# Car Rally/Digital Scavenger Hunt **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 19, 2004, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-rally-digital-scavenger-hunt/246013 "2004-05-19T18:51:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lost\_in\_space](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a88e57/32.png) [@lost\_in\_space](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost_in_space)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2004, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-rally-digital-scavenger-hunt/246013/1 "2004-05-19T18:51:53Z")
Hi! I’m kinda new, kinda not … I used to lurk around here years ago and am recently back in need of ideas from the teeming millions… I am running a car rally for high schoolers and am out of ideas. Anybody have any great ideas to share? Will greatly appreciate your thoughts… -Lost in Space ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2004, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-rally-digital-scavenger-hunt/246013/2 "2004-05-19T19:20:11Z")
If anyone’s confused, I think the OP is referring to [this sort of thing](http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/usr/moose/plug.html): > [@](#): > > In a Road Rally, each team of two people–a driver and a navigator–is given a set of route directions to follow, and the speeds at which they should travel the route. The route will generally consist of rural and quieter back roads. At the very least, you’ll have a nice drive in the country! > > The goal of a Road Rally is to travel the correct route at the correct speeds, and arrive at "checkpoints’’ precisely on time. You are scored on how closely to the correct time you arrive. A Road Rally is not a race, and no rally will ever require you to drive in a reckless or illegal fashion. Arriving too early at a checkpoint hurts your score, as does arriving too late. I’ve never been on one but I have read about them. ---
**Author:** ![Craneop2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Craneop2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Craneop2)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2004, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-rally-digital-scavenger-hunt/246013/3 "2004-05-19T19:20:25Z")
You might try making check points that can only be found with GPS co-ordinates. Might be cost prohibitive though. Most kids I know would like the futuristic/scifi challenge… ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2004, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-rally-digital-scavenger-hunt/246013/4 "2004-05-20T03:46:41Z")
Another idea: **Death Race**! (which isn’t nearly as bad as it sounds) First things first – go to your local video sales shop, and spend the five bucks on a copy of _[Midnight Madness](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081159/)_ (“Huh huh…fagabeefe”). Once you’ve viewed it, adapt the idea for your own area. In a nutshell: Get together a bunch of teams. One team per vehicle. The person running the game gives each team some sort of clue that, once properly deciphered, will lead them to another location. At this location will be another clue…and so on and so forth. After 20 or 30 of these, they will arrive at the finish line, where there will be much rejoycing. A whole mess of us used to do this, and I recently discovered that the guys who ran most of the races set up a [web site](http://www.deathrace.net). They included a [page of clues](http://www.deathrace.net/races/) that were used in some of our races, so you can get some ideas on how this works (obviously, these clues will be related to Ocean County, NJ, but you can always adapt). With a little bit of creativity, and a good crew running the game, it can really make for a fun day. One good tip is to try and work with people who own businesses that are willing to work together on creative clues. We’ve had ones where you had to go to a store and buy a particular item. They had programmed their cash registers so this item would come up as the next clue on the receipt. Quite clever. Anyway, hope this works out. Keep me posted.