Rhino Hunt Round 2
Feb. 19th, 2011 09:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwaevalarinIf you need to read up on what has happened so far, you can find it here, there and over here.
Here is the email Misha sent us, starting Round 2:
Dearest Rhino Puzzlers
Your clever participation in Project Rhino has been most pleasing.
And now it is time for the next phase…the RHINO SCAVENGER HUNT…
RULES AND REGULATIONS (these are designed to optimize confusion and red-tape):
As you have already demonstrated your strengths working in teams, we will continue this adventure IN TEAMS with points being awarded according to the master list of scavenger items below.
Now, because I am capricious and arbitrary, I have changed the rules already. I said the first 200 people to respond could go on to the next round, but that's bullshit. I lied. Everyone can go on to the next round. However, I’m going to award points to the teams according to how quickly they deciphered my email address and sent me a message.
Team 3 – 50 points
Team 2 – 45 points
Team 5 – 40 points
Team 4 – 35 points
Team 1 – 30 points
(There is no team 6. I lied about that too.)
1. Each item below must be submitted electronically to this endangeredspecies email address ON OR BEFORE 2:27 PM, Saturday, February 18th, Pacific Standard Time. Late submissions will be scoffed at and disqualified.
2. All photographic/video submissions must be undoctored! No photo-shop! If I determine that you have forged any of these items, i.e. digitally layered an image of a cockroach on a croissant over an image of the Eiffel Tower, I will deduct 50 points from your team's total score and I will make a voodoo doll of you and stick it with pins. This is not a photo manipulation contest. If you want the points, you must really have a photo of a person on the Yangtze holding a puzzle piece.
3. All photos require you to show one of your team's puzzle pieces with the team number showing in order to be credited the points.
4. Once you submit an image to me. I may put it up on a website or in a museum, so if you don't want pictures of your naughty bits circulated on the web, don't send them to me.
5. Only one of each item can be submitted from each team. Duplicates will be discarded.
6. Only those individuals on a team who submit at least one scavenger hunt item will be considered a "member of the winning team." In other words, if you are currently a member of team 5, but you don't personally submit, by email, one of the items listed below, you will not, in the final tally, be considered a member of the winning team. You must participate to be a winner.
7. PLEASE REMEMBER TO IDENTIFY YOURSELF AND YOUR TEAM NUMBER IN ORDER TO RECEIVE CREDIT FOR YOUR EFFORTS!
8. All entries will be judged by me, Misha Collins, and I will determine whether the entry is valid. My decision will be final - no matter how many times you email, pleading for another chance, there will be no mercy.
9. The team that has accumulated the most points by the deadline will be the winning team. There will be only one winning team. Second and third place are not "silver" and "bronze," they are simply losers. This is a cut-throat, winner-take-all situation.
10. Winners will receive the ever-lasting admiration of their peers and something awesome from me. I'm not going to tell you awesome thing is yet (because I don't know), but I promise it will make your friends jealous.
