Time's up! The eggs have been found, and I can now reveal that the two winners are:
- Rades - who sent in his answers first after every update to the list, and even tweeted about the final egg being confirmed before I did! If I wasn't so impressed with his egg-finding I'd accuse him of hacking my email :P
and
- Poneria - was the second to send a complete and correct list (in a spreadsheet no less)
Congratulations and well done! I'll put you both in contact with Mason to arrange your prizes.
It was a very tight race, and special mention has to go to Heather, Jaedia, Anea, Iaaiv and Tarinae - you all did so well and thanks for your entries! I'm sorry I couldn't offer more prizes.
Some of the eggs were hidden so well, I have no idea how people managed to find them. Some of the most difficult included Pugging Pally, who stumped a few people by the sounds of it, and WoW Philosophised who linked his Creative Commons License to a Sprite Darter Egg - well done to all who managed to find that one! Which one had you stumped?
Thanks are due to all the bloggers out there who joined in and hid an egg - I recommend you drop by the blogs in the list and maybe add a few to your feedreader - they are the real treasure in this hunt after all!
Also thanks are due to all the WoW Twitterati who re-tweeted the #wowegghunt tweets for me. You're awesome! Also Blog Azeroth and the Twisted Nether Blogcast for helping me gather bloggers :)
I'm interested in hearing your feedback if you decided not to enter the competition - was there too many blogs to look through? Were the eggs too well-hidden? I realise a lot of people may have been away or too busy over the long weekend, but the list is still here so stop by a few blogs and check out the eggs :)
Here's the full list of all the egg locations. I've borrowed Poneria's spreadsheet:
Page w/ Egg | Notes about the Egg's location |
http://ahealadinstear.wordpress.com/ | Sidebar: in the Single Abstract Noun, I mean, Single Abstract Egg, button |
http://altinthefamily.blogspot.com/2010/04/i-cant-wait-for-noblegarden.html | The El Pollo Grande link leads to an egg. =P |
http://cannotbetamed.blogspot.com/p/guides.html | At the bottom of the page |
http://cynwise.wordpress.com/about/ | At the bottom, egg image |
http://www.destructivereach.com/about-the-author/ | At the bottom of the page, kinda pinky |
http://dreambound-druid.blogspot.com/ | Sidebar: between 10-man bloggers & other random sites |
http://druidmain.blogspot.com/ | image on the pages bar (Home, Resources, About Me, Contact Ice, ) Looks like somebody scratched out some background to reveal a golden egg. |
http://www.elkagorasa.info/2010/03/shared-topic-starting-over.html | Just before the tilde (~~~~) break, "Now to test my most >>egg< |
http://emeralddreamers.co.uk/2010/03/29/bad-aunts-multiple-personalities/ | under "Side Effects" there's a link using the word "Egg" |
http://wishfullthought.blogspot.com/2010/03/new-main.html | 2nd paragraph from the bottom: "Nope, no >>egg< |
http://felconcentration.wordpress.com/about/single-abstract-noun/ | at the bottom of the page, made out like it's a character in the SAN guild. |
http://frostisthenewblack.wordpress.com/2010/04/01/welcome-to-arcane-is-the-new-black/ | in the flowchart, in the line above the HURRRRRRRRRRRRR |
http://gnomeaggedon.net/2010/04/01/trollaggedons-coming/ | The image is epic: it's Trollaggedon launching a firey egg. Clicking the image reveals that I've found the egg. |
http://healsinheels.wordpress.com/stuff-i-read/ | at the bottom, says "easter egg" in binary |
http://jadedalt.wordpress.com/blogroll/ | Strayegg's blogroll link has been hijacked! :) |
http://kamaliaetalia.wordpress.com/party-clothes/ | next to the Noblegarden title before the NG pictures (after Lunar Festival & Love is in the Air) |
http://killingemslowly.blogspot.com/p/about-us.html | At bottom, firey & with wings |
http://lightandleafy.wordpress.com/the-toons/ | Under Edainne the level 80 Draenei Priest |
http://nether-light.blogspot.com/2010/03/on-arrangement-of-pixels-holier-than.html | The Egg of Mortal Essence |
http://www.lorewriter.com/site/ | Sidebar: blue egg under currently playing |
http://manaobscura.gazimoff.com/ | Upper righthand corner, it's a link to "Twegger" |
http://mind-blast.net/?page_id=126 | Pets & Mounts page, at the bottom |
http://oddcraft.net/wordpress/?p=339, http://oddcraft.net/wordpress/?p=434 | Almost can't see the bugger! Below the meta, in the background, there's a dark egg shape. I've found it on two pages, though |
http://www.anea.nu/ | Sidebar: next to the RSS & Twitter buttons |
http://primalprecision.blogspot.com/2010/04/banes-of-my-existence.html | The icon next to Oracle Egg |
http://psynister.wordpress.com/2010/04/01/play-styles-death-knights-for-healers/ | at the bottom of the post |
http://puggingpally.wordpress.com/2010/03/29/in-other-news-fire-is-still-hot/#comment-356 | Rades's comment has a purple & gold laughing Draenei egg |
http://www.wow.tartdarling.com/?p=215 | in the chart, top right ("Is that a crappy egg I see?") |
http://www.sheplayswow.com/about/ | horde egg at Caste's feet --> clicking the image leads me to a confirmation page that it's not actually the armory |
http://www.storiesofwow.com/my-characters/the-baby-alts/ | Between Muffin's feet |
http://swiftretribution.wordpress.com/ | Sidebar: it's in the Horde symbol of the SAN image button |
http://www.owlkin.org/cataclysm/ | at the bottom: that evil looking orc egg |
http://dailyhunter.blogspot.com/ | Sidebar: under the "powered by Wowhead" widget thingy |
http://www.brigwyn.com/ | sidebar: rainbow egg under all the feed stats buttons |
http://www.lazy-sniper.com/?page_id=278 | Well, I guess being fish-people, murlocs would, in fact, lay eggs. |
http://thephysicianslog.blogspot.com/2010/03/top-ten-things-paladins-can-do-in-bed.html | the lion in front of the druid tree on the right side has it |
http://www.therestorationdruid.com/Guides/Druid_guides/Haste.html | at the very bottom, it's a purple egg with a druid tree in it. :) |
http://thewowstorm.wordpress.com/2010/04/04/a-dungeon-for-two-and-musings-on-neutral-towns/ | The Dungeon For Two etc. post --> link from his name --> this site linked --> sidebar: under picture of Puck the dog, it's Porter wearing bunny ears and holding an Easter basket |
http://www.wowhead.com/?blog | Sidebar: down near the "featured"; it's magenta, cyan, green, striped, speckled |
http://trollshaman.blogspot.com/p/oh-my-god-i-can-make-pages.html | at the bottom, kinda obvious |
http://underwearoptional.wordpress.com/2010/04/04/happy-easter/ | the Happy Easter! Link confirms it |
http://wowdker.blogspot.com/ | wayyyyyyy at the bottom, below the copyright, pink/red & green wavy stripes on it |
http://wowinanhour.gameldar.fdns.net/2010/03/epic.html | 5th picture down, it's in the lower lefthand corner of the pictured car dashboard |
http://www.wowphilosophized.com/ | sidebar: next to the TNWiki button, if you hover over the Creative Commons license button, you get the Sprite Darter Egg tooltip from Wowhead |
http://youyankityoutankit.wordpress.com/personal-progression/ | at the bottom: it has feet! |
And now, I shall rest.