The Rhino Hunt:
- Dates: February 12, 2011- February 18, 2011
- Total items: 22
- Total point value: 410.5 Points
- Average item point value: 18.66 Points
- Lowest item point value: 7.5 points. (Item 11)
- Highest item point value: 33 points (Item 22)
Item List:
- 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)
- A photo of a person holding an authentic rhino puzzle piece with any President, Prime Minister or Supreme Ruler. (8 points)
- 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)
- A photo of a person holding an authentic rhino puzzle piece standing next to fully decorated as a Christmas tree. (13 points)
- A photo or video of a person holding an authentic rhino puzzle piece dancing the hora and lighting a menorah. (16 points)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- A video of a live mouse or gerbil and an authentic rhino puzzle piece in a Barbie’s dream house. (9 points)
- A video of a 5 year old child (or younger) playing any song by the Sex Pistols on a saxophone. (17 points)
- A video of a person holding an authentic rhino puzzle piece singing an original song of 43 seconds in duration. (7.5 points)
- A photo of a cockroach on a croissant with the Eiffel Tower in the background. (19 points)
- A video of a person holding an authentic rhino puzzle piece bestowing an act of random kindness for a complete stranger. (30 points)
- 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 federal government building at night. (30 points)
- A photo of a child swimming/bathing in a tub full of cranberries. (22 points)
- A photo of a man standing next to a sheep. The sheep must have a German flag draped over it’s back. (26 points)
- A photo of a skateboarder wearing a wig in front of Buckingham Palace. (21 points)
- Written or photographic proof of the existence of life after death. (16 points)
- 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)
- 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)
- A photo of a person holding an authentic rhino puzzle piece in a small, motor-less watercraft on the Yangtze River. (27 points)
- A photo of a person holding an authentic rhino puzzle piece with me while I’m wearing a single glittering, fingerless glove. (33 points)
The Commandments:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Only one of each item can be submitted from each team. Duplicates will be discarded.
- 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.
- PLEASE REMEMBER TO IDENTIFY YOURSELF AND YOUR TEAM NUMBER IN ORDER TO RECEIVE CREDIT FOR YOUR EFFORTS!
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.