Thursday, August 10, 2006

"Official" News Release of the Winner

Volvo's blog has been updated today with news of the winner.
Turns out every finalist gets a car & the webcast will begin
August 25th.

Read more here.

4 comments:

Prometheus said...

Being a software architect means very little on solving puzzles.
just means having the ability to code/program software.

The percentage rate of code programmers that played the game is probably in the 30-40% range.

Manipulating the game code to fast forward into locked islands before they
were offically open was only possiable early on, To my knowledge only 2 people were able to do it, me and another person.

But volvo caught on shortly after and altered the coding thus endng our "time machine"
from that point it was a "even" playing field.

Prometheus said...

My guess is it would only come into question if they
both resided at the same address. ie; two people winning a spot from the same address.

Personally it would be great to have a family member
or close friend to compete with and journey with.
Better odds to "keep it in the family"

Decipherguy emailed me a preliminary account of the events that took place during the hunt, I'm waiting
for a revised account & hope to post it.

wench too..
I don't delete my reply posts.
You should also remember me saying I don't have a passport & that i submitted the JP solution at the US site the minute it opened, So i was basically
voided from getting a finalist spot. (I should have created a second acct. when the game first started so i could have used that to submit the correct US solution)Then i might have been a finalist. :(..live and learn.

Prometheus said...

volvo site is updated with pics.

Prometheus said...

we paid attention, just waiting around for the confirmation.