MASTER LIST OF SCAVENGER ITEMS:
1. A photo of a person holding an authentic rhino puzzle piece standing near (or far) from an actual rhinoceros (or reasonable facsimile of a rhinoceros) – 9 points
2. A photo of a person holding an authentic rhino puzzle piece with any President, Prime Minister or Supreme Ruler – 8 points
3. A photo of a person holding an authentic rhino puzzle piece with Jim Beaver in which both the person holding an authentic rhino puzzle piece and Jim Beaver have cigars in their mouths – 14 points
4. A photo of a person holding an authentic rhino puzzle piece standing next to fully decorated as a Christmas tree – 13 points
5. A photo or video of a person holding an authentic rhino puzzle piece dancing the hora and lighting a menorah – 16 points
6. A photo of a person holding an authentic rhino puzzle piece, sitting next to a lime jello mold with a piece of the Berlin wall suspended in it – 19 points
7. A video of a person holding an authentic rhino puzzle piece(s) setting up a tent on a traffic island (must also unroll a sleeping bag and get in it and zip the tent shut) – 15 points
8. A photo of a person holding an authentic rhino puzzle piece and 3 parking tickets made out to the same license plate number – 17 points
9. A video of a live mouse or gerbil and an authentic rhino puzzle piece in a Barbie’s dream house – 9 points
10. A video of a 5 year old child (or younger) playing any song by the Sex Pistols on a saxophone – 17 points
11. A video of a person holding an authentic rhino puzzle piece singing an original song of 43 seconds in duration – 7.5 points
12. A photo of a cockroach on a croissant with the Eiffel Tower in the background – 19 points
13. A video of a person holding an authentic rhino puzzle piece bestowing an act of random kindness for a complete stranger – 30 points
14. A video of a person holding an authentic rhino puzzle piece(s) projecting an image at least 20 feet wide of the attached photo on an exterior wall of a federalgovernment building at night - 30 points
15. A photo of a child swimming/bathing in a tub full of cranberries - 22 points
16. A photo of a man standing next to a sheep. The sheep must have a German flag draped over it's back - 26 points
17. A photo of a skateboarder wearing a wig in front of Buckingham Palace - 21 points
18. Written or photographic proof of the existence of life after death - 16 points
19. A photo of a person holding an authentic rhino puzzle piece in a Russian MIG fighter jet (any class of MIG will suffice) - 31 points
20. A photo of a person holding an authentic rhino puzzle piece while being carried by a firefighter in front of a fire truck - 11 points
21. A photo of a person holding an authentic rhino puzzle piece in a small, motor-less watercraft on the Yangtze River - 27 points
22. A photo of a person holding an authentic rhino puzzle piece with me while I’m wearing a single glittering, fingerless glove - 33 points
Break a leg!
Misha
I did challenge number 8, together with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
obscuredrapture and her friend L. Here is what we came up with:
Dear Misha,
obscuredrapture and L., puzzle 4 piece 1 and gwaevalarin, puzzle 4 piece 49 here.
To optimize confusion even further, and because 22 challenges and 61 team members doesn't really add up, we decided to hand in our submission together. I don't see any rules against that. Also, you didn't specify which sort of parking ticket you meant exactly, so deal with it.
So this is me,gwaevalarin, (or my hand, to be more precise) holding my puzzle piece and three parking tickets - as in tickets you buy for parking - which I personally made out to the same license plate number. The number may even look familiar. It used to belong to a 67 Chevy Impala owned by some sort of hunter. Don't think he's hunting rhinos, but I distinctly remember seeing his face on the cover of some periodical not long ago.
As far as I can see, this should fulfill all requirements of challenge 8.
And as an additional small Random Act of Kindness, the tickets were left in the pay-and-display machine after the photo was taken for whoever actually came by car and has use for them. No guarantee their car has the required license plate number.
But if you prefer a different type of parking ticket...
That's where L. and I,obscuredrapture, come in. Attached you will find photo proof of our criminal activities...in parking. Three tickets with the same license plate number. I'd add in a funny anecdote, but I'm pretty sure the parking police wait outside my apartment until we're gone and then attack. This are just three from my vast collection....
Anyways,
Ever your faithful minions,
obscuredrapture and L. from piece 1, and gwaevalarin from piece 49. All from Team 4!
The picture I took and sent.
Now, because my team is awesome, we decided that the 61 team members, 22 challenges, no duplicates, and you have to send something in to be part of the winning team was to be bent in every possible direction to include everyone. Either that, or we'd lose trying, but we'd lose as a team. It wasnalathilion who came up with the most brilliant idea on how to achieve what we wanted. Here is the result, our submission for challenge 11, the original song. Please make particularly sure you watch the credits and listen to the amazing song C.'s friend S. wrote and recorded for us:
In conclusion:
SAVING RHINOS
HUNTING SCAVENGER ITEMS,
THE TEAM 4 BUSINESS.
