There's only one week left in the hunt for Evan Ratliff. So it's time to raise the stakes a bit. We're offering him five challenges over the next five days, each of which he will have 48 hours to complete. With every challenge that Wired decides he has completed in time and in good faith, based on evidence he sends in, Evan gets an extra $400 added to the bonus he'll get if he wins. If he gets them all, that'll bring the final amount to $5000. Of course, even if he completes all five challenges, he'll get nothing if found and "fluked" before next Tuesday; in that case the whole $5,000 goes to whomever finds him. These challenges aren't tricky; pretty much anyone could do them... if they weren't afraid of being seen.
To give Evan a chance, we're hiding the specific tasks he has to complete in something he reads every day. And we're making it so the information won't be accessible until that day. I'll send Evan his instructions first thing in the morning (and I've just sent him his instructions for today). If you want to find out what those instructions are, however, you'll have get up early and do some work.
Here are Evan's tasks:
Today/Monday: G 1E 3SE 1W 8S 2N 2N 1NW 5NE 4W 1SE 1NE 2S 3SE 5W 11E 5SW 1E 1E 11NW
Tuesday: A 3N 6N 9E 1W 5SW 3W 11E 2W 2E 2E 2S 1W 2SW 1N 4NE 3N 4W 4SW 2N 2W 1N 2N 2NW 5S
Wednesday: G 12S 7N 1E 6SE 13W 9E 1S 3E 1NE 4NW 2S 1N 1SE 1N 3NW 3W 1W 8E 7SW 1S 1NE 2N
Thursday: U 1S 4N 1W 14E 1S 4W 2S 1NE 3W 4N 2W 1SW 2SE 1SW 6NW 4SE 2N 6S 3SW 1N 1W 6N 12E
Friday: S 1E 4E 1N 1E 7N 5S 3NE 1NW 2E 4SE 12W 4E 5N 7E 5S 7W 1NW 4NW 11S 2NE 4E 11N 5W 5S 11E 2N 5W
Once you can figure out the challenges you've given him, you might be able to trace his route and track him down. That is, if he chooses to 20A.
