Where to start with this team, they were truly prolific in bringing us as many things as they possibly could, often for us to reject their cunning, but still impressive enough to amount the score they did.

The first set of pictures here show a banana tree (very carbon neutral), their stolen poster warning us about a lack of car-sharing, planting a tree from an apple seed and their scout leader, in uniform:

Moving on to sweeter things. Whilst superb preparation went into Richard\’s attempt at the Skittles challenge, it didn\’t help. Then there\’s their confectionary castle, complete with a team member \’inside\’ it. The cupcakes were also delicious.

Onto more serious pursuits now. Somehow, they managed to get a Caius porter (perhaps the same one responsible for the flag incident on Day 1) to officially ban an obscure sci-fi book from the lodge. They also burnt a book and as an attempt to revolutionise the fashion industry, made quite a nice pun on the item in question by sending us an electronic version of the novel Dune, compressed using zip. We\’ll also share their amusing leaflet, Animals in Architecture, Phillip with the college domestic bursar and Richard punting some tourists:

Further achievements included completing the cryptic crossword from Wednesday\’s Telegraph, singing us a fine song about Henry VII and beating Dr E. Anderson at Rock, Paper, Scissors (only after losing however). They did a fine job of faking a string quartet too, with an excellent piece of artwork depicting the quartet and made of string. Their pasta president was Lincoln, without a hat!

Then there was the fascist porn, oh how we regretted setting that challenge. I won\’t link to it for obvious reasons, but it met the requirements and at least for the first few seconds was amusing. More pictures now: we have the four bankers in a technical orgy and the two different types of pyramid we asked for:

And we\’re not finished there. We were pleased they brought some microfiche from Caius library. Their \’Abort, Retry or Fail\’ flow chart could have been better, but they redeemed themselves with a mathematical proof that their dad(s) could beat up our dad(s). We were genuinely impressed with Richard\’s swift mastery of semaphore and subsequent cover verison of \’Wuthering Heights\’ by Kate Bush. Obviously whilst he was learning that, the girls had been studying too, showing off their Esperanto skills in a short skit for us. Phil was probably busy being made over, and doesn\’t he look lovely:

Nearly there now. It\’s worth noting that they faxed Chris at work (and he actually received it, perhaps because it sounded suitably meta-business-speak). Their ye olde mappe featured owlbears, shrubbery and apparently \’here be flagones\’ down by the millpond. Their model volcano, made from fudge, bicarbonate of soda and vinegar, did the job, even if it did smell quite revolting. Finally, we\’ll leave you with their labyrinth and one of the results from their survey, part of which we can bring you in all its glory here.

36 hours later, it\’s all over. Sadly, due to the problems Cambridge has been experiencing with internet connectivity, we\’re not in a position to announce a winner as yet. Expect a result some time in the next day or so, as we slowly wade through the immense backlog of email

On behalf of myself and the rest of the judges, I\’d like to extend our thanks to everyone who took part, and made this year\’s Scavenger Hunt so enjoyable.

Martin

CUAS, a late entry, seemed to spend the whole of the first day wandering around town photographing things. It earnt them a fair few points, but we\’ll take this opportunity to invite them to actually come and see us in person! That goes for all of you, people and things are better in front of us than on a camera ;)!

Still, they were very photogenic. We liked their high visibility jackets:

Also, their novel interpretation of the Key to the Secrets of the Universe:

It wasn\’t quite what we were looking for. Still, good work all round!

Whilst we didn\’t see them in person until Wedesday, Robin and company sent us some amusing contributions. Firstly for your consideration, his phylogenetic tree of pasta:

He also had us laughing with his conspiracy theory, allegating that Chris is in fact a reptiloid in league with George Bush. It’s all a lie.

Aside from the beautiful alliteration they\’ve brought us in the title, this team was really quite busy. We hope to get the photographs of their achievements up at some point; for now descriptions will have to suffice.

Their knowledge of historical fashion was excellent, and they were big fans of buses, including a snapshot of their signature motorised vehicle as their team mascot. Incredible organisational skills also allowed them to punt tourists down the Cam before lunch as well as amount an impressive collection of minor items. Their big fish, little fish and cardboard box was very well presented.

We were extremely impressed also by their persuasive abilities in getting one of the Caius porters to write on the The Flag is Flying Today Because noticeboard, \”because Team Number 7 Bus own it!\”. Satisfying both capturing and bringing us a college flag, we threw in a bonus point for this incredible feat. Secondly, whilst meditating in Sainbury\’s, they somehow convinced a member of staff not only to join them cross-legged on the floor, but to be told to by his manager.

This team has taught us that not sharing cars will lead to a violent bloodbath:

Other triumphs included a pentalingual dictionary for which we gave them a bonus point. Bilen kindly performed some of Wuthering Heights in Semaphore for us. They\’re also currently in the lead for the largest bra, into which one of their team members could fit her head.

We\’ll leave you with their exquisitely decorated and highly contraversial family tree:

Visiting us nice and early, they brought a host of small items. We liked the pirate flag that they\’d obviously captured, their Countdown keyring and the propaganda of Lenin (complete with his signature Mohican and multiple piercings) inviting us to join the party.

We\’ll also share these two amusingly photoshopped pieces. Whilst they\’re not getting any more than a point for so obviously trying to trick us, we still like the natural look they\’ve achieved.

Team Internet\’s contributions today were overshadowed by their prolific attempts to steal pictures from the internet and pass them off as their own. They\’re also getting no bonus points for nerdy arguments; whatever they say, Yoda is not a revolutionary leader.

We do have quite a bit of their work to show off though, starting with some fine videos. Firstly, here is their excellent interpretation of Live Action Tetris.

We also have their game of Manly Scrabble. We particularly like the play that changes \’UG\’ to \’JUGS\’:

They also brought us a fine picture of Abraham Lincoln made out of macaroni, but he was missing his hat. Phillip\’s GCSE coursework was appalling, in all honesty; his picture of the experiment for measuring the resistance of a filament lamp left me quite bewildered as to how it scored any marks at all. The team successfully brought us the correct set of Star Trek movies, we won\’t reveal which those are just yet. Their TV theme Medley consisted of Neighbours, Eastenders, Doctor Who, Postman Pat and The Bill, plus one other we didn\’t get. We were also big fans of their \’string quartet\’ which we\’ll hopefully get a picture of up at some point.Finally we\’ll leave you with two of their finest photos. A highly accurate tattoo of t.A.T.u. and an extremely pimped out ride, although it doesn\’t have a single X-Box: