The Horrible Scavenger
Hunt
Bring us 30 of the
50 items below, including at least 5 elements from each of the four categories.
Phobias
- an original Shakespearean
sonnet about fear of flying, written in the first person (scansion counts!)
- a photograph of
a team member with their hair standing on end
- some food item
(commercial or homemade) that looks horrible but is actually quite tasty
(item must be left with the judge)
- a valid death certificate
- a color photograph
of a team member completely (OK, mostly) covered in blood (or something
that looks an awful lot like it)
- the precise phrase
that was the answer to the 2000 Boston Globe Halloween Hunt
- an authentic airplane
"flight distress" bag
- a photograph of
a team member delivering a speech to an audience of 50 or more people
- a photograph of
a team member naked in front of an audience of 10 or more people
- a live, unharmed
spider in an adequate container that's transparent
- a photograph of
a team member in a very confined or a very wide open place
- a picture, book,
videotape, or other entertainment item that depicts an evil clown or
clowns
- something that
goes bump in the night
Horror Fiction
- a Harry Potter
book in a language other than English.
- a book that contain
the word "horrifying" on either the front or the back of the dust jacket/cover
(the word cannot be part of the title)
- a photograph of
a team member underneath a razor-sharp pendulum
- a William Shatner
mask
- a truly horrible
poem (poems provided as Hunt puzzles are not acceptable)
- a bottle of amontillado
- a 5-to-10-minute
original horror film titled The MIT Mystery Hunt Project, of
appropriate style and content, on a VHS videotape
- five limericks,
each summarizing the plot of a different famous horror novel (scansion
counts!)
- a horror novel
and a videotape that have the same title (it's OK if one is based on
the other)
- a vinyl copy of
the album Thriller by Michael Jackson
- two words or phrases
that are related to horror and that are anagrams of each other (example:
"monster" and "ten ROMs"; except "ten ROMs" is not horror-related, or
even particularly meaningful)
- a commercial book,
comic book, videotape, or other such entertainment item that depicts
the interaction of at least two monsters, creatures, or well-known horror
figures such as Dracula, with the two beings being from different original
sources (for example, a battle between Frankenstein and the Mummy)
- an original cartoon
drawn in the style of Edward Gorey or Charles Addams (the judge should
be able to tell which)
Creatures
- an origami model
of a bat
- a wind-up/electric
skull that clicks its teeth together
- an original drawing
or painting of a succubus or incubus at work
- a complete skeleton
made up of real bones
- a photograph of
a team member holding a live snake that is at least as long as the team
member
- a creature (or
a model of a creature) that glows in the dark
- a signed photograph
of Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, or Lon Chaney
- a (living) black
cat
- a commercial stuffed
animal that is a cockroach, a praying mantis, a centipede, a spider,
or a tarantula (cuteness counts!)
- a URL to a collection
of at least 10 pieces of vampire porn (art or fiction)
- a superhero comic
book where the cover shows a picture of a costumed superhero fighting
a vampire, werewolf, mummy, or zombie
- a doll made from
pieces of other dolls
The Supernatural
- a photograph of
a team member in a cemetery after dark
- a voodoo doll
- a copy (or photocopy)
of a short ghost story that you think is really scary (the story should
be 10 pages or less)
- a real business
card that has "666" (together) on it somewhere
- a 200-word essay
explaining what you would be willing to sell your soul for (be convincing!)
- a cross of silver
- a deck of 25 Rhine-Zenner
ESP testing cards
- an X-rated graphic
novel that contains a scene in which a horrible beast is summoned in
an occult manner and then has sex with someone
- a commercial Wiccan
product that makes an explicit claim that it is for use in a magic potion
of some sort
- a Ouija board
- an original-cast
recording of Damn Yankees (RIP, Gwen Verdon)
- a three-dimensional
piece of art representing la Catrina of el Día de los Muertos
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