Dr. Pepper: The Hunt For More, Golden Coin Treasure Hunt
I received a call from my sister-in-law yesterday, she said, “Would you like to make $1 million dollars?” There is only one way to answer that question, OH YEAH! She told me about the Dr. Pepper: The Hunt For More golden coin treasure hunt. She had been playing the game and had received 29 of the 30 clues to where one of the 23 golden Dr. Pepper coins was located. The one she had been hunting was right here in Oklahoma City. She had deciphered almost all the clues and was convinced she had a really good idea where the coin was hidden. She wanted me to drive her to where it was and help her find it.
We followed the clues and we where convinced we had found the general area where the coin was hidden. We searched most of the day and decided we would have to wait till 2am to get the last clue. There were a few other hunters searching for the coin and waiting for the last clue. At 2am we got the last clue and headed to the site where we thought the coin would be found. We had searched this location 3 times earlier in the day, but decide to search again because it fit the last clue. We did not find the coin. After we left the spot where we were searching many more cars showed up looking in the same spot we had looked. We searched for another 2 hours and decided someone had either already found the coin or Dr. Pepper had not placed the coin in it’s hiding spot yet.
I got up today and checked the internet and someone was claiming that the coin in Oklahoma City had been found at 2am in the exact location we had searched at 2am. This is a lie because we where the first treasure hunters there at 2am. The only way it could have been found at that location is if Dr. Pepper placed the coin after we left. I drove back out to the spot and there were still people looking around for the coin. One of the people there said that a security guard that they had talked to said the coin was found at 3am in the same spot we had searched 5 times. We did not leave until after 4am and no one claimed to have found the coin while we were there.
Even though we did not find the golden coin we still had a lot of fun figuring out the clues and hunting for the treasure. We are left to wonder, has the coin been found or has it not been placed in it’s location yet? We called Dr. Pepper and they will not verify if the coin has been found. I will probably make one more trip to look for the prize.
If you have confirmation that the coin has been found I would love to know.
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witch
Not having the clues, and no wish to look them up since I am so far away, I would say from your description that (1.) It is a farce and the coin was not actually there or (2.) it was there and hiding in plain sight!
February 21st, 2007 at 11:24 pmLet me know how it turns out.
Wild Bill
I did not go back to look for the coin again. I might post the clues today.
February 22nd, 2007 at 10:11 amJoey Key
I don’t know but I think it is already found. So what do you do with the 32-bit sequence of numbers?
February 22nd, 2007 at 1:26 pmWild Bill
you talking about the binary code clue? The answer was RENO.
February 22nd, 2007 at 9:33 pmJoey Key
well, the dr. pepper website says all coins have been found, but no locations…that sucks! What was the answer to the last clue?
February 22nd, 2007 at 10:41 pmWild Bill
the last clue said something like look below a sign. The coin was not there or had not been placed when we where there.
February 23rd, 2007 at 4:11 amJohn C. King
The guy who found the coin showed it to me before 4am if I remember correctly, it’s all a blur. Word went out that he was showing it to people and what kind of truck he was driving so I went to find him. Found him parked at the turnoff to the sign in a big white blazer.
I asked him when he got to the sign and he said 2:03am. I took that to mean he found it at time, but I’m thinking it was between 3a and 4a when word went out that someone had found it.
So its looking like they placed the coin well after 2am and sometime before around 3am.
February 23rd, 2007 at 5:59 pmJohn C. King
It may have been what I posted on another site that you read. It wasn’t “a lie” that the coin was found right after 2am. It was just my misinterpretation assuming the guy found it when he said he got there at 2:03am. You might want to be careful calling people liers.
Congrats to him. He did a lot of leg work and put a lot of effort into the hunt for weeks.
February 23rd, 2007 at 6:09 pmWild Bill
The white Blazer followed us to the sign. It got there after we had searched the sign. He did not find it at 2am or at 2:03am unless he or or the yellow car that arrived as we were leaving the sign place the coin themselves. He worked hard just as we did. In fact twice that night the white Blazer followed us. One time before 2am we went to McDonald’s to get some drinks and food and the white Blazer followed us out off the State Fair grounds and all the way to Portland Ave. before he realized we were not looking for the coin at that time.
If he found it then congratulations to him for being in the right place at the right time. He did not find the location first.
Dr. Pepper screwed this entire thing up bad. I guess it had nothing to do with you found the spot first just who Dr. Pepper wanted to find the coin.
February 24th, 2007 at 8:50 amMarc
I just read that in Boston, the detective who hid a coin in a graveyard had to return to show officials where he hid it (after the graveyard was locked and the hunt cancelled by Dr. P) because they still couldn’t find it! So maybe your coin was really hidden THAT well. Did you ever find out where it was found and how you managed to overlook it?
(See story here: http://www.boston.com/news/globe/city_region/breaking_news/2007/02/dr_peppers_gold_1.html)
March 7th, 2007 at 10:57 am