Here is my first attempt at a rebus puzzle, I will create some jigi's later this week for those who need their fix.
The giveaways end on Friday 9:30pm Eastern Time. You only need to solve this one Rebus puzzle to access them all.

The games in the giveaway are:
Oniken: https://store.steampowered.com/app/252010/
Devil Daggers: https://store.steampowered.com/app/422970/
VVVVVV: https://store.steampowered.com/app/70300/
The Stanley Parable: https://store.steampowered.com/app/221910/
Day of the Tentacle: https://store.steampowered.com/app/388210/
The Bridge: https://store.steampowered.com/app/204240/

The giveaway link is tinyURL.com/45?
Get ? from the Rebus

Good Luck to everyone, you are free to discuss as much as you like, I will not hamper your discussions.

I think I have to start giving hints as there's still only one entrant:
hints:
1. ? is a plural noun, all 5 letters are lower case.
2. if you think of the whole puzzle as a sentence, it contains 3 nouns, all plural.
3. I can replace part of the puzzle like in the second image, and the sentence doesn't change in any way.
4. T- - - - - are the C - - - - of - - - - - - - . This last hint is very heavy handed, especially if you consider some of the previous ones as you look at it

The Solution was "Talons are the claws of raptors"

Tall ( ' means remove last letter) = Tal - on - "z sound" Talons and then you'd need to identify the raptors as raptors or birds of prey or something, and filling the blank should be easy after that because you will have "Talons are the ------- of raptors" and the ----- gets you in the giveaway

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I will create some jigi's later this week for those who need their fix.

whistling Jigiholics? Hm... never knew that existed :P
Thanks for the change of pace, it's a fun one.

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you're welcome, I hope the game range is decent. I wanted varied games but also games that I actually like. I got some 40$ games to give out but they're the kind of thing I would never personally even touch, so I decided to leave em for another puzzle.

6 years ago
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They look like fun and quite diverse so good job ;)
I heard so much about the Stanley Parable, I need to give it a shot

6 years ago
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I can't seem to get it to work. I enter tinyURL.com/45? address with the word instead of ? and it doesn't work. Says "Error: Unable to find URL to redirect to". I solved it correctly, I'm sure.

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The address is correct, I am a bit of a beginner at puzzles so maybe my rebus is a little vague and you guessed the wrong word. But with the word I'm looking for it is guaranteed to get you to the gibs.

You are allowed to ask me questions, I will answer if I think it won't spoil the puzzle. If I think the answer would ruin the fun or give an unfair advantage I'll not respond.

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On the other hand you are free to discuss your thoughts or even your answers with other users here. I will not interfere in those discussions at all. I would request that if you find THE answer that you do not leave it explicitly written in chat, so others would have a chance to play. Also, I will remind you of something I'm sure you already know, it might be easier to solve puzzles together, but it would also mean there are more people entering the giveaway with you, so it's a bit of a balancing act - and very much part of the fun.

6 years ago
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Bump for guessed :D

6 years ago
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Haha! I guessed because I'm hopeless, and it actually took me to a legit link that wasn't yours XD

Back to the drawing board, I guess...

6 years ago
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lol i just woke up and reading that amused me, thanks :p

6 years ago
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I did find the youtube video as well!! :P

6 years ago
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Right? The wings one! And such a weird obscure vid, too 😂

But hey, good luck to you with finding the real one!

6 years ago
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I went to an amazon book link, dunno why xD

6 years ago
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Oh man, I just got another. Finding these weird links is almost more fun than the actual puzzle XP

6 years ago
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Oh boy :')
I wish I were better at these type of puzzles. I always found them harder than other puzzles when I was in school.

6 years ago
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Same here, man, I got you T^T

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Yesterday someone solved the puzzle and entered two gibs, so far they are still the only person to solve it and enter GAs

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Bump for visualization

6 years ago
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Have a bump.

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thanks

6 years ago
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You get some interesting links xD

6 years ago
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Bump for not solving it because I'm lazy xD

6 years ago
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Bump for solved!

6 years ago
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you made it to the podium, 2nd place :p

6 years ago
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Grats!

6 years ago
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Bump for finding the link!

6 years ago
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Bumped for solved!

6 years ago
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Solved, have a bump!

6 years ago
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I guess the C is "Crowd"! But thats' all i can think of :/

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Bump for solved.

6 years ago
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Solved for bump.

6 years ago
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Both this time and last time with the puzzles one person won two games, should I set up a rule to make it that people can only win one game? Or do people not mind either way?

6 years ago
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It just means that person is lucky :)

It will naturally happen, if there are multiple GAs and just a few solvers, I don't think that you should worry about it :)

6 years ago
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Thank you all for participating, I'll have some more puzzles up soon, I wanted to put some up during the week, but since so few people were entering this GA I didn't want to distract from it.

6 years ago
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I don't mind if people win multiple. This is coming from someone who didn't win any of them and I entered into most of them. Haha. Thanks for making the puzzle. I had a lot of fun with it. XD

6 years ago
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Do you mind posting the solution for all of us clueless people so that we can get better at it next time? Thanks a lot in advance.

6 years ago
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+1

6 years ago
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Clueless #3 here, happy to learn with you : )

6 years ago
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Talons are the Claws of Raptors.

I had to go through a wordlist with the heavy handed hint to solve it.
I guess the image on the left means Tall-on-/z/ (z sound, the same sound as z in zoo or s in plans).
Raptor can refer to either carnivorous birds, or velociraptors.

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sorry for the late reply, the solution is down there now, I was planning on posting it as soon as the GA was done, but I got distracted lol

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Closed 6 years ago by GreenTomator.