From March 1 through March 9 (Miku day), Crypton’s social networking site MIKUBOOK is holding a puzzle contest called Mikutery World, a pun on “mystery” and “Miku”. To participate, one must login to MIKUBOOK with either a Twitter or Facebook account. There are a total of three parts to the puzzle challenge, with people who solve the first “question” being able to download a wallpaper in various sizes featuring Snow Miku. Furthermore, there will be a drawing for five people who solved all three to receive Miku merchandise. In addition to hint emails from MIKUBOOK appropriate for each part of the puzzle (including different hints for different parts of each stage), there is also a forum for fellow participants to help each other (and flag spoiler hints from other users). A Twitter account is required to complete the puzzle challenge, but it does not necessarily have to be the account linked to MIKUBOOK.Due to issues with Twitter locking down DMs, the hint for one of the parts can now be read directly from the specific account’s timeline, instead of needing to wait for a DM from the account. Upon completion, MIKUBOOK will tell the participant how many people finished before him/her and allow the participant to participate in a forum for fellow users who also completed all the puzzles. For those complaining about the difficulty, it was apparently tougher in previous iterations. On the first day, out of the 1092 accounts that attempted the challenge, 89 were victorious, and it appeared that this was a little lower than expected.
MIKUBOOK Hosts Puzzle Challenge
