Sea returns dad’s letter
earn candy four times as fast. Talk about a treat, trainers. The holiday bonus looks like an attempt to get people back in the game, since the player pool has plunged in the last couple of months. Some 50 million were trying to catch ’em all after the game’s record-breaking summer debut, but the app market analyst Apptopia reported that number plummeted to 32.4 million as of September.
The data analysts at Slice Intelligence also reported Pokémon Go’s ingame paying population (the players who spend real money to buy “lures” and “Poké balls” to catch the cute, imaginary monsters) dropped by 79% as of midSeptember. A FAMILY IN New Hampshire received a message in a bottle written by their father, who has since died, more than 50 years ago — after it was found 1,500 miles away.
Clint Buffington, a teacher from Utah, was vacationing in the Turks and Caicos when he noticed a Coca-Cola bottle lodged in the sand.
“It looked like it had been there since the beginning of time,” Buffington told WMUR-TV of New Hampshire.
Inside, Buffington could read enough words to locate its intended destination — the Pierce family, owners of the Beachcomer Motel just off the coast in Hampton, N.H. The 1960 note reads, “Return to 419 Ocean Blvd. and receive a reward of $150 from Tina, owner of the Beachcomber.”
Paula Pierce’s father, Paul Pierce, penned the message, and she insisted on ponying up the reward to Buffington.