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Halloween Hunt Winners

Thursday, 1. November 2007, 17:24:52

smiling pumpkin

On Wednesday morning 10:00 AM UTC a notification icon appeared in the bottom lower right corner of our screen... "1 message received", it said. We stood sat in silence and awe as we confirmed this was it: The first response to this year's Halloween Hunt... How did anyone manage to complete the hunt? It was so difficult that even we had a hard time completing it. :eyes: We quickly realized that it was only a matter of time before everyone else had figured it out as well. And we were right... Shortly after, response number two, three, four and five came flying in. Omg, what's going on!? We've clearly underestimated how talented all of you are, so next year... Well, let's just say it won't get any easier!

Anyway, we got prizes to give away — and as stated in the first blog post:

The first 10 will get an Opera goodie-bag along with some sweet Norwegian candy for Halloween. The remaining 30 will get a goodie-bag, but have to buy their own candy for Halloween!

If you've provided us with correct shipping details you can expect a nice gift in your mailbox shortly courtesy of Opera Software. :yes:

Without further ado; here are the winners of this years Hallowen Hunt chronologically ordered:

  1. zomg
  2. Ramunas
  3. remcolanting
  4. LarsKL
  5. toxix
  6. philry4n
  7. AyushJ
  8. waceq
  9. Luchio
  10. Yallis
  11. G-off
  12. WOFall
  13. evciakul
  14. Tamil
  15. mindflayer87
  16. drlaunch
  17. wilk
  18. lutherjw
  19. mizzmona
  20. PientaL
  1. yeeliberto
  2. WillYum
  3. shadowk
  4. SqueakeyCat
  5. hzr
  6. Grashka
  7. Cosmica
  8. dodd
  9. konzertjunkie
  10. LucjanLupus
  11. eVirtus
  12. phiznlil
  13. Wiorka
  14. Arnt
  15. lockoom
  16. rkm
  17. SilentChasm
  18. sprogger
  19. hanttih
  20. FataL

We would like to congratulate everyone who won and participated! This marks (unfortunately) the end of this years Halloween Hunt... :cry:

We hope everyone had fun searching for hidden doors. P: We sure enjoyed creating and developing this contest. :smile:

Comments

Ayush 1. November 2007, 17:27

:hat: :hat: Congratulations to all and me :D

Varish 1. November 2007, 17:29

:frown: Although I completed the hunt ... I did not make it to the top 40. Any chance of more winners getting awarded ? Any complimentary gift ?

Geoff Girardin 1. November 2007, 17:30

Congrats everyone!

Varish 1. November 2007, 17:30

On a positive note Congratulations to winners !

_Grey_ 1. November 2007, 17:32

Well I'm just glad to have been able to complete this year's hunt.
You don't have to win to win :smile:

Congratulations to all swag-receivers, though :up:

Grash 1. November 2007, 17:32

Weeeeeee, Congrats!!! I'm on the list too!!

moreno14 1. November 2007, 17:38

Congrats to all of you!!
I was just looking for the 6th door when I saw this... :frown: Next year I'll be faster.

PD: Where was that last door?? I couldn't figure the "close to home" thing :confused:

Kimberly 1. November 2007, 17:40

congrats to all & me

Espen André Øverdahl 1. November 2007, 17:42

Kudos to Remco for this brilliant walkthrough!

Luchio 1. November 2007, 17:44

Ohh! That was close! :-D

Geoff Girardin 1. November 2007, 17:47

Remco is DA MAN.

Khadra Warsame Penh Neang 1. November 2007, 17:47

Congratulations to all Contestant and Winners

Arnt 1. November 2007, 17:56

WooHoo, I'm on the list. :hat:
Congrats to all winners! :hat:

FataL 1. November 2007, 17:57

Wow! I'm 40th! :up:
Lucky bastard :devil:

Soumitram4u. 1. November 2007, 18:17

Congrats to all! :hat:

DrLaunch 1. November 2007, 18:22

Yay! Congrats everyone.

Dacotah 1. November 2007, 18:38

CONGRATULATIONS everyone. :hat:

Joel Luther 1. November 2007, 18:48

\o/

Kicky sweet. Congrats everyone!

yeeliberto 1. November 2007, 19:04

Congratulations to all and me


Yeah. My first Opera goodie bag.

