Sports
This Clemson University team is known for its orange colors and fierce mascot.
Who are the Clemson Tigers?
In treasure hunting, this phrase means going to the location in person to look for clues.
What is boots on the ground?
A hidden meaning or message disguised within symbols, images, or wording.
What is a cipher?
This phrase reminds hunters to respect parks and natural areas by cleaning up after searching.
What is Leave No Trace
You will find this creature wherever you find hammered copper coats-of-arms on the walls, unlimited salad bars, the piano stylings of Hugh LaGoon,
sink-sized brandy snifters, a wine list as big as a family Bible, and a waiter whose hair has been painted on
MAÎTRE D’EAMON
This Baseball Hall of Famer from Anderson, South Carolina starred as a powerful hitter for the Boston Red Sox in the 1970s and ’80s.
Who is Jim Rice?
In 2019, this puzzle designer correctly identified Langone Park as the location of the Boston casque.
Who is Jason Krupat
This technology can locate buried objects made of ceramic or plastic by using radar waves instead of detecting metal.
What is Ground Penetrating Radar?
The tendency to focus on evidence that supports an existing belief while overlooking contradictory evidence.
What is confirmation bias?
Look for her near her handiworks: Canada’s World Trade Center, the CN Tower; Canada’s Macy’s, Eaton’s; Canada’s Eiffel Tower,
the CN Tower; Canada’s Chicago Cubs, the Toronto Bluejays; and, of course, Canada’s Maxim’s, the restaurant high atop the CN Tower.
THE TORONTOGRE
Many Anderson fishing tournaments take place on this nearby lake shared with Georgia.
What is Lake Hartwell?
In 1983, these Chicago treasure hunters uncovered the first casque from The Secret: A Treasure Hunt in Grant Park.
Who is Eric Gasiorowski & Rob Wrobel
When a puzzle appears to suggest one answer but secretly points to another, it uses this misleading technique.
Red Herring
Before digging in most U.S. locations, responsible hunters contact this national service to check for buried utility lines.
What is 811
This mail-mangling Fair Folk creature ensures your letters won’t arrive in your mailbox Ironically, it has a morbid aversion to snow, rain, heat, and gloom of night.
Who is the Post Monster General?
Anderson University’s athletic teams compete under this ancient warrior nickname.
Who are the Trojans?
This pair of friends uncovered the Cleveland casque buried in Greek Cultural Garden.
Who is Brian Zinn & Andy Abrams
A puzzle where symbols or pictures represent words or sounds.
What is a rebus?
If a possible dig spot is in a historic cemetery or protected site, etiquette says you should do this.
What is leave it alone (or report it)
these creatures are described as magical dwarves who misdirect typists’ fingers, insert misspellings and
defamatory text into printed works, and thrive on Liquid Paper.
Who are the Typographical Terrors?
The University of South Carolina football team goes by this name.
Who are the Gamecocks?
This West Coast city BREIFLY celebrated a Secret casque discovery but it was proven to be a fake!
Where is San Francisco?
A word or phrase created by rearranging the letters of another word, such as “silent” from “listen.”
What is an anagram?
In any competition —from sports to treasure hunts —respecting others and playing fairly demonstrates this quality.
(such as shaking hands after a game.)
What is Good sportsmanship?
this small mermaid — described as half human and half salt cod — inhabits the cold Atlantic waters of the Grand Banks.
Who is the Nymph O’Maine?