St Patrick's festival "Treasure Hunt" - any good?

mambo

http://www.stpatricksday.ie/cms/events_treasurehunt.html

Anyone done this in the past? Is it any good (for a bunch of mature-ish adults), or is it more, like, y'know, for the kids?

Are there any interesting pub-crawl/drinking game variations (e.g. have a pint in the nearest hostelry after solving each clue)?

AndrewMc

mambo wrote:

http://www.stpatricksday.ie/cms/events_treasurehunt.html

Anyone done this in the past? Is it any good (for a bunch of mature-ish adults), or is it more, like, y'know, for the kids?

Are there any interesting pub-crawl/drinking game variations (e.g. have a pint in the nearest hostelry after solving each clue)?

My wife and I did that the first year (I think), which was about 5 years ago. Looking at the website, it seems the format is still much the same. You get a sheet of questions and places (shopping centres, museums, etc) and have to find the answer at the location. There were also treasure-hunt people at each venue to give you a stamp and to check you were all there (you can't split up into sub-teams).

It was a grand aul ramble around town and part of the challenge is to figure out a reasonably efficient route around the venues. If you go out with no expectation of winning, it'll be a laugh - the truly dedicated will finish hours before you. Between venues, you're on your own - so you're quite entitled to have a pint whenever you like Just try to be back to City Hall before the close so you can enter the draw (assuming you get all the answers).

We got free food before it started (sausages/hot-dog sort of stuff, being Denny). If nothing else, you might get a bit of lunch!

Nevyn

the goal is to do it between 2 and 3 hours.
Anyone coming in under 2 hours and over 3 hours will be disqualified.
So no time for stopping of for pints.
Put if a salty sea dog was to hve about thier person like a juog o' rum it would while away the jaring walk among the landlubbers.
Just don't let the garda be seening ya swiggin.