Wow....
You idiots really know how to turn people off to starting games, and how to run off people who are trying to give away BTC.
Bunch of clowns
His biggest problem was;
Basically ya'll fund the hints. Every time the wallet address goes up 1btc I drop one hint.
With no proof of him running etc.
He could have had an escrow party make the address from passphrase+nonce and used that, had a microsite to check guesses etc... but he wants $100 for .. ?