LibraryThing's First Ever Egg Hunt!

The First Annual Egg Hunt has ended! Below are clues, linked to their solutions. Click the "Egg #" labeled headers to see the page the clue points to.

Egg 1
Coiled metal;
To jump;
A water source;
And a thematic tag.

Egg 2
You and I, together
Eggsactly here, when one looks
You, a perfect ovoid,
I, who once raised chooks

Egg 3
An English Potter, but not the Quidditch one
Once wrote about a bunny in battle fierce.
With carrots and lettuce free under the sun
And a Farmer MacGregor his ego to pierce.
Madcap stories of a vegetable thief
—Liberator or vagrant?
Well, that’s all in your beliefs.

Egg 4
"Spring's pages are written in Mayflowers,"
Said the heroine who lived near the Lake of Shining Waters.
For 110 years she’s been collecting bowers
on the pages of this book we love to read our daughters.

Egg 5
No eggs hidden on this page—
Here they’re the star of the show.
When looking for subjects on LibraryThing,
This is where you’d go.

Egg 6
In your easter bonnet,
with all the frills upon it,
You'll be the grandest lady
in the ADAPTER ERASE

Egg 7
Fire born hodad horde.
Tho seven look for a bomb,
Epic! Thor wrote;
Kowabunga!

Egg 8
Children of all ages concur,
Eggs in this flavor are preferred:
Milk, caramel-filled, or cream.
The Wonka factory team
Hid golden tickets in these type of bars.

Egg 9
Sam Vimes, put to the test.
Lilac upon his chest.
Addressing a crowd,
The Duke he allowed
That he wanted an egg for his ‘fast.

Egg 10
Out in the Pacific
They stand static
The Navel of the World
What's this place called

Egg 11
Fiver forsaw the warren's destruction
Humans encroached with new construction
The rabbits must establish a brand new home
Over the English countryside they were forced to roam
Hazel took on the leadership role
As the group of adventurers reached their goal
The story of the rabbits that had to flee
Was made into a movie, then adapted for TV

Egg 12
This black bird sings all month long,
The promise of new books sweetens its song.
It won’t hatch on Sunday,
But take a gander on Monday,
To help your TBR pile along.

Egg 13
An apple a day won’t keep this Doctor away,
And his cooking skills might make you squeamish:
Served with a fox or in a box,
Won’t make you a fan of this dish.

Egg 14
"Yer a wizard!"
But too young to play this game.
The egg will sing some hinted things,
But not under duress of flame.

Egg 15
Vegetables of egg #18 beware!
This lagomorph might give you quite a scare.
A little spooky and often funny,
This book stars a garlic-averse bunny.

Egg 16
Which came first, the tag or the egg?

Egg 17
Gods are loved the world wide over
In spring, ones of bunnies, resurrection, and clover.
This well-known book examines Gods old and new
In one young country with some reconciling to do.
New bleeding edge Gods, like media and tech
Old ones who’ve written their last check.
For teen’s first read, Eoster is intense,
A fertility goddess and incense.

Egg 18
Rooting around on the site
Should “turnip” this food—
Savored by bunnies
And horses alike!

Egg 19
A Nursery Crime,
Set in modern times.
In a mystery that’s all cracked up,
Murder is a dish best served
Sunny-side up.

Egg 20
When you’re in a jam
And your calm has scrammed
enroll in a program
Called “Baby I am”
And go and tag a _____

Egg 21
Old children’s books had more disease
Trying to explain to small minds with ease
The effects of fever on old and small.
This tale of one rabbit loved to Real
Surely has intergenerational appeal
As a toy who has given it all.
Finally, like how childhood ends
The rabbit makes other friends
And is no longer a doll.

Egg 22
Sometimes the world changes on a book
Whole cultures shifting on a literary hook.
This 1960’s lyrical screed
Against the chemicals plants don’t need
Precipitated several large scale turns
Of government and environmental concerns.

LibraryThing's First Ever Egg Hunt is here!

Happy hunting, everyone! Many, many thanks to the LT members who chipped in to help write clues!

Woo hooo! First one in the basket!

Whee!

Super fun! I've gotten all of them except 5, 7, and 20.

>4 amanda4242: Fast work! Let us know if you need hints. I suspect you'll probably figure those out in short order, too. :)

Eighteen eggs found so far, but now I am in a land of more pondering for 2, 6, 7, and 20.

>6 shadrach_anki: For 6 the last two words of the clue are an anagram for the answer

Halfway through with 11...

Stuck on 7 and 20. Any hints?

>9 amanda4242: For 20 the last words all rhyme.

The egg counter is not working on iPad. It's showing all the eggs. Not just the ones found so far! Has anyone else noticed this?
It does say how many eggs I've found. But I expected the number of eggs to reflect this also. Am I mistaken?

>11 Sylak: The row of eggs has all been there, yes, but the actual text number is accurate.

>11 Sylak: Yes--same thing in Firefox on my laptop.

>9 amanda4242: Re: #7 you might consider the difference between surfers and hodads hodads hang out at the beach

Got them all but 2, 7, & 20. Any other clues on those?

>11 Sylak: 12 and >13 Marissa_Doyle: Yep, sorry about that. I think that's a JS thing—will have to ask Tim or Chris H.

>15 leahbird: #2 You're looking for a work page, with "____ & I" in the title, where blank is related to the theme

#7 This is the toughest for me, too. The "Thor wrote" bit is key

#20 This one's all about the rhymes. Thinking rhyming and gentleness.

>17 lorannen: And with those clues, I have found all the eggs!

Two left to find. Will have to work on this more later. One is hard and the other is probably way easier than I'm making it.

I've got sixteen. Will come back for the other six.

19 for me, stuck on 12, 13 & 14. I think I know where 12 is, but it’s not triggering when I go to the page. I’ll have another look tomorrow.

>1 lorannen: 'visit the LibraryThing page they point to' doesn't tell me what to do.

>22 quondame: The idea is that you solve the clue to figure out what page you should go to. All the pages in question are pages on LT—books (work pages), tags, etc.

>21 Maddz: For #12, let me know if you want a hint. It's possible you're on a related page.

Okay, just found 18 and I feel REALLY stupid now.

>24 lorannen: Never mind, figured this out.

Again, feeling DUMB!

I've got 15. My brain hurts. I'll continue tomorrow.

>17 lorannen: Thanks for the hints! I now have all of my eggs!

>23 lorannen: So I go to the author page for #3? Nothing egg like there. Is there an index?

>29 quondame: 3 is a book page

Okay, that's all 22. Only needed to ask the librarian Fiance for help with two.
I feel real stupid about a few that it took so long to find, but I still did it.

