10 Days of CrunchGear: The Final Challenge

We present to you CrunchGear’s 10 Days of CrunchGear final challenge. Instead of randomly choosing a commentor we are now going to make you work for your prizes. Why? Because the prizes KICK ass.

Update - I’ve added a chatroom so you can ask questions.

First, the line-up:

We present to you the Palm Treo Pro, Palm’s latest Windows Mobile 6.1 cellphone. You will receive your prize when the phones are officially available later this year but rest assured you will be the first on your block to get one.

Next we offer the 1080p 42-inch Teledock LCD from JVC. It’s a 42-inch TV with an iPod dock for all your multimedia needs.

Imagine an LCD that will playback video content from your iPod®. JVC’s new TeleDock TVs, will not only play and upconvert iPod® video content to 1080p — they’ll even charge your iPod® too . The TeleDock line-up of panels was engineered to excite the most extreme audio visual enthusiasts and influence the creative minds of discriminating home decorators.


Finally, we have the Lenovo Y510 Ideabook. This is a Core 2 Duo machine with enough power to fulfill all of your wildest fantasies.

Now… how do you win one of these excellent prizes?

Each prize has a code associated with it. The code is made up of four, capitalized English words of four letter each. Acronyms do not count (i.e. OLED, HDMI, COAX, etc.) and not a proper company name (i.e. DISH from DISH Networks) For example, say I told you the Palm Treo’s code began with the word ACME. A potential complete code could look like:

ACME-BALL-CAPE-DOWN

Note, this is not the actual code. The actual code will run in alphabetical order, as shown above, but with different words. Where do you find these words? In posts, in Twitter and on our Facebook Group.

Your mission: to figure out each code and email all three - or just one completed code - for the item or items you want to win. Email contest@crunchgear.com with the subject line “TREO,” “JVC,” or “LENOVO” with the complete code in each email. The codes begin with the following words:

Palm Treo Pro ACME-
JVC 42-inch LCD TV EVIL-
Lenovo Y510 ITCH-

We’ll KICK this contest off right now and end it tomorrow at noon Eastern Time. We will pick the winners at random from those with complete codes.

Good luck.

http://www.meebo.com/rooms

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36 Comments/Pingbacks so far

 
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Riles (Who am I?)

Good lord, you weren’t kidding about the prizes being sick. Happy birthday indeed!

 
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Kyle (Who am I?)

Best prizes ever, I just need to figure out how to win.

 
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William Cox (Who am I?)

Clarification: Will the words be featured in future posts, or are they potentially in past posts?

 
Kelly

Happy Birthday! And so the code hunt begins.

 
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dre (Who am I?)

Clarification Please: Everyone who gets the code is entered into the drawing as long as they submit by noon tomorrow correct? In other words, the first one to submit an entry and the last one to submit have an equal chance at winning right?

 
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wrangler (Who am I?)

The game is afoot.

 
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Bill Bolte (Who am I?)

wow, amazing set of prizes. that’s awesome.

 
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Steve Jabs (Who am I?)

to address everyone so far. i asked both the future post question and the “is this random” question. The answer is YES to both. Yes, this post and future posts (no past posts) and YES everyone who gets the codes in by tomorrow at noon has a shot. The winner will be picked at random amongst those who get the codes right.

 
DigitalBuzz

Now thats what i call nice birthday party schwag!!!!

 
Lon

Why read when you can parser? I can’t get the facebook group page to work, but here’s the rest:

V1=`wget -q -O - http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/8921852.rss`;export V2=`wget -q -O - http://feeds.feedburner.com/crunchgear`; echo $V1 $V2 | grep -o ‘\s\([A-Z]\{4\}\)\s’ | tr -s ” ” | sed ’s/^[ ]//g’ | sort | uniq -i

enjoy :)

- Lon

p.s. Do I win something special for being this geeky?

 
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John Biggs (Who am I?)

yes, dre. it’s random.

 
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dre (Who am I?)

Thanks for answering my question!

 
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brenton (Who am I?)

so FIFA is not a code, right? no acronyms?

 
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Johnal (Who am I?)

Any of the codes be hidden within videos/pictures? Most pics/vids are blocked by websense in a lot of offices. =(

 
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Alireza (Who am I?)

how many entries do we get? one or you are up to explode your mailboxes..?

 
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Scott Nellé (Who am I?)

Forget the prizes, how do I win that cake the TV is sitting on? That thing must be huge!

 
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plin (Who am I?)

A good metric to measure is the increase of page views/click through rate during the days of competition.

 
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Johnny UI (Who am I?)

Great prizes indeed! Anyone else having trouble getting on to the facebook site? Also, what if i don’t have a twitter account?

 
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Johnny UI (Who am I?)

Anyone else having trouble getting on to the facebook site? Also, what if i don’t have a twitter account?

 
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johnny ui (Who am I?)

for some reason, my comments don’t seem to be showing up

 
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Johnny UI (Who am I?)

for some reasonmy comments aren’t showing

 
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johnny ui (Who am I?)

Anyone else having trouble getting on the facebook site? Also, what if i don’t have a twitter account?

 
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wrangler (Who am I?)

Is CG able to recieve email from Yahoo ymail?

 
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danski (Who am I?)

johnny,
Log in before you click the link…if you’re not logged into Facebook the link hates life

 
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Craig (Who am I?)

Wow. Can’t decide which one I want the most.

 
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ullrich schäfer (Who am I?)

yo. gimme gimme gimme :)

 
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Michael Lambie (Who am I?)

can’t wait to see who wins tomorrow!

 
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jeremy (Who am I?)

I would agree this is a lot of fun…great idea Crunch guys!

 
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Jerry (Who am I?)

Anyone have a hint for “F”?

 
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J Rob (Who am I?)

F gets hot.

 
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J Rob (Who am I?)

Fun times, CG! I liked this! And it feels like I have more of a chance of winning than with the automatronic random quote generators of days 5 and 7! Even though I probably don’t really . . .

But hey, fun times!

 
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Contest Blogger (Who am I?)

Great contest, 2 more hours :)

 
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Contest Blogger (Who am I?)

My hint for “F” is that it’s a 4 letter word: F___

;-)

 
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Austin K (Who am I?)

/holds breath

come on, I really wanna win that cake…

40 more mins!

 
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bonnie b bernardo (Who am I?)

with prices like these, there can only be one greeting = may you have many more bdays to come!

 
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Chris J. (Who am I?)

Are the winners posted some where?

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