Rapid Penang Treasure Hunt

Since class started, I have been packed with lecturers from morning 8am till 10pm at night, weekends are stuck with all day long case study. This resulted in my blog 'growing grass' for about an month,haha...Last Saturday, finally I manage to squeeze out some time to relax. Joining the treasure hunt was just coincidence. It all started when i received email from my buddy regarding the hunt, actually it the dateline has just passed when I read the mail , but due to my determined characteristic, I still managed to register as participant haha ( friends close to me will sure know that I often come out with something shock in a sudden,wakaka)

There were 2 pairs of us joining as 2 team. Early in the morning we got ready to set off the hunt. Throughout the whole hunt, we were only allowed to use Rapid Penang bus. There are 2 main locations , one centred around Padang Kota Lama and the other at Ferringhi Beach side. There was 4 stations in total. On our 1st stop at one stop shopping mall, we were given 6 questions and 2 treasures to be found out. We need to study the sentence and get the clue from each to lead to the final answer. The answer is actually one of the sign board at that place. When we got the questions, both of us was just stunned as we did not know any of it haha...It was raining heavily that day, added on some element besides the tense atmosphere.
Example of question: It's not a plane, it's not a bird. No ! It's something in between.
Answer: Jatayu airlines

We can't drag too much time at the first point, so we just simple wrote some answers after an hour , passed the answer sheet to marshal and rushed for the next station. This time it was at the beach side at Batu Ferringi,3 challenges. First, we need to ride on a big size motorbike ( some sort of like it, vehicle we could rent at seaside) and race for the fastest time. Secondly, we need to compete on dart. And lastly the questions again. But this time the questions are not as tough as the first station.

3rd station, given an hour to solve 4 IQ questions, it 's some sort of arranging the matches, chess etc. We just managed to solve 2 in allocated time. I was still waiting for them to email me the answer on how to solve the other 2, really curious about the solution.

At the 4th station, we need to hit the golf, play basketball, walk hunt and photo hunt. Walk hunt is walking in certain areas to spot the answers while photo hunt is snapping the right photos for the clue given.Still, the walk was a bit tough for us. Besides all the 4 stations, we need to solve 2 buzz puzzle in the time between we travel to another station.

Above is 1 of the IQ question, need to reaarange the coins into the 2nd sequences, you are only allowed to move in a horitanzontal line, everytime you move, you must move with a big and a small one sticking together. Try it out! The answer is just 4 steps!

We ended all the task and return to Gurney around 7.30pm, had our dinner prepared under the rain and rushed for the prize giving ceremony. The champion team won RM5000 cash with firefly tickets, first runner up RM 3000 cash, second runner up RM1000 cash. Actually we were attracted by the prizes initially when we joined the contest also ( can buy a PDA if we got to win haha..) Both of our team did not win any prizes for sure, as all others participants and the winner were all experienced old man. I bet they had joined this kind of competition various times and very well verse in it already. We were joking that all of the winners had 'pakat' adi one, as they seems knowing each others when on stage,haha...
But it was really a good experience and indeed an eye opener for us as a beginner

Some simple warming up questions for you guys to figure:

Q1 Part Ten
Step 1:keyword no keyword
Step 2: “part” bit,duty,allot,dissect,sever,role,etc and ten can be written as x
Step 3:Look for any of the above.
Step 4: ROLE + X
Step4 : answer is ROLEX

Q2 Sounds like we are asking the lady to give us a lift
Step 1:keyword sounds
Step 2: so the answer sounds as if we are asking the lady to give us a lift
Step 2: other words for LIFT is ELEVATOR
Step 3:Look for Elevator
Step 4:we see MS Elevators (sounds like Miss, elevate us)
Step 4: answer : MS Elevators

Q3 One in my transformer
Step1:keyword : in
Step2: “one” IN my = M ONE Y
Step 3: transformer= changer
Step 3: look for Money Changer
Step 4:answer is MONEY CHANGER

Q4 Malaysian Postal Service , initially
Step1:keyword : initially
Step2: Initially can indicate the first letter of the words that follow.
Step 2: In this case its M P S
Step3: look for MPS
Step 4:answer is MPS

Q5 Don’t have locally
Step1:keyword : locally
Step2: locally means that we have to look for answers in Bahasa
Step 2: Don’t “ have” in Bahasa is Tak ada
Step3: look for Takada
Step 4:answer is TAKADA


Q6 Pass on when I leave
Step1:keyword : leave
Step 2: O it could mean that when I leave we have PASS ON
Step 2: Could be PASSION
Step3: PASSION – I = PASS ON.
Step4:answer is PASSION