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Curiosity is over, but the prize remains a mystery

Who breached the box?

Curiosity is over, but the prize remains a mystery

The last layer of the Curiosity cube has been breached, bringing Peter Molyneux's audacious social experiment to a close.

But we may never know what was hidden in the box.

Because while millions of players worked together to excavate the cube, only one person (a mysterious UK player who shattered the final cubelet) will be privy to its contents. Unless he shares what he found, we'll never know.

Last year, Molyneux told Pocket Gamer that the prize at the centre of the monolith is "amazing, by any scale, and for the lucky person who gets to the centre of the cube, it will change their life".

Cubist

The cube came to life on November 6th, 2012, and it took just under seven months for iOS and Android players to pry off 69 billion cubelets, and break down 325 layers.

Along the way, they've purchased premium tools to break cubelets more quickly, drawn graffiti in the cube's ever changing layers, and even paid real world cash to take cubelets away (or, infamously, put them back on).

For our part, we've covered every grisly moment in a blow-by-blow diary (Volume 1 and Volume 2). If nothing else, it was a darkly fascinating insight into the deteriorating psyche of a games journalist on a nightmare commission.

Curiosity

As it came to a close, 22cans founder and Curiosity thinker-upper Peter Molyneux tweeted, "I want to thank everyone, even the haters for taking part in Curiosity. It's been a magical journey".

All that's left of the cube now is a blank room, filled with tweets under the hash tag #whatsinsidethecube. The winner, however, will see an email address to contact for their prize.

The rest of us must try and find something meaningful to do with our lives. Maybe we'll take up safe cracking.

Mark Brown
Mark Brown
Mark Brown is editor at large of Pocket Gamer