Attention Theme camps! Scavenger hunt!?

bm_cricket · Post by **bm_cricket** » Fri Dec 11, 2009 9:38 am

I hope everyone is having a good, fun, wholesome December. I trust that nobody is dipping into the eggnog yet.. riiiiight?

I know -hiccup- I'm not.

Who I am:I enjoy a good prank every now and then.

Who I'm looking for: People who also enjoy pranks.

Why???: I want to make a scavenger hunt. To do this we will need a few dozen big camps to volunteer to have people around each camp with little prizes and cryptic messages. Vague instructions and playa appropriate prizes are welcome!

You can PM or post if you like. I think I'd prefer to keep the detailed, nitty-gritty off-forum so we don't spoil the surprise.

-hiccup-

Dr. Pyro · Post by **Dr. Pyro** » Fri Dec 11, 2009 9:42 am

As stupid (and generally unsuccessful) as scavenger hunts usually are, you can count on Barbie Death Camp & Wine Bistro to participate as a place for people to stop. If you expect any of us to actually be part of the hunt itself, you don't know us very well. We'll be way too drunk for any of that nonsense.

bm_cricket · Post by **bm_cricket** » Fri Dec 11, 2009 9:58 am

Dr. Pyro wrote:We'll be way too drunk for any of that nonsense.

Who said anything about needing to be sober? Drink up! Friday morning only comes once's a week!

pinemom · Post by **pinemom** » Fri Dec 11, 2009 11:34 am

Sounds fun! Drunk.... so yeah, Ill throw a hat in for Booby Bar!

bm_cricket · Post by **bm_cricket** » Fri Dec 11, 2009 11:42 am

pinemom wrote:Sounds fun! Drunk.... so yeah, Ill throw a hat in for Booby Bar!

What are your thoughts on gifts/prizes? Maybe it could be a relay thing. "Bring this thing from this camp to this other camp--Now you win a drink and a mug!" etc.. I think it would work best for places with full time bars and stable bar tenders. Thoughts?

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Fri Dec 11, 2009 11:44 am

We're a night only sort of camp. Although our Village Carnival should provide day-time activity. And there is a certain amount of hanging out in the shade structure bitching about the heat most days.

thisisthatwhichis · Post by **thisisthatwhichis** » Fri Dec 11, 2009 6:24 pm

bm_cricket wrote:
pinemom wrote:Sounds fun! Drunk.... so yeah, Ill throw a hat in for Booby Bar!
What are your thoughts on gifts/prizes? Maybe it could be a relay thing. "Bring this thing from this camp to this other camp--Now you win a drink and a mug!" etc.. I think it would work best for places with full time bars and stable bar tenders. Thoughts?

Yea, what time???.... Starting Friday morn????? Jus wonderin....

oneeyeddick · Post by **oneeyeddick** » Fri Dec 11, 2009 6:31 pm

BM cricket....are you that "Eggs and Porn' dude ?

pinemom · Post by **pinemom** » Fri Dec 11, 2009 6:40 pm

If he is he has a picture of my boob inside my boob! circa 2007

bm_cricket · Post by **bm_cricket** » Fri Dec 11, 2009 6:49 pm

oneeyeddick wrote:BM cricket....are you that "Eggs and Porn' dude ?

I'm the one of the homebrewers for Camp Above The Limit. We were at 9:00 plaza last year with the Monkey Bar (day time homebrew beer and cocktail bar), Crystal Cavern (night time chil space/bar), and Kona Coffee (daily Kona coffee)

bm_cricket · Post by **bm_cricket** » Fri Dec 11, 2009 6:57 pm

thisisthatwhichis wrote: Yea, what time???.... Starting Friday morn????? Jus wonderin....

Well, I guess camps that expect to have people around all week would be best. I know I get there on Wednesday or Thursday (of the week before) but that's not for everyone.

oneeyeddick · Post by **oneeyeddick** » Fri Dec 11, 2009 7:05 pm

hmmmm...you looka familiar

zachass · Post by **zachass** » Fri Dec 11, 2009 7:08 pm

Anyone still have a Polaroid camera? 'Cause you could do a fun thing like 'go to X art installation, take a picture of Y and bring back the camera & picture for prize Z. Something like that?

lbdavid98 · Post by **lbdavid98** » Fri Dec 11, 2009 11:10 pm

I'm new here, but it seems like participation is a major goal, so what about making the scavenging less about items than immersing yourself in the participating theme camps. For example, if camp Spank of America participated in the scavenger hunt then one of the things you'd bring back is a red handprint (body paint?) as evidence of having been spanked. I'm not a participant in any camp (yet), but I bet the organizers could come up with some really great ideas to get visitors on a scavenger hunt involved in what they're doing...

