Alright, another puzzle giveaway. There's a treasure hidden in the sand. There's the sand and there's a map so you don't get lost.

If you're unsure about uppercase/lowercase, there's some help : lowercase are obvious. If you're not sure about a letter, then it's uppercase.

Lasts until the 30th of June at 11:55 p.m. GMT. $6.99 contributor value. No leaking, no sharing, no hinting. The game is an AAA title as I'm generally poor but I stumbled across an occasion to give you guys a nice treat.

Also have a look at these : do you like red stuff ? and do you like pixels ?


Solutions : search the areas of the circles on the dead fish photo and you'll find the code that leads to itstoohard. The order is indicated on the "map" (see the arrow ?).

http://www.itstoohard.com/puzzle/CxW1W6tH

Q1 Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin

Q2 37

Q3 Sandcastles in the sand

Q4 Sandwich

Q5 John Montagu

Q6 Earl

Q7 sable

Q8 arena

Q9 sand

Q10 vindmølle

Q11 no

Q12 Sandtraps

Q13 Spec Ops The Line/Spec Ops : The Line/Spec Ops/Spec Ops :The Line/Spec Ops: The Line/Spec Ops:The Line

Q14 Sandra Bullock

Q15 Sand box/Sandbox

Q16 Sandbox/Sand box

Q17 50 cent: blood on the sand/50 cent blood on the sand/50 cent : blood on the sand/50 cent :blood on the sand/50 cent:blood on the sand

Q18 Journey

Q19 Thomas Haden Church

Q20 Sandman

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All of these are nice, but I suck at Photoshop.

11 years ago
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no photoshop needed.

11 years ago
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i liek sand

11 years ago
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What's the game being offered?

11 years ago
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That's the fun about it, you're not supposed to know!

11 years ago
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It's common courtesy to let people know what the game is

11 years ago
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It's up to the puzzle maker.

11 years ago
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If the idea is to be nice and give away a free game then it isn't very nice to waste peoples time if they already own the game. Although I'd say if its not a common giveaway item then I wouldn't mind so much, but it would suck to waste a lot of time on a puzzle that ended up being for some game that's currently 75% off

11 years ago
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Nope.

11 years ago
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It is, Mods stated this as well.

11 years ago
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The title of the game is part of one step of the puzzle so I don't want to say it.

11 years ago
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Is it Sandrock Fish? That's an awesome game but I have it, so I won't be participating.

11 years ago
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I got some of the HEM-HEM but on the 6th one there are so many possibilities :P My eyes are tired, so I give up eheh

11 years ago
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...for tonight, eh ? please tell me you give up for tonight !

Y U NO want my games ?

11 years ago
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I'll probably solve it tomorrow, too lazy now :)

EDIT: Found all the 8 chars, but I think they are wrong because ITH won't accept them :P

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me 2, I think they're wrong.

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I think we all have something in common.

11 years ago
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For me sand = lazing, not decrypting some puzzle :(

11 years ago
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I added the required contribution value above.

11 years ago
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Ehm. So what do I do with the "things" I find in there ?

11 years ago
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Is there a mistake again? :/

EDIT: Probably not but sometimes its hard to tell if you want a capital letter or not.

11 years ago
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No mistake this time. I'll add an additional note in the OP so people know which ones are capital.

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I'm the 1/37/0 if you are following :p
also; not sure about 4... no srsly 4...

11 years ago
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plz verify 4, because I got 5 but it won't accept 4 so I'm really confused atm (different writing methods failed)

11 years ago
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Typo.

Edit: was corrected.

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1/37/0 ? not following you.

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I believe he is referring to 1 player, 37 guesses, 0 solvers. As in, the statistics that are displayed in the upper right of ahem "part 2" of this puzzle.

11 years ago
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Why do people use imageshack.. it's so slow..

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+1

11 years ago
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I think I got all of those except for one.. Can't really tell what it is and nothing I try works for me :<

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Neither for me. And since there is at least one typo...

Oops, looks like I'm talking about the next part :)

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where do you think there is a typo ?

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Q4 definitely, Q1 maybe.

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Q1 is fine, Q4 had a typo, fixed it.

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Got Q1, but I think you need an alternative answer as well.

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agreed , i cant get it

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Edit :

How format fill on Q1 ? i got 4 name but i can't got in :3

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I've been staring at it for an hour... My brain is now dead.

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bump for solved

11 years ago
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All right, thanks to iridian I figured what was wrong. The quizz is fixed, had a little typo :-\

11 years ago
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Solved to bump.

11 years ago
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I surrender.

11 years ago
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will you post how to solve this puzzle when it ends?

11 years ago
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yes, of course, as usual ! :-)

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I think I tried all of the lowercase/uppercase combinations, and nothing worked :(

11 years ago
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Bump for solved. Fun puzzle, thanks!

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I hate sand. It's so coarse and rough.

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Does the sand make a letter or is there a photo shopped letter placed in there

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ok i think i got the code now what

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Ok 1,6 and 13 are impossible for me. I've tried so many things.

edit 1 and 6 omg need it so bad

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just Q1 left , and i believe there must be a typo as i cant get it

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actually i found the code, it won't accept. thanks for ruining my mood. good night

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The only person who can ruin your mood is yourself.

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that was kinda on the not so smart side

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Not sure why I'm getting 1, 6 wrong.
Also missing 13.

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I hate sand. cue Anakin Skywalker rant

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Been coming back to the image for hours.. Still can't get the characters correct too move on to the quiz.

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Closed 11 years ago by DavidSarif.