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The ‘Today’ Show Tags Along with Watson for Mother’s Day

Posted by on Friday, May 11th, 2012 under Press

Today show correspondent Sara Haines treated her mom to a Watson Adventure mini hunt around midtown for Mother’s Day! How were the Haines girls’ hunting skills? Check out the video below…

 

 

 

Girl Scouts Can Turn Cookie Sales into Hunts

Posted by on Friday, April 20th, 2012 under News

We were so busy eating Do-Si-Dos that we didn’t realize we were helping dedicated Girl Scouts go on scavenger hunts. But in the Greater New York area, scouts who sell more than 750 boxes can choose a $100 gift certificate to our hunts as a reward.

‘Fine Living’ Films a Family Hunt

Posted by on Thursday, April 5th, 2012 under Press

The TV series Fine Living asked us to create a custom hunt that combined our midtown Manhattan and Central Park hunts. Two lucky families took on the challenge with our own Rachel Duncan as MC. Check it out!

 

FOUND: True love on a Watson Adventure!

Posted by on Tuesday, March 13th, 2012 under Hunts

Congratulations to Rezwan Rais and Ruhi Hassan who got engaged on Saturday, March 10 on our Murder at the Met hunt in NYC. (Awww…down on one knee and everything! Too cute!)

If you’ve found someone who you’ve been hunting for all of your life and want us to help make your proposal something to remember, contact us at 877-9-GO-HUNT, extension 12.

Get Ready to Head Back Outdoors!

Posted by on Tuesday, March 6th, 2012 under Hunts

Spring is springing, and it’s time to spring back outside. We’re going back outdoors at the end of March for our public hunts, starting in New York City with the Gangsters’ New York Hunt (March 24) and the Munch Around Greenwich Village (March 31). We’ll be adding more outdoor hunts to the hunt schedule as your favorite city warms up. There’ll be a whole lotta munching going on: the Munch Around Cambridge Hunt (April 28), the Munch Around Lincoln Park Hunt in Chicago (May 5), the Munch Around Downtown Hunt in L.A., featuring Chinatown and Olvera Street (April 28), and the Munch Around the Market Hunt in Philly, which includes Chinatown (April 14).

Check your city to find out when you can get in the game on a public hunt—or book a private hunt anywhere, anytime.

Erin Go Hunt: Top 5 Irish Sites & Sights on New York City Scavenger Hunts

Posted by on Monday, February 27th, 2012 under Hunts

Photo courtesy of David Shankbone

We’re celebrating St. Patrick’s Day by visiting our favorite places on our hunts in New York City that reflect the history of the Irish. Here’s our list:

• Irish Hunger Memorial: Imagine a square chunk of Irish hillside lifted out of the old sod and deposited in Battery Park City, hard by the Hudson, and you have this memorial to the Great Famine in Ireland of 1845 to 1852. Artists and architects collaborated to create this half-acre of rugged landscape, including an actual Irish cottage (above). The potato blight led to massive emigration, landing many an Irishman on New York’s shores. Hunters doing the Battery Park City edition of our Lost New York Scavenger Hunt have been startled to discover the memorial since it opened in 2002.

• Five Points: As you’ll see on the Gangsters’ New York Scavenger Hunt, there’s barely a trace of the old Five Points intersection, once the heart of Read More

The New York Times Hits a Triple with Watson Adventures

Posted by on Wednesday, January 25th, 2012 under Press

The New York Times has published feature articles on Watson Adventures three times. You can read the major profile of Watson Adventures from the front page of the Weekend section or the earlier story in which Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos raves about the hunts. Another Times story recommends our Family Hunts (see page 2). Bezos also sent Watson Adventures a personal letter of thanks in appreciation of a hunt his wife commissioned for his birthday. “I can’t think of a better way to bring people together and have fun,” he wrote. The Times has also featured our hunts numerous times in the Spare Times section.