Oct 24, 2008 6:44 pm US/Eastern
Herald Hunt Ready To Puzzle South Florida
24 Years After The First Hunt, The Herald Still Confounds Teams Of Puzzle Solvers
MIAMI (CBS4) ―
If you're good at solving puzzles, work well with a team, and have a few hours to kill Sunday morning you might be he perfect candidate for joining the latest version of the Herald Hunt, held by CBS4 news partner The Miami Herald. It's a fun and frustrating event that annually turns a part of South Florida into a giant puzzle some lucky team will solve for a prize.
This year's event will be held at Miami's Bicentennial Park Sunday, October 26th, starting at noon. It's free, and all you need is a keen with and a copy of Sunday's Herald, an absolute requirement for solving the puzzle.
The hunt was started by The Herald's Sunday magazine, Tropic, in 1984, and for the first two years was a car-based chase around South Florida. Known as the Tropic Hunt, it dropped the cars and moved to it's current format in 1986, and with a name change survived the demise of Tropic in 1998.
After 2 hunt-less years, the event was revived as the Herald Hunt, and Herald columnist Dave Barry became its patron puzzler.
Organizers won't say much about participants can expect, except to remind people Dave Barry is running for President this year, and that election day is just a few days away.
Teams only have to show up; no registration is required, and the first team to solve the puzzle wins.
This year, the first prize for the team with the biggest brain is a 4-night vacation package to Amelia Island Plantation, including one dinner for four and a round of golf. The Second place team will win 4 tickets to the Wizard of Oz, coming to the Arsht Center, the title sponsor of the Hunt, on October 28th. The third place team will win 4 tickets to corteo by Cirque du Soleil on Saturday, December 13 at Bicentennial Park.
Complete details, including parking, directions, and details of the prizes is available at he Herald's website.
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