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When you visit lostinforks.com to partake in the “Lost In Forks” Eclipse game you are first prompted to enter your date of birth to verify your age.  From there you are basically given the option to  start the game or learn how to play. The problem with ‘How To Play’ is that it tells you how to navigate and not really how to play.  After a few hours of frustration I noticed the “Visitor Center” link in the upper left corner of the page and was taken to a much more informative section.

Prior to finding the Visitors Center I was flying blind, but then I discovered a handful of helpful tips on how the game is actually played and what to look for to properly navigate all of the forks in Forks.

How To Play

“You start off in the center of Forks and then have to get to the Cullen House in the shortest number of steps, by successfully navigating a series of forks. Each fork provides you with one or more clues to help you choose your path. These clues directly relate to the Twilight Saga characters and story.

It is up to you to decide what each clue means and where it might take you.

But be careful, some clues can be quite misleading.”

Interestingly enough this is somewhat true, however I didn’t find a clue at every fork in the road as they lead you to believe.  I will say this however, many of the clues are hidden or take a moment to appear.  I’ve spent the majority of the night scrolling over every inch of road just to see if it reveals anything.  It’s also helpful to magnify various items along the way for additional clues.  Another help is to make sure you move as far left or as far right as possible before deciding.  In a few instances the “clue” was outside of the bounds of the main view.

Easter Eggs

There are a handful of these that I have come across so far, but clearly I haven’t hit all of them.  So far I have uncovered the following throughout the evening:

• The Meadow
• Bella’s Bedroom
• The Newborn Vampires
• Jacob and Bella with the Quilieutes
• La Push (seems to be nothing more than a dead end and nothing special)
• The battle scene (again nothing more than a dead end, I only know it was the battle scene from the background music and noise)

F.A.Q.

One of the first things outlined in the FAQ is that if you get lost you should refer to the “Forks tickertape at the bottom of the screen…”.  I have tried this game in both the Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox browsers and have not found or seen anything of the sort.  This could be a compatibility issue, but I didn’t have the patience to even consider using Internet Explorer to try it.

The other thing that isn’t mention is that occasionally the direction you choose will play part of the Volvo opening sequence.  My assumption is that when this happens you have gone in the right direction.  However, these instances are not referenced anywhere on the Volvo site and therefore I cannot confirm for certain.  The other thing I’ve noticed about these is that they aren’t consistent if you restart the game, which has me wondering if the shortest path to the Cullens changes each time you play, or if these scenes simply happen at random.

Overall the game is quite fun, but getting “Lost In Forks” is actually quite easy.  I do warn you however that because it is so frustrating you are sure to obsess over conquering it, so be sure to slot a good chunk of time to play the game if you’re serious about it.  I’m serious…This game is frustrating as shit!

I will leave you with one hint for your journey. A-KA-LAT is Quilieute for “Top of the Rock” AKA James Island.

UPDATE: Just a reminder to all our readers. Please do not provide the answers in the comments. We have been asked by a number of our readers not to reveal the actual path to the Cullen’s house.  Instead feel free to provide clues, help, hints, and tips that will help our readers to solve Lost in Forks and find the shortest route. And just so you know, we made it in 11 and haven’t been able to do it in less thus far.

UPDATE: Due to the success of this post we have done a more in depth post that has images of some of the hints, images of the easter eggs, and a complete list of the clues in the ticker tape! Lost In Forks Game FAQ, Hints, and Easter Eggs

UPDATE: Since the first round has concluded in the U.S. we will no be providing the solution via email anymore.  We will however continue to moderate this post and provide updated information about the game as it becomes available.  Good luck in round 2!

UPDATE: A commenter on the site has been posing as various commenters throughout 7/10/2010 and perhaps prior to this date.  We are investigating this problem further and have blocked the commenter based off of our initial findings.  We will be following up and deleting the imposter comments and making additional changes as needed.  We will most likely be launching a forum on the site to counter these problems in the future.

To enter fans must complete an entry form, take a Twilight Saga trivia quiz and score 80% or higher in under 3 minutes, and create a 30-60 second video convincing the world that you are the biggest Twilight Saga fan.

Submission deadlines are July 12, 2010 so be sure to visit the Vitamin Water contest page on Facebook.  Additional the company is still running it’s Eclipse wallpaper contest where users can slowly unlock exclusive Twilight Saga: Eclipse wallpapers.

The contest which will begin on 6/12 consists of uncovering all 20,000 pixels that make up each wallpaper.  The catch? You can only click a single pixel so if 20,000 people don’t click the wallpapers will never be unlocked to download.

Additionally they are announcing that a new contest is on it’s way where the winner will land a chance to be on the set of Breaking Dawn.

Cuz the vamps in the hoods are always hard come talkin' that trash then they'll pull your card...

"Twilight of the Living Dead", because sparkly vampires weren't scary enough!

Apparently the song was right. Everyone DOES want a log, even vampires!

Note to Charlie: When you're a single dad living in a rainy Northwestern town it's probably best not to stare at your daughter's tits while trying to comfort her. It's just creepy.

All of the images in this post were taken from Twilighters Anonymous. They have an amazing high definition Eclipse trailer stills gallery.