U. Chicago's Epic Scavenger Hunt Is Back For 2012

Posted by timothy on Thursday May 10, 2012 @07:13AM from the maybe-fun-just-took-some-zombie-poison dept.

gotfork writes "The world's largest scavenger hunt, covered in previous years on Slashdot, is now taking place at the University of Chicago. The competition is fierce: in 1999 one team build a working breeder reactor in the quad, but only won second place. Items on this year's list include your appendix in a jar (210), a disappearing spoon made of metal (105), a chromatic typewriter (216), a xyloexplosive (33) and a weaponized Xerox machine (83). Check out the full list here (PDF). Not bad for the school where 'where fun comes to die.'" Does your school have any equivalent annual hijinks?

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I remember when the geek compound did! by Anonymous Coward · 2012-05-10 07:48 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I was a summer intern at the /. geek compound back in '97. They set up something similar. You had to photograph yourself doing shots of jaeger, wearing cowboy neil's dirty underwear on your head, getting a +5 insightful for a goatse pic, sucking off hemos, etc. Lots of fun until the pink eye outbreak from Neil's skidmarks. Jesus, I still have night sweats over that.