0 points.
- A pile of bottlecaps.
1 points.
- A magnetic letter of the alphabet.
- A 5 1/4 inch floppy disc.
- A wooden egg.
- A globe (+1 if it\’s out of date.)
- A 2p stamp.
- A reel of light blue cotton.
- A metal crown.
- A death card from a tarot deck.
- A yellow smiley badge.
- A fob watch.
- A bottle or can of root beer.
- A pez dispenser (+2 points if it\’s a WB character.)
- A 10ml measuring cylinder.
- A union jack paper plate.
- A photo of a team member wearing a traffic cone.
- A Kendal mint cake.
- A metal whistle.
- Fluffy Dice.
- Smartie lids spelling a 3 letter word (+2 for a 6 or more letter word.)
- A photo of a shop sign containing the word \’metro\’.
- A balloon animal.
- Compose this sentence entirely out of letters from the Argos catalogue.
- A list of all 150 pokemon, in felt-tip pen.
- A pair of rainbow socks.
- A 10W lightbulb.
- A \”worm/snake in a can\”.
- A nock.
- Write an \’amusing\’ short story (max 500 words.)
- A rubber duck
- A piggy bank (must be pig shaped.)
- Something that goes \”moo\” (must not be a human.)
- A kaleidoscope. (+2 if it\’s homemade.)
- A computer program to either output all primes up to an input \”n\”, or output the word \”cheese\” each with a 50% probability.
- Photograph of the Lion King 2 on DVD for sale in a shop.
- Photo of a smiling horse.
- A plastic slinky.
- A pair of compasses.
2 points.
- Any Encarta disc.
- Photo of a \”welcome to Cambridge/Cambridgeshire?\” sign.
- A chess piece over four inches tall.
- A multicoloured pingpong ball. (at least 4 colours)
- A model of any sugar molecule.
- A four-leaf clover.
- A photo or screenshot of level 19 in lemmings.
- A valentines card.
- A quill pen.
- £15140 monopoly money.
- A business card for the team.
- Evidence of a score of 100000 points (beginner) on a point-blank arcade machine. (+4 if 150000 points with 0 continues)
- 3 different beermats for the same beer.
- Evidence of a completed 1000 piece jigsaw (+2 if you bring it along.)
- A \”paintbrush\” drumstick.
- Photo of a team-member fighting a crocodile.
- A published leaflet entitled \’Red Pages\’.
- A polystyrene plane.
- A pair of sunglasses with mirrors at the edges to let you look behind you.
- Photograph of the whole team in a tree
- A peacock feather.
- Write and perform an original song, about cake. (+3 possible depending on quality.)
- An origami dragon
- Photograph of the \”Bead Shop\”.
- A roadsign, of any size.
- Any Beatles track that would qualify to be on \”Short Music for Short People\”.
- A Russian doll.
- A wooden tennis racket.
- A map of the moon.
- A fireman\’s hat.
- Photograph of a shop called \”Roll on Blank Tapes\”.
- A bottle of Cwella.
- Make an advertising poster for the film \”Return of the Revenge of the Second Coming of the Undead Ninja Killer Bunny Pirates from Mars II.\” (digitally reanimastered.) (+2 possible for quality)
- A laminated copy of this list.
3 points.
- A proof or theorem by Gödel, a picture by Escher, and some music by Bach.
- A non-circular CD.
- A non-black vinyl record.
- Photos of at least 5 sundials in Cambridge.
- A rag magazine.
- A prodigal Sorcerer.
- Thunderbird 1.
- A photo recognisably containing both Homerton and Girton. (you don\’t need to be in this one.)
- Photos of 5 different full-size college coats of arms.
- A tamagotchi.
- A pokeball, (not a picture of one)
- A love heart that says \”fax me\”
- A scarecrow of an assassin (+3 possible for quality.)
- The name of any shop in Cambridge selling a monkey on a tricycle. (See example.)
- Photograph a sign offering buy one get one free in Subway.
- Photograph of the team dressed as superheroes. (+3 possible for quality.)
- A pop-cork gun.
- A poison letter sent to a team member, older than lent 2004.
- A drivers license, with points on it.
- An expired UL library card.
- Photographs (before and after) of a set up 200 piece domino rally.
- A speedstacks cup.
- Autographs of three different bedders.
- A ruler that measures something other than cm or inches.
- Photograph of a team member hugging a banker.
- A photograph from the board in Gardies. .
- A photograph of a model railway.
- The answer to puzzledonkey 1.1.10
4 points.
- Proof of ownership of any stocks or shares.
- The (entire) frontpage of a newspaper over a year old.
- A book token that was awarded to a team member for something.
- Evidence of any decent etch-a-sketch picture drawn by a team member.
- A subutteo referee.
- A flyer for Robinson may ball.
- A football programme from the 2003-2004 season.
- A tour T-shirt for any band containing a female member.
- A losing Saturday lottery ticket.
- An ASNaC.
- A photograph of the entire team with a Japanese Tourist.
- A length of string composed of one piece of string of each colour of the rainbow, tied together with different knots.
- An Advent calendar (+2 if containing chocolates.)
- Build a device that makes a \”plink\” noise 10 times after a suitable item is dropped in the top.
- Photo of the team having a tea party in an obscure location.
5 points.
- A poster (at least A2) of the Mandelbrot set.
- A conker.
- A cinema ticket stub for pirates of the Caribbean.
- A real (i.e. made of cloth) EU flag.
- Photographs of all the other teams.
- Evidence of an unsupported 2ft tall stack of pennies. (+3 for every extra foot up to 11 points)
- The autograph of Rory McGrath?.
- A Zoid.
- A Cadbury’s crème egg.
6 points.
- A letter of rejection for an undergraduate course, from any university.
- An Oxford University scarf.
- A musical domino.
- A book of matches from a holiday inn.
- A Netto shopping bag.
- A left-handed can-opener.
- Half a golf ball.
- A working periscope made from a Pringles tube.
- A series 1 pog.
7 points.
- A Michelin Man.
- A jelly sandcastle.
8 points.
- A Major Morgan.
9 points.
- Photographs of a team member shaking hands with Riley, Hobson and Bence. (3 points for each, +1 if you get them all to sign the book.)
Bonus awards.
(most of these are purely objective. So what?)
- The team with most oversized item on the list. (+1)
- The team with the \’nicest\’ jelly sandcastle. (+1)
- The team with the most obscure version of any item on the list. (+1)
- Any team that returns with a 5 or more point item signed by a dean of any college. (+3)
- The team with the \’prettiest\’ list of pokemon. (+1)
- The team with the best balloon animal (+1)
- The team with the best story behind how they obtained any item. (+1)
- The team with the best faked item. (note: faked items don\’t score points.) (+1)
- The team with the funniest photograph. (+1)
- The team with the best team business card (+1)
- The team with the most amusing story (+1)
- The team with photographs of the largest number of different bike shops in Cambridge. (+1)
- The most obscure tea party (+1)