If you find an flag icon, click it to claim it. When you claim an flag icon, you will unlock a matching Achievement that will appear in your member profile. There is a separate Achievement for each flag. Flags you have claimed will also disappear from your view of the site.
Please do not share the locations of flags others. Please allow everyone to fully enjoy the event by searching for the flags and earning the Achievements independently. If I have reason to suspect that someone has cheated their way into finding flags, may be disqualified from this and future community events. You are welcome to boast when you find a flag, of course. Just don't say where you found it.
Flag Hunt will begin at about 12 AM GMT Friday, July 1 and end at 12 AM GMT Wednesday, July 6. That's 8 PM US Eastern time, Thursday to Tuesday. The hidden flags will appear only during this time window. The start time may be delayed slightly, as I have to turn the flags on manually at the appointed time.
Some of the flags will be easy to find, while others may appear in parts of the site you've never visited before now. They could be anywhere! Keep your eyes peeled!
Happy hunting and have a good holiday weekend!
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Flag Hunt 2011 has now ended. Thanks to everyone who participated - I hope you all had fun.
In the end, every flag was found by someone. Congratulations to Xander for being the only person to locate the Rolf flag and to tilinelson2 to be the only one to locate the Sari flag. And a special congratulations to Caged Wolf for finding the most flags this time!
Here's a list of who found flags and how many, in order from most to least:
- Caged Wolf: 26
- Silver_Surfer1: 23
- tilinelson2: 22
- augmentedfourth: 18
- Wing Eye: 16
- doncair99: 15
- Xander: 12
- SegaVsCapcomVsSNK: 9
- Lucas: 8
- Kaloes: 7
- Rudo: 6
- snowdragon: 5
- Atlinsmere: 5
- Snorb: 4
- Qara: 3
- Elsydeon: 1