Fox News: New Hampshire video game designers create treasure hunt across Northeast with eye-popping reward

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New Hampshire video game designers create treasure hunt across Northeast with eye-popping reward

A pair of video game designers from New Hampshire created a real-life treasure hunt in the Northeast with a gold sculpture worth $26,000 as the grand prize.......                    ...                        ...A pair of video game designers created a real-life, real-time treasure hunt You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login with a hefty reward for the lucky individual who finds the unique treasure.......The game is called Project Skydrop, and players compete against one another to locate a 24-karat gold sculpture valued at $26,000......."This treasure hunt is a prototype, just experimenting to see if people like it, if people like the format," Project Skydrop co-creator Jason Rohrer told You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login.......The game started Sept. 19 and will end on Oct. 10.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......The golden treasure has been hidden within a 500-mile radius, and, for $20, players receive a daily hint of the location of the prize, located deep in the woods of public land on the forest floor. Each day, the clues start to reveal more and more about where the treasure is hidden. As the days go on, the circle gets smaller......."We're trying to figure out if the treasure hunt itself is a sort of self-contained, self-sustaining, financial thing, where these people are paying entry fees to join and that this bounty payment growing over time makes it more and more interesting. Can that snowball and take off? That's the question," Rohrer said.......The object resembles a "cyclone" on a base with dots and symbols etched onto the sides of the rings. It was made of 10 troy ounces of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login. ......Along with the $25,000 value of the treasure, the winner will also receive a portion of an ever-growing prize bounty pool.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......There's also a You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login with over 6,300 members signed up to share their thoughts and theories during the treasure hunt. ......According to the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, the grand prize is under 24/7 surveillance.......The designers surrounded the prize with tree-mounted cameras that are both motion-sensitive and night-vision capable.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login...

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