Yesterday i woke up 5am in the morning, and it was Saturday!!! I joined my colleagues with our company treasure hunt event and we had to reach Sunway by 7am, so, i had to wake up on 5am! I had my housemate to take me to Wangsa Maju before 6am, had to wake my housemate up just to send me to Wangsa Maju, i never hesitate huh? hahaha.
Let's focus on the treasure hunt, there were total 8 teams, each made up by 8-10 ppl. Our team supposed to be 10 ppl, but ended up with 8 ppl only because the other two were engaged to other business. But this did not put us in a bad position, because actually they only wanted 8 ppl in one team, somehow the news was a bit off when it came to our department, we gathered 10 ppl, and i was the last one registered in the list, haha. Anyway, we ended up forming a team with 8 ppl as well, so i guess it was fair to other teams afterall.
There were two departments involved in this activity, us, ICT department, and SuperPages department. Never heard of SuperPages? Never mind, because i also dono what that is until my colleague told me that it is something similar to YellowPages, in an advance way, haha. Like i said, there were 8 teams, and our ICT department only able to gather 1 team, 1 vs 7, we were definitely in a very bad position in winning right?
This treasure hunt started from Sunway, 1 check point at Sunway, and then another 1 at Seremban, then the 5 more check points at Malacca. Our team definitely started up strong, because we solved the first clue within 10 minutes, while the others still cracking their head out for solution. Thanks to my teammates, they are certainly fast thinking machine, a glance on the clue, already figured it out. It was a decipher code clue, first clue was 10 characters of SUPER PAGES given, and then second clue was 10 digits given, then a bunch of digits given for us to decipher. Actually each digit given in clue 2 represented the character in clue 1 correspondingly, then based on the letter sequence, we deciphered the digit into letter, then got our first check point location. When we walked to our cars, the other teams were shock that we done so fast, "what? they done already?" , "so fast?" . Tell you the truth, it felt AWESOME, even though i didnt contribute anything, hahaha.
The second clue was requesting us to bring some 'treasures' based on the poets given, and those were definitely tough! Here one of the clue is,
Bring me a pack for the snack lover
From a bin and plot for flowers
Its content in part is a word for money
And that which means cut known to many
The snack of the right brand only do I want
If you are half right, half points to give I can't
Able to figure it out what that is? The answer is Cashew nut, Tong Garden brand! And we were able to crack this! What an achievement!!! I just couldnt believe that we were right on spot! Hahaha. As for the second item, it was solved by our teammates in the another car. There were 2 parts in our second clue, one was to figure the treasurse, and another was try to figure the sentence based on the hints given. For eg,
24 H in a D = 24 Hours in a Day
This one is much easier, but it wasnt as easy as we thought it would be, for eg,
88 K in a P
18 H in a G C
No idea right? haha, ended up we googled for the answers, it turned out to be,
88 Keys in a Piano
18 Holes in a Golf Course
Who would have thought that? Thanks Google. Wasnt fair? Well we are ICT team, what we know the best? Make use of the technology to the max! I bet our teams also googled the answers, but i think there were few teams didnt, based on their reactions during the answer reveal section. The answers are obvious if you google, so no way you would get it wrong, unless you did not google!
Even though we able to figure them out, but my team, one car was too way behind another. The car that i was in, we reached there earlier, saw few teams already made it to the checkpoint, but lucky for us, they didnt seem to be able to figure the clues out. But as we saw they all run towards the petrol station's mall as the time went by, and we still didnt see any sign of the other car of our team, we got a bit anxious! Even though it wasnt a competition of speed, which mean no points given even you signed in the checkpoint first, the points were depends on the answers we answered based on the clues. But still, who wouldnt want to be the first? At last, when we saw another car of our team arrived, we were finally able to move on!
The third clue was Rebus Puzzle . This one was a bit tricky, we didnt google it at first, because some of them were easy, like,
means Stay Over Night
But we did got some tricky puzzle,
The former one means Up To No Good, and the latter one means Scrambled Egg.
Anyway, we ended up to google for the answers, and we didnt know it is known as Rebus Puzzle, so basically i was just googled, Doogon Doogon puzzle, ahahaha. We struggled the most with the below one, which we cant google for answer, because so far, no answer just yet!
HOTONIGHTW?
means, How About Tonight, because HOW is around TONIGHT, and around=about, so the answer is HOW ABOUT TONIGHT!
Genius! But somehow, we able to guess it right, by common sense!!!! We were screaming when the answer was revealed! Because we all thought we must got it wrong, but who knows, common sense saved us!
Then we reached Malacca, and started our walking hunt! 10 clues were given, and each clue represented a shop's name. Some of the clues were just slogans of the shops, but some we need to depend on our imagination, for example, self location.
self = my
location = place
so the answer was a restaurant called My Place. Tricky? Ya, it was!
But thanks to one of our teammates, Mr Paul, he definitely a true observer, he answered 7-8 out of 10 questions, while the rest, 7 of us only able to come out with 2 answers!
This challenge took us so long until we lost track of time, this challenge ended up with a task of taking picture where all the team members enjoying the chendol. And when we were sitting in the shop, waiting for our chendol, I noticed that the hour is late, and asked when was the checkpoint close, checked, and gosh, only 15 minutes left, and we havent figure where the checkpoint was. No time for us to enjoy the chendol slowly, we're all in hurry, finished as fast as we could, then started running. Along the way, we saw the other teams were still trying to solve the challenge, that was quite a relieve, hahaha.
When we got to the checkpoint, there was one team ahead of us, it was obvious it was between us and them.
The next challenge, was trying to figure out the answers of few history questions. The answers can be found in St Paul, and the museum. We failed to finish it all, because we just couldnt find the answer of that particular question, who is the name of Nicoleas Muller's wife? Even Google failed to provide answer.
Once we done, we were requested to take a photo in front of a truck, with several items that listed in the challenge. We dont even bother to find those items, just applied whatever we had with us.
1. 2 x Headband (we had a malay teammate, solved one, then using handkerchief as the other one!)
2. 2 x sunglasses (We got two, though mine one not exactly the sunglasses, but still appear dark under the light!)
3. 2 x weapons (umbrella!)
4. Wig (well, using the girl's long hair, and put them on the top of another teammate, who is bald, creative!)
5. Sarong (I got towel!!!)
Once we finished taking picture, we saw the other team coming, and that was the first team finished the previous challenge, which means, we were back to the top. But we got a bit carried away by the last challenge. It was a matching challenge, match the image with their name, not so tough. But when we were done, we need to submit our answer to the last checkpoint, we were just too relax, and thought the last check point must be so far away based on the map given, so decided to go back to take our cars and drive to the checkpoint. The last check point was actually only 6 minutes away based on Google Map. We figured that out, and then decided to go to the last check point first. And that's when we lost our chance to check in first.
But like i said earlier, that was not a speed game, it was all about the answers we submitted. So when the answers were revealed, we did pay attention to other teams, guess what, we had a great chance of winning this! I personally feel not good to reveal the team position started from the last place, because it just meant you are the loser, haha. Anyway, there were tight scores among those teams, but certainly not the champion. The organizer said, the champion really deserves it, as the champion team was 27 scores ahead of the runner up. Of course, the champion was our ICT team! We felt so so so awesome!!! Especially we won by such a big lead!
It was fun, but we didnt have much interaction with another teams, everyone busy with their answer searching, and preventing other teams overheard the conversations too, haha.
And Malacca, damn hot! The sun is a real damage!!! Got all burnt by the end of the game!
That was fun, tiring too. I honestly wasnt contribute anything, hahahaha, but i shared the honor! Hahaha. Never hesitate right?
