The site may say it’s not an alternate reality game, but the rumour mill says it’s the viral marketing for Xbox’s next-generation console. Some of the prizes for prior challenges have been sneak peak images of the so-called console, and more. Thanks to Andrew and Shawn for their help with the last challenge: “I am in 6 places where you talk.” It seems like the Final Fantasy take was not exactly what they were looking for, but it was a pretty great guess (“chocobo”)! Looks like we got a 10 bonus points for our tries.

Anyhow, this is who’s on our colony so far:
-me
-Kurt
-Andrew
-Shawn (soon?)
-Kyle
-Raf

If you want to join us in solving the next challenge (this one’s an audio clue), go to the ourcolony website and do this:

1. Type “play” in the text field and click the spider to submit.
2. Click on “Join existing colony”
3. Type “39773113” –our team’s password.
4. You’re in! Check out the challenge and the current day’s clue (last paragraph/line in the middle column).

Feel free to pass around this password and get your video-game fanatic friends to join as well. The points you earn are based on the # of people on the team, how many challenges we solve first, and how many countries (based on our browser setting, I guess) are represented by our team members.

For the current challenge, please help log what the daily clues are by posting them as a comment to this entry. I’m gonna Google what the answer was for the previous challenge to satisfy our curiosity on that one.

Transcript of audio challenge:

I told you it would be harder now. Work together, but be mindful of your rank. Did I mention that this one’s more rewarding? Start in the alley.