I think this the 3rd 4th Atmah Hunt. This year the hunt will be from Bandar Sunway to Penang on 20th & 21st September 2008. Entry fee RM165/pax staying at Hydro Majestic Beach Hotel. “Buka Puasa” Buffet Dinner & “Sahur” included.

10,000 total Cash prizes for top 3 winners!1st – RM5K, 2nd – RM3K, 3rd – RM2K

RM50 Petrol Voucher Per Car Sponsored By Shell Malaysia. CoC – Pava. For More Info : 017-3131136

Entry form

The organiser released this information via email this morning. The hunt will be in Kuantan.

Date: Sunday 10th August 2008. Fee is RM180/team. 1st prize a motorbike worth RM4K and 20 other prizes. Please contact the secretariat at 019-9860209 to register.

Information

Results of last Saturday’s VBCM Hunt. I was told it was a very tough hunt.

Max score 150 (Q-120 + T-25 + RS-5)

1. 139 (111+25+3) – KK Chai, Margaret Sha, VK Chong, Vincent Woo
2. 128 (102+25+1) – Alex Hoh, Andre Teh, Muhammad Razif, Darmataksiah
3. 117 (90+25+2) – YS Khong, Teoh CT, Dato’ Ramesh, Chong Foo Seong
4. 114 (87+25+2) – Steven Arockiaraj, Sanjay, Rahmah, Sumita
5. 114 (87+25+2) – Selina Yong, Toh Wei Ming, Lily Loh, Peh Kok Hun
6. 113 (90+20+3) – Yeap Heng Boon, Ho King Mun, Sam Rahman, Ho Mun Yee
7. 108 (81+25+2) – Anwar Jefry, Tan Kok Cheeng, Chan Kah Sing, Lim Say Chye
8. 106 (84+20+2) – Tan Eng Siang, Wong Sze lynn, Ong Kheng Heng, Diana Foong
9. 93 (66+25+2) – Claire Chin, Goh Teck Khoon, Julie Tan
10. 92 (78+20+2) – Sallehuddin, Zahrol, Fong Chun Kit, Kheirul Nazib
11. 90 – Joehari, Phillip Karuppiah, Chong CH
12. 88 – Jeffrey Yeo, Matthew Tan, Ooi Tee Ann, Teh Wei Seong
13. 83 – Chang Sze Yen, Liew Kok Weng, Yeap Gim Sai, Paulette Yeoh
14. 81 – Lim Seng Fook, Mok Chiet Shiew, Mok Chek Foong
15. 78 – Chan Peng Chee, Amy Lim, Chan Peng Khoo, Tay Bee Leng
16. 77 – Suhaimi, Venkateswaran, Sakthivel, Buvanes
17. 71 – Tommy Ng, CK Loh, Ong Wan Tut, Lee Kim Yong
18. 67 – Chen Fun Teck, Goh Guek Hoon, Raymond Gan, Lim Shu Shin
19. 66 – Foo Yew Choon, Toh Liew Jin, Ng Sook Chan
20. 64 – Kamlesh, Aravindan, Sashi Nair

Scoop.

The hunt will run from Kuala Lumpur to Penang on Saturday 23rd August 2008. Two categories – one for participants in media and media related disciplines and the other for general public. The entry fee per participant is RM 170.00 (media category) and RM200 (open category). CoC – Govind Nair. BERNAMA news here

The following prizes will be awarded:-

Media Category – 1st – RM5K, 2nd -RM4K, 3rd – RM3K

Open Category – 1st – RM5K, 2nd – RM4K, 3rd – RM3K

Entry form

Information and Rules

I nearly had to give this great hunt a miss. But before that, first here are the winners:-

1. 110 -Alexander Hoh, Andre Teh, Md Razif, Dharmataksiah
2. 96 – KK Chai, Vincent Woo Margerat Sha, VK Chong
3. 94 – Selina, Toh Wei Ming, Lily Loh, Peh Kok Hun
4. 93 – Tan Eng Siang, Kong Siau Ching, Ong Kheng Heng, Diana Foong
5. 90- Kok Seng, Ramesh, Chong Foo Seong, Lim Kong Yew
6. 89 -Kim Meng, Jeffery, Viki, Sam Rahman
7. 86 – Teoh, Wong KC, Claire, Julie
8. 84 – Adrian, Goh Teck Koon, Toh Weng Ngai, Michael Pang
9. 83 – Yeap Heng Boon, Mohan, Tommy, Ho Mum Yee
10. 81 – Joehari, Philip, Chong

Mensa annual hunt last year did not materialise and so many of us were looking forward to Lawrence’s hunt. The regular hunters came out in full force and Lawrence once again provided the challenged and enough red herrings to give anyone a stomach indigestion for a few days to come. The hunt today was classic Lawrence.

Questions & Answers

Overall, a well organised hunt and I’m so glad I didn’t miss it.

