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Not super on-topic, but this reminded me of a thing that Games Magazine used to do called the "Hidden Contest". Great fun. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Games_
by hairofadog 4y ago
Not super on-topic, but this reminded me of a thing that Games Magazine used to do called the "Hidden Contest". Great fun.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Games_World_of_Puzzles#Contests https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Games_World_of_Puzzles#Contest...
> In the past, the magazine also ran an occasional hidden contest, in which part of the challenge was to find the concealed puzzle with instructions on how to enter (e.g. "You have found the hidden contest. To enter, send us a chain of paper clips."). Until November 2002, readers were also challenged to find the fake advertisement among the legitimate ones (the last one was for the Red Card, a credit card used to pay off credit cards).
- Cyberdog 4y agoThe fake ad is a brilliant idea; it encourages readers to look at the legitimate ones, just in case.
- blooalien 4y agoI won't lie, despite my total hatred of ads in general, this is indeed pure genius.
- hyperman1 4y agoAt Devoxx, one of the oracle people hid 3 spelling errors in the first slide, the oracle legal disclaimer. Nobody before paid attention to the legal fluff, until that day, when a whole room full of devs scanned every letter of every word.