Have this ever happened to you??? What should I do???
Help me pleaseee.

Also why everybody is giving away Alan Wake? I humbly ask you to tell me where I can get it! And how do you make clickies like this one?


Well of course it was a fake thread, wasn't that hard to figure it out since I made some pretty silly jokes.

The private giveaway linked to the Not-So-Hidden Puzzle is ended and I didn't have the chance to put the puzzle link back before.

I relinked it in case you would like to take a look. I'm sorry if someone of you were still waiting for me to relink it.

The problem was that the answer to the puzzle had been unintentionally and naively (I really hope so) leaked in this thread. At first I thought that maybe it wouldn't be noticed if I wouldn't reply to ask the deletion of it (obvously I couldn't do it) but I eventually decided to close the puzzle because I felt it was spoiled by then.
I tried to contact the poster on Steam but he must have taken me for a scammer because he blocked me so I had no chance to ask him to remove his comment.

Now, let's talk about the Not-So-Hidden Puzzle linked in the dot of the second line:

The hint was in the title and it is a quite popular quote of Deus Ex:HR: "I never asked for this". You just had to add the price of the game (19.99) to my current CV(111.92) and obtain the main answer: 131.91.

I'm not sure why many of you had problems with the format/currency of the answer since CV is written like X.XX and it's in USD dollars. Isn't it in USD dollars for all of us? Doesn't SG list only US Store prices?

Regarding the format I put all these alternative possible answers to help you:

$131.91 - 131.91$ - $131,91 - 131,91$

I added answers with comma in the new puzzle since someone pointed that out in the giveaway comments, even if I feel it wasn't really necessary since CV format is X.XX.

I tought it was quite simple. If you want, please tell me what I could have done to make it better.

Regarding the second puzzle:

I had to make a new one beacuse the old hint COULD be misleading since I said the game was already hinted in the body and title of the thread. Originally indeed, I thought to repeat the hint in the body of the thread but then I decided to delete it since it could be too easily spotted. Anyway the puzzle was still solvable even with the old hint since there weren't many games I refferred to, in this thread. Indeed, someone that probably had bookmarked it and didn't see the new link, managed to solve it anyway.

The total of the stats of the two puzzles are the following (I guess some players changed puzzle so they are doubled):

1042 guesses
279 players
53 solvers

...and 21 entries

About Alan Wake giveaways and Clickies (Gollum), they were just SILLY and SIMPLE jokes about these kind of question being asked over and over.

That's why I asked humbly (reffering I already knew it was in the Humble Weekly Sale) where to find AW.
Same thing with clickies, I asked how to do it even if I had just made it to show you what I was talking about. And I just liked the GIF of Dumb-Gollum-Puzzled-and-Struggling-To-Understand (just OUT OF CONTEXT, I love LOTR and I know Gollum is really smart) because it fitted with the whole point of the thread.

I wrote all this just to be clear (I hope), and for people that are just courious or wandered what happened.

Don't worry, I'll get a life tomorrow

Oh gawd, hopefully my next puzzle will be better. Sorry again for the incovenience.

TL;DR: I didn't relink the puzzle because I considered it spoiled. The answer was unitentionally and naively leaked in this thread and I wasn't able to contact the poster and ask to remove it before the end of the GA. If you are looking for the answer it was 131.91.

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Howly shiet. How u do this :o

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Wow, thank you so much! I gotta go to buy it right naoo!

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Humbly? I see what you did thar.

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i can see it too

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Are you by chance the "Most evil" one?

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Sure, my username comes for the mispelling of Mostevil!

Not really, but sounded cool :D
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It's in the humble something or other, in case anyone's actually reading this... :)

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you're bad at math, u know.

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I feel so 2. :P

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You got me. I had to use a calculator, but it must have been broken....

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I ninja'd the key you just posted, thanks :)

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Thanks for Skyrim!

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Maybe you asked for this
YIQWF-P0DBK-D7DHG

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I ain't no ninja...unfortunately! But thanks anyway. What was it for?

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Alan Wake

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Oh thanks, actually Steam told me it was Alan Wake but it seems that I can't read anymore!

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trolllololol

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Y U no reading FAQ?

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Y U assume he didn't read the FAQ?

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FAQ is for noobs.

And chickens.

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Mhmm... chicken

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There's no such thing as FAQ! It's just a myth! Otherwise I and all the people on the forum wouldn't ask these questions over and over!

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FAQ.

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Go to your local career office and ask them how to make a CV. Then proceed to make a cover letter and submit your work application.

GOOD LUCK!

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Now the question is what is the difference between a Curriculum vitae and a Resume and which is better.... these things keep me up at night. (CV is much more detailed)

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oh boobs. Very nice.

