This is just too cool. I read an article on Spacing magazine's website about the Navigate the Streets race here in Toronto (and also Ottawa, Montréal, and Winnipeg by the look of it). Essentially it's a public scavenger hunt. Teams of two, on foot or by transit only, compete to decipher the list of clues and find the destinations mentioned in the list.
An excerpt from the article:
Our course brings us face to face with cute chicken graffiti on the side of a poultry shop in Kensington Market, the statue of a bear outside the Olga Korper gallery near Roncesvalles, and The Communist’s Daughter, a discreet little watering hole for hipsters at Dundas and Ossington.
Strategy is also part of the game. We duck through parking garages and alleyways to escape the competition, and contemplate whether it would be faster to use the wildcard clue, which would take us to the giant dominoes at Bloor and Spadina, or clue # 9, which would lead us toward the wind turbine by the CNE.
This is a great public space hack and I want in. As an avid automobile non-owner, I think I can take the locals when it comes to finding every nook and cranny downtown. Anyone want to be my partner?
Looks like there was an Edmonton race last August. Sounds like fun.
Posted by: Erik | February 07, 2005 at 12:20 PM