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Posted September 09, 2011
Well congratulations, good to hear that no-one took it before you (as the answer was online a couple of minutes before you redeemed it.

I got the binary part, as everyone and was thinking about the CTRLV part. I thought about the PASTE and tried it as the first part of the gift code, but I never thought about pastebin.

Congratulations to the winner and to gthornblad who imagined a good challenge which was not too hard... but not too easy.
Posted September 09, 2011
Very nice work, Nedrix!

If you take the pastebin jibberish [url=]http://pastebin.com/PzruRNZ9[/url] and remove all letters a-z you end up with a source code in the amazing language "Brainfuck". A subtle hint in the title "I'm just screwing with your mind"... If you run the program it will actually give you the gamecode as output.

I'm very impressed.
Posted September 09, 2011
That was clever! Thanks for the giveaway. ;)
Posted September 09, 2011
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gthornblad: Very nice work, Nedrix!

If you take the pastebin jibberish [url=]http://pastebin.com/PzruRNZ9[/url] and remove all letters a-z you end up with a source code in the amazing language "Brainfuck". A subtle hint in the title "I'm just screwing with your mind"... If you run the program it will actually give you the gamecode as output.

I'm very impressed.
Well, that's a no-brainer ;)

Very cool, learned a ton of new things today. Thanks for the contest.
Posted September 09, 2011
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gthornblad: I'm very impressed.
As you should be! Damn, these things are getting hard.

I kept thinking it was some obscure implementation of regexp; programming languages did cross my mind briefly, but I'm way out of my element in things like this.

Well done, Nedrix! You absolutely deserve the game.
Posted September 09, 2011
If you want to try the source yourselves you can find it here: http://pastebin.com/CtR8fuzZ and try to paste it in here http://copy.freeunix.net/brainfuck/ just to see that it works...

Oh. There were a few more subtle hints in the text. The last part [a-zA-Z] might be a clue to someone familiar with regular expressions, that these where the characters to be removed. Also, some actual text could be found in there
"zero copy dividend divisor remainder quotient zero zero" and a quick google for those words would lead you to the Brainfuck wikipedia page.
Posted September 09, 2011
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gthornblad: Oh. There were a few more subtle hints in the text. The last part [a-zA-Z] might be a clue to someone familiar with regular expressions, that these where the characters to be removed.
Noted, but completely misunderstood.
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gthornblad: "zero copy dividend divisor remainder quotient zero zero" and a quick google for those words would lead you to the Brainfuck wikipedia page.
...and that's what I get for using Bing :)

Great puzzle, gthornblad.
Posted September 09, 2011
Oh god, I've failed my Internet 101 by not immediately realizing there was a site called pastebin. Doh.
Clever and convoluted, nice. And you learn while having fun! Like an episode of Captain Planet or something!
Posted September 09, 2011
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Balthier: That was clever! Thanks for the giveaway. ;)
My pleasure, just trying to give something back to the community. And I do enjoy these types of treasure hunts myself.

Holy crap, forgot to pick up my car from service, hope they haven't locked the gates yet! See ya...
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Posted September 09, 2011
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Pemptus: Oh god, I've failed my Internet 101 by not immediately realizing there was a site called pastebin. Doh.
Usually, the journey is more important than the destination ;)

Or rather, learning is it's own reward.
Posted September 09, 2011
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gthornblad: If you want to try the source yourselves you can find it here: http://pastebin.com/CtR8fuzZ and try to paste it in here http://copy.freeunix.net/brainfuck/ just to see that it works...

Oh. There were a few more subtle hints in the text. The last part [a-zA-Z] might be a clue to someone familiar with regular expressions, that these where the characters to be removed. Also, some actual text could be found in there
"zero copy dividend divisor remainder quotient zero zero" and a quick google for those words would lead you to the Brainfuck wikipedia page.
Well, I got as far as the pastebin URL, but had to stop looking.

I honestly think I would not have found the answer, even though I did read about brainfuck some time ago.

Congratz to the well-deserving winner and thanks for this entertaining contest !!
Posted September 09, 2011
nice puzzle... really a fun one, well deserved win!
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