I decided to give away Cogs.
Because giving away a puzzle game with a puzzle, seems appropriate,
here is a puzzle that goes with the game's theme.

This is the starting configuration Bigger image
And here are the steps to the solution:
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This giveaway will be open until 2012-06-09T22:00Z

update1:
Hint: This is a sliding puzzle it has 7920 steps. (You probably don't want to solve this by hand)
update2:
I simplified the puzzle. It should be more obvious what to do.
Previously every step was represented as two bits, since only four options are available at every step. Then four steps are packed into one byte, from most significant bits to least significant. Resulting byte array was encoded with base64, as it is one of the ways to represent such data as text.
update3:
For those who didn't figure it out, here you can see how you were supposed to solve this.
Only chour, who solved the original puzzle, Award and lockalola the only one who entered, solved the puzzle.

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Thanks, but I have it already. :)

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^this

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holy i got lost after 'and here are the steps to the solution'

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what in the world... thanks though

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Is there no interest in the game or is the puzzle to hard?

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puzzle too hard, not sure which coding that is :/

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I'm interested in the game, but not crappy puzzles that ask you to visit sites and decode shit which we never heard of. :/

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+1

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+10

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Visit sites? You just need the image.
Then you need to decode the steps and use them to get to the solution.

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i have no clue to what this may be

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Have it already, but thanks for puzzle :)

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I get the impression that the intended method of solving this involves rotating clusters of characters. if that is correct I'm afraid the formatting is off and a line break is required at the end of each line. I'm interested in this but I want to be sure I am viewing the puzzle properly before attempting.

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The text only contains encoded steps. You need the provided image on which you use the steps.

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i know how solve it, but i do not have got tool to do this :(

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Well I do have Cogs, but wanted to give it a try for the puzzle's sake. Gotta say I'm at a loss though what you want us to do, probably this is too hard. Or I wasn't trying hard enough, having the game already anyway.

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absolutely have no idea lol.

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Oooh. Only after solving it I must say this piece is a gem of a puzzle! Tough and beautiful.

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The puzzle creator really had an excellent idea here! I applaud you, Chour, that you got the gist of it without the creator making it much easier to grasp the intentions behind the puzzle.

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Currently the only known person that solved it is chour, but he didn't enter the giveaway.
If no one enters by tomorrow 2012-06-07T22:00Z, I will make the puzzle simpler and hope to get some entries.

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if you do, could you please also post an explanation of this one?
Edit: assuming the explanation won't be a spoiler for the easier one of course.

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o_0

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As I promised yesterday, I simplified the puzzle.
I now hope to get some entries.

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I have no idea but I'll leave something.. FeieO

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Damn. I already won this game two days ago.

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There are still no entries.

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i wonder why.... have no idea how to decode this

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After I simplified it, you really don't need any decoding, you just need to solve it.
If you know anything about sliding puzzles, you should know what to do.

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9 hours left

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Still no entires?

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nope

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Okay now I think I see what you did there. I'll give it a shot, though like I said earlier I own the game.

EDIT: Yes, I applaud your puzzle :) Real nice. Not sure why I didn't catch it the first time, don't quite remember what I got after decoding, maybe dismissed it bit too soon. But currently you made it pretty clear, at least to me, what you expected. Pity I have the game, this puzzle really is something different :)

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Ah I see your second update now. Indeed, I didn't look that deep into the puzzle to catch the 2-bit encoding. Lazy me xD The more kudos to your first solver. It's really much easier and obvious now.

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I knew exactly what to do, but I couldn't find a program that moves individual pixels like that. What did you use to make the solution animation?

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It was my intention, that you would need to write some code to solve this. The code just needs to swap pixels with the hole. You don't need any animation to solve the puzzle.
I made the animation as a html web page with javascript and canvas html element.

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Closed 12 years ago by grego87.