TL;DR?! Here's the quiz: http://www.itstoohard.com/puzzle/6aPjTQH6 That's all!

I will send the gift to the winner, and it's steam redeemable. Anyone solve this puzzle and comment on another private giveaway will be invited to this group and have the chance to win Metro 2033.
FYI, if you already have Metro 2033, you can join the private one for the price, so the puzzle is still worth a try.

Don't try to add me only ask for joining the group, or you will get blocked.

GL HF!

It will last for 1 month

If you have any questions,join the group chat and PM me. This is not necessary, when I tell someone something in PM, I'll add them to this thread as new hints.

steam://friends/joinchat/103582791432971281

Don't share your answers in group chat, I provide this only for you to PM me. Anyone who leak the solution will be excluded from this giveaway!

No Spoilers Allowed! You need to figure it out by yourself.

I went through all the steps myself and they works fine.

update1:
It's not hard to find.

update2:
Check link added No hints for this one. If you don't know what it is, just stop trying, it's useless. By the way, you can solve the puzzle without it.

When you get something partly random, not fully chaos, you're on the right way, just figure out why. (Déjà vu!)

update3:
Google is your friend. FYI, hints are in random order. Maybe you have already passed this one. :-)
There's another President of South Africa. Don't ask me why.

update4:
Have no idea about the string you got? It's part of an url.(for beginner only)

update5:
You think I'm talking about Nelson Mandela? No, that poor old man was in prison for years, he's not FREE.

update6:
Some of the comments are useful.
You get something doesn't belong to the string? Are you serious, Hector?

update7:
There's a connection between everything, do you notice the special one different from others?
Goo gle is your friend, ALWAYS.
Brute forcing and background knowledge are not necessary for my puzzle. If you have to guess something, I'm sure you have already missed some crucial things before.

update8:
This

update9:
Zodiac(not exactly, but similar)

update10:
Another big hint! Where? You need to find out. (Hinception: Links on this thread are useful.)

update11:
If you get trolled, you should go back and try another way.
Totally random errors means stop.

update12:
Hint added. Do you notice that? (One guy already found it, it's another Hinception.)

update13:
Finish part one? Then you have to check the links on this thread AGAIN. Find something weird? You're probably on the right way.

update14:
Read my first SG giveaway may help you a little.
Google is human's friend, but most people don't trust him. What a pity!

update15:
Hector used to be an airborne man, but now he's a barber.

update16:
If you still stuck on Q4, Google is a cake. Read update 3&5 and think again.

Final result: 1,237 players, 7 solvers. Congrats to the adventurers who solved it!

Solution added.

1 decade ago*

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I'm stuck as windows on the 4th picture =(

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I'm having trouble on the picture guessing game. Even if I enter the correct game, it tells me its wrong. I know for sure there are are a few I got right, but no matter how I enter it it tells me I'm wrong. I can't make it past there and it's really frustrating.

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Ditto, I'm flabbergasted on #4. I know what game it's from, I can tell what hints relate to it, and I've tried the names of the original game, it's sequels, the originator of it's genre, their variants...

I've also "solved" 'Another big hint!' but I don't understand what I'm supposed to do with the answer.

Also, is the space in 'Goo gle' intentional? Is that another hint?

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+1

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Read update 3 & 5

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They don't help with my problem. I know the answers but when I type them in it always says its wrong. For example, I know what number 1 is. I type in the answer in any variation of ways, different spacing, different capitalization, missing words, anything. It always says its wrong and I'm sure it's the right answer. I found it with Google and copy and paste it exactly, still wrong. I don't know what to do. It won't let me get the answer right so i can't get past there.

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67 solvers for that quiz, even more people got the RIGHT answer of Q4. If you still don't read the updates I mentioned above carefully, nobody can help.

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Ok so I am confused here... I solved the puzzle now what? What's this about "comment on another private giveaway" what private giveaway??