I need a bit of help with how to decipher the clues. I get a word or a phrase from some of the clues, but should I be getting a book title instead? If I search by that phrase, I get a whole list of books to work through.

I did get a book title for clue 3, but it didn’t net me an egg :0/

>24 lorannen: That’s weird, the egg is now found - and I used exactly the same method to get to the page...

Just 13 & 14 to go now.

>32 humouress: the riddles can be answered with specific book titles, or tags, or authors, etc.

>32 humouress: As I mentioned in >23 lorannen:, some of them go to work pages, some are tags, and some are other pages on LT. You can put your guess for #3 in a spoiler tag—I should be able to point you in the right direction if you're close.

You do need to be sure to visit the work page for clues where the solution is a title, rather than an individual book page. Work pages represent all editions/copies of an item on LT, and have URLs that look like this: https://www.librarything.com/work/3206242/. Each individual copy has a unique book page, which represent's a member's personal book. Book pages have URLs that look like this: https://www.librarything.com/work/3206242/book/102342501.

I managed to find 19. I'll look for the others tomorrow.

I have to say, though: Several of the answers are so very American, in that they almost presume an American childhood: non-USians will have a harder time figuring those out. (I'm thinking especially of numbers 4, 7, 15, 21).

Edit: and number 13, too. Dr. Seuss isn't really a thing where I'm from.

>17 lorannen: Those got me down to #7!

I was so stuck on a farmer angle for #2. And for whatever reason #20 would just not come to me as a word...

Thanks for the delightful egg hunt! Happy that it's been over-easy for the most part but egg-xasperated with myself that I can't figure out #7. Part of the fun, tho - will keep brooding...

>23 lorannen: >29 quondame: Thanks. I guess I was expecting something to be obvious when I reached the answer page, I only realized I had found some when I re-opened the Egg Hunt page!

I've reached 15 now, but will have to blow out cobwebs before trying for the rest.

>39 quondame: Hmm, it should be obvious ont he page itself when you find one. There's a little banner that pops up at the top of the window that says you've found an egg. What browser are you using? It may be that you have an extension installed that's blocking the pop-up.

>38 KatyBee: yep, #7 had me stumped for way too long. Thor what? Just say to yourself "Hey! er... Roald ____"

#7 remaining. The clues just aren't helping. I've tried every Brad Thor book as well as many of the other Thor ones. At least a few days remain.

ETA: >41 Sylak: Thanks!

I have 22/22 now!

Got 16 on my own so far. Will keep working before I check the spoiler hints.

ETA gotten 4 more on my own on the second go-around. Still working on 2, 6, 7, and 12.

And figured out that my first thought on 6 was correct and the thing that puzzled me was an anagram.

All but 12 now. I was looking at publishers, but so far no luck.

>42 thornton37814: Try searching Thor, Easter

>44 amanda4242: Just updated that I managed to find it.

>44 amanda4242: Thanks! I would never have gotten that one without your hint.

Well, I found all 22. Thank heavens for google and hints on #7. That was fun! Thank you, LT!

10 so far, will have to continue tomorrow.

All but #12, #14 and #19. Anyone have any helps?

>49 perennialreader:
#12: this is about a librarything feature, not a book or author
#14: a book in a famous series of seven
#19: a book that you can find if you search for the first line of the poem

>44 amanda4242: Thanks! What a natural thing to search and yet I never thought of it. Got all 22 now!

For #19, The first line should take you to the right answer, if you search around on it.

For #12, where on LibraryThing might you have seen a black bird?

I've managed to get them all, including #7...but #5 eludes me. And I know it's probably far too easy and I'm overthinking it ridiculously.

>52 Marissa_Doyle: Well, duh. I should have gotten those so thanks for the hints. All 22 found and my basket is full! Thanks for everyone's hints!

In real life, I could probably hide my own Easter Eggs since I am so forgetful but this is much more fun!

Thanks to LibraryThing for the "grownup" egg hunt!

I got them all! Thank you to all the people who contributed clues! Great fun.

>53 Marissa_Doyle: yes, you're overthinking it. What page might eggs be the star of?

Thanks for the clues to #12--all found now!

>55 tardis: You have no idea how much I was over-thinking it. And not pluralizing it. :/

>57 Marissa_Doyle: LOL

Thank you!! Finally got it - whew.

>44 amanda4242: Thanks. #7 finally completes my set of eggs. I believe that is the least held book of any referred to in this set of puzzles, and the only one I don't think I've heard of before. (I don't know that I heard of the Discworld one, but that one I just had to click down the list of books with Sam Vimes in them until it came up.)

>32 humouress: >35 lorannen: So these are the answers I've come up with so far. Still no eggs, though. I've looked under the titles on the work pages and as tags.

1. Spring 3. Peter Rabbit 4. Anne of Green Gables 5. eggs 6. Easter parade 8. chocolate 9. a Discworld book, possibly Guards! Guards! 10. Easter Island 11. Watership Down 13. Dr Seuss (I peeked at one of the other posts) 14. HP and the Goblet of Fire 15. Bunnicula? 16. chicken 18. carrots 19. Humpty Dumpty 20. lamb?

ETA: and by 'work page' I assume you mean click on the 'work details' link in the menu bar on the left?

Got them all now (after peeking at the spoilers). I have to agree that a US childhood does seem to help with these Treasure Hunts - over in the UK, the answer to 4 is not at all known (I was thinking of a completely different author) but the first book in that series is, and the author of 13 did not feature in my or my sister’s childhood (he’s now known and loved as her kids had the collection).

>61 humouress: If you refresh the clue page - does it show you as having any of the eggs? As I think at least five of those if you had clicked on titles would have given an egg - because it sounds like what I did (assuming you used the full title for #3 and #14 - but I think that should have given you #4, #11 and #15.

For 13 you actually need to find a book that references a specific food by said author - so you're on the right lines - I can be more specific in that if you need
For 9 you're on the right lines but it's not that one - it's part of that sub series of Discworld books though
For 19 Again the right character - but you're looking for a modern 'adult' book (as in not a children's book) which has that character's death in it another clue to help focusing on Nursery Crime might help

I'm only missing #8, #18 and #20 - I've got this feeling I'm going to be face-palming when I do work 8 and 18 out. 20 seems to be completely beyond me.

>36 Petroglyph: true, I hadn't heard about #15 and #22 before, but #7 is easier for Europeans. especially Scandinavians ;), no offending meant!!
Funny, when I was looking for 15 I came across 22 :)

12 15 eggs without help so far, a personal record.
And oh #1 is just one word, not title made by four....

