# Creating a mystery **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 15, 2006, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-a-mystery/372816 "2006-09-15T10:39:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sans\_Seraph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@Sans\_Seraph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sans_Seraph)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-a-mystery/372816/41 "2006-10-02T01:36:48Z")
This looks intriguing enough to get me out of lurker mode. My email is sent… ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-a-mystery/372816/42 "2006-10-02T20:04:10Z")
I’ve sent out packs to everyone who emailed; I will have to close the gate again now, for a couple of reasons; firstly, I’ve run out of items again, but also because the individually small costs of posting them are starting to add up. There are 51 of the objects in circulation - either already placed or en route to regional conspirators. If anyone else wants to put their name on the waiting list, they’ll be most welcome to email me, but I won’t be sending anything out for a week or two. Things appear to be taking off a bit on the website, so I hope to be able to post the elusive link to the project here soon. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2006, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-a-mystery/372816/43 "2006-10-13T11:22:45Z")
I can’t believe this. after distributing sixty of the items and getting no email response at all (although I have had a few encouraging posts on the shoutbox), I discover that the email address was misquoted on the website (given as a .com domain instead of .co.uk). Easily corrected and the only place it was wrong was on the website - not on the items themselves, but humiliatingly, stupidly frustrating, because it means some feedback has probably been irretrievably lost. :smack: :o ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2006, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-a-mystery/372816/44 "2006-10-16T13:23:28Z")
Wel… it’s still ongoing and there are still at least a few objects out there either en route to my co-conspirators, or waiting to be distributed, but things seem to have quietened off a little bit, so I’m going to post a link to the website now, to save having to resurrect this thread again when it gets really old. The one thing I must ask though is: **please, dopers, don’t flood the shoutbox on the ‘talk’ page** ; it only keeps the last few dozen entries and it would be a shame if comments from people finding my objects were scrolled off too quickly. OK, so the site is: > **[Build a Free Website | VistaPrint](https://www.vistaprint.com/digital-marketing/websites#fromFreeWebs)** > > Design and create a professional website with the Wix website builder. Choose from customizable templates and design, then select the features that your business needs. BTW, I’m afraid the invitation to assist with distribution must now be closed. ---
**Author:** ![Auntbeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Auntbeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Auntbeast)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2006, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-a-mystery/372816/45 "2006-10-16T14:20:07Z")
I frequent a site that has been running a promotion for a company. Company has been giving away prizes and offering up daily puzzles in anticipation of their launch. Well, someone wasn’t thinking too well, since the site I frequent focuses on boardgames. That is all. Promo company decided to launch their “one deal a day” site with an Xbox. Talk about pissing off the locals. I liken it to having all your amish buddies help build a barn, to open a computer warehouse in it. If you are planning to tease a site, keep in mind your audience. If it is for fun and games, more power to you. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2006, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-a-mystery/372816/46 "2006-10-16T14:34:34Z")
It is for fun and games, at least in as far as there is any end in mind at all. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-a-mystery/372816.md?page=2)