Tomek 1. November 2007, 19:07

Congratulations everybody! :hat:

...on the sadder note, I have to say that there were some flaws on the technical side which might have prevented some people from completing this hunt. Both times you got to the page with the small evil eyes on it (Groups and My Account) you needed to refresh it in order to actually load them. If not, you might have not seen them at all. They were also based on JavaScript, which might have been disabled by some people, or simply produced errors. In addition, with #2 you needed to add "the" in order to proceed as well as put the answer to the question in the lower case, when it was far more commonsensical to use capital letters.

culturin-mezza 1. November 2007, 19:09

It ain't over 'til culturin-mezza sings!
Operans still looking for doors in the Halloween 6-Doors Somewhere Game
find one here.
http://my.opera.com/culturin-mezza/blog/more-boooooty

The Dark Furie 1. November 2007, 19:22

Nice one guys. Congrats on your gifts. Now will someone please tell me how to solve that 76 doors that change to red doors puzzle please?

hanttih 1. November 2007, 19:39

Congratulations everybody (we all who passed the hunt -- or even tried -- are winners)! :)

Remco Lanting 1. November 2007, 19:47

@Furie: 5th down + 2nd right, 6th down + 6th right, 4th door
They're also marked in my walkthrough

Kiran 1. November 2007, 19:48

Congratulations!:yes:

Kimberly 1. November 2007, 20:04

Mik...i put in the forum post about the halloween hunt exactly how to find doors 3, 4, & 5...lmao

Łukasz 1. November 2007, 20:56

Great :D Congrats to all of you, it was a fascinating hunt :wink:

Kimberly 1. November 2007, 21:11

the eyes is the part that really got me...and that smiley face didn't help either, i thought it belonged there, that's how long its been since i was in the forums...lmao

shadowK 1. November 2007, 21:36

YESS!!!Thank you thank you very much!

*goes out into a busy street, stops traffic and screems: Happy Hallloween!!*

Garrett 1. November 2007, 22:34

espen can you make a christmas event similar to this and PLEASE FIX MY WATCHED ITEMS!?








P: lol but please hurry

Cosmica 2. November 2007, 00:05

Congratulations to everyone who solved it. It truly was a difficult puzzle to solve. I spent hours on it. :smile:

Kimberly 2. November 2007, 00:17

ty...and there was only a couple that were actually hard...the eyes gave me a lot of problems cuz they were so small

Big_Ben 2. November 2007, 00:21

I want to know why the eyes are also in the my account page when the hunt is finished.

And congratulation to all who won this hunt.

Djordje Gavrilovic 2. November 2007, 00:22

Yeah, it was fun!!!
OK...there were some headaches, harsh words, tears...but also joy and monitor hugs
BRAVO!









:cry:

DrLaunch 2. November 2007, 00:42

There's another similar event to Halloween in Norway. It's called Julebukk. During the time after the Norwegian Christmas Eve, children dress up in costumes and visit houses to get candy. I think the commercial US Halloween have taken over to be the more popular event like this in Norway the last years though.

I think My Opera should have a Christmas calendar this year.

Ryan McCabe 2. November 2007, 02:21

Dang it. I kept typing "grim reaper" instead of "the grim reaper." It would never let me through! :irked:

Kimberly 2. November 2007, 02:48

now u know ryan

Tamil 2. November 2007, 04:01

Congratulations! :hat:

My walkthrough.

Number of members on October 31, 2006 was 537,601 and you gave 50 prizes.

Number of members on October 31, 2007 was 1,096,139 and you are giving only 40 prizes. :frown: :worried: :confused:

Give atleast 10 more prizes. :yes:

Originally posted by espenao:

If you've provided us with correct shipping details you can expect a nice gift in your mailbox shortly courtesy of Opera Software.

Rock Opera Tattoos?

Kimberly 2. November 2007, 05:23

lmao...those would b cool to c

Ravindran Navaneethan 2. November 2007, 06:22

Congratulations to all!!!

Kimberly 2. November 2007, 06:24

ty, was good to b a part of a contest and actually b able to win something

Marek 2. November 2007, 09:03

Yay! I made it! :smile:
Thanks for tips Tamil, Luchio and others.

konzertjunkie 2. November 2007, 09:43

Uhem... will I lose my prize if I point out a small tiny little bug? :wink:
I didn't manage to find the last door (the one at "home") without turning off the style sheets (which of course is not the desired way, I know), but by looking in the source code I saw that it was just impossible otherwise...
Now I saw the screenshots and figured out why: I don't have a blog yet. So I don't have a "new blog entry", thus the second pairs of eyes didn't show up, so I couldn't click them and never get to evileyes3. :wink:
Just to be a nitpicker here. *g*

Anyway, it was lots of fun! :smile:

Øyvind Østlund 2. November 2007, 10:30

I had problems even with the walk through p:



- ØØ -

The Dark Furie 2. November 2007, 10:37

I think My Opera should have a Christmas calendar this year.



An advent calendar for people to open every day. With each "door" leading to a new christmassy Opera page.

Espen André Øverdahl 2. November 2007, 11:11

Something like this? P:

But, seriously, we will have something cool...

The Dark Furie 2. November 2007, 11:13

That's the way to do it. :up:

Grash 2. November 2007, 12:16

Małe wprowadzenie i wskazówki w tegorocznym Halloween Hunt na moim blogu. Po polsku...
P:

Luchio 2. November 2007, 13:17

@konzertjunkie
Same here, wasn't able to see the second pair of eyes because I don't have a blog.

WOFall 2. November 2007, 15:47

I didn't even finish last years hunt, but this years was great.

Always happy to spend my halloween with Opera P:

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