I'm not much of a navigator. Saturday afternoon I went with some friends on a scavenger hunt and got lost going to the hunt headquarters. I was lost an hour before the hunt started.
The Mental Health Association of Central Oklahoma hosted The Great Treasure Quest, a fundraiser and scavenger hunt for local companies.
Teams of four drove all over Oklahoma City, visiting landmarks and solving riddles. The Oklahoman newsroom team was metro schools reporter Jesse Olivarez, city hall reporter Bryan Dean, promotions manager Elizabeth Taylor and me.
We did not win. At all. In fact, we mostly got motion sickness from reading in the car. But solving the puzzles and driving all over town was a lot of fun.
Here are a few clues we had to solve. The answers are locations teams were supposed to visit. See if you can solve the puzzles. The answers are at the bottom.
•Solve this cryptogram: PS RS RLB LZMRSCZE GQCDBCM FHTJZE DQCNBR QOW BABOR EBORBC.
•To find this site you must periodically use your team chemistry to turn the tables on your opponents: 1, 18, 7, 1, 8, 92, 34
•These three ladies love to don their holiday apparel, but when spring comes they put on running gear.
•Each set of words refers to a word in the site. 1. The eighth president, a bird, Steve. 2. Rosa, Ball, before leaving the car. 3. Nurture or ___, Mother ___.
•She was running wildly, trying to find the location of this clue, but President Tom McDaniel told her to sit down, be quiet, and mind her own business.
•You'll be blown away by these transparent baubles and balls. Maybe St. Catherine of Bologna will whisper the location of this spot in your ear.
•They once roamed the Wild West, but now they lead a quieter but more colorful life by the vitrified clay village.
•Swarovski didn't build it, and it doesn't lead to Terabithia ... but it leads to your clue site.
