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Aug. 5, 2011 11:01 a.m. DrBoost SuperDork

I recently went on my first photo-scavenger hunt road rally and had lots of fun. So, I decided to host one for family and friends. I have some ideas but am turning to the brain-trust that is the GRM forum.
I am not necessarily looking for items to be brought back (I don't really need 2-dozen blue straws or plastic grocery bags) but more like places/things to photo. These are not really car-folks so while auto-related things are great, I can't get too "out there". Oh, and I plan on having kids there so I'm trying to make it fun for them (like the whole team silding down a slide, a fireman in uniform, member in a tree, things like that for the kids).

What do you think?
Aug. 5, 2011 11:12 a.m. mtn SuperDork

Picture of someone with a tattoo
Picture of someone from out of state (with license in hand)
Picture of whole team with a car from each decade (pick a decade to start at)
Armpit farting on a street corner for money
Aug. 5, 2011 11:46 a.m. aircooled SuperDork

Picture of someone using a cell phone while driving (that won't be hard)

Picture of someone flipping you off (OK, that might be dangerous)

Picture of a cross street pair of signs, one a name of a tree, the other then name of a President (you can adjust requirements accordingly)

Picture of a Miata (as a sort of a GRM tribute)
Aug. 5, 2011 11:53 a.m. darkbuddha New Reader

I say set the route first and then choose stuff along the route to require for pics... pic with a particular waitress, pic of a particular sign, etc.
Aug. 5, 2011 1:31 p.m. Hocrest HalfDork

I set up a few rally's for our annual SVX meets slightly different.

I made the route and gave detailed instructions. I also took pictures along the route, and gave all participants 4 pages of photo's (6 pictures per page). The pictures in the booklet were out of order and they had to place ID the photo's where they fell along the route.

It sounds like it would be easy, but in the two years I ran it, no one ID'd all of the photo's and the groups probably averaged about 60%.
Aug. 5, 2011 1:49 p.m. DrBoost SuperDork

Hmmm. Interesting.
I only have this one rally as experience. Basically, we were either given direct instructions "Take a picture of this" or, more often a little clue as to what to take a picture of. Often though, there wasn't one specific thing/location that was correct. That way, the teams didnt' get bunched up. In fact, we only saw 2 other teams, maybe 2 times all day (out of 12 or 13 teams).
Aug. 5, 2011 1:52 p.m. Hocrest HalfDork

I still have my rally's on disk. If your interested give me an email and I can send them to you so you can copy the formatting. Or if you want to send everyone to Morgantown PA, you're work is already done
Aug. 6, 2011 8:33 a.m. Keith SuperDork

One thing to make things interesting: give points for each picture. Low points for the easy ones, high points for the tough ones. And throw in a couple of really valuable ones that are hard to do, so that you either go for the big money or a bunch of easier ones. Also, any photos that are duplicates get tossed out. For example, if one of the goals is to get a photo of the team members in the back of a police car, it's worth 50 points. But if two teams come back with such a photo, neither get any points for it.

Adds a whole new dimension of scheming and strategy.
Aug. 6, 2011 10:03 a.m. iceracer SuperDork

Set up the course first, then find points of interest along the course.