A Picture a Puzzle - Mini-Event - Over - Birthday over too!

People finding the last secret link: 4 (I think)

Okay, there will be some text in-coming. I had this idea for quite a while and wanted to create something fun and slightly challenging. So please even if you are not good at puzzles give it a try and have fun. Some remarks to the puzzles. As I have them created way before the giveaways existed you are not searching for a giveaway code but for an eight character code (in most cases). In this regard there are a few websites you have to visit no matter what if you want to reach the giveaways, namely:

• www.steamgifts.com
• www.itstoohard.com
• www.jigidi.com

You may need some other online/free tools to get everything solved but they are not bound to specific websites. I tried to make the puzzles as versatile as possible (and the giveaways also) so that everyone should find something. Sadly I ran into some problems on the final stretch. One I could dodge and one I could not. Apparently it is ****ing impossible to upload a picture without it autoplaying. As such "puzzle" #3 is now a freeby and the first step to puzzle #10 is also already solved. Screw you internet. EDIT: Small change to #2 as it seemed to cause confusion.

#1 Musical Genius - 8-bit music at its finest, CV 3+/4+
#2 Colour me impressed - Complement me, CV 3+/1+
#3 Flower Power - Get it flowery, CV 1+
#4 Lost my wolves - Where could they hide?, CV 2+
#5 ITH - Questionable, CV 2+
#6 Must be blind, CV 4+/3+
#7 Warm and Cold, CV2+
#8 Frogger - About Cars and Trucks, CV 2+/3+
#9 Elementary - xy, CV 3+/2+
#10 Whiteboard - Multitrick Pony, CV 0-5+

With this done some additional information. There are probably still hickups in the complete event. If you find something just comment on it and I will try to fix it in the next 24 hours. There is no meta-puzzle here. Every image is a singularity so there is no feeling forced to do everything if you just can't grasp a specific puzzle. IF PEOPLE WISH HOWEVER I can make one final ITH with passwords. However, there will be no giveaway behind. It is just for bragging rights. If you want something like this then please answer to the first post of the thread (no matter who actually posted it) with the sentence "I want bragging rights". If there are five people or more I will make the ITH.
If you have trouble with a specific puzzle you can ask "How difficult/obscure is puzzle #x?" And people can then answer with "Easy, Medium, Hard, Very obscure, unobscure" based on personal feeling. While you receive no hints you can get a general idea if you are approaching the puzzle in a to complex manner.
I have some group giveaways which have currently horrible feedback. I may give users the chance to partake in them. I don't know how yet. But numbers of solved puzzle may take a role. Number of won games and played wins will certainly take a role.

I have tried to garner some interest before and failed. If YOU NOW after seeing the puzzles think it would be cool to add your own puzzle or support the event with a giveaway I will welcome this very much. Really, I would be happy if this get a bit bigger.

Giveaways you can find:
King Arthur's Gold, War for the Overworld, Pillars of Eternity, Resident Evil, Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location, DreadOut, Eterium, Wargame: Red Dragon, Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy, Resident Evil 6, The Elder Scrolls® Online: Tamriel Unlimited™, Passpartout: The Starving Artist, H1Z1, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III, Sleeping Dogs, Full Bore, Miracle Fly, Realms of Arkania - Blade of Destiny, The Long Dark, BlazBlue - Chronophatasma Extend

EDIT: Keys are partially kinda old but not reclaimed so far. I just hope I don't run into problems with non-working keys or region restrictions. I hope you will show understanding if it happens. So far I have been lucky (ignoring the Off the Records fiasco).

For all giveaways: Please enter only if you have an actual interest in PLAYING the games. Games are meant to be played. They have a purpose. So do it. In a timeline manner (t < 0.5 a)

And lastly: I am dependent on visibility for this. Two weeks is a long time. So if you solve something or enter something please bump the thread. With 10 puzzles and an average solver numbers of 50 this should account to about 500 bumps :P Seriously, help me abit with this in the next two weeks. Even if you have super rushed all puzzles in an hour because they are too easy.

Hints Section

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Round 1:
General: There is rarely any unneeded information in the puzzles. If something is displayed it has a reason. Always wonder: Why did he use this background, why did he write hits number ....
#1: There are three different notes, you will need minimal musical knowledge to understand their function, also note the 4/8 at the beginning
#2: Colour based puzzle: You need 6 from all those squares, those 6 are somehow different, it has to do with the sentence in the middle
#3: no comment -_-
#4: There is an idiom concerning wolves and the other animal
#5: Maybe not every answer is as correct as the image wants to make you believe
#6: Maybe something is obsctructing my view
#7: Check the comment section
#8: Start by comparing it to an original screenshot
#9: Image 3 and 4 are actually the same, why do they look so different
#10: What is the function of the second word

Round 2:
#1: In the music piece there is a total of 8*8 characters represented, changing between two different states
#2: Which colour pairs result in a grey colour if you mix them together?
#3: Obviously this is an ITH code => www.itstoohard.com/puzzle/xxxxxxxx
#4: You shouldn't trust file extensions
#5: Just check them step by step, there are two wrong answers
#6: What do you need to see?
#7: Graphical puzzle, overlay lots
#8: Beep Beep Beeeeeeeep
#9: The elements tell you how to decode, somethnig something images gives you the numbers
#10: Originally #10 was a combination of #3 and #4 and some brain work, #3 is already done thanks to autoplay. So what is left?

Round 3:
#1: This is not a puzzle where you have to read between the lines but OFF the lines and ON the lines, binary spoken
#2: An example for a matching pair would be Blue-Orange, for the order think how colours are described physically
#3: It is literally impossible to make this any easier without writing the correct link right here
#4: In rare cases you can rename file extensions to access hidden properties
#5: An Image for an ITH and eight questions each with a single character answer ......
#6: Zoooooom in, you are Pixel hunting
#7: Vertical lines (4 characters) , horizontal rows (4 characters)
#8: There exists a whole Alphabet for this
#9: The "form" of the images give you a two-digit or three digit number, it is xy (x value followed by y value) NOT x*y, translate it correctly
#10: After entering the archive you need a password which is clearly shown to you, however you have to read it correctly, it is an "something" of "something"; with "something" being the same word ~