What does Sunday, Scavenger hunt, and Sunburn have in common?

Answer: The 2007 Miami Herald "Herald Hunt", held this year in Miami Beach!!

Continuing the blossoming tradition, this would have been the 3rd year Frank and I partnered to win this event. HA! Who are we kidding, rocket scientists and programmer dorks win, but we always have fun trying.

For those of you not familiar, two local Newspaper writers (Dave Barry and Tom Shroder) have been organizing and conceiving the clues for this event for over 20 years.
This event encompasses a bunch of little brain teasers that are scattered throughout different coordinates on a map of the area they are holding the hunt. Some of the clues will consist of ridiculous props, drag performers, stuff on/around buildings, music, hand outs. All of which, should result in a number. It’s your job to walk to these sites and solve the clues, which lead you to other clues, and other decoy sites. Eventually your mind is spinning from either the HUMIDITY or the frustration, that and all you want to do is go eat because that is definitely something you can get right!

Answering all the clues right from your morning quest will result in five numbers that correspond to additional clues printed in the newspaper handout. It’s not until 3:00PM, when your brain is shutting down and you're suffering from heat exhaustion, when they announced the final clue. We usually give up at this point and accept our defeat.

Found this online, this guy words it much better…

“The premise is fairly simple: take a South Florida city on a cruelly humid day, place several stupefyingly difficult brain teasers throughout the location’s streets, print a special section of the newspaper filled to the brim with red herrings, false leads, and a cartoony map exploding with distracting puns. All that’s missing is several thousand irritable and sunburned people with absolutely no idea what they’re supposed to be looking for.”

This year we had an adequate amount of brain power with a team consisting of Frank, a bunch of his buds from work and myself (6 in all). We did surprising well, and nailed 3 clues, had a lucky guess on a 4th, and plain out could not get a 5th. Within half an hour of them announcing the final clue, there were some winners (cough *NERDS*) and they reveled the answers to all the clues thereafter. All in all, we had a great time looking just as confused as our fellow hunters and I can’t wait to do it again next year!

Interested? Check out the solutions here:

Additional Info:
A true fanatic, and a colleague of mine, Andy runs this site in his spare time and chronicals all the past and future events to come. Check it out!