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is it some sort of a typo or i'm just not figuring it out?

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I don't understand what you are talking about since there is nothing to figure out. But if I could understand you I'd tell you that everything you need is in the thread. :D

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Where do you live ? Because the answer might depend on that..

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Italy. C'mon share your knowledge with me since nobody wants to help me!

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I meant the price depended on that :-)

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I was just joking! Trying to hid the fact that there was an hidden puzzle. You were supposed to pretend it didn't exist too! Anyway it's now closed.

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I know, that's what I 'm talking about, too, I was asking for aclue as I tried to add the price to you contributor value but it didn't work, so I assumed it wasn't euro, neither dollar, then I quit

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Yes it was USD since CV is in dollars. Maybe you got the wrong game (do not comment what game/games you tried since somebody could have bookmarked the puzzle link and still trying to solve it). I thought it was quite obvious but I don't think like that anymore since a few other people asked too.

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oh, okay, I thought it was over. good thing you warned me. Yeah, maybe I got the wrong game (but I'm really sure I didn't), maybe I should try again

edit : oh I get it, puzzle isn't there anymore.

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Yes, I decided to put an end to it before the time is up. I won't say anything else since as I said someone could have bookmarked it. I'm sorry for the inconvenience.

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no, no problem, you really don't have to justify yourself. thanks for the challenge and the giveaway ! :-)

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That's the point of gifts! You get something you never ever wanted! Am I right?

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NO WAY! I just care about CV!

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So you work at HR with lots of CVs?

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Yes, how did you know?! That's why I'm obsessed with CVs of any kind!

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Oh, I forgot. Just for you to know, I just added you to politely ask you to remove your comment since it contained the indirect answer of the puzzle.
I know that you probably didn't mean to spoil it and you just naively posted that image without even noticing the puzzle but you could have just accepted my friend request and listened to what I wanted to tell you (not automatically assuming it was a random add or that I was a scammer)!

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dunno

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These Alan Wake giveaways annoy me, but not as much as people like you asking questions I don't know the answer to! Have you tried looking for the information yourself already, probably it's already on this site somewhere...

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Oh dear god. :P

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I can't believe I waited for the hint, haha.

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What are you talking about?! :D

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you might be doing something wrong then i guess O.o

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Happened to me once. Just wait a few days and it should work again.

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Do I have to include "$" in the answer?

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I put all the possible answers: with and without $ and also with and w/out comma.

Also you was supposed to not post this question here since the puzzle was meant to be hidden. I thought it was quite obvious. Anyway the puzzle is now closed so no big deal.

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Ah, so it's a comma. I was using a dot.

I still had the puzzle in my browser history. By closed, do you mean it doesn't link to the GA anymore?

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Assuming itstoohard it can't be edited so it will still link to the giveaway. The link to the puzzle however doesn't exist anymore.

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Of course you're right. Unfortunately Itstoohard doesn't allow at the moment editing and deletion of puzzles.

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By "w/out comma" I meant with the dot, sorry if I wasn't clear. I just thought the answer with the dot was obvious since CV is written like X.XX. As I said I put all the possible answers.

Unfortunately I can't edit the puzzle to delete the link to the giveaway, otherwise I would have done it since I decided to put an end to it before the time is up.
As you, many other people could have bookmarked it so let's not talk about it anymore please. :)

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how do you make clickies??

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[what you say] (your link) without space between them

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Bump for reading is very important in life even if you don't have one! (maybe not so much on PC screens...then why don't you just print it on a fancy piece of paper?)

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Oh well, I have the game already anyway.

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Yeah, many people already have it. Indeed, there were 53 solvers but only 21 entries.
I like to think that so many people have it because it's a great game and I wanted to give somebody else the chance to enjoy it.

Hope next puzzle will be for a game you don't have then! :)

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I think you're right, people didn't enter because they already owned it. Was a very popular game...

As a fan of the old stuff, who likes sneaking and pacifism, only thing I would change in Human Revolution is the boss fights. Everything else felt perfect.

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Oh I didn't see your reply. For some strange reasons it doesn't show in View Replies and I didn't notice it!

Anyway you're right, I really could have lived without those boss fights.
I had the chance to play it all before I had Steam and I just fell in love with the atmosphere, the storyline and the stealth gameplay...and I really like 'black and gold triangles' too, of course!
I bought it on Steam right because I wanted to show my appreciation to the developers and in order to have the chance to replay it whenever I would like, since before I had borrowed it.

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Why i dind't winned? Stoopid puzzle...

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Dunno, not my bad! You should be mad at the giveaway actually...but stoopid puzzle iz stoopid anywayz!

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Closed 1 decade ago by Mosevil.