The New Smashing Mystery Riddle: Have You Figured It Out Yet?

The New Smashing Mystery Riddle: Have You Figured It Out Yet?

• By Vitaly Friedman


• July 15th, 2014


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Ah, these mystery¹riddles²never stop³, do they? To applaud a launch of a SmashingConf Whistler⁴, a really initial discussion in Canada, we’ve prepared a nonetheless another riddle, and of march this time it’s not going to be any easier!




So, how does it work this time? Well, subsequent you’ll find a initial of a few hidden charcterised GIFs that enclose a tip Twitter hashtag. Your pursuit is to deconstruct that hashtag as quick as possible. To do that, we have to compensate courtesy to a record name and count objects within a GIF (for example, “3 chairs”) and hunt for them on Twitter (i.e. #3chairs).




If your theory is right, you’ll find a twitter heading we to a subsequent level. Once you’ve reached a final turn (oh, you’ll know when), only tweet out all a hints in one singular hashtag to @smashingmag⁵ on Twitter! Not that difficult, right?




Alright, let’s get to business. Are we ready? Action! (And good luck!)




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Tip: Watch out for a spirit in one of a frames in any of a GIFs. Large view.⁷




So, What Can You Win?




We’ll raffle a utterly extraordinary, smashing esteem (and a integrate of other Smashing extras, see below) to a initial integrate of readers who twitter out a scold dark hashtags to us!



• a roundtrip moody to Whistler, Canada,


• full accommodation in a imagination hotel,


• a sheet to a Smashing Conference Whistler 2014⁸,


• any Smashing seminar sheet of your choice,


• full entrance to a Smashing eBook Library,


• a sealed book of a Smashing Book #4⁹,


• a truly Smashing laptop bag,


• your really possess Smashing caricature, designed only for you.



Please notice that to equivocate spoilers, comments are sealed for this post. And sorry, we aren’t going to make it too easy for you. The winners will be announced on Saturday, Jul 19th.




Alright! Let’s get to work. Or have we already figured it out?





Footnotes



1. 1 http://www.smashingmagazine.com/the-smashing-book-mystery-is-resolved-gifs-crazy-people-all-that-malarkey/


2. 2 http://www.smashingmagazine.com/the-mystery-resolved-the-rain-that-never-stops-frightened-cats-cake-is-a-lie/


3. 3 http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2014/03/31/the-mystery-is-resolved-a-story-of-invisible-letters-and-shady-characters/


4. 4 http://www.smashingconf.com/whistler-2014/


5. 5 https://twitter.com/smashingmag


6. 6 http://gridtips.com/wp-content/plugins/RSSPoster_PRO/cache/bd97f_it-might-get-windy-in-whistler.gif


7. 7 http://gridtips.com/wp-content/plugins/RSSPoster_PRO/cache/bd97f_it-might-get-windy-in-whistler.gif


8. 8 http://www.smashingconf.com/whistler-2014/


9. 9 https://shop.smashingmagazine.com/smashing-book-4-new-perspectives-on-web-design.html?pk_campaign=front-page-shop



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