One to go: #2. Finished. Three boxes full of eggs (one of ten, two of six)

Thank you, I got them all! It was another fun event!

I got 21/22. #20 got me stumped. "Program" has me think of an LT community project, but I think I tried them all...

>67 divinenanny: I got #20 eventually, but only after my brain came up with "giant clam". It helped to think of the season and related creatures..

>68 karenb: Thanks!!! That was a totally different direction from what I was looking at!

No recourse to spoilers so far and doing well but I am really struggling with number 17. Any clues?

>63 Peace2: Thanks for the help.

I tried refreshing the clue page, but it's still not showing any eggs. (I'm using Safari on both my iPad and iMac.) and I keep going back to check the clues, anyway so I'd expect them to pop up if I found any. I haven't seen any banners either. :0(

I'm enjoying the puzzles, just frustrated that I'm not getting the eggs. If I manage to get one, I'll probably work out what I'm not doing right and then I should be able to find some more. On with the hunt.

>68 karenb: thanks, that hint helped (not being a native speaker does not help with that word, though). 22/22!

Yay! I'm done! Once I tried clicking on tags for #8 and #18 (and making this one plural - it all went swimmingly!

>68 karenb: & >72 harmen: I struggled with #20 myself, and even though I am a native (American) English speaker, and I knew that it needed to rhyme, the best I could come up with for the longest time was ham. Um... that Easter entree in no way suggested gentleness as hinted by >17 lorannen:, so it was a clue that I had to chew over for a bit :)

>70paulmdh for the #17: Search for a book published in 2001 young country (ex colony) Gods .

I'm so sad that I had to look for clues to #7. I love those books, and have read that one, but was totally distracted into The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! Good job to the writer of that clue!

ETA: Believe it or not, #5 took me the longest. plural, not singular, sigh

>77 gilroy: Yeah! I wasn't the only one bitten by the TMNT distraction!

Found the last two this morning. Another fun hunt. Thanks!

Can't believe I've gotten 18 so far. Fun!

I've found every egg except #17 :( I am stumped! Any hints?

>75 Luisali:

Thank you for that. Great clue

>80 Pages_Aplenty: #17 It's a book, that recently had a well-received TV series adaptation air. The "country" part gives you half the title. Look at what's capitalized in the clue to get the other half.

>61 humouress: Sorry to hear you're having such trouble! For the work pages, try clicking "Main page" underneath the cover image, instead, and let me know if that doesn't get you some eggs.

For the non-work pages, your worded answers are correct. You should be looking at tag pages for those. Message me the URLs you've visited? Sometimes putting a URL inside a spoiler causes trouble.

That was fun. I only needed hints for #7. I have that book - but I haven't read it yet so have no idea how the clue leads to that answer :)

For #21 I used a tag mash of children's, rabbit and was very surprised to be told that nobody had used that particular combination.

>84 calm: That's surprising, indeed! Similarly, children + rabbit is empty!

>85 lorannen: Maybe people actually knew the book from the description :) So didn't need to use that LT feature to find it.

On my iPad and android cell phone, eggs in the yellow banner were showing from the beginning. (Even before I started the hunt.). So while I search for the eggs, I was waiting for them to hatch into bunnies, but it didn’t happen. Lol.

@Lorannen Got it! Thank you so much! I was looking in whole different direction! :D

Found some eggs, read the hints above, found some more eggs, but I'm really stuck on #2 and #20. Help?!

>73 Peace2: After exhaustive research into what food is actually eaten by rabbits and horses, you gave the hint that was between me and getting all 22! The accurate answer is really hay or grass, but we are here for literate not literal answers.

>89 Ennas: #2 the first and third line hint the title and the last is (part of the) content of the book.
#20 if you will translate the answer in Dutch, and pronounce if that was an English word, the rhyming is better to/in our ears

>91 EMS_24: Thanks, but I still have absolutely no idea. 🙁

#20
"Als je in de knoop zit
En je rust is verstoord
Schrijf je in voor dit programma
Genaamd baby ben ik
En ga een xxx labelen"

??

I googled #2 and found the book on Wikipedia.

>92 Ennas: It helps to be old and have watched old movies. A sense of humor helps too.

>92 Ennas: :) no, it's only the answer to be translated; see >17 lorannen:
i edited my spoiler >91 EMS_24:

sounds like the title of your book of Annet Schaap

>90 quondame: Glad to have helped :D

I got 20 from the extra clues, but I have no idea why that's the answer. I'm still stuck on 10, 18, and 21.

>92 Ennas: Ennas: It's an another Easter symbol, famous for its silence; in your library is connected with a Grimoire.
>81 paulmdh: paulmdh: I am happy to have helped you :D

>97 jjwilson61: For 18, Bugs Bunny likes to eat them

I found them all! what fun! I had trouble with a few of them.

>97 jjwilson61: #21: if you google tale of one rabbit loved to Realyou'll find the title; #10 it's a tag for a festive island.

Using clues given to others, I've gotten 21 eggs. I'm stuck on a clue that no one else has asked about, the last one #22. I searched wikipedia and google but I have no idea what this clue is referring to.

>102 masterdeski: Think of the season, and a noiseless quality...

>98 Luisali: That did the trick for #20! Thanks!

Still ??? for #2. I googled everything I could think of, but didn't find anything useful.

Edit: Gotcha! I found them all!

>103 Maddz: Try googling chemicals & book.

>104 Ennas: #2 afterwards i must think of a children's song in English, with a growing row of farm animal sounds, being that content and containing ongeveer the name of the author

>99 amanda4242: Thanks, I looked for the singular for some reason.

Yay, finally got them all.

That was fun.

>101 Luisali: Thanks. That's all of them.

I can't click on any thing.

>102 masterdeski: This was a famous environmental book from the 60's.

Forgot this was happening! Enjoyed the pirate day one, so here goes...

Got them all! 18 unaided, 4 using hints - thanks to those who left clues ☺

Didn't even know of the tag search function before this game! This was a lot of fun! Thanks everyone for your hints when I got stuck

Woo hoo - got them all with no additional hints!
Now I can go eat my chocolate bunny.

>109 guido47: What do you want to click?

I got 18 without hints, then got all/ This was fun- thanks for putting it together.

Got 20 out of 22 without hints but 7 and 20 required a bit of help from here. Thanks >17 lorannen: !

I got #9 by process of elimination, but I don't *get* #9, meaning why is that the answer? It's not obvious to me other than the character connection, but then I haven't read the Discworld books. Would someone just explain it?

I got 16 on my own then used your clues for the rest. What really helped was the hint for plurals. #7 messed me up because I checked Thor Heyerdahl's author page and when the egg wasn't there, I thought I was on the wrong track. But I must confess, even after getting the answer for #7, I still can't parse the clue.

