scavenger hunt
noun
: a game in which players try to acquire without buying specified items within a time limit
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At the festival, guests can participate in free bike repairs, a scavenger hunt and a prize raffle.
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Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2025
There will be a mask scavenger hunt and a street name game with bead prizes, a strolling zydeco band (starting at Tiber Park at 2 p.m. and finishing at the Wine Bin at 3:30) and a free photo booth set up on the porch of Pam Long Photo from 2 to 4 pm.
—Janet Kusterer, Baltimore Sun, 26 Feb. 2025
Find a cool secondhand outfit for your partner to wear to dinner that night, challenge each other to see who can find the most interesting item, or create a scavenger hunt and whoever gets the most on the list wins.
30.
—Erin Reimel, Glamour, 27 Dec. 2024
Little discoveries would beget bigger revelations that would become key moments in the script, a scavenger hunt of cinematic research.
—Steven Zeitchik, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Dec. 2024
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Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2025
There will be a mask scavenger hunt and a street name game with bead prizes, a strolling zydeco band (starting at Tiber Park at 2 p.m. and finishing at the Wine Bin at 3:30) and a free photo booth set up on the porch of Pam Long Photo from 2 to 4 pm.
—Janet Kusterer, Baltimore Sun, 26 Feb. 2025
Find a cool secondhand outfit for your partner to wear to dinner that night, challenge each other to see who can find the most interesting item, or create a scavenger hunt and whoever gets the most on the list wins.
30.
—Erin Reimel, Glamour, 27 Dec. 2024
Little discoveries would beget bigger revelations that would become key moments in the script, a scavenger hunt of cinematic research.
—Steven Zeitchik, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Dec. 2024
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