES!

Been a while since I've done one of these. Usual rules, no leaking/sharing answers ect. People on this magical list approved by support need not bother with the puzzles, as they may not enter the giveaways. Please do not add me to ask why you are on the blacklist.

It's a multi-step puzzle with a few different prizes that gets progressively more difficult. The first two giveaways have a CV limit of $30.01, all others have a CV limit of $0.01.

The prizes:

  • Tier One: Bundle game
  • Tier Two: Another bundle game. Yippee.
  • Tier Three: Non-bundled, average metacritic score of 40-60
  • Tier Four: Non-bundled, average metacritic score of 60-80
  • Tier Five: Three year old AAA, average metacritic score of 90+
  • Tier Six: Recent AAA, average metacritic score of 90+

There will also be several keydrops along the way. The puzzle ends in 10 days (9/30). Enjoy

Due to steam issues tiers five and six will not be avalible until ~24 hours from the creation of this post.

EDIT: If you cannot see the pictures on itstoohard, right click them and copy the URL

EDIT 2: Changed out the link, pics should be fixed.

EDIT 3: Itstoohard is back up, but due to the downtime I haven't been able to complete the last two tiers. They should be up within 24 hours of the update.

Edit 4: All tiers are up and functioning, including the last two.

Edit 5: Puzzle for Tier Five has been slightly modified to make it clearer.

Tier One Hint: I own all the games in the screenshots.

Tier Two Hint (Well more of a clarification): The 47 does not have anything to do with the puzzle.

View attached image.
1 decade ago*

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where will the keydrops be?

1 decade ago
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stuck on first tier q3 (

1 decade ago
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i lold it was simplier that i think

1 decade ago
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Stuck on First tier Q5... :( No clue at all

1 decade ago
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Bump for Tier One!

1 decade ago
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And Tier Two! And stuck now :(

1 decade ago
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I'm in the same boat.

1 decade ago
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I join the club...

1 decade ago
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Finished Tier 1! Came across tier 2 and gave up due to lack of certain proficiencies.

1 decade ago
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i'm on a fifth part ^^

1 decade ago
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You beat me to announcing that I'd finished making the fifth part xD

1 decade ago
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All tiers are up and functioning, including the last two.

1 decade ago
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Stuck on Q5 of first puzzle, I have no idea for that one...

1 decade ago
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This.

1 decade ago
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literally

1 decade ago
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If it helps, I own all the games in the screenshots.

1 decade ago
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Sigh... Went through your list 3 times already. (Been suspecting it even before the hint) Trying out likely looking ones based on the screenshots.
I think I already found the answer but had problem with the exact wording...

1 decade ago
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Seems my problem as well.

1 decade ago
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That helped loads, thanks. :)

1 decade ago
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It did help, thanks, though I am almost positive I tried that game yesterday...

1 decade ago
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Sigh, giving up already bump... Thank you... :)

1 decade ago
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Not exactly sure why I'm on the blacklist...

1 decade ago
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Frigging q5 you have too many games so its hard to know wich one it is XD

1 decade ago
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Even worse, I triple checked the list trying out likely ones. I think the exact wording might not be what you'd expect by copy pasting. :(
(Although I did attempt variations)

1 decade ago
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finally got it after going game by game and correcting possible writing interpretetions XD

1 decade ago
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Lucky you...

1 decade ago
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now my problem is how to get to puzzle 2 XD

1 decade ago
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how did you even get to puzzle 1? i'm stuck here

1 decade ago
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Any chance for a hint for us trying to get to tier 5 :P

1 decade ago
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I have no idea how to start

1 decade ago
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I don't see any link or pictures?

1 decade ago
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That would be part of the puzzle!

1 decade ago
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I don't get tier 2 0_o

1 decade ago
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Me too :/ I finished tier 1 (finally, after trying many time the last game) just to find out I already own the game in the giveaway and that I have really no clue about the second Tier

1 decade ago
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Finally solved the ITH.
Now looking for a certain food.

1 decade ago
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No idea on Q3 and Q5 Tier1. Even hint didnt help

1 decade ago
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Q5 only left

1 decade ago
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Seems that hint is nt working, there arent some games in his screenshots

1 decade ago
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What do you mean?

1 decade ago
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you cant find the game from Q1 in your screenshots

1 decade ago
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Your point? I said I own all the games, not that I had screenshots of all of them on steam.

1 decade ago
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my bad, didnt understand hint right, sry

1 decade ago
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It's working fine. I just got it not long ago. Had to sleep on it, but I got it...

1 decade ago
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That image is too damn hard.

1 decade ago
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that image is too damn high

1 decade ago
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apparently i'm the only one having trouble with Q4...

1 decade ago
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i give up, if i ever find out what the answer was i'll probably kill myself because of my own stupidity

1 decade ago
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Updated with some clarification on tier 2.

1 decade ago
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So much for thinking I actually had part of it...

1 decade ago
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Started making the quiz, well for now I have problem with Q3 and Q7, other's were fairly easy.
Though with Q5 I managed just because I remembered that I watched this on someone's stream or yt clip, just exact same moment :D
EDIT: Well Q3 left :D
EDIT2: Went through your game list for the 3rd question, wrong, wrong, wrong, ended it. Hmmm what does this look like.
Wild guess out of nowhere, correct <facepalm> for my own stupidity.

1 decade ago
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Where is the link to puzzle?

1 decade ago
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That Q5!... Got through.

1 decade ago
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Hmm, i see what you did in tier 4 but can't make it work somehow..
Edit: Aha! Solved this part.

1 decade ago
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Solved tier 2 finally. Now I'll admire my own stupidity for a bit, before proceeding.

1 decade ago
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tier 2 4 hard 8 me

1 decade ago
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It took me 30 min to find the link xD

This is my 1st itTooHard puzzle, so, dont laugh at me >.>

1 decade ago
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Damn, unless we played all these games, there's no way to find them... xD

1 decade ago
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Seems that a lot of others managed to!

1 decade ago
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There's a lot of crazy gamerz out there in the nature xD

1 decade ago
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Umm I didn't play any of the games in screenshots but still managed to make it through

1 decade ago
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Closed 1 decade ago by TartFlavor.