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11th factory day: Community Puzzle for Clair Obscure. Ended. Solution added

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escollo

Hi again. My account will be 11 in about 10 days. That's why I decided to make another puzzle train. 11 GAs for 11 years, I think it's fair enough. GAs are mostly some gabage but that's not my problem.

If some of the puzzles look familiar it's because I stole them.

I'm still too lazy to make proper hints myself, so please, share any hints with each others, just don't give direct answers or links.
Just to be clear: you can and probably should give each other any hints/clues/ways for a solution other than direct answers.

  1. Open the imgur link and get the code in the description.
  2. 5 letter codes are used on SG not only in GA but also in discussions.
  3. Imgur links have 7 letters.
  4. SG comments too, just check permalinks on any of them.
  5. Nonograms have unicode codes too. Check RosimInc's Café thread.
  6. Just Steam subs. You can find them on SteamDB if they are locked for you for some reasons. 1st letters give you the code
  7. The Bacon cipher.
  8. Old phone keyboard layout.
  9. UN/LOCODE city codes. You can search them with "XXXXX city" or something. 1st letters or names give you the code.
  10. Ctrl+F and letters "a", "b", "c", "d" or "e".
  11. The simple alphabetical substitution cipher. You can either solve it by yourself (it's not that hard), or try to find autosolvers. Like this one
View attached image.
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vlbastos

Stuck at Starship Troopers for now. Stuck bump.

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Phantomreader42

I have an easier train that's about to end, you might bee able to find a relevant clue there

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zpangwin

I'm also stuck moving past Starship Troopers....

you might bee able to find a relevant clue there

Your jigidi was a nice break but apparently, I'm too beeleaguered to notice any relevant clues

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Phantomreader42

To solve the puzzle at Starship Troopers, you have to go to another site. Don't worry, it's one you're familiar with. My train links there at least half a dozen times. Only one of those links is relevant to the Starship Troopers puzzle.

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vlbastos

Thanks for the tips. I wasnt able to figure out from it, but Waxworm's tips helped a lot.
Unstuck.

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zpangwin

Thanks, I finally managed after misinterpreting Waxworm's tips and fumbling along, I eventaully saw something unrelated in the deals section that made it click lol. (to avoid leading others down a false path, I should probably also mention that it doesn't really have anything to do w deals section, I just happened to be there when I realized)

Your hint immediately became obvious in hindsight but I appreciate people trying to help nudge me in the right direction, even when I'm too dumb to get it :-D

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karm2002

happy cake day!

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Phantomreader42

Happy Cakeday! Got stuck at Turbo Overkill.

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herbesdeprovence

stuck on the fifth one right now. Happy early cakeday!

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Tooooo

oh.. happy cack day

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Carenard

feeling dumb right now

solved for psychonauts so far.

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LinustheBold

Yep, me too. That's as far as I got.

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quijote3000

Hey, a third one stuck there

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SirSage

Only made it to giveaway 1. I don't think these are for me. I see people talking about ciphers and that's going beyond my pay grade and available time. And looking at OPs past puzzle discussion is wild. Opening pictures as an archive and then needing an online stenography tool to decipher, morse codes for urls to to crack WAV files, binary and braille and opening pictures in notepad. It's just too much for me.

Happy upcoming 11th cake day Escollo. And all the luck to people trying these. I think you're going to need it.

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escollo

Yeah, it was a fun time. The best part - half of those things were red herring that led nowhere

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zpangwin

yeah, I had found that old post too and stupidly spent a good deal of time trying same tactics on image from this post... doh

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Fluffster

These are nowhere near that complex as the ones before. Hints left by cool people in the comments on the GAs are helping along the way.

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Thexder

HCD!

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AndyFrost

The jigidi was wild! Where you got that image? 🤣 Was it AI generated? 🤔

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Boson

Happy early cakeday!

I have to admit - I have absolutely NO IDEA where to start... How can I attempt to solve a riddle without knowing the riddle?

Edit: Solved them all. :-)

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WaxWorm

Finding it IS the riddle. Well, the first one at least.

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Boson

Thanks... That helped!

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Cluelesson

Happy early 11th Cake Day! :)

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AllTracTurbo

I found the first 4, but then got stuck. I will have to come back later when I have more time to think about it. It has been fun so far.

Edit: Some of these are quite hard, but feel good when solved. I just spent over 2 hours on one of them. Now I only have the last one remaining.
Edit 2: Solved! That was a lot of fun. Thank for the puzzles and great giveaways :)

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Bainsol

Ton of fun, Bump for Happy 11th Cakeday!

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RePlayBe

Bump! Solved 4 so far.

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Mhol1071

Sending you best wishes for a fun cakeday in the near future and thank you for the puzzles, something fun to do in my spare time! New mission: Acquire spare time 😂

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FruitCober

Happy early Cakeday! ^_^

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Ray168

happy cake day!

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UC

Happy early Cakeday!

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pizzahut

Happy (early) cakeday!

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CaspianRoach

First five are pretty doable, but the puzzle right after is wild. Nobody's been able to get it yet. Tried so many things, still circling around the most obvious one, but it doesn't work. I wonder if it could be an error?

Edit: nevermind, solved it, thanks escollo for the hint

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hallak65

maybe a hint? I stuck there, but the closest I got was that I think it is some kind of Baudot but I don't get the bacon NVM it is not baudot, but bacon :D

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carefree

Happy early factory day!

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Rikart

Happy Cake day!

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fatbombo

Happy cake day

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Naviis

Happy 🎂day escollo 🎉

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