Alex and Kristin check their lists during February's scavenger hunt
After a successful event in February with about 40 in attendance, a second underground city scavenger hunt is being organized next weekend on Facebook and through other channels.
Here’s the details:
Saturday, Nov. 8, 12:30pm at the Central Station food court (which is near the gates for the Deux Montagnes commuter train line). The game starts at 1pm and ends at 3pm at the same place.
No entrance fee, age limitations or secret code words.
What you need to bring:
- A team of between one and four people
- A bag (you know, to put all your stuff in)
- Some money (at most $5), though if you think you can get everything for free go nuts
- A camera (anything, even a cellphone camera, will suffice)
- A watch or other time-telling device
- Comfortable shoes
For those of you who weren’t aware of the previous hunt, you can read my post about it, which includes a full list of the items people were searching for. It’s almost all stuff that’s worthless and can be picked up for free in the underground city. You can also read the piece I did for The Gazette about it.
Robin inspects the goodies
For those who were there in February, organizer Robin (that’s her above) has made some tweaks to the rules for this time around, mostly concerning what happens when a team arrives late (which happened a lot last time, causing many items to be disqualified). Also note that the meeting point is different.
There’s no RSVP required, but doing so on Facebook would help with estimating how many people will show up.
I have to admit, part of me totally expected last weekend’s underground city scavenger hunt to be a complete dud. It’s happened before with these organized-on-Facebook just-for-fun events. Facebook had 35 people attending, but those numbers are always hyperinflated due to the way Facebook works.
As it turns out, there were 39 participants, and that was way more than was needed to have fun.
For my article in today’s Gazette, I spoke to organizer Robin Friedman while boyfriend-and-co-organizer Jody McIntyre was registering people. I then followed a team through the two-hour hunt.
Photos, the list and more after the jump below.
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For those of you who forgot my post from last week, the scavenger hunt is today (Saturday) at 3pm at the top floor of the Eaton Centre downtown. More details in my previous post or on the Facebook page. Don’t forget to bring a camera, a bag and a watch.
I’ll be writing about it for the paper, so get your quotable quotes ready.
Improv Everywhere, the New York City-based scene-causer, has another mission up, which involved dozens of people freezing in place at Grand Central Station for exactly five minutes. They’ve also started up a social network for people from elsewhere in the world to connect. Here’s the Montreal group, which so far only has three members.
Speaking of this kind of unauthorized fun in public places, a scavenger hunt is being planned in the underground city next weekend. Facebook has over a dozen participants confirmed.
For those of you with moral objections to that site, here’s the details:
Saturday, Feb. 9, 3pm-5pm
Top cloor (Niveau Cinéma) of the Eaton Centre, McGill metro
Sign in when you arrive at the checkpoint with your team name and members (up to three)
This is a free, all ages event
Rules:
- Do not leave the underground city. You are using the honor system.
- You will need:
- a bag
- a bit of money (no more than 5$)
- something to take pictures with (a camera phone is OK)
- something to tell time with
- Time – You have from when we release you until 5:10 on the judges’ timepiece (official time). If your entire team is not back by then, only what has arrived will be counted.
- Points will be awarded once per team for each item on the list brought to the finish.
- Judges’ decisions are final
