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Posted May 06, 2011
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wpegg: Key is 9 characters long.

Another clue to the word play:
Infantry in the napoleanic war were often referred to as the...
... "dead people"?

Forget it.
Posted May 06, 2011
Next hint please :)

Maybe an indication of how many letters/numbers/symbols are in the key or maybe tell us a specific character.
Posted May 06, 2011
I can't give you a hint about the key, it wouldn't help anyway.

Ok, I guess this ranks as a GOG competition failure. We'll have one last go before we file the compeition in the depths of GOG general discussion.

The wordplay, and in particular the 2 words that would give away what you need to do. Are in this post.

just stick them in Bing. First link.
Post edited May 06, 2011 by wpegg
Posted May 06, 2011
edit: sigh, I get the gist of it now, but I still can't...quite...get...it D:
Post edited May 06, 2011 by Austrobogulator
Posted May 06, 2011
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Austrobogulator: edit: sigh, I get the gist of it now, but I still can't...quite...get...it D:
You unlocked file2, so if you've got the new meaning of the words, you would just need to re-read the question, and apply the new meaning to the (sorted) list.
Posted May 06, 2011
Conan the barbarian

edit: holy shit that was really cryptic :O
Post edited May 06, 2011 by Austrobogulator
Posted May 06, 2011
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Austrobogulator: Conan the barbarian

edit: holy shit that was really cryptic :O
But you got there dude. PM me to tell me an adress to send your games to (and what GOGs you want).
Posted May 06, 2011
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wpegg: I'll post another more obvious clue tomorrow, and finally the solution.
So, how do we get to that solution, Conan the Barbarian? I still don't get it :-)
Post edited May 06, 2011 by tarangwydion
Posted May 06, 2011
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wpegg: I'll post another more obvious clue tomorrow, and finally the solution.
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tarangwydion: So, how do we get to that solution, Conan the Barbarian? I still don't get it :-)
I feel the winner himself should explain it. Kind of his "hey look at me moment".
Posted May 06, 2011
"The list of games below should help, if you rank them in order of release, then the key contained in the second file should allow you to access the prize."

File 2's key is found by ordering the games from oldest to newest, which gives this number: 892753164

Using that number, you get an image of the game Battle Chess, which has text written on it explaining that you're looking in the wrong location. Which is correct, because the Battle Chess image has nothing to do with the puzzle.

File 1's key is found by reinterpreting the line mentioned at the top of my post. Look at this wikipedia page here. So if you interpret "second file" to mean "second column" you can use the reordered list of LucasArts games to find the next key. So for example, the letter used from #1 would be "r":

1. Grim Fandango

I'm sorry I can't tell you the exact password, because I closed the text file I was working in. But if you follow the steps, you should see an image of...Conan(s)...
Posted May 06, 2011
Incidentally, If you had asked file2 "Where should I be looking?" you would have got another clue, but from the comments received, I should have worked harder on that clue. I thought it was quite a neat brainteaser personally.
Posted May 06, 2011
Lame, I should have just ignored all the damn clues and kept going down the line. I entered all of the FIRST letters of each game into file1's PW.

All the later clues just confused the issue.
Posted May 06, 2011
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TVs_Frank: Lame, I should have just ignored all the damn clues and kept going down the line. I entered all of the FIRST letters of each game into file1's PW.

All the later clues just confused the issue.
That's why I put it second.
Posted May 06, 2011
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Austrobogulator: "The list of games below should help, if you rank them in order of release, then the key contained in the second file should allow you to access the prize."

File 2's key is found by ordering the games from oldest to newest, which gives this number: 892753164

Using that number, you get an image of the game Battle Chess, which has text written on it explaining that you're looking in the wrong location. Which is correct, because the Battle Chess image has nothing to do with the puzzle.

File 1's key is found by reinterpreting the line mentioned at the top of my post. Look at this wikipedia page here. So if you interpret "second file" to mean "second column" you can use the reordered list of LucasArts games to find the next key. So for example, the letter used from #1 would be "r":

1. Grim Fandango

I'm sorry I can't tell you the exact password, because I closed the text file I was working in. But if you follow the steps, you should see an image of...Conan(s)...
... Do Americans even use the word "file" in that context? Sure, we have it in Spanish, but American English? They don't use "file", they use "row"...
Post edited May 06, 2011 by Foxhack
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