Add an extra 1GB to your Dropbox for FREE – DropQuest 2012

UPDATE: You have until the 2nd of June 2012 to get your FREE 1GB Extra Cloud Space by this method! Hurry now!

Starting from last night 10pm (MVT), the Dropbox team initiated their DropQuest event for this year (2012) and gave out FREE storage and other amazing prizes.

  • 1st place (1) Dropbox employee hoodie, LIMITED EDITION Dropbox Hack Week t-shirt, Dropbox drawing signed by the entire Dropbox team, invitation to help write the next Dropquest, 100 GB for life
  • 2nd place (10) Dropbox employee hoodie, Dropbox t-shirt, 20 GB for life
  • 3rd place (15) Dropbox t-shirt, 5 GB for life
  • 4th place (50) 2 GB for life
  • 5th place (100) 1 GB for life

Everyone who completes Dropquest will get at least 1 GB of extra free space. So try them out now and receive your gift from Dropbox, by following the walkthrough below, (thanks to the shared Google Docs file):

DROPBOX 2012 WALKTHROUGH

Begin
https://www.dropbox.com/dropquest2012
Prologue

Chapter 1
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Chapter 2
Go to https://www.dropbox.com/about
With each hint, move to a new person like how a chess knight would.
ChenLi Wang -> Ramsey H. – > Allison Louie -> Naveen Agrawal -> Emily Zhao

https://www.dropbox.com/dropquest2012/crane
Chapter 3
SMUDGES

Chapter 4
SOMA

Chapter 5
MADLIB

Chapter 6
Invert the colours, look at the ones that don’t match their text descriptions. Use the M/D/Y and use that date on https://www.dropbox.com/events

Should be one of the following:

https://www.dropbox.com/events?ns=false&n=0&d=1-7-2003

https://www.dropbox.com/events?ns=false&n=0&d=3-21-2005

https://www.dropbox.com/events?ns=fa…0&d=11-28-2001
Chapter 7
The letters are in the soundcloud comments, use the legend to figure out the order by converting it to numbers.

https://www.dropbox.com/dropquest2012/LEADING

https://www.dropbox.com/dropquest2012/DEALING

https://www.dropbox.com/dropquest2012/ALIGNED
Chapter 8
TRIUMPHANT

Chapter 9
Rearrange file names to say, “Your next destination is the last page of the tour.”
Go to https://www.dropbox.com/tour/6
Send an invite to boxer@dropbox.com, savior@dropbox.com or flash@dropbox.com via https://www.dropbox.com/referrals

Chapter 10
MEXICO, ARGENTINA, KOREA

Chapter 11
SOUTHPOLE

Chapter 12
Restore Chapter12.txt to its previous version via https://www.dropbox.com/revisions/Dropquest 2012/Captain’s Logs/Chapter 12.txt
Then go to https://www.dropbox.com/help and click on the shield icon of “Security and Privacy”.

Chapter 14
Use this to help solve the sudoku puzzle: http://www.solvemysudoku.com
Re-arrange the slider puzzle according to the highlighted part of the sudoku puzzle (once you solve it)
Use this to help solve slider puzzle: http://analogbit.com/software/puzzletools

Chapter 15
Share a folder with the email listed on the page (should be the same as in the one you invited in Chapter 9).
Then go to https://www.dropbox.com/share and click on the larger rainbow icon next to “Sharing”.

Chapter 17
SHANGHAI

Chapter 18
Go to https://www.dropbox.com/home/Dropquest 2012/Spring Cleaning
Put 1, 3, 6, 8, 9 (.jpg) into Category 1
Put 2, 4, 5, 7, 10 into Category 2
If you did this via the desktop app, use the Repair Dropquest Folder link on the lower left corner of the clue page to start over and do it properly from the web interface..

Chapter 19
For each column, subtract the smaller card value from the larger one. The answer should be one of the following links:

http://db.tt/94J964

http://db.tt/72j933

http://db.tt/Q2J9J4
Chapter 20
Ocean’s Eleven
X-Men: First Class
Twenty-One
Super 8
28 days later
Sixth Sense

https://www.dropbox.com/dropquest2012/apollo13
Chapter 21
ABUSIVELY

Chapter 22
FACED, MACAU, BADGE, BASED, or ADAGE

Chapter 23
MACHU PICCHU

Endgame
COLOSSEUM