There’s a mystery which has kept the world in suspense for more than a decade and represents a veritable rebus. And it has to do with a racing game that has sparked a real one treasure hunt around the planet which is far from finished.
Developed by RedLynx for Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows, the video game Evolution of tests which was a boom in 2012 contained hidden messages and other tidbits that became a sensation. And this puts the iconic Eiffel Tower, Paris, France.
The mystery of the video game
The story began shortly after the launch of TEvolution of Rials on Xbox Live Arcade.
It was then that the players discovered a series of wooden planks which, when put together, formed a coded message that he managed to decipher and see that it was a set of instructions.
What was the goal? Performing a secret maneuver in the game that unlocked a song that was, again, another puzzle, he describes in a note the BBC.
Riddle from screen to real life
Enigma after enigma, the mystery jumped from the screen to the real world when players have discovered a website showing clues and coordinates.
But where were they pointing? Overs? If right. The goal was to find out four hidden chests in four extremely distant places in the world: San Francisco (USA), Sydney (Australia), Bath (England) and Helsinki (Finland).
In the first three chests they found keys and metal tags with the beginning of a sentence: “It seemed like forever”corresponding to an excerpt from the novel Under the same starby John Green.
But the fourth trunk contained another key and various items, including an antique pocket watch from 1916 and a metal tag with the following message engraved on the back.
“Noon of the year 2113. First Saturday in August. One of the five keys will open the box. Under the Eiffel Tower”clarifies what the portal said 20 minutes.
In this way, the participants who surrendered at the feet of this research achieved the last and last clue of the incredible riddle that they will never really solve, as that task will match future generations.
What the challenge creator says in the world
Antti Ilvessuothe creator of the great enigma and founder of RedLynx in 2000 with his brother Atte, revealed in an interview with the BBC: “The enigma is really important to me, because it brought people together who wanted to solve it”.
After a decade, continue without revealing details about what will be found beneath the iconic 300m high tower in Paris, although some have taken their exhaustive research as a metaphor of how the world should work.
“It was very meaningful to me. I’ve always said you have to be able to trust people, that people are smart and curious. And the right way to solve the problems of the world we live in is with people like that, working together,” Ilvessuo said.
Some fans of this riddle that has its solution in the distant future speculate that its outcome, though they never know it, will be really exciting: Only time will have the answer.
Source: Clarin
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