Candyworld: The Fudge Mountain Marathon
This special visit to Candyworld has assuredly become much more than what you expected. So far, you’ve almost drowned in chocolate, induced temporomandibular joint disorder, engaged in a battle of wits with a robot, and wrestled with dozens of people in something like a pillow fight, if pillows also had rocks in them. And yet, stunned and gasping and exhausted, you can’t help but feel a sense of triumph, and it’s not just the massive sugar rush you’ve experienced since walking through Candyworld’s marzipan gates. This journey has not been for the fainthearted, and so far you’ve made it through! There is only one challenge left, and you now find yourself standing at its foot. That is, the foot of a mountain.
Fudge Mountain.
Is it just chocolate fudge? No, it’s every kind of fudge you can imagine. Just as a stone mountain is composed of many geological layers, so too does Fudge Mountain contain fudge cubes of all flavors. Dark chocolate, white chocolate, cayenne chocolate, maple, peanut butter, raspberry, salted caramel, toffee, peppermint, coconut, amaretto… the varieties are endless, and you realize that now you’re in real trouble. It’s so easy to just eat cube after cube of fudge normally, and you’re famished, and there’s so much fudge sitting right here, ripe for the taking.
A Gummy Grim walks up and hands you a pickaxe, as well as an illustration of a stick figure hacking their way to the mountain’s center. Here is your mission: to mine Fudge Mountain! Starting at 10:00 AM on 12/14, you will have 24 hours to mine those impossibly indulgent cubes and find your way to the mountain’s core.
Bonuses for your participation:
Complete 20 cubes – 2,000 point bonus
Complete 50 cubes – 5,000 point bonus
Complete 150 cubes – 20,000 point bonus
Complete 300 cubes – 40,000 point bonus
For every 150 cubes above 300 cubes – 2,500 points
If the cell is completed as hoped within 24 hrs, mappers who:
- Complete at least 50 cubes will win rights to vote on a new name for the Fudge Mountain Cell.
- Complete at least 200 cubes will win rights to nominate a new name for the Fudge Mountain Cell.
This is the binge of a lifetime, Eyewirers. Are you ready?
Artwork by Tyler Scagliarini