Yeah 7 made absolutely zero sense to me.

This is so weird.

#5 was driving me round the bend. I clicked on the correct page I don't know how many times with no luck. Just tried again and got the egg.

>119 PhaedraB:

even after getting the answer for #7, I still can't parse the clue.

Nor I. What the heck is a "hodad" when it's at home? And what on earth does "kowabunga" have to do with anything? None of that clue makes any sense.

>118 sturlington: Sam Vimes and The Glorious People's Republic of Treacle Mine Road wanted a better Ankh-Morpork; their battle cry was "Truth! Justice! Freedom! Reasonably Priced Love! Anda Hard-boiled Egg!. I'm still mourning Terry Pratchett.

>122 Luisali:

Sam Vimes and The Glorious People's Republic of Treacle Mine Road wanted a better Ankh-Morpork

Huh?

>123 lilithcat: I had to look it up as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankh-Morpork

I've got all 22! Thanks to the people who left hints for number 7. :)

>118 sturlington: Your mourning is widely shared. He was a true treasure.

>115 Ennas: I just want to start the game! Nothing is happening :-(

>127 guido47: the clue will be for a book or maybe a tag or an author. Use the search bar to locate what you think you are looking for. Then look on the left side menu for ‘tag’ (or author or click on the book title from the search). If you have the answer on the right page there should be a banner on the top of the page. It takes a while to get used to how the game works.

Found all the eggs. Thank you to all for the helpful hints.

Thanks for all the clues, everyone. I've found all 22 easter eggs now that #20 finally clicked for me. "Baby I am" -- it's a baby animal associated with Easter. No idea what that has to do with tagging, though, but that was the final one.

#7, well, I too went down a Stan Lee hole, followed by a TMNT hole. A clue here led me to google a certain combination of terms that finally made me open the right LT page.

For those who still need a clue concerning #7: You're likely familiar with the name of someone who sailed to #10. Start there. One of his books has a super-relevant title.

Well, I surprised my self and managed to find 5, without any hints. I almost stopped at one. But I already have a lifetime membership, so I should get something else. Suggestions??

Up to 16 eggs. Some I got right off, a few I had an idea that wasn't working so had to check the clues. Since I'm off work tonight, I can do more hunting later. Even if I don't get the rest in the next 13 hours, I have my night off Wednesday to hunt.

I also submitted a clue that was for the same answer as #2 but my clue was not chosen. Interesting that multiple people had the same idea as I did for that particular LT page!

>127 guido47: You and me, babe. I've tried main pages, work pages, tag pages but they've all run out of eggs :'0(

Ok I am an idiot. This sounds like such fun but I can't figure out how to play. I understand that you figure out the answers for each egg using the clues given, but then what? I tried typing my answer in the search bar but then what? Help please!

>134 humouress: Are you using the old design, by any chance? I seem to recall people having trouble with it in previous hunts.

Hooray! Found all the eggs. Thanks for the clues, especially for #7. I went down the Stan Lee hole; the Norse Saga's and some other special-to-me holes.
>130 Petroglyph: was the trick I needed to get it.

I really think that the answer for # 20 should be CLAM. Clam's are good for Easter, don't you think?

>135 ajpohren:. The trick is to go to the right LT page. If you think the answer is an author, go to the author page, if it's a book, to the book page. If it's just a word, it's probably the tag page.

>131 Micheller7: why not 'gift' your spare LT membership to a relative or close friend and spread the love. :)

Found them all, with a little help from some of the comments above. Lots of fun!

Thanks to everyone who helped set this up.

>127 guido47: Go to the Egg Hunt page, read the clues and find the corresponding tag/book/etc page on LT. A pop up will tell you you found an egg. That's all. There is nothing to click and nothing is supposed to be "happening".

This was a lot of fun!

It's also interesting to read the US/UK childhood commentary as someone whose first language isn't English at all. I knew many of the children's books included by name (both US and UK based) but have never read them so it felt like stumbling in the dark for a bit. #4, on the other hand, was one of the first ones I solved. It was immediately obvious to me which author it referred to, it was only a matter of clicking on the correct title (as the quote is actually from a title further along the series - at least according to Ecosia, I haven't read them all).

#20 took me the longest and funnily enough I got it through the Dutch tips here! :D I always find rhyming clues and jokes a bit challenging, as there are so many different accents/ways to pronounce English words (and they so rarely "seem" to be rhyming until you read them aloud).

Like >65 EMS_24: I too thought that the word would be repeated in the title (and actually found one somewhat fitting candidate). For #20 I also tried to search for another food that rhymes and ended up with Lovecraft and manga...

Always a good time adventuring around LT!

>142 nerwende: :D , happy that i could at least help sòmeone. #11 and #16 were my first ones. #1 : I was trying to find a title made up by four different words.

YAY! Found them all! Thanks to all the clue givers! I'd be scratching my head and saying "HUH???" on a few with out them.

What larks! Thank you for the hunt and the various hints - this is great fun!

Managed to find them all. Not easy for a non-US citizen, not speaking English as a maternal language (I'm Flemish, my maternal language is Dutch), but the hints helped me find the 1 in 3 eggs I didn't discover without them :-)

Learned a few things while having some fun, so enjoyed the hunt. Thanks !

I wish all Easter egg hunts were as much fun as this one! Thank you so much :)

I’m absolutely new here today, and its morning here, but I am not yet familiar on how to maneuver around the site. The egg hunt looks like fun but I’m not getting past the first clue, simply because I don’t know how or whether I search site pages for the “thematic tag” or pick a random topic tag and search book lists to make it fit the other clues? Where am I is an easier question for me right now. I may have to come back after a coffee or three to get a clue! Can you help me understand how to get on the right page?

I’m glad to say that my coffee has kicked in finally and I have made it to 5 eggs so far. Still not sure about the process but will keep going.

>144 rastaphrog:

I've got them all (thanks to a) google, and b) hints here), and I'm still scratching my head over some of them!

Gah! Thank you all for the hints. I finally got them all, though #20 took me *way* too long! Someone earlier said "Giant Clam" and I couldn't get beyond it. That *had* to be the answer! How could it not? Once the right answer finally occurred to me it was obvious, but I was stuck on this forever!

>130 Petroglyph: Petroglyph: Thank you! #7 was my last egg and baffling me. ( I blame Chris Hemsworth)

>150 mmargironsidemcgean: Welcome. These Treasure Hunts are a great way to learn about some of the features of LT. I hope you have fun finding the eggs :)

If you click the magnifying glass without entering any text on the search site box it will take you to the search page where you can narrow your search to author, work, tag, etc. before entering what you want to search for.

