After serving behind the scenes for two Hunts, I was eager to compete for a change. Steve Williams took up the challenge of organizing the 1989 event, which was a scavenger hunt instead of the puzzle-centric events of previous years.
Seekers were tasked to find the following items:
- Any Cleveland Indians or Tampa Bay Buccaneers paraphernalia
- Information booklet for any national monument
- Any Anheuser-Busch beer bottle top
- Styrofoam hat
- Orange golf ball
- Plastic Erol’s bag
- Any Yeti or Sasquatch (OTHER THAN BIGFOOT!)
- Parking ticket
- Grocery receipt for at least $50
- Popeye’s Chicken cup
- Map of the Natural History Museum
- Issue of Playgirl
- Issue of Playbill
- Used Chinese restaurant carry-out carton
- Business card of an occult specialist (e.g., palm reader)
- Houston’s matchbook
- Anything printed by Catholic U
- Diet fudge box
- Amtrak’s Atlantic City train schedule
- A “Hello, my name is…” name tag
- Correctly completed newspaper crossword
- Cineplex Odeon ticket stub
- Red bishop
- Empty can of Jolt soda
- Anything from Planned Parenthood
- Newspaper page that is at least two months old
- 4-leaf clover
- Extra strength condom
- Any non-condom birth control device
- Paper towel roll cardboard tube
- 7 cent postage stamp (bonus point for unused)
- Five metal pushpins
- Crab or lobster bib
- Bazooka Joe and His Gang cartoon
- M-1 Tank
- L’eggs pantyhose egg
- Do not disturb sign
- Self-striking match
- Working mouse or rat trap
- 1993 penny
- Color photo of Jessica Hahn
- Color photo of Tammy Faye Bakker w/out make-up
- Pine cone
- Plastic film container
- Anything that proves you’ve been in VA during the hunt
- Red shoelace
- 40-watt bulb (dead)
- Paint stirrer
- Elvis (Dead: 4 points; Alive: 6 points; Impersonator: 1 point)
- Styrofoam tray
- Black feather
- Field hockey or cricket ball
- Tie with green and orange on it
- George Bush’s signature
- Richard Smith’s signature
- Coloring book with at least half the pages colored
- Anything printed in Arabic
- Bell bottom pants (Normal: 4 points; purple, 6 points)
- A napkin from Jerry’s
- Mint flavored toothpick
- Holy Grail
- A marshmallow
- Pipe cleaner
- Business sized envelope stuffed with cut hair
- A whistle
- Poker dice
- Copy of The Satanic Verses
- The last of the Mohicans
- Any Hare Krishna literature
- Used coffee filter
- Bendable/hospital straw
- Single serve package of relish
- A bookmark with the name of the bookstore on it
- An Italian-English dictionary
- A forgotten man