Escape to McMurtrie
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1. Overview. This year’s Medallion Hunt is set up like an Escape Room meets a nature walk. It’s the Escape to McMurtrie Nature Preserve! Clues will lead you to locations around the preserve to help you explore the property. You’ll learn about nature and the history of the property at guide posts you see in the Trail Guide. This is an exclusive offer to visit the McMurtrie property during the month of May, typically the property is only open to members. We hope you'll enjoy this month long experience.
2. There’s a medallion hidden on the property. That’s what you’re after. A total of 12 clues will lead you to new locations in the woods. Each location gives you more information that you’ll need to find and unlock the medallion. Unlocking the medallion will score you $300 if you're a member or $200 if you're not. To be eligible for membership earnings, you must be a member or become one by May 10th. Join here!
3. Nine AM each Monday in May, a clue sheet will be published online. Three clue sheets each have four puzzles. They require a combination of codebreaking, cartography, cryptography, cruciverbalism, and creative googling. Since we live in the age of smart phones, each clue is “Google-proof” and also “Google-friendly”. If you get stuck, use the McMurtrie Trail Guide, the map, this instruction sheet, and the internet. Many clues can’t be solved without them!
4. On each clue, you’ll see a difficulty rating. Each puzzle requires you do some solving before you know where to go, but some of them require more up-front work than others. Tools you should use: the map, instructions, and the Trail Guide. The rating is wildly subjective of whether you need to
2. There’s a medallion hidden on the property. That’s what you’re after. A total of 12 clues will lead you to new locations in the woods. Each location gives you more information that you’ll need to find and unlock the medallion. Unlocking the medallion will score you $300 if you're a member or $200 if you're not. To be eligible for membership earnings, you must be a member or become one by May 10th. Join here!
3. Nine AM each Monday in May, a clue sheet will be published online. Three clue sheets each have four puzzles. They require a combination of codebreaking, cartography, cryptography, cruciverbalism, and creative googling. Since we live in the age of smart phones, each clue is “Google-proof” and also “Google-friendly”. If you get stuck, use the McMurtrie Trail Guide, the map, this instruction sheet, and the internet. Many clues can’t be solved without them!
4. On each clue, you’ll see a difficulty rating. Each puzzle requires you do some solving before you know where to go, but some of them require more up-front work than others. Tools you should use: the map, instructions, and the Trail Guide. The rating is wildly subjective of whether you need to
5. Once you solve the puzzle, your “answer” will take you to a location on the preserve. When you get there, you’ll find a “letter block”.
By identifying all 12 letter blocks, you’ll have all you need to find the medallion and crack the final code.
6. Please don’t worry if you have a hard time with a week’s clues. On the next week’s clue sheet, we’ll give hints to the previous puzzles. You’ll be able to look back on ones you missed. None of the clues are related! On Friday May 24 at 4PM, we’ll publish a final sheet that allows you to crack the code!
7. To get considered for a $50 Amazon gift card, you can log on each week and submit that week’s answers. A correct answer will enter you into the pool. (3 weeks means 3 chances to win!)
8. Some ground rules:
• DO NOT TRESPASS. Private property is Out of Bounds and clearly marked on the maps.
• You can see everything from the trails. No need to wander for a letter block or the medallion.
• You don’t need to climb trees, dig holes, or disturb any nature. Leave no trace.
• This is designed for lots of people to explore the woods throughout the month of May. If you find pieces of the puzzle in the woods, leave them alone so that others can find and enjoy them too.
9. We hope you have fun with the puzzles, but more importantly that you enjoy the preserve!