It's Back! Dropbox DropQuest II - Scavenger Hunt for Free Dropbox Space! Starts Sunday May 13th

kheob on 04/05/2012 - 03:13
Edited by scotty 04/05/2012 - 09:37

Moved to Forum: Original Link. This is a competition not a deal.

What is Dropquest? Dropquest is a multi-step scavenger hunt that has you solve a series of puzzles (inspired by the likes of MIT’s Mystery Hunt or Notpron [though not nearly as time/effort-consuming]). Everyone who completes Dropquest will get at least 1 GB of extra free space, even if you participated last year. Also, everyone starts at the same time, but the questers who finish the soonest get additional amazing prizes.

1st place (1) Dropbox employee hoodie, LIMITED EDITION Dropbox Hack Week t-shirt, Dropbox drawing signed by the entire Dropbox team, invitation to help write the next Dropquest, 100 GB for life
2nd place (10) Dropbox employee hoodie, Dropbox t-shirt, 20 GB for life
3rd place (15) Dropbox t-shirt, 5 GB for life
4th place (50) 2 GB for life
5th place (100) 1 GB for life

Any rules? This year, we won’t tolerate use of our support, forums, or blog for Dropquest hints or answers — our wonderful mods and support team would really appreciate it. In fact, you’ll probably get disqualified if we catch you doing this.

When is it? Dropquest starts Saturday, May 12, at 10AM PST (17:00 GMT). Don’t be late.

Click here once it's open: http://www.dropbox.com/dropquest2012

No idea how they're going to police the 'no help' policy.

Related Store: Dropbox

Comments

NGPriest on 04/05/2012 - 04:21 ¶

Oh wells, let's start discussing here :D

Feel free to grab a friend (last year’s winners Veronica and Evonne would definitely encourage you to do so!), but just be aware that one key doesn’t fit every door this year…

Well, you are my friend, aren't you? :p
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  kheob on 04/05/2012 - 05:10 ¶
  
  Sure :)
+1 vote

Wish on 04/05/2012 - 06:13 ¶

Looking forward to it.
g12345567 on 04/05/2012 - 06:49 Comment score below threshold (-12).
- Domingo on 04/05/2012 - 07:11 Comment score below threshold (4).
- gilbarc on 04/05/2012 - 08:39 Comment score below threshold (2).
+3 votes

tae on 04/05/2012 - 07:45 ¶

haha.. it's 3am on 13th May - Sunday, East coast time.. Good luck ppl.. :-)
- NGPriest on 04/05/2012 - 12:18 ¶
  
  I'll be awake at that time :p
  Wait… Sunday? I have church…
  Good luck everyone! :D
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jbuultjens on 04/05/2012 - 08:32 ¶

Long live Google drive !
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  gilbarc on 04/05/2012 - 08:40 ¶
  
  I'm trying to love Google Drive, but at the moment, it's buggy as hell.
  - furyou on 04/05/2012 - 10:02 ¶
    
    still can't enable drive on my apps account…
dirtybird on 04/05/2012 - 08:54 ¶

interesting
ozpete on 04/05/2012 - 09:03 ¶

No idea how they're going to police the 'no help' policy.

Even more so if the help is posted here or on other sites
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  roughana on 04/05/2012 - 10:19 ¶
  
  our support, forums, or blog
  
  I read this as they don't want their site being used.
  Any other site is fair game.
  
  I expect to find the answers here.
xDEFiNE on 04/05/2012 - 09:08 ¶

Thanks Kheob :D
matt777 on 04/05/2012 - 09:26 Comment score below threshold (-6).
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  rjblakel on 04/05/2012 - 09:45 ¶
  
  "Everyone who completes Dropquest will get at least 1 GB of extra free space, even if you participated last year."….
  
  Wow, that's some hard work indeed.
+1 vote

furyou on 04/05/2012 - 10:03 ¶

"This is a competition not a deal"
It will be a deal once someone posts all the answers up!
kheob on 04/05/2012 - 15:02 ¶

Yeah I didn't think it was a competition since everyone who participates will get free space. Oh well.
- dirtybird on 04/05/2012 - 17:05 ¶
  
  On May 12th someone else will post it again with help steps and it will be the greatest bargain of the week.
  But we'll know where we heard it first.
  - kheob on 04/05/2012 - 18:16 ¶
    
    Haha, yeah. Maybe I'll spitefully report it as a dupe :P.
NGPriest on 04/05/2012 - 19:46 ¶

Well, we should delete our dropbox links if we posted it here? :p
- kheob on 04/05/2012 - 20:22 ¶
  
  I doubt they would care, but better safe than sorry I guess?
ThePensioner on 05/05/2012 - 14:05 ¶

this looks great. will there be a thread dedicated to it? i don't want to miss out. someone PM me a link.
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  dirtybird on 05/05/2012 - 14:42 ¶
  
  I think you're in it.
  If someone starts another forum thread it will be closed anyway.
  (provided this one has more posts at the time.)
ory_zm on 06/05/2012 - 02:03 ¶

Wicked, can't wait..
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KKraig on 13/05/2012 - 09:21 ¶

guide here for anyone who wants to try
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1650694
took me about half and hour - scored extra 1gb :D
- chid on 13/05/2012 - 09:51 ¶
  
  Thanks
- Lenneth on 13/05/2012 - 17:20 ¶
  
  That sudoku one took a while.
  - Third_Gear on 13/05/2012 - 20:57 ¶
    
    Use a solver:
    
    http://www.sudokuwiki.org/sudoku.htm
Kill Joy on 13/05/2012 - 12:12 ¶

Its a mission, but you do get 1 GB :)
kheob on 13/05/2012 - 18:54 ¶

Actually spent two hours this morning trying to do it. I came around 900th :P.
- ory_zm on 14/05/2012 - 02:00 ¶
  
  Was that by yourself? if so that is impressive?
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    kheob on 14/05/2012 - 07:07 ¶
    
    All except the last one :(
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      ory_zm on 19/05/2012 - 16:19 ¶
      
      nice!
+1 vote

dirtybird on 13/05/2012 - 20:09 ¶

winner, thanks again for the heads up kheob!
and used the answers @ http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26018291#po...
Frantic on 14/05/2012 - 01:36 ¶

lot of hate on the dropbox fb group, folks commenting about losing space, not getting space?
ory_zm on 14/05/2012 - 02:00 ¶

Awesome, got my 1gb.
jennkei on 18/05/2012 - 22:09 ¶

For people who are wondering, you can still get your 1gig! If you finish the quest before 2nd June. :) Plenty of time. I'm still hanging on to my allocated space no problem..

The Dropquest II Contest begins May 12, 2012 at 10:00am PST (17:00 GMT) & ends June 2, 2012 at 10:00am PST (17:00 GMT).