Game on!
Teams ripped open their clue packs, started deciphering clues, and plotting courses on their maps.
The Finding Fathers
Saturday
September 12th
noon - 5pm
THE PREPARATION
THE SCAVENGER HUNT
Meet at a central location in DC (to be announced later).
Receive your clue sheet, map, and brief rules reminder.
Go go go! Tear into your packet, start solving the clues, and set off to find them.
Find clues, take pictures with or at them, and text them to Lowell for confirmation.
Kickstands down! The team that found the most clues wins (to be announced later).
THE GRILL OF RIGHTS
Grill out at 4415 14th St NE (RSVP on Partiful)
Awards and crowning of the champion.
Teams ripped open their clue packs, started deciphering clues, and plotting courses on their maps.
A half hour in and team π€ Flat Tires are the first team on the board!
He hurled his Subway sandwich, a messy affair,
But felony charges? Jeanine Pirroβs failed affair.
Think both of the βsubwayβ you ride and you eat,
Where justice resides, your red-line clue is complete.
| Standings | ||
|---|---|---|
| π€ Flat Tires | 1 | | |
| π―ββοΈ Bi Wife Energy | 0 | |
| π΅οΈββοΈ Patel and Bongino | 0 | |
| πΆ Peter & Nathaniel in abscentia bicycle gang | 0 | |
| π Ryderz | 0 | |
Just after one o'clock π Ryderz pick up their first clue!
Founded in 1941, this school was one of the first of its kind in America, providing minority children an opportunity to study classical ballet at a time when opportunities were limited in a segregated DC.
| Standings | ||
|---|---|---|
| π―ββοΈ Bi Wife Energy | 5 | ||||| |
| π€ Flat Tires | 3 | ||| |
| π΅οΈββοΈ Patel and Bongino | 3 | ||| |
| π Ryderz | 1 | | |
| πΆ Peter & Nathaniel in abscentia bicycle gang | 0 | |
In continuous operation since 1910, this building is one of the oldest firehouses in the city. But at 35 feet wide by 90 feet deep, it also holds the distinction of being the smallest!
| Standings | ||
|---|---|---|
| π―ββοΈ Bi Wife Energy | 6 | |||||| |
| π€ Flat Tires | 4 | |||| |
| π΅οΈββοΈ Patel and Bongino | 4 | |||| |
| π Ryderz | 2 | || |
| πΆ Peter & Nathaniel in abscentia bicycle gang | 1 | | |
π€ Flat Tires? More like, No Pedals!
You may have heard through the grapevine that a famous Washingtonian went to this high school.
| Standings | ||
|---|---|---|
| π―ββοΈ Bi Wife Energy | 7 | ||||||| |
| π΅οΈββοΈ Patel and Bongino | 5 | ||||| |
| π€ Flat Tires | 4 | |||| |
| π Ryderz | 3 | ||| |
| πΆ Peter & Nathaniel in abscentia bicycle gang | 0 | |
Plot to kill Lump or other (songs by the) presidents of the united states here, where new arrivals in town have been conspiring to have a blast of an evening for 160 years!
| Standings | ||
|---|---|---|
| π―ββοΈ Bi Wife Energy | 8 | |||||||| |
| π΅οΈββοΈ Patel and Bongino | 6 | |||||| |
| π€ Flat Tires | 4 | |||| |
| πΆ Peter & Nathaniel in abscentia bicycle gang | 4 | |||| |
| π Ryderz | 3 | ||| |
After a slow start πΆ Peter & Nathaniel in abscentia bicycle gang have climbed their way up the leaderboard.
Meet tide and river Planes rise and fish bite the hook Dry socks wait ashore
| Standings | ||
|---|---|---|
| π―ββοΈ Bi Wife Energy | 8 | |||||||| |
| π΅οΈββοΈ Patel and Bongino | 8 | |||||||| |
| πΆ Peter & Nathaniel in abscentia bicycle gang | 6 | |||||| |
| π€ Flat Tires | 5 | ||||| |
| π Ryderz | 5 | ||||| |
"At the riverβs edge where journeys start, Find the stone with a zero mark."