-heart_wrapper
Names of team members have been changed to LJ user names/initials for this post
Here is the email Misha sent us, starting Round 2:
Dearest Rhino Puzzlers
Your clever participation in Project Rhino has been most pleasing.
And now it is time for the next phase…the RHINO SCAVENGER HUNT…
RULES AND REGULATIONS (these are designed to optimize confusion and red-tape):
As you have already demonstrated your strengths working in teams, we will continue this adventure IN TEAMS with points being awarded according to the master list of scavenger items below.
Now, because I am capricious and arbitrary, I have changed the rules already. I said the first 200 people to respond could go on to the next round, but that's bullshit. I lied. Everyone can go on to the next round. However, I’m going to award points to the teams according to how quickly they deciphered my email address and sent me a message.
Team 3 – 50 points
Team 2 – 45 points
Team 5 – 40 points
Team 4 – 35 points
Team 1 – 30 points
(There is no team 6. I lied about that too.)
1. Each item below must be submitted electronically to this endangeredspecies email address ON OR BEFORE 2:27 PM, Saturday, February 18th, Pacific Standard Time. Late submissions will be scoffed at and disqualified.
2. All photographic/video submissions must be undoctored! No photo-shop! If I determine that you have forged any of these items, i.e. digitally layered an image of a cockroach on a croissant over an image of the Eiffel Tower, I will deduct 50 points from your team's total score and I will make a voodoo doll of you and stick it with pins. This is not a photo manipulation contest. If you want the points, you must really have a photo of a person on the Yangtze holding a puzzle piece.
3. All photos require you to show one of your team's puzzle pieces with the team number showing in order to be credited the points.
4. Once you submit an image to me. I may put it up on a website or in a museum, so if you don't want pictures of your naughty bits circulated on the web, don't send them to me.
5. Only one of each item can be submitted from each team. Duplicates will be discarded.
6. Only those individuals on a team who submit at least one scavenger hunt item will be considered a "member of the winning team." In other words, if you are currently a member of team 5, but you don't personally submit, by email, one of the items listed below, you will not, in the final tally, be considered a member of the winning team. You must participate to be a winner.
7. PLEASE REMEMBER TO IDENTIFY YOURSELF AND YOUR TEAM NUMBER IN ORDER TO RECEIVE CREDIT FOR YOUR EFFORTS!
8. All entries will be judged by me, Misha Collins, and I will determine whether the entry is valid. My decision will be final - no matter how many times you email, pleading for another chance, there will be no mercy.
9. The team that has accumulated the most points by the deadline will be the winning team. There will be only one winning team. Second and third place are not "silver" and "bronze," they are simply losers. This is a cut-throat, winner-take-all situation.
10. Winners will receive the ever-lasting admiration of their peers and something awesome from me. I'm not going to tell you awesome thing is yet (because I don't know), but I promise it will make your friends jealous.
