Pixel Perfect Puzzle [Solution posted]

Solution:

Step 1: The poll spells out the required characters for the first step, v-4-q-C-1-M-o. It has 7 characters which lead to one of the most used websites on SG: Imgur.com. You just found Tabletop, something every puzzle needs.

Step 2: The hint on that page repeats a hint given in the poll, ...in a past.... This hint should have lead you to my old Giveaways, conveniently the one named Pixel Puzzles Japan: UndeadZ. You just found Puzzle with missing Pieces, now you actually have something more visual than just pixels. I added decoys to all my other Giveaways, sorry!

Step 3: The hint was a "poem" ending in Could the past be deleted? that sure would /reek!, the slash in front of reek was no accident. It was supposed to be a hint to a discussion title, with the deleted bit it should have lead you to a closed thread by me called reek, reachable my typing reek in the discussion search. You just found a Puzzle Piece, now we are getting somewhere!

Step 4: The next hint was right there in the reek thread, it says When I win a game on SG I always say thank you. No really, check it out., which should have lead you to my won games page. I mostly enter invite only GAs so there were not that many wins to check, but it is easy to overlook one I guess. The win you were looking for was conveniently for the game Puzzle Agent, I made the Thank you I posted there extra big for your convenience :P You just found a Puzzle Piece, progress!

Step 5: On the Imgur.com page I type a little filler stuff and end in That will go into my >Gaming Top Ten< mistakes :/. Typing 'gaming top ten' in the discussion search on SG would have lead you to the 'poor bear' I mentioned in the filler bit, his thread is this one. Scroll down to find my comment which has Top 10 SG Puzzle Pieces... in it and a picture. You just found a Puzzle Piece, Felix awaits!

Step 6: The hint is a little rhyme about Felix. The first 3 lines of the rhyme contain the words to look for on Google, namely Felix, Foursquare and letters and the rest are a guide to using the result of the search. Google finds Foursquare Cipher as the the first result, sounds good. We are however after the 3rd result, a way to decrypt it, the Toolbox. Type Puzzle in box 1, Piece in box 2, enter ALKT2IR from the rhyme in box 3, make sure it is set to decrypt and tadaa! GLOT2MS comes out, find it on imgur.com, profit! You just found a Puzzle Piece, now lets all repeat after me: I hate you Felix!

Step 7: The Q.W... step, or the 'lets skip it'-step :P The hint that you got from solving Felix was a series of coordinates Q3W29, Q5W4, Q4W12, Q2W10 and Q1W178 These corresponded to words in the opening post as seen below this solution. The questions are part of the count. The first and last coordinate gave 2 characters, the others just one, which lead to the following code 80oz1t4. Adding it to an imgur.com url got you the final piece. You just found a Puzzle Piece, this piece short explains how to assemble the puzzle.

Step 8: Assembly. It's pretty simple to make something readable out of all the components. You need a program like Photoshop, GIMP or even an online editor like pixlr.com. Open the first image, the table as I called it earlier, this should be the bottom layer. Next open the Puzzles with missing Pieces, select all (ctrl+A), copy it (ctrl+C) and paste it in the other open file on top of the first image (ctrl+V), when done correctly it should make a new layer exactly as big as the table layer and magic should happen, an actual puzzle should appear. (on small screens you may want to zoom in the notice it) Now do the same steps for the puzzle pieces and put them exactly in the right spot, Pixel Perfect, all pieces fit only in one hole. When done correctly a character should appear on the puzzle piece.

If every one of these steps is done correctly you should now have a 5 letter code to a Giveaway.
For an explanation on how I created the actual images you need that code, I'm explaining that on the Giveaway page :P.

Original post :

Puzzle? I've solved a few puzzles on SG, and it's been awesome, but like many solvers tefore me I started thinking about making a puzzle too. I felt very inspired and had big plans, but I am a bit of a scatterbrain and procrastinating is a hobby of mine...so weeks later I still had plenty of ideas but nothing to show for them.

So there is no puzzle then? Yes there is one! I have finally gotten off of my lazy bum and put a little something together. This puzzle is a bit simpler than my initial plans, but I hope it is still fun enough and not too frustrating.

Who is it for? Anyone is free to try of course, but I think it's a bit easy so the reward is lvl1+. and upwards. If I get 80 solvers I'll be happy.

Any other requirements? Being able to make it from a to z would be a pro. Hmm, and I'll just tell you right now that Paint won't cut it in this case. This may not be a cake, but it does come in layers. I think it ends on saturday.

Poll? Oh, uhm, o, okay, yes, here, have a poll. I apologize in advance because you will soon find out for yourself anyway...there is no potato in the poll!