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  • Date Created: 1 Mar 2016 10:57 AM Date Created
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The Raspberry Pi 3 is out now, and setting the cash registers on fire, it's moving off the shelves so fast! But being the light-fingered, sneaky Pi-hounds that we are, we managed to squirrel five of them away to give out to element14 Community members as prizes.

 

Ah, but we aren't just going to hand them around. We want to know that it's the worthy who land these sought after fruitful beauties, so we've hidden them right here within the element14 Community.

 

There are five such Easter eggs in total, and they'll go out to the first among you to decipher the following riddle and hunt them down.

 

Remember: Don't post any spoilers! If you do, you're just helping someone else to find a Raspberry Pi 3 that could have been yours.

 

Ready, player one? Off you go, and enjoy your adventure!

 

 

In this place there hides a Pi 3,

Behind a red door sealed by Andre-Marie.

His rank you must earn to set the boards free,

Then complete you a quest to find the Red Key.

element14.com/community/people/ampere

The path is before you, disguised in plain sight,

A connection to find behind a high light.

His status, not wrong, is yet left to write,

And guides the worthy to fruitful delight.

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  • spannerspencer
    spannerspencer over 10 years ago +6
    Wow, I knew we should have made this a bit tougher! You guys nailed it inside of 24 hours! Congratulations go out to: ipv1 tonyboubady gordonmx enragedflamingo cryofire You guys found all five keys first…
  • ipv1
    ipv1 over 10 years ago +5
    Thought process: Googled Andre-Marie and came up with ampere. Looked up ampere in search and found the profile. - The tag line was a simple encryption - reversed and found the word fruitful_three I thought…
  • spannerspencer
    spannerspencer over 10 years ago in reply to ipv1 +4
    That was quite sneaky, looking at my recent content I hadn't thought that you could do that! Excellent detective work, Sherlock Singh!
  • e14 Contributor
    e14 Contributor over 10 years ago in reply to spannerspencer

    OK awesome! Thank you very much, I'm super excited. I'll definitely let you know when it comes.

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    spannerspencer over 10 years ago in reply to e14 Contributor

    Oh, sorry man -- I must have missed that one! No excuse though image

     

    The Pi3s should be with you guys in the next day or two, actually -- they're on the road right now! Let me know when they arrive safe and sound.

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    e14 Contributor over 10 years ago

    Still no RPI3 here. I have messaged Spanner Spencer asking about it but I haven't gotten any replies. I have my address  information up to date, is there something else we need to do?

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  • gordonmx
    gordonmx over 10 years ago

    Almost 2 months and no RPi3.  Has anyone received theirs? 

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    e14 Contributor over 10 years ago

    Same. I would just like to know especially because of an address change soon. I'll update my address now accordingly, but it would be good to know if that's necessary.

     

    Thanks for the opportunity,

    Logan

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  • tonyboubady
    tonyboubady over 10 years ago

    Am I still getting this? I haven't received it yet...

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    e14 Contributor over 10 years ago

    How I went about it:

    First I started to browse around Element14 to see if anything stuck out that went with the riddle. When I didn't find anything (it was cool to browse though), I came back to the this page. Eventually I found the link and found the status etc. I commented on the two pages that appear when you click the tag and I called it a day. I saw the "Version 3" and I was curious. I saw that "Red Door" was originally capitalized but that it was changed. However, "Red Key" was still capitalized. When I saw that, I knew I wouldn't stop until I actually had some "red key". I saw the line about Ampere's rank and made it to 3. Nothing special happened still so I kept searching. I too checked out the PiKEA post and saw the tag and searched it. After I commented on all of the pages though, nothing happened still. I was about to go to bed, and I decided to try re-commenting on the first 2 articles since I wasn't level 3 when I commented originally. This is what did it and I had the Red Key mission in my points.

    Thanks for the game!

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  • gordonmx
    gordonmx over 10 years ago in reply to spannerspencer

    I hope everyone had a tasty PI day.  Thank you for the challenge and the wonderful surprise.  I’m sure my process was very similar to everyone else’s, but my moment of enlightenment came when I had to run to a meeting.  Before leaving, I wanted to print the page, but didn’t want all the comments.  I highlighted the riddle so I could cut and paste it to a text document when I noticed the “clue”.  After that everything fell into place.  P.S. I checked my postal address and it is correct.  Thanks again.

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  • mconners
    mconners over 10 years ago in reply to clem57

    I saw the five egg clue, but when I only found 2 tagged messages, I thought it referred to the five Ras Pis.

     

    MIke

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    clem57 over 10 years ago

    Yes I was snafued by the system software called Jive and overlooked the key "five eggs".image

    But thanks to all who had keen eyes and great smell to sniff it out. You deserve to fly like eagles.image

    Clem

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