I got an email a while back about a site called Treasure Challenge that offered cash prizes for solving puzzles. I just tried the puzzle for the first time today. The site requires you to create a user to log in. You are then presented with the treasure challenges for the week. It will either tell you who solved the challenge or when the challenge will be active, or it will let you try the challenge.
First, you are presented with a series of trivia questions that shouldn’t be too difficult for anyone connected to the internet. Some of the questions require you to click on an ad link. The answer to the question takes you to a page that contains the answer. For example, today’s treasure challenge was cleary sponsored by Amazon and all links went to their site. This is, apparently, how the site makes money. After you answer the trivia questions, you are presented with a riddle for which you only get one guess per day.
After this, thinks get a bit murky. I haven’t gone any further, so I can’t say for certain what happens. The rules say something about a FASTCASH round and multiple clues. If you want to find out what that means, I suppose you’ll have to play.
Tags: puzzles,riddles,trivia
I think treasurechallenge.com has happened onto a great idea!! On the marketing end, businesses should jump on this. Not only are they getting advertising but there are specific products that you have to view from whatever company is featured that day. Then you are required to enter info off of those advertisements in order to solve the puzzle. I’ve played for about six weeks now and I have never had such a solid knowledge about products from Target, Macy’s, Home Depot, or Amazon!
On the consumer end, you’re getting a chance to win some extra money and something to look forward to each monday…the start of a new Treasure Challenge for the week! The challenges are not easy to solve. I solved one right before Christmas and won the prize money, but I was skeptical about the site until this happened. I spent several hours one night researching, reorganizing search criteria, and even guessed wrong once before I submitted the final correct guess!
If you like puzzles, you should play Treasure Challenge. If you like puzzles that let you win money, then you should definitely play. AND if you’re a puzzle junkie like myself, you’ll be addicted soon. The high of winning has drawn me back to their site for weeks now. My work week went ten times better because I felt so accomplished!! My best friend also won and though I was happy for her, I was also a little bit jealous
As to the fast cash, let me explain a bit more. The way I understand it, after the Challenge is solved for the week, the site enters into FAST CASH mode. Every few hours, a new clue appears and whoever solves it first wins $200.00 (note this amount was increased from $100.00) I don’t know about you, but during this recession I’ll take a few moments to try and win a few more hundred dollars!!
Comment by Micah — January 26, 2009 @ 4:47 pm