Solve Puzzle, Win Swag

So I've decided to kick the puzzle up a notch. With bribery.

Here's the deal. First person to send an email to cogiv.puzzle@gmail.com with the correct answer wins a $50 gift certificate to ZeStuff, purveyors of fine wares involving swag for fab comics like VG Cats and Ctrl+Alt+Del. Sure, I could be all trendy and send you to ThinkGeek, but then I wouldn't be supporting two web comics I read all the freaking time, now would I?

What you need is to:

-Read the Carnival of Gamers IV, which is also the puzzle

-Read the Question

The puzzle is now closed, as of March 3, 2006. The solution is posted