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So I finished my last Math midterm exam on Wednesday. Being in a Institute of Technology type school, it's some pretty difficult math, but I did it, so to celebrate, I've created a tricky puzzle giveaway for everyone here.

However, instead of using this website to make a puzzle like many others, I've decided to stick with the old classics: basically I give you 5 questions/statements, and the first letter/number of the answer for each question corresponds to a letter or number that is part of the giveaway code (Which is like www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/XXXXX).

For example, if the question I asked was "Who’s that dude on a horse who warned his neighbors that the British soldiers are arriving?", the answer would be Paul Revere, and the letter P is the first letter for the giveaway code. And with that explanation, let us begin, and watch out, there might be a trick or two in this puzzle.

  1. Wow. Many tricks. So difficult. Much gibway.
  2. That giraffe thinks he’s so classy with his kitten pictures and upvotes.
  3. Past, Present, Future; Heaven, Earth Hell; Length, Width, Height
  4. Hakuna MaTaTa’s (Possibly NSFW???)
  5. True or False: The answer to this question is part of the giveaway code

Hints

  • The game being given away is a "trapformer" type game
  • The game was not in a bundle based on this list
  • There's at least 2-3 stages for this puzzle

    Stage 1:

  • Code format: Xxx#X
  • There's something fishy about that question #5
  • No seriously, you sure about question #5?
  • Either I'm drunk or something in here is italicized
  • One of the question is false

SOLUTION TO PUZZLES

Stage 1:

  1. Who’s that dude on a horse who warned his neighbors that the British soldiers are arriving? (Paul Revere: P was italicized in example question above. Was actually the REAL first question, followed by the other questions except for the supposed #5.)

  2. Wow. Many tricks. So difficult. Much gibway. (doge)

  3. That giraffe thinks he’s so classy with his kitten pictures and upvotes. (imgur)

  4. Past, Present, Future; Heaven, Earth Hell; Length, Width, Height (3)

  5. Hakuna MaTaTa’s (Possibly NSFW???) (Boobs)

  6. True or False: The answer to this question is part of the giveaway code (False: This question had nothing to do with the giveaway code and was created to keep you off track, as I attempted to hint about)

After a little brute forcing and google-fu, you should have gotten Pdi3B, which led to a private giveaway that ended a while ago. Looking at the comments, I made a recent post hinting of a hidden puzzle somewhere. Looking at the source and finding the puzzle should lead here

Stage 2:

  1. In the original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, how many Rangers were there on the team (after Season 2) (6)
  2. Related to question 1, what color was the last ranger when he joined the team? (white)
  3. How many times did Goku use the spirit bomb in the TV series anime? (Minus all the movies and the DB:GT series bit) (3)
  4. Atone for your sins on this day, for yall need jesus! (Yom Kippur)
  5. Alright guys here's the deal. As soon as you leave the testicles you're going to come out through the penis and then you're going to enter the female body through the vagina. Then you're going to have to fight for your lives to survive the harsh regions of the female reproductive system. Eventually all the survivors will meet up the at the "egg " and only one of you will make it in. ( And will be a prisoner there for 9 months ) All the rest of you will die. So now that we're clear on that how confident do you feel? ....... (sperm)

After solving the itstoohard puzzle, you should've gotten a giveaway code: 8033e. However, it lead to another ended private giveaway. I then told you to go back and check your answers. If you do check, there are 5 questions and 5 answers for each question, which implies that the answers might be a giveaway code. If you input the characters as giveaway codes, you finally reach the end of the giveaway: 6w3Ys (note I did not realize that itstoohard disregards uppercase + lowercase answers, so a little brute force was required)


By the way, this be my first puzzle, HUEHUEHUE
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Bump because it's been quiet here...

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It's too hard! Can you please tell what game you're giving ?

1 decade ago
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Well, for starters, it's a game you don't have
Second, put some brain power into it, you can do it ^_^

1 decade ago
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That doesn't mean I want it =)

And seeing the hint, I don't want it, but thanks anyway :P

1 decade ago
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Do you realize how many combinations those 5 letters in order can make? The link is case sensitive. Since I know ABCDE isn't the letters, we'll just start listing them.
Abcde
abcde
ABcde
aBcde
AbCde
abCde
ABCde
aBCde
abcDe
AbcDe
AbCDe
ABCDe
The list goes on for quite a while

1 decade ago
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Well, least you have an idea of what to look for
Really though, I'm just waiting for a couple of hours or so until I give out some hints

1 decade ago
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I'd at least change the steamgifts nonlink in your post to show the correct format. for example, steamgifts.com/giveaway/XxxXX would show Upper, lower, lower, upper, upper for the cases of the letters.

