Did you enjoy the hunt? Too hard? Not hard enough? There's over-easy and hard-boiled fans alike, I guess. WE hatched this plan way back. Are you shell shocked? We've got all kinds of yolks. Another egg pun? That's eggs-actly what I thought you said!
Egg has hatched, and results are now visible to all. Thanks for joining us!
For those late to the party, these were the steps one would have followed:
The initial clue was in the Everybody Read!! post in the Rarities & Unreleased category. The post itself was a clue, with the initial letter of each section spelling "SLIMS." The new comment was a little limerick and another clue, which told seekers "I used to be a song, but I got very lonely. Now I figure I will instead help you crack some eggs. Please find me…"
The song in question was Madeline Peyroux's Bare Bones, which lives over in the Brill Bldg Becker category. For the period of the hunt, this post was replaced by a single link, which lead here:
The captions on that picture reference the song "Dirty Work," which contains a chess reference...the castle in his corner. The two eggs that would be the rooks contain links to:
This part of the page on walterbecker.com talks about preserving history, and how Walter "wanted to entice readers further in." It further asked, "Where can we visit some of this preserved history now?"
The answer to that question, and the best place to view the preserved history of Walter's home on the web, is at the Frontpage Archive on walterbecker.com. Each of the pages in the archive contains text, encouraging movement forward while thinking about our first encounter with Walter here at his online home, with the most recent iteration of the homepage saying "Let's go through that entrance again now, and see what's waiting for us this time."
A return to that first page of the archive would lead one to the crow and the entrance, which had been made live, sending our intrepid adventurer through the door and to:
Those amongst you with a penchant for anagrams might have picked up on the fact that Vital Smiles is an anagram of Live at Slim's, which was of course the promised egg.
All told, 48 people made it through to the end, with varying levels of help. The object of the game was never to keep the video from anyone, but to encourage a little fun. We sure had fun watching the counter trickle up, and helping those of you who asked. These kind of games aren't for everyone, which is why the secret only stayed a secret for a few days. But for those of you who made it to the end, we congratulate you. And for keeping the secret, we thank you. Hope you had fun.
Glad for people enjoying and cursing our egg hunt alike. Kulee, the "tracklist" is actually just anagrams of the relevant verse of "Dirty Work" and its chorus. As our wonderful Moderator pointed out, we toyed with a few iterations of puzzles. At some point I turned the text white on said anagram, when it was on a black background. Then a few edits later, the background was removed and the picture added, but now with the white text on white background, I kinda sorta forgot it was there. And of course you clever people found it and likely believed it was more important a clue than it was, in as much as it didn't reveal anything that the captions hadn't already told you, only more quickly and with less mental anguish.
Wow! What a special treat indeed - thanks for the fun "hunt." Now - the real special treat would be to hear that whole amazing show in all its glory. Please...make it be so some day! The sound quality was amazing...so clear, so intimate.
Egg has hatched, and results are now visible to all. Thanks for joining us!
For those late to the party, these were the steps one would have followed:
The initial clue was in the Everybody Read!! post in the Rarities & Unreleased category. The post itself was a clue, with the initial letter of each section spelling "SLIMS." The new comment was a little limerick and another clue, which told seekers "I used to be a song, but I got very lonely. Now I figure I will instead help you crack some eggs. Please find me…"
The song in question was Madeline Peyroux's Bare Bones, which lives over in the Brill Bldg Becker category. For the period of the hunt, this post was replaced by a single link, which lead here:
https://www.walterbeckermedia.com/huntingforeggsintallgrass
The captions on that picture reference the song "Dirty Work," which contains a chess reference...the castle in his corner. The two eggs that would be the rooks contain links to:
http://walterbecker.com/news.html#subscribe
This part of the page on walterbecker.com talks about preserving history, and how Walter "wanted to entice readers further in." It further asked, "Where can we visit some of this preserved history now?"
The answer to that question, and the best place to view the preserved history of Walter's home on the web, is at the Frontpage Archive on walterbecker.com. Each of the pages in the archive contains text, encouraging movement forward while thinking about our first encounter with Walter here at his online home, with the most recent iteration of the homepage saying "Let's go through that entrance again now, and see what's waiting for us this time."
A return to that first page of the archive would lead one to the crow and the entrance, which had been made live, sending our intrepid adventurer through the door and to:
https://www.walterbeckermedia.com/vitalsmiles
Those amongst you with a penchant for anagrams might have picked up on the fact that Vital Smiles is an anagram of Live at Slim's, which was of course the promised egg.
All told, 48 people made it through to the end, with varying levels of help. The object of the game was never to keep the video from anyone, but to encourage a little fun. We sure had fun watching the counter trickle up, and helping those of you who asked. These kind of games aren't for everyone, which is why the secret only stayed a secret for a few days. But for those of you who made it to the end, we congratulate you. And for keeping the secret, we thank you. Hope you had fun.
Glad for people enjoying and cursing our egg hunt alike. Kulee, the "tracklist" is actually just anagrams of the relevant verse of "Dirty Work" and its chorus. As our wonderful Moderator pointed out, we toyed with a few iterations of puzzles. At some point I turned the text white on said anagram, when it was on a black background. Then a few edits later, the background was removed and the picture added, but now with the white text on white background, I kinda sorta forgot it was there. And of course you clever people found it and likely believed it was more important a clue than it was, in as much as it didn't reveal anything that the captions hadn't already told you, only more quickly and with less mental anguish.
Wow! What a special treat indeed - thanks for the fun "hunt." Now - the real special treat would be to hear that whole amazing show in all its glory. Please...make it be so some day! The sound quality was amazing...so clear, so intimate.
I registered just so I could publicly celebrate my victory over the Easter Egg challenge, while simultaneously complaining about the difficulty.
Seriously though, this site is fantastic. Thank you.