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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Give me hint or I'm gonna...

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Oh that looks yucky! :)

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You did this!

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Hahaha! Put it back, put it back! :P

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happy cake day
still not solved anything got i kinda of a id how it is but not worked so far

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Thank you! Good luck. ;)

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happy factory day!!

bump for solved

thanks

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Thank you! And congratulations. :)

6 years ago
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Happy cake day! I'll wait for another hint because I don't have the slightest idea of what's happening. :)

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Thank you! I'm not sure if I should give another dcby. ;)

6 years ago
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I think I know what you're talking about but can't find the right answer. God, I'm so dumb with puzzles! :P

6 years ago
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Well I added a hint and a new GA; maybe that will help?

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Not yet. I thought it was some kind of cipher but the well known ones don't work.

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just an average bump.

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Just an average thank you. :)

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Another favourite and memorable SteamGifts puzzle. Good job.

Late Happy Cake Factory Day

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Oh wow! It's a cake factory! That's wonderful. Thank you. :)

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Happy cake day!

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Bam! Nice one!

Thank you very much. :)

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Bump for solved and thanks!
And Happy cake day obviously :)

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Thank you, and well done! :)

6 years ago
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Cake day Bump!
Hint works well.

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Thank you. I hope it didn't make it too easy. :)

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Happy belated Cakeday!

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Nomnomnom. Thank you! :)

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Happy (Belated) Cake Day

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Thank you very much. :)

6 years ago
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Bump for solved!

I completely forgot this method -.-'

Thank you! Happy late factory day! :)

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Congratulations, and thank you. :)

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It feels like I'm right on the verge of realizing the answer but just can't quite grasp it.
Anyways, happy (albeit a bit overdue) cakeday! 🍰

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Oooh, emoticon cake. Yum! :)

Good luck. Not too much longer to go now.

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I don't get it. Happy Cake Day anyways.

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Thank you. Don't worry; you're not missing out on much anyway. ;)

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Probably not much. There was only one or two that I really cared to enter into. I'm just disappointed that I haven't figured out the puzzle. You will be post the solution when the giveaways are over?

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Maybe have another look at it tomorrow; something might come to you!

But yes, I'll post the solution. :)

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Bump for solved

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Congratulations. :)

6 years ago
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Unsolved bump. I hope I can figure it out before the GAs end D:

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Another day. Good luck!

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Bump for solved and I hate this puzzle 😂

Edit: Happy cakeday too 🎂

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Hahaha. Congratulations. And thank you. :)

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Unsolved bump. Even with your two hints I don't understand the substitution method behind it.

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Ah well, thank you for the bump. You'll probably be annoyed when you find out the answer. ;)

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Thanks for sharing the solution. I'm happy now that I gave up. I never would have solved this and can't believe some others actually were able to.

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bump for solved!

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Congratulations. :)

6 years ago
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Bump.
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6 years ago
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Haha. Thank you for the bump. :)

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Bump! Was glad to finally solve this and even found some boobie games I do not own yet :p

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Oh great! That's always a bonus. :)

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Bump! Thanks for the puzzle! Happy belated cakeday!

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Bump for final hour!

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Solved for bump. Just as they were ending. ^^

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Bump for finished. Thank you for joining me in my cake / factory day celebration. :)

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