New Year's giveaway

Amount of 'beep's and 'boop's combined is 30, which is not a multiple of 8. Already tried binary, so unless I'm doing it wrong, nope.

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twipps

Just out of curiosity, why's it have to be a multiple of 8 (edit: jk I thought you were talking about morse code)? But yeah, regardless, for 5 characters and 30 'bloops' (some combination of 'beeps' and 'boops'), on average each character has to be 6 'bloops'. The longest chain of 'bloops' for one character/digit is 5. There'd be extra letters/words in there.

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Because of how things are encoded in binary. A bit is a single digit and a byte is 8 bits. If it was binary each string of 8 characters could be decoded into a letter or number (or other symbol but we wouldn't expect that here).

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Yeah I noticed it wasn't a multiple of 8, but regardless we don't know what would be a 0 and what would be a 1 so I put both possible choices below.

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Well if binary it is either: 001111000000111000000111010001
or
110000111111000111111000101110

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It's not morse code.

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that is correct.

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MORE CLUES

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Going to assume that the use of only two different symbols (X and x) is for upper and lower case. So there is either no numbers, or numbers are sharing a symbol with upper or lower case letters, or upper and lower case are sharing a symbol and numbers have their own symbol.
Any chance of clues? Maybe change any numbers (if any) to hashes (#) as opposed to X or x?

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Looks like a safe assumption considering the reply to ElClassico's comment below.

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changed them to #.

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more clues baby.

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Tried something with the new information (it's now X##xX) but nope.

Has anyone actually got through yet?

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nope. I'm beginning to feel slightly disappointed in steamgifts. I was hoping you guys would be better.

alas, I guess I'll have to give you a clue.

Tell me, have you ever heard of a fine young chap named "Polybius"? I heard he was quite interesting back in the day.

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Never heard of it in my entire life.

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fAncyUsErnAmEthIsIs

It doesn't fit...

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And again I get something that fits the answer pattern but isn't quite right. Getting the idea I'm making a very tiny mistake here, but no idea how I can narrow that down.

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twipps

Ahhah! This makes sense! I got the answer!
Puts it in
Oh jk... :(.

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Rembrandt

Ok i thought i had it

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Nevermind I got it. Really stupid stupid mistake I made.

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EmpyreiaRising

I've spent nearly an hour trying to crack this with no luck, grats to you ^__^
I'm just worried that (if I crack it) the giveaway will be for a game I already own D:

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I checked for you, doesn't look like you already own it to me.

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EmpyreiaRising

Thanks :D

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Fnord

I am familiar with him and his square, though it is a 5*5 square.

I've been working under the assumption that we are dealing with a certain obscure "standard" here, possibly a number 3 or 4. Problem is that the internet is rather barren when it comes to information about this obscure standard, and I don't know it by heart. Though one part messes with it, and that is a single character-type line (either 111111 or 000000) which probably means that I'm working under an incorrect assumption.

edit This is a bit on the frustrating side ;) I have an idea, but I just can't find the information needed to solve it, everything is focused on number 2 :(

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Not sure how you can have the data you need for number 1 and the rest, but not for number 2...

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Fnord

You misunderstood me ;) There are several different standards, ranging from 1-5 and some that have other names, where 2 being the most common when not dealing with computers, and 3-4 being quite obscure. 2 has a character length of 5, which obviously don't work with this one.

attempts to not give too much away

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Well, there's nothing obscure about this one - I didn't know about this particular method beforehand at all.

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Exactually

inception!

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It's the part of the URL you need to fill in with the final solution.

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I don't think it's much of a spoiler to say that's correct, yeah.

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SPOILERS MAN

nah, jk. :D

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Flanlord

Trying to remain somewhat cryptic - I couldn't find a normalized numerical square... did you just make your own assuming it had to remain square? and/or how large did you make it? Heh.

This is the first puzzle I've seen that actually amused me on here. Good times.

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Incog

Yea I like this puzzle too, but there are several different ways to build the square, and after trying two of what i assumed were the most standard (neither of which worked, obviously), I'm not sure what to do next.

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Bonnily

same here, i cant figure out how he built his square..i tried like 20 urls that seem valid already and each turns out to be wrong

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anonynamja

Thanks for sharing. Now I at least know I'm way out of my depth and should just give up now.

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I'd count on you being on the wrong track. =)

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Ullandon

But that would be fantastic if a randomly assigned string of letters and numbers prodeced the opening notes to one of the most brilliant pieces of music in the world though. :)

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fAncyUsErnAmEthIsIs

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bro, you're in waaaay past your head. it's a lot simpler than you think! you don't even need a pc to solve this. :)

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Jaqen19

I give up. 3 hrs. trying to figure this out and the only thing I got was a headache. Good luck to those that entered.

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Boo

Hopefully this doesn't spoil anything but do we assume a standard cypher or is there a hidden key that's part of this puzzle?

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trunk89

12 Entries so far. Don't complicate your lives, they are much easier then you may think. Good luck and Happy New Year 2012! :)

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http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20111229193905AAtr5Zp

Look, a moron.

user: http://www.steamgifts.com/user/Anon

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bufetman

there is always some ass trying to get it the easy way :(

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Eacool

the answer there is not correct

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ucanpogaca

edit: nevermind. solved it.

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edse1991

Message to Sakeuon

beep beep boop boop boop beep beep boop beep boop boop boop boop boop beep beep beep beep boop boop beep beep boop boop boop boop beep beep beep beep boop boop boop beep beep beep beep boop beep beep beep beep boop boop beep beep beep beep beep boop boop boop boop boop beep beep beep beep boop boop boop boop boop boop beep beep beep beep beep beep boop boop boop beep boop beep beep beep boop boop beep boop boop boop boop beep beep beep boob

Do you get that? why won't it work?

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I'm not sure why it won't work. I do get your message, though. you have three chars correct, and one of the trips you have is wrong. (my link has dubs, if you know what I mean.)

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edse1991

so has mine 2x

edit: oh, you say I have trips instead of dubs, that solves it :)

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godprobe

grah! had a brainstorm last night, tried it this morning and can read your message, but I can't figure out whatever this dubs trips thing is to get it corrected! :D

[edit] nevermind... got it... OOOOH, and it's a giveaway I really want!!! :D

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Don't panic. Count carefully from 1 to 10, then try again and it should make sense.
You're most likely making the same mistake he made ;)

EDIT: ninja'd by your edit. good job :D

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MrRossi

Still don't get it, I mean i surely am as close as he was before (and i can read his message perfectly fine), but i still don't get that dubs/trips...

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willtu

i cant get the trips and dubs thing either... can read his message fine aswell.

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bungiefan

Reading the message fine, and getting what sounds like the same result. Aha, you didn't start the numbers where it is expected to start for someone working with computers.

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Qerf

thanks for te great puzzle.
It took me some time to solve, but its actualy not that hard.

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Kistra

Game in a giveaway is?

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Doulospy

got it, good one. FYI, the answer in yahoo answer isn't correct

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LightRebellion

I seem to be missing something here. =\ Aren't you missing about 10 beeps and boops?

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Nope, 30 is enough.

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BlackBaronJNA

Hmm i suck in puzzles :(

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