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By request, here is a brief explanation of the various riddles.

Most of the riddles had layered meanings. That is not to say, as some may be wont to do, that there were alternate interpretations, but rather that there were complementary answers. It should become apparent to all but the more stubborn of nay-sayers that there was no wiggle room.

Wicked Poster
posted at Phoenix and uploaded as my avatar in the pre-season.

Pretty self-explanatory: all female F2.
Two women, close friends, one misunderstood, the other popular.
I named the file "defyinggravity" to point those unfamiliar with the image in the right direction.

House of Cards
made between E2 and E3.

It began as an exercise in Photoshop, but as I was constructing it, I decided that it would make a pretty decent riddle to solve, especially if people used the Wicked poster image as a guide. The two key cards here were the Wicked graphic and the image of the seraphims on the upper left.

A nod to Seraphaem, the seraphims card was turned towards the left, indicating that those cards on the left all represented false leads or spoilers. Specifically, there was talk (whether any of it can be qualified as spoilerish or not) of Jonathan winning, of Alexis winning, of a Fan winning. Knowing who the F2 were, I knew none of those were correct, so I included a picture of Jonathan, a picture of a group of Fans (which became absolutely impossible to distinguish once the image was shrunk and so this part of the riddle was unsolvable) and a picture of Alexis with Natalie.

By this point in the game, there were two clear sets of two female friends: Alexis-Natalie and Amanda-Parvati. Placing Alexis-Natalie on the Sera side of the graphic indicated that they were the wrong pair.

On the Wicked side of the graphic, there were three pictures in which the female faces were hidden by cards over them. This was intended to indicate the last three women in the game: Cirie, Parvati and Amanda. Furthermore, if you draw a line down the center of the house of cards (maybe on a slight diagonal), the cards are torch, amanda, wolf in sheep's clothing, probst, idols, favorites, parvati. F2: Amanda-Parvati.

The tribe pictures: fans were upside down and the favorites right side up, indicating favorites won.
The group shot of ozzy, james, amanda, parvati with cirie and ami was both a short term and long term hint that cirie and ami (arguably, as promos started filtering out that week-end, that part of the riddle became sort of obsolete).
What was written on the vote card held by Probst was Final Twosome. It was, intentionally, too faint to be read.

Anatomy of Victory
posted between E3 and E4

The number 2 for Final 2.
Also, "V" for faVorites.
Also, Natalie as the last standing Fan, victory is achieved by going through Natalie (insert your own joke here.)

Foreshadowing Again
part of the E5 promos

Fade of a sequence of shark swimming up and small fish swimming down over the line up of Favorites and Fans before the switch. The shark was over the Favorites.

All Green Edition - Spoilers and Misdirections
part of the E5 promos

4 women: all-female Final Four (3 Favorites and 1 Fan)
The inclusion of Ami was a nod to TDT whose last spoiler before retiring was that Ami didn't make Jury. If Ami was not the third, it could only be Cirie or Eliza. Going back to the House of Cards, it was easy to pick Cirie as the third one.
Placing Amanda and Parvati on one side was another layer to the riddle.

Survivor Firsts
posted between E7 and E8 (?)

Primarily intended to suggest that Amanda was in the Finals (first player to make it to a Final twice), with all the accompanying firsts that would be a part of that achievement.
Secondarily intended to convey a post-merge (green background) flurry at Tribal Council.
The weakest of all riddles, granted.

Pre-Season Promo

One of the first promos to air had a sequence which had a head shot of Amanda, followed by all the Favorites on the Jury (with the F2), followed by a head shot of Parvati. That sequence only aired in one version of the pre-season promos and that promo didn't air very much. The Favorites shot was noticed, and it generated a lot of discussion, but the connection with Amanda and Parvati was not made, probably because no one was thinking F2. So I connected the dots.

I named the image BSOAT: best spoiler of all time.
Thank you, CBS. :)

It's A Squeaker
posted prior to Finale

Identifying the Wicked imagery and naming the winner.
That shot was part of the E11 promos and I featured it as part of the episode shots, but I didn't make it into a riddle at the time. Some people correctly made the connection.

There were additional hints in the graphic tags which taken with the rest should have helped point everyone in the right direction.
Inasmuch as the riddles weren't solved, one could argue that they were a failure. Still, it was all there for the taking.

I hope that answers most questions.
It was fun.
Cheers.