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2288: Collector's Edition

2020-04-03T13:14:47Z

Deranged:

{{comic
| number = 2288
| date = April 3, 2020
| title = Collectors Edition
| image = collectors_edition.png
| titletext = I'm sure you can find some suitable worldbuilding material if you scavenge through the archives.
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|Created by TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES. Please mention here why this explanation isn't complete. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}

This is an April 1st comic. It is a large image, of which only part is visible, but it can be dragged around. The space acts as a virtual common sandbox where viewers can interact. "Items" (small, often humorous images) can be 'collected' from other comics and then placed in this image by viewers. The collection then updates for all viewers in real time. Multiples of the same item are often seen.

There is a "backpack" at the bottom, similar to "backpacks" in video games containing items collected by the player. Items can be found by visiting different XKCD comics/pages. Randomly, some pages will have a treasure chest which will contain the sticker related to the page. It is believed that the hint represents what page currently has a chest.

The sticker images can be seen at `https://xkcd.com/2288/collectors/static/loot/loot_XXX.png`, where XXX is a number from 001-253. Additionally, some images can be found at custom urls, for example the periodic elements can be found at `https://xkcd.com/2288/collectors/static/loot/element-XX.png`, where XX is the element, and text loot at `https://xkcd.com/2288/collectors/static/loot/loot-words-X.png`, where X is the sentence.

===Hints===

{| class="wikitable"
!Hint
!Comic
!Unlocked item
!Notes
|-
|Doctors in a row|| || ||
|-
|Get out the (US) vote|| || ||
|-
|Find a box of nice stuff on a picture with words like these|| || ||
|-
|Plug in or find another power source|| || ||
|-
|Sweet dreams, kitty||[[729: Laser Pointer]] || ||
|-
|What is this hint pointing to? Hell if I know.||[[28: Elefino]] || ||
|-
|Somebody set up us the bomb||[[286: All Your Base]] ||Exploding rock ||
|-
|Cowabunga||[[1412: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]] ||Women Science Fiction Authors ||
|-
|Take a ride in a barrel|| || ||
|-
|I want to believe|| || ||
|-
|Bleeped|| || ||
|-
|why waste time say few word when lot word do trick|| || ||
|-
|Cooler than electric scooters||[[2195: Dockless Roombas]]||An electric scooter||
|-
|Take it from the top||[[1: Barrel - Part 1]] ||I am a turtle ||
|-
|I accept the yucca gnocchi, this meal is a success!|| || ||
|-
|Catch up on the news|| [[1699]] || ||
|-
|Participation trophy|| || ||
|-
|Find an opportunity for a sojourn||[[1504: Opportunity]] ||Opportunity Mars rover ||
|-
|Tastier than tau day||[[179: e to the pi times i]] ||First annual award for excellence in being very smart ||
|-
|418 I'm a teapot||[[1866: Russell's Teapot]] ||S.S. NASA: Space is Hard ||
|-
|26th September, 1983||[[2052: Stanislav Petrov Day]] ||White dove ||
|-
|Take it from the top|| || ||
|-
|There are 4241 as of Apr 1, 2020|| || ||
|-
|asableiK|| [[645: RPS]] || A reverse Polish hotdog || "Kielbasa" backwards, which is "sausage" in Polish
|-
|Critical mass elements|| || ||
|-
|Some Februarys are more equal than others|| || ||
|-
|Five spice||[[1554: Spice Girls]]|| Rock guitarist ||
|-
|Call the plumber|| || ||
|-
|Was it a rat I saw?|| || ||
|-
|Churchill's gonna have to seriously rehydrate||[[1148: Nothing to Offer]]|| Bottle of soda ||
|-
|Keep coming back|| || ||
|-
|A new model released each year|| || ||
|-
|Tea Time||[[579: The Race: Part 3]] ||Floor tea ||
|-
|Try pattern-matching! Look for comic 'bout alphabet?||[[1045: Constraints]] || ||
|-
|Where's Hilbert?||[[195: Map of the Internet]] ||maze ||
|-
|Science fiction fetish|| || ||
|-
|The first one was funnier||[[11: Barrel - Part 2]]||No chest - hint disappears ||
|-
|It's up to over 260 million cycles!|| || ||
|-
|Sleeping Beauty is the same everywhere though|| || ||
|-
|On the internet, nobody knows you're an arachnid|| [[1530: Keyboard Mash]] || Cobwebbed frame ||
|-
|Did James Cameron pay for the rice cooker too?||[[1598: Salvage]] ||Rice bowl ||
|-
|Never going to give you up||[[351: Trolling]] || ||
|-
|If red touches yellow, that's 24 ohms||[[1604: Snakes]]|| Yoda with an mp3 player from What If ||
|-
|An enthusiastic but questionable business opportunity||[[1533: Antique Factory]]|| ||
|-
|Read the fine manual|| [[1343: Manuals]] || ||
|-
|That thing's undecimodal!||[[1347: t Distribution]] || ||
|-
|Actually, it's Myanmar-Shave now||[[491: Twitter]]||Expensive bottle ||
|-
|You don't have to find all 99|| || ||
|-
|Going in circles|| || ||
|-
|Couldn't you try knitting, or maybe stamp collecting?||[[2123: Meta Collecting]]||Phishing License sign||
|-
|It's the ciiiiircle of HONK||[[537: Ducklings]] ||DUCKLOOP'D? ||
|-
|Fool me twice||[[880: Headache]] ||Raptor Attack ||
|-
|oOOOoooo|| || || https://xkcd.com/316/ ?
|-
|Maybe we can ask for new wishes|| || ||
|-
|HACK THE PLANET|| || ||
|-
|Monetization haute couteur|| || ||
|-
|Maybe writing a script would help|| || ||
|-
|Go big to go small|| || ||
|-
|Are you projecting|| || ||
|-
|Do spiders really have six legs|| || ||
|-
|Istanbul or Constantinople or St. Trimble's Island?|| || ||
|-
|Another rulebook?|| || possibly https://xkcd.com/393/? ||
|-
|Moooooon|| [[1300: Galilean Moons]] || MOOOOOON ||
|-
|Take a flight from LOL to FFS|| [[1937: IATA Airport Abbreviations]] || ||
|-
|Everyone deserves a second chnace|| || ||
|-
|Community contribution|| || ||
|-
|On the other side of the wardrobe|| [[2218: Wardrobe]] || ||
|-
|Today's your lucky day|| || ||
|-
|[This hint has been redacted due to a copyright claim]|| [[1005: SOPA]] || ||
|-
|Try a different approach|| || ||
|-
|The cake is a lie!|| [[606: Cutting Edge]] || Cake ||
|-
|Go big to go small|| || ||
|-
|Joanna, fire.|| || ||
|}

