The University of Chicago annually hosts the most comprehensive scavenger hunt you have ever seen, comprising eighteen pages, 269 items, and a 1,000 mile radius, and then they post the list.
I’m trying to figure out which of my known readers is gonna flip for these items like I do annually. Favorites culled from the first few pages while my last class took its final exam:
- A mouse maze of revolving doors. Points will only be awarded if the mouse gets cheese. [27 points]
- Get Obama’s haircut at Obama’s barbershop. [6 points]
- Eighty-six 1986 pennies. [19.86 points]
- A ray-gun with the big elliptical reflector and everything, only the ray is made of sound. Don’t hurt anyone, but if you’re firing at me, the beam should sound a lot louder to me than it does to the guy a few feet away. [13 points]
Okay I’ve gotta quit but, seriously, someone get these people a MacArthur grant.
3 Comments
Gina Marie
June 14, 2008 - 11:07 am -My favorite, #62 – “Confirmed delivery of mail to Centralia, PA. [13 points]”
JackieB
June 14, 2008 - 11:49 am -Reminds of this post by a student at my school.
I sooo want to join forces with this teacher next year.
Jason Dyer
June 14, 2008 - 2:45 pm -One year there was a “nuclear reactor” on the list.
Yeah, someone built one in their dorm room.