I screwed up. I made 2 givs and made the puzzle for the public one.
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ADDED an ITH to help you check your progress and give hints on how to progress.
If you are stuck in a particular step you can reply here and I could help you out.
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Having trouble with "numerical code" and "geometric properties". Probably intentional, but it's very ambiguous. Tried all sorts of things but nothing works. Not sure if I'm overthinkng or underthinking.
Q3 also looks unclear on what you want me to do, but I was thinking it will make more sense if I solve Q2 first.
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Maybe the edit in the ith description can help you.
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Sorry, didn't help much. It does confirm that one of my attempts could possibly have worked, but doesn't give me any new ideas.
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Each letter in question 1 has something associated to it, those have geometric properties which can then be represented as numbers.
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Hahaha. That's close enough (Italian nationality)
It's too early and I haven't made many Finnish friends, mostly people from Germany and Central/Eastern Europe.
Thanks.
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Happy birthday
And thanks for the invite but it was hard one for me actually and i didn't solve it :/
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It requires a bit of math or use of a tool, but the hints should help. Someone solved it already.
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Happy birthday to you! I^v^I
It's not Grim Dawn, is it? Cos I already own everything else from this Monthly.
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Very cool new avatar, reminds me of that Ga'hool movie (or however it was called)
It's the same one as the one in the public giv, which is why I screwed up, so you can do it for the sport if you want
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It is Ga'hoole (but should be Ga'hoot) I~voI
Do you have two copies of them? IOvOI
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I just traded for a couple to giveaway, since people didn't seem to want to buy this one, I got them pretty cheap.
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bump for only Q1 solved, don't understand anything about decoding even with hints
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Q2 should be easy: even if you only know the name of the figures you can know the answer for Q2.
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s.o.h.s.p.o.t is what I got for Q2 but it's also wrong.
"There is probably an error in your expression; please correct it." that's all I get in any converter
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5.8.6.4.5.8.3 still wrong :\
well I give up, don't want the GA anyway, just to understand how to solve all these puzzles because I almost never can. So pls write step-by-step explanation after it ends...
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With all of the hints and step by step guide it was too easy.
- count the sides of the geometric shapes. Those are the bases each character in the code below is written in.
- decode this 47.147.70.1202.321.74.1202 to base 10 or hex
- convert to ASCII
- profit
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if I decode 5.8.6.4.5.8.3 to Hex I get 352E382E362E342E352E382E330D0A0D0A and it says it's wrong, also you said Q2 only has numbers in base10 but format is #.#.#.#.#.#.#. can you give exact answer and explain how you got it?
also just 10 ppl solved it, I don't think it's "too easy".
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Read it again. Not only is that string wrong, but you are using it wrong, the '.' are separators, you shouldn't convert them.That only tells you from which base you start converting each of the 7 numbers in the code.
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come on why can't you just give the answer at least? if I really don't understand it, I won't understand it even if I read 100500 times more... I'm asking for help and you are just "read it again". I know I am using it wrong because I simply have no idea how to use it right.
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It's not going to help you learn how to solve puzzles, but here
Step 3 to 4 is about changing the base of the numbers I gave you directly, not the ones from the jiggidi.
The ITH made it mechanical and overly simple, it ended up just being about following instructions.
I gave the same puzzle to ercalote a month ago with just the string and the jigidi and he had no trouble.
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well lol I was only counting the "ends" of those shapes... that's why I have 5 instead of 10 and 8 instead of 16. When we are talking about shapes it's logical to count their ends to me and not every angles or how to call them
I still don't understand Q3. to decode something we need to know from "WHAT" to "WHAT" to decode. you told me I need to decode TO hex, but from "WHAT"? 47.147.70.1202.321.74.1202 - this number is what? decimal? base16? base2? How am I supposed to know? =\
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That's the point of the ith, you can make guesses and discard ideas without going through to the end, only to realize you screwed up three steps before.
Even if you counted the vertices you would have gotten the correct answer, but you just counted the convex vertices. If the geometry part seemed hard, I'd be surprised if you could have gotten past the Base shift part, although I'd expect the online tool I pointed you to was capable of doing it for you.
Next time take advantage of the ITH format and correct your approach until you find the correct answer.
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Today is my birthday, and it's the first birthday I spend away from my family & friends so it hit me a bit harder than expected yesterday night. I'm doing an exchange in Finland and my family is in Argentina.
Now I'm more cheerful, but if you guys want to try to make me laugh that'd be cool too.
Now, onto the puzzle:
The game is from this month's HB. LEVEL 1+ only, ends at midnight (Finnish time)
YOU CAN USE THIS TO CHECK YOUR PROGRESS
It's a basic puzzle:
Jiggsaw used to decode the numbers below (you can skip solving it if you know how, since only the big picture is important)
47.147.70.1202.321.74.1202
Don't worry about there being 7 characters, 2 of them will be unimportant
First 10 solvers will get WLed for future givs so don't forget to leave a comment.
The images here are not related to the correct puzzle.
Wrong Puzzle:
This one just leads you to the public giveaway for the same game. Sorry.
I left the correct puzzle above.
I was going to do a no effort puzzle but I got a really cool /#####/ string, so I figured it was worth a bit more effort.
Should be very easy, you can solve it using either the top or bottom set.
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