Treasure hunt - Massive return of investment

Weekend de-stress activity

ROI, Treasure hunt


Went on a treasure hunt on Saturday with a group of friends. To the uninitiated, a treasure hunt is NOT about looking for hidden treasures.

In a treasure hunt, we use our brains to crack a couple (between 4 to 5) clues which will lead you to decipher the item that the clerk-of-course (CoC) wants you to buy and hand over to him. The trick is, once you crack the clues, you should stop at the first shop you see and get that item, before some 'KIASU' team buys all the available items off the shelf. Seriously, this is what we encountered. The minute we went into a local sundry shop and ask for the item, the proprietor, said "all taken up by the previous person".

The treasures are not the only questions we need to answer. There are usually another set of between 30- 40 questions, made up of anagrams, word-replacement, and cryptic questions you see in crossword puzzles, that you need to solve along your journey to the check point. The answers are in the signboards of the business entities. Actually the business owners should be paying for the free advertising!

What I cannot understand, is how I end up joining the treasure hunt fanatics who sacrifice their weekends to get up early (6 am or earlier) and spend practically the whole day on the road solving cryptic questions.

Anyway, I think this is also another business for the masters of the game. The winning team gets to receive Rm2000 in cash, against an investment of Rm320 per team. A massive return on investment, I would say!

P/S our team won a steam iron each.

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