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We had a treasure hunt with a difference on the Marcos rally last year.
At set points (and these could just as easily be at one location) the
contestants had to complete a jigsaw puzzle against a clock, throw
three differently weighted (none need be very heavy, just widely
differing in weight) objects at a target, throw darts at a dart board a
couple of yards ahead on the ground and guess the pressure in two tyres
(one high, one low). Basically the person closest to the targets wins.
Everything is really easy to set up and sounds easy at first sight,
but all of them proved suprisingly tricky.
I'm not suggesting you copy them wholesale, but there're perhaps some
pointers for you.
Mark
PS I like the wheel trim ideas or perhaps the organizer could cut some
photos of recognisable Merc parts out of a magazine and get the
contestants to identify the cars from those. This would, hopefully,
prevent the 'Ah, but they also used those on the 1965 350SEL in
Mongolia' problem you may get with wheel trims.
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| I took part in a rally a few years ago in which you were given half a dozen
clues in envelopes. You were told which one to open first, and that had a
cryptic clue to the first point to go to. When you got there, you collected a
piece of information there (e.g. time of postal collection, or whatever) and
then phoned base. On verifying that you have that piece of information, you are
told which envelope to open next, and so on.
In order to stop people opening all the enveloped straight away, you give them
one more than you need, and check that one's unopened at arrival at the picnic!
Furthermore, you could give a vital part of the next clue over the phone... and
make the clues dependent on where you are now (e.g. give a direction from the
current point, rather than an absolute location for the next point).
Finally, in order to avoid the racers going too fast, and to even out the
differences between cars, there was a "distance penalty" - points were gained or
lost for the total mileage that your car had done on reaching the picnic.
If that's not enough, you could say everyone must arrive within a given time
range (e.g. between 18:00 and 19:00), and every quarter of an hour (or
something) either side of that was penalised ...
T
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