Section A - Your Name
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A1) A self-portrait of your ENTIRE team, including the photographer, annotated with your TEAM NAME and TAGGED with all the team members (10 points).


Section B - Simple Stuff
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Nothing difficult about these, find them and get a pic with them.

B1) The London Eye (5 points)
B2) The Shard (5 points)
B3) Horse Guards Parade (5 points)
B4) The Northumberland Pub, on Tottenham Court Road (5 points)
B5) The Odeon Cinema at Marble Arch (5 points)
B6) The Ritz Hotel (5 points)
B7) The dragon at Temple Bar (5 points)
B8) The Battersea Peace Pagoda (5 points)


Section C - Wild Life
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If you can get any of these to stand still long enough they're worth points. Real ones are worth full points, but we'll give you part points for pretend ones. You must find actual animals or objects though, not mere photos, drawings or postcards.

C1) A pigeon (3 points / 1 point)
C2) A squirrel (3 points / 1 point)
C3) A dog (4 points / 2 points)
C4) A cat (4 points  / 2 points)
C5) A swan (5 points / 3 points)
C6) A raven (5 points / 3 points)
C7) A horse (6 points / 3 points)
C8) A fox (12 points / 4 points)


Section D - Let Me Google That For You
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These are probably going to take some Internet research.

D1) The blue plaque marking the 1960s residence of guitar legend Jimi Hendrix in Brooke St (6 points)
D2) The bridge where Georgi Markov was attacked with a ricin-poisoned umbrella on 7 September 1978 (6 points)
D3) The structure which was the gate of Buckingham Palace at the time of the ascension to the throne of Queen Victoria in 1837 (6 points)
D4) The embassy of The Republic Of Ecuador, where Julian Assange is currently holed up. Please don't get arrested (6 points)
D5) The birthplace of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (6 points)
D6) Any one of several plaques or road signs commemorating the location of Baynard's Castle (6 points)
D7) The edifice at lat/long 51°30′10″N 0°9′4.5″W (6 points)
D8) The halftime point of last year's SantaSkate (6 points)


Section E - Not So Obvious
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These may need both research and some leaps of logic.

E1) A very learned circus (8 points)
E2) In Kensington Gardens, where elves 900 years old do dwell (8 points)
E3) No garment did Cleopatra stitch with this, if indeed she sewed at all (8 points)
E4) Not a privy or a wardrobe, but it did belong to a king (8 points)
E5) That above the object of Hardy's most famous kiss (8 points)
E6) That this is here should make it clear that Kitten Kong was ... well ... just fiction really (8 points)
E7) A very angry railway (8 points)
E8) From inception to baptism I lived 111974 nameless incarnations, two in every day. (8 points)


Section F - Less Thinking More Doing
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No research needed here. Take the following creative photos of your team:

F1) Everyone in your team jumping up in the air at once (5 points).
F2) A pic that plays with perspective so that something really big looks really small (5 points).
F3) Your team skating/riding/standing on an apparently vertical wall (5 points).
F4) Your team giving cheesy grins and thumbs up to the camera with a person you met on the street (5 points).
F5) Everyone in the team reading a newspaper, upside down. Extra points if it's the team, not the newspaper, that is upside down (5 points, +2 extra).
F6) Your team with another team, facing off hip-hop gangsta style (5 points).
F7) Your entire team - including photographer - reflected in a window, mirror, metal or other shiny surface. (5 points).
F8) Your team standing around a rude sign looking thoughtful, puzzled, surprised, outraged or embarrassed by it (5 points).


Section G - Homing In
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Here are sets of related objectives which get more specific from (a) through (e). Each item satisfies all the items prior to itself within that set. G1b for example, also solves G1a and is worth 1+2=3 points. G1c solves both G1b and G1a and is worth 1+2+3=6 points. G5e is worth 1+2+3+6+12=24 points.