==Trivia==
* This comic is the 2020 April Fools comic, and was supposed to be released April 1st. However, the below message was displayed on the top of the page until early Friday (April 3rd) morning, when the comic finally went live. It remains to be seen if Friday's intended comic will be published later.
<blockquote>
Note: For technical reasons Wednesday's comic will be posted Thursday instead. Apologies for the delay!
</blockquote>

==Transcript==
{{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}
:[Cueball stands to the left of a vibrating box.]
:[The words "Collector's Edition" are written above him and boxed.]

{{comic discussion}}

2288: Collector's Edition

2020-04-03T13:11:01Z

Deranged:

{{comic
| number = 2288
| date = April 3, 2020
| title = Collectors Edition
| image = collectors_edition.png
| titletext = I'm sure you can find some suitable worldbuilding material if you scavenge through the archives.
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|Created by TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES. Please mention here why this explanation isn't complete. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}

This is an April 1st comic. It is a large image, of which only part is visible, but it can be dragged around. The space acts as a virtual common sandbox where viewers can interact. "Items" (small, often humorous images) can be 'collected' from other comics and then placed in this image by viewers. The collection then updates for all viewers in real time. Multiples of the same item are often seen.

There is a "backpack" at the bottom, similar to "backpacks" in video games containing items collected by the player. Items can be found by visiting different XKCD comics/pages. Randomly, some pages will have a treasure chest which will contain the sticker related to the page. It is believed that the hint represents what page currently has a chest.

The sticker images can be seen at `https://xkcd.com/2288/collectors/static/loot/loot_XXX.png`, where XXX is a number from 001-253. Additionally, some images can be found at custom urls, for example the periodic elements can be found at `https://xkcd.com/2288/collectors/static/loot/element-XX.png`, where XX is the element, and text loot at `https://xkcd.com/2288/collectors/static/loot/loot-words-X.png`, where X is the sentence.