Still stuck on 22. I've tried following the clues here and have found nothing.
Any further clues on this one?

EDIT:
I got it... Woo
For those still looking Try googling the season & chemical book

LibraryThing newbie here, too! I managed to get 21 so far, and I have an idea that my last open one, #12, might be a publisher (there are four with bird icons that I'm aware of -- Penguin, Puffin, W.W. Norton, and, well, Blackbird), but somehow I don't seem to be opening the right pages ... or I'm missing the blindingly obvious and it's something else after all.

#12: It's specific to this website. Think ARC.

>155 PocketSable: for #2 it's a book with a three words title a common Easter symbol and pronoun ; for #22 gloogle 1960’s book Against the chemicals plan.

Thank you! :D
I got them all!

Thoroughly enjoying dipping in and out of this. Not reverted to spoilers ... yet!

I'm still very much stuck on the 2nd and 12th clues.

I haven't used the site much, so the first clue for 12 didn't help much. Anyone have a slightly more specific clue?

>162 oOArankaOo: - There are links at the bottom of every LT page; one of those will take you to the answer for number 12

it's the first time that I managed to find a hidden treasure without looking at the hints! I am really happy :)

@calm and @PocketSable: Ooooh, OK -- thank you (re: #12). Got it!

@oOArankaOo: #2 is a book title that's hinted at in the first line. Most of the clue lines refer to "you".

I had 17 before I resorted to this thread. Now, after reading it, I am still stuck on #2.

I am still lost on #7. It's my last one!

>168 keeneam: The clue at >41 Sylak: is helpful with #12. Combine rhyming around that with this season.

Well, after two days of looking and checking all the hints, I'm still stuck on #5. Got all the rest!

>170 LibraryCin: look for the plural.

>170 LibraryCin: Well, it's a tag page and on what tag page would eggs be the star of the show

>136 amanda4242: Ahhhh. Yes, I am still on the old design. That must be it. Thank you; at least my bewilderment is resolved.

>171 tardis: >172 jjwilson61: Thank you. I saw those clues earlier and what I could think of wasn't the answer! Will have to think more about that one...

I can't find 22. Please help

>176 Melany30: I used google and the search terms book 1960s plants and effects of chemicals and it gave me the name of a book that I then entered into the search box on LT

16 down! I may have had google's help for one, but at least I got 15 legit! I've scrounged some hints for the last ones, and I think I've got ideas. Some of these seem downright cryptic! Working on 2, 7, 6, 12, 19, 22. 22 is before my time, so I'm guessing keywords and hoping.

>172 jjwilson61:

Well, what IS a "tag page?"

Thank you.

Help - I keep entering Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory OR Chocolate OR Wonka Bars or Wonka Golden Ticket Bars

AND Easter Island ...

Why do none of these work? Thank you.

>79 vancouverdeb: Search the word/s you're looking for and you get a list of related books. Look to the left of the page, and you'll see a list of different areas in LT, starting with Your Books .

The next section down is Bibliographic, and ten subsections down, you'll see the label Tags. Click that and you're on the relevant Tag Page for your search term, showing a list of related tags. Click on one and see if you've found an egg :-)

Finished them yesterday. IIRC I got about 17 or so before I started Googling, then looking at clues. Nicely done, though I, too, am still puzzled by one or two of them.

Thank you, I was wondering where the filters were.

>181 Bookwomble: Thanks for the hints, but I was able to find all 22 eggs yesterday morning :-)

>180 m.belljackson: Marianne, for both of them , try looking for " tags"

>179 m.belljackson: Tag pages are pages on LibraryThing that let you see all the books that have had the same tag applied to them by LT members. Most tags (especially those involved in this hunt) are subject-type, i.e. "biography", "cooking", etc. Some are more personal—I, for example, use year tags to keep tabs on all the books I've read in a given year.

Tag pages look like this (NB: this one isn't hiding an egg!): https://www.librarything.com/tag/biography

Oh my gosh! I earned 22 eggs!!! This was fun! But #6 & 7 were hard! Funny, I'm here at my in-laws' house for Easter and my parents-in-law and aunt all knew the answer to #6. My excuse was that I was born 26 years later after the film was released, ha ha.

Egg 7 - haha! I was obsessed with this as a young teen. Was using the location for a different clue when I stumbled across this egg. Thanks for the fun!

Would someone please explain how the "clue" in #7 relates to the actual answer (which I finally got thanks to the spoilers)? Because I just don't see any connection.

Yay, got 'em all! Thanks to >50 norabelle414:, as the #12 was the very last, and most confusing, for me.

>187 tammyhennig: #6 That is no excuse. ;)

Thank you

What amazes me is that of all the books that were referenced, I had read ALL of them except Thor Heyerdahl's book on Easter Island--but I had read his Kon-tiki).

I thought the spoiler was an example of what to do with Thor. I had "throat" and "herald."

I got the author with another tip. OMG how did I miss that guy? I've BEEN to the museum!

PS: how do I spoiler stuff?

>195 WeeTurtle: Spoilers are like other HTML tags so it is {spoiler} text of spoiler {/spoiler} replacing } with > and { with the less than symbol

Thanks!

#22 done!

I want to say I found it with a Boolean search in my University's catalogue and research databases, but no....Google.

>173 humouress: I'm trying now with my son's account, which is on the new system. Although I still don't see banners, after I do a trawl through some pages linked to what I think are answers and go back to the clue page, it shows that I (may) have gained an egg.

So if I do manage to find enough eggs, the badge will go to him. And I already gained him a helpers badge by doing some work separations through his account. Ah, the sacrifices a parent has to make ;0)

>198 humouress: And now I have 16 eggs! Yay!!

ETA: 17

This was really helpful, thank you so much! I don't think I would have found it without this hint :)

Success! Thanks again for yet another brilliant treasure hunt. Even though I got the answer, for the life of me the clue to #7 makes no sense at all!

I've done it! And this time I used this thread for less than half of the clues.

I also discovered that people use tags for the strangest things, hehe

>202 ScarletBea: Yes, the tags for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory are quite something, when you look at the expanded list.

Never used the Search Site field as often as with the egg hunt - found 10 quite by myself and 8 with help from spoilers here.

Edit: And found the missing 4 with help from spoilers and google, too. Thanks for the fun!

I found them all!!! (with some help from google and a spoiler hint for #7) Fingers crossed for a LT tee!

Still stumped by 6, 7 and 12.

Ah! #6 is one of mine. It's an anagram. ;)
#7 Thor. Isn't he the guy who also went across the Pacific in a Raft?
#12 Early birds (and lucky ones) catch the bookworm. Now review.

