The end:

Thank you all so much for celebrating my cake day with me. I'm sorry all I had were some bundle games, but some of them are pretty good fun. :)

For anyone who was interested and didn't manage to solve it, I'm glad my "reverse hint" didn't give it away -- I thought that might ruin the puzzle -- but I'm sorry if my hints weren't good enough, too! :)

The five-character text string after each game was obviously the steamgifts giveaway link, but it was 'encoded' by typing the keys on a standard US English - style QWERTY keyboard with a DVORAK keyboard layout activated. Believe it or not, I actually do this every day -- I learned to type DVORAK many years ago, but haven't ever got around to buying a DVORAK keyboard. So I just don't look, so as to not confuse myself. :D

This keyboard layout was apparently invented in 1936 to improve typing speed, since the familiar QWERTY layout had actually been designed to ensure that mechanical typewriters did not operate too quickly and end up jamming the individual metal rods associated with each letter. Hence my first clue.

The second hint was simply a reverse of the others to give people a chance to know what the unencoded and encoded text was: HuniePop when typed on a QWERTY keyboard with a DVORAK keyboard layout activated is Dgbc.Lrl.

I hope you enjoyed the little puzzle. Steamgifts is great; it's the only site I visit multiple times each day. Thank you all for making it a fun place. :)


Update! Here's a reverse hint and the final GA for anyone having trouble:

Dgbc.Lrl: j0VHk

So it's my factory/cake day. Fancy that! I knew it was sometime this month, but had no idea when.

Anyway, I had this plan for this really involved puzzle featuring all sorts of clever-clod stuff and a train that was going to be called "The Bundle Boobie Train" or something like that, but I ran out of time and motivation and work takes up too much of my life and then I got stuck playing 7 Days to Die ... . Yeah, I know. You've heard it all before, I'm sure.

So instead of that, here are some puzzlified links to a list of what was going to be restricted to only bundle boobie games, but now has some other mostly anime-inspired games in there as well.

"What's the puzzle?" I hear you ask. Well, you see I typed the links really quickly and now they don't seem quite right.

Animal Lover: BteBa
Aozora Meikyuu: Qy63>
Beach Bounce: 3ao9C
Club Life: 7hIQG
Crystal City: T;YN2
Darconika: The Cube of Soul: KRbB;
Désiré: oOPYa
Divine Slice of Life: ayGXa
Echo Tokyo: An Intro: <XHDn
eden*: T>u5,
Games&Girls: hPilT
Heart and Seoul: OMrmy
Highschool Possession: Kpo>X
Highschool Romance: qB">9
Higurashi when they Cry Hou - Ch. 1 - Onikakushi: NeHD7
HunieCam Studio: <"iu,
Love in the Glen: KcH8D
Mahjong Pretty Girls Battle: x>ELI
Mahjong Pretty Girls Battle : School Girls Edition: 0d9O6
My Personal Angel: KeHAg
Pretty Girls Mahjong Solitaire: .9>Ik
Sakura Angels: u8;k0
Sakura Beach: bjje8
Sakura Beach 2: ItMR.
Sakura Fantasy: IpMDN
Sakura Spirit: uTned
Serafina's Crown: 6rLoa
Sixtieth Kilometre: 4;Cen
True Lover's Knot: t>91J
World End Economica Episode 01: ieF3<

They're all level 1 because it's really easy to get to level 1, even if you're really poor.

Oh, some of these games are from group buys of bundles, too, so I'm really sorry if the keys don't work. They should, but you know, sometimes these things happen. And I'm really, really sorry if some of my fast typing is wrong. If you can't work any of them out then please let me know; I probably made a mistake. sigh

And for the adult games, please don't enter unless you're an adult, blah, blah, blah. I have no way of checking, obviously. Well, I guess I could ask my buddy in the NSA, but I'm not supposed to talk about him The Universal Moderator. Aw crap. Just forget I said that. There, that's better, right?

Happy factory day to me, happy factory day to me, ...

Edit: Sorry, I found an error in Darconika. It's fixed now.

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Oh yeah, and if you enter any of them, or even if you don't, please do the bumpy thing on this thread. You know, because so many people will want to wish me a happy late factory day. :)

You guys are the best!

