And I don't mean 1111 in binary, which would be 15 (BTW I did not use binary encoding in this puzzle!)

So I'm here since the faithful Faerie Solitaire giveaway and managed to win 20 times, mostly thanks to wonderful people creating puzzles, combined with me being able to solve them of course.

This calls for a small celebration! With a puzzle, or w/e you want to call it :)

Yes this is one of those evil puzzles, where you have to guess what I did there, but I promise it is actually a pretty simple, although a little twisted idea. However, the more convoluted your idea for the first step is, the more likely it is wrong. You will see when you did the first step right - there is going to be an explanation of what to do next, which should be pretty straightforward. The "fun" part is trying to get the first step right. You don't have to leave this page.

The duration is kinda short: the timer

No hinting, no sharing of ideas, do it yourself or skip it.

(That's by default by the way, but seems you gotta remind people about this)

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Good luck in seeing what I did there!

Update: Final tally - (at least) 22 solvers with 16 entries. Seems good, so no hints will be added.

Solution

The gist of it was that this was a base64 encoded message, just split in 5 character groups faking as giveaway codes. With some actual finished public Skyrim giveaways as a monument to those fine people who made them, and as a red herring, too. Though I clearly did say that you don't have to leave this page, meaning there was no point in following the links. I also hinted that I didn't use binary encoding, trying to put your mind into thinking I did use some other encoding. Also telling SrgColman to taste her own medicine, as she loves them various encodings.

Anyway, the message read to use the sieve of Eratosthenes, which is an ancient algorithm of finding prime numbers, and then reverse. So, take only the fragments from the fake giveaway links that had prime number on them on my 10x10 table, put them together, reverse, and that's a base64 encoded full giveaway link leading to my Sniper Elite giveaway (yes, not Skyrim I'm afraid).

As an added touch, the first message had skyrimz dated from older to newer ones, and then the order reversed. Totally not important, just an added finishing move, since that part was reversed.

Congratulations to the solvers, and especially to the winner!