The Famous Five Challenge
During the course of the camp, the patrols will be pitted against each other to consider who are the
true Famous Five.
This challenge is a framework for other challenges and a trading system (of smugglers gold) to allow
us to work this into lots of the activities that we run during the week.
The Mystery
Smugglers and treasure and lashings and lashings of ginger beer. But somewhere in this there is a
place and a means to get there.
The place will be revealed by solving a Logic Grid Puzzle - the clues to which will be collected by the
explorers during the week. The means to get there will be an orienteering map – they will be able to
get fragments of this map during the week.
Collecting Items
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Items (real or laminated tag representations) that can be used in physical activities (typically
things in hard to reach places). These will be things like: A means to open a box, the
coordinates of a Geocache, an encoded message. All can be resolved to Puzzle Pieces and
Coins.
Competitions – physical activities that can be given a competitive element. Coins will be
awarded depending on the Patrol’s success.
Daily Challenge Sheet – may or may not contain questions that can earn Coins.
Puzzle Pieces
These are small statements that give some facts about “the Mystery” to allow the explorers to find a
correct answer to the Mystery. They will either be a text statement or a map fragment
Map Fragments
Bits of laminated map that will be collected along with the coins and Puzzle Pieces. There will be no
means of getting these if missed, which will represent a disadvantage to those patrols who fail to
complete the challenges during activities.
Smugglers Coins
Coins that have been collected by Patrols can be used to balance the system by allowing them to:
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Get an advantage in a competition
Buy a missed Clue
Get help from a leader in solving a “Question”
Gain a time advantage in the Orienteering race.
Buy treats with any leftover coins on Friday evening.
John and Alice are the two owners of a chain of nine small-town motels. Each motel is in a different
state, and each town (including Greenfield) has a different name. Each motel is close to the town
center on the principal street; the streets have different names (including Willow) in each town.
Each town was founded in a different year (including 1925). One summer, John and Alice decided to
make unannounced 1-week visits to each motel in order to evaluate the local management. Each of
them picked a different order to visit the motels (they might have met during their travels). From the
given clues, determine for each motel the street it is on, the town and state it is in, when the town
was founded, and the order in which John and Alice visited that motel. (Sorry, these towns are so
tiny you won't find them on any map or history book!)
1. Alice's first stop was to London.
2. John watched a different episode of a TV series on Maple Street, in Port, and in the motel
that Alice visited fifth.
3. John visited the motel in Hunter, Delaware fourth.
4. Alice rented a different car for her visits to Cleanwater, the motel on Upper Street, and the
town founded in 1924.
5. The three motels on Ferry Street, the town founded in 1889, and in Greenup are, in some
order, the ones in Delaware, the one John visited second, and the one Alice visited sixth.
6. The town in Colorado was founded after 1902, when some other town was founded.
7. The town in Kentucky was founded 24 years before the town with Pleasant Street.
8. John ate at a different restaurant the weeks he was in Greenup, when he visited the motel
that Alice visited first, and when he was in the town founded in 1860.
9. John's fifth visit was to Summit, Missouri.
10. The motel in Wisconsin and the one in a town founded in 1902 are on streets with different
names.
11. Alice visited the motel in Delaware three weeks after she visited the town founded in 1902.
12. Alice's second stop was to Missouri, where she enjoyed visiting the museum displaying the
founding of the town in 1870.
13. John visited Wisconsin three weeks before he went to Pleasant Street.
14. Alice visited Newtown before she visited the motel on First Street.
15. The three towns with Upper Street, the one founded in 1923, and the one in Alabama are, in
some order, the one John visited eighth, the one Alice visited third, and Cleanwater.
16. John visited the motel on historic Main Street three weeks after he visited Iowa.
17. Six of the motels are the one in Greenup, the one on Spring Street, the one in a town
founded in 1924, the one in Tennessee, the one John visited fourth, and the one Alice visited
fifth.
18. John's eighth stop was to Maple Street in a town founded in 1860.
19. The sequence number of Alice's stop in Iowa was twice the sequence number of her stop on
Water Street.
20. John visited Delaware three weeks before he visited the town founded in 1888.
21. John's last stop was to Springdale, a town founded in 1901.
22. Alice counted a different number of churches within walking distance of her motels in the
town founded in 1888, in Tennessee, and in the state John visited sixth.
23. John found different defects with the management of the motel on First Street, in the one in
Ohio, and in the one that Alice visited fifth.
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1870
1888
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1901
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1923
1924
1925
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