Cake day giveaways [Solution posted]

I'll post some silly replies under this comment at irregular intervals, which might be helpful.

Pardon me for not replying to every comment and flooding your messages, but rest assured I'll read every one of them :3

To start off, in case this helps you decide whether the "puzzles" are worth your time, here are the level requirements for the giveaways (following the cart order in the OP): 1 2 3 3 2 1 2 1 3 3

Section 3 should be the easiest one, since I've spelled out the complete giveaway URL for you after all. It's more like a "tutorial" rather than a puzzle -- it serves to highlight the crucial part of a giveaway URL and how redirection works here (of course SG regulars probably know this already).

My mom always says it's bad for your eyes to read under poor light. I'm not sure if it's true, but I do crank up the brightness in the room when I read. Maybe the text and paper will have better contrast, making it easier to read and reducing eye fatigue?

I'm sure you've already figured out that "Find me." is a comment somewhere on SG...

Is it that hard to find me? Notice anything out of place in that screenshot, like it was edited or something?

After opening the link in the hidden comment, the code you think you see is probably different from what is actually written there.

To access the last cart, you should visit the other three sections first.

Remember the tutorial? Remember how I put gibberish after the giveaway code and the URL still takes you to the giveaway without a hiccup?

Oh right, I've forgotten to mention, that first comment regarding level requirements is probably a hint too for the last cart. Have you seen those numbers somewhere else?

Solutions below, in case one of you is interested.

Section 1: In the first image, I've replaced the Permalink text found in comments with the text U1urony, which is the comment's permalink ID. Permalink to hidden comment: https://www.steamgifts.com/go/comment/U1urony . Once you've found the comment, you'll see a link to an imgur album with a giveaway code on it. Open the image in a new tab (or drag it around in the browser) and you should be able to notice the first character is not an H at all, but rather an A. Therefore the URL for the first section is https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/AH5zs/ .

Section 2: Crank up the brightness/contrast of the second image using your favorite tool and you should see the text zerogecv next to the light switch. URL for the second section is https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/0gecv/ .

Section 3: Simply enter the giveaway URL given in the third image: https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/bZ5rw/not-sure-what-to-call-this-section .

The last cart: The alt text of the fourth image (either hover your mouse over the image for a bit or read the source) is XXXXX, which tries to hint that the giveaway code is given by the five X's in the tic-tac-toe. The five placements for the X's are: 1-1, 2-2, 2-3, 1-3, 3-2. For each placement, the first number denotes the train section and the second number denotes the giveaway level. Looking up the giveaways in the train, these X's correspond to the following giveaways:

• [1-1] Dragon Age: Origins (https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/AH5zs/drogon-age-origins)
• [2-2] WORLD END ECONOMiCA episode.02 (https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/Olr34/world-end-economica-episodeQ2)
• [2-3] fault - milestone one (https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/0gecv/fault-milestone-oni)
• [1-3] DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin (https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/6dq5S/dark-souls-ii-scholar-of-the-firs7-sin)
• [3-2] Fortix (https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/bZ5rw/for4ix)

The URLs in the parentheses are the URLs I've provided in the train for those giveaways (as "Previous cart" or "Next cart" links). If you look closely, there's a typo in each of those URLs (compare the game's name and the text after the giveaway code, or well, just compare the URLs before and after redirection). Taking all these typos together gives the code oQi74, and thus the final giveaway URL is https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/oQi74/ .

That's all Folks! If you want, let me know if you have any thoughts on the "puzzles" (too hard/too easy/illogical :)

Nope :(

+1 :O

Maybe, let's wait a bit first :D