Well I converted it to binary and I'm still stuck.
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Thanks for being so thoughtful. I really like puzzles, especially new ones (for me) like this one here. I didn't enter after I thought about it, had a look at the Steam-homepage and considered I probably wouldn't play it for a long time, since I have quite a few games sitting in line, waiting to be played. So just someone who really appreciates this game should win. Just my two cents.
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I give up. Can you post the solution when this is over?
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Thanks for this nice new sort of puzzle. Wasn't to bad decoding it from hand. Got a few things automated (Autoreplace to 1 and 0; deviding to 11-bits pieces). After realizing its a steamgifts link, I only decoded the last five characters. Done.
I found the 1 week for this sort of tricky puzzle was just right. You've just got to make sure it stays on the first two pages of the forum. Otherwise people try once, don't figure it out and forget about it.
For easy puzzles shorter periods are okay too.
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I didn't even try to make an image to scan it. Since the obvious solution to me (decoding by hand) was acceptable fast.
Also I didn't know much about barcodes and thought they had to be in certain dimensions (like on products).
Side note: What was quite tricky for me was the fact that your puzzle consisted of 431 characters/bits which is a prime number. So at first I couldn't find the right factor to determine the code length for one character. This is all due to the fact that every character is encoded by 11 blocks but the stop
which is 13 blocks. I'm quite sure this wasn't intended but it made it impossible for me to get the hang of it without your hint.
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