As many know, at the 2009 South by Southwest Conference the Zappos crew marched into the Texas streets to hand out Zappos playing cards to the conference-goers and the residents of the wonderful city of Austin in a little game we called the Zappos 5.

The point of the game was to build a 5 of a kind hand with a particular number of cards from each day of the game. By day two, the response of people in the streets collecting cards had reached a frantic level of craziness. Cars were stopping in the streets when they saw a herd of Zappos shirts coming down the sidewalk – I kid you not!

We had a great response and received many submissions, but, there can be only one (a wise Highlander once said). So, the winner of the 4 days/3 nights trip to Las Vegas and a Tour of ths Zappos Headquarters is....

Gloria Bell!

We were so happy to see the response from the awesome people we met in the streets of Austin and in the SXSW conference and we appreciate all of the submissions, comments and participation.

If you win a backpack or a Monopoly game (2nd and 3rd prizes) you will receive an email Today, Friday, April 10th. For complete rules, please see http://www.zappos.com/zappos5.



Check out some of the videos made by Zappos 5 contestants!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2B3GFrm5VU
http://www.vimeo.com/3846115
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSrVuBZkT7A

For SXSW Interactive 2009 Zappos decided to get out from behind our usual booth and hit the streets with a card game called The Zappos 5. The goal of the game is to collect five of a kind but the catch is, you need to have three cards marked with a day 1 stamp, one card with a day 2 stamp and one card with a day 3 stamp. So in order to do this, players had to be very creative with their networking and trading abilities with other SXSW attendees or be very cleaver and stalk us individually in order to get more than the allowed cards that one Zappos Dealer can deal at a time.

We weren't quite sure how people would play the game or to what great lengths they would go to in order to complete a Zappos 5 hand, but one unusually intrepid Zappos 5 player took it way beyond any of our expectations.

Tom C., we salute you.

We had the chance to stop a few bloggers after their Zappos Box Break hosted by magnify.net in the bloggers lounge at SXSW. Check out Megan Asha, Frank Gruber, Shira Lazar, Loic LeMeur, Stephanie Agresta and Chris McCaffrey as they spill their behind the scenes story about the Zappos SXSW Box Break.