Getting good

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This one was pretty special for me. I did a lot of wandering around looking for a good spot up in Mt. Victoria park, and collecting clue photos. But when I got back to the car, my keys were missing! I had to retrace all my steps through the bush, and totally luckily found them again. A one-in-a-million chance.

I got a little more tricky with the clues — instead of just showing the location, I had four locations create a X that marked the spot. Unfortunately I didn't realise there are two beachfront empanada places in Wellington. Who would have thought.

Then the hunt itself was great — it seemed like nobody was going to find it, but then in the middle of the night some fellows tracked it down. Their videos were awesome.

Stepping up a little

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So the first one went alright — perhaps over too quickly. The next one I did from work, just chucking it behind a sculpture. But I did take a little more time to create more interesting clues.

This one was also the first one where the community kinda got into it, and the winner posted their success. That made me glad.

Because I'm too lazy to ship

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There are quite a lot of things in New Zealand that are relatively much more expensive than other places. Mainly because they have to be shipped there from overseas, but also because the population is quite small. Like, smaller than Pheonix, AZ.

One of those things are board games. They can be almost twice as much as back in the USA, and that can be quite prohibitive. So there's quite a robust resale market, mostly on Facebook.

I'm quite lazy, however. And the idea of boxing things up and shipping them is a bit of a drag. So I decided to just leave spare games around the city. Just lying around. For people to find.

To make it more interesting, to those Facebook resale channels I post clues. Usually the game is found in the first few hours. Here's the first one.