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Great Birthday Puzzle

What is this puzzle and what are the rules?

This is a puzzle giveaway. If you know what that is and how it works, skip this passage. If not, let me introduce you to the most beautiful part of Steamgifts community: You already know of public giveaways, and most likely, group giveaways. Puzzle giveaways are similar to those, but more fun because you have to solve a puzzle in order to find a hidden page, so you could enter the giveaway.

The rules of this website are that you have to do it alone - you are not allowed to ask for tips, help from others (here OR anywhere else) or share the answers and links to giveaway pages with others once you solve the puzzle. Break the rules and your account will be suspended. Feel free to read the FAQ.

Now, you can see why this is more fun than just clicking on green enter button. You get not just the excitement of waiting for a giveaway to end in order to see if you have won something, but also an adventure of solving the puzzle and racing against the clock. Also, most of the people can not take the pressure and they just give up, or don't even know how to solve the puzzle, so giveaways like this one have less entries in general, which means that you - one of the solvers - have more chance of winning. Isn't that FUN?

ADDITIONAL RULE for this particular puzzle is that you have to comment on each giveaway page before entering. There are various topics suggested, in order to set the general tone, but you are free to comment off topic if that is your will. This rule is pre-approved by Crossbourne.

Note from author

Welcome fellow Steamgifters and Giftslingers! My birthday is upon us (a lot of birthdays these days, have you noticed?), so I decided to create a puzzle in order to celebrate. Smart thing would be to unleashe it upon you all 5 or even 10 days before the day of my birth, but I am not known as a patient man. Also, I'm afraid some (later) parts could be way too hard for a regular forum dweller, so more time could be needed. Because of that, you have ~20 days for a puzzle-chain adventure which contains 10 different quests!

What this means is that in order to get to the second step/puzzle, you need to solve the first. In turn, solution to the second puzzle will lead you to the third and so on. No worries, there are (not always subtle) hints on where to go next and what to do, sometimes even direct links to the next puzzle, so there will be no aimless wandering... at least not in the beginning.

The puzzle includes gifts with no contribtuors value required, some between $5 and $50 CV required, and three for which you have to donate games in value of $100. I think that is fair - there's something for everyone, and CV required are pretty low - 100 is the new 30 after all. Even if you don't have $100 CV, you can always have fun while solving the puzzle itself.

Gifts

Freebies [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

1. The best game in the world, contributing value not required! (230 comments, 131 entries)
2. Indie puzzle platformer, CV of $5 required (131 comments, 47 entries)
3. Action puzzle game with 4 different modes, CV of $15 required (102 comments, 53 entries)
4. Critically acclaimed action-adventure, CV of $25 required (87 comments, 16 entries)
5. First-person puzzle game, CV of $50 required (82 comments, 58 entries)
6. Horizontal shoot'em up, CV of $50 required (26 comments, 18 entries)
7. Racing game for a whole new generation, CV of $50 required (19 comments, 11 entries)
8. Quality RPG, CV of $100 required (20 comments, 16 entries)
9. Brand new multiplayer action game, CV of $100 required (13 comments, 7 entries)
10. Brand new action-rpg, CV of $100 required (14 comments, 10 entries)

That may or may not be all. It's up to you to find out...

Timer

You have time until June 29th at 1.30 am CEST (GMT+2)

Hints

• Do not wait the last moment to start. First four or five puzzles are easy, but things get complicated later. Dificulty depends on your experience.
• Look, read, do not rush. Everything is given somewhere, I will not ask you to guess or use psychic abilities. Look for the clues.
• All steps/puzzles are already available. Just find a way to reach them. Don't quit too early.
• Random hints are randomly added on random pages. Always retrace your steps.

Where to start?

C L I C K H E R E T O S T A R T

Colorblind version

Good luck!

News:

List of mirrors updated. Billionuploads is removed due to tricky ad-ware gimmick, and sendspace, mediafire, putlocker and dropbox were added besides mega and uploaded. Also, initial testing now has 3 questions more. If you already have the game, you don't have to download again, just continue solving. Random hints added to random pages. At least one person has been suspended for asking around for answers. Don't be that kind of person! If you see a cheater, report them.