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X Marks the Spot: Search, find and win

Prepare yourself for an online scavenger hunt that's billed as the "ultimate online contest for gamers and puzzle solvers". Prepare for the Xbox 360 X Marks the Spot giveaway.

Microsoft has teamed up with Pontiac, Mountain Dew, Zune, Gamestop, EA, Activision, Samsung and others to offer a whole bunch of prizes for their online scavenger hunt. And how it works is pretty simple. Starting Monday, November 5th players will have to scour the internet, using clues found on X Marks the Spot's website, solving gaming related questions in an ultimate effort to find secret passwords with green Xs on them. These X words allow entry into daily and weekly giveaways. Prizes including a new Pontiac G6 Coupe GXP (w00t!). There's goodies to be won, puzzles to be solved and Xs to be discovered ... so, are you up for the challenge?

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DjDATZ41

11-05-2007 @ 12:27PM

DjDATZ said...

4: http://www.panasonic.com/business/projectors/ax200-gaming-mode/index.asp
5: http://www.ea.com/cncx360/news.jsp
6: Look in the clue for the answer.
7: http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/c/condemnedcriminalorigins/20051103-brilliantlydisturbed.htm

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DjDATZ42

11-05-2007 @ 12:27PM

DjDATZ said...

8: http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/g/guitarhero3legendsofrock/
9: https://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/domore/ringtones.mspx
10: http://www.beaches.com/general/included.cfm

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Mike43

11-05-2007 @ 12:40PM

Mike said...

ok the 10 link that you sent only has one green X i can find and it doesnt work. its taunting me.

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DjDATZ44

11-05-2007 @ 12:47PM

DjDATZ said...

yea...well the clue says "go to beaches"...which means go to the beaches website...and yea.

Ummm...correction to the guitar hero link:
here's the right one:
http://www.guitarhero.com/

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DjDATZ45

11-05-2007 @ 12:51PM

DjDATZ said...

Here's the fixed link for #10...sorry all:
http://www.beaches.com/general/families.cfm

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Deaths Fury46

11-05-2007 @ 12:52PM

Deaths Fury said...

Anyone found a list of answers yet? This really bugs me that I cannot put in the right answers. I hope that this gets fixed

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DjDATZ47

11-05-2007 @ 12:52PM

DjDATZ said...

okay...now all those work.

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DjDATZ48

11-05-2007 @ 12:55PM

DjDATZ said...

Death's fury, if you want the answers, shoot me an email...you'll have to find out what my email is tho...that shouldn't be very hard tho. ;)

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Mike49

11-05-2007 @ 12:59PM

Mike said...

now i wonder if those other X's will be used for future questions or if they're merely decoys..

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Tha ill One50

11-05-2007 @ 1:04PM

Tha ill One said...

You know, after refreshing the page my snswers worked... It's messed up that youfind them and put them in over and over.... that needs to be fixed!!!! Grrrrrrrrr

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afi209951

11-05-2007 @ 1:07PM

afi2099 said...

Firefox not working for me. Had to use Opera.
WHat happens when you answer all 10 q's?

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DjDATZ52

11-05-2007 @ 1:25PM

DjDATZ said...

you get 10 entrys into todays giveaway.

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Justin53

11-05-2007 @ 1:49PM

Justin said...

I can not get 8 to work. I tried refreshing and I even opened the page in IE and entered the answer "expand". Is this not the correct answer?? It has the green x in the word.

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Justin54

11-05-2007 @ 1:59PM

Justin said...

Never mind- I guess I should really read the clues.... but to help some other people the answer to #8 is extreme. Perhaps "Expand" is for another day or perhaps just to throw people off.

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maddog197455

11-05-2007 @ 2:10PM

maddog1974 said...

btw the word for guitar hero is extreme. Can someone send a link for the page that has the clue for 003 "samsung"?

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modeps56

11-05-2007 @ 2:32PM

modeps said...

I found them all... but for some reason #5 shows up twice and I can only fill it in once.

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DjDATZ57

11-05-2007 @ 2:52PM

DjDATZ said...

maddog...check the previous page of comments...there's a link there to all of them. (Post 39 if i'm not mistaken.

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DrWoop58

11-05-2007 @ 3:04PM

DrWoop said...

question 3 is supposed to be "Exclusive"
but the word doesnt work. and trying it 20 times already has blocked the word.. is that one correct?

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Josh59

11-05-2007 @ 3:04PM

Josh said...

this site kills my firefox browser... bleh

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ant the man60

11-05-2007 @ 3:59PM

ant the man said...

sry guys i was taking a nap

ok like when u type in the words it says it is wrong, but it is really correct
what you gotta do is refresh the page or open a new tab with the page in it..type in the correct word first and it should work..it worked 4 me n the two i wus missing and had the right words

it should definitely work.

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