Scavenger Hunt, November 21
On Saturday, November 21, a few Smithie warriors gathered via Zoom to throw down in a highly competitive virtual scavenger hunt from our individual homes. It was clear from the beginning that these women came to win as they rearranged their laptops, desktops, and tablets to ensure the optimal placement for fast retrieval of whatever items game master Amy Gardner '92 requested.
Four rounds, each containing five items, would be presented. Contestants had 60 seconds to produce each item after it was announced. After three rounds of search-seizure-and-return-to-the-camera, every contestant was in the running to claim victory, with a margin of a single point between all of them.
Hearts were racing as the game master contrived a twist to the final round: each contestant would wager her accumulated points against her success in the final round, and the final five objects would have to be gathered at one time within a three-minute time limit. Some competitors were already risk-averse after earlier failures in the "can of pumpkin" or the "letter with a stamp and a postmark" challenge. Others were only slightly more confident in their wagers.
No one went "all in", but the bravest (and youngest) challenger bet a record 12 of her 17 accumulated points and came out victorious! Congratulations to Allison Brand '24, a shiny new first-year at Smith who was left a little breathless and befuddled over all the excitement of her first ever Smith College Club of the Peninsula event. Allison will receive a gift card to Jamba Juice in addition to her bragging rights and moral high ground.
Marylou Cronin '88 came in second after an impressive display of yoga skills, bending down and whipping off her own shoes in the "house slipper" challenge, eking out classmate Nisha Thatte-Potter '88 by a fraction of a second in that particular challenge. Third place goes to Christine Hoffman '14 who is sure that she would have crushed all comers if there had been more challenges like "diapers" and "baby toys".
