Hello SG! Rumor has it there is a long-standing tradition that one should make gibs on their cake day, so I made a small 10-cart train to mark the occasion. Hopefully I didn't mess up my first cake day train. The giveaways end on my cake day.

Technically this will be my second cake day, but I missed my first cake day (didn't even visit the site for the entire "cake month" last year), and only made my 2nd giveaway about 8 months ago.

The train is divided into several sections and contains the following cargo:

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Note: Humble Bundle says you might not be able to activate DARK SOULS II in Japan, sorry!

I was lazy and rehashed some old bot rejection tricks, you might need to know a bit more about how the site works to reach all the carts.

I hope you won't spoil the "fun" for other people, but I don't really mind if you decide to share hints and hurt your chances of winning ...

Hopefully the winners would enjoy playing the games someday, half of them used to be on my wishlist.

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Reserved for bumps/hints/whatever.

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Surprise! Turns out it's my Steam birthday today (it's the first time I've seen balloons flying behind the Steam logo, that should tell you how much of an active Steam user I was). I never realized how close my Steam birthday and SG cake day are, so uhhh... instead of making yet another thread I'll just leave this here for anyone still checking the thread (unrelated to the puzzle).

https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/kAa?H/

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I'll post some silly replies under this comment at irregular intervals, which might be helpful.

Pardon me for not replying to every comment and flooding your messages, but rest assured I'll read every one of them :3

To start off, in case this helps you decide whether the "puzzles" are worth your time, here are the level requirements for the giveaways (following the cart order in the OP): 1 2 3 3 2 1 2 1 3 3

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Section 3 should be the easiest one, since I've spelled out the complete giveaway URL for you after all. It's more like a "tutorial" rather than a puzzle -- it serves to highlight the crucial part of a giveaway URL and how redirection works here (of course SG regulars probably know this already).

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My mom always says it's bad for your eyes to read under poor light. I'm not sure if it's true, but I do crank up the brightness in the room when I read. Maybe the text and paper will have better contrast, making it easier to read and reducing eye fatigue?

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I'm sure you've already figured out that "Find me." is a comment somewhere on SG...

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Is it that hard to find me? Notice anything out of place in that screenshot, like it was edited or something?

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After opening the link in the hidden comment, the code you think you see is probably different from what is actually written there.

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To access the last cart, you should visit the other three sections first.

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Remember the tutorial? Remember how I put gibberish after the giveaway code and the URL still takes you to the giveaway without a hiccup?

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Oh right, I've forgotten to mention, that first comment regarding level requirements is probably a hint too for the last cart. Have you seen those numbers somewhere else?

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Solutions below, in case one of you is interested.

Section 1: In the first image, I've replaced the Permalink text found in comments with the text U1urony, which is the comment's permalink ID. Permalink to hidden comment: https://www.steamgifts.com/go/comment/U1urony . Once you've found the comment, you'll see a link to an imgur album with a giveaway code on it. Open the image in a new tab (or drag it around in the browser) and you should be able to notice the first character is not an H at all, but rather an A. Therefore the URL for the first section is https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/AH5zs/ .

Section 2: Crank up the brightness/contrast of the second image using your favorite tool and you should see the text zerogecv next to the light switch. URL for the second section is https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/0gecv/ .

Section 3: Simply enter the giveaway URL given in the third image: https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/bZ5rw/not-sure-what-to-call-this-section .

The last cart: The alt text of the fourth image (either hover your mouse over the image for a bit or read the source) is XXXXX, which tries to hint that the giveaway code is given by the five X's in the tic-tac-toe. The five placements for the X's are: 1-1, 2-2, 2-3, 1-3, 3-2. For each placement, the first number denotes the train section and the second number denotes the giveaway level. Looking up the giveaways in the train, these X's correspond to the following giveaways:

The URLs in the parentheses are the URLs I've provided in the train for those giveaways (as "Previous cart" or "Next cart" links). If you look closely, there's a typo in each of those URLs (compare the game's name and the text after the giveaway code, or well, just compare the URLs before and after redirection). Taking all these typos together gives the code oQi74, and thus the final giveaway URL is https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/oQi74/ .

That's all Folks! If you want, let me know if you have any thoughts on the "puzzles" (too hard/too easy/illogical :)

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Last one is really hard, my brain can't handle this XD

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bump

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no idea for fourth yet.

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happy early cake day! :) 🎂

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Happy cakeday! Thanks for the puzzles :)

Is #4 just numbers?

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Nope :(

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Nothing on 1 and 4 :-o

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+1 :O

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Happy cake day! I still couldn't figure out the first and fourth puzzles. Take a break bump!

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happy early cakeday!

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bump for solved :)

Fun puzzles!

Happy cake day 🎂🎂🎂

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Solved bump.
Thanks for the puzzles.

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Bump for solved!

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Thanks for the nice puzzles! Number 1 has me stumped currently. :D

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Bump for RPG section!

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Happy early Cakeday!

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I'm too dumb bump.

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Bump for solved

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Bump So very lost O.o

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Happy early Cake Day! :D

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Happy cake day!

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happy c-day!

hints please! :(

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Happy cake days! Thanks for the gibs. I got 2 and 3 but can't figure out 1, will there be hints?

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Maybe, let's wait a bit first :D

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Bump for solved~!

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Closed 6 years ago by mgbnn.