Walkthrough
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Creator Ink sent out the trailhead tweet at their designated time: 17:00 PDT. It contained four images of the wrapping paper used as part of the first merch mystery hunt.
Players had to manipulate the four images to get readable text. How to do that was hinted at by Creator Ink's original tweet, which is blending images. A tutorial is linked in that tweet if players needed help with Photopea. It could also have been done in any program that allows blending layers, such as GIMP. Some players also had problems getting the merged text to be readable, but enough adjustment would get it to be visible.
In the above picture, the top left and bottom left pictures had to be merged. Merging like so revealed a date. AUG05 meant August 5th.
What year this date was referring to can be found from Creator Ink's equation: Year = 14,126 ÷ 7. Calculating the year turns out to be 2018, so the date in question is August 5th, 2018.
In a similar fashion, the top right and bottom right images had to be blended as well using the same methods.
The end result was a given timestamp of 14:33, along with a lightning bolt symbol.
Connecting the two details together, players had to find the Game Theory video that was released on August 5, 2018 and go to the timestamp of 14:33. The video happened to be a FNAF video: Game Theory: FNAF, This is the End (FNAF Ultimate Custom Night).
Going to the timestamp of 14:33, the frame features 5 well-known characters: Harry Potter, Batman, Finn, Annie, and Bambi. The true answer to enter in the Google Form was hinted at by the lightning bolt symbol next to the timestamp, and was thus Harry Potter.
The winners were revealed in a followup tweet, showing the form submissions for the top ten winners (@DutChen18#7605 took the first place prize) as well as some notable form submissions that caught Creator Ink's attention. Another followup tweet came from Creator Ink, questioning the variety of the submitted answers.
