X Marks the Spot: Search, find and win

by Dustin Burg on Nov 3rd 2007 10:45AM

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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WTF
Haven't Heard about ANYBODY Really Winning ANYTHING, Was this all a WASTE Of Timeor what?
The Page wont even Load.

Hmmmm sounds cool! I wonder if it'll be similar to the Da Vinci Code contest awhile back. They never announced a winner for that contest, so I'm wondering if they ever gave away a prize!

US only?

How can MS partner up with Zune?

zune is a microsoft product

Curse them if it's US only. just cuz you guys have multiple times our population doesn't mean you should get access to the contests where you can win crap. winning crap in contests is like canada's national pastime.

I found this in the html source on that site.
It says its "hidden Flash content"
But this is what it says.

"Your Objective: X Marks the spot, you have 36 days to collect 360 clues online.
This is the world built for gamers: action, adventure, racing, simulation, multiplayer role-playing and fantasy. Your mission is explore the virtual world and return with the clues you discover behind the curtain of Black Rain, Rally in the DIRT, step outside the world of Halo and have a seat with Jason. With each clue you will be entered into the drawings for prizes. Daily, weekly and grand prizes including free Xbox 360 Game console, accessories, free games, give away cars and Xbox apparel. Microsoft has partnered with Circuit City, Mountain Dew, Activision, Panasonic, Samsung Mobile and more…to give you the chance to win with this online promotion: Xbox 360 X Marks the Spot promotion. Halo3, Bioshock, Gears of War. Connect with Xbox Live to for the ultimate gaming experience with Xbox 360."

So....it will last 36 days. And may involve the web sites of those games' sites?

lol @ Kamizar, I hope that was tongue in cheek.

solved all but one for today but it wont accept the right answer for the last one

ok i found every1 cept guitar hero which i found both words, expand and extreme but they say im wrong..if ne1 nos the right one that will b help

@reinsoft

i found like 10diff words for the last one and it says its all wrong..so hopefully someone could help us wit that!

i found the guitar hero words as well and they didn't work.

maybe those words are for a different day.

What's the deal with the last one? It won't accept the answer that's highlighted on the website.

how do some people have 11 correct?

FUCKING BULLSHIT. US ONLY?! FUCK YOU MS.

why wont 'xbox' work on quesiton number 10?

so how does one actually find these clues? i found the link to what i think the answer to the first one is... but there's no clue...

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/community/news/2007/1002-nihluskryik.htm

nvm...got it.

can someone help me wit guitar hero and the last one...i put in everyword and nuthin works! what am i missing!

mine doesnt work for guitar hero either.. got the other 9 tho

#8 Isn't working for me...It's clearly "Expand" as proven by this link:

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/g/guitarhero3legendsofrock/

yea i see expand 2...can u guys tell me number 10 please, i have 20 words from the beach website..if you dont wanan tell me can u give me a hint then or suttin? lol like i wus on every page writing every word down with the green x and then none work

ok sorry for the double comment but i just got the last one? like sometimes it works and sometimes it doesnt, you guys should see if that happens to u..like it will say it doesnt work but try and reload or go somewhere else and doit again, thats really strange, hope they fix it

is anyone willing to provide links to 6 and 10?

nvm...found 10...now all i need is 6. where tf is that?

8:
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/g/guitarhero3legendsofrock/

10:
http://www.beaches.com/general/included.cfm

Both above are busted. I tried the answers but I get that it's the wrong answer.

6? Where is it?

i couldn't find 6, but its in the clue

i need number 3

i mean that the actual answer is actually in the sentence. when i read what i said previously, it wasn't really clear.

6,
8,
10,

A lil help with these... please... Or some Hints!!! Thanks!

freddie: #3

https://fun.samsungmobileusa.com/misc/event.jsp

and for your hint on 6...OOOH...haaaa! thats funny...got it now.

brucie...i just posted links to 8 and 10...they're there and the answers are shown...its just when you input them, they don't work...

thank you

with 8 and 10, it will say they're wrong. right after that, you have to refresh the page, and you should have them marked as correct.

did that...still doesnt work. :(

just tried it again...dun worky. :(

I need 3 more answers

4,5, and 9

Anyone willing to offer more clues?

Hey DJ, Yea I already tried those & it didn't work, I thought maybe I messed it up or it was for later in the game. Thanks Tho

Freddie, Thanks I'll try that!

I'll trade some answers for 8 or 10 haha

also are my eyes just not working? i dotn see an x on the condemnded page. otherwise i have them all.

clue for number 9

https://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/domore/ringtones.mspx

All the locations of the clues...but I won't give you the exact answers...although I've posted some of them already.

1: http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/m/masseffect/
2: http://www.xbox.com/en-US/community/personality/trixie/gamerchix/default.htm
3: https://fun.samsungmobileusa.com/misc/event.jsp

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

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

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

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

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/

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

okay...now all those work.

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. ;)

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

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