>44 amanda4242: Thanks! Finally got it but still don't see how the clue connects. Beach? Hodads? Harrumph.

>207 Sylak: re: 12. Ok, got the hint, but don't know what type of page it could be. Not in Groups or Community, tags or Zeitgeist. I usually see it in the State of the Thing email but don't click on it.

I've thought of about 7 or 8 options and tried both singular and plural on the tag pages and still cannot figure out #5! I may just miss out on that one.

>210 LibraryCin: You've got the right idea of where to look but the first line tells you what to search for

>209 stringcat3: The link to it is at the bottom of the page.

>210 LibraryCin: It's the simplest of all possible options. You could say that the relationship of the clue to the tag is the identity operation

>211 Peace2: >213 jjwilson61: Wow! Can't believe I tried so many other things first! Got it now. Thank you!

Phew! This was fun and also challenging. I might have ripped out some of my hairs … Thirteen riddles I got by my own (#17 was the most easy one and I loved it!), for the rest - especially those connected to US/UK childhood books – I had to check on the other members clues. I am from germany and really don't know any of these books so I had to google them. But even with reading all the clues twice #2 nearly drove me nuts! It took me forever to finally find the solution as nothing seemed to make sense. xD

Thanks for the hunt!

For those who don't see the pop-up even when they're on the correct page, I had the same problem the first time I did one of the hunts, going back to the hunt page and finding I had gone to the correct page without realizing it.

The pop-up is not one that will cover any of part of the page. It's a thin notification bar right across the top edge of the page just under the header, about the same color and width as the bars above talk posts. I looked right past it any number of times because my attention was on the data on the page, not the top bar. But once I saw it, now I see it!

This was fun! And more difficult than the Valentine's Day Hunt, I think. Thanks to everyone who posted clues :)

>208 stringcat3:

You are not the only one who cannot figure out the connection between the clue and the answer!

Found about half on my own (including some I haven't read but had heard a title referenced somewhere), the rest with hints.
Frankly the first time ever I have heard about the #15 and there are couple of hints that still don't really make sense to me even after finding the answer but...fun game.

I didn't say this before - but thank you to all who wrote the clues (even though some of them were really really tricky ;p ) and to all at LT who arranged and fixed it so this can happen. When's the next one? I'm really enjoying them now (this is only the second treasure hunt I've actually taken part in)

>221 Peace2: 19 September I'd expect. Circle the date in your ship's log! :D

Have these Treasure Hunts ever been done without Tags?

Thank you and Thor was found, yet I clicked on a bunch of WILLY WONKA's and nothing.

Is # 5 a tech thing or just so obvious that some of us SIMPLY cannot see it:
I've tried Operations like Click and Search, then Tag...and still am clueless.

This is my first Treasure Hunt and am surprised to be so close to completion at 19!

>224 m.belljackson: Really obvious, nothing hidden, and a tag page.
What are Willy Wonka's golden bars made of that is associated with Easter? And also a tag page.

And also a big thank you to the creators of the Egg Hunt. It was fun to have one for adults instead of just watching all the cute pictures of kids' egg hunts on the news. ;-)

I've trad the clues about #2, and I still have no idea. Any more hints?

>227 al.vick:

What is ovoid? And I. A title.

Number 9 is going to drive me crazy! I have followed all hints, links, tags, author, etc. And nothing is working. What am I missing?

>229 mmargironsidemcgean: Just go through the Guards (aka Sam Vimes) books one by one and one of them will give it to you if you cannot figure out the exact book from the description

So next year, can we hunt the afikoman?

>225 ronincats:

Thank you = finally found Willy's Chocolat and the missing from memory Mythology book,
and so am at 21...and yet, still so far...
I've tagged all the nouns in the Clue...
what's more is there to due?

(nod to National Poetry Month)

Went back and tried EACH noun and found the "really obvious,"
only because I was sure I had already tried it, which I had, but not quite...

22 !!!!! !!!!! !!!!! !!!!! !!

Oh wow, glad I saw this posted on Facebook! I haven't read through this thread yet but I'll most likely be looking for hints sooner or later.... This seems somewhat easier then the past Talk Like a Pirate Day treasure hunts I've done here, I've already gotten 4!

Thanks much AnnieMod

Woo! That was fun! I managed to get them all, but #7 without help. Thanks for a neat challenge.

>104 Ennas: thank you Ennas that got it for me! all 22 now.

That was a great deal of fun.

That must have taken a great deal of time and effort. Very nicely done. Very enjoyable.

Thank you so much.

Thanks so much everyone for all the help and hints, I made it finally and found all 22 eggs! I still don’t know which found the 9 but wherever I was it finally clicked! Yay! That was fun! A better challenge than I have had in a long while.

Finished with some help from the hints. Thanks all.

On #7, Yeah, he is. I was laughing at myself because I've been to the museum in Norway that shows what he's done, and it even had the island stuff, but I had no idea he wrote things.

Even with the clues given here - I can't figure out #17. Help please?

On #17, the clue really has more information than you need, I think. It's distracting. I got it more on instinct as it reminded me of a book I've already encountered.

Focus on lines 4, 5, & 6. It's fiction.

Stayed up past my bedtime and got everything except for 7, 12, 18, and 20. I'm going to resist hints for now and see if I have any inspiration in the morning.

I found them all!

#2 was my last puzzle. Could hit myself for its simplicity. Thank you for the two delightful evenings.

Whew! Best egg hunt since I was a kid... thanks to everyone who shared hints. Have a happy spring!

WeeTurtle:
Got it! Thank you.

>212 jjwilson61: Thanks! I was doing the hunt on my phone and that bottom row of links wasn't showing up. Done! Still annoyed by #7.

I was pleased to see Sam Vimes make an appearance - thanks, rosiekitty!

>231 lilithcat: Yes please. Pirate hunts were nice not religious "holiday" hunts, and I mean, "SantaThing" sounds far cuter than HolidayThing would, but, let's not make all kinds of religious (particularly just one religion) stuff on LT, yeah?

And I've been reading John le Carre: "Our Game" these days and came across farmer MacGregor which I only noticed because of the egg hunt!

>250 .Monkey.: Also a good reason to do more hunts! I mean, with our international community, there's bound to be a holiday everyday we can use. Also, more things in different categories (other than spring-easter and winter-christmas) to find.

