FREE MONEY TO BE FOUND IN NORTHERN RIVERS $3 MILLION TREASURE HUNT

A Victorian computer games developer has chosen the NSW Northern Rivers to launch a new, Pokémon Go-style game this weekend.

But instead of collecting virtual mythical animals, people taking part in the inaugural ‘Damnn Hunt’ will be on the lookout for sporting team logos, players, $ symbols and coins with a potential value of more than $3 million.

The developer, Ballarat man Duncan Smith, has come up with the game after years developing a suite of linked website and apps.

He said the name of the Damnn Hunt was based on the first letters of everyone in his family: Duncan, daughter Alexa, son Mitchell, daughter to download the Damnn Hunt app in the Apps Store or Google Play or from the Damnn Hunt website at damnnhunt. com. to collect the logos from around 25m or so away so you don’t need to be standing right on top of it to collect it.” he said.

Downloading the app and signing up, people will then also have an account for Mr Smith’s Sportstrade site where the logos and players go to once they have been collect in the hunt. People can then sell the teams or players in Sportstrade with the money that they make going into their own personal PayPal bank account.

Mr Smith said people who decide to sell a team or player decides the price that they wish to sell it for. People can also buy other teams or players as well if they wish.

“It is totally upto the person that collects the teams or players what price they want to sell them for,” he said.

Mr Smith said the game would begin at 9.00am on Saturday when some ‘1500 virtual pins’ would be dropped over the Northern Rivers region.

On Sunday there would be another distribution of the same amount of pins for the second day of the game which will finish at 9.00pm.

“Once a logo or player is collected, it’s instantly removed from the map.” on the price of the player or team in Sportstrade at the time of the hunt,” he said. myyaak, which is similar to Facebook but with added features including being able to call, text and video call (exactly the same as zoom) will have a map on it that will show where every pin is.

He said there would be upto 4 types of ‘tokens’ to search for.

Mr Smith likened the Sportstrade site to a stock market for sports fans.

“You can buy and sell teams and players in the Sportstrade just like you buy and sell on the ASX but a lot simpler,” he said.

One of the best ways to find a logo or player is to join myyaak.

Firstly there will be team logos including Premier League teams and American football, basketball and baseball clubs. Then there are ‘coins’ that could be any player or team and also $ symbols that is pure cash that ranges from $5 to $100.

There will also be rarer and much more valuable players as well dropped but out of the 3000 only around 100 will be players team will beat another team at any given point of the season, but most people are unlikely to know if Westpac, BHP or Qantas are doing well or not”. around the $1 million mark.

When playing DamnN hunt people will see on their map on the phone any pin that is within a 2km radius only.

“If people join myyaak they will have access to a map that goes beyond the 2km radius of the DamnN Hunt app and show where all the pins are,” he said.

Smith said that when a pin is collected it will disappear of the map.

Smith said that when someone sells a team or player this is real money that the person then has.

“After you have sold a team or player to someone that money is real and ends up in your PayPal account and you can they of course spend it on whatever you like or move it into the on personal bank account.

Mr Smith said he chose the Northern Rivers to launch the game because he was born in Mullumbimby in 1966. But he said it would be the first of many in Australia.

“I am looking at going from the top of Australia in places like Cairns, Townsville and Darwin to Hobart and from Perth to Newcastle and many, many places in-between”.

“This will then lead to me doing hunts in the USA, UK, Canada and NZ as well and then other countries after that including Japan, India most of Europe and South America.”

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Mr Smith said players on the weekend had the chance to monetise their efforts once they had collected the logos.

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He said using a mobile phone with the app people would be able to see the location of any token within a 2km radius.

“As a person gets closer to the logo or player it will get bigger and bigger on the screen. People should be able

After collecting a logo or players people will see what they have collected on their phones. This will then be transferred automatically to the person sportstrade portfolio.

“Team logos range in value from around $50 to $150 and players from around $5,000 to over $10,000 each, depending

“After collecting the logos and players people can sell them in the Sportstrade Marketplace and put whatever price they what on them or keep them and watch the price go up and down just like a stockmarket. The better a team or player does, the more likely the price will go up and if they are not doing so well the price will most likely fall. So most people know if a

“This is the very first one in the world and will be the start of me holding around 30 or 40 all around Australia over the next 12 months with a total of over $200 million to be found,” he said.

Smith said the number of pins dropped and the value is based on the population of the area or the city. So places like Canberra would see around $5 million, Geelong around $3 million, Toowoomba $1.5 million and cities like Ballarat, Bendigo and Albury-Wodonga all

Smith said that people can video on their phone when collecting a team logo or player and upload this to Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and the likes. “The person that get the most comments on Facebook and the person that gets the most views on TicTok or Instagram will each get $500 cash into their bank”.

He said Sportstrade was up and running here at www.app.sportstrade. online and people could find more information at www.damnnhunt.com and on the Facebook page