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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!
  • spannerspencer
    spannerspencer over 10 years ago in reply to ipv1

    That was quite sneaky, looking at my recent content image  I hadn't thought that you could do that! Excellent detective work, Sherlock Singh!

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  • mconners
    mconners over 10 years ago in reply to gadget.iom

    Yeah, I found out later if you type that tag in the top search bar, you'll find like 6 pages.

     

    Mike

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  • gadget.iom
    gadget.iom over 10 years ago in reply to mconners

    Ahhh...

    Sneaky. image

    I only found two posts with that tag as well.

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  • mconners
    mconners over 10 years ago in reply to gadget.iom

    He missed a couple of entries.

     

    He has no comment on

    Raspberry Pi Plays Really Well with Others - Top 10 Best Friends

    or

    The Top 10 Selling Raspberry Pi Accessories of All Time

    as a minimum.

     

    He must have done like me, I found the answer right away, but clicked on the tag fruitful_three, which gave me this,

    Raspberry Pi

     

    I didn't realize that would only show the tags in the current tree, not the whole site.

     

    Congratulations, to the winners. You were more dedicated than me.

     

    Mike

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    gadget.iom over 10 years ago in reply to spannerspencer

    spannerspencer

    Just out of curiosity, did clem57 not get a valid comment in?

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  • tonyboubady
    tonyboubady over 10 years ago

    THANK YOU so much...you know what?...I need more of this adventure...honestly I was loved to do it.

     

    Ok here...how I did it...

    As fast as I saw this line Behind a red door sealed by Andre-Marie.

    IT'S DONE...

    i have searched for the Andre-Marie in E14 homepage search bar, it leads to his page...the profile is empty with no distractions at all(you should have put some fake informations image), but the status in weird letters. The last word kool is more revealing that the whole sentence is reversed, so I copied the sentence and find a site which converts the text to reverse, and I got the clue that i have to look for Fruitful_three tag and respond to each with electronic decree... the electronic decree was bit confusing for me to figure out, I look for thesaurus and came up with the word "law", now I got it, OHMS LAW...

     

    I was just clicked the tag fruitful_three here in this post and got just 2 places... I was almost confirmed it's just 2 places... after a while i was browsing through the site and i came across with the post Pi 3 IKEA retro gaming and found the tag fruitful_three, then it was all hunting down the tag here in E14 AHHAHAHAHAHA...

     

    AGAIN, THANK YOU...

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  • mcb1
    mcb1 over 10 years ago in reply to spannerspencer

    Well done guys.

     

    I was sidetracked looking for something else.

     

     

    mark

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    ipv1 over 10 years ago

    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 it would be three posts with tags and the same tag was in the post for the hunt. Clicked the tag and found two posts with the relevant tags BUT it smelled fishy since I thought there would be three.

     

    I then went to the profile of our fearless leader spannerspencer and found that he has recently modified some content. Found the Tag in the PiKEA post. This meant that there were others. The post said 5 easter eggs so off I went to the search bar. Bingo! Found five posts and then proceeded to type in some electronic laws in the comments.

     

    Done! image

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    spannerspencer over 10 years ago

    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, and you each win a brand spanking new Raspberry Pi 3! Oh, and you also bagged 300 element14 points, too, which is always nice image Please check your postal addresses are up to date in your profile, and we'll get them out to you right away.

     

    Just out of interest, we'd love to hear the process you went through for solving the riddle so quickly -- tell us your story here in the comments.

     

    For those who didn't quite solve it, here's the solution:

     

    In this place there hides a Pi 3,

    Behind a red door sealed by Andre-Marie. (This line refers to the patron engineer of Level 3, Andre-Marie Ampere).

    His rank you must earn to set the boards free, (In order to compete in this Easter egg hunt, you had to be a Level 3 member or higher).

    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. (If you highlight the text in this riddle, you'll find a link between the two passages. Give it a go if you didn't find it image ).

    His status, not wrong, is yet left to write, (If you follow the hidden link, it'll take you to the profile of Andre-Marie Ampere, who's status is written backwards...)

    And guides the worthy to fruitful delight. (The message in his status directs you to search for the tag "fruitful_three", and asks you to make a comment on each post that uses this tag. The first five to do so won the Red Key badge, and a Raspberry Pi 3!).

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    e14 Contributor over 10 years ago

    electronic decree

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