>252 divinenanny: Yeah I'd totally support doing a wide variety. :)

>231 lilithcat: Perhap. But, with all the best of intentions I'm not so sure it is a great idea. I'm all for diversity, but I wouldn't want to start a mini religious war on LT with different fractions jostling for equal attention.
I don't see celebrating Christmas and Easter as religious myself, and as far as I can tell I'm in good company. After all, point to the bible passage that references '..and the Easter Bunny came down the path and bestowed colourful eggs to all her children.', or '...and all those who had been naughty that year received none.'. As far as I am aware, both of these celebrations predate the Christian era, and are concerned with marking agricultural points in the year (Okay, minus the Santa part - as >250 .Monkey.: mentions; but certainly the feast itself is to do with paring down the livestock for the winter months and eating meat when crops were scarce. And Easter marks the spring when the earth comes back to life - hence eggs and chicks, and rabbits as a fertility symbol I would guess). So, pretty down to earth stuff that relates to every man, woman and child on the planet (almost). Unfortunate that the 'true' meaning of Christmas time has been lost (yes the irony is on purpose). Personally, I'd much rather see a spooky Halloween ghost hunt! :D

>254 Sylak:

I don't see celebrating Christmas and Easter as religious myself

I don't know where you are, but where I am, there is absolutely no question that these are religious holidays.

>254 Sylak: I get what you are saying. But it depends on your point of view. I don't consider myself religious, yet I celebrate both.
Which came first the feast or the religion?

I mean, that's great for you and all, but a great many people do see them as very important religious holidays. Obviously any individual is free to celebrate them however they see fit, or not, and attribute any meaning they want to them, or none. But it doesn't change what they are. And what they are is christian holidays. How is it possibly starting some sort of war to do silly little hunts using different religious & non-religious themes? How is it any less so by only using one religion's days?

I am most definitely in favor of dumping any religious themes and keeping with those that are less exclusionary, like pirates and ghosts, "pi day" etc. But if religion is going to be on the cards, it should certainly not be a single religion.

>257 .Monkey.: There's "Talk Like Jane Austen" day observed on October 30, which would just seem to be perfect for an LT treasure hunt.

I'm sorry I said anything. My post was meant to be a bit light-hearted. I'm in favor of more kinds of hunts, not fewer.

>258 Marissa_Doyle:

I don't know that one, but I keep waiting for LT to observe "Talk like Shakespeare" Day*, which is coming up very, very soon!

*There are those who observe it on April 12 as "Earl of Oxford Day", but they're wrong.

>257 .Monkey.: You are both correct of course. I think the point I was trying to make was that (no disrespect) Christianity absorbed a lot of existing celebrations in to itself, renaming and theming them as Christian - one of the reasons for it's fast growth in fact. But people have been celebrating Christmas and Easter under different names long before that. If that faith had never come into practice, people would still be celebrating the feasts because they transcend belief and are based on physical manifestations of our planets natural cycle. The same can not be said of many important religious observations.
As I see it, it is unfortunate that these feasts have been labelled as 'Christian'. But, I wouldn't go so far as renaming them. Call it Christmas, or the Winter solstice. Call it Easter, or Spring Equinox. It is the coming together of the family and friends and the season of good will that is important.
But, I think we are hijacking this thread. ;)

I vote for

Oh, I would love to do a future hunt themed around 'National Woman's Day' or 'Black History Month' or 'Labor Day'.

I'm under the impression that Easter and Christmas are a bit unique in that there are acknowledged secular celebrations for them (eggs and candy, Santa and, um, cookies). I think that unique aspect lends them well to having fun clues developed, that feature, broadly, cute things like 'the title of a book that features a bunny' or 'remember when that one character held up an egg that one time?' Personally, I'd have a really hard time thinking of solutions to clues that had a religious element (regardless of religion).

>259 lilithcat: Don't be silly. We are all friends here. :)
I can disagree with .Monkey or even yourself but still happily accept you all to my friends list anytime.
Yay! to more hunts - agreed. :)

>262 MyriadBooks:. Oh! Good ones. :)
If you want to create a poll like my one, just type vote as open and closed tags either side of your subject e.g. National Woman's Day.

>264 Sylak: Thanks! I don't think I want to, but it is good to know how.

Thank you NEVER would of gotten that!

>254 Sylak:

Random comment, but if we're aiming to be globally aware, even thinking of Easter as a "spring" holiday assumes a certain northern hemispheric orientation, right? Because in the southern hemisphere, spring marks when things come back to life...around September through December, I think?

Also, I love hunts and especially adore the idea of a ghostly one.

>261 Sylak:

But people have been celebrating Christmas and Easter under different names long before that.

People have been celebrating mid-winter and early-spring festivals for a very long time, that's true. Christmas and Easter may have absorbed some aspects of how northern Europeans celebrated those, but that doesn't mean Christmas and (especially) Easter aren't religious holidays with meanings for those who celebrate them that differ from the seasonal aspects. Christmas in the US is fairly secularized, but Easter isn't to nearly the same extent.

Just popping in to say I hear you all on the religious holiday feedback. While the timing and springtime-y theme is certainly auspicious, we aimed pretty carefully to steer clear of overtly religious clues/pages/themes. If nothing else, by virtue of being the small staff that we are located in (mostly) one country, we've certainly got blind spots, and we don't want to leave anyone feeling left out (or potentially offended). Your points are well taken, and I'm making note of all suggestions for other non-religious treasure hunt ideas—I love the ghost idea in particular. If anyone has feedback on the matter they'd rather not share publicly, my inbox is always open (loranne@librarything.com).

Finally got them all.

* 1 I got by total accident looking for another
* 1 from random rhyme guessing
* 4 required hints from this page
* 16 from personal knowledge or power googling...

I too would certainly like to see more treasure hunts. I think all types of foci would be great - religious, secular, pagan, historical, geographic, anthropological, sociological, whatever.

The hunts we’ve had have taught me about many things beyond the mere mechanics of finding and invoking a tags page. I had to google “afikoman” when I ran into it in these comments - fascinating - and I remember in an earlier hunt learning a lot about a religion that some pirates followed in Roman times. These hunts and tidbits from other worlds of viewpoints are what make the hunts so much fun. More, please!

>231 lilithcat: >261 Sylak:

Sure, Halloween GHOST Hunt will work - yet Halloween celebrations in our local
school district got cancelled because of GHOSTS conflicting with Asian religions.

Also, hard to get around religion when our monthly calendar is based on gods,
as well our years begin with the birth of a Christian savior. In my 4th grade classroom,
I always added the Jewish and Buddhist calendars to the Year of Our Lord one.

I'd like to point out that LT called this event, at least in this thread, an Egg Hunt, and didn't mention the word Easter.

help please, i still can't get #17

>274 katurner:
That tip is about a book by an author living in America who usually writes fantasy. It's about Gods. Specifically, the Gods in his country.