G1a) Any Royal Residence (1 point)
G1b) Any Royal Palace (2 points)
G1c) St James's Palace (3 points)

G2a) Any District Line tube station (1 point)
G2b) Any District And Circle Line tube station (2 points)
G2c) Any District and Circle Line tube station with 'Kensington' in the name (3 points)
G2d) High Street Kensington tube station (4 points)

G3a) Any London Bus (1 point)
G3b) Any London Bus with a number ending in 4 (2 points)
G3c) Any London Bus with a number ending in 14 (3 points)
G3d) London Bus number 414 (4 points)

G4a) Any boat on the Thames (1 point)
G4b) Any Thames Clipper - there are 12, each distinguished by a name, number and colour (2 points)
G4c) Any "River Runner 200" class Thames Clipper, there are 7: "Meteor", red, number 6; "Cyclone", orange, number 7; "Typhoon", dark green, number 8; "Tornado", purple, number 9; "Monsoon", dark green, number 10; "Aurora", light blue, number 11; and "Hurricane", apple green, number 12. (3 points)
G4d) The Thames Clipper "Hurricane", apple green, number 12 (6 points)

G5a) A Boris bike with a number ending in 8 (1 point)
G5b) A Boris bike with a number ending in 98 (2 points)
G5c) A Boris bike with a number ending in 498 (3 points)
G5d) A Boris bike with a number ending in 2498 (6 points)
G5e) Boris Bike number 22498. (12 points)

! ! ! ! !   G O O D    L U C K   ! ! ! ! !

Scoring & Rules

Scoring

You SCORE by doing THREE THINGS for each clue:

1. Solve the clue, skate to the objective and take a photograph of your team with it.
2. Upload your photo to the Facebook event wall, here. 
3. Annotate the photo with the clue number in post or comments.

Rules

• The clue list will be released at 1pm.
• Every clue has a unique clue number.
• Each clue has a score value.
• Each clue leads to an objective.
• Some clues require problem solving and deduction.
• Online resources (Google, Maps, Twitter, etc) are allowed - I don't see how we can stop you.
• But this means I get to set fiendishly difficult clues. - you will need Google!
• Collusion between teams is legal - I don't see how we can stop you.
• Collusion with other people is legal - I don't see how we can stop you.
• All objectives are found in zone 1. Most of the time.

• You can use the same photo for more than one clue, but you must annotate it for each and every clue it solves.
• You must upload before 4pm to score.
• There are no penalties for wrong answers.
• Wrong answers can be corrected by uploading the correct answer before 4.30pm. You must annotate with clue number to correct a wrong answer.
• If you forget to annotate scoring will be at the judges discretion.
• The uploaded photo stream is public, all teams can see it.
• For some clues you need the entire team (a self-portrait)

• For most clues you need everybody except the photographer.
• Clues will be posted here and emailed. If you want them by email PM me an email address.
• Your team can start wherever you like, anyplace near Hyde Park will do.
• You team can finish wherever you like, but score tallying will be done somewhere central, like maybe the Monkey Puzzle, after 4.30pm.
• Mobile data network outages are force majeure, be prepared for them. If you encounter upload problems find a Starbucks and use the Wi-Fi.
• You skate at your own risk, you need to be sensible, lawful, good and considerate citizens.

Tips

• Use a reduced image size on your smartphone, it uploads quicker. The judges are fine with low quality images, provided they're unambiguous.
• You might want to avoid revealing cryptic solutions to other teams for as long as possible.
• You can upload decoy pictures to fool other teams. From the judge's point of view this is like getting the wrong answer.
• You can collude with other teams to upload deliberately wrong answers to try and fool everyone else - I don't see how we can stop you.
• You can correct wrong answers with no penalty - don't forget to ANNOTATE and do it before 4pm.
• Obviously it's worth keeping track of what other teams are uploading.
• Except if they're trying to fool you.
• Any member of your team can upload, so you can do multiple uploads in parallel.
• Make sure your phone battery is charged. This is YOUR responsibility!

Introduction

The intention is for this to be a treasure hunt on skates, but you can use bike, feet or public transport - it makes no odds to me. I doubt any of them has a substantial advantage.

We used to run these for marshals only, this is the first one which is open invite. Invite yourself and your team mates along.

You'll use your smartphone to score points by photographing objectives, posting the photo here and annotating the photo with the clue number. All resources - google, GPS, asking other people, etc - are allowed.

You will need:

Skates ... or bike ... or whatever.

A team of two or more people.

One or more smart phones with Facebook and Internet access.

That's the brief summary.