ALPYIHTWEMEHTAEGMOFEIFR[001]™
ehtighlstaeroneehrstoobdnyeohm[10000011]™
EWEBAIBGLNZ[0000001]™
ouyoknwewogtokrwotod[0010]™
adnehtaebltteogson[1000]™

ThereIsAnOceanOfPossibilities™
DungeonOfTheEndlessSpaceCollection™
20180417T01:00AMZ-3™


Solution - Giveaway 1

Each bigger code is in a pattern: one or more vowels followed by one or more consonants, all in alphabetic order. Separating each code using the pattern as a delimiter gives you several smaller codes:

ALPY IHTW EM EHT AEGM OF EIFR[001]™
eht ighlst aer on eehrst oobdny eohm[10000011]™
EW EB AIBGLNZ[0000001]™
ouy onkw ew ogt okrw ot od[0010]™
adn eht aebltt eogs on[1000]™

Now you have to know a bit of English or use an anagram solver to turn each smaller code into a word:

PLAY WITH ME THE GAME OF FIRE[001]™
the lights are on there's nobody home[10000011]™
WE BE BLAZING[0000001]™
you know we got work to do[0010]™
and the battle goes on[1000]™

With a bit of googling, you can find out that each line is a lyric to a song, all by the artist ionnalee. The ™ is also a very small hint about this. Replacing each line with the title of the song gives you:

JOY[001]™
likehell[10000011]™
BLAZING[0000001]™
work[0010]™
gone[1000]™

Now all you have to do is to realize that the numbers in the brackets are the same length as the titles of the songs, and take the letters with a "1" for each line:

0 0 1
J O Y
1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
l i k e h e l l
0 0 0 0 0 0 1
B L A Z I N G
0 0 1 0
w o r k
1 0 0 0
g o n e

And finally you have the code for the first giveaway: YlGrg


Solution - Giveaway 2

The puzzle for the second giveaway is very simple, all you have to do is navigate through the table using the directions given to you:

Me;11N;6W2S;11SE;10N™

Where:

* N = North (Up)
* W = West (Left)
* S = South (Down)
* SE = Southeast (Down-Right)

The semicolons indicate where you have to stop and take a letter. The only thing you have to figure out is the starting point, "Me", which is hinted by the phrase:

The letter ? is me.

There are several ways to solve this:

  • The intended way is to google that phrase with "ionnalee" and find out that it's a lyric from the song "Work". The original lyric is "The letter I is me.", which reveals that the starting point is the letter "I".
  • Another way is to figure out that based on the offsets (11 up, 6 left then 2 down, 11 down-right and 10 up) there is a very limited group of possibilities that could be the starting point. Using bruteforce you can reach the giveaway.
  • And a third way is to figure out that the letter must be unique (otherwise the starting point would be ambiguous) and realize that the letter "I" only appears once in the table.

Here is the full path:

:: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
n 2 W 2 S j 4 1 o y L L 0 D b
K o z G r 7 k s Z S P X c 9 h
y p Y Q 6 Y S G U B U T B Y e
g l t Z b W Z O Q R d 9 P 2 E
c U x 8 m T W X N s b L t q V
M V z H K u z D Q m H C z k W
V 6 X 8 D H 6 7 n K j 8 z z v
j j t n U l M E k D n l v Y W
h C 1 B n 4 R f l V ↑ ↘ 0 s A y Q
g J t A E K E 0 X b H n W f W
L 2 Z l a 0 r A R 8 y H 7 c Z
D c 4 m h w 3 J U I n C G B 7
U a h D o A H 0 3 H n 5 W V 5
0 g 2 4 G A 2 L r 6 8 a Z x o
T s c B r e M M 4 J e 0 u 5 h

And finally you have the code for the second giveaway: IyQoE

https://www.sgtools.info/giveaways/bdf80258-40f9-11e8-b5f5-fa163ee2f826

6 years ago*

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Reserved™

6 years ago
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Hints

  1. There is a pattern.
  2. Once you find the pattern, split each big code into several smaller codes, using the pattern to figure out where to split.
  3. Maybe you can turn each smaller code into something readable?

Solvers

# User Found Giveaway #1 Found Giveaway #2
1 kinkami Yes Yes
2 redsweater Yes Yes
3 Layer Yes Yes
4 snrd3r Yes Yes
5 nessie92 No (Backdoor) Yes
6 SaturnArc No (Backdoor) Yes
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Hint #1

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Hint #2

6 years ago
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Going to wait for Hint 3 then =) =)

6 years ago
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Ihnt #3

6 years ago
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Such change, welcome "back" :)
I figured out a few easy bits...

6 years ago
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Is it really that different? :P

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Bump

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Sure

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Im so close!! =(

6 years ago
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:3

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Limited backdoor: http://www.sgtools.info/giveaways/bdf80258-40f9-11e8-b5f5-fa163ee2f826 If you enter through the backdoor you are not authorized to share the URL with anyone else.

6 years ago
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Thanks!

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bump

6 years ago
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Do you plan to post the solution for this puzzle? I only managed to read the 3rd line as "you know we got work to do", but can't figure out how to apply the pattern to get it.

6 years ago
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Posted in the OP.

6 years ago
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Thanks, this is quite a hard one.

6 years ago
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Thanks for the solutions, interesting!

6 years ago
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thanks for sharing the solution

6 years ago
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Didn't aware those lyrics are from the same artist.
The rest idea is easy. Plan to design a puzzle with similar idea lol

Bump for solution.

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Dang. I had this on the first day, but just didn't know what to do with it..

ALPYIHTWEMEHTAEGMOFEIFR[001]™
PLAY WITH ME THE GAME OF FIRE

ehtighlstaeroneehrstoobdnyeohm[10000011]™
the lights are on theres nobody home

EWEBAIBGLNZ[0000001]™
WE BE BLAZING

ouyoknwewogtokrwotod[0010]™
you know we got work to do

adnehtaebltteogson[1000]™
and the battle goes on

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Yeah, that was going to be hint #4, but there was not much time left so I just posted the backdoors instead.

6 years ago
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I had it and I understood they were lyrics, but couldn't find anything about this artist by serching the sentences on google, even with hypens!

6 years ago
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Hyphens? Nope, use double quotes. Google gives you exact matches when using them: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22PLAY+WITH+ME+THE+GAME+OF+FIRE%22

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Yes, I meant double quotes. Well, now it finds the song, but I remember trying different times when I tried

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Closed 2 years ago by rafaelgomesxyz.