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Aqueous
Ok, I followed a shortened link and it drops me into a fairly cool terminal simulator with a space MUD-style game in it. But it's kind of creepy to have the prompt print out as <my actual first name>@io

I know Google knows I'm logged in right now. I know that Google knows that I know that I'm logged in right now. Still, it feels weird.

[dead] pyk
Here's the link, looks like someone already claimed the code, but you can still enjoy the adventure: http://goo.gl/5jLjBA
lam
That's because you're using Chrome?
rnirnber
where are you seeing the hiding I/O tickets?
mbreese
It looks like they changed the image to remove the watermark. The actual code has already been claimed.
rnirnber
FML
spectralnischay
I can still see the 2 URLs?
[dead] rnirnber
I meant FML that the code was already claimed...and I give up. Sure I could write code to try to crawl the site analyze pngs....could generate goo.gl permutations and see if they redirect to the right place...i give up though. i'm burnt out from getting excited about I/O and never getting in

:(

msie
Argh, too late as usual.
sethammons
It says I don't have valid credentials for the four or so I found. They all seem like the same text adventure.
msie
Same here. Is it because I'm not in the US?
Nogwater
I'm in the US and tried at least 10, all with failure.
davnola 

    1. Start scraping all images from http://developer.android.com/training/ inside div.gc-documentation    
    2. Inspect manually
    3. Profit
Fun!
eudoxus
I have only come across the two, both on the link in the OP.

Has anyone found others?

andrewweiser
Just found one. It's the "opportunity to purchase" a ticket to I/O. Registration code should arrive within 24-48 hours.
bburky 

    $ find /Applications/Android\ Studio.app/sdk/docs/images -type f | sed 's_/Applications/Android\ Studio.app/sdk/docs/images_http://developer.android.com/images_' | wget -x -i -
    $ diff -r developer.android.com/images /Applications/Android\ Studio.app/sdk/docs/images
    Binary files developer.android.com/images/admin/device-admin-activate-prompt.png and /Applications/Android Studio.app/sdk/docs/images/admin/device-admin-activate-prompt.png differ
    [...]
Sadly, they're all gone.
suyash
What do you think Google is doing it that way? Do they want us all to read/spend more time in their developer docs examining the images?
suyash
Very clever approach by Google (I was hoping for a coding test though :), after getting the code (which is the URL), you will be directed to sign in to your Google Account and then would have to complete the Space Mercury Mission (Console Game) to win the Code for IO 2014. For the curious, this is what the game looks like: http://i.imgur.com/b1LVoG8.png