===Hints===

{| class="wikitable"
!Hint
!Comic
!Unlocked item
!Notes
|-
|Doctors in a row|| || ||
|-
|Get out the (US) vote|| || ||
|-
|Find a box of nice stuff on a picture with words like these|| || ||
|-
|Plug in or find another power source|| || ||
|-
|Sweet dreams, kitty||[[729: Laser Pointer]] || ||
|-
|What is this hint pointing to? Hell if I know.|| || ||
|-
|Somebody set up us the bomb||[[286: All Your Base]] ||Exploding rock ||
|-
|Cowabunga|| || ||
|-
|Take a ride in a barrel|| || ||
|-
|I want to believe|| || ||
|-
|Bleeped|| || ||
|-
|why waste time say few word when lot word do trick|| || ||
|-
|Cooler than electric scooters||[[2195: Dockless Roombas]]||An electric scooter||
|-
|Take it from the top||[[1: Barrel - Part 1]] ||I am a turtle ||
|-
|I accept the yucca gnocchi, this meal is a success!|| || ||
|-
|Catch up on the news|| [[1699]] || ||
|-
|Participation trophy|| || ||
|-
|Find an opportunity for a sojourn||[[1504: Opportunity]] ||Opportunity Mars rover ||
|-
|Tastier than tau day||[[179: e to the pi times i]] ||First annual award for excellence in being very smart ||
|-
|418 I'm a teapot||[[1866: Russell's Teapot]] ||S.S. NASA: Space is Hard ||
|-
|26th September, 1983||[[2052: Stanislav Petrov Day]] ||White dove ||
|-
|Take it from the top|| || ||
|-
|There are 4241 as of Apr 1, 2020|| || ||
|-
|asableiK|| [[645: RPS]] || A reverse Polish hotdog || "Kielbasa" backwards, which is "sausage" in Polish
|-
|Critical mass elements|| || ||
|-
|Some Februarys are more equal than others|| || ||
|-
|Five spice||[[1554: Spice Girls]]|| Rock guitarist ||
|-
|Call the plumber|| || ||
|-
|Was it a rat I saw?|| || ||
|-
|Churchill's gonna have to seriously rehydrate||[[1148: Nothing to Offer]]|| Bottle of soda ||
|-
|Keep coming back|| || ||
|-
|A new model released each year|| || ||
|-
|Tea Time||[[579: The Race: Part 3]] ||Floor tea ||
|-
|Try pattern-matching! Look for comic 'bout alphabet?||[[1045: Constraints]] || ||
|-
|Where's Hilbert?||[[195: Map of the Internet]] ||maze ||
|-
|Science fiction fetish|| || ||
|-
|The first one was funnier||[[11: Barrel - Part 2]]||No chest - hint disappears ||
|-
|It's up to over 260 million cycles!|| || ||
|-
|Sleeping Beauty is the same everywhere though|| || ||
|-
|On the internet, nobody knows you're an arachnid|| [[1530: Keyboard Mash]] || Cobwebbed frame ||
|-
|Did James Cameron pay for the rice cooker too?||[[1598: Salvage]] ||Rice bowl ||
|-
|Never going to give you up||[[351: Trolling]] || ||
|-
|If red touches yellow, that's 24 ohms||[[1604: Snakes]]|| Yoda with an mp3 player from What If ||
|-
|An enthusiastic but questionable business opportunity||[[1533: Antique Factory]]|| ||
|-
|Read the fine manual|| [[1343: Manuals]] || ||
|-
|That thing's undecimodal!||[[1347: t Distribution]] || ||
|-
|Actually, it's Myanmar-Shave now||[[491: Twitter]]||Expensive bottle ||
|-
|You don't have to find all 99|| || ||
|-
|Going in circles|| || ||
|-
|Couldn't you try knitting, or maybe stamp collecting?||[[2123: Meta Collecting]]||Phishing License sign||
|-
|It's the ciiiiircle of HONK||[[537: Ducklings]] ||DUCKLOOP'D? ||
|-
|Fool me twice||[[880: Headache]] ||Raptor Attack ||
|-
|oOOOoooo|| || ||
|-
|Maybe we can ask for new wishes|| || ||
|-
|HACK THE PLANET|| || ||
|-
|Monetization haute couteur|| || ||
|-
|Maybe writing a script would help|| || ||
|-
|Go big to go small|| || ||
|-
|Are you projecting|| || ||
|-
|Do spiders really have six legs|| || ||
|-
|Istanbul or Constantinople or St. Trimble's Island?|| || ||
|-
|Another rulebook?|| || possibly https://xkcd.com/393/? ||
|-
|Moooooon|| [[1300: Galilean Moons]] || MOOOOOON ||
|-
|Take a flight from LOL to FFS|| [[1937: IATA Airport Abbreviations]] || ||
|-
|Everyone deserves a second chnace|| || ||
|-
|Community contribution|| || ||
|-
|On the other side of the wardrobe|| [[2218: Wardrobe]] || ||
|-
|Today's your lucky day|| || ||
|-
|[This hint has been redacted due to a copyright claim]|| [[1005: SOPA]] || ||
|-
|Try a different approach|| || ||
|-
|The cake is a lie!|| || ||
|-
|Go big to go small|| || ||
|-
|Joanna, fire.|| || ||
|}

