From the good folks at the Barbarian Group comes “Tweetcracker,” an opportunity to use Twitter and cunning to grab $10,000 (in gold for some reason), a Samsung Series 9 notebook. And, as the Barbarian Group says in a blog post, “Should someone win the contents of the safe, we’re going to refill it with another laptop and two, around the world plane tickets.”
Created for Samsung and Intel, “Tweetcracker” allows users three guesses per day through August 17 to crack the 10-digit safe code, dissolve the laser beams and get the prizes. The guesses will then be broadcasted in the form of tweets from the user’s account along with the hashtag #tweetcracker. Over the six weeks the contest is running, clues will be broadcasted from Samsung’s Boosted Facebook and Twitter pages. As someone close to the matter says, the campaign could be seen as “armchair cryptography meets social media.” Uh, okay then. You can read the digital shop’s take on the effort on their blog here.