I just assumed that's what was going on in the hot tub as I was reading how you came up with this puzzle. :)
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: hello forgive'm not very good with English, I'm your puzzle solving steamgifts but did not quite understand how to get the final code, I can explain what I understood and tell me if I'm okay
I have already sets a, ba,cba to hgfedcba but do not understand the code of the GA and the above sets
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Never mind (: you have already explained restriction to winterregen user in that locked giveaway thread
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As many of you avid puzzle solvers may know, I'm currently on vacation. As I was taking a bath in the hot tub barrel (one of these) we have here I was looking at the pipe and imagining the smoke and how it traveled upwards and gathering particles and speed. And then it hit me, what if I made a puzzle based on that concept?
I want this to be a sort of inspiration to others thinking about how they can create a puzzle. So this was my workflow:
Idea: Make a puzzle inspired by the smoke traveling through a pipe.
Concept: Make the code being assembled along the way of moving upwards, while constantly increasing in size. Binary fits this perfectly.
Visualization: Create a grid, make every X lines thicker to create separation between each set. In this case bottom is 1 row, then 2, 3... ...7, 8. Then add a bit of visual styling to it, just to make it less boring.
Define the rules: I'm calling the rows A-H. First set has A, second set BA and so on until HGFEDCBA. So set A will travel and merge with BA. BA will then travel and merge with CBA. Each time adding the values together. 0+0 = 0, 0+1 = 1, 1+1 = 10. So, for example. If A = 1 and BA = 01, when they merge they become BA=10. Once all sets are calculated, the final GA code will be the binary result at the top most set, read from top to bottom.
Note that A is always at the bottom of each set, so in the upper most set H is at the top.
Reward: Something bundled that normally is worth ~37€.
Ask me anything about creating this or any puzzle. I will freely offer advice and hints. There are no tricks to it, it's all about adding the numbers together. One thing I will not do though is post the final solution.
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