Eureka is a game of skill not a guessing game. Your challenge is to use your intelligence, your ability to think creatively and your general knowledge to understand what a cartoon stands for and to then provide the correct caption for it.
Here's how it works. Each cartoon already has a caption. Your challenge is to determine what that caption is. To do that you choose a cartoon, have good look at it and when you think you know what the caption is type that caption in the box underneath the cartoon and click the SEND button. You will be advised immediately whether or not your caption was correct.
The Eureka website is divided into a free to use section which anyone can use as much and as often as they like and a members only subscription section which offers a prize and which also has a few simple rules. A members only subscription costs $NZ5 per month.
Members have the opportunity to play for the weekly prize. The rules for the members only section are very simple.
- Every week there are three cartoons available to caption.
- At this time each subscriber has 7 attempts to caption all of them.
- The first subscriber who correctly captions all three cartoons during the week wins the weekly prize.
- A new game is loaded every Monday at approximately midday New Zealand time.
Either way your challenge is to think very very carefully about what each cartoon stands for and to then send a credible caption for it. And we mean think very very carefully. These cartoons are deceptively simple. The basic idea behind the cartoons is that they provide something for your mind to work on. Sometimes someone looks at a cartoon and sends the correct caption for it but more often than not some time later the solution just pops into your head. That’s your Eureka moment and that’s what the game is named after.
A couple of additional points. Eureka is a New Zealand based website and for that reason Eureka uses British as opposed to American English (harbour not harbor for example). So spelling is extremely important. Please note that the captions are not case sensitive.
