2024 Photo Scavenger Hunt – Rules and Alternate Words

Yay! I was really hoping this would happen this year. (In fact, I had just come here to post asking if it was happening when I saw this.) I’m disqualified for Bingo, because I’m running it. I’m disqualified for Public Art, because it requires New2U art. Since I’ve been playing for 2 years (or maybe it’s 3, I don’t even remember that much!), I have no idea what I may already have used in the first year. So this will be my motivation to get more miles in.

And yes, I did notice that my name was taken in vain here. In my defense, I may be the first one out, but I also have a disadvantage in that almost all my photos are taken in the dark. Getting the item to even show up is always a challenge, and artistic photos are typically beyond me.

So, if I played today, I would’ve posted one of these photos.

12/16/2023 – GLOBE

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in Reston

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in Alexandria

Clarification on rules, because you know I will need it: When you say “It has to be on a bike ride on the day it was requested,” is that a ride that starts on the day it was requested, or is it okay if it is found on the day it is requested but on a ride that started the day before? E.g., my ride starts at 11:55pm on Saturday, and I find an item at 12:05 am on Sunday. If it is has to be on a ride that starts on the day the item was requested, finding an item after midnight won’t count for either day–the item will have been found on a Saturday ride, so it can’t be Sunday’s item, but it can’t be Saturday’s item because the post can’t be made until Sunday. While ending the ride at 12:04 and starting a new one at 12:05 would at least enable me to find Sunday’s item, I hate to do that since it often loses me points due to the system that front-loads points.

I dealt with this last year by finding a lot of items at 11:55pm, and desperately hoping that neither freezing fingers nor lack of a cell signal would keep me from posting by 11:59pm. (I had only one miss in the past two years, and the circumstances of that one were so dire they gave me credit anyway.) And I’ll do that again this year if that’s what the rules require. But I’d just like to clarify ahead of time.

I understand that part. My question was whether an item requested for a particular day could be found and posted on that day, but on a ride that began the previous day. If I could find and post the new day’s item just AFTER midnight, I wouldn’t be facing a time crunch. But that would mean that the Strava ride marked #scavhunt would show as on the day before the day the item was requested.

Okay, thanks! @Kbikeva 226748 wrote:

As the co-host of the prize, I’ll answer this one.

If any player wants to ensure there is no ambiguity about when their ride/post occurred, that player should stop their Strava at midnight and start a fresh one at midnight +1 second. At that time, the new Wordle will need to be solved for that particular day.

Kelley

@Steve O 226806 wrote:

I’m odd (or I’m Carol).

But you repeat yourself.

I’m not going to contest this one. Sponsors can have whatever rules they want. I’ll just have to make sure that before I stop and then restart my ride after midnight, I’ve already gotten my decasleeze for the previous day done.

Former sponsor here.

The participation prize uses an autogenerated scoring leaderboard that can’t be overridden so i agree that a ride that started yesterday should be stopped yesterday and restarted today for todays hunt!

Thanks! I’ve enjoyed playing it, and will be back this year given this. @karenbikes2@gmail.com 226943 wrote:

@cvcalhoun — I removed the statement about New2U art since I didn’t intend it to be a requirement, just a suggestion. Please consider playing #publicartfinder again this year! I enjoyed your submissions last year and was looking forward to seeing them again

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