HERALD HUNT PREVIEW
The world-famous and sometimes terrifying Herald Hunt will take place in South Miami Sunday, Oct. 29, starting at noon. There will be complete instructions in that day's Miami Herald. If you're not familiar with the Hunt, you can find tons of information at the official Hunt site and at this amazing site, maintained by Andy Wenzel, a.k.a. Andy The TropicHunt.com Guy. (His nickname dates back to when it was known as the Tropic Hunt.) Thanks, Andy!
We know many of you Hunters are already deranged excited about this year's Hunt, and we decided to give you a chance to stretch your brains a little by trying to solve an online, pre-Hunt puzzle. If you solve it, you'll win a coupon worth a dollar off the official 2006 Herald Hunt T-shirt. You'll also get a chance to win four T-shirts, and a coupon from our sponsors, Bodies.
Speaking of bodies, here's a hint for solving the puzzle:
As you are no doubt aware (Ha!) this is a statue by the artist Botero. Seems a bit incomplete, doesn't it? Which brings us to the name of our online puzzle: In Search of the Total Man. To solve it, you need to go to the Miami Herald site, MiamiHerald.com. We've hidden four clues on that site; once you find them, you should be able to figure out the puzzle. Or not! Good luck.
*smiles, passes yet another margarita to Siouxie*
Posted by: Just Ducky | October 18, 2006 at 10:02 PM
Well, that was a big huh. I just threw it out there assuming during the next couple of weeks I might get two people that were really bored. For me, a few years ago I discovered the 6th Act of Mozarts, The Marriage of Figarro. I hate opera, but there may have never been a greater human act than him writing it and a very few performances getting close. Or not. You judge for yourself.
Posted by: CJrun | October 18, 2006 at 10:11 PM
Well once again I'll be scoffing from the sidelines. Unless someone will sponsor me and pay for my plane ticket. How 'bout guys?
Posted by: Edgar Greenberg | October 18, 2006 at 10:15 PM
Well once again I'll be scoffing from the sidelines. Unless someone will sponsor me and pay for my plane ticket. How 'bout guys?
Posted by: Edgar Greenberg | October 18, 2006 at 10:15 PM
*drinks Ducky's margarita*
plane ticket to where, Ed?
Posted by: Siouxie | October 18, 2006 at 10:23 PM
*hums "Two Tickets to Paradise"*
Posted by: Just Ducky | October 18, 2006 at 10:26 PM
Cowards. Sio, I have been amazed off the old turntables, the radio let me down tonight, but the 1600s are solid and Mozart is the dude. There was a time when he had to worry about Elvis and Jerry Lee, but he rocked. One side out of six. Mozart mostly sucked. Fortunately, I have that side to listen to.
Posted by: CJrun | October 18, 2006 at 10:44 PM
Oddly enough, I can use one of those coupons up here in Seattle. As long as they don't look too close...
:sigh: Sadly, I'll be sidelining the Hunt again. But one of these years I'll be one of the many walking around looking slightly more confused than normal.
Posted by: Mr. Michael | October 18, 2006 at 11:12 PM
Pachelbel's Canon in D
Vivaldi's Concerto for Two Trumpets, in C
Minuet in G - Mozart or Bach, take your pick
NE of these would suffice for me, should I be stranded on a desert island with only one (or three) tracks on my perpetually charged-up iPod™ ... merely sayin' ...
(Tho a little Willie and some John McCormack would be OK, too ...)
Posted by: O the U(manity) | October 18, 2006 at 11:14 PM
Darnit...that's what I get for going out after work with the buds and getting...well, Buds...coming home, watching "Lost", "The Nine" and then going to bed. I missed this! ARGH!
Posted by: tropichunt.com guy™ | October 19, 2006 at 06:33 AM
Okay, I'm not exactly sure what I did...but I solve the puzzle also. Kinda scratching my head...but WOOHOO none the less!
*mutters to self, like an incantation: I will not be a loser this year...I will not be a loser this year...*
Posted by: tropichunt.com guy™ | October 19, 2006 at 07:36 AM
Found the 4 clues, but don't know what to do with them. Grrrrrrr.
Posted by: sthnbelle | October 19, 2006 at 10:10 AM
sthnbelle: Email me if you'd like a hint. :)
(Or anyone else for that matter.)
Posted by: tropichunt.com guy™ | October 19, 2006 at 10:15 AM
Well, now, I too am in possession of a coupon I can't use, due to being a BIT too far north of Miami, but am feeling much better for the fact that I found it (even though I did need a hint).
Yay.
Posted by: sthnbelle | October 19, 2006 at 10:55 AM
Same here S-bell!
YAY!!
Already had the coupons but I am stubborn and wanted to solve this thing!
Posted by: Siouxie | October 19, 2006 at 11:28 AM
I'm completely lost here, people.
Help! (any help!)
Miss Chevious
Posted by: Miss Chevious | October 19, 2006 at 01:25 PM
Miss C - if you read through the thread, there's a few obtuse hints, and TH.comG gave me the last little shove.
Posted by: sthnbelle | October 19, 2006 at 02:56 PM
sthnbelle: I like to think of it as 'pushed you over the edge...' :)
Posted by: tropichunt.com guy™ | October 19, 2006 at 03:47 PM
Well, that too!
Although the blog is generally what keeps me from jumping......
Posted by: sthnbelle | October 19, 2006 at 04:08 PM
Thanks to Andy, the tropic hunt guy, I finally solved it!!
Thanks a lot, Andy, you're a pal.
Miss Chevious
Posted by: Miss Chevious | October 20, 2006 at 10:01 AM
So, after solving this, did it "feel" to the rest of you like a puzzle at the Hunt? Unless I solved it in a way that was not intended, most of the hints did not "fit" in with the solution or how I got it.
Posted by: Tim M-M | October 20, 2006 at 11:56 AM
pulling my hair out.(little i have left) can steve or anybody gimme a hint 4 the bodies so i can get into the mentally deranged mode for the hunt. thanks all
Posted by: lookin4meanin | October 25, 2006 at 12:34 PM
sorry andy..i meant u...look i am totally lost already.
Posted by: lookin4meanin | October 25, 2006 at 12:37 PM
Ok, i just don't get it. Can anyone give me a small hint?
Posted by: Debi | October 25, 2006 at 10:23 PM
If you need a hint, email me (link above, or through my site (click on my name).
Hope to see y'all tomorrow!
Posted by: tropichunt.com guy™ | October 28, 2006 at 10:31 AM
I thank the Lord for giving us the gift of brilliant preachers!o
Posted by: Dan | February 22, 2008 at 01:51 PM