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We Lost Our Gold (welostourgold.com)
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krystyn
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 		We Lost Our Gold (welostourgold.com)
A scavenger hunt in NYC for a chest containing $10,000 that some pirates (and a ninja) lost.
One of my college classmates posted this link to his Facebook page, and I took a look.

Sooo, there's PUPPETS who have lost their gold. Pirate puppets. And their ninja puppet friend.



http://welostourgold.com/index.html

Looks like the clues start in earnest on August 1st - with 8 videos total leading to the treasure.

If you do find it, slip me $20 or somethin' for sending you, eh? Wink



ETA: hee, the ninja's name is Tom.

ETA: heeX2, the ninja's email address subject line translates to "This is not the key."

Cute. Smile
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 20, 2010 6:55 pm
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 		Nice find. SO cute!

edit: holy crap, whoever finds it better have a strong back. It's 10,000 Sacajaweas...

evil, evil puppets...
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krystyn
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 		You know, I hadn't even thought about that. That's pretty damned heavy.

I did a rudimentary whois, and the info is all privatized. Domain's been around since 2006, and the whois stuff last got updated in 2008.

Pages on the site are now just:

Trailers
About
FAQs
Episodes
Contact

with links to their Facebook page and a bunch of mailto: links with cute subject lines.

Source code is straightforward. Smile
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 		This is almost unbearably cute.

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diszaster
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 		I just love that the ninja has no face. <3
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Nighthawk
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Also, it was buried by pirates...who happen to be puppets...one of which is a ninja.


Sold! Very Happy

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The treasure is 10,000 US mint one-dollar coins. Most of them are Sacagawea dollars, or the new Presidential one-dollar coins…the 'John Quincy Adams' one is hands down our favorite. So they are gold-colored!!! But 'actual gold,' no. Actual currency? Absolutely.


So be sure to bring your hand truck when you go digging, 'cause that's not particularly portable and will probably weigh as much as an anvil.
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Rogi Ocnorb
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 		It's "Your weight in gold" (Provided you weigh 81kg (178.2 lb.).
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 		You don't have to be near the city to play
Is it clear that all the coins are together in one spot? Or is it scattered around the city?

Anyone who figures this out and needs someone to check for them, I can be in the city in a couple of hours - and I am sure that bagsbee and others who are still in the city will be glad to help out. So please don't let your lack of proximity to the city stop you from playing!
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courtknee
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 		The trailer alone was worth the find! Awesome! Thanks for sharing this Smile

I'm just 10 min outside NYC, 30 min from Queens/Bronx/Brooklyn. Staten Island will take a bit longer, but it's completely doable. Yay for a fairly local hunt (for me).

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Nighthawk
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Rogi Ocnorb wrote:
It's "Your weight in gold" (Provided you weigh 81kg (178.2 lb.).


I did the math for kicks, and by my numbers weren't far off: I came up with it weighing 162.5 pounds, not counting the chest itself. Razz
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diszaster
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 		@rose: It's one chest.

My advice is to bring a large rolling suitcase. If the chest is buried in the ground, it's going to be a bitch to lift out of the ground whilst still full. (This is all my pirate expertise speaking)

Better just take the money, try to blend in, and run. The chest is just extra weight, and quite frankly New York is still New York.
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 		Looking forward to this one. I'm all the way across the country from New York, but I'll be playing nonetheless.
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krystyn
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 		These pirates might take offense to bein' called cute, but their Facebook updates aren't helping their case:

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People says huntin' fer treasure be dangerous, and that ye might get hurt. 'Ats poppycock, 'at is! I hunts few treasure every day, an I never gets hurt! Right! 'Cept me eyeball!
-CROTHERS


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If anyone finds me crayons, lemme know! I just got me choose your own adventure coloring book and I can't starts without 'em! Thanks! - MULLIGAN


ETA, also, once of the best PRs I've seen in a while, from Forbes:

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/prnewswire/2010/06/21/prnewswire201006210930PR_NEWS_USPR_____MM21281.html

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The pirates appear concerned that this web series is exploiting their activities, and jeopardizing the safety of their treasure. But they have shown no opposition to interacting with media outlets.

"Yeah, I'll talks to whoever wants to talk," said Mulligan, the ship's First Mate. "You name it, I'll talk about it. Can we talk about Bill Murray? Wait... what are we talking about?"

Added his colleague Crothers: "I refuse to speak to anyone. Except that I will. An' I prefer to speak to ladies. Of ill-repute, if'n that ain't a bother."

Fellow pirate Tom declined to comment, the Captain having reportedly killed Tom's Japanese translator over a game of pinochle. When questioned, the Captain appeared unwilling to deny the allegation.


I'm giggling over here.
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Nighthawk
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"That bloke kept screamin' PINOCHLE in me face. So I handed him tha wrong end of a Marlin Spike, and said 'here's yer pinochle'. If any media-type folk wants anythin' from Tom, they can speaks to me. Now bugger off. I gots no comment."


I think *every* interview in Forbes magazine should sound like that! Smile


ETA: I'm wondering who's sponsoring this. I mean, there's got to be someone, no? I can't imagine someone just deciding to give away $10K like that. Money doesn't just come out of thin air.

"Hey look dear, we got an extra ten thousand dollars! What should we do with it?"

"How about we bury it in New York City?"

"What?!?"

"Yeah. And we get some puppets to crack jokes about it."

"... Ok then..." *calls 911*
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 		911 - please state the nature of your emergency
Grin - how would the 911 conversation go as well???
Hello, my friends gone mad. He wants to bury $10,000 in New York.

Ambulance, Fire or Police?

My friends gone mad. He want's to give money away!

This is Emergency. Ambulance, Fire or Police?

Er...

[click]

Who lives in New York then? Go halves with you in working together-I'm in London, though if I cracked it, would love a trip to the Apple...

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