MASTER LIST OF SCAVENGER ITEMS:
1. A photo of a person holding an authentic rhino puzzle piece standing near (or far) from an actual rhinoceros (or reasonable facsimile of a rhinoceros) – 9 points
2. A photo of a person holding an authentic rhino puzzle piece with any President, Prime Minister or Supreme Ruler – 8 points
3. A photo of a person holding an authentic rhino puzzle piece with Jim Beaver in which both the person holding an authentic rhino puzzle piece and Jim Beaver have cigars in their mouths – 14 points
4. A photo of a person holding an authentic rhino puzzle piece standing next to fully decorated as a Christmas tree – 13 points
5. A photo or video of a person holding an authentic rhino puzzle piece dancing the hora and lighting a menorah – 16 points
6. A photo of a person holding an authentic rhino puzzle piece, sitting next to a lime jello mold with a piece of the Berlin wall suspended in it – 19 points
7. A video of a person holding an authentic rhino puzzle piece(s) setting up a tent on a traffic island (must also unroll a sleeping bag and get in it and zip the tent shut) – 15 points
8. A photo of a person holding an authentic rhino puzzle piece and 3 parking tickets made out to the same license plate number – 17 points
9. A video of a live mouse or gerbil and an authentic rhino puzzle piece in a Barbie’s dream house – 9 points
10. A video of a 5 year old child (or younger) playing any song by the Sex Pistols on a saxophone – 17 points
11. A video of a person holding an authentic rhino puzzle piece singing an original song of 43 seconds in duration – 7.5 points
12. A photo of a cockroach on a croissant with the Eiffel Tower in the background – 19 points
13. A video of a person holding an authentic rhino puzzle piece bestowing an act of random kindness for a complete stranger – 30 points
14. A video of a person holding an authentic rhino puzzle piece(s) projecting an image at least 20 feet wide of the attached photo on an exterior wall of a federalgovernment building at night - 30 points
15. A photo of a child swimming/bathing in a tub full of cranberries - 22 points
16. A photo of a man standing next to a sheep. The sheep must have a German flag draped over it's back - 26 points
17. A photo of a skateboarder wearing a wig in front of Buckingham Palace - 21 points
18. Written or photographic proof of the existence of life after death - 16 points
19. A photo of a person holding an authentic rhino puzzle piece in a Russian MIG fighter jet (any class of MIG will suffice) - 31 points
20. A photo of a person holding an authentic rhino puzzle piece while being carried by a firefighter in front of a fire truck - 11 points
21. A photo of a person holding an authentic rhino puzzle piece in a small, motor-less watercraft on the Yangtze River - 27 points
22. A photo of a person holding an authentic rhino puzzle piece with me while I’m wearing a single glittering, fingerless glove - 33 points
Break a leg!
Misha
I did challenge number 8, together with
obscuredrapture and her friend L. Here is what we came up with:Dear Misha,
obscuredrapture and L., puzzle 4 piece 1 and gwaevalarin, puzzle 4 piece 49 here.To optimize confusion even further, and because 22 challenges and 61 team members doesn't really add up, we decided to hand in our submission together. I don't see any rules against that. Also, you didn't specify which sort of parking ticket you meant exactly, so deal with it.
So this is me,
gwaevalarin, (or my hand, to be more precise) holding my puzzle piece and three parking tickets - as in tickets you buy for parking - which I personally made out to the same license plate number. The number may even look familiar. It used to belong to a 67 Chevy Impala owned by some sort of hunter. Don't think he's hunting rhinos, but I distinctly remember seeing his face on the cover of some periodical not long ago.As far as I can see, this should fulfill all requirements of challenge 8.
And as an additional small Random Act of Kindness, the tickets were left in the pay-and-display machine after the photo was taken for whoever actually came by car and has use for them. No guarantee their car has the required license plate number.
But if you prefer a different type of parking ticket...
That's where L. and I,
obscuredrapture, come in. Attached you will find photo proof of our criminal activities...in parking. Three tickets with the same license plate number. I'd add in a funny anecdote, but I'm pretty sure the parking police wait outside my apartment until we're gone and then attack. This are just three from my vast collection....Anyways,
Ever your faithful minions,
obscuredrapture and L. from piece 1, and gwaevalarin from piece 49. All from Team 4!The picture I took and sent.
Now, because my team is awesome, we decided that the 61 team members, 22 challenges, no duplicates, and you have to send something in to be part of the winning team was to be bent in every possible direction to include everyone. Either that, or we'd lose trying, but we'd lose as a team. It was
nalathilion who came up with the most brilliant idea on how to achieve what we wanted. Here is the result, our submission for challenge 11, the original song. Please make particularly sure you watch the credits and listen to the amazing song C.'s friend S. wrote and recorded for us:SAVING RHINOS
HUNTING SCAVENGER ITEMS,
THE TEAM 4 BUSINESS.
-
heart_wrapperNames of team members have been changed to LJ user names/initials for this post
