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Rusty23
Decorated
Joined: 26 Aug 2007 Posts: 178 Location: Wilkesboro, NC
New Butterfinger campaign/contest: Barmageddon 2012 phenomenon + candy = cash prizes Found this on Butterfinger's YT:
YouTube: Link
The rest is mostly obvious (for now)
Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2012 1:32 am
FuzzyGoodle
Veteran
Joined: 10 Feb 2012 Posts: 125
So we've got:
http://www.funforhumans.com/
Clicking on the funky image leads to http://www.funforhumans.com/bartndr
Which is currently pretty blank, save the banner image: http://www.funforhumans.com/Content/Images/no_clock.jpg
I guess our first goal is to beat the spaceship game?
And can anyone actually read the qr code from the video? All the readers I try can't find an image.
EDIT: Well, if you last all 57 seconds, you get a "glyph." And then the game keeps going. I assume the glyph is supposed to appear on /bartndr, but the page suddenly won't load for me.
Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2012 2:09 am
ThinSuit
Unfettered
Joined: 29 Apr 2011 Posts: 521 Location: Rosswood Park
NOBODY LAYS A FINGER ON MAH BUTTERFINGER
i am sorry
_________________From the start it's been a game for us. Not anymore. I'm coming for you.
Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2012 6:44 am
CarnageBlack
Unfettered
Joined: 30 Nov 2008 Posts: 548 Location: Chicago
ThinSuit wrote:
NOBODY LAYS A FINGER ON MAH BUTTERFINGER
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i am sorry
No worries. I was about to do the same thing if I didn't see that you did already.
Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2012 11:02 am
MrToasty
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee
Joined: 03 Aug 2004 Posts: 4310 Location: Des Moines, IA
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Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2012 3:45 pm
FuzzyGoodle
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Joined: 10 Feb 2012 Posts: 125
Nice job! I had notice some those but couldn't get a clear shot of them. Did you just take screenshots on the youtube video, or did you use some other program?
I've survived for 1 minute 30 seconds (after the timer starts counting up) and rescued 19 friends in one game, but I haven't been awarded any other glyphs.
And /bartndr has been updated with this text:
Quote:
APRIL 1, 2012
SAVE THE BUTTERFINGER. SAVE THE WORLD.
BARmageddon will happen. Unless you join Nate's army. Play the game – don't let it play you. Look carefully at what you're given. Time is running out.
"What you're given" is the glyph, which looks like this:
The glyph in the youtube video (at the beginning and the end) is the same as the one on the link to /bartndr, which looks like this:
EDIT: Wow, the responses on youtube and the facebook page have been overwhelmingly negative. People need to lighten up.
Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2012 4:31 pm
catherwood
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee
Joined: 25 Sep 2002 Posts: 4109 Location: Silicon Valley, CA
FuzzyGoodle wrote:
EDIT: Wow, the responses on youtube and the facebook page have been overwhelmingly negative. People need to lighten up.
I don't read those sites. Have they mentioned the typo in the Official Rules? (click on the link in the footer, it redirects)
http://nestle.promotions.com/metapuzzle/page.do?page=rules.html
Quote:
3. WINNER DETERMINATION/NOTIFICATION: The first participant to correctly all six (6) questions and solve the Meta Puzzle will be deemed the Grand Prize winner, subject to verification. The next two (2) participants to correctly all six questions...
Notice the missing verbs? Seems like it would be rather difficult to win -- or maybe I'll just claim I did "correctly all six" and see if they can prove otherwise.
Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 12:47 am
MrToasty
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee
Joined: 03 Aug 2004 Posts: 4310 Location: Des Moines, IA
First page of Otto's diary is up:
https://facebook.nestleusa.com/butterfinger/barmageddon/Images/diary/Pg28_Apr12.jpg
Also, any thoughts on the images above? Looking at a sequence of 2-digit numbers, I thought lat/lon DDMMSS, but as such they didn't point to any reasonable location. Six clues for the six questions that cather has already correctly?
Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 10:11 am
FuzzyGoodle
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Joined: 10 Feb 2012 Posts: 125
Wait...who is Otto and how did you find that page?
And I don't have any idea what to do with the code yet.
Here's some more related pages:
Nate's Blog: https://facebook.nestleusa.com/butterfinger/barmageddon/
The tumblr of the skeptic that Nick mentions: http://sweetonthestreet.tumblr.com/
The letter that Nick got: http://www.funforhumans.com/dearnate
Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 5:16 pm
MrToasty
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee
Joined: 03 Aug 2004 Posts: 4310 Location: Des Moines, IA
Seems they have take down the link to the diary from the FB page. Funny, I hadn't seen the letter to Nate before now.
Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 5:56 pm
AOTHELEGEND
Kilroy
Joined: 02 Apr 2012 Posts: 2
Look If You view the background to this http://www.funforhumans.com/bartndr (easy if you're using mozilla) It looks to be the 7 codes you get after you play the 7 games on the certain dates. I figured this because the first glyph i got after i played the first game is pretty much the same.(as read in the contest official rules page) If you understand what the glyphs mean(i have no clue. I've looked at them forever), it's some kind of coding that will lead to a website.. where you have to answer 6 questions correctly about the 7 games you played, i guess? lol The person who does it first wins $5,000(as stated in the contest official rules)
Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 6:04 pm
MrToasty
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee
Joined: 03 Aug 2004 Posts: 4310 Location: Des Moines, IA
Noticed the background too but hadn't looked deep enough into the rules. I did check out Mayan symbols and these don't appear to be among them, so likely invented just for this contest.
Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 6:28 pm
FuzzyGoodle
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Joined: 10 Feb 2012 Posts: 125
This is the background image that AOTHELEGEND mentioned, by the way: http://www.funforhumans.com/Content/Images/bg_puzzle.jpg
Interestingly, the 3rd and final glyphs (reading left-right, up-down) are the same, as are the 3rd and final single frame caps from the youtube video.
From the official rules, it sounds like we are still trying to find the actual contest location. Maybe the glyphs are letters or something that spell out that location?
Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 6:35 pm
AOTHELEGEND
Kilroy
Joined: 02 Apr 2012 Posts: 2
Hmmm..I checked out some mayan symbols and what not as well, Nothing matched up. Whatever the coding spells out is the name of the website. Even if we figured the coding out, I don't think the website will exist till late april(could be wrong) maybe we have a head start. The last game is april 20 something. The website we get from those glyph's will have 6 questions about the games we have to play. What does this girl have to do with any of it? http://www.facebook.com/people/Victoria-Sweet/100003699642558
Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 7:45 pm
joshvand
Greenhorn
Joined: 04 Apr 2012 Posts: 9
This morning they posted a new message on the bartndr page:
"Otto's journal is filled with knowing – turn to page 29 and tell me where he was going. Otto was a chocolatier – he traveled the world looking for one thing. Find it, we might – if we know where he was going...."
If you check the Butterfinger Facebook, they now have posted page 29:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150642587953519&set=a.10150642587513519.380891.74936643518&type=3&theater
The quote refers to M.O.A.I., which leads you to the answer:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Easter Island
You earn the second glyph:
And see the message:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
You're right. Easter Island is the answer. Did you know that many people believe that Aliens built the incredible MOAI statutes there? Perhaps they did...just look on the side of their heads...
Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 9:08 am
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