lbdavid98 · Post by **lbdavid98** » Fri Dec 11, 2009 11:14 pm

Also, and I'm thinking a little funny 'cause it's 1 AM here, but I think it'd be particularly awesome if the scavenger hunt had an easy and a hard mode, where the hard mode involved some insane riddles or puzzles to find the next stop. Is Dan Brown a burner? 'cause we could totally enlist his aid in coming up with some cryptic clues that only make sense if you're reverse engineering them.

Post by **AntiM** » Sat Dec 12, 2009 6:40 am

You know, the BMORG tried this back in 2002 with spectacularly bad results. Anyone remember the passports and the colored beads which got you the gold dubloon tokens so you could go to the top of the lighthouse below the Man? What we lowly volunteers got was "Screw the dubloon, you have to let me in, I know the artist!!!!" Or were the passports a different year? Yikes I am getting old.

Oh, it could work, but you'd have to keep it simple bec... oooh, loook, shiny!!!!

pinemom · Post by **pinemom** » Sat Dec 12, 2009 7:38 am

I would think, BECAUSE were at BM, it has to be easy peasy type Scavenger hunt!

Maybe getting all the stops to have a STAMP that the peeps can show!

This would probably work best because alot of camps already have a stamp!

Kinda like a glorified pub crawl!

Shit, we're about to partake in tonights santacrawl....whats the prize at the end....our wallets being a hell of alot lighter, everyone gets a free head cold, and lack of feeling in your fingers toes and noses for 2 days...

Even with those odd's we still DO IT!

bm_cricket · Post by **bm_cricket** » Sat Dec 12, 2009 10:39 am

pinemom wrote: Kinda like a glorified pub crawl!

Either way I think this is the kind of hunt I want to be a part of. Spankings, pictures and .. more spankings. I can get behind that.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Sat Dec 12, 2009 4:59 pm

AntiM--It was 2002, floating world. I remember a bunch of the long time volenteers being pretty pissed.
However, a few years later there was a scavenger hunt near where I was camping, and I talked to a couple people on it--they seemed to be having fun, and they were meeting people. I think there were multiple lists, so not everyone had the same things. The only thing I remember was a hammer.
And why polaroids? Most people have digital cameras, or cell phones these days, don't they?

lbdavid98 · Post by **lbdavid98** » Sat Dec 12, 2009 11:53 pm

I know I keep coming up with semi-complicated ideas... but to include a social aspect it might be fun to scavenge for people, get them involved in the hunt by bringing them with you: "Hi, I'm on a scavenger hunt and you have a hammer, would you like to join my party?"

I think it sounds more complicated than it is in this case, and has a lot of potential for fun/meeting new people. Plus by increasing the size of the group and involving more people, there'll be more people working to find the items.

zifra · Post by **zifra** » Fri Jan 08, 2010 1:07 am

I hold a scavenger hunt every year, and put it in the event book. Every year dedicated teams search for 3 hours to come up with thin gs from my strange list. The winners get a large trophy, humorous in some way.

It is always a blast!

Zifra

Peacebandchick · Post by **Peacebandchick** » Wed Jan 20, 2010 10:33 pm

[quote="zifra"]I hold a scavenger hunt every year, and put it in the event book. Every year dedicated teams search for 3 hours to come up with thin gs from my strange list. The winners get a large trophy, humorous in some way.

It is always a blast!

Zifra[/quote]

This sounds like a blast! Also as you are trying to find things for the list you are also interacting with other people. So great, I totally want in on this this year!

fbcota · Post by **fbcota** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 12:33 am

First year I went I got a deep playa mission. I had allot of fun and saved a starving french artist in a tee pee.

Some of us nerds thought it would be fun to make yellow el wire questions marks and exclamation marks and ask people to gather 7 yellow hippie pelts in exchange for a +7 art car hitching belt or a blue potion of tiny dreams.

Count my art project in, there are all kinds of wierd little things that will be intergrated into it as is. Its being built with hiding spaces in mind. Plus, how many fridges and bathtubs do you really expect to find in the open playa.

zifra · Post by **zifra** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 7:03 pm

Look for the hunt in the calendar, we will be the Lazy Lizard Lemonade Lounge. It will probably be mid afternoon Tuesday or Wed.

Feel free to come join in!

Zifra

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