yeah but when i look at the site mentioned here on the forum several times there is only 1 german code cipher sticking out. cant be enigma.

ze itself can be a password as ez can be, but again might be my own sidetrack.

i am giving up atleast.

I tried with Transpositions method but still to no avail. More clue might help..

To be honest, I believe this is almost impossible to crack since there is no way to tell if a code is valid without actually entering it. Checking every guess manually is very time-consuming, and since there seem to be almost no clues the number of possibilities is nearly endless.

in its own way the possibilities seems endless. but i am sure xyem has given some sort of clue somewhere. if it was easy there was no fun in it either.

on the other hand with most decipher contests you get a bunch of text that when you decode it looks like some sort of gift code unlike with this anything you try can be a gift code.

i was wondering if ze stands for 54321 (sorry if i ruin anything here) or not or that it is a german reference to something.

good luck to whoever solves it

xyem, give us some clue? My head nearly explode.

I tried a lot of things with first code and (assuming it was real one) I did not notice this "gift already redeemed" message (of course, I'm only human so could have done some mistake during my tests). If the second code is coded in the same way then I think I need some clue in which direction I should follow.

"Ze" is not a clue. It's just me messing about. If you look at my links to the next giveaways, you'll notice I do that (i.e. "Le next giveaway").

Clue #1: Most of the characters are not changed in any way.

@Lexor: Yes, the encoding is exactly the same.

Stupid site error 504 interrupts me very often during work on this code.... :/

This is killing me! My nose is bleeding aarrggh!!! I can never stay away from these contests and codes, I am compelled to try to solve them, if not for the prize then for the feeling of successfully solving them.

Try not typing with it? :)

Site errors seem to be gone so I am back to decoding :P

1 more clue maybe?

1st clue didn't really help me as one of my ways of thinking supposed it could be something "like that". Now I went deeper into it but I still can't find the proper exit :P

If Lexor can't solve this, then it must be really hard. Honestly, this doesn't look that hard, but the clue is pretty ambiguous. So much probability. I already spent hours try to crack this. But now i give up.. until the next clue surface.

might as well give it to lexor anyway since he will eventually crack it first