SCAVHUNT what.

[insanitysraving]

Article I-Name

Section 1. The name of this organization shall be The Official University of Chicago Official Scavenger Hunt Organisation Committee, also to be known as The Great Hunt, The Scavenger Hunt, ScavHunt, Scav Hunt, the Hunt, That Thing That Left All Those Cans in the Maroon Office, ScavCore, The Fucking Scavenger Hunt, The Scavenger

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[kt_is_green]

Oh man, that sounds so exciting! ^_^

[insanitysraving]

i am looking forward to this more than i did to my birthday or christmas. Or even a weird combine-holiday called BIRTHDAYCHRISTMAS where i would get twice as many presents and people would decorate plants with little figurines of me.

[atomic_pirate]

The first scavhunt also started with 10 teams, but 36 teams had formed by the end of it.
Judgement last year took about 5 hours - let's try to do better than that. I was so hungry I ate our gingerbread house of ill repute.

[insanitysraving]

i bet it was... SINfully delicious!

okay so actually I really really hate puns but HOW MANY TIMES DOES ONE HAVE A SET UP INCLUDING THE LINES "gingerbread house of ill repute?"
Basically never.

yea i stumbled back and fell asleep before judgment was over which i realize is la-aaame. Hopefully I can stay awake the entire time this year =)

also scavhunt seems to have first been a house thing? crazy times.

[nathanielperson]

Hey now. It is not that hard to find nude people.

[insanitysraving]

...you win THIS TIME, dr. university.

Now get me four nude gagged and bound deans to pull my nude-dean-powered carriage.

Re: Trivial!

[insanitysraving]

what makes this AWESOME is that i totally know a dude who is a priest. FINALLY my nude-dean-powered carriage can get off the ground!*

*it is a flying nude-dean-powered carriage.

[speckled_llama]

I wish I could visit you guys for scavhunt!

[insanitysraving]

if not this year then next year, you could maybe MAKE IT SO? it would be awesome.

[insanitysraving]

ps- there's a possibility that you could help somehow from far away with crazy knowledge or rare items! would you be up to it?

[speckled_llama]

sure, I'd love to!

[seekingferret]

It's a thought-provoking question whether the current scav, with its outlandish requests for impossible items, is more interesting than the '87 scav which mostly asked for difficult and farflung but realistic items. I suppose it takes a different sort of person to do well in one or the other.

[insanitysraving]

I think a lot of the change has not only to do with increasing crazy in general but also the INTERNET. The internet makes it easy to know odd facts (like song lyrics, and what the largest church tower is) and order rare products. Therefore, it isn't as fun or challenging to search those things out any more. It's pretty obvious looking at it that today it would take much less effort to fulfill the 87 list than it did at the time.

[insanitysraving]

that really didn't have much to do with your question, now I come to think about it. It was just kind of an observation on why maybe the lists changed so much over time?

[seekingferret]

Mmm... the Internet also forced a lot of changes in the Mystery Hunt- again, things that were easily googleable were no longer good puzzles. Crosswords thus had to become tricksier- nothing is just a straight crossword anymore. And there's a lot more image-based puzzles now.

One of the puzzles in this year's Mystery Hunt, "Nationwide Hunt", would have fit perfectly at Scav- it required people to find random words in deliberately ungoogleable locations across the country, then assemble them into the puzzle.

I think if when you're designing the list you test to see how googleable the answers are, you can still craft a fun 'normal' scav.