I mean come on, what sick person would make a puzzle without a giveaway. (it will require 30.01 cv) There's no way I would do thaT.

I would never give you up,

I would never let you dowN,

I would NEVER turn around, and desert you, like that.

Just one thing before we start, make sure that; you know the rules, and so do I, before you take 1 step. After all, 1 step is all you need to get starteD.

Solution:

This was a rick trole themed giveaway for Depths of Peril

To start off, hidden in the source code was an itstoohard code, dbO6UxqM. This took you to an itstoohard quiz with just 2 Ns at the top and no question. What could that mean?. Well see as I posted in the thread; I said that 1 step is all you need to get started. So the answer to the ith quiz was 1 step and then you were given another its too hard link and i hinted to people in the thread 2 step of course was the answer to the second itstoohard quiz, and this one had an e at the top.
But wait, there's more.

This went on with 39 itstoohard quizzes. Each answer was 1 step 2 step 3 step and so on and the letters progressed to say, 'Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down' which was abreviated in a decoy giveaway link, nggyu. When you came to the 39 th step, there was an easily decodable itstoohard code; what is the abbreviation of counter strike manufacturing xXxxX, so the giveaway code was cSmfG and that led you to the 39 steps giveaway which was a previous iteration of this puzzle and had already ended. This was the last stop to my very similar giveaway for the 39 steps, but of course in this puzzle i gave away depths of peril.

Hidden in the source code of the 39 steps giveaway was a youtube link. Now what could possibly be on youtube? There are of course the actual video, videos on the side, descriptions, and comments. Nothing would particularly point to the video itself or other videos and the description could have easily been checked for a code if i was the uploader. So the answer lies in the comments. However, before most of the people who solved it had done so, some random russian rick rolled tons of russians who posted numerous comments in the span of a few hours. This cause me to hint about the russians had made the puzzle harder and that you should look at the big picture, rather all of it, so ALL of the comments. Since my name on youtube is not anything like my forum name, I also hinted to keep in mind when the puzzle was made as that would be a similar date to my comment, which was D2j45XuD, which led to yet another, but final, its too hard quiz. Then there were 5 general questions about the puzzle.

  1. 39 steps
  2. this could have been any one of four phrases from the never gonna give you up, among them were 'give you up' 'and let you down'
  3. maybe this one stumped some of the 3 people who made it so far but didnt end up finishing but the answer was 'take 1 step' which was stated in the original post, it would have been a little more obvious though to people who finished the first puzzle
  4. no was the answer, obviously it was not lazy to reuse the old giveaway since not too many people solved it and especially because it took so long to create
  5. The answer was depths of peril, in the ith code the banner stated 'a perilous depth' and the hint hinted toward the last thing you needed to do and in the ith description it stated 'can you now go through one final depth of perilous wonder' and anyone who follows bundles would know about depths of peril being in the recent groupees and that was the game being given away

Answering these finally gave you the 5 letter steamgifts giveaway code but if i made anything like this again, i would have had the code be an imgur image which would lead to the true giveaway code.

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Ok then I won't try to solve it!

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or will you

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I will...maybe.

1 decade ago
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eh forgot to put it in the thread but you need 30.01 cv, unless of course you just want to solve for fun

1 decade ago
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Free bump

I'm embraced with this.

1 decade ago
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I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling

1 decade ago
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Either this puzzle is really hard, or i'm really dumb :meatytears:

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N...

n...

I'm confused

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nnnnnnnnn, it is confusing isn't it?

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enenenenenenenen..... hmm my sister has a friend called Nene maybe that has something to do with it

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erNieaNdbert, joelmoNtgomery. They've infiltrated our world, they're everywhere!

1 decade ago
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or haveeeeee theeeeeeey?

1 decade ago
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ah, done.

now...

E...

e...

I'm confused

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Have you been enlightened?

1 decade ago
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I have definitely been enlightened now. just not quite enough for this last part...

1 decade ago
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Bwain no workee. I fail.

1 decade ago
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but but... this might be the one giveaway you win, no entries now

1 decade ago
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Darn It's too hard, I gave up :|

1 decade ago
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This is soooooo torturing me. I can't finish the puzzle since I don't have the patience to go through the puzzle.
So, yeah. I'm gonna give this up.
I don't have enough CV yet anyway XD

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took a lot more patience to make the puzzle :p

1 decade ago
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managed to get to the end, but i dont understand the final question QQ

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HOW DID YOU GET TO THE END O.O

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he probably haxored it

1 decade ago
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he used the magic crystals!

1 decade ago
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I have one magic crystal, do you have any? should combine them and get to the end

1 decade ago
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I almost have one. A few hours and my unicorn will be strong enough to venture into the woods to seek the almighty magic crystal

1 decade ago
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crap, i just realized i don't remember what breed i used to get my first magic crystal, now I don't know what horse not to breed

1 decade ago
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or did you?

lets assume you got to the true last question whose number is 5, you need to read the puzzle which holds the question

1 decade ago
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make sure that we start , after all you take 1 step

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this guy knows whats up

1 decade ago
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I dont get it, reached the end but it is to a giveaway that ended a week ago

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Are we supposed to give up or persevere?

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hey i've been working on this for hours, I can't stop now

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I've noticed there is a giveaway opened 2 days ago with $30.01 cv exactly. I think the answer may be perseverance B1

1 decade ago
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I think we spent all day solving the wrong puzzle... time to start over

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I'm guessing qetc is not the hinting type!

1 decade ago
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dont worry, i didnt bother posting hints cause its too hard was down now that its back up ill do some

also, sleep

1 decade ago
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russians made the penultimate part of this puzzle a lot harder, so make sure you look at the big picture, rather ALL of it and keep in mind when the giveaway started

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to those who have taken 1 step, what naturally comes after?

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Oh man I didn't read this earlier........you contracted RUSSIANS to make this puzzle HARDER????!!!! Next thing I know I have to beat a Grandmaster level chess minigame!!! :D

1 decade ago
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no just some russian named M-something troled a lot of russians after i started this

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I know where to look but it's like looking for a needle in a haystack.

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see my post and think about how long ago the puzzle began

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bump for 7 solvers

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bump for 7 hours

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bump for solution posted

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if you start solving the puzzle, thats kind of the theme

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NO NO I SHOULD BE STUDYING!!!!

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yes you should, turn away now or you will be for ever rick troled

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Closed 1 decade ago by qetc.