BOSTON – A treasure hunt which stretched across large parts of the northeast before diminishing to forest in Massachusetts got gold. The creators of Project Skydrop said someone picked up the $26,000 trophy Tuesday night.
Where exactly was the trophy found and who was the lucky winner? That information has not been revealed yet. A map on the Project Skydrop website shows it was somewhere in a 13-mile radius just north of Amherst along the Route 91 corridor.
Project Skydrop trophy came with big prize
The golden trophy contains a code to access a much bigger prize: A bounty of more than $87,000 made up of entry fees from people who paid $20 for access to special clues for the hunt.
Project Skydrop website says that to claim the prize, the winner must record a first-person video of them retrieving the trophy from the woods and then upload it publicly to YouTube. So far, that doesn’t seem to have happened.
Project Skydrop
New Hampshire video game developers Jason Rohrer and Tom Bailey, who created Project Skydrop, have yet to hear directly from the trophy seeker. But they spoke to a couple who encountered the winner on their way out of the woods and learned that he is a scientist who studied tree habitats as well as sky and weather patterns in images on the treasure hunting website to track down the trophy.
What’s next for Project Skydrop?
The hunt ended earlier than the creators expected, and they have stopped people from signing up for now. But there is talk of possibly continuing the adventure with second and third prizes.
More information is coming soon, according to the Project Skydrop website.