Will You Be The One to Win This Incredibly Expensive Fruit?
Timed to launch right around when Sea of Thieves does, Rare is offering four lucky players a shot at finding $100,000 in golden bananas. While this is the perfect tie-in to a game about finding treasure and hoarding bananas, it still seems… weird? Yes, it seems incredibly weird to offer up a hundred grand in gold fruit as a contest prize.
Starting on March 19th at 12 pm PST, players will have three days to track down each of the clues scattered online and around the world. The first team from each country to submit all the clues will be entered into the semi-finals. There, another riddle must be solved in order to win the day. I do mean all over the world, by the way. London, Key West, Sydney and Berlin are all possible locations for clues, as well as online.
Again, this is just perfect for a Sea of Thieves tie-in event, although it would be a bit better suited to a franchise like Donkey Kong. What would you even do with a hundred grand in banana gold? Lock it in a wooden chest and bury it? Melt it down and sell it? Scatter them across a series of platforming stages in hard-to-reach places? Honestly, if this turns out to be fake, I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised. You can find all the contest details here.