Update: The contest has finished, so I’m posting the puzzles and solutions in spoiler tags.

Prepuzzle part 1: Find the contest!
Unfortunately, you won’t be able to do this the intended way once the thread is closed.
Prepuzzle part 1 solution: Quote the OP. The rules and the first puzzle are hidden in image tags directly below “Find the contest”, but they’re in code. This is the hidden text:
[img]Congrats, you found the contest. Now decode it.[/img]
[img]Gtwf dbjf, K oqbn. Bqf bx iyf aseegfv kqmbgmfv t wblf kqiflfvikqc dbjf. Wtkg wf iyf tqvnfl ib ftdy aseegf, nkiy fpagtqtikbq; xkqjkqc tqj jfdbjkqc iyf lsgfv jbfvq’i dbsqi tv t aseegf. K nkgg lfvabqj ib dbllfdi tqvnflv nkiy iyf qfpi aseegf. Jb qbi abvi tqvnflv. Iyflf tlf 5 aseegfv. Iyf xklvi aflvbq ib wtkg wf tgg 5 tqvnflv nkqv 3 Rlbnqkf Abkqiv. Iyf vfdbqj aflvbq nkqv 1. K wkcyi ckmf ykqiv kx iykv itofv ibb gbqc. Aseegf 1: Iylff Gkiigf Akcv Itpk Vflmkdf. Iyf tqvnfl ytv t gfqciy bx 1 nblj.[/img]
In case you’re wondering, I can show the image tags because I wrote them in HTML character codes. Code tags don’t seem to work from within spoiler tags.

Prepuzzle part 2: Decode it.
Prepuzzle part 2 solution: It’s a monoalphabetic cypher. You can just run it through a simple online decoder.

Puzzle 1: 3 Little Pigs Taxi Service
Puzzle 1 solution: straw cab -> sdrawkcab -> backwards
I gave so many hints for this, you don’t even need to know the puzzle to solve it.

Puzzle 2: What’s deeper than an iPod Femto?
Puzzle 2 solution: Brian Greene knitting furiously. It’s a reference to the xkcd strip “Depth”.

Puzzle 3: (000)370-0177
Puzzle 3 solution: Turned upside down, it becomes WDDLEDOO, or Waddle Doo. I expected the main difficulty in this to be the D/O ambiguity.

Puzzle 4: jlnx iun ndjz
Puzzle 4 solution: Convert to numbers 1-26, add primes, convert back. Answer: lose the game

Puzzle 5: It’s not important, and yes, I am aware of the forbidden fruit effect.

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Find the contest!

People who have finished Puzzle 1:
Miss Prince
C_Wenhoo
StrayNeko
Vodic
Psy-4

People who have finished Puzzle 2:
Miss Prince
StrayNeko
C_Wenhoo
Vodic
Psy-4

People who have finished Puzzle 3:
Miss Prince
StrayNeko
Psy-4

People who have finished Puzzle 4:
Miss Prince
Psy-4

People who have finished Puzzle 5:
Miss Prince
Psy-4

First place: Miss Prince

Second place: Psy-4

Pre-Puzzle Hint 1: You don’t have to leave this thread.

Puzzle 1 Hint 1: Homophone
Puzzle 1 Hint 1 Addendum: The answer isn’t a homophone, but homophonicity is involved.
Puzzle 1 Hint 1 Addendum 2: Tools and lists probably won’t help, as the homophones are a phrase and something that isn’t even a word (although it does show up on Urban Dictionary).
Puzzle 1 Hint 2: The answer is a real word. Type: adjective/adverb
Puzzle 1 Hint 3: First letter: b
Puzzle 1 Hint 4: The solution doesn’t involve noises (such as oink) or types of pigs.
Puzzle 1 Hint 5: Out of what would you expect them to make their stuff?
Puzzle 1 Hint 6: The first pig drives a _____ ___.

Puzzle 2 Hint 1: xkcd

Puzzle 3 Hint 1: MS Paint Adventures Problem Sleuth Chapter 2 (although the answer and solution have nothing to do with MSPA)
Puzzle 3 Hint 2: Kirby

Puzzle 4 Hint 1: The encryption is a cipher with a simple, weak, endless key. Letters are represented as integers 1-26.
Puzzle 4 Hint 2: The key is a well-known set of numbers.
zagerblag edited this message on 03/28/2009 1:43PM

C_Wenhoo Posted:

A phone number?

What? I don’t understand the question.

C_Wenhoo Posted:

Ahh…I thought it was this:

(000)370-0177

That’s not the contest.

I don’t get what you mean, but I just scrolled through recent your flamebate posts off your profile to see if there was anything puzzle-like in there.

By the way, could you tell me the answer to that? I’ve thought about it for 10 minutes and can’t figure it out..

C_Wenhoo edited this message on 02/18/2009 2:33AM

I sent you the answer to puzzle 1 but I’m not quite sure. Goddamn Google doesn’t give anything useful Log in to see images!

No right answers yet. I was wondering whether to openly display the contest, but it seems that people can find it.

press ctrl+f
type "contest"

Dammit, I am probably over-thinking this. Can’t figure out what you are using Log in to see images!

Well, im gunna sleep on it.

Skyman747 edited this message on 02/18/2009 2:20AM

zagerblag Posted:

I was wondering whether to openly display the contest, but it seems that people can find it.

Do you mean that people have already found it, but nobody has solved it?

C_Wenhoo Posted:

Do you mean that people have already found it, but nobody has solved it?

People have found my contest, but no one has finished it. Otherwise, I would have updated the OP.