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Easter Egg Hunt Gets GPS Twist, $1,000 Prize up for Grabs

Grab your high-tech Easter basket, because a San Mateo-based company is hosting a streetside GPS-driven egg hunt in San Francisco.

At 12:30 p.m. Friday, the hunt, hosted by Tile, will begin in front of San Francisco’s Ferry Building.

Tile, a GPS tracking company, is billing the event as both the world’s largest Easter egg hunt and the first GPS egg hunt in San Francisco.

Anyone can participate in this Silicon Valley twist on the holiday tradition by downloading Tile’s free app. By Friday morning, nearly 600 people had expressed interest in attending so far on the company's Facebook event page.

The odds will be tough for people who venture the streets of San Francisco looking for eggs, as there are only eight eggs hidden between the Ferry Building and the Montgomery Street BART Station. But the stakes are high, one of those lucky eggs is worth a $1,000 prize. 

 
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Here is the Map of where we are going to be placing eggs. Note, no eggs will be inside buildings or over 8 feet. There... Posted by Tile on Wednesday, April 1, 2015

This is not the first GPS Easter egg hunt. Other similar hunts have been organized through companies like Geocaching all around the country.
 

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