Welcome to the Million Dollar Puzzle.

If you think the puzzle has been challenging so far, we agree.

If you think this would be a great time to introduce a puzzling sidekick, we also agree.

Meet Slackbot.

This intelligent, custom-built Slackbot is more than an adorably square face–it can help you organize clues, test theories, and stay sharp while you hunt.

Get cracking.

Your mission is to find the rest of the trail and crack the code. If you can’t solve it today, don’t panic. Tomorrow we’ll drop another clue. (And yeah, it’s still going to be brutal). If it’s still too hard for you all - then we’ll unleash some serious help. First to Slack Jimmy the correct code wins the cash. May the smartest player win.

There's a lot of people for whom puzzle hunts are second nature, but many of you are new to this kind of thing.

Because of that, we see people finding and solving many of the puzzles, but also lots of other people wondering how to make more progress.

FEB 14

IT'S VALENTINE'S DAY. HERE'S A TOKEN OF OUR LOVE.

We've enjoyed seeing your guesses on your puzzle cards.
If you're creating them, thanks! It'll be worth your effort.
If you’re not, please do! It is a key to what happens next.

Here's HINT #6:

We are pleased to announce that all the clues for stage 1 are out.
You probably want to know which ones you're missing.
It's Valentine's Day, so as a gift from us, here's a list that might help.

Players have found:

The 9 stage 0 puzzles on the playlist. (These answers do not match the others. IYKYK.)
The 1 puzzle that sets up the playlist.
The 12 puzzles contained entirely in Sunday's commercial.
The 12 puzzles in the bank video. Each goes with one of the screens in the commercial.
The 10 gifts given out to our friends.
The 1 puzzle that unites them.
The 2 puzzles on YouTube shorts that aren't related to the gifts.
The 9 puzzles you'll find on this site or social posts from Salesforce properties.
The 3 puzzles on Lone Shark's socials.
And, of course, 1 crossword puzzle, which also sets up stage 2.

Happy Valentine's Day!

FEB 13

IT'S FRIDAY THE 13TH AND WE WANT YOUR ANSWERS

Slackbot is humming along nicely.
We've had hundreds of thousands of players hit the site and begin conversations. It's been cool.
We think you folks are about ready for the next stage to start.
But we don't know that.

Here's how you can let us know.
Create a Puzzle Card for every puzzle you think you've already solved.
Put in an answer and start a conversation with Slackbot in that card.
That'll tell us what you're aware of and what you're not.
Then we'll know what to send your way.

Time for HINT #5:

If you want to keep up with MrBeast, Salesforce, and Lone Shark Games, find our social pages.
We like putting clues in what we talk about there.
You might like to find our companies' social pages.
But only if you want to win a million dollars.

Feb 12

Now you have a new friend

We have seen hundreds of thousands of players in groups all over the internet trying to solve this puzzle.

Over 500,000 answers have been slacked to Jimmy, but no one has won the million dollars.

So it's time we brought out some bigger help:

Your custom Slackbot is live.

Time for HINT #4:

This special version of Slackbot can help you with general puzzle knowledge and information about how to play the game.

Puzzle cards have additional support from Beastbot that can give you more specific hints and support on things you find you think are a puzzle.

If you have questions about puzzle cards, check the new HOW TO PLAY and QUESTIONS pages or ask Slackbot.

But the key here is:

Puzzle cards are key to using Slackbot for help.

Feb 11

Want some indication of progress?

On Reddit, Slack, Discord, and anywhere else public that you've been working, we've been checking in on everything you've solved.
We've seen a whole lot of stuff get crushed by giant groups of solvers.
So it's time to start adjusting what you can see.

Here's HINT #3:

We've told you about some of the main parts of this first stage:
Sunday's commercial and the bank video. You also know about the video playlist.

As you've probably started to see, the 9 playlist puzzles (what we call Stage 0) told you that all the puzzle answers in stage 1 are all of a certain type.
Keep that in mind: If you found a puzzle and your answer is not of that type, then you're not done with that puzzle.