==Trivia==
* This comic is the 2020 April Fools comic, and was supposed to be released April 1st. However, the below message was displayed on the top of the page until early Friday (April 3rd) morning, when the comic finally went live. It remains to be seen if Friday's intended comic will be published later.
<blockquote>
Note: For technical reasons Wednesday's comic will be posted Thursday instead. Apologies for the delay!
</blockquote>

==Transcript==
{{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}
:[Cueball stands to the left of a vibrating box.]
:[The words "Collector's Edition" are written above him and boxed.]

{{comic discussion}}

Talk:2288: Collector's Edition

2020-04-03T11:54:09Z

Deranged:

... is this going to be like [[1190: Time]]? [[Special:Contributions/162.158.74.63|162.158.74.63]] 04:08, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
: I hope so, otherwise I don't get the joke [[User:Forresthopkinsa|Forresthopkinsa]] ([[User talk:Forresthopkinsa|talk]]) 04:15, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
: The page just went down for me so maybe what we've seen isn't what it's supposed to be? [[User:Avi m|avis_magpie]] ([[User talk:Avi m|talk]]) 04:20, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
Looks like the whole comic was just taken down. [[User:Parzivail|Parzivail]] ([[User talk:Parzivail|talk]]) 04:27, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
: Can confirm - the most recent comic is Pathogen again [[Special:Contributions/162.158.187.207|162.158.187.207]] 04:26, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
It is still up on the mobile website, but only if you directly go to comic page https://m.xkcd.com/2288 [[Special:Contributions/172.69.22.146|172.69.22.146]] 05:10, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
: Perhaps this is a collector's edition because it was only up for a limited amount of time? {{unsigned ip|108.162.219.60|05:12, 3 April 2020}}
:: That was my immediate assumption. The title text says, "I'm sure you can find some suitable worldbuilding material if you scavenge through the archives." And I was viewing the comic by using the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine — which, wouldn't you know it, captured the page exactly once before it went down. Between that and the title "Collector's Edition", I can't help thinking that the comic was actually intended to be viewed this way. Though for what reason, and what intended meaning, I couldn't tell you. …And jeez, in the time it took me to type this, the comic is back, but changed! Oy vey. [[User:NoriMori|NoriMori]] ([[User talk:NoriMori|talk]]) 06:42, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

Maybe it's called collectors edition, because it was only available quite limited and to an unusual time? But that logic doesn't fit with the title text. --[[User:Lupo|Lupo]] ([[User talk:Lupo|talk]]) 05:14, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
:I doubt that could be caused by "technical difficulties". [[Special:Contributions/172.69.34.186|172.69.34.186]] 06:14, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

It looks like it went back up about 5 minutes age. I can't figure out if it's possible to do more than pan right now though. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.215.120|108.162.215.120]] 06:39, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
:Yeah I see the same thing, looks like they're just testing it live. What a shame :(--[[Special:Contributions/108.162.215.242|108.162.215.242]] 06:47, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
::what makes you assume that this is testing right now? however it doesn't seem to be very interactive apart from panning through it, and that it seems to chagne over time (the moon from [[1300]] wasn't there a few minutes ago, was it? --[[User:Lupo|Lupo]] ([[User talk:Lupo|talk]]) 06:49, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

:It's a giant pan similar to [https://xkcd.com/1110], although it's mostly empty, with some content at [https://xkcd.com/2288/#-361,-161]
. The title reads that you can find world building material, if you scavenge through the archives. I assume, more content will be unlocked as you read through past comics. [[User:Goatfryed|Goatfryed]] ([[User talk:Goatfryed|talk]]) 06:52, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
::That would mean it is individual? That everyone gets their own picture? --[[User:Lupo|Lupo]] ([[User talk:Lupo|talk]]) 07:03, 3 April 2020 (UTC) Edit: I can kinda rule that out. I get the same picture on my phone and my work laptop, the work laptop is in a different country via vpn, and doesn't share any logins/advertisement ID's apart from explain xkcd with my phone... --[[User:Lupo|Lupo]] ([[User talk:Lupo|talk]]) 07:05, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

