A narrow closet with a row of old coats under a single bare bulb. One pocket glints gold.

A coat check for forgotten gold

Still in thepocket.

$OLDCOAT is a coat check for forgotten gold. Six old coats, eighteen pockets and one coin that has been in there since before you stopped looking. Check them all. Or put the coin back and forget about it.

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Forgotten: nothing yet · Remembers everything

The cloakroom

Check the pockets.

Six coats hang on the rail. Each has three pockets: left, right and inside. Most of them hold lint. One of the eighteen holds a gold coin. When you find it, put it back and forget about it. The longer you manage, the better your rank. Checking again resets the clock. You will want to.

Pockets checked 0Coins found 0Put back 0Spent on lunch 0Rank Remembers everything

How the cloakroom works

Four tickets. One long wait.

The whole game is one decision and one long wait. The decision is small. The wait is the hard part.

  1. No.01

    Pick a coat.

    Six coats hang on the rail. Each has been there a while. Take one down and have a look at it.

  2. No.02

    Check a pocket.

    Left, right, inside. You will mostly find lint. One pocket in eighteen holds a gold coin.

  3. No.03

    Put it back.

    Leave the coin where it was. A clock on this page starts. Take it instead and it is spent on lunch.

  4. No.04

    Forget about it.

    The longer you stay away, the better your rank. Checking again resets the clock. You will want to.

Clippings · all reported

It does happen.

Not always gold, and not always the owner who finds it. Four stories, four coats, one thing in common: somebody forgot what was in the pocket.

€15.3MLottery ticket
A folded paper ticket sticking out of the chest pocket of a grey wool coat.
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The Local · AFP29 Sep 2025

He had not worn that jacket since March.

A father from the Frankfurt area found a lottery ticket folded in a jacket pocket. He had bought it six months earlier. It had won €15.3 million.

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$500,000Lotto Max, Ontario
A lottery ticket sticking out of the breast pocket of a navy overcoat draped over a restaurant chair.
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Daily HiveDraw: 30 Dec 2025

His wife noticed the ticket first.

Giuseppe Desimone, 62, a truck mechanic from North York, put on an old coat for a birthday dinner. His wife saw a ticket sticking out of the pocket. It was his half of a $1 million prize.

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$17,050Cash in a pea coat
Four old envelopes tucked into the pocket of a black wool coat.
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Algemeiner · WFAADec 2017

Four bank envelopes in a donated pea coat.

An employee at a charity resale shop in Dallas found the cash in a donated black coat. The shop returned it to the 78-year-old widow who had given the coat away. It had been her late husband's, and she did not know why he had hidden the money there.

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$2.5MIn a donated jacket
A jacket on a thrift-store rack with a ticket in its chest pocket.
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ABC71 Apr 2025

She gave the jacket away. The ticket was inside.

A woman from Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, learned she had won $2.5 million, but the ticket was in a jacket she had already donated. The charity ships clothing worldwide, so the jacket could be anywhere.

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Figures and details as reported by the linked outlets at the time. These are news stories, not a promise about $OLDCOAT.

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Keep the receipt.

Put a coin back and the cloakroom prints you a receipt: the coat, the pocket, how long you have managed to forget it and your rank. Put a name on it, download it or post it. It is a joke receipt and entitles you to nothing.

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Coat check ticketOne coat · No refunds on lint
Coat
$OLDCOAT
Pocket
Still in it
Contents
One gold coin, probably
Collect
Whenever you remember
Contract
SignedThe Attendant