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Techie makes 'WMD' hunt game
As computer buff Shane Messer watched the hunt for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, he had a money spinning idea.
He created an international treasure hunt called "Find Those Weapons: The Hunt for the Real WMD".
The game made of actual public documents related to the American invasion as clues carries a prize of a solid gold trophy, a bag of cash and a barrel of oil.
"I sat down and created a hunt with real documents off public domain sites and started putting the puzzle together over time and it became a very complex thing," said Messer, 28, of Nashville.
The game he created, which started shipping this week for $39.99 a copy includes a booklet with 10 clues and a master clue; a map of Iraq; and a CD-ROM that contains 3,000 public documents, leaflets dropped in Iraq and text transcripts.
The treasure at the end of Messer's hunt is a 14k gold trophy that has been appraised at $6,632 by a Nashville jeweler. The single winner also gets 10 percent of the profits and a barrel of oil.
Computer Game monthly said however that buyers shouldn’t count on winning the prize. “Everyone knows that there aren’t really any WMD, and seeing as the game is based on real-life it’s pretty obvious that it’s a no-win situation.”
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