The winner of a large-scale collaborative global puzzle game will secure a rocket ride into space.

That’s the news today from a Las Vegas consumer electronics show - revealed as part of the rules for “Vanishing Point”, a puzzle game produced as a team effort of Microsoft and computer chip maker, Advanced Micro Devices.

Vanishing Point is part of the celebration surrounding release of Microsoft’s Windows Vista.

The game winner’s suborbital space trip comes courtesy of Rocketplane Limited, Inc., a subsidary of Rocketplane Kistler, Inc. of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The firm is busy at work on the XP Spaceplane, a four-seat, fighter sized vehicle powered by two jet engines and a rocket engine.

“The Vanishing Point winner will get a glimpse at the ultimate vista: the view of space my fellow astronauts and I have been privileged to see before,” said Rocketplane’s Director of Flight Operations and former NASA astronaut, John Herrington. He will pilot the winner on their trip to space.

More information and coverage of the game’s real world events is available at:

http://vanishingpointgame.com