Yeah, it definitely changes. The orange swimming pool just showed up now. Also, at the bottom of the page, it says something about "backpack", and what appears to be a reference to some other xkcd comic. For example, "Hint: why waste time say few word when lot word do trick", which I think refers to Up Goer Five. But I have no idea what to do with that info. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.141.190|172.68.141.190]] 06:55, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
:and the content seems to be related to previous comics and what-ifs... but still no clue what to do apart from exploring the page. --[[User:Lupo|Lupo]] ([[User talk:Lupo|talk]]) 06:57, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

So I just stumbled upon this and it seems to be exactly as other commentors have theorised: as you read previous comics more stuff gets added to the page. There seems to be some kind of backpack mechanic where you collect items from previous ones somehow, but, perhaps because I've already read all previous comics, that didn't seem to work for me. Instead I just had to click the link above the backpack, which opened the comic in a new tab, and it had a bunch of stuff there. We may need to co-ordinate to figure out if different people end up with different sets of items, and to ensure we have all of them, but I think other than that it should be just a cut and dry thing of making a table with every item in it. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.34.202|162.158.34.202]] 07:12, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
:Hang on, mine just changed: before there was only 1 pool on the left, now there are two. I only went back to pathogens and then forwards agin. This may be harder than I thought, I'm going to start keeping a screenshot log of actions vs. results. [[User:Benkor42|Benkor42]] ([[User talk:Benkor42|talk]]) 07:17, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
:You may need to try xkcd.com instead of www.xkcd.com - there seems to be an issue with the latter at the moment. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.255.216|162.158.255.216]] 07:18, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
::Hold up it changed again! This time without a reload! [[User:Benkor42|Benkor42]] ([[User talk:Benkor42|talk]]) 07:28, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
:::It seems to change periodically, the url does change everytime. New stuff always seems to be added, not old stuff rremoved. [[User:Benkor42|Benkor42]] ([[User talk:Benkor42|talk]]) 07:28, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
::::The URL is related to the coordinates, it changes when you pan the image. --[[User:Lupo|Lupo]] ([[User talk:Lupo|talk]]) 07:34, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
::::Timings seem to be random, working on double checking that rn. Highest first number so far is 1127, once it switches agin I'm going to experiement with manually editing the url.

I was briefly able to do things. Open the archieve, navigate it to one of the comics, that are hinted for (e.g. compiling or iata) and when viewing that comic I get a lootbox, with an image I can then place in the 2288. It worked twice, and now it doesn't again... neither with those that have worked before, nor with others I am fairly sure have been placed by other people. (such as galilean moons) --[[User:Lupo|Lupo]] ([[User talk:Lupo|talk]]) 07:21, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
:I'm working on assembling an image log, wonder if we could compare? Also, the two number url could be useful, rn I'm on -1378, -152 [[User:Benkor42|Benkor42]] ([[User talk:Benkor42|talk]]) 07:25, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
::What do you mean by compare? Also the URL is related to the coordinates, it changes when you pan the image. --[[User:Lupo|Lupo]] ([[User talk:Lupo|talk]]) 07:34, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
:::Yh just got that, is that the same for other panning comics (I'm a little new)? And I was wondering if the comic changed per person/system like certain previous comics. [[User:Benkor42|Benkor42]] ([[User talk:Benkor42|talk]]) 07:40, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
::::Just seen a previous comment from you saying it doesn't change cross-system. However, it definetely changes with time, so the question is whether that's per user or done on a sort of universal clock, so we all unlock the same new content at the same time.
:::::I didn't complete writing up the thing I was able to do above... after opening the lootbox I got one image related to the comic I opened in my backpack and was able to place that in the actual 2288, where it now is placed. --[[User:Lupo|Lupo]] ([[User talk:Lupo|talk]]) 07:50, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
::::::For me that didn't happen, it started with a loading screen type thing, and then objects just started appearing seemingly at random. I've also noticed some of them dissapear. I feel like the best course of action would be to start with a table of all the different objects, and then see if we can figure out when/why they appear later.
::::::: At least 2 objects appeared, because I placed them. It is a colaboration of many xkcd readers to do this world building here. I placed one of the sword fights around #439,-181 and the non-inverted kite at #-1679,-290 . --[[User:Lupo|Lupo]] ([[User talk:Lupo|talk]]) 07:55, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
::::::::Do you agree that the best course of action would therefore be a table with all the items? [[User:Benkor42|Benkor42]] ([[User talk:Benkor42|talk]]) 08:03, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
:::::::::Not a big fan of tables, unless there really is content of muliple categories to be entered for one line. A list would do fine I guess? Also I find lists easier to work with. Or what would be the columns you'd set up? --[[User:Lupo|Lupo]] ([[User talk:Lupo|talk]]) 08:08, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
::::::::::Something along the lines of the comic that it's a reference to, an image, and an explanation. Do we know if you find the same sticker at the same comic every time? If so, then that. A list would work well too. [[User:Benkor42|Benkor42]] ([[User talk:Benkor42|talk]]) 08:12, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
::::::::::From looking at what image URLs don't 404, it looks like there are 253 stickers, which is quite a lot for a table.[[User:Matthias1|Matthias1]] ([[User talk:Matthias1|talk]]) 10:03, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
:::::I think we can unlock new elements by reading older comics (seemingly at random, it doesn't work with every comic read) and that everyone can see the changes once they are put on the global picture. If someone could check, I have put berret guy and his goat around (5000,0)
::::::Yep, he's there. [[User:Benkor42|Benkor42]] ([[User talk:Benkor42|talk]]) 08:01, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

