Day 1 – Daily Treasure Clues
1. Related Location Clue:
Play more (Anagram)
2. Picture Clue:
3. Personality clue
Ganapati Sthapati (Direct clue)
Link to Online Maps: http://g.co/maps/f6nhw
Mail your answers in the prescribed format given below to thinktopshunt@gmail.com
1. Team Name:
2. Team Members:
3. How Clue 1 is related to “Daily Treasure” :
4. How Clue 2 is related to “Daily Treasure” :
5. How Clue 3 is related to “Daily Treasure” :
Welcome Folks!
Hello all!
First and foremost, a big thanks to all of you. At such a short notice, you showed up for the hunt. Love your enthusiasm! We will make sure you have fun!
Some quick rules/instructions before we start off with the first day clues for daily treasure.
1) From today, daily you will get a mail from Thinktops with the set of three clues and a link to google maps.
2) Three clues will help you find the location – “Daily Treasure”. This location can be a river, landmark, locality, road or any place in the map. But all of them are within Chennai and definitely something worth ‘knowing’.
3) Once you have found the location, click the google maps link which we have provided and go to the place which you have found. Once you click on the bubble/balloon present on that location, you will be getting another clue (Anagram/Cryptic/Picture/Quote/Movie Poster or anything else). These clues corresponds to a famous personalities associated with Chennai. This clue will lead you to “Grand treasure”. (If you find too many balloons is the same place, zoom as much as possible to the place so that you can get to the exact place.)
4) You will be getting a spreadsheet to fill your answers and send it back to us. Stick to the template. Remember to fill the same team name you have provided us. (If there is no team name, we have used both the team members name as your team name.) All fields are mandatory.
5) This is how scoring works. One point for identifying the “daily treasure” and one point each for connecting the clues to the “daily treasure”. Please note that identifying the clue alone and not relating it to the “daily treasure” will not fetch you a point.
6) You need not send your answers for the clues (personality clues) of “Grand treasure” now. You can wait till the last day to send your answers. You have full 9 days to crack the nine personality and the “Grand Treasure” of Chennai.
7) Last but not least, winning is secondary. Take your time to crack. Try as hard as possible to crack yourself before say evening. Your dad/mom/grandpa will most certainly know the answers. Only when you can’t crack yourself, go to them for help. But when you go to them, be prepared.
Sample Clues and Answers
1) Picture Clue
2) Cryptic Clue: When Anne Besant and Bharathidasan met near Marina beach
3) Personality Clue: Cruder of dirt (Anagram)
Scroll down for answers…..
Answers:
Daily Treasure: Vivekanandar House/Illam or Ice House
How clue 1 is related to Daily Treasure: That’s the picture of Swami Vivekananda after whom the place got its name.
How clue 2 is related to Daily Treasure: If you happened to visit Marina beach, Ice House is present between the statues of Anne Besant and Poet Bharathidasan (facing the beach on opposite side of the road).
How clue 3 is related to Daily Treasure: It’s an anagram of Fredric Tudor. Fredric Tudor is called as “Ice King” and he was one who built the “Ice House”
So with this clue, we go to the map link (http://maps.google.co.in/maps/ms?msid=202309063074475375859.0004adf5cc9fa7b8d0bae&msa=0&ll=13.036,80.273666&spn=0.369928,0.676346) and click on Vivekanadar Illam . On clicking you will end up with “Mozart of Madras”.
This is a clue for one of the personalities associated with Chennai – A R Rahman.
Using nine such different personalities/characters you get, in these nine days of Navarathri, you will be able to connect to a location in Chennai. That location is your Grand Treasure!
P.S. : This is just a sample set of questions. A.R.Rahman is not the answer for today 
Around Chennai in 9 days!
What’s “Around Chennai in 9 days”?
“Around Chennai in 9 days” is a unique nine-day Online Treasure Hunt conducted during Navaratri. It is jointly organised by Bambaram Toy Library (www.bambaram.in) and YOCee (www.yocee.in).
Who can participate?
Kids (10-16 years) who have a penchant for adventure and treasure hunt can participate as team of two.
Where does it happen?
Online. Yes! It is conducted online.
When does it happen?
Navaratri (Sep. 28 to Oct. 5, 2011).
How to register
You can register your team by sending a mail to thinktopshunt@gmail.com with your team name, your team members and their contact numbers and email ids.
So how can you ‘hunt’ the treasures?
- Registered participants will get a set of clues everyday starting from Sep. 28 to their registered emails IDs.
- You need to solve each set of three to four clues and find the “daily treasure” (which is indeed a treasured location in Chennai!!). Clues vary in format (Picture clue, Anagram clue, Cryptic Clue, Movie Clue, Activity Clue, etc.). But all these clues will help you in getting to the “daily treasure”.
- Mail us back your guess daily. Only one answer is accepted. More than one answer will not be encouraged. In case of “Tie”, the fastest to crack wins. The winners of “daily treasures” will be announced the next day. But the “daily treasure” will not be revealed.
- On the final day, you need to send the ‘daily treasure’ along with the “Grand Treasure of Madras”. All your “daily treasures” will point out to a place in a Google map. You can go to that location and click that location. This will give you a clue about the “Grand Treasure”. The first three teams to crack the “Grand Treasure” win the ‘Around Chennai in 9 days’.
So what do winners get?
Winners will get a “ThinkTop Hunters” certificate and gifts & goodies from the organisers – Bambaram and YOCee.
Registrations open only to first 100 teams who register online!
