Launching on February 20.
A puzzle game coming out soon on Steam promises to offer a single Bitcoin to the first person who can beat it.
The developers of Montecrypto: The Bitcoin Enigma, Gem Rose Accent, will launch the $2 USD game on Steam on February 20. Players must traverse a maze in first-person and solve 24 different puzzles. The first player to finish all of the puzzles will receive one Bitcoin, which is currently worth a little over $9,800 USD.
You can work with others to solve these puzzles, leave hints and clues behind for other players, or lead them down dead ends if you so choose. Motherboard reports the developers of the game want to remain anonymous until a winner is crowned.
“We are trying to keep our identities secret for now,” Gem Rose Accent said in a press release. “But we can say we are a group of game developers and that we had a crazy idea for a game.”
Gem Rose cite the infamous real-life On the Trail of the Golden Owl treasure hunt as a source of inspiration for Montecrypto. On the Trail of the Golden Owl is a French treasure hunting book published in 1993. Those who can unlock its clues and mysteries would find a buried golden owl, but it has remained unsolved all these years later.
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