"Since there were 0 entries first time around"
I wonder why, where's the bloody puzzle?
Is there some secret that only people who have been here for longer will know or something?

This is impossible man, where's the puzzle?

you're a puzzle demon, my friend.

its not a good puzzle if the puzzle itself needs knowledge of how these kind of puzzles got handled in the past.
but keeping things fair doesnt seem to strike me as the intention here

i feel so stupid when there is already 8 people with the puzzle and i cant even find it, tried everything, ctrl+c, clicling everything, giving away all my stuff to a suspicious guy in dark corner and nothing :c

Dafuq

Dude I think you don`t understand what a puzzle mean lol .

You can't call your puzzle easy if nobody has been able to solve it for this long. Just sayin :)

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA SOLVED!!!!!!!!!!! :EXCITED: TNX TNX!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

I am really stuck on this, i have been working at it for around half an hour and nothing, nothing through google, nothing on the links, there is nothing hidden

No link 1/5

That or I'm blind

EDIT: Probably turning into Terezi

I am so confused

Fine, 6/7. F*ing star. Need a break / sleep now I guess

EDIT: never mind actually made the final push :] now i can finally sleep soundly for sure

Found the puzzle but it's tricky.
2/7

Seems like I found the entrance.

5/7

EDIT:
I'm kinda stuck. I see the reference of Q4 but I'm out of answer ideas. Also that f*ing star.

EDIT:
6/7 - f*ing star is defeated.

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It's not clicking for me in my head..

Maybe if you know the trick its easy

3/7. Full of references that lead me to nowhere D:
Btw, the art is yours?

Here's a free game for people who can not solve the puzzle...

01010011 01000100 01101000 01001000 01010011 01010110 01000101 01110100 01010100 01000100 01101100 01010101 01010010 01010110 01101011 01110100 01001110 01101011 01111000 01011000 01001110 01111010 01001101 00111101

FINALYYYYYYYYY! This took much longer than I wish to admit. Bumpity.

Seems like a nice puzzle... don't have the time to find the solution tho'... :( Hope everyone else have a better luck.

Closed, gift sent to the winner. Here's the solution:

• In the beginning, you can see there's no visible puzzle. In that case, we know that puzzle can be hidden in one or more places - usually it's in the wall of text (not the case here, obviously), source code of the post (also not the case), steam profile/screenshots of creator, or previous giveaways that creator made. Even if you don't know of this, there were many hints to point you back to the beginning and my early giveaways. I even said openly:

There were at least 20 puzzles with the same trick just in the last 6 months. Even I made one. If you can't find the way to the questions, that means you quit way too easily.

That only made some people rage, but if they used their minds and energy for something productive instead for blind hate, they would SEARCH the forums and find out that I've made very similar puzzle just last week, and even posted the solution - explaining how clues to finding the puzzle were hidden in some of my early giveaways.

I even posted a hint and said it could be hint!

Again, some people took it as an insult to them, instead of seeing it as a hint. Picture is clearly showing that crybabies were looking in the wrong place. Did they try looking somewhere else? Of course not. Whats more, if you delete .jpg from the link and go to IMGUR page of said picture, you'll be able to see the description, which is go back to the beginning.

If that does not scream at you to go to the first giveaway I ever made, you could at least search the forums, because that thread I mentioned earlier, the one with the similar trick and a solution, was called "Back to the beginning".

• If you had gone to my earliest public giveaways you would find inside the description of first 11 some single characters that, in chronological order, make 2x 5char codes, clearly marked as 1 and 2. 5char codes can lead to only two places, either to the giveaway page (not the case) or to the IMGUR pictures.

• Between the codes there was a hint: 2+1=X

• We go to IMGUR and find these two pictures, showing us 2 parts of 8char code: RHxU and l3mF. Since 2+1=X, we take l3mFRHxU and use it to get to the ITSTOOHARD hosted quiz. 14 people total managed to solve this first part of the puzzle.

Now the things got easier... or not. There were 7 pictures posing as questions for the quiz.

• In the first picture, we see a zombie walking, and a text there's a zombie on your lawn! what can you use to stop it? - the correct answer is plants, and that's a tribute to great PvZ game.

• The second image is tribute to Skyrim which I'm playing at the time, and an arrow in the knee meme, so the answer is, plan and simple, an arrow in the knee.

• I considered the third picture to be easiest of them all, but players did not agree and have found it to be the most problematic of all questions. It's a starite from Scribblenauts game series, the ultimate goal of every single puzzle you do in the game. It's also used as an icon for the game, it is shown in every single preview, review, how to play, what is, let's play and similar video about the brand new Scribblenauts Unlimited game. The entire quiz is sort of a hint, because you have graphical situations and are required to write in the answer that can solve the puzzle. Also, you could have seen in my profile that I'm giving away this exact game, because no one guessed answer to this particular question first time around, and the game image popped up on my SG profile with 0 entries/closed.

• Fourth image is showing us a cult scene from the Lord of the Rings movies. Iven if you don't remember it, there are short clips on YouTube. The answer to this one is... you have my sword. Yeah, that's it.

• Fifth is obviously scrubs and I'll say nothing more about it.

• Sixth is showing late Michael Jackson in the Thriller outfit - in the moonlight - so you have MJ + moonlight + his thing = moonwalk.

• Seventh image should be obvious and will not be explained here nor will ever be explained in one of my solutions. If you do not know the answer to that one, you should shut down your computer and turn off the lights, because you don't deserve the A/C in your home...

Only 5 people managed to solve this quiz in time to enter and maybe win the game called Scribblenauts Unlimited.

That's it. This was my last great puzzle, I'll be hibernating until I get a new job or some spoiled rich girl decides to use me as her incredibly handsome trophy husband. Happy New year to all of you. Haters can go and enjoy public giveaways. :)

Holy shit.

even with the solution it is still a bad puzzle to begin with. doesnt matter if you call critics hater or criebabies. i for one never used imgur or the itstoohard site.
you obviously know the dark tower, you should go on and read what roland says about good riddles