Saturday, May 12, 2012

Dropbox Dropquest -- earn 1GB for free!

Q: What's Dropbox Dropquest?

A: It's a scavenger hunt of sorts, looking for answers to clues, and figuring out what do to with the answers, all in the hopes of winning a prize, or just gaining 1GB of space on your Dropbox account.

Everyone thinks that they're smart, so everyone starts off trying to figure out what the heck is going on.  And after a puzzle or two, most people either realize that they have no clue what's going on, or just can't bother to spend the time to figure the puzzles out.

My brain hurt a little, but most of all I didn't want to spend the next 12 hours trying to figure this stuff out.  Oh sure, you could follow the clues and such from other people who were working on the puzzles, but that gets tiring after a while, too.

Cheats...sort of: here mostly, but also here.

You will discover that not all the answers / methods to solve the puzzles are straight-forward.  You might have to read through to figure out how to use the answers.

In the end, you have three basic options;
  • Spend 12 hours, a day or maybe more (maybe forever), solving all the puzzles;
  • Spend about an hour deciphering / following the cheats;
  • Not bothering to lift a finger to get a free 1GB of space.
Right now I'm up to 7GB of free space, and with this free 1GB, I'm still about 76% full.  :P

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