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Autumn 2021 Scav Hunt

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Note: this scavenger hunt does not include taking pictures of people without their consent, foreground or background.

Dinky Doors

Photograph a Dinky Door (10 pts.)
Photograph all Dinky Doors (200 point bonus)
Write a poem about a Dinky Door (5 points per rhyming couplet)
Double points if in Latin. Alternatively 20 points per Haiku about a Dinky Door.
Find what could be mistaken for a dilapidated Dinky Door (10 pts.)
Ditto but with two within 10 metres of each other (100 pts.)
Build a temporary cardboard Dinky Door for your room (5 points per piece of cardboard used)
Build a temporary Dinky Door for your fridge, scored ditto.
Smallest home-made Dinky Door (superlative points score)
Most colourful Dinky Door (ditto)
Homemade Dinky Doors score double if made out of Fondant
Stage a play around a homemade Dinky Door for your Plushies (3 points per line; no repeats count, nor do minor variations).
Ditto for an actual Dinky Door: 5 points per line.
Bonuses for writing a Space Opera involving your Plushies visiting all Dinky Doors
Tour Bonus: 100 D points for photo/audio footage of your plushie play at the total number of Dinky Doors, D.
Muso Bonus: 500 points per Aria or overture, that are not variations of each other, and which have playing time of 1 minute or more each (no repeated bars).
Freedom of Association Bonus: 10 n^2 points per Socbridge Society substantially featuring in the story of your Space Opera.

It’s Nice To Be Cozy When It’s Cold Outside

Light a scented candle / incense
Make an autumn-related meal (e.g. biscuits, cakes etc.)
Do a games night with your friends, family or household
Draw an autumn-themed picture (bonus points if featuring a spiderdragon; extra bonus points if there’s tea)
Read a wholesome children’s book that you haven’t read before or read in a long time

Freshers' Week and Squash Week

Go to a Socfair!
Go to all four non-college socfairs we know about! (SU, SU-virtual, Socbridge-Timetable: virtual, Sports Socs)
Bonus for impressing us by 'visiting the past' in so doing, given that at least two of these fairs are over.
Bonus for impressing us by finding any further non-college society fairs in Cambridge.
Subscribe yourself to a soc email list! (has to be something you actually want to join :) )
Go to a Squash!
Go to a specifically no-alcohol squash!
Go to a Squash in College!
Go to a Squash in another College!
Go to a Squash on one of Cambridge's Greens. (The backs count!)
Send Birdbridge a picture of a duck taken in one of their duck tour locations!
Lots of bonus points: send Birdbridge a poker of these (one duck per location: cc what's sent there to us so we can score it...)
Go to an Icebreaker!
(Lots of bonus points: suggest an icebreaker of a conceptual type none of the Judges have thought about before)
Join an Anglia Ruskin University Society (has to be something you want to join.)
Join a Soc 3 weeks or more into term (has to be a soc you want to join).

Even Though It Rains A Lot, The Trees Are Pretty

Collect autumn leaves; bonus points for the name of the tree, extra bonus points for a collage!
Take pictures of the trees as the seasons change
Send us pictures of mushrooms; bonus points for names; extra bonus points if edible
Go on an autumn walk
Collect some conkers! Bonus points for decorating them, or playing conkers
Befriend a cat and send us a picture or tell us about it :)

It’s Not Scary If We’re All Together

Carve a pumpkin
Read a spooky story
Write a Halloween-themed short story or do some other creative activity with the theme of Halloween
Create new spooky words; bonus points if you explain what the words refer to; extra bonus points if you create a new thing or create that the word refers to
Come to our SOCA Halloween party! (if we do one)
Dress up as something spooky for Halloween
Make a map of a university building as if you were a ghost (which walls do ghosts like to enter from? Which ghosts live in which parts of it? Where do they do their haunting?)

Settling in

Tell us the extent to which your College permits cooking.
Bonus if in the form of a Nordic Saga, a Space Opera or a Mathematical Equation
Find the shop selling the cheapest saucepans (state the price so we can compare, as well as the approximate height and radius of the pot part).(Big bonus for cheapest; our scavenger hunt isn't a valid excuse if you're reprimanded for taking photos of saucepan price tags).
Idly walk over the Magdalene bridge.
Briskly walk over the Silver Street Bridge.
Cycle over Orgasm Bridge.
Find the Reality Checkpoint.
Find a building engraved with a crocodile.
As many university heraldic crests as you can find, as photographed from off university property (e.g. in their outer walls).
Find the 1 metre + tall statue of a unicorn (big bonus)
Find the statues of grey dragons within 800 metres of the statue of the unicorn (very large bonus).

Draw any items you please from this items list section :)

Expect more items to be added here, especially of things that are easier to find!

Our Scav Hunt So Far:

Approximate Scavenger Hunt scores:

6420 Acebridge
3640 Om-nom-nom-nymous
1814 There must always be a Scouty in Cakefaerie-Winterfell
1302 Octopode Spa
240 Dinky Duo
20 As-yet unaffiliated participant.

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