(I'm using 'guys' here in a completely non-gender-discriminating way.)

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Bump for hint added. :)

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Happy Cake Day!
Really stuck on how to solve this. You're suggesting that the codes are randomly shifted (based on what I assume is an American keyboard, no less) but it'd be impossible to solve that by guessing. Another possibility would be that they are all shifted in the same pattern, but since the inputs are all over the keyboard, it must be quite an advanced formula. At least I hope it was sarcasm when you wrote "really easy" on the thread title or I'm just way too stupid for this. 🤣

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It really is easy once you cotton on to the trick, but I'm not sure if the current hint is a very good one. I guess I'll find out in due time. ;)

If no one has solved it within a couple of days I'll leave another hint, but I suspect the hint will give it away entirely.

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Happy 2nd cakeday pooksalot! And thanks for the giveaways:))

6 years ago
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Thank you, and you're welcome! I'm sorry they're all only bundle games again. But some of them are fun. :)

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Happy Cake Day

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Thank you! :)

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easy puzzle for bundle boobie games

You sure have a way with words sir/ma'am, happy cake day :3

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Hahaha. Thank you twice! :)

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easy?¿ I have been trying different combinations, but nothing. :(

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Oh, keep trying. It's just one little trick. Once you get it you'll probably hate me!

6 years ago
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Even with the hint, I'm still stumped. I guess I'll just wait for the solution after the giveaways end ;(

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Happy Cake Day!

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Oh, that is absolutely hideous! Thank you so much! :)

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I figured it would go well with anime. ;)

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Happy cake day!

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Thank you!

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Happy Cake Day! :D

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Thank you! :D

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Happy Factory!

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Thank you.

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couldn't solve the puzzle but bump and happy cakeday anyway!

6 years ago
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Thank you. It'll be around for most of the rest of the week if you want to take another look later. Maybe you'll get it then. :)

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Happy Cake Day.

Bump for solved.

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Thank you for low-poly cake! That looks almost good enough to eat. :)

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Happy Factory Day, pooksalot! :-)

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Thank you. :)

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Thanks for all the booooobies! :3

Happy Cakeday to you! :)

Edit: Darn, can't solve it yet :(

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Hahaha. They're only bundle boobies, but you're welcome!

And thank you.

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Every boobie counts ;-)

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Hahaha! Yes, that's true! :D

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FINALLY! :D

Now the boobies can't hide anymore!

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Be Happy pal...and thanks for GAs ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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Thank you, and you're welcome. :)

6 years ago
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And for the adult games, please don't enter unless you're an adult, blah, blah, blah."

they'll never listen, lol
not interested, happy cake day and free bump anyway

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Hahaha. Yeah, you're right, but I feel better for saying it anyway.

Thank you for the free bump. :)

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I think I have that album. Well, a cassette, actually. I'm an old geezer. :(

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Not sure what it says about me that I own a lot of these games but I entered a few... happy cakeday! :D

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Hahaha. Thank you! I won't judge you! I own all of them, and have even played a few to completion.

Um ... I mean completing the game! ;)

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I have no idea how to solve it, but happy little factory day for you, kind sir/madam.

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Thank you!

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I feel like I know what you did, generally speaking, but I'm not sure the exact method you used to do it . . . still working on it.

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Good luck! :)

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Haha! Thank you. It was only my SG birthday, but maybe that's more important anyway. ;)

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Well, y'know, birthday is a birthday even if it's a SG birthday. :D

You can never have too many ''birthdays''. LoL. Since everyday is a birthday; every moment of it is new to us. Life is what you celebrate. All of it. Every day. Celebrate each day of life. Let each day be a festival of joy!

(ノ◕ヮ◕)ノ:・゚✧ SG is love, SG is life...
...And that's all I have to say*

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Bump and meow for solved. Happy belated cake day!

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Thank you! Meow!

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I debate your usage of the term "easy", but happy factory day!

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Haha, fair enough I guess. :)

Thank you!

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Bump for solved!

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Well done. :)

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Happy Cake day! No clue yet what to do with the puzzle will try again later :D

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Thank you. Good luck! :)

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