TIFU Giving My Soon-To-Be Fiance Too Many Hints About My Upcoming Proposal
Obligatory technically-this-happened-last-night. Alright Reddit, I plan to propose to my girlfriend on 12/17/21. We have increasingly been talking about it as of late and teasing one another about it like when I tell her she should stay the night more often, and she will respond by saying all I've got to do is ask. I ask the dad question of "Will you stay more often?", and she will say that's not the right question. I'll ask what the right question is in a poor attempt to bamboozle her into proposing, but she never bites lol.
Anyways, on to the FU. I've been teasing her about a special project at work with code names, and that I've had meetings with my boss and coworkers and have the white board covered regarding it--all true. She knows it is related to proposal without having directly said it, but she doesn't know how it is specifically. I've offered her hints each week now that the date is getting closer, and I was trying to keep it very ambiguous until towards the end. The hints were as follows:
Week 1 - 50
Week 2 - -26
Week 3 - 0.03361344
This was all she got. After 3 weeks of just receiving numbers, she was getting frustrated because she didn't know how to relate them to one another. I gave her a hint yesterday because I want her to enjoy being teased and not frustrated. I thought the hint was still pretty vague because it was "you keep looking on what to do with the numbers but you needed to figure out how to arrive at those numbers."
Well y'all, it looks like I flew too close to the sun because x + y + z = 50, x - y - z = -26, and x/y/z=0.03361344. X is the month, y is the day, and z was the year. Before week 3, it was a problem with infinite solutions that she'd have to assume the year. But I didn't tell her these equations. I figured she'd have to somehow deduce the equations, deduce the z to be 21 or 22 (and not 2021 or 2022), and then solve a system of equations to get the answer.
Nope. She just brute forced her way into the solutions when she got home yesterday and sent me a picture of the scrap paper scrawled all over it with the final answer there...
So Reddit, I have now played it off asking if she is ready for her next set of hints already which will be Saturday, trying to make it seem as though she hasn't already figured it out. And I'm not sure what truthful hint to give her to misdirect her. I think I can still have some fun having her highly excited for that date but still uncertain for what's going to happen...I know it isn't the most exciting story, but I am hoping for some brainstorming too for those interested... Also, if anyone knows the gal I'm talking about, please don't show her this post yet lol.
tl;dr Have been teasing girlfriend with hints about upcoming proposal. Gave what I thought to be vague hints each week. She solved it after week 4 with 2+ weeks to remain. I now need help offering truthful, but misdirecting, hints to make her less confident she solved it...
Edit: She said yes! Admittedly she did get frustrated and it made her heart sink when I was talking about giving hints in later weeks after the date she solved, so I do have some regrets and would not recommend this. She did say everything else about the proposal was perfect and that she wouldn't change a thing. Rain messed up my chalk relationship time-line, and my neon blue arrow turned off right before she was coming, but c'est la vie.