New Hampshire video game designers create treasure hunt across Northeast with eye-popping reward

A brace of video crippled designers created a real-life, real-time treasure hunt in the Northeast with a hefty reward for the fortunate idiosyncratic who finds the unsocial treasure.

The crippled is called Project Skydrop, and players vie against 1 different to find a 24-karat golden sculpture valued astatine $26,000.

"This treasure hunt is simply a prototype, conscionable experimenting to spot if radical similar it, if radical similar the format," Project Skydrop co-creator Jason Rohrer told Boston 25 News.

The crippled started Sept. 19 and volition extremity connected Oct. 10.

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Project Skydrop is simply a real-life treasure hunt crippled based successful New England. (Project Skydrop)

The aureate treasure has been hidden wrong a 500-mile radius, and, for $20, players person a regular hint of the determination of the prize, located heavy successful the woods of nationalist onshore connected the wood floor. Each day, the clues commencement to uncover much and much astir wherever the treasure is hidden. As the days spell on, the ellipse gets smaller.

"We’re trying to fig retired if the treasure hunt itself is simply a benignant of self-contained, self-sustaining, fiscal thing, wherever these radical are paying introduction fees to articulation and that this bounty outgo increasing implicit clip makes it much and much interesting. Can that snowball and instrumentality off? That’s the question," Rohrer said.

Landscape views of the White Mountain National Forest successful New Hampshire. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

The entity resembles a "cyclone" connected a basal with dots and symbols etched onto the sides of the rings. It was made of 10 troy ounces of 24-karat axenic gold. 

Along with the $25,000 worth of the treasure, the victor volition besides person a information of an ever-growing prize bounty pool.

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There's besides a Discord societal media server with implicit 6,300 members signed up to stock their thoughts and theories during the treasure hunt. 

Trees successful New Hampshire's White Mountain National Forest. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

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According to the Project Skydrop website, the expansive prize is nether 24/7 surveillance.

The designers surrounded the prize with tree-mounted cameras that are some motion-sensitive and night-vision capable.

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