I almost feel like someone needs to show them this xkcd... https://xkcd.com/169/

It seems to be an interactive canvas. You can find stickers in chests on specific comics and put them in your backpack, and then when you come back here you can choose where to put them on the canvas. The hints in the empty backpack are cryptic references to comics. {{unsigned ip|162.158.107.85}}
:Yep, I figured the same thing, but for me it only worked twice (fly from wtf to lol was a reference to the iata thing and compiling was a reference to the compiling one) - but it didn't work again. Also: Some of the placed images are clearly references to what-if. Like the squirrel on top of an AK47 or the yoda powering an IPOD. --[[User:Lupo|Lupo]] ([[User talk:Lupo|talk]]) 07:59, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

I've made a catalog of the stickers but it's only partial because stuff keeps appearing: https://photos.app.goo.gl/dPYeYVpGqu5tqGTt5 [[User:Lev|Lev]] ([[User talk:Lev|talk]]) 08:02, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

I got it. I wrote the steps on reddit and included some screenshots. Feel free to use it to edit this page https://old.reddit.com/r/xkcd/comments/fu1dt0/xkcd_2288_collectors_edition/fmaqp1w/ [[User:Ufolicker|Ufolicker]] ([[User talk:Ufolicker|talk]]) 09:27, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

Am I too late to participate in this or am I doing something wrong? Where is this hint supposed to appear? I only see an empty backpack and the canvas on which references to different comics are placed. No comic I've visited, either inspired by references on the canvas, nor by random selection has any chest or other interactive components to it. [[User:Bischoff|Bischoff]] ([[User talk:Bischoff|talk]]) 09:53, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
:No, you're doing it right. Hints show up in the backpack area. Obviously no one is sure of anything, but even users who have seen hints have reported not seeing hints on a different browser/device. I suspect something similar to [https://xkcd.com/1037/ Umwelt], where different hints are shown to different people. And I think once a chest is picked up, it stops appearing to everyone that could see it, but that's a guess.[[User:Matthias1|Matthias1]] ([[User talk:Matthias1|talk]]) 10:03, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
::Ok, I was unsure because on my windows 10 laptop I have yet to see a hint. I've tried chrome, firefox and internet explorer. [[User:Bischoff|Bischoff]] ([[User talk:Bischoff|talk]]) 11:09, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
:::Finally got it to work in Safari in iOS [[User:Bischoff|Bischoff]] ([[User talk:Bischoff|talk]]) 11:13, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

When I view the comic, I don't see the closed box - the screen is absolutely full of stickers. I've not done any scavenger hunting (I'd upload an image, but I don't have permissions to do so) [[User:Kvetch|Kvetch]] ([[User talk:Kvetch|talk]]) 11:10, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

Hints I've seen so far: "The first one was funnier" (chest appeared in comic 1, contained I'm a turtle);
"418 I'm a teapot"
"26th September, 1983" (comic 2052, Stanislav Petrov Day, white dove); [[Special:Contributions/172.69.134.135|172.69.134.135]] 11:20, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

Perhaps a table for found chests with no attached hints? I've stumbled across a few but don't know if they're hinted at or not :). [[User:Deranged|Deranged]] ([[User talk:Deranged|talk]]) 11:54, 3 April 2020 (UTC)