scavenger hunt
noun
: a game in which players try to acquire without buying specified items within a time limit
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Since moving on from Crosby, the Packers have been on an 18-month scavenger hunt, searching high and low for a reliable kicker.
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Rob Reischel, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
For their date, Joan and Mark set sail on a yacht and sipped champagne before heading out on a scavenger hunt that host Jesse Palmer prepared for them.
—Dana Rose Falcone, People.com, 17 Oct. 2024
Visitors are also invited to embark on a mushroom scavenger hunt as part of the Ferry Building Mushroom Festival, which coincides with spooky season.
—Brittany Delay, The Mercury News, 30 Sep. 2024
This family-friendly good time offers more than 50 craft and flea market vendors, specials and giveaways, a petting zoo, pony rides, gem mining and geode cracking, a scavenger hunt, meet and greet with Turtleman, and a Sasquatch Shoot corn cob cannon.
—Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 11 Sep. 2024
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Rob Reischel, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
For their date, Joan and Mark set sail on a yacht and sipped champagne before heading out on a scavenger hunt that host Jesse Palmer prepared for them.
—Dana Rose Falcone, People.com, 17 Oct. 2024
Visitors are also invited to embark on a mushroom scavenger hunt as part of the Ferry Building Mushroom Festival, which coincides with spooky season.
—Brittany Delay, The Mercury News, 30 Sep. 2024
This family-friendly good time offers more than 50 craft and flea market vendors, specials and giveaways, a petting zoo, pony rides, gem mining and geode cracking, a scavenger hunt, meet and greet with Turtleman, and a Sasquatch Shoot corn cob cannon.
—Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 11 Sep. 2024
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