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if u slove th puzzle then u get to knw th link to that giveawy.. if not then u havn't slove it yet
thrs like 4 puzzles. i think last one is the binary one. but im not sure. im stuck there for days now

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i solved quiz

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Nope, I haven't seen your comment on the private giveaway page.

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Well they meant the quiz not the whole puzzle, no? :)

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Kinda brutal this puzzle was, Max, but thank you for the challenge! Glad I've seen it to its conclusion, even though as previously stated I had won Metro 2033 already soooo this is still for grabs guys =] When Chour comes back from his puzzling hiatus, I think he'll enjoy it :)

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Thanks Award, I'm glad you like it!

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i can't find 5. Pic :D

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Follow your heart...trust Google...

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How do you use google in this case?

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Carefully.

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What is this monstrosity!!! Does not compute! @BinaryPt2

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Seems you found something, keep moving :)

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any hints for that binary ?

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There's a lot of hints right there about what you're talking :P

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I dunno what to do with that letters from picture. There's no giveaway I can enter after typing it as a part of url :/

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Wrong website.

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Picture number 5.

Urge to kill, rising.

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I'm stuck with that image too

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Follow your heart...trust Google... :P

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ty for the ga and the puzzle...nice one

i have the 4th picture but the site don't want to accept it .. can we chat somehow Max?

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update16
gl

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Thanks for the hint :)

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got it at least.. :P

what was ur first giveaway?
q5 is hard :S

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update14.
Can't find my first giveaway? You can either search the forum or check my group's previous announcements.

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Yeah, I have no idea what to do with the binary bits. I can see a pattern, but I have no idea how to make it legible. Google isn't helping with any of the hints that don't apply to the previous stages of the quiz, so...

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I don't understand what to do in life!

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Take a cup of tea and review what you get from previous quizzes. :P

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Argh, the other picture. It's nice and polished but I cannot read it! D:

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OH I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE, lol.

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i have solved the puzzle.

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Congrats!

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Me too , 1-2 days ago.

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I'm stuck with the indonesian text :(
it's so buggy...

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If you got something like that, I'm sure you definitely went wrong cause I don't know what you're talking about. :P

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Uh, I mounted a puzzle image, and searched in google for the code, the only place where it was posted that code was a indonesian forum or at least there was a message in indonesian, the google translator returned a english message with sense in the giveaway/puzzle context. Don't tell me I was Lost in translation...

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LOL I ended here

But nevermind I don't have time for puzzles.

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They're discussing about this puzzle which totally violated the RULES - discussion and leaking answers are not allowed. I will keep in mind that if anyone from Indonesia solve this puzzle I'll check whether he/she join this discussion. But so far none of the solvers is from there.

Thanks for telling me the information! And take it easy, there's still a lot of time for you to solve this puzzle.

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There's no indodesian text.

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more hints ? i still dont know how to decode that <.<

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There're 16 updates on the thread and some useful comments. Read them carefully you'd know what to do next.

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Wow finally solved it, too many hints and too many tries to find the solution to life, and I needed some help for answer of part1 but finally got it.

Thank you for all the effort put in this great puzzle

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Congrats! You have done a great job on your own. :-)

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怎么抽奖呢

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Need More Souls...

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I'm stuck at the picture This is life.jpg... what do I do with it?

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Read the result of quiz again.

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I don't understand how it's linked to binary...

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Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2) Solved the first three questions and get this :C

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m2 i solve the first one and then (Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)) on the second

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This is what I get after solving the 1st puzzle: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)

Can't load the next page.

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It works fine for me now, try it again. :-)

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Just tried, still broken.

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You may need to check your network condition. Try proxy or VPN may solve this problem - which I think is unnecessary, but you can try.
I mainly use Chromium, but I tried FF and IE and both of them works fine. So it's neither the website's problem nor browsers.

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10 days left.

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google cant help me with the trollface. Although I'm very busy today, the trollface just cant stop bothering me in my mind.

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update11

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didnt get it, another way is quite fuzzy.

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stuck with this is life :(

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Some comments are useful. :-)

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Closed 1 decade ago by Max422.