Today's key (June 23rd) has been won.

Toxinreign has won today's free key.  He was the first to send us all the correct answers.  There were several of you who beat him to the punch, but he was the first to have the correct answers, which are:


Kabuto
Kritzkrieg
Fruit Shoot
Kunai
Earbuds
Backburner
Machina
Reggaelator
Salty Dog
Attendant
Huntsman
HOUWAR
Quadwrangler
Lugermorph
Can Opener

Congratulations to toxinreign on winning today's key.  Good luck to everyone else for tomorrow's (details here if you are late to the game).

Free Key TF2 Word Search

There are 15 TF2-related words hidden here.  Hints are at the bottom.  Words only go from left-right, diagonally left-right, or top-down.  First person to email us here with all 15 correct answers & their steam id wins today's free key.  Just send the words that you found in the puzzle, don't send us a completed word search.  Difficulty level: medium-easy

Hints:

a war helmet
fill 'er up!
ugly hat
shogun 2 item
everybody wants these
flame-on!
crate 30 item minus "strange"
Jamaica mon
anchor
man or _____
hunger games major role
newton's legend made part of this famous
not tradeable, yet
sam and max
useful in the kitchen


*update: key has been won

Today's key (June 22nd) has been won.

Thesupremecommander has won today's key.  He was the first to send us the correct answers to the previous blog post regarding statistics, which were:


1) 15205
2) 23838714
3) 40
4) 1099
5) 3
6) Smoking, 2442
7) Sneaky Spats of Sneaking
8) Killer Exclusive
9) 49446
10) 2010

Congratulations to thesupremecommander and good luck to everyone for tomorrow's free key (details here).

So how fast can you look up statistics?

We like statistics, and like to use this site to get nerdy on how many Alien Swarm Parasite's there are.  So go to http://stats.tf2finance.com and pay attention to the specifics of each question.  Today's key goes to the person who sends us the right answers to the following questions (and their steam id):

1) How many Genuine Planeswalker Helms are there?
2) How many Vintage items in total in all backpacks are there?
3) How many Vintage Professional's Panama level zero are there?
4) How many Max's Severed Head level 1 are there?
5) How many backpacks have a full set of all 53 Vintage Hats level 69?
6) Which unusual effect is the most common and how many items exist with this effect?
7) What hat/misc available has the highest probability of being crafted in today (random craft)?
8) What hat/misc available has the lowest probability of being crafted today (random craft)?
9) How many Unusual hat and misc items exist as of now?
10) Not stat related, what year did the TF2 Spreadsheet start?

*update: key is won

New update, banana peel crafting

Undocumented changes

• Added new md5 hash records to the Eliminating The Impossible set's mystery solving time attribute.
• Crafting two or more Banana Peels now results in an error message in Spanish, Finnish, and Welsh being displayed.^[1]

Notes

1. ↑ The message heading composes of the words: "Banana Error" # (from 1 to 8). The message body is in Spanish followed by Finnish and roughly translates to: "Banana Overflow Error; Detailed Report:" followed by a "Code" number, and a hex string of 8 values. Every user generates a different code and message number when crafting. The dismiss button is replaced with its equivalent in Welsh. The Banana Peels will not be lost in crafting, however.

Today's key (June 21st) has been won.

We have our first 2-time winner, Mpogoda.  He was the first to send us today's code which was "hat".  It was hidden in the Unusual tab under the Stormy Storm effect description and read "A small word you want to email us is 'hat'".  Congratulations to Mpogoda and good luck to everyone for tomorrow's free key (details here if you are just joining us).

Non-TF2 related: Commandos 3: Destination Berlin free

Just for today, GreenManGaming (via Dealnews.com) has Commandos 3: Destination Berlin for free.  Requires GMG's client to download, but this is a 2010 game and has decent graphics, and it's for freez!  Link here.

note: there are no codes in this post, just a free game.

Today's key (June 20th) has been won.

Tonght's key was won by CF711.  He was the first to send us the correct code which was way too easy.  In fact it was so easy it was:

It was located in the footer at the bottom of the page.  Congratulations to CF711 and good luck to everyone for tomorrow's free key (details here if you're just joining us).