[quote name='chaoticorder75']eugaet, figuring out your hints has only made me even more confused than before[/QUOTE]Yeah, the rabbit hole seems to just keep getting deeper and deeper. By the time I post a hint, the hint itself has gone from spoonfeedingly simple to in-need-of-hints-for-the-hint complex. I can't help but add layers on top of the hints to keep them from being too simple. Of course, by the time you decrypt the hint, it just drops you into a deeper level of WTFedness.
Does anyone think I should post solutions to the encrypted hints once someone publicly solves them (like with hint #3...someone posted the decryption earlier in the thread)? Keep in mind, I'm trying to steer away from outright spoonfeeding the lurkers...
The next time I do this, I may just create a separate thread so that all the discussion doesn't get lost between all the other code drops.