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What is this?!

• Is this a game?

  Yes. This is a treasure hunt-style contest put on by MrBeast and powered by Salesforce and Slack. It launched on Feb 8 during the Big Game and continues online at mrbeast.salesforce.com, where puzzles, clues, and pure brainpower can lead you to the grand prize: $1,000,000.

• $1,000,000? As in DOLLARS?

  Yes. One million. One contest. One winner. One giant flex (if you win).

• Why did MrBeast team up with Salesforce and Slack?

  Because millions of you are gonna show up. MrBeast brings the puzzles that need to be cracked, Salesforce brings Slackbot to help you crack them.

How does the contest work?

• How do I win?

  Start by watching the MrBeast + Salesforce TV commercial. Then register at mrbeast.salesforce.com. Then find clues, crack the code, and be the first eligible player to submit it to MrBeast.

• What’s the contest about?

  It’s a chance to win a million bucks by solving real, nonlinear, and interconnected puzzles that are designed to reward creativity, logic, and persistence. But good question because what’s anything REALLY about, right?!

• Do I need to leave my house to play?

  Nope. You can play from the comfort of your couch in your best athleisure because the clues are online.

• Do I have to buy Slack or Salesforce software to win?

  No. No purchase of Slack or Salesforce software is required to participate in or win the $1M Puzzle. Answers should be submitted via the provided method.

Who can play?

• Can people from anywhere play?

  Not everywhere. Eligibility depends on age and country/region, and you’ll confirm it during registration. See full terms & conditions.

• Why do you need my age + country?

  We gotta verify that you’re old enough to play and in a country where the contest is officially running. Lawyer’s orders.

• Can Salesforce or MrBeast employees play?

  No way. They can’t play and neither can their family or household members or even anyone who contributed to the commercial, design, and build. Employees don't even know the puzzles or the answers! 

Who or what is Slackbot? How can it help me?

• What is Slackbot?

  The regular Slackbot is a native, AI-powered personal assistant built into the Slack platform. This Slackbot is a special bot, custom-built to be the puzzle companion you never knew you always needed.

• What WILL Slackbot do?

  Help you understand the rules, give general puzzle-solving tips, and keep you organized by helping you track theories, build puzzle cards, and structure your mental spaghetti. Plus, it’s how you’ll get direct communication from us about the game.

• What WON’T Slackbot do?

  It won’t give you answers, confirm if you’re right or wrong, or tell you you’re “close.” Because the answers are so secret that even Slackbot doesn't know them. If you want the million… you’ve gotta earn it.

• If I spam guesses, will I get timed out?

  You will. Also, the chances of you correctly guessing the answer by spamming guesses is about the same as getting struck by lightning. While holding a winning lottery ticket. Wearing your cousin’s lucky socks.

• Is this a public channel where everyone can see my thinking, or is it a direct message with Slackbot?

  It’s a private DM. Only you can see your Puzzle Vault. Unless you want to share screenshots online and let some random steal all your answers.

• Can I upload images to Slackbot or is it text-only?

  Text only.

• Does Slackbot give hints if I’m "close"?

  Slackbot will help you think things through and organize your ideas, but it does not know the answers. If you have a guess, put it in a Puzzle Card.

• Does Slackbot "remember" previous conversations?

  It maintains the context of your current thread, yes. But it is a machine. If you told it a vital clue three days ago and did not make a guess, then went silent, do not expect it to hold that thread forever.

Timing, waiting room, & "why can't I get in right now?"

• Why am I in a waiting room?

  Because a LOT of people are trying to join at once. It’s a million dollars… the internet showed up. Players join in waves to keep everything stable and fair. Your spot is locked. You can step away if you want, but keep an eye on this page. Remember to stay in this browser so you don’t lose your spot.

• Is this first-come-first-served?

  No. Everyone who signs up can play. There’s no advantage to being first to sign up. But there is a million-dollar advantage to being first to solve it.

• Do I need to register the second I hear about it?

  No. The hunt goes until someone wins and there is no wrong time to join in. 

• Does refreshing help me get in faster?

  No. Refreshing won’t speed things up—and it can actually cause errors.

• What if I can’t join right away?

  Totally fine. Step away, come back, and save your brainpower for the puzzles. That’s what matters. If you enter the waiting room, just hang out or use the time to hunt for clues. Remember to stay in this browser so you don’t lose your spot.

• Is there a penalty for wrong answers?

  We don’t deduct points for incorrectness; the universe already does that by wasting your time.

• How long is this going to take?

  Hours, days, weeks. Feel free to measure the time in whatever increments you prefer.

