I'm warming to having a standard prize at $5,000, with some lower. * One prize is $10,000 *. See pazoozas on the Treasure page. The $10,000 prize is a selling point, a cause for excitement.
 
 

Ghost story! There could be clues to a hunt in a ghost story. Entertaining, even if you don't figure it out. Debatable glimpses into a different view of the world, in two ways.
A murder mystery might be better from a clues point of view, but that is a bloodier business.
A spy story is not out of the question.
 

A cloak and dagger themed prize? That sounds dubious even to me, but neat components. "Cloak and dagger" is vague, but a couple of board games (Watergate, Shifty Eyed Spies, maybe Mind Management), books, mystery thriller, likely a code book, wallet lock pick set. And money.
 
 

Hidden Gems
 
 

Easter Egg Hunt
 
 

Silver something or other. Coins. Silver alpaca ..
 
 

The lower value prizes can be more colourful.
 

(Night) Out on the Town. Restaurants, tickets for the show, the game, spendin' money. Casino chips! Local.
 

Cosy cabin. Games and books and puzzles, an object. What would you do for this prize? Maybe it needs a woman's touch.
 
 

A hunt that bends toward the Chinese Canadian crowd. Some Chinese writing. The prize is nine small gold dragon coins, for the year of the dragon. Could be in one of those new year envelopes, used to give money. I would find a way to get in Lanterns, a Chinese Canadian board game.
 
 

Bit coin and bat coin. One of each in a tiny treasure chest. Physical bit coin.
 
 

It would please me to have someone on the west coast get a prize that included east coast treats. Junk food, drinks including alcohol. But this is consumables. Alcohol too. That means going through hoops. An object, e.g. a model ship. Nova Scotia book or two.
 
 

I wonder how hard it is to set up a gift card to some store, like Cal's Cacti.
 
 

Medical charity raffles, e.g. the Tri-Hospital Dream Lottery, happen. Everybody wins. The treasure finder would get half tickets and would not need to fill out anything. Well .. the devil's in the details.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Baikal is a drink from Russia the Soviet Union, named after a beloved big lake out east. With multiple ingredients, I can't give a neat description, but it tastes like Pine Sol. I certainly like it. Russian goods have become hard to come by, at the Ukrainian store.
 
 
 

This particular product contains .. what's the word at the bottom left? (and what's with the word on the right?)

The word on the left is lemonade pronunciation. I asked the lady if the product contains lemonade, but she said no. Lemonade is a generic name for something along the lines of flavoured drinks. It reminds me of the way people in the American south refer to all sody pop as cokes. "Do you want a coke?"
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Later in the video you'll see Atesh, the Crimean Tatar resistance group whose name means fire, setting fire to another relay cabinet for the Russian railway. It would be nice to stop the railway. That would cripple the Russian intervention. But damaging railway tracks - however that's done - is something that can be repaired surprisingly quickly.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Do you know what Parkinson's law is? The amount of time taken to do a project grows to the amount of time allotted for it.

Alouette goes on a long voyage into the depths of the galaxy. A group of scientests/engineers are working on a program to find life on a distant planet. In spite of all the time allowed for this, the scientists are scrambling at the last minute to finish and perfect the project. Kind of funny. Of course the captain has been assured that everything will be ready to go on time. People will identify with this. The project wasn't quite ready because of this, that factor, don't forget testing.
 
 
 

I'm trying to avoid any reference to violence, everything from war to fistfights. A topic for another day. Anyway

Imagine a country that chooses not to make trouble because the other side might cause chaos within the country. Drones popping out from transported boxes, spies, assassins, computer hacking, firebugs, information warfare, economic obstacles, separatists or something along those lines, people conned into doing sabotage, more drones popping out, and more hacking, in a world with robots. Not long-distance missile bombardment, but threats disturbingly within the country, mysteriously activated from outside at the flick of a switch.
 
 
 
 

Everyone knows what that means, just from the one word. Another long-distance ship, the Bonaventure, disappeared. Unlike the Titanic, it hits closer to home, more recent, and there is no explanation for why it disappeared.