Ready Player One Summary

Ready Player One takes place in the year 2044, when most people spend their time on a virtual world known as OASIS. When Wade Watts was 13 years old, the billionaire creator of OASIS, James Halliday, died. Halliday has no children, relatives, or friends to give his inheritance to. The night of his death, Halliday has a video sent to every OASIS user. The video informs them that whoever can figure out the riddles to find the three keys, that open the three gates, will get the egg(Halliday’s fortune). It’s five years before someone finds the first key to open the first gate and that person is Wade Watts. The first chapter begins before Wade finds the first key. Wade lives with his aunt Alice since his mom died when he was younger. He has an
His only friend is a person who goes by Aech on OASIS. He also, has a crush on a girl that goes by Art3mis. OASIS contains different worlds that people can travel to, but it costs money. Wade doesn’t have any money, so he is only able to be on the planet that contains his school or visit Aechs “basement”(Aechs personal chat room). Luckily, when Wade figures out the riddle he realizes that the first key is on the same world as his school. Wade wins the first key and begins to head to the first gate when he runs into Art3mis. They exchange their information to communicate and Wade goes on to find the first gate. He passes Halliday’s puzzle and opens the first gate, which gives him access to the next riddle to find the second key. This puts Wade on the scoreboard Halliday created that everyone can see and Art3mis follows after him. People find out how Wade found the first key, so it is not long after that other people’s names appear on the scoreboard. One problem that arises from this is a company known as Innovative Online Industries(IOI) sends all the workers they trained to pass the first gate. This company is a problem because if they find the egg and own OASIS they