The tech behind the Beast

• What technology powers the experience?

  Salesforce (hi!). Salesforce is a major enterprise technology company built to handle massive participation—so the hunt stays smooth, fair, and live no matter how many people play.

• Does Salesforce have the answers if they built the tech?

  Nope. Just like Slackbot, our employees don’t have any puzzle answers or the final answer. They don't even know where the puzzles are!

What’s the winning part like?

• What happens after someone wins?

  The winner gets verified under the official rules, the prize gets awarded, and the rest of us pretend to be happy for them.

• How do I know if I’ve solved a part of the puzzle?

  You won’t. This challenge will test your confidence as much as your logic. Slackbot won’t confirm if you have successfully solved a puzzle or decoded a specific clue. Only you can decide when a theory is strong enough to rely on. If you believe you have found the ultimate answer to the entire puzzle, submit it to MrBeast. If you’re correct, eligible, and first, you’ll receive a confirmation of success (and a very large check for a million bucks). (Just kidding, just a normal sized check.)

• Are there smaller prizes besides the million dollars?

  No. It’s one big prize. Winner takes all.

More questions?

• Where can I learn more?

  The world around you. Watch the commercial from the Big Game on Feb 8. Check out mrbeast.salesforce.com. All will be revealed-ish.

Tips, tricks, and tidbits

• Perception Puzzles

  One first step is to try to find a puzzle by observation. Once you do, you may not be sure what you’re looking at. Watch for subtle differences, things you can count, and changes in color and shape. Anything you’re looking at might be a puzzle.

• Codes and Ciphers

  Cryptography is the discipline of using codes and ciphers, typically employed to transform one string of characters into another. Some use letter swaps such as in Caesar shifts and Atbash. Others use numerical swaps such as in alphanumerics (A=1, B=2, etc.) or binary. Still others use symbolic swaps like in Pigpen cipher, Braille, Morse code, ASL, and naval signal flags.

• Wordplay

  There are many types of wordplay one might encounter in this hunt. Words might be anagrammed, reversed, and sounded out. They might lose letters, gain letters, or swap letters. Basically, anything you can imagine doing to a word or phrase, you’ll probably do.

• Math Puzzles

  Adding up 1 and 2 can get you more than 3. It can get you the solution to a puzzle. Puzzles like KenKen and cross sums let you use basic math to do interesting things. Often you’ll need more advanced skills like topology and probability to figure out what’s up.

• Logic Puzzles

  Sometimes you must evaluate options and figure out the only one of those options that works. You might do this by looking at sentences that confirm and contradict each other. Or you’ll find an abstract puzzle like a maze or sudoku or that requires putting lines or numbers or shapes into a pattern. Use careful logic and you’ll get to the only solution that works.

• Knowledge Puzzles

  The knowledge one accumulates through life can be harnessed in puzzles. A crossword might require understanding dozens if not hundreds of little facts. A trivia quiz might reward general knowledge or hyperfixate on a single subject. A picture puzzle might be solved by understanding geographic context. Paying attention to the world around you matters.

• Interactive Puzzles

  Sometimes, puzzles are not one person dealing with a single problem. You might need to team up with other members of the solving community to gain data. You might have to navigate an array of options such as in a choose-your-own-adventure book. And you can interact with an AI like Slackbot, who might have some puzzling journeys for you to go on.

• Creative Challenges

  Often, it isn’t about one answer you must find, but rather what you create that matters. You might have to write a song, draw a picture, or create a video that meets a criterion. In a scavenger hunt, you might have to creatively satisfy strange or impossible requirements with the objects you locate. Somebody will judge whether you answered the call.

• Physical Puzzles

  When one encounters a puzzling object in the real world, the challenge is to manipulate or analyze it by physical experimentation. You might disentangle a set of metal loops, crack a combination lock, or stack disks in a Tower of Hanoi. You might wander a lifesize corn maze or explore a haunted house looking for clues. Not everything is in your head.

• Extractions

  You might not have an answer when one phase of a puzzle is complete. In that case, you need to complete a second phase to extract a final word or phrase. Often you’ll use a process called indexing, in which you must find letters by repeatedly counting a number of positions into a given text, which will then spell out an answer.

• Metapuzzles

  When you’ve finished a number of puzzles, there is often one that uses the answers from those puzzles to make an entirely different puzzle. This metapuzzle, or meta, might have instructions as to what to do with those answers, but just as often it won’t have any. When you have a bunch of puzzle answers, keep an eye out for a way to combine them into a new process. In this case, it might win you a million dollars.