Herald Hunt
In October each year, the Miami Herald hosts an all day “Herald Hunt” (formerly the Tropic Hunt) made up of various brain teasers. The hunt is usually held in Miami, but has been hosted in other local cities (such as Coral Gables, Coconut Grove and Hollywood). It was originally designed and is hosted by Miami Herald columnist Dave Barry.
The hunt begins with an easy opening question. After that, you have to find and solve the five hunt puzzles. The answers will give you clues to the final puzzle (or endgame). At 3PM, the final (and most difficult) puzzle is revealed. Using the clues you have obtained throughout the day, you must solve the puzzle and accomplish a task. This can be a telephone number or a certain place you must go to do something.
You can look at last year’s results here:
http://www.miamiherald.com/heraldhunt/story/742724.html
There is an archive of past hunts here:
http://www.vwtech.com/tropichunt/
There is also a geocache (GCCA54) set up as a tribute to the hunt.
If anyone is interested in setting up a team for this year’s hunt, I think it would be fun!!
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I would be interested … but I always forget about the hunt until I see the map in the Sunday Herald the day of the hunt.
I’ve seen that for years in The Herald and always thought it would be fun. I looked for a date for this year’s hunt, but it does not seem to have been announced yet.
The date for the past five years has been at the end of October or the beginning of November.
The Washington Post is doing [url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/artsandliving/magazine/features/2009/post-hunt/index.html?hpid=topnews]something similar[/url] today (Sun 17 May).
This page has video “solutions” for the Washington Post hunt: http://tinyurl.com/d962gr
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