| Standings | ||
|---|---|---|
| π―ββοΈ Bi Wife Energy | 9 | ||||||||| |
| π΅οΈββοΈ Patel and Bongino | 8 | |||||||| |
| π€ Flat Tires | 7 | ||||||| |
| π Ryderz | 7 | ||||||| |
| πΆ Peter & Nathaniel in abscentia bicycle gang | 6 | |||||| |
Legend has it that the Potomac was once home to these wondrous beasts... Reality has it that a university president made it all up to justify this drunken purchase.
| Standings | ||
|---|---|---|
| π―ββοΈ Bi Wife Energy | 9 | ||||||||| |
| π΅οΈββοΈ Patel and Bongino | 8 | |||||||| |
| π€ Flat Tires | 7 | ||||||| |
| π Ryderz | 7 | ||||||| |
| πΆ Peter & Nathaniel in abscentia bicycle gang | 7 | ||||||| |
Their job is just pond
| Standings | ||
|---|---|---|
| π―ββοΈ Bi Wife Energy | 15 | ||||||||||||||| |
| π€ Flat Tires | 12 | |||||||||||| |
| πΆ Peter & Nathaniel in abscentia bicycle gang | 12 | |||||||||||| |
| π Ryderz | 10 | |||||||||| |
| π΅οΈββοΈ Patel and Bongino | 10 | |||||||||| |
The NY Times pre-writes obituaries all the time but itβs even more rare when you can do so for yourself. And in marble to boot! Use this intrepid business woman, activist, journalist, and prolific spouse as inspiration for your own legacy!
| Standings | ||
|---|---|---|
| π―ββοΈ Bi Wife Energy | 15 | ||||||||||||||| |
| π€ Flat Tires | 14 | |||||||||||||| |
| πΆ Peter & Nathaniel in abscentia bicycle gang | 13 | ||||||||||||| |
| π΅οΈββοΈ Patel and Bongino | 12 | |||||||||||| |
| π Ryderz | 11 | ||||||||||| |
Since the 1990s, street artist stikman has quietly left over 150 figures around Washington DC. Collect as many as you can! (1 point each, max 3)
| Standings | ||
|---|---|---|
| π―ββοΈ Bi Wife Energy | 16 | |||||||||||||||| |
| π€ Flat Tires | 15 | ||||||||||||||| |
| πΆ Peter & Nathaniel in abscentia bicycle gang | 13 | ||||||||||||| |
| π΅οΈββοΈ Patel and Bongino | 12 | |||||||||||| |
| π Ryderz | 12 | |||||||||||| |
Breaking a three-way tie, π―ββοΈ Bi Wife Energy re-takes the solo lead with less than an hour to go!
Captivating tunnel that you can walk, bike, drive, and ZOOm through!
| Standings | ||
|---|---|---|
| π―ββοΈ Bi Wife Energy | 17 | ||||||||||||||||| |
| π€ Flat Tires | 16 | |||||||||||||||| |
| πΆ Peter & Nathaniel in abscentia bicycle gang | 16 | |||||||||||||||| |
| π΅οΈββοΈ Patel and Bongino | 13 | ||||||||||||| |
| π Ryderz | 12 | |||||||||||| |
Take a photo with the 16th president where he first drafted the Emancipation Proclamation
| Standings | ||
|---|---|---|
| π―ββοΈ Bi Wife Energy | 19 | ||||||||||||||||||| |
| πΆ Peter & Nathaniel in abscentia bicycle gang | 17 | ||||||||||||||||| |
| π€ Flat Tires | 16 | |||||||||||||||| |
| π Ryderz | 16 | |||||||||||||||| |
| π΅οΈββοΈ Patel and Bongino | 13 | ||||||||||||| |
At the buzzer, π―ββοΈ Bi Wife Energy once again break the tie and claim victory with 21 points!
Follow Virgil through the nine circles of hell. I think it would make a good story.
| Standings | ||
|---|---|---|
| π―ββοΈ Bi Wife Energy | 21 | ||||||||||||||||||||| |
| πΆ Peter & Nathaniel in abscentia bicycle gang | 20 | |||||||||||||||||||| |
| π Ryderz | 17 | ||||||||||||||||| |
| π€ Flat Tires | 16 | |||||||||||||||| |
| π΅οΈββοΈ Patel and Bongino | 13 | ||||||||||||| |