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So for my brother’s birthday, we got 3 teams of 3 to do a video scavenger hunt.  So armed with our video cameras we hit the streets and had to record as many tasks as possible.  The only rule was that you cannot tell people you are on a scavenger hunt. Below is the list and their point value.

Try to buy something with foreign currency – 75
Find a twin for every member of the team 75
Bonus for best look-alike 50 (only one team gets this bonus)
Interview people walking out of a restroom if they ‘crumble’ or ‘fold’ toilet paper 50
Walk into an establishment and perform the song playing 50
Bonus for Neil Diamond song – 50
Kiss a fish 35
Change clothes with a stranger – 100
Bonus for pants – 150
Break dance on a cardboard box in public 75
Bonus for each move 25
Bonus for getting stranger to join in 50
Point at nothing and get passerby to look at it 50
Bonus 10 points per passerby pointing – 10/per
Get someone in your team to sing and act out the teapot song 50
Cartwheels across a 2 lane street 50
Bonus for doing it against the ‘Don’t Walk’ sign 75
Stage a Kung-Fu battle in front of a Starbucks 50
Bonus 25 points for each passerby who joins – 25 points/per
Comment on loving couple’s behavior as if narrating a nature program 75
Create an obstacle on a sidewalk and then act as Olympic judges rating how well people navigate it 75
Take a nap in an inappropriate location 35
Re-enact the “King of the World” scene 30
Give money to a homeless person and get change back 75
Get in a car “Dukes of Hazard” style 30
Help carry groceries to car 25
Bonus for getting a tip 15
Team members playing leapfrog in front of Starbucks 15
Haggle over the price of a sandwich – 50
Bonus for getting priced reduced – 25
Get a piggyback ride from a stranger 75
Test drive a stranger’s car – 75
Bonus if exotic car (Lambo, Ferrari, etc) – 100
Get someone to stop for you to sketch them – 50
Bonus for getting paid – 25
Window wash cars in stopped traffic- 50
Bonus for getting a tip 25
Get someone guess the Star Spangled Banner from just whistling the tune 75
Bonus if they guess on the first pick 25
Film your group in a stranger’s living room 75
Slap fight each other in front of a store – 75
Find a runner, jog with him or her for minimum of 1 minute 50
Do a street magic trick – 50
Bonus for getting a tip on performance – 15
Everyone walks into Starbucks separately and orders the same convoluted and crazy drink from the barista (cannot be in line right after each) – 100 (points only awarded if all team does this)
Comment on a stranger’s fine choice of watches while standing at the urinal together 75
Ask stranger to make an emergency cell phone to Lithuania on their cell phone – 75
Get something out of the trash in plain view of stranger and then try to sell that object to them – 75
Bonus for them actually buying 75
High-five a police officer 50
Group hug a police officer   100
Eat off a stranger’s plate 75
Bonus for getting a second bite 50
Stay in front of a restaurant window and pretend to eat a bite every time the customer in front of the window bites their food 50
Old lady on the ground yelling “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up 50
Getting a guy to try on a dress 50
Group member sitting on the lap of a public statue 50
Get a stranger to let you bowl one ball for him/her during their game 50
Purchase an item of at least $3 and pay the whole thing with pennies 50
A member of your group walking a stranger’s dog 50
Propose to a completely random girl (no restrictions on whether the random girl accepts or not; the guy must get on bended knee) – 50
Go to a Chinese restaurant and ask for Cat or Dog – 50
Drive backwards through a drive thru and order something – 35
Go into the dressing room and yell loudly…”Hey, we’re out of toilet paper in here!” – 50
Tell a stranger they look like a certain celebrity and get an autograph – 50
Bonus for actually getting the autograph – 50
Go fishing in a public fountain – 50
Act out children’s story for group of children 50
In elevator shake hands with everyone getting on and tell them they can call you “Admiral” – 50
Purchase all of the following at once: one cucumber, one bag of ice, one tube of personal lubricant – 50
Give a statue a lap dance – 50
Catching a frisbee in your Mouth – 25
Ask a $1 from a stranger to help support your cause to grow a money tree and bury it infront of them – 50
Hang upside down from monkey bars while making monkey noises & eating a banana – 50
Fly paper airplanes on strangers – 25

My team took last place, but we had a lot of issues.  I was a bad team captain and forgot to charge our camera and on our first shoot of me jogging with a stranger we ran out of space, so we had to go and buy a bigger memory card.  But even with all of that we came close, and I know we would have won if we spent more than 1 hour on it.

Below are some clips from my team:

Purchase all of the following at once: one cucumber, one bag of ice, one tube of personal lubricant
Part 1.

Part 2.

Give a statue a lap dance (or in our case a big bear)

Give money to a homeless person and get change back

Kiss a fish

Break dance on a cardboard box in public