Funny thing about our secret page; it ended up not so secret. The idea was simple: our treasure hunters simply had to try going to skipworkplaygames.com/thesecretpage. The page isn’t listed on the website’s menus, so it’d be moderately difficult to find.
Or so we thought.
When we built the page, we published it very briefly to check it over, then unpublished it. We didn’t realize that when the hunt was ready to go live and we made the page accessible again, WordPress didn’t retain the setting of “Don’t show in Menus.”
Hence, there was a period of nearly a week when the “secret” page was actually listed in the site’s menu bar. You can imagine how shocked we were to see there had been 130 visitors to the secret page after two days of the hunt…
Well, there are worse mistakes that could have occurred. The secret page has a lot of distraction text (including another poem) but it’s old knowledge in the treasure hunt community that you should always check webpage code.
We purposely didn’t make the code very hard to find. We figured the next step would be more challenging for people…
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