NOT A FINALIST - The Da Vinci Code Quest on Google
Late last night everyone received their emails. As expected, I of course got my NOT A FINALIST email. I am going to try to keep everyone up to date on the Final challenge. I can't post strategy details at this very moment, but I will do my best to get to it around noon today.
Also, for those of you sending me emails with information, thank you, please continue to do so at davincicodequest@gmail.com. I am working hard to try and get all of your comments and links onto the blog. Moving forward please use the subject line "readmenow" for emails that are time sensitive or emails that have content you want added into a post. Thanks!!!
This web page from Steven has great information on how to re-code your cryptex, that is if you are lucky enough to have a cryptex. I also got your Not a Finalist and Finalist emails. Thanks for sending them. More to come later. Thanks for all the input. Get all of the MSN Conspiracy Game Answers here
posted by G00GLEFACT @ 5/16/2006 05:06:00 AM
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Yay! I am in possession of a very heavy cryptex. I have scanned in the scroll inside, i have yet to post it. I will, though! :) I couldn't have won without you. You really should have won.
Here is the link to the finalist image
http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/davincicode/dvcqog/email/images/congrats.jpg
Boo! No Cryptex for me! Just a bunch of bad discounts. If any of the finalists need any help, let me know!
Great... Well, I haven't got even a simple confirmation e-mail... I typed the right info, checked e-mail but I still haven't got any email from google/sony... Hope for the eurostar quest now - I've finished what's been published already...
Did anyone think that they would have a better chance of being a finalist if they selected one of the 2 offers available before you submitted your contest entry form? I selected one of them, don't remember which one being so rushed, but thought that it may help in determining if I would be a finalist, and I am.
latinwiz said: "Did anyone think that they would have a better chance of being a finalist if they selected one of the 2 offers available before you submitted"
I didn't subscribe to either of the offers, and I am a finalist.
BTW. Did anyone watch the new video teaser that plays after you get the congrats message from Sir Ian?
It had 19 letters that were "shining" they were: HITRMEANAUNIVNFDTIV
"Find the Vitruvian Man"
I couldn't find anything new on the official website with regard to the Vitruvian man, anyone else find something?
Ok, I've seen people that completed the puzzle as late as 1:30 EST getting a cryptex, and yet even though I completed the puzzle around 1:19 EST I recieved one of the "Not a finalist" emails... Something sounds fishy to me.
Can anyone tell me if the Cryptex plays any relevent role in the second part of the quest?
It gives the URL of the web page(which is given in the e-mail), but if you know that, you don't really need the Cryptex. Is that correct?
This is the link given in the email for video message form Ian
http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/davincicode/dvcqog/teabingmessage/endofquest.html
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david,
I dont think it means anything try
www.findthevitruvianman.com
it takes you to the sony page
To those of you that completed puzzles early but didn't get a cryptex - is there anybody you live with that did? The rules state there's only one prize per person/family/household, with the exception of the Grand Prize winner. My husband finished seconds after I did (at 1:02EST) I'm a finalist but he's not, and I'm assuming this is why.
Anil,
Damn, thought it might lead to a clue for the final puzzle.
Thanks,
David
Bummer - Definitely some poor tracking on Google's part.
I'm not stretching any truths to say that I finished the quest and completed the registration form by approx. 1:07 pm EDT.
Just got the "NOT A FINALIST" email.
Something's not right in Google-Land.
As others have said - I'm not bitter - it is just a game - but Google has really messed something up in how they're tracking finalists.
Now that I have a cryptex, I don't know what to do with it ... :)
btw, googlefact - are you going to host your site for the final round also? can we post comments and share tips here?
Do you have to have a gmail account to get the email? Because I still haven't recieved an email.
It was legal to have more than one entry per houseold as long as none of those entries are affiliated with the companies that make the game. People who both competed in the same houseold have cryptices and finalist letters. as long as they did nnot share the same email address.
MR
On Registration entry time:: I used to work at an online stock trading company, customer service. One of the things that would happen is when the site had major traffic and sometimes when it was regular traffic, every person thinks that their trade was submitted the moment they push "buy" or "sell" that simply was NOT true. They also think that what their computer says is what every other computer says at the same time..NOT true. Getting a computer confirmation time from where you sent it (ping) might help but people have no idea when “google” got the information because they did not get a confirmation with a (time stamp) official from them. I hope this helps. I know it’s frustrating, I lost because I woke up late so no I am not one of those late submission winners! Just understand, even though you sent in your time at "X" time and didn't win, but another sent theirs in at "Y" time later than you according to “your” clocks, that it is only a LOOSE estimate at best of what time Google got their time stamp. Servers, bandwidths it’s not all linear like a freeway as we imagine it, a nice neat line of traffic. I am not an expert on internet but I am married to one. If any internet specialists can post up to explain please do to assure others not to complain to google. It only causes more traffic for the finalists. From my point of view, having to explain this to thousands of customers every day.. Even Google tells you to keep your notes so do that.
MR
Hey, I got this on my da vinci code module for my google home page.. any others get this? I am not a finalist)
MR
"Wei-Hwa Huang
Googler & Four-Time World Puzzle Champion
Many of you wrote to the Google team to let us know how much you enjoyed the quest, so I decided to keep creating puzzle challenges. Stay tuned for your first challenge on May 26 and get ready for a mental workout."
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