K-Zone

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K-Zone is a popular kid's magazine in Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines. It is aimed at children ages 8-16. The magazine has been published monthly for several years now, originating from the year 1999/2000.

Each month there are certain compulsory categories that are listed in the contents section. they are listed in the following order: Comics, Shame Files, Competitions, Puzzles, How Things Work, Prank Patrol Movie Mayhem, Gamer's Galaxy etc. There are also temporary categories for special events, such as the Olympic Games, Australian Idol, Celebrity Idols, etc. Also, all of the competitions in K-zone has a fair chance of play, with little or no competitions relying solely upon pure luck itself.

K-zone's sister magazine is Total Girl magazine, both sharing similarities such as competitions and attached freebies. The current "Wish and Win" coupon is currently being added as a freebie to both K-zone and Total Girl magazines.

It is owned and controlled by the Seven Corporation and Kerry Stokes. The management cast of the magazine is run by may people, bearing a few changes every few months or so. They are listed in the following order:

Editor

• Melissa Habichi

Art

• Marrisa Devertuil
• Jamie Fawdray
• Alex Chidgey

Online

• Daniel Robathan
• Ali Edwards

Contributions

• Jamie Tufrey
• Georgia Clark
• Jane Oddy

Production

• Fraser Crozier
• Avery Clark
• Natile England
• Chris Wilson

[edit] K-Kash

K-Kash is a K-Zone competition in which readers could open an account and register to find codes hidden in the magazine, website and newsletters of K-Zone. Once a reader had enough K-Kash he or she could buy a prize from the K-Kash vault.

K-Kash 1

K-Kash 1 (or K-Kash) was a special competition running through the September and October 2005 issues of K-Zone. Buyers were given a $10 K-Kash note which includes a number that must be entered to start an account at the K-Kash Website. $100 K-Kash notes were put in 100 K-Zone magazines (if readers found this they got $100 more K-Kash to their account). Readers needed to find codes in the magazine, website and in newsletters to add more K-Kash to their account. Codes could get from $5-$500 K-Kash. The six weeks in which the competition ran had 34,425 registered users submitting over 1.4 million codes. A mascot with the name of Pig Daddy was a major icon in this competition.

K-Kash 2

Recently was K-Kash 2 which started with the December 2006/January 2007 issue of K-Zone, which included a K-Kard (a sort of credit card which a six digit pin on the back of it, needed for opening accounts) and an invisible ink pen (used for finding hidden codes in the magazine). Pig Daddy also returned for K-Kash 2 whith a total prize pool of around $75,000. The codes were now found if a word in the magazine, website or newsletters had a '$' (entered as a 's'), '@' (entered as a 'a') or '&' (entered as an 'e') in place of a letter. Codes could also have a number in place of a letter. Codes are worth 10, 20 or 50 points which are added to an account only if spelt and entered correctly.

K-Kash 3

There may be a K-Kash 3.

Game Zone In 2005/2006 there was a new section released called Game-Zone which included cheats and information about video games, changing K-Zone a lot.