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

Posted by timothy on 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?

7 of 56 comments (clear)

  1. No one has 'build' a working slashdot editor.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe they could add that to the list?

  2. I'd like to see what the Xerox machine uses by Tastecicles · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...for toner.

    Anthrax?

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    1. Re:I'd like to see what the Xerox machine uses by Ambvai · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Hmm. I was going to weaponize it in a much more mundane fashion: Balance it on a windowsill.

  3. Naked Mile by strength_of_10_men · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The U of Michigan used to have a "naked mile" at the end of each school year. I seem to recall it was mostly the Crew team that started it but everyone was welcome to join in on the run. It was fun to watch and used to have a huge crowd turnout, but the school and city shut it down for some reason - liability? exploitation? I dunno, this sounds a lot more fun than a scavenger hunt.

    But being that the school year ends at the end of April and Michigan's been known to have April snow showers, sometimes the turnout is on the smaller side. [mostly SFW]

  4. Re:Better person, eh? by Jeng · · Score: 4

    Find a way to turn that into a scavenger hunt and you may have a point, otherwise, shove it up your ass.

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  5. Rule number 7 by ultraexactzz · · Score: 3, Interesting

    From the rules: "7. A Good Time. For a good time call (202) 762-1401." ...Did we just Slashdot the Navy?

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  6. There is no spoon by midgetpoker · · Score: 3, Informative

    The disappearing spoon should be easy, there's a classic prank of making a teaspoon out of gallium (or a gallium-tin or gallium-indium-tin alloy) where if you put the offered spoon (which is solid at room temperature) into your tea, it melts.