VIRTUAL TREASURE HUNT

What would your most unusual item be?


What a great night we had on 15 January at the Virtual Treasure Hunt hosted by members Graham and Barbara Harker.

We were joined by 17 households of Rotarians ( including Gainsborough Club), Soroptimists, U3A members, family and friends. But what had we let ourselves in for?

As the name suggests, we were tasked with ‘hunting’ for a range of specified items, such as something red and edible, a boat (gravy accepted!), an instruction manual, a dice, a peg, and so on. The request for a picture of Jane Austen should have been easy… if we’d all remembered that it appears on the back of a £10 note.

The hunt took place over five rounds and involved a lot of running around the house trying to remember where we’d last seen that book on birds, or a picture of a thistle. 

The very last round was to bring an unusual object to the screen. A book of Clothing Coupons, a Victorian nutmeg grater, a truncheon confiscated from a poacher in 1914, a thunder machine, a piece of the Berlin Wall, were among the 17 items shown, but the winning entry, chosen by the Club President, was the Middle Eastern alarm clock which played the ‘call to prayer’.

In total, over the five rounds, 18 objects were hunted down, and eight households managed to find them all.

The evening was so much fun, and raised some funds for the President’s charity, the Crisis Skylight Centre, which supports the homeless in Croydon.

Thank you to everyone who came along. Keep an eye on your emails because Graham and Barbara have another fun event up their sleeves which we are planning to hold on 23 April 2021.

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