Now we want to tell you about more:

The first place you should be looking is obviously this site, the Inside the Beast video, and our social posts. If you find one, you can put it online so others can see.
The second place is a group of gifts that Jimmy gave a number of his friends. Most of them look like this. You might find a poster of who got a gift somewhere.
The gifts all have answers of the same type as every other puzzle in stage one. But here's a thing:
All of their answers can be used to get another answer. You just have to figure out how.

Those are all the parts of stage 1.
Together they account for 50 puzzles.
50 answers of the same type.

But there's one other puzzle many of you already have: a crossword. That has a 51st clue of this type.

And it's starting to get a lot different.
Take another look at it.

Feb 10

You guys are making tremendous progress!

We'll summarize what we are seeing so far, though of course a lot of it is happening in places we can't see (aka we have heard of tons of discords and slack groups and group chats). Which is great! Solve publicly or privately, it's up to you!

Many of you have already figured out - this hunt has 3 main hubs in this first stage (yes there's stages - like rooms in the vault, but more on that another day).

Hub 1 is the video playlist.

We've seen tens of thousands of solutions to those puzzles and the overall message there. Are you making progress on it? If not, hit up a solving group on Slack, Discord, Reddit, or somewhere else and we expect people will bring you up to speed.

Hub 2 is the commercial that aired on Sunday.

We've seen many, many solutions to some of the puzzles there, but a number of the puzzles are eluding folks. This is where finding friends can help you a lot.

Hub 3 is the bank.

A lot of people are stuck on the puzzles in that, and for good reason. They're only solvable if you use an element of the other major video, which we'll talk about in today's hint below.

There are at least two more stages, and we can't say much about them yet. Maybe tomorrow. Maybe.

Okay, Here's HINT #2:

Here's a hint about the bank. Some of you have already figured this out.
The video in the bank was released before the Big Game. We didn't want anything solved before that point.
So we made the bank video clues extra hard in a very specific way:
We tied each screen in the Salesforce computer lab to one clue in the bank video.

Which screen goes with which clue ... that's up to you to figure out.
Each is used only once, so once you tie a screen to a bank video clue, you won't use it for any other clue.
Oh, there's one other thing we want to tell you about today.

In one of the Behind the Scenes videos, you might have seen puzzlemaster Mike drop a crossword puzzle. That crossword is here and was a gift to Jimmy. That crossword might also be a key to STAGE 2. Maybe you can find it out there. or maybe you can zoom in.
Either way, it doesn't have any clues ... yet.
The more progress you make, the more the clues will fill in. You'll need those for the endgame.

OK, that's it for today. Happy puzzling!

Feb 9

This Isn't Easy

There's a lot of people for whom puzzle hunts are second nature, but many of you are new to this kind of thing.

Because of that, we see people finding and solving many of the puzzles, but also lots of other people wondering how to make more progress.

We have some suggestions to help even it out:

First, you should work together. We never said you had to do this alone.
Only one person can claim the prize, but it's probably not possible for one person to find and solve everything.
So, join puzzle Slack groups, Discord groups, and subreddits where you can catalogue everything that you find.
Start a wiki, where you list potential puzzles and possible paths and solutions.
Draw on all the world's resources.
Nobody's got a million dollars yet, so there's still time to catch up.
Find friends and share.

Now, Here's HINT #1:

Some of these puzzles use codes you can find online.

With the Super Bowl ad, almost everything Jimmy passes by is a clue. Look up, down, forward, backward, and behind the scenes. Figure out how to get an answer from each weird thing.

In the bank, the same is true, but you will need specific content from the Super Bowl ad to solve anything there.

Last, but not least, if you found the video playlist's pinned comments, each puzzle ends in a word that makes part of a 9-word clue, in order.

The word lengths are 5, 9, 5, 7, 8, 4, 9, 6, and 5.

That will help define the nature of the search.

If you can get that 9-word clue, you'll take the first step on your journey.

There is a direct way through this ultra-hard puzzle hunt.

You can find it.

Then you can win a million dollars!

Good luck!

You could win $1 Million

Puzzles are live. Clues are everywhere. Can you crack the code?

Note: 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.