UPDATE: As pointed out in the comments, click/tap the Spin button 20 times for a throwback surprise. AWESOME!!!!
This is incredible. Gorgeous. So very much worth your time.
The design of the bill is top notch. And the web page implementation does it justice.
Funny to see such detail exposed to the public in this way. Contrasts with the river of rules that limit how money is shown in the US.
The woman on the new $10 note is Viola Desmond. From the Bank of Canada press release:
Viola Desmond was selected for the new $10 bank note by Minister Morneau following an open call to Canadians to nominate an iconic Canadian woman for the next redesigned bank note. A successful Black Nova Scotian businesswoman, Viola Desmond defiantly refused to leave a whites-only area of a movie theatre in 1946 and was subsequently jailed, convicted and fined. Her court case is one of the first known legal challenges against racial segregation brought forth by a Black woman in Canada.
I love the choice of Viola Desmond, and I love the vertical design.
[Via Snaggy]
Great bank note, and wonderful to see a Canadian woman featured on it for the first time.
However, the real fun with this link begins when you click the word SPIN at the bottom 20 times quickly. Trust me, you won’t be disappointed.
is it a currency note, or a point-of-interest brochure? you be the judge!
I like the vertical orientation too !
The resolution is good to show details but all security feature are stripped out of the image… This is why it is showable to web site.
Wowzie-wow-wow!!! Great tip. Added to the main post. Canada, FTW!!!
Emphasis on quickly. Or maybe it takes more than 20 clicks, not sure.
I am a big fan of cool currency, and I think the U.S. currency is about as boring as it comes. Having said that, my question about anti-counterfeiting measures always comes back to this, why can’t a counterfeiter simply counterfeit old versions of the money before these measures were enacted? I don’t know about other countries, but in the U.S. we accept old money the same as new money.
It would probably be viewable either way, since it contains transparent areas. But sure, might as well hide the other security bits too. 🙂
Stores can absolutely choose to not accept old bills here in Canada, though that seems to usually be done for the $50 and $100. For the $10 they’ll probably just scrutinize them.
Meanwhile, the Bank of Canada will start collecting and destroying the old bills. It doesn’t take long for most bills to transition. The longer a bill has been out of circulation, the less common it is… and the more it gets rejected or scrutinized.
Also, it didn’t take me long to earn $3,000. How do I cash out? 🙂
Ha!! Fun. I got to level 4 and stopped. I do have to work sometime!
Seriously though, how do people stumble on to these things?
How did you discover this?
Gorgeous currency, and a great choice for historical tribute.
Yes, but why look? I guess some people just do?
Some people are damned dirty nerds, that’s why. 🙂
…I’m a nerd, but I’m a nerd on a different axis.
I can’t imagine having the inspector open and looking at pages on the internet all the time. Not nerd enough? Just the right amount? Never can be too sure!
I could imagine writing some sort of extension that looks for the word game in attached Javascripts. Is that possible? It would require a greater nerd than I.
We would not be worthy. :/
Not sure how sezmesez found it, but it the source is not obfuscated at all.
// If 20, start
if (clickCounter === 20) {
gameSetup();
}
Glitchy but rewarding recreation of the real thing. Took me back. Twenty clicks exactly for me.
Canada, I bow down. A black woman on your currency. Just look at the meltdown Trump and his kind had over the possible replacement of Hamilton on the $10 here (US) with Harriet Tubman. Well done, and it’s a gorgeous to boot!
Another cool little detail – on the left side of the bill next to her face is a map of the Gottingen street neighbourhood of Halifax. That’s where I grew up. 🙂
(sorry, just saw this) I learned about the ‘secret’ game because it was reported on CBC radio that very morning.