[puzzle Cakeday!] 6x Roadwarden and 1xWindy Meadow - A Roadwarden Tale [Ended. Solutions added!]

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It is(was?) my cakeday today(yesterday??) so I'm doing three giveaways for seven games.

I really enjoyed Roadwarden, so I am giving away six copies AND one copy of the Semi-Sequal Windy Meadow - A Roadwarden Tale

All three giveaways run for two weeks starting a few hours ago.
If I don't get enough entrants, I'll give more hints.
I did not put any red herrings in this, at least not on purpose, if you think you have found one... Just ask.

Giveaway one:
The puzzle is this and the only requirement is level 1.

Giveaway two is a giveaway for Five Copies of Roadwarden.

Edit: Start Here

SGtools Giveaway with the following requirements:

Minimum SG Level 3
Minimum ratio using Real Value of gifts Sent/Won on Steamgifts: ~~0.75~~ 0.5
Your account must have activated all the won gifts
Your account is not allowed to have won the same game multiple times.

Giveaway three is over! Solution at the end of this post.

If I screwed something up, I'm sorry. It's my first time doing this! I might have overstepped by ability.
We have two weeks, hints will come if they are needed, and I will explain everything, and take critiques, when it's over.

Hint0: This is a SGTools gated giveaway.. however to get the SGTools link you must go to ? first. -Giveaway 2
Hint1: hover text. -Giveaway 2
Hint2: a website, a letter, and seven numbers. -Giveaway 2
Hint3: Don't trust the polygon, he speaks his own language. -Giveaway 2
Hint4: Navy -Giveaway 2
~~Hint5: "⠀" -Giveaway 3~~ It's over!
~~Hint6: To solve puzzle 3, you must simply find a hidden link on the SG page for giveaway 2.~~ It's over!
Hint7: The book gives you a letter, the plane ONE number. - Giveaway 2
Hint8: I can't make the first part of the puzzle any clearer then this - Giveaway 2
Hint9: When filling in ????????, The letter goes first and the numbers are entered left to right. - Giveaway 2
Hint10: The plane only gives you one number. If you image search it, read a little before you guess. - Giveaway 2
Hint11: The polygon does not speak 10. He speaks his native language.
Hint12: The polygon's last name is "A-Decimal" Giveaway 2

Giveaway three has ended.
As promised, the solution.
If you look here the link has two spaces in it. That "error" is meant to grab your attention.
That is because it is not one link, but three. The steamdb link, the link to giveaway 3, and the steamdb link again. The hint "⠀" is not a space, it's the unicode brail charecter for a blank. Which is distinct from a space in that it can be made into a hyperlink.
This is the markdown that makes it work. This is the markdown that makes it work
And her is the unicode for the braile blank

20 hours left on giveaway 2. And only five entrants!
Right now all five of them are going to win!

If you are struggling with something, let me know. I'll try to give vague hints until I get more entrants.

Solutions

My goal was to make three giveaways that would not be defeated by bots or any browser addons I am aware of.

Puzzle 1

A malformed link. You usually can't get it from hovering over it and most browsers will give an error and not display the incorrect address. https://999.999.999.999/QBsRd was the obscured link. Modern equipment filters out such links to protect against errors.
"999.999.999.999" is what is we used to call a "Bogon" an invalid/unassignable IP. You can't make an ip segment larger then 255, so it's invalid. Just like puzzle 3, it's an abuse of how html and modern browsers process hyperlinks. And in most cases, hovering over it will not give a preview. A few ways to get that one, viewing source is likely the easiest. bogons used to be a useful tool for causing advantageous error states when hacking. Modern hardware doesn't have this problem. It filters it out, and that's what the puzzle is based on. Puzzle one was also somewhat of a hint for puzzle 3, in that it was an abuse of HTML.

Puzzle 2:

the first part of the image is naval flag code. You can decode it here
that gives you the website 2solve.me.
The book. You get the letter you need for the address via dancing men cypher
the plot of the book indicated is all about solving this cypher. The cover shown is not the original cover. The cover of the book was altered to include the dancing man for "a". The down arrow indicates that it is lower case. The plot of the book revolves around solving that exact cypher, which was created and introduced in that book.
The plane is a formidable carrier based fighter plane used by Japan in WW2, the Mitsubishi A6M Zero, commonly called the "Zero". Thus 0 is the answer.
The hexagon man's number is in hexadecimal (aka base 16, commonly called "hex"), it must be translated to base 10.
The last part is pig latin.

Puzzle 3

If you look here the link has two spaces in it. That "error" is meant to grab your attention.
That is because it is not one link, but three. The steamdb link, the link to giveaway 3, and the steamdb link again. The hint "⠀" is not a space, it's the unicode brail charecter for a blank. Which is distinct from a space in that it can be made into a hyperlink.
This is the markdown that makes it work. This is the markdown that makes it work
And her is the unicode for the braile blank

Some of that wasn't as clear as I would have liked, but I will do better next time.
Constructive criticism is very welcome!

Thanks!

2 weeks ago*

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BHTrellis188

Happy Belated Cakeday!

2 weeks ago