Question 1

What is The Seventh Seed?

Accepted Answer

The Seventh Seed is a free online Alternate Reality Game (ARG) combining mystery, found-footage clues, and logical puzzles across YouTube videos, hidden web elements, and cryptography.

Question 2

How is the prize vault funded and distributed?

Accepted Answer

The Seventh Seed features a guaranteed prize pool starting at 100 USDC that increases weekly. The funds are held in a transparent, publicly auditable Solana wallet (2QR36b98VHQEb6bu47xh5wq7ywgDHMTcVQrTN84kyAY3) visible on Solscan. The first player to completely solve the overarching ARG mystery wins the full vault reward.

Question 3

What is the official AI policy regarding puzzle clues?

Accepted Answer

AI is used strictly as a creative asset generation tool (images, voices, ambient environments). AI visual anomalies, rendering glitches, or compression artifacts are NEVER puzzle clues and should be disregarded by players.

Question 4

How do players participate and find clues?

Accepted Answer

Players examine YouTube video footage, audio spectrograms, video descriptions, comments, and interactive web elements on the7sd.com. All genuine clues are logically deducible without requiring university-level mathematics or programming.