Last week I made a contest where the person who had the #1 score on the hard for the shoemoney group on desktop tower defense would win a 100$ shopping spree on Amazon from me.
When I woke up Tuesday TylerC had just destroyed all competition with a score in the 9,000 range.
I emailed him, congratulated him on his victory and asked him what he wanted. I also asked if I could ask him a question to get a quote from him on the blog.
He selected this from the amazon store
The question I posed to him was pretty simple:
Shoemoney: You pulled out a huge victory in the ShoeMoney DeskTop Tower Defense challenge. Can you give us a little insite on how one achieves such a dominating performance?
His answer?
TylerC: Well, after looking through the rules I noticed that nothing was said that we actually had to play the game. Using this to my advantage, I opened up my trusty memory hacker that every shady blackhat should have (how else would you send traffic with highscores?) and got to work. In about 10 mins my 1337 skills granted me access to unlimited money, unlimited time, whatever the frick I wanted. I know there was some whiners but its not my fault they where afraid to test the waters, I saw it as a way to get some new office supplies for free
Thanks for the competition Shoe, and shout-outs to Ice and Mick
Also, look forward to a little tutorial on how to do it at RotInPieces.com
WELLL ALLLLLLLLLRIGHTY THEN!
I was pretty surprised this game was so easily cheated and while I wish someone would have won playing the game straightup I am a man of my word and paid out as he was the #1 (dont hate the player hate the game).
So I guess no more flash games contests lol.. I have a few more ideas in the pipe though for a contest soon.
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Yea man…?! Givin’ away anymore sooooon!?!? Guess you don’t really need the promo anymore though huh..
I’d say Tyler won the prize fair and square. He did read the rules after all, which is saying a lot. Some people never even bother browsing game rules. Congrats on the win, T. I suggest beating other people the old school way some time though — could be a whole lot more fun.
Its more like “leveraging your abilities to achieve your goals”..
“Its a game, of course its assumed you have to play it.”
Why do you have to assume that?
That if you want it bad enough you will do whatever it takes to make it happen..
I agree. Its all about ‘thinking out of the box’, right..?
C’mon people – Tyler C just smoked ya! Looks like from the comments I’m glad I never clicked the link.
The tutorial is up on my new blog…. Click the T to tha C
Me either, but it was fun and now I keep getting the urge to go back.
What if you did get DQ. Does it matter if you were not going to win?
Shoe, I don’t know whether to curse you or praise you for turning me on to desktop td. =) I’ve already wasted so much time on it lol. Thanks for the contest and congrats to TylerC! Now I have to get back to it, defense that is….
All you did was take Shoe at his word, nothing wrong with that, although you did miss out on all the fun and lost productivity. =P
Congrats to TylerC
Hey man anyone complaining is just trying to wash away the taste of sour grapes
If I’d found a hack I’d have used it – maybe a few others would have too lol.
I swore off the game, never to touch it again. But NOW that I know you can backdoor it…hmm…unlimited money would be pretty cool. OK, I’m in. Looking for the RotInPieces guide soon…
Congrats, Ithink we all are probably playing to mcuh now though!! LOL
damn this game is addictive! been playing it for 30 minutes and got around 2000 on hard, is that good or just average?
It says to get to the top. Thats what I did?
Whats your point?
Thanks Neil, been reading your blog. Keep up the good work!
Put it this way… If I had said anything before and people found out it was okay everyone would have done it and I would not have won. Stop crying.
if you aint cheatin, you aint tryin
Well at least he was honest about it.
Wow TylerC. I don’t have any respect for your cheating ways. But now I have a tiny bit of respect for the fact that you finally came clean about it.
Donate the $100 to charity and dont send him anything
Congrats to him… that game was hard and I sure didn’t have the time to sit and battle it out….haha.
Just another true-life example of those who know how to cheat the system come out on top, and those of us who don’t know how, or who follow our parents teachings to not cheat, continue to plug away by the rules and come out on the bottom.
at least this one didn’t lead to a lot of spamming and people hating him
That shouldnt count. I mean, its kind of impressive that he figured out what to do but the contest was about playing the game straight up.
“nothing was said that we actually had to play the game”
Are you kidding me? Its a game, of course its assumed you have to play it.
Hahahah. That’s awesome! By the way, my kids and I are now addicted to DD. Thanks for nothing…
What can I say… Do what you gotta do
nice and evil little tactic.
This reminds me of all the guys making huge cash from virtual goods using World of Warcraft type bots. SEOblackhat had a good post about virtual goods about a month ago.
Doesn’t require a special prize though. I think the main prize is pretty appropriate.
Nice idea… it’s always about carefully studying the rules
Ha Ha, that’s class. Though, to be fair, he was only doing what Shoemoney has himself suggested a number of times in the past. I often recall him saying at one point on a webmasterradio.fm show that ‘The gray area’s where you make the money’ – as in not doing the obvious. I think there should be a special prize for showing such devious initiative.
Dangit! I should have known. I couldn’t even touch that score on the easy level.
LOL. I was thinking about doing that, but thought I would get disqualified.
haha no doubt. It happens…
you aren’t really lucky with you contests… i still remember the seo contest