Pointless Prize: 2023 Photo Scavenger Hunt
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Hi Freezing Saddlers,
This year, Janet and I will lead Daily Photo Scavenger Hunt. We are happy to announce the topics for the first week.
Rules:
Like in the previous, we have two competitions this year: the main competition and participation prizes! You can compete in both simultaneously or just one.
To compete for a participation prize, you must (1) upload one or more photos of the item to your Strava ride for that day. (2) title your Strava ride with the hashtag #scavhunt. Please only hashtag ONE ride per day with #scavhunt. This hashtag will ensure you automatically show up and get ranked on our scavhunt leaderboard (https://freezingsaddles.org/pointless/hashtag/scavhunt).
To compete in the main competition (with one or more points awarded daily based on photo creativity, beauty, and/or the capricious whims of Serdar and Janet) your entries must be posted HERE on the Forum in this thread.Detailed rules are below (with huge thanks to Rumi and Millie for spelling this all out last year and allowing us to mostly repeat their detailed instructions!):
- Obvs, you should be a participant in Freezing Saddles ’23
- It has to be on a bike ride on the day it was requested
- For the main competition, it has to be posted in the Forum on the day for which it was requested, i.e., 12:01 AM EST to 11:59 PM EST for the day it was requested. Sorry, we won’t count the ones that aren’t posted for the day it was requested. That’s part of the challenge.
- The reason we say “for the day it is requested” is because we will release a weekly list of scavenger hunt items ahead of time, with one item for each day — but don’t take and/or post the pic until that day comes.
- We will update the Scavenger Hunt theme weekly on this thread and Strava. We will try to update it in advance of the week ahead so you have time to make plans!
- Your Forum post must be titled with the date and the found object/theme. Example: IF the item for January 1st were “borscht,” you would title your Forum post: 1/1/2023 borscht
- Description, short backstory, or location are optional (but nice). That said, if your pic is abstract or not relatable to my request, please explain (e.g., I ask for “happiness,” and you post a pic of a tennis ball you found on a ride, please explain how that tennis ball = happiness)
- It has to be a picture you took. You don’t need to be in the photo, but if you are in it, it either has to be a selfie or done with a self-timer
- Only one pic/day should be posted in the Forum. Please only pad by adding one pic/day. (You can include as many photos as possible on your Strava ride.)
- It has to be a picture, not a video.
- Let’s stick to things you find out there during your ride, not things you bring or make yourself (unless otherwise specified). Example 1: Don’t scratch it into the dirt if I say find “2023”. Example 2: if I say find a flower, don’t bring a flower with you on your ride and take a pic of that. This takes the fun out of looking for things, which is the whole point.
- Unless specified otherwise, your bike does not have to be in the photo.
- Found item needs to be clear and discernible (or legible if text) in the picture. If you are using Tapatalk and are having trouble posting pics that are large enough, let us know, and I/we can help you with it.
- Filters are OK, but no obvious/blatant photoshopping… not that we would know anything about such things.
Scoring
Scoring will be similar to FS22, and there are two different prizes you are competing for simultaneously:
- Main Competition: To compete in this prize you must post in this thread complying with the rules above. Scoring will be arbitrary and capricious, and only one person per day is guaranteed to get the point each day. How will you be the lucky point winner for the day? Impress us with your creativity. Since we are publishing an entire week at a time, it should give you some time to come up with a creative idea. The rider with the most Main Competition points at the end of the competition is the… winner of the Main Competition.
- Participation Winner: There will also be one or more participation award(s) for the top daily participant(s). Tag one ride each day with #scavhunt, add your photo(s) of the item and watch this leaderboard https://freezingsaddles.org/pointless/hashtag/scavhunt . The leaderboard will score this automatically (one point per daily #scavhunt ride) and is honor-based. Please do not tag more than one ride per day with the hashtag. The top rider(s) (based on the number of rides, not mileage!!) will get a special prize at the end of Freezing Saddles!
Good Luck!
Janet and SerdarPlease, check the daily topics below. We will be editing/updating this post regularly.
1/1/23 Sunday — Fire
1/2/23 Monday — Ice
1/3/23 Tuesday — Lantern
1/4/23 Wednesday — Snow
1/5/23 Thursday — Lava
1/6/23 Friday — Ice Cream1/7/23 Saturday ’90s
1/8/23 Sunday ’70s
1/9/23 Monday ’60s
1/10/23 Tuesday ’50s
1/11/23 Wednesday ’40s
1/12/23 Thursday ’30s
1/13/23 Friday ’20s1/14/23 Saturday National Dress Up Your Pet Day
1/15/23 Sunday National Hat Day
1/16/23 Monday Martin Luther King Jr. Day
1/17/23 Tuesday Prohibition Begins, 1920-1933
1/18/23 Wednesday National Winnie the Pooh Day
1/19/23 Thursday National Popcorn Day
1/20/23 Friday National Cheese Lovers Day1/21/23 Saturday – Waterfall
1/22/23 Sunday – DC Music
1/23/23 Monday – World Cup 2022
1/24/23 Tuesday – selfie with the maximum number of your FS teammates
1/25/23 Wednesday – Opposite Day
1/26/23 Thursday – Vietnam War ended
1/27/23 Friday – National Chocolate Cake Day1/28/23 Saturday – Data Privacy Day
1/29/23 Sunday – National Puzzle Day
1/30/23 Monday – Franklin D. Roosevelt? He was born on this day.
