Just to clarify, will the dog ever show up on actual sites, or only in forums?  If it's just the forums I can play, but alot of filters restrict Stardock games sites for some reason....

No that the first day's contest is over, I would like to submit a bug report.  Firstly, as soon as the contest started, the progress tracker showed one person on clue five already, and another on clue one.  After I refreshed the page, it did not show any numbers at all until Shadowdragoon won.  Also, the Stardogs seem to all give the same clue, which I think may be intentional, but then on the 'do you hear what I hear" one, something strange happened.  I went to the SoundPackager website, where I found a dog who gave me the same "do you hear what I hear" clue.  Then I refreshed the page, thinking it was an error, and the dog was gone!  I wondered if they didn't appear until you completed the previous clues, so I went back to the first one to do them again.  The first one then also gave me the "do you hear what I hear" clue.  Finally, Shadowdragoon won, which is the only thing the progress tracker showed, until I restarted IE.  Now the progress chart shows all the numbers, and all of the dogs are gone (which I assume is intentional).

I hope you can fix this before tomorrow, I should like to have a fair chance at winning.  Also, I wasn't supposed to actually hear anything with the "do you hear" clue, was I?  Because I didn't.

Also, there was another dog on the Object Desktop site that gave me that clue as well.

The dog can appear on any site run by Stardock.

Clue #1 - was on the Stardog page. Clue given was something about you wanting to be "General or assassin" (Letter: None. Paw was empty)
Answer: Demigod [link]

Clue #2 "Can you hear what I hear" (Letter: 'P')
Answer: Soundpackager [link]

Clue #3 "I have a big family, but here you can see images of them" (Letter: 'P')
Answer: Stardock -> About -> Management [link]

Clue #4 "I like burry my bones to keep the safe" (Letter: 'Y')
Answer: Dunno... I got stock there

(Clue #2 and #3 may have been in reverse order)

The answer to Clue #4 was the KeepSafe homepage.

I use Opera, so I guess I can't play? 

Hehe.. think i should have posted here earlier.

Was a fun game, and well, trying to choose prices before the contest made it a bit moore easy to get where the clues lead. and good usage of the sites search was helpfull too.  Keepsafe i found easy, the sound one, i had slight trubble.

quite the fun game, and well good luck to the contestants in the next 4 games.

(PS, my time was under 7 min acording to the mail i got from Stardock)

Well, i wonder if such a 'behavior' isn't like this on purpose.

Sure, we can 'auto-refresh' by option by setting our browsers preference... but, tell me, who'd bother reloading pages *continually* if they have a very slow bandwidth?

Technicalities, maybe - but, you have to understand that not everyone has the www infrastructure to compete with full-blown personal systems. I doubt SD can fix this though.

In all fairplay considerations - even if i can log on at exactly 12:00:01 seconds, i'd still have to wait for my pages to refresh (or even stick to the cache processing ratio) AS they physically can (using SeaMonkey & not Firefox has some advantages, maybe yet again). And i'm a lucky one with a router on regular Ethernet above or slightly below (depending on traffic & miscellaneous activities by a ISP, flow through normal lags & what else!) DSL-1MBs or patched within Local @10MBs or higher -- again, that depends.

Clock timing may matter, but higher tech stuff should **ALWAYS** win such a contest.

Although, smarts may help - by correctly guessing the clues faster than anyone else -- after all, $100 is a big chunk of cash -- (at noon instead of 8:00PM or any others at prime-time, i might add)... some choices had to be made.

Woooofff!

i had a problem with the second clue also...i knew where to go...so i went to soundpackager and there was no dog there....i was lost....

Well there is always the posibility that someone won before you loaded the next page...... (I know that I got it done EXTREAMLY quickly and I had no problem.)

How long before a winner is picked each day?

I just open a new tab for each clue and leave the last one up, refreshing the main Stardog page once in a while to check progress.

I wonder who won today...

The system is rather annoying because I suspected where the second clue was but I walked past the page twice before the dog actually loaded onto it. Got stumped on #5.