Get Lost!

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I myself find these things fascinating. Anyone else into these?

www.lost.eu/3c316

This game is a student project that aims to show how 7 million people connect and become the game with the most number of players ever. It's about finding new ways of communicating an idea and crossing the boundary between the internet and the real world.

You can join the game if you find an invitation. An invitation is an internet address that looks like this: www.lost.eu/example - but instead of the word 'example' there are some random numbers and letters.

There are invitations written everywhere - from beaches in Mexico to train stations in Poland - on the internet and in reality.

Once you have joined, you can win by scoring points. To score points you must invite other people to the game in the most creative way possible, using a unique link that is given to you. www.lost.eu/yourlink
Each time you invite someone, a timer on your profile resets. If it ever reaches zero, you lose.

When the game reaches 7 million players the player who has survived with the highest score will win $5000, and the top ten $500 each. A prize will also be given to the best photograph of an invitation.

Is there something else? Maybe. And if you can survive until Level 2 without losing the game, maybe you will find out ...
 
Click the Banana.

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It's kind of ridiculous that each invite can be used infinite times. You should be able to only put up real world invites, then when you see one in real life, you get a point and a new adress, which you have to put up somewhere else.

There's plenty of subversive art-collectives that have been doing similar things for years anyways. Have you ever seen a flying envelope drawn on a wall?
 
I will now be walking around with a marker pen in my hand for the next 29 days..
 
I printed a bunch of the links out so I can stick them up in random places. I was thinking about taping to the inside of bathroom stalls etc.
 
4 points and i just sent 32 people emails :D


Hint: check the images page for creative and good ways to write the link.
 
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