1/31/23 Tuesday – National Backward Day
2/1/23 Wednesday – National Texas Day
2/2/23 Thursday – Groundhog Day
2/3/23 Friday – Feed the Birds Day2/4/23 Saturday – Barbie Doll
2/5/23 Sunday – Apollo 14 mission
2/6/23 Monday – The Battle of Fort Henry
2/7/23 Tuesday – The Beatles
2/8/23 Wednesday – composer/conductor John Williams
2/9/23 Thursday – “The Simpsons”
2/10/23 Friday – Wild Card!2/11/23 Saturday “Pointless” Kids
2/12/23 Sunday Superb Owl
2/13/23 Monday Architecture
2/14/23 Tuesday Errandeering
2/15/23 Wednesday Little Free Library
2/16/23 Thursday License Plates
2/17/23 Friday Calvinball2/18/23 Saturday *Service Saturday*
2/19/23 Sunday *Sustainable Sunday*
2/20/23 Monday *Manic Monday*
2/21/23 Tuesday *Timeless Tuesday*
2/22/23 Wednesday *Wordplay Wednesday*
2/23/23 Thursday *Thankful Thursday*
2/24/23 Friday *Foodie Friday*2/25/23 Saturday Wicked Witch
2/26/23 Sunday Silver or Ruby Slippers
2/27/23 Monday Yellow Brick Road
2/28/23 Tuesday Scarecrow
3/1/23 Wednesday Tin Man
3/2/23 Thursday Cowardly Lion
3/3/23 Friday “There is no place like home…”3/4/23 Saturday Lines
3/5/23 Sunday Squares
3/6/23 Monday Donut
3/7/23 Tuesday Hole
3/8/23 Wednesday Sparrow
3/9/23 Thursday Rainbow
3/10/23 Friday PhilosophyWeek 11 Scavenger Hunt: Reindeer Games! They call these Pointless Prizes “Reindeer Games,” so for this last full week of Freezing Saddles, play along and illustrate the name of these famous reindeer in a photo.
3/11/23 Saturday Dasher (No hyphens, please!)
3/12/23 Sunday Dancer & Prancer
3/13/23 Monday Vixen
3/14/23 Tuesday Comet
3/15/23 Wednesday Cupid
3/16/23 Thursday Donner &/or Blitzen
3/17/23 Friday Rudolph3/18/23 Saturday Wild Card with action, emotion, and engagement
3/19/23 Sunday Action, emotion, and engagement, but with a bike in the photo see page 174
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@SusanG1693 221721 wrote:
1-4-2023 LAVA
The second headstone is granite (igneous) rock.
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Accepted. Because igneous rock is formed through the cooling and solidification of … lava.
@HokieBeth 221701 wrote:
1/5/23 Lava
Mele Kalikinaka from the land where the palm trees sway and the lava flows
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Yay for beautiful Hawaii!
1/5/2023 Lava
If, unlike Ken, you prefer to get lava hot coffee at home, Harris Teeter has you covered!
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1/5/23 – lava
Classified ad in a Spanish language newspaper. This ad is for Woodbridge condominium rentals with 2 bedrooms, 2 complete bathrooms, a living room, dining room, kitchen, washer-dryer, & 2 covered parking spots near Belmont bay information.
The Spanish word for washing machine is “lavadora.” I circled the “lava” in the picture.
I picked up the newspaper on a walk with a friend earlier – all day I’d been hoping to find a laundromat or car wash with a bilingual sign….. I was looking on the walk, too, for a sign I could come back to take a pic of on my ride home. There were no bilingual signs, though. I didn’t really expect any in Clarendon. I was surprised to find the newspaper there.Earlier today I’d biked through a car wash in a multi ethic part of falls church – I’d weaved between the cars, & HEARD the workers speaking in Spanish! But all the signs were all in English! [emoji2358][emoji1744]
So anyhow later in my walk with Joan I picked up this Spanish language newspaper, flipped through it, didn’t see anything…. It was Joan who suggested I bring it home – and sure enough, on the back page I found this great ad, & had to go out and ride around the block with a newspaper in my pocket to take the picture.
I shoulda read through the newspaper before I got on my bike to come home from Joan’s – but I don’t think I’m flaunting the rules here, just a poor planner (story of my life [emoji2358][emoji1744])
Sorry I covered part of the ad l. I was thinking I was highlighting the “lava” & didn’t realize I’d wanna translate the ad for you guys. Whoopsie [emoji2358][emoji1744]
1/5/2023 Lava
Well Nadine kinda stole my idea…but yes Lava means to wash in Spanish so I got a pic of a laundry mat.
1/5/23 Lava
, I took a photo of a Japanese restaurant since Japan has many active volcanoes (Indonesia has more). According to Google Japan has 10% of the Earth’s active volcanoes numbering 111!!!!Had what I thought were many great ideas but none of them came to fruition because I stayed at work too long: Bag of lava rocks at a hardware store (closed); hot lava wax sign at Mr Wash (closed), volcanic rock sites in geological map from Lake Barcroft into Four Mile area (called Indian Run)
https://naturalatlas.com/geologic-formations/indian-run-formation-2772993Too dark to photograph; lava rocks advert for a massage studio or nIl salon–too tired to seek…
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01/05/23 – Lava
Like @consularrider I went to Vulcan Coffee in Alexandria, since “Vulcan” means “volcano” in Spanish, and everyone knows that volcanos spew lava.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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