eBay to give away $200,000 in online treasure hunt

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lozina

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Originally posted by: NFS4
Originally posted by: lozina
wow there's alot of clues no one is getting!

I think most people just gave up


Oh I'm sure there's tons of people still trying, but who's going get

"The Last Season by Phil Jackson, former LA Lakers coach " from the clue "Charge ahead " ?

or:

"LEGO castle - white, red & blue pieces " from the clue "Got the word out" ??

I think you need to be on acid to think on their level
 

mobobuff

Lifer
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Originally posted by: lozina
Originally posted by: NFS4
Originally posted by: lozina
wow there's alot of clues no one is getting!

I think most people just gave up


Oh I'm sure there's tons of people still trying, but who's going get

"The Last Season by Phil Jackson, former LA Lakers coach " from the clue "Charge ahead " ?

or:

"LEGO castle - white, red & blue pieces " from the clue "Got the word out" ??

I think you need to be on acid to think on their level

Yeah, I really don't understand the Get the word out --> Legos one.
 

deftron

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Damnit --- I ALMOST had Shawshank Redemption .

I knew Gilda = Rita Hayworth


I just had to Google gilded to make sure what it meant.


Shawshank was my first search.
 

NFS4

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Associated with the Graduated Federal income tax (Hint: What else started during Woodrow Wilson's Presidency, by him . . . or His first lady?)

Valentine's roses
 

mobobuff

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Originally posted by: MaxDepth
wrote the right stuff - well the easy clue is Thomas Wolfe

Yes and I spent 50 minutes just searching on wolf. I came to the conclusion that it was simply a play on words. James Madison wrote the Bill of "Rights". That was my last guess.
 

Aharami

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wish i had an inside source in ebay. gf'f dad's best friend used to work for ebay...but he quit like a year ago. curse him!!
 

V00D00

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Right when I saw that last "Boxing Great" one the first thing I searched for was the george foreman grill.. I was too late... god dangit.
 

imported_Snagle

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Last night I was the winner for the "Film festival and a catalog" clue :)

In an almost scary coincidence, today when I walked into work and sat down at the front desk computer and started going for the new clue just for fun, a lady who was paying for some shoes my brother had just sold her said "Oh, what are you searching for on eBay?" and I said I was playing the Treasure Hunt game. She said "Really? Great! I work for ebay in the stores department, we did the treasure hunt for eBay in the UK last year and people just went crazy for it, I'm glad you guys are excited about it, I actually wrote some of the clues for it"

weird huh?
 

lozina

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Originally posted by: Snagle
Last night I was the winner for the "Film festival and a catalog" clue :)

In an almost scary coincidence, today when I walked into work and sat down at the front desk computer and started going for the new clue just for fun, a lady who was paying for some shoes my brother had just sold her said "Oh, what are you searching for on eBay?" and I said I was playing the Treasure Hunt game. She said "Really? Great! I work for ebay in the stores department, we did the treasure hunt for eBay in the UK last year and people just went crazy for it, I'm glad you guys are excited about it, I actually wrote some of the clues for it"

weird huh?


I almost believed you ;)
 

lozina

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Originally posted by: Dedpuhl
big ears....

Yeah that one's a bitch

I even went on this tangent:

big ears => satellites => Contact => Jodie Foster => Silence of the Lambs =>Hannibal Lecter

that's when I suffered a massive brain hemorrhage
 

lozina

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Originally posted by: deftron
Saucy


WTF ..that's it ?


OK so their clues were not abstract enough so they had to do this?

Why not have a clue that just says "It's on ebay somewhere"