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Just a thought...here me out...does it have to be over???

maybe a new neowinian group could be formed. Lovers of puzzles....mystery and excitment...

Im a big dork but I see it entirely possible that every now and again in what time we do have one of us could devise a small puzzle...maybe nothing too hard...maybe something that will take one or two days....we just start spouting off starting clues....once we devise the puzzle....and the rest of us try to find the answer...maybe a clue...1 clue that leads to a sort of online scavanger hunt....or something of the sort......(i guess I just dont want it to end...lol)

Crowen - seen as unifiction have quite a few pointer to this type of puzzle/game on their site I guess we could always continue the challange with them and pick up on a game or two from that site and play along here, I guess it would be a good idea to have a sub-forum for games and puzzles, we could all pick up on a few and have a bit of fun, of course Neowin would always beat UNF to the prizes !!

On a side note has anyone had a prize notifictaion yet - it does state in the rules the winner of the grand prize would know Feb 1st - but if some one has one they are very quiet about it, plus the others 1 through 4 should know within 48 hours - thats passed now and no one is shouting about winning ???

Have all the prizes simply vanished ??

Oh well guess we will know soon enough, the problems we had with the site probebly manifrsting them selves in the prize draw system too.

Good luck all !

See, now this is what I don't understand.......

On the http://vanishingpointgame.com/lokiv/ web site, it says ->

"Enter as often as you'd like, but only the latest answer will be counted"

Which means to me...... Even if you are the first person to answer the question correctly, be careful, because if you change your answer, and your last answer is wrong, then you won't win.....

Right?

Otherwise, they would have written - "Just keep guessing until you get"

Soooooo....... What I don't understand is ->

Why did they contact the winner before the contest was over ?? Isn't that going against their own rule/warning of being careful and not changing the answer ?? Doesn't that really mess things up ?? Because this prevented the winner from changing their mind and guessing wrongly......

Am I the only one who sees this ??

Any feedback would be nice,

Thanks :-)

See, now this is what I don't understand.......

On the http://vanishingpointgame.com/lokiv/ web site, it says ->

"Enter as often as you'd like, but only the latest answer will be counted"

Which means to me...... Even if you are the first person to answer the question correctly, be careful, because if you change your answer, and your last answer is wrong, then you won't win.....

Right?

Otherwise, they would have written - "Just keep guessing until you get"

Soooooo....... What I don't understand is ->

Why did they contact the winner before the contest was over ?? Isn't that going against their own rule/warning of being careful and not changing the answer ?? Doesn't that really mess things up ?? Because this prevented the winner from changing their mind and guessing wrongly......

Am I the only one who sees this ??

Any feedback would be nice,

Thanks :-)

I agree to you, ajdedo. That seems to be a bit weird...

Crowen - seen as unifiction have quite a few pointer to this type of puzzle/game on their site I guess we could always continue the challange with them and pick up on a game or two from that site and play along here, I guess it would be a good idea to have a sub-forum for games and puzzles, we could all pick up on a few and have a bit of fun, of course Neowin would always beat UNF to the prizes !!

That would be great :) it was alot of fun and just seems a shame to give it all up now...after all..together...WE CAN RULE THE WORLD...sort of like pinky and the brain only with alot more mice.....or something...

I think the rules on vanishingpointgame.com specify that the winner of the Meta Prize would be contacted ASAP. I could be wrong, I'm currently in too much of a hurry to check my facts. But I would think that, in the interests of getting the name printed on every chip "between [now] and March 31, 2007", they would indeed contact the Meta winner before the game ended if they had, in fact, won. I just think it's strange that they would have given us more clues to solve the Meta Puzzle if they already had a winner. Why not just change the website and post the answer with the fact that they had a winner? Which, they did--when they stopped the game. Curse them for making us suffer! :angry:

One more question about the rules: "1 per person per household" what's the point of saying "per household" if everyone in the household is allowed to play? Seriously, "per person" would be enough to exclude multiple entries, especially with them repeating a "no multiple entries" clause elsewhere in the rules, so I hope they invalidated brilo211's entries since they obviously kept his wife's.

I should apologize to brilo211 and autter211 for initially posting their win as fake. At the time, it just didn't logic with me. Congratulations you two! :)

POLL: How much would you give to have your name hidden beneath the thermal grease and giant CPU fans of thousands of soon-to-be-outdated AMD systems?

I assign that a cash value of approximately $.01 per chip, so ~$10,000! Please, autter211, ask them to put Neowin+Unfiction on there too!

Congrats again all winners--including Jason (why not--it's not in our power to judge...) Hope I get to join the lesser ranks with my 1440...

The correct answer was given on Sunday, however it was partly by luck and not by following the last clues to Hardee. Since noone was ending up in Hardee, they gave more clues. They couldnt have a solution with an unworkable solution even if one person got the answer right.

Plus, I think they wanted everyone to finally get it right, but for the winner to be first. thats why they had that screen all ready saying "You did answer it correctly, but you werent the first".

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