Unless I'm way off the mark here, the only option is to enter is to brute force all 3800 possibilities.
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You're indeed way off. Brute force is not needed, and there are actually multiple hints in the puzzle, as short as it is. I'll add more hints if I see that this is too difficult.
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Thanks for the non-brute force puzzle confirmation. Let me rethink the approach...
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tried a bit.. but my brain is probably too smushy atm.. :/
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Update: I updated one of the hints to be a bit less confusing.
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Update #2: Made another change in the OP which would hopefully help this puzzle get its first solver :-)
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Update #3: "FREE DLC for The Land of Eyas" is no longer free, but as a last of its kind it will get you really close to the solution. Note that you don't need to buy this DLC.
Also, see Update #4 a few comments below...
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Update #4: I updated the hint in the OP. This update should be very revealing if you remember the previous text...
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Try switching capitalization in the hint. Maybe something will "click" ;-)
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2 hours to go...
Also, I made the final update to the hint (tooltip) in the OP.
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Solution: "Is it locked, unlocked, or somewhere in between?" - The answer is in between and refers to a thread without a title, where I hid the link to the giveaway. I then closed (locked) it, which moved it to page 437 of the forum. This is right where the open threads end and the locked/closed threads start. In the days that passed additional threads were created, and some were locked/closed, so this thread moved to page 438 of the forum. Here's a screenshot I took after creating it:
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The tooltip hint for the image were (from first to last):
- 4...3...7
- 437
- pG437
- PG438
I stopped there. I'm pretty sure that had I updated it to "Page 438" there would have been quite a bit more solvers than three.
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Huh. I did look for locked threads but I have no idea how I missed it. Silly me.
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Is it locked, unlocked, or somewhere in between?
Hint
The solution is here
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