hAve y0u ever felt thE need to take 1 steP? Solutions posted

i have a real problem with procrastination, but I've found lately that once I start to take 1 step to finish something, whether a game or something irl that needs to be done; it is a Lot easier to finish as long as it is reasonable. But sometimes 1 step impulses have backfired on me, as an example i bought alan wake on tremor games for ten dollars

worth of coins months before it went on the humble bundle sale, never played it once aside from trading cards. On the other hand, if i hadn't joined steamgifts on an impulse, I wouldn't be part of this community nor have any cheap/free games from tremor games at all.

Perhaps that 1 step is all you need to get started.

This was a pretty simple but troley giveaway for The 39 Steps.

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 one of my responses below; i told people that took the '1 step' to the puzzle needed to read the thread. What would you see if you read the thread? At the end of the original post; i said that 1 step is all you needed to get started. I also mentioned through out the original post '1 step' and in every of my replies to the thread before the giveaway was over. I noticed that some people had some trouble getting past the first itstoohard code and not many people bumped so i gave the final hint of 'What comes after 1 step, why 2 step of course' And several more solvers came. 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 for the giveaway of... The 39 Steps ! 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 code in the source code, 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

Even though this was a disguised giveaway thread, the events in the op are true.

So what should puzzlers learn from this 39 steps giveaway? well a little after i posted the solution there were 20 solvers to the first puzzle but only 8 possible entrants, assuming maybe 16 solvers solved the first bit before the solution post; the 39 steps made it so that late puzzlers did not have enough time to get through all the steps.

For what its worth, it probably took me anywhere between 30-50 minutes to create all the ith puzzles