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I haven't made a single GA for the new year so Boo on me and here are a few to make up for it

Good luck (•‿•)

Thanks!

3 years ago
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GOOD LUCK

3 years ago
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ty so much man

3 years ago
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Thanks!

3 years ago
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Thank you:)

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thanks

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Thanks for Giveaways <3

3 years ago
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Thanks!

3 years ago
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Hey, I'll tell you here because I don't know if ionface wants to make the puzzle solution public.
You just had to replace "p" and "q" in the hidden code (the pPJq5 one, I assume you found it) with the ending digits of the two prime factors.
Mind that you didn't have to calculate them wholly; knowing that their product was ending with "3" was enough. So you knew for sure that their last digits could only have been 1x3 or 7x9. You had to do a little bruteforce there having 4 possibilities: 1PJ35, 3PJ15, 7PJ95 (the right one) and 9PJ75.

My process was this:

  • I found the hidden code with the stenography tool
  • I realized I couldn't calculate the prime factors
  • I focused on the hint "every factor holds a clue at the end of the line" (he repeated it in the comments) -> I realized there their ending was the only piece of information I could deduct
  • I gave up for the day (I was stuck anyway)
  • I used the idiom tool he added the day after for everything that seemed out of place -> "mind your manners" in particular lead me to the "mind (one's) p's and q's" idiom (which I didn't know).
  • I thought of substituting the letters with the numbers.

(other solvers which knew math much better than me said that "p" and "q" are normally used to refer to prime factors, so they didn't need to get to that specific idiom)

3 years ago*
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Wow I was so close and yet so far! The clues were really useful if you knew where to look but they took me further away from the solution.
I hope you won some nice games at least because you deserved it!
Thanks a lot for detailing your process, it's really helpful. Have a 💙

3 years ago
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Heh... I can't say I've been lucky. I joined 7 GAs in total in the end and I managed to win only the single GA where I was the sole participant from the batch of games that ended early. Too bad, but I still got something, I guess.
Anyway, have a 💙 too ;)

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