so wait.. i killed my head for days and days.. to find the STUCK answer for example travis.. and then u just delete them all right? who cares
and if it was for just 1 puzzle i would say ok.. the guy is right.. but 4??? i solved 4 of them..
anyway next time if you want "CONTROL" shorter time frame.. there is no other way UNLESS UR GOD..
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I agree that a shorter timeframe would probably have helped prevent a situation like this, or at least made it less likely that a leak would occur. Then again, if I made the giveaways last for only an hour or two it would mean people who happened to not be online at that time wouldn't get a shot, which seems like a shame as well.
Either way, it's certainly something I'll consider when I decide to do something like this again.
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A real pity... yours were actually some of the most satisfying puzzles I've ever done on SG. Easy enough to be fun and hard enough to be interesting (even if because my memory is starting to play tricks on me). I hope you'll do another puzzle in the future, seems you have a real knack for these! I appreciate the time you spent to make them in the first place.
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This is the right choice you could do If you can't track the cheaters. Unfortunately, I had direct experience with them for my puzzles as well, and they were really too many and the work to separate cheaters from correct players was a pain, all the time ruining the fun of creating the puzzle. If I'll create a new puzzle probably is last one or only for selected people.
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I liked your puzzles realy much. Shame it had to end this way.
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Awww! :( It sucks that you had your giveaways leaked. Though I no longer have a chance to win anything from my participation, I still appreciate the puzzles. They were all a lot of fun! At least you entertained a lot of us with 'em.
I wish there was a cheat-proof way to set up puzzles. Of course cheaters will always find a way to shit on everyone's fun, it seems.
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Those assholes are a pain in the butt for all of the puzzle makers. There are always few which ruin everything.
Sorry to hear that.
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I'm sorry to disappoint everyone, including myself, but after thinking this over for a bit I have decided to delete the giveaways I have been making the last couple of days. I'm posting this thread for full disclosure, to let everyone know what happened and why it happened.
I had a lot of fun making the puzzles and a lot of people have told me they enjoyed solving them as well, but unfortunately some assholes decided to ruin everyone's fun by leaking the answers to the puzzles and even direct links to the giveaways themselves. To be honest I was afraid of this from the start, but I hoped I could count on the honesty and integrity of the SG community. Apparently, I was wrong. Like so often, a few bad apples have ruined it for everyone else. Deleting the giveaways is a very drastic measure, but since there is no way to identify everyone who abused this leak this is the only fair solution I can think of.
I have proof of these leaks if any admin needs to confirm it, but I'm not posting it here to prevent a witch hunt, and to protect the person who informed me about this.
I will think about this for a while and come up with an alternative way to do these giveaways that will hopefully prevent leaks such as this.
I'll edit this post later to show the correct answers to all the puzzles, just like I promised. For those who want to try the puzzles for fun (there will be no prize unfortunately), here they are:
The first one.
The second one.
The third one.
The fourth one.
PUZZLE SOLUTIONS
Note that for many of these there were multiple correct answers, but I will only post the most common one here.
Answers for the first puzzle: (reward was Eufloria)
1 Duke Nukem
2 Mario
3 Link
4 Lara Croft
5 Ryu
6 Megaman
7 Solid Snake
8 Sonic
9 Cloud Strife
10 Doomguy
Answers for the second puzzle: (reward was Torchlight II)
1 Master Chief
2 Samus Aran
3 Bomberman
4 Raziel
5 Pyro
6 Ryu Hayabusa
7 Space Marine
8 Vega
9 Corvo Attano
10 Dovahkiin
Answers for the third puzzle: (reward was Blood Bowl Chaos Edition)
1 Gordon Freeman
2 Guybrush Threepwood
3 Leon Kennedy
4 Jade
5 Dante
6 Agent 47
7 Geralt of Rivia
8 Liu Kang
9 Phoenix Wright
10 Travis Touchdown
Answers for the fourth puzzle: (reward was Max Payne 3)
1 Crash Bandicoot
2 Pac-Man
3 Kratos
4 Ratchet
5 Kirby
6 Sam Fisher
7 Sackboy
8 Alice Liddell
9 Manuel Calavera
10 Harman Smith
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