Monday, October 06, 2008

Lose Money on Google Maps

FortuneMaps
fortunemaps map
FortuneMaps is a find the treasure game built on Google Maps. To play the game suckers players purchase a flag for $2 and then position the flag on the map. If a player comes within 100 metres of the treasure they win the jackpot, which increases with every flag placed. If no one wins the jackpot there is also a weekly prize for the closest player each week.

According to FortuneMaps this is a game of skill and not a lottery or a raffle. I wonder why they would want to emphasise that?

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2 comments:

  1. Within 100 meters for $2? Those odds must be worse than a real lottery!

    Anyone care to calculate the odds of coming within 100 meters of a randomly placed object on the earth?

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  2. Anonymous10:37 AM

    only for the first week.

    lets say, in the map above, that the pin in africa wins the prize for being closest in week1

    everyone has a relatively small circle to put their guesses in in week 2, then week 3, 4 ....shouldn't last more than a month before you can narrow it down at least to a town

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