1 decade ago
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Awww, but that would ruin all the fun.
I'll do it eventually

1 decade ago
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I honestly won't even bother with it until some hints are posted anyway, since I've already failed pretty hard with the majority of the questions, but I'd hate to be someone who has all of the answers and has to sit there and go through every combination until I get it.

1 decade ago
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This is how the original puzzles were done. Luck + Google-Fu + bruteforce. ;)

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Imgur link possibly NSFW
r/nsfw

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...

1 decade ago
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Where do i post my answer? ... if ...i say have one ... that is :)

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steamgifts.com/giveaway/XXXXX (Where the X's can be either uppercase letters, lowercase letters, or numbers 0-9)
Did not put up the actual format yet, will do eventually

1 decade ago
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So sad, either not enough participants or people are having difficulty with this puzzle D:

1 decade ago
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Hahah yea it is freaking hard lol

1 decade ago
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I got distracted by Hakuna MaTaTa’s :D

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Day 1 1/4: No one solved the first part, added in new hints

1 decade ago
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Oh god. i hate not to know which one of my answers ıs wrong.Will there be more hints?

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k

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Day 2: Still no entries for this private giveaway

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Two days and zero solvers. I think I'm going to have to pass on this one. :-(

1 decade ago
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Well no one didn't pass the first part, so I wouldn't blame you

1 decade ago
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Oh shit... Don't remove the image link's ".jpg" if you don't like NSFW. :P

1 decade ago
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Now why'd you go and do that? >__>

1 decade ago
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Sometimes the image's description has a giveaway code or a hint.

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Day 3: Really?? No one pasted the first part? Now I'm just really disappointed (and slightly pissed)

1 decade ago
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I'll give it a go later tonight aye :) wish me luck

1 decade ago
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This is like a really bad version of Blockbusters Gold Run. No, No... In fact it's much worse it's more like Going For Gold.

1 decade ago
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It will be Day 4 soon, and still no one solved it D:

1 decade ago
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I think I'll leave some feedback, since you do seem a little bit disappointed by the lack of our skill to solve it.

Disclaimer: I'm not whining, I can live on with a puzzle unsolved. Also it is your puzzle and you can do whatever you want.

  1. At the moment the puzzle can be solved by brute-force.
  2. I can make no head or tails of all the questions, only pure guesses - thus brute-force.
    E.g. if you didn't give your answer to the question "Who’s that dude on a horse who warned his neighbors that the British soldiers are arriving?" I'd never knew it (although it looks like an obvious piece of knowledge, not for me sadly).
    I did some brute-force but it yielded no result so far.
  3. Your hints seem chaotic, they confuse more than help :P. I think I got one hint but not that sure :).
  4. 'Itstoohard' is a good tool because you can check your pure guesses at least against something.
  5. Maybe the whole puzzle is a feint.
1 decade ago
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Thanks for the feedback, I will try to change the hints to make it more helpful if I can (and if I have time as I write this reply during class)

As for using itstoohard, I was aiming for the classic style of puzzle solving before itstoohard was create, which was basically doing some google-fu and brute forcing as someone mentioned before. Eventually you'll reach a itstoohard puzzle, but this is the first stepping stone towards it.

1 decade ago
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By saying this you made it even harder. A istoohard code is 8 letters but the format you are giving is 5 letter format. What are we expecting here??

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To clarify, the first part of this puzzle is to find the giveaway code for a private giveaway, which you can get from answering the questions above. So it looks like www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/XXXXX. There are about 2-3 parts or stages to this puzzle, so the first part is finding the giveaway code. The parts after that consist of itstoohard puzzles.

1 decade ago
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so you saying answer i found is true . oh boy I hate you man

P.S: Can you give hints on Q5?

1 decade ago
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1 day left to get to the giveaway
1(?) person made it to stage 2
Also changed some hints, hope it helps

1 decade ago
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Stuck on q3...

1 decade ago
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finally bump for solved

1 decade ago
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Day 5: Only one person solved the entire puzzle (kudos to him/her). Only one more day till it ends

1 decade ago
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man... doesnt look like i am gonna spend anymore time on this. for me the questions and hints are too vague to even get an idea. I am too messed up in my mind right now to answer any of these.
To OP: can you please provide answer to the 1st giveaway code thing when it is completed so we can see how the puzzle was supposed to be worked out?

1 decade ago
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Last day to solve, only ~19 hours to go, and one solver

1 decade ago
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I am finally somewhere else (after certain amount of brute-forcing) and continue brute-forcing. 3 questions down, two final are...well...not. Just saying.

Edit: Wild guess on Q4.

Edit: erm..that wasn't difficult.

Edit: solved.

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Closed 1 decade ago by LeonMordecai.