TXT ‘ZELDA’ 2 ‘20769′ 4 CHANCE 2 WIN TRP 2 NYC!!1!
Thursday, September 13th, 2007 at 9:03am by Jack
Obnoxious, huh? Well, it’s what the kids are doing these days, with the texting and the Googling and the whatnot, and Nintendo has it all covered with a new contest!
Beginning today, to mark the Oct. 1 launch of The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, Nintendo is asking people to answer three Zelda-related trivia questions for the chance to win an amazing collection of prizes. I don’t know what the questions are yet, but one of them has to be about estimating the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow. Has to be.
To receive the three trivia questions, contestants must text “Zelda” to 20769 or enter by mail by visiting Zelda.com between Sept. 13 and Oct. 26. People who answer all three questions correctly will automatically be entered into the contest.
One First Prize winner will receive a trip for two to New York, two nights at a hotel, a $1,000 closed-door shopping spree at Nintendo World, $500 spending money, a special-edition Nintendo DS and a copy of The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass. Nine Finalists will receive a special-edition gold Nintendo DS and a copy of The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass. Winners of the first prize and their guests must be 18 or older.
Get dialing Infendo, and don’t forget your friends here at the site when you win.
[Hat tip, David]
September 13th, 2007 at 9:29 am
This stinks, It’s not letting me answer the second question. It keeps sending me back Question 2
September 13th, 2007 at 9:53 am
Agreed - It’s bork! it won’t let you past Question 2 (and I know my Zelda, I’m answering correctly)
September 13th, 2007 at 9:59 am
Same here. Kind of lame.
LINK 1987
LINK 1987
LINK 1988
COME ON!
September 13th, 2007 at 10:00 am
Oops. Please believe me that the last up was a typo.
September 13th, 2007 at 10:14 am
I never got a response to my initial text message
September 13th, 2007 at 10:43 am
Dang. I can’t get it to respond. Anyone else have any luck with a Sprint phone?
September 13th, 2007 at 10:49 am
I am glad that I am not the only one that can’t get pass that blasted 2nd question!
September 13th, 2007 at 10:53 am
Yeah this is a bummer. I want that Zelda DS
September 13th, 2007 at 10:55 am
I even tried 1986 (the Japan release), but no luck. This is dumb. Nice job, QA.
September 13th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
I even tried
“LINK + 1987″,
but to no avail.
September 13th, 2007 at 12:40 pm
I tried LINK 1986 (japan), LINK 1987 (US) LINK + 1986, LINK + 1987, LINK+1987, LINK+1986,LINK1986,LINK1987, nothing works.
September 13th, 2007 at 12:56 pm
Apparently you don’t enter LINK + your answer, even though it says to. You just enter your answer.
September 13th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
Thought I tried that.
September 13th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
Looks like they changed question # 2.
September 13th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
EDit: Having the same problem with question 2
September 13th, 2007 at 1:09 pm
Yay, I completed all 3 questions!
September 13th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
Me too. Looks like they fixtered it.
September 13th, 2007 at 1:55 pm
Still no dice with my stupid Sprint phone. A buddy of mine with an iPhone (AT&T) did it no problem.
September 13th, 2007 at 2:42 pm
So I got all the way through on my first try. I guess if I win they’ll call me?
Funny side note, my text message tone is the “you found a secret” sound from zelda, so every time I entered an answer, it responded with do-de-do-de-do-do-do-de.
September 13th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
That’s hilarious, and yeah, i’m sure they will text / call if you win.
September 13th, 2007 at 10:09 pm
Damn. I’m only 15!
wtf wtf. Even if I get my brother to enter for me, if he wins, then I can’t go!
September 14th, 2007 at 12:52 am
You guys think you have it bad, try being Canadian… God, we get stiffed out of all the cool contests and giveaways…
September 14th, 2007 at 9:14 am
Man, I feel like a kid again! I really hope I win! LOL.
September 14th, 2007 at 7:33 pm
African or European?
September 15th, 2007 at 12:56 pm
Enter only by text message and snail mail? Are the questions on the phone different from the ones on the site? I thought they would be harder than that.