You made it farther than me!

Alas, too busy to even take a crack at it. Since I haven't coded anything since 19x5, my knowledge of languages is both limited and rusty, but it's always fun to try.

Just not this time.

+1 for the puzzle though!

It's tricky, but as always with ZFR's work, it is also very elegant. I was extremely impressed.

No doubt. These have all been very clever.

I can't even figure out where to start with this one...

Start in the obvious place, and see where that gets you ;-)

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Sound advice :)

I really want to read the explanation for the puzzle. It flew straight over my head and I feel like a complete idiot but I am intrigued. If OP or the puzzle solver could PM the solution at some stage that would be appreciated, thanks.

As in the previous cases, the solution will be posted after some time. I'd say around 2 weeks.

However, you can try solving it yourself. A good place to start are the previous 2 challenges (their solutions are posted there). Just follow the links in the OP.

With help from ZFR himself I managed to solve this puzzle.
It's quite fun and not that difficult, if you know a bit about computers in general and have good search engine skills, I guess.
Try it out, people!

I haven't helped you more than I helped some other people in these GAs.

Game is still available, by the way.

For extra elegance, here is a much more compact version
http://pastebin.com/raw/5dsCG0gR

This is what I should have created for the challenge. The idea of how to make it smaller without affecting my restrictions came to me just as I was finishing it. But I was in a hurry to post, so I put the larger version that I had, since completing the smaller one would have taken me some time to finish.
I'll let the original stand, but looking at this, and comparing to the original, *might* give those who haven't solved it some ideas (or it might send them in the wrong direction, so be careful).

Nope... still stuck :(

Seriously, check out the previous two giveaways linked in OP's post. ;)

Believe me, I have... I solved both of those at the time, and again a few days ago.

Well, then you should have a start at least, right? Have you found the first, most obvious "esoteric"?