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digamma
02-18-2005, 12:47 PM
Anyone looked at this? EBay is giving away 25 $1000 prizes per day by hiding the prizes in items on the site. They post a clue and the item somehow relates to that clue. Figured some of our puzzlers might be interested.

http://pages.ebay.com/treasurehunt/getclues.html
WSUCougar
02-18-2005, 12:48 PM
I've seen it but every time I check the item has already been found.
digamma
02-18-2005, 12:55 PM
I've seen it but every time I check the item has already been found.
There are a few unsolved clues. However, I'm thinking they are so obsure, they are unsolved for a reason.
oliegirl
02-18-2005, 01:12 PM
The new one is obviously a big bird reference, but that is so vague - I don't know where to start!
hhiipp
02-18-2005, 01:37 PM
I've been searching for a few of them.. but I look at the list of hints, and then look at the actual answers and I'm boggled as to how the clue actually has anything to do with it.
oliegirl
02-18-2005, 01:52 PM
Agreed...there are a few that make sense, at least a little, but the others are such a stretch...
lytic
02-18-2005, 02:02 PM
ebayers scare me.
TazFTW
02-18-2005, 02:15 PM
What the...


a movie, Dakota city = Franciscan Piggy Bank ???
TazFTW
02-18-2005, 03:14 PM
Geez,

Associated with the Graduated Federal income tax = Valentine's Roses

And that was only solved when the added a hint, "(Hint: What else started during Woodrow Wilson's Presidency, by him . . . or His first lady?)"

I don't see how anyone could have come up with;

Associated with the Graduated Federal income tax = Woodrow Wilson = his first wife = person who started the Rose Garden.

at least "a movie, Dakota city = Franciscan Piggy Bank" now makes sense with Fargo being a city in Dakota = Wells Fargo = bank.