TerraQuest
November 2002 – January 2003
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Status: Concluded Prematurely.
Synopsis: Notes
Guide: by GUIDE AUTHOR
Discussion: Unfiction Forum
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A cross between a mystery and a scavenger hunt, and offering a prize of $250,000 to the first player who solved it, this online puzzle game was aborted shortly into the first episode. The episode prize of $25,000 was awarded to the winning player and the game was shut down for "reorganization."
Sources reported major security problems with the interface that would have allowed players to subvert the mechanism to reveal the solutions without solving the riddles posed by the game.