I'm fairly sure you proposed to a Swedish by saying that
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Well this one is doing decent so far 11 people have solved the first step in less then a half hour. the second step may take people a bit longer though
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If no one solves the puzzle in a weeks time I'll post a hint
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ha no, I'm not being that cruel, the giveaway ends in eleven days, I
ll most likely be adding a clue Wednesday which will leave people with a week to solve the puzzle
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Ah! My apologies, I did not think to see the actual end date. My bad
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Some one pointed out an error on my part. Not sure if it is relevant for you.
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Interesting one! Thank you so much. Working on the third? step... I think I have found the key but no idea what to do :) I'll try harder!
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Some one pointed out an error on my part. I should hace seen it sooner but I missed the fact that you found the key
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My brain is clearly way too small for this, but thanks for the jigi.
Also, hmm, I should probably learn to solve a sudoku...
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Same here. I click on these because I enjoy the Jigsaw puzzles, but I can never get past the jigsaw portions of the puzzles. Haven't once yet and doubt I ever will. At least I'm not alone.
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Got a code(?) on 3rd step. I have no idea how to use it.
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Some one pointed out an error on my part. Not sure if it is relevant for you.
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Feels like I reached the end, but just got something that doesn't work anywhere. Even with modifying it in a few ways.
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Same, have a string (and its modifications) that does't seem to work where I'd expect. And now unsure if there is a cipher (basically any cipher), and website I didn't think about, or I just made a mistake somewhere. The joy of puzzles :D
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Some one pointed out an error on my part. Not sure if it is relevant for you.
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Solved the sudoku but now stuck haha. Like the puzzle tho. I know i have to do something with the code on the bottom of the sudoku, but not sure what.
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I cannot--and never have been--able to read that code at the bottom. :( Also, the sudoku is stumping me. :D
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Some one pointed out an error on my part. Not sure if it is relevant for you.
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I completed the sudoko and now im stuck again nice
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The code below the sudoku has some weird artifact. Could you upload a png version and link it somewhere?
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I got a number, a letter and deciphered something from the rest of the image, but now I'm stuck. Time for a break
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Joining in on those who have a number and a string who are not sure what to do with it.
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Been brainstorming since last night, I have a feeling the letters and number form the url to another jigid, since it would be the perfect amount of characters, but putting the number either side of the letters doesn't lead to any puzzles. Stumped.
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I'll probably be adding a clue on Wednesday, I wasn't expecting people to have this much trouble finding the key
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+1 This is the stage where I have been the past day, think I'll wait until Wednesday. ; A :
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I am working on the puzzle with key (it says "the key", so I'm 100% sure!). I think I have found it, but the most obvious solution doesn't work...
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Well @#$%that one was on me... the fifth number is an error it should have been 119 not 111. and here I was hoping I caught all my errors
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You know, hints supposed to help in puzzle, not make it harder
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Ha, and here I thought the nature of the clue would be obvious enough. If you look all three clues have something in common.
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I'm not dumb. I can clearly see what you did there. But reverting it to obtain hint is harder than solving the puzzle itself, at least for not native speaker.
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+1 my first thought is to write a program to help solve this. Unless of course your intention is specifically to not be able to do this by hand.
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Writing a program for this should be easy enough if you want to do it, but why would you recreate the wheel in this instance?
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Because it can let me optimize for arranging based on the pattern of word lengths which I haven't been able to find on any website.
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I actually tried doing exactly that, using the results from a website and writing the program to arrange properly and discard anything that wouldn't match. The results were far from outstanding and I was left as confused as I started :|
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That is a pain :/ and I was going to do this today myself. Were there combinations where it seems like all but the last word [or maybe 2nd word] seems like it could have made a promising sentence? For this hint to be helpful to me, there needs to be at least one word that is extremely unlikely to be in any wordlist and would need to be rearranged by hand.
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sadly the clue was slightly clams bled
Missing an r? :)
I don't have the time and willingness and to go back to the puzzle, but the hint itself is easy to understand, English or not. Can't speak about further implementation of it though.
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The meaning of the clue is simple. (Though, the meta-clue is misspelled.) Converting the string(s) into the original is far from trivial, even with the formatting revealed.
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Do I want to dive down a rabbit hole that leads to nowhere, so that the guy who dug it can admit, "oops, I forgot to include a rabbit."
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Why would you NOT want to do that! I nominate rabbit hole diving for a new Olympic sport!
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Well, kudos to the 7 geniuses who solved this. I think I'm done for now but I look forward to the solution if you care to shed a light after the end of the GA :)
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Yeah, I'm gonna ask for the solution too once the GA is over because I'm getting a hard feeling of https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InsaneTrollLogic
And I'm betting it isn't, it's probably more something of https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StrangeMindsThinkAlike
But my mind isn't strange enough :(
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To be fair I did have an easier clue planned, but then six people had solved before Wednesday.
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Haha, it's alright, you don't owe us anything so everything's fair. Just curious though, so as long as you don't mind, I want to know what I was missing once the GA is over.
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Waiting for the answer as well after the GA is done.
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I'm sorta stuck and haven't been able to progress after trying to go where it would be normally expected.
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FSLJEYRM
An error has been pointed out to me, the fifth number decrypted from the key was supposed to have been 119 but I messed up and encoded 111. I even saw this and corrected it, but apparently forgot to save, and uploaded the old key.... Please forgive me.
Now for a clue to help you find the key. sadly the clue was slightly clams bled
I hate french item gotten
That's not right lets try again
Other magnificent teeth
no no no
the hot erect man feign it
This is just getting worst what I am trying to say is
??? ????? ?? ??? ????????
SOLUTION
Step 1: FSLJEYRM leads you to https://www.jigidi.com/jigsaw-puzzle/FSLJEYRM/
Step 2: solve the jigsaw notice the black box at the bottom? if you zoom in you see it is binary
Step 3: the binary is 01001100 01000100 01011001 01010101 00111001 01000011 01000010 which translated ti LDYU9CB
Step 4: This leads you to https://imgur.com/a/LDYU9CB which it the key to the Sudoku cypher
Step 5: solve the Sudoku (or cheat and use an online Sudoku solver)
Step 6: The ones in the key represent the first character of the giveaway code, in the order they appear it is 76 51 68 79 111 I made a mistake here and the final number was superposed to be 119
Step 7 76 51 68 79 119 converts to L3DOw )using the standard ASCII table) the giveaway link is https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/L3DOw/
The clue is an anagram of "The magic of the internet" imagur's catchphrase
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