A Question about a game I've found in SL

I was looking at the events this morning upon my logging into SL. There was a rather interesting looking game there about to start shortly from when I had looked. So I tp to the location. It's some sort of scavenger hunt. Players have a chance to win 25,000 L$? It is supposed to take place over a number of SIMs here in SL. Any of you know anything much about this game? I can't say I don't like the idea. It sounds great and is defanitly a nice way to make some L if you have the time to put in and find all the answers to all the clues. Just curious maybe as to how something like this could really be done?

And, yes I know I could have asked the person who thought of it. But, I wanted to ask here in case others may have seen the first addition. Where the winner was to have won 10,000 L$? And, to see if anyone is maybe playing this game?

Thanks for any information and help.

Well i did hold an event a week+ ago where i offered the chance to win 10k. It was in a gameshow in SL, but it got cancelled due to lack of interest... if that's what your talking about.

I think I know of the event of which you speak. The idea of a hunt piqued my interest but I could not even find the first step in the hunt. As it was advertised concurrently with "oh and we have rentals too", I wrote it off as a bait-and-switch. I've seen this event repeated multiple times on the calendar since with the exact same text. Like you, I could have contacted the named event coordinator, and it is very likely that I could be grossly mistaken, but after 20 minutes of searching, I didn't feel it worth further pursuit.

Hey there.. you are referring to my hunt! I'm not sure what 'bait and switch' event that other person was talking about.. nothing like that here! Just come on down and click the sign for info! There is currently no winner, but there are several people nearing the end of the hunt. There is actually one person onto the final puzzle but he has been baffled for days.. so I guess anyone could still join in and take the prize! IM me for any info


Spidey Nerd

Like just about anything on SL, there are legitimate contests and those not so. Any event listed which turns out to be a "bait and switch" should be reported to Linden Lab with date and time of the event. They can restrict such con game runners from being able to post events or even remove them from Second Life if they are repeat offenders.

The reason some people do such things is because they think they can get away with it. Reporting abuse of the events listing is a way to help reduce these postings.

This was one of the most fun things I've found in SL. I was totally addicted. Thank you Spidey for doing such an awesome job setting it up. I cannot wait for the next one. As for Bait and Switch, this wasn't. It was totally what it was advertisd as.

I don't think I was as I have never even seen your name before. I'm sorry that you thought I was referring to you and I will look for your game; sounds interesting.

Just to clarify: I didn't say that the other (unnamable) hunt was a bait-and-switch, just that it looked like it.