I hope there's enough material to fill a book. I hope somebody writes a big story.
The treasure hunt material is above, not going anywhere. New and extra material will go below.
How about a Chinese-themed treasure hunt leading to nine dragons, nine tiny gold coins (look it up)? Very cute anyway.
You Tube short. Metal detector.
For "trinkets" treasure, here's a twist: corporate sponsorship. Valuable stuff at no cost to the publisher. Canadian Tire gift cards come to my mind.
There could be some triangulation of locations. They apparently did that for the owl treasure hunt. In fact, w - no, I'll keep that to myself.
Treasure hunts could have themes. I might resist the temptation to go down that neat rabbit trail here.
Has anyone thought of making a comic for a treasure hunt?
Let's start to talk more real world:
I hope there's enough material to fill a book. I hope somebody writes a big story.
So who should apply to be a treasure hunt designer? A person in Canada who has already created and implemented a treasure hunt with this kind of scale. But this is unikely.
Individuals can bring something to the table - but not all things. There are the geographical considerations. Somebody has to do French*. Various puzzly things, including treasure hunts. Experience with escape rooms and video game puzzles is good (both outside my experience). Doing - either designing or solving - the classic word puzzles. Being a writer, doing fiction, nonfiction or even poetry, might be useful. Some people are knowledgeable, able and willing boots on the ground, travellers. Knowing about ciphers is preferable to not knowing about ciphers. Having a different approach to the treasure hunt may be useful, as mentioned above. Being or having an artist is good. Knowing about Canadiana, really all kinds of interests and perspectives, can be useful. Even just being excited, serious and dependable by itself can be good.
I picture each designer being responsible for every aspect of his own hunt. At the same time there is a supportive team to help out with weaknesses and questions and quality control.
* The rule is minimum one treasure hunt in Quebec, and one in French. Probably the same thing.
You know, the types of people to solve the hunts is almost a mirror of this.
"Concatenating nice clips, bits of movies and shows is fascinating, but will have to wait for another day."
There's that too. I looked into that a couple of decades ago.
You know ..
This originally had two separate inspirations.
One is musical. Both The Pest and Muppets From Space start off with good songs, also with a visual element. That got me wondering about concatenating some good music bits in movies and shows. Note that this was the days of DVDs, not YouTube.
I also found some films that were ho hum but had that one bit that makes you sit up. There was the future aliens scene in A.I. The shower plunger bit in Phantom of the Paradise. That opened the door to other scenes.
This later expanded into multiple subcategories until it collapsed. It wasn't taken seriously anyway.
It looks like I'm going to do the music one, after all this time. This should be lots of fun. For me anyway. Don't count on it to show up here.
As mentioned, The Pest shower scene and Muppets from Space - Brick House were the triggers, and also the best examples. I'll get to do my beloved Drive In as well (Drive In 1976 if you want to look it up).
You have to like Pee-wee Herman - Tequila.
Before I forget, Cliff Richard - Summer Holiday. There's a surfing something that's not bad too.
A Summer Place The shot of the young guy crying really gets me.
That reminds me. Beatlejuice has that Harry Belafonte bit at the end of the film. The shot of the stairs, football players, is my favourite in cinema.
Dazed and Confused has Free Ride. Hmm. Foghat Slow Ride starts specifically when the young guy walks into a party. That's the kind of musical/visual co-ordination that really kicks.
What do you think was the best part of Star Wars, musically?
I could keep going. Georgy Girl is a song and a movie. The Jimmy Neutron film - I like that movie - has Blitzkrieg Bop.
Ooh! A Day at the Races!
Before I forget: What's Up Tiger Lily?
Before I forget: That 80s British film.
Before I forget: The Groove Tube.
I saw The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in the theatre when it came out. What did I bring with me?
The French flag is in the wrong place. Where should it be?
Donald Trump is the Commander in Chief of the United States.
True or false?