Completely overhauled the puzzle.
I uploaded a new picture.
Hopefully it should be easier now. Sorry about the confusion.
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Frame+colors will tell you what to do with shapes.
But if you're attentive enough, all you might need are the shapes.
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bump :) also congrats on the level 6 (yipee)
edit: heh, i'm lost!
edit2: Alright I think I got the "instructions" but still confused.
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Hmm... I think I'm on the right track, but all "results" I got so far seem like gibberish
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They say night brings good counsel. Have a good rest!
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Bump, solved the new puzzle (didn't see the original) - thank you and happy holidays!
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Good to know, thank you and happy holidays to you too!
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I got one digit wrong while typing it in converter and, consequently, I got one letter of url wrong. Didn't find the error after checking the shapes, so I left the puzzle thinking I missed something important with frame or colors. Turn out I was on the right track all along, and need to be more attentive.
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Hello again! Missed my puzzles?
Left behind me some turbulent months, but among other things I now have access to a computer again,
which means more elaborate challenges for you!
Also, I just reached Lvl 6 on this lovely website.
Solve this puzzle for a chance to win games like Dark Sky, The Stairway 7, Sprite's Honor, DIG - Deep In Galaxies, Hellstuck: Rage With Your Friends, CUBE ROYALE, and more!
In case you're new to this, usually the objective is to obtain the unique 5 characters code to a private giveaway:
https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/XXXXX/
Hint
Frame+colors will tell you what to do with shapes.
But if you're attentive enough, all you might need are the shapes.
Puzzle
I created this artwork of a Christmas Three to wish you happy holidays!
Solution:
The hexagonal frame hints to the use of hexadecimal.
We can extrapolate the hex color codes from the background using an online or offline tool like PS or Gimp:
Green: #446f20 Blue: #426173 Red: #652033
Let's convert these from hexadecimal to ASCII:
446f20426173652033 becomes "Do Base 3".
In order to convert from Base 3, we need to identify the three digits of the system.
What's a system of three things that we haven't used yet? That's right, it's the shapes.
Circle=0, Triangle=1, Square=2
This is hinted in the picture itself, if you look closely, it shouldn't be hard to see.
Here's the transformed text:
010010010212010202001012011100011020011000001012010220011021001012001210002000010202010200001220
Which converts to "The url is 06ec3".
This is the only website that will work, as far I know. Which is why I provided it in one of the links, as the image description itself in Imgur.
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