If only I spoke some language other than American.
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Speaking Japanese wouldn't help you for the most part, here. Imagine them as symbols.
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I'm trying to imagine them as you say. But the letters are extra ambiguous. Been trying for an hour now. Researching all the Jap fonts, still a no go.
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I won't say anything other than it might help if you learned how to write them. I can't offer any broader tips.
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I get terrible flashbacks to downloading files from fileservers as a free user.
The first symbol is the death of me.
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The train is open until the 30th. I'll leave some rather ambiguous tips here.
Letter, number, letter, letter, letter.
Learning to write them may help, but not everything is as it seems.
The last 3 are lowercase.
I'm only giving these tips because I saw how much trouble people had with the one I got this idea from. If I say too much more it'll ruin it.
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I'm having issues because I know how to look these symbols up and what they should be in Romanji, which of course isn't helping matters at all. :/
If they are supposed to be symbols instead of signs, then I'm screwed. When being a linguist is actually detrimental when dealing with language. :/
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Romaji doesn't mean anything here, although being a linguist will help a lot with the second. For most of them, just try writing them. They each relate to a specific number or letter in some way.
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Tried a few things, am almost positive I have one of them absolutely right, but the others seem a bit subjective if I'm discounting romanji. :)
I think I'm gonna take a break for a bit. :D
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Yup, a few of the letters are pretty ambiguous, they could be 2-3 different things. But with the symbol guideline, should be fairly simple to bruteforce.
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Yes! Your ideas! Don't worry, I won't share them. I would hate for people to figure this out! xD
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bump for brute-forced...those last two threw me - I thought I knew them
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Awesome! If you'd like, feel free to add me so we can discuss it. Most people seem to have problems with them. I'm not too sure what else the fourth would be, and I can see two options for the last one.
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Bruteforced with my best guesses for the last 3 ones, but I guess I was wrong. It only led me to 3 old giveaways. The first letter is uppercase, right? I really don't know what else the last 3 characters could be.
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GAs over! We had two entries for one, and one entry for the other two. As far as I know, there was a total of 4 solvers.
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If I did that I wouldn't be able to use this as a puzzle again. Sorry! But look forward to the next time, you may figure it out!
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Can you at least tell me if I had the last 3 right? I had k, b and h. At first I thought it was k, 5 and h, but then you said that the fourth one was a letter.
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You got the second one correct. There's two options for the third. You've got too many lines for the first.
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Puzzles are supposed to be challenging, it seems like I met that expectation with this. Some folk have proved it can be done, I've got higher expectations for the next as I'll let it run for an entire month.
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Puzzles are supposed to be puzzles, not bruteforcing or an attempt to DDOS sg....The thread has been dead for more than 1 week before I bumped it 12 hours before the end. Some users (Jatan included) have been saying that random people have been entering his private giveaways without an invitation,saying that they found the giveaway while bruteforcing ga codes for a puzzle.
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If the entries were bruteforced I would probably not do another, but I've spoken to the people who knowingly entered and/or solved it and they have enough of an understanding about it that it couldn't have been bruteforced. There is logic behind this, mostly detailed around learning how you write them
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So, I've managed to hit level 5. Yay! There's a small train to be had in celebration, you just need to solve this mighty fine puzzle! I've taken inspiration from another puzzle I've seen, but I can't recall whose it was, so credit to them if I find them. Look closely and you'll find the answer, although one might be harder than it appears!
edit: Credit to mecorx. Stole your idea!
E: GAs over! Total of four solvers, two entries on one, one entry to the remaining two!
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