Congratulations on Completing My Puzzle :)
Here is the solution with explanation for those who brute-forcing :p
Stage 1
The Picture has nothing to do with the puzzle :p, from the hint, we get two keyword : Skyrim and Chicken
Well on My profile picture it's a chicken with skyrim helmet :p
So basically "Look at my profile picture" :p
There's a "F" there.
pre-Stage 2
there's a hidden comment tag on the source code at the very bottom :p
Next page is just a trap :p
Stage 2 {Real one}
it's really easy :p 1-1 looks like "H"
Stage 3 {Real one}
http://store.steampowered.com/app/440 :p
next page is br -> new line tag on html
Stage 4 {Real one}
concatenate means merging, basically just like on stage 2.
Look at this first 3->(汉字)
汉字 is hanzi or chinese character, so u have to change 3 to a chinese character which is 三
so merge I with 三 we get I三 which looks like "E" :p
Stage 5 {Real one}
it's the number of enclosed area :p
0 have 1 enclosed area
1 have 0 enclosed area
2 have 0 enclosed area
3 have 0 enclosed area
4 have 1 enclosed area
5 have 0 enclosed area
6 have 1 enclosed area
7 have 0 enclosed area
8 have 2 enclosed area
9 have 1 enclosed area
so 82129888012356789 have 14 enclosed area.
x=14
char(14*7-1); -> it's a function to convert ASCII to character.
so char(97) which is 'a'
Wow, finally! :D Thanks for the great puzzle!
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I am here on a caveat -- I essentially brute forced my way onto the fifth stage; I didn't get that clue at all.
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it's the number of enclosed area :p
0 have 1 enclosed area
1 have 0 enclosed area
2 have 0 enclosed area
3 have 0 enclosed area
4 have 1 enclosed area
5 have 0 enclosed area
6 have 1 enclosed area
7 have 0 enclosed area
8 have 2 enclosed area
9 have 1 enclosed area
so 82129888012356789 have 14 enclosed area.
x=14
char(14*7-1); -> it's a function to convert ASCII to character.
so char(97) which is 'a'
:D congrats on making it through here
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how i feel now
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I actually meant the one previous to this one. I didn't understand the significance of concatenate(I,3->(kanji).
But the last stage page consisted of all the previous letters, so it allowed me to brute force it instead.
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ditto
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it wanted 3 to be translated into chinese characters, kanji, whatever. if you concatenate (combine) the chinese character for 3 with the letter I, it looks a lot like the letter E
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Gah of course, I should've gotten this but at this stage I was sadly in a bruteforcing mode and didn't even think about it at all XD (shame on me, really!) I've heard about this many times along the lines that small kids can figure this out much easier than adults. Just map the digit into number of "circles" in the digit
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yeah, i get it from facebook :p
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Actually the hardest puzzle i made^^
I had 0 chance without hints^^
Thx for puzzle and giveaway! :D
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Thanks for the puzzle!
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Thanks for this puzzle and the giveaway, the longest journey was one of my favorites, would be nice to play again. You gave too many hints in my opinion.
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Wow, that was really hard. I had to use bruteforce, but i think there are too many hints for some parts now. Thanks for challenge and giveaway! I'm looking forward for next!
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Phew finally, hehe =) I think I couldn't do this without the hints. Well I pretty much did find the 2nd, 3rd and 4th pages no problem, no hints really needed, the red herring/a lie/the trap was really nice idea though :D What was hard/unlikely to do without the hints, was guessing the letters on each of the pages.
Finding the letters with hints was easy though for the first 3 pages, and once I got the first 3 letters from those, I could pretty much brute force 4th letter by getting valid final page, and from there brute force the final letter.
Still - of course! - thank you for the puzzle and the awesome giveaway! I'll enter before it ends - this does look great!
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What was the trap? I missed that I think.
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As far as I can tell the trap was going with the 'next page' link on stage2.html instead of going with the comment within HTML source. So you went to stage3.html, had a puzzle there to go to EPIC.html and then to FINAL.html but it all WAS A LIE!
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yup :D
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Found it, thanks!
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Really nice puzzle!
And Thank You for the giveaway!
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OMG. That was insane. In a way. I'd call it a hint-driven puzzle :)
Thank you for fun and giveaway.
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I have no words. Thanks, it was mad... Really mad.
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Well, I got all the HTML pages. First letter was really hard, I tried 'S' for "Skyrim", "A" for "Adventurer" only, until I could brute-forced it. I got 'H' but the Chinese merging was hard as well, brute-forced. 'F' was easy with the Steam Store hint. I got last character on the first try, without solving the clue... So we are here. Thank you for the nice hard puzzle and the giveaway. These games looks really as a very interesting, strange I’ve never heard of them.
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thank you very much for this:)
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