Alas, from toDay I'm officially one year older. Life's shit, gets shittier, but you're not here to Watch me brood, just grab your piece of obligatory caketrain and move along. As a form of minor bot protection we have a simple nono since y'all seem to like them. I hate 'em. Yes, it's because I'm bad at them. And a jigidi because I like them despite also being bad at them Yes, you have to do both nono and jigi. You'll have to excuse the poor picture. I was gonna google an image of cake to use but given that nowadays pretty much everything you google is AI slop made with stolen artworks I figuerd I'd rather draw one myself. yes, I'm also bad at drawing
It's mostly lvl 3+, runs for a week, a mix of trash and less trash games. It's probably way too complicated of a puzzle for such a poor selection but, oh well... And remember: when in doubt - run from the top.

[SOLUTION]
With all the gifts redeemed and only 3 people who can't even type a few letters after recieving free stuff, I'm posting the solution to the puzzle, as I promised.
First you had 3 emphasied letters in the text - each in a different way: D was italicized, next was W as a hyperlink leading to rick roll (sometimes people just blindly click links without reading the posts hoping they'll go directly to GAs), and lastly was letter j which was bolded. note: initially W was bolded and j was a link but after creating the post I realised that lowercase j perfectly hides link so I've swapped these 2 to make the puzzles a little easier Now, all 3 were noticeable just looking closely at the body of the text but they still might be tricky to notice for some, hence the hint I've left aplenty and the default way to look for special characters in wall of text inspect You can right click anywhere on the text and select the option to "inspect" or "view source" or something similar, whatever your web browser might call it. There you'll see raw html making the site and conspicuous tags in the middle of a text instead of the visual effects appled to certain letters. Now with the 3 letters you were basically halfway through the puzzle. All was left to do were first the nonogram that'd yield the letter a and a jigidi which gave latter V. Now all you had to do was asseble the letters into the giveaway code. Here's where the last hint came into play - to run from the top i.e. from the beggining. The letters were in order you found them giving you the code DWjaV which put into the standard giveaway link opened the first cart of the train!

That's all folks! Thanks for playing. Thanks for all the birthday wishes! We'll probably meet again in december for my cakeday or maybe I'll do something before that, who knows! This mesage will self-destruct in... soon :)

1 week ago*

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Happy Birthday :D

Bump!

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1 week ago
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Bump despite being too dumb to solve your puzzle.

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Bump!

1 week ago
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Happy birthday!

Life is tough. I hope you can find those sometimes rare moments of joy nestled in between the not so fun moments :)

1 week ago
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Happy birthday, Devirk! πŸŽ‚

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happy birthday 🍰

1 week ago
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Bump,
Happy birthday.γ€€πŸ©

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Happy birthday! πŸŽ‚

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Happy Birthday! :D

1 week ago
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Happy three days late birthday! I managed to solve it only to find out I'm one level below requirement I should learn to read the whole thing first.
Nevertheless, this was fun to figure out :)

Also, about finding non AI images there are two tools that can help. First, add "-ai" at the end of your search, that alone helped me filter out a lot in the past. Second, there is a ublock origin blocklist that apparently does wonders: https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist (Hope it's ok to link github in this site). I haven't used the blocklist yet actually just because I found that the "-ai" solution works well enough.
Though, I always encourage drawing yourself anyway!

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congratz!

1 week ago
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Man I was overthinking the second clue WAY too much lmao. Literally sat here for like 15 mins trying to work out what it could be. Genuine face palm moment 🀣

6 days ago
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πŸ”₯πŸŽ‚πŸ”₯

😲😯🀯

Happy Birthdayβ™ͺ

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6 days ago
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Happy belated bday!

6 days ago
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I'm late but I hope you had a good birthday man. Thanks for some cool games; and a cool little puzzle :)

6 days ago
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Bump

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bump for ended and solution! I'll close the thread in a few days

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