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Treasure Hunts


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Treasure Hunts


 
 

The treasure hunt material is above, not going anywhere. New and extra material will go below.


 
 
 
 

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A You Tube short from There's Treasure Inside: The Unofficial Podcast. This is known as fluorescence. Two of the more entertaining treasure hunt channels are There's Treasure Inside: The Unofficial Podcast and cowlazars. I love the theme song of the former. You can hear it more in earlier videos. You can see cowlazars in this U.S.A. Today article. Cowlazars are rollicking, social fun, while TTI Unofficial is structured, focused on the mission of solving the puzzle.
 
 
 
 

A games prize. Boardgames old and new, valuable collectable cards for CCGames as well as hockey, sports tickets, casino chips. Also money will make people happy. Don't love this.

Still wondering what to do for a night out on the town prize.


 
 
 
 

Treasure Hunt Cache

A one-page list of treasure hunts. The Pablo one shows you examples. Looks impenetrable.

Treasure hunts can be done different ways. Mine is lean, clean, text. Like a crossword puzzle where the words don't cross.


 
 

Questmystery.com has another list of treasure hunts.


 
 
 
 

So how am I supposed to evaluate whether someone is a good treasure hunt designer? For one thing people will want to keep their secrets secret.


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Food and Drink


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

At this time we should purchase products from Canada, not from the United States. As I see it, products from other countries, like those cinnamon buns from Israel, are allowed, but are not high priority. In the real world, avoiding products from the United States is a mess. We've been through this before, when they put tariffs on aluminum from Canada for national security reasons.
 

The tariffs have been put off for 30 days. Things can get wild south of the border.
 
 
 
 


 
 

These banana-flavoured marshmallows from Dare are a guilty pleasure for me.

I assumed Dare is a corporate giant. Well, it's a Canadian corporation.


 
 
 
 

chicken bones
 

Hard candy from the Maritimes. Never had them, but I'm kind of curious. It helps that I like cinnamon.

A chicken bones liqueur exists out east too. Hmm.. a treasure hunt prize with Atlantic liquors ..


 
 
 
 

So what should be done with drinks, particularly sody pop?


 
 
 
 


 
 

I like to sing the praises of this in any case. The biggest bottle is one litre plastic.


 
 
 
 

Speaking of drinks, don't forget that drinks in aluminum cans will be more expensive in the U.S.A. with the aluminum tariffs.


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Music, Film, and Television


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

"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. The little makeup flash early in To Live and Die in L.A. Love that film. These opened the door to other scenes.

This later expanded into multiple categories 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. The Rube Goldberg Pee-wee Herman completed a trio of morning clips, but I don't like the music. Ferris Bueller's Day Off is a good example. 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. Party Party, 1983. Before I forget: The Groove Tube.
 

The Seeds - Pushing Too Hard is troublesome. It's gassy. Can't get the Dazed and Confused Foghat. Midnight Cowboy is hard to pin down. What I really regret is missing The Lovin Spoonful Speaking of Spoken, in the Tiger Lily film. Respoken is a sibling song. Also a fish that got away is a very brief rhumba/cha cha from Family Guy, Emission Impossible.

This is being organised by date, by decade. But .. the date of the song, or the date of the film? Or the date in which the film is set. Think Tarantino. The Jerry Lee Lewis movie with the nice organ tune* is 1950s, What would you do with Animal House (Louie Louie)? Made in '78.
 
 
 
 

* The Happy Organ, by Dave "Baby" Cortez
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Beat Girl

Music by John Barry. You can look up his association with the James Bond theme.


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

As mentioned, this had expanded into multiple categories. Humour, surrealism, genre.


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

History


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

The forgotten mine that built the atomic bomb


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

The government of the United States plans to strangle the economy of Canada with 25% tariffs, although it's hard to say what exactly will happen.


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Trivia


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Q: I saw The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in the theatre when it came out. What did I bring with me?
 

A: A towel


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


 
 

The French flag is in the wrong place. Where should it be?


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Q: Donald Trump is the Commander in Chief of the United States.

True or false?
 

A: False. He is the Commander in Chief of the armed forces of the United States.


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Q: What is the most long-running scripted American primetime television show?
 

Snagged from The Dice Tower cruise trivia show.


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Other


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Visualizing the $94 Trillion World Economy in One Chart
 

For the chart lovers.


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Let's add some final material for Your Trump Era Film, then pull the plug. Again.


 
 
 
 

There were many examples of corruption during the first Trump administration, from all corners. The corruption of Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross was operatic.


 
 


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

President Trump's legacy of corruption, four years and 3,700 conflicts of interest later


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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