I have been so sick with a rival infection since Monday and have stayed pretty much in bed. On Saturday when Adrian called while I was on my way to my 3rd doctor’s appointments, I told him I will be coming to the hunt. Amazingly I woke up on Sunday morning everything seem to have disappeared over night. Talk about positive thinking !

The organiser just released this results

The 3rd edition of the LexisNexis-KL Bar Treasure Hunt will be held on Saturday August 9. The organiser has just released the entry forms and details.

A little bit background about this hunt. The hunt will be a pure hunt meaning just route questions and treasures. The main guy behind this hunt is the “purist” treasure hunter Phillip Karuppiah. “Purist” here refers to the regular hunters among us who love our treasure hunts neat. No games, no coconut bowling, no rock climbing. And usually we also like the hunt questions to be a bit challenging.

If his name rings a bell, is because he is also the guy who started theSun hunt and make it to the size and stature it is today.

2 categories; open for public and closed for staff of LexisNexis and members of the Malaysian Bar. Entry fee is RM90 (Open) and RM70 (closed). Prizes worth more than RM20,000 up for grabs!

Entry form

Scoop!

Resident Association of phase2 Pantai Hillpark, Kuala Lumpur is organising this hunt on Saturday 16th August 2008. Entry fee is RM280/car. 1st Prize- RM1,000. CoC Raj Kumar. Please note Raj Kumar is doing this hunt in his personal capacity and as resident of the place. This is not part of the Trailblazer Hunt. As in all Raj’s hunts the route/sectors will be in Bangsar, Brickfields and PJ.

Part of the proceeds from this event will be donated to the SHELTER HOME FOR CHILDREN IN PJ

Info and Entry form

This blog started way back in June 2006 during the last World Cup season. You can still view the old blog here, just ignore the thousands of spam comments. In fact it was because of these spams that I move to the current platform in early 2008 to have better control of the problem.

Sometime in November that same year, I ran a question setting contest. Contestants stand to win a RM150 The Ship cash voucher. All they need to do was to set a cryptic treasure hunt question based on the answer: Back Entrance as seen this The Ship signboard.

The board has since been removed and replaced with a big sturdy one.

These are the 2 shortlisted entries:

Footballer can enter perhaps? – by Lim Soo Kian

Rear opening and a captivating bum perhaps? – by Margaret Sha

And the winning entry was crafted by VK Chong.

An admission to illegitimately gaining access

I’ll run a similar contest soon, so watch out for it. Meanwhile, maybe some of you would like to try your hands at setting the question for this “Back Entrance” signboard.

I don’t have the complete results of The Franchise Walk Hunt yet. I’ll wait until the CoC release the official list.

Meanwhile a few random thoughts and happenings over the weekend.

Recee

I was on the road on Saturday preparing for an up-coming closed hunt. The organizing committee had billed the hunt as a family outing for their staff and I was told to prepare a few children friendly questions. A prefect excuse to bring along my 2 boys on the trip and besides I was feeling rather guilty leaving them at home on the weekend again! I was going to a beach resort and the boys were excited. At first, they were busy challenging each other in spotting names of their favourite tv and carton characters. Not very long into the journey, they were already restless and kept asking if we were there yet? In the end, with frequent McDonald’s stops and breaking up brotherly fights at the back of the car, I didn’t get to do much work and drove straight to the beach resort. For the rest of the afternoon, we just hang out at the beach.

By the time we got home it was very late at night. I was dead tired. A hunter sms the results of the Franchise hunt but I was too tired to blog about it.

It’s a small world

What is it about Klang traffic these days? I attended a friend’s daughter birthday party and got caught in a massive jam on a Sunday! Anyway I was seated at the table with some other guests when the host introduced me to the rest and said something about me and treasure hunts. Turns out 2 of the guys there were actively hunting during the 80s and they spoke about their many treasure hunt adventures. They mentioned a Pulau Besar hunt and I assumed this must be the Kiwanis Hunt. I dropped a couple of “old-timer” names and they all seem to know each other pretty well. Small world indeed.

Our treasure hunt community is a very small world. If you hunt regularly, chances are you will be known by or know almost everyone. Maybe not intimately but at least by name, by look or by reputation. And if you choose to win by cheating, you will get recognized all for the wrong reason very quickly. Don’t think the hunters don’t know when you cheat. One example is, this morning, I was talking to a few hunters about their weekend hunt experience and all along they were talking about this particular “Pakatan” teams. I don’t know these people but the next time these teams take part in other hunts, I’m sure someone will come along and point these guys out.

I’m reminder of what Fuad said during one of his briefing. The organisers and CoCs can only do so much to prevent teams from cheating. They can implement thousands of rules & regulations. In the end, if teams want to cheat, they will find a way. Nobody can stop them from cheating because the decision to cheat is all within them. In their hearts and minds.