>273 jjwilson61:

True. Several of the clues referenced Easter, but none were explicitly Christian. (The only mention of religion was in the clue for #17, which is not exactly the sort of thing that fundamentalists of any variety will find congenial.

At this point people are talking about a lot of stuff. As a raised-Christian atheist I didn't find the hunt at all overtly Christian, since it is, as you say, a "spring" egg hunt. Easter itself, though, is another matter.

thank you, i'll work with that, but i'm from canada, and my brain is still asleep. this has been lots of fun though. i still have till friday.

i got it, should have seen that one, heard of it. thank you for the help. got all of them now.

I'm all for more LT-hunts! Eggs, treasure or ghosts, religious or not, I don't care. :-)

Thanks for this one! It was fun! Very nice to know about it in advance, and very comfortable to have plenty of time.

Got 'em all! I did revert to a couple of the hints, and the rest came to me in a flash of... well, I can't say brilliance. Clarity, then. Thanks for setting this up--it was a lot of fun.

Yay! Got them all. Needed help for #9. Googling name got me soccer player and a dead end. >63 Peace2: Thanks for the help.

Found them all, thanks for all the help...a few of these really stumped me and this board helped me get them!

I need help with 4, 9, and 14. please and thank you.

Ugh, this is seriously costing me sleep! And I still can't find #1! Lots of fun though! :-)

>283 hredwards:

for #4, google the quote in the first line. You'll find out what book that's from.
for #9, see >63 Peace2: and >60 prosfilaes:
for 14, well, that's a reference to this image, which is from a Harry Potter movie. Click through that series, or go directly to the book in that series that has participating in a game he's too young for.

Just got them all. Lots of fun!!

>284 Vonini: Each clue leads to the same single word, which can be spelled with a small or capital letter. And we are in it right now.

Got them all - with help from the hints for the last half dozen. #7 was purely by accident. I read the clue for #10, and knew exactly which book it would be so I went to the page and collected my egg, then came back and found that I hadn't in fact gotten #10. It took a while to figure out that I'd gotten #7. I still don't understand that clue.

> 288 lol, I did the same thing with #9 and #13

Well that was fun!!! Finally found them all and the last one was #7, tricky one that;). Thanks again LT for yet another fun event!

>61 humouress: Try making some of the tags plural.

#22 was bothering me so much! I finally figured it out, and I'm so happy. Really mad at myself that the name just wouldn't come to me!

>254 Sylak: Personally, I'd much rather see a spooky Halloween ghost hunt! :D

Ooooh, that would be fun!

I'm way late to the game, but I think I am getting some of them but I don't see an egg. can someone help me on how I get the egg on the page?
When I am not logged in I find the egg, but when I log in the egg does not show up. HELP!

>294 MinDea: You don't get an actual egg, you get a little banner across the top of the page saying you found one. It's easy to miss. Look right at the top. It's about the same color as the header above each Talk post, all the way across.

If you're not logged in, it doesn't know who found the egg, so when you log in, it doesn't show, if that's what you mean. You'll get checkmarks on the clues page by every one you answered by visiting the correct page.

Wooo! Took some looking at hints but I finally got them all.

I see the banner when I am on the page when I am not logged in, but when I am logged in no banner and when i go to the easter egg page with all the clues it still shows 0 eggs and no check marks

>297 MinDea: Just curious but you did find the eggs while you were logged in didn't you? If you go to the page of clues, the link is in the first post, it will tell you at the top of the page how many you have found.

That was fun! Thanks to all for the hints! Fortunately, I only needed a few.

#287 Mstrust
Duh! I just got it when I was brushing my teeth! I got Bunny Hopwell's first spring, I got really excited because that just HAD to be it. But it wasn't. It was way easier! ^_^

It's always fun, although I öhad to peek at the clues. And I am still completely stumped by #19. What does this refer to?

>301 MissWatson: For 19: You're looking for a work. The first line actually refers to a series (but the egg is on one of the work pages)

>302 divinenanny: Thank you! This makes my day!

Found 19 eggs. #8 appears to be chocolate but so far nothing I've gone to has revealed the egg. Any hints to narrow it down?
Also haven't found 9 or 17

>304 Hedgepeth: You are correct with your guess for #8. You can find it under one of the Bibliographic headings in your search. It'll be top ranking. :)

thanks for this i needed to know how to find the eggs as well appreciate it

#17 Take a quick peek at the Folio Society home page. ;)
#9 Some random series of humorous fantasy books called Dishearth, or Saucerglobe, or something like that? Apparently the author amassed a small following.

>307 Sylak:
Did you mean DiskEarth? Or FlatGlobe? or perhaps PlateWorld?

I got them all, but #2, #6, and #7 gave me a tough time! #6 should have been a gimme for me, but I got tangled up with the mysterious last two words.

Finally got all of them. Thanks Sylak - never would have looked at the Folio Society

Loved doing this. A Thanksgiving or Christmas one could be fun

Found my first egg! Many more to go!! Thanks for the fun hunt Library Thing!!!!

Here's another idea for next year (we missed it this year): Hug a Medievalist Day! (I can't believe I didn't know about it.)

Even a more specialize hunt would be fun such as a hunt that only includes 1001 books your need to read before you Die.

>314 ALWINN:

I like the idea of specialized. I don't like the idea of "specialized" that's really just "you can only play if you go buy this one particular book".

>314 ALWINN:

I don't know how you'd do that. I bet my idea of which books you need to read before you die differs from yours!

>316 lilithcat:

It's a book. 1001 Books to Read before you Die. One I have no interest in, and even if I did I wouldn't like the idea of LT doing a semi-official promotion of it.

> 317

Ah. I agree with you.

The 1001 list is fun, but certainly not anything to take seriously. If that sort of thing were to be a theme, though, there's lists made by other places available online as opposed to in a book you're intended to buy (though you can find the list itself online various places so it's not like you're really obligated to buy it even if interested in the titles on it), one of those could serve just fine for the theme. Hell even Gutenberg has a list of like the top downloaded titles from there.

Can anyone give me clues to #15, #17, and/or #19 please? Thanks!

I like the idea of themes such as geographical (collect maps), historical (collect some kind of artifact), botanical (collect a flower) or such. I think these themes could be better suited to an international audience.

Just my thoughts...

>320 janerawoof:
#15: Think of what kind of creatures are garlic-averse. The egg is on a work page.

Arbor Day's coming right up.

>322 perennialreader: All sound like nice ideas to me.

I got most of them myself, but needed help with numbers 2, 6, 7, 14, and 20. The funny thing is that I knew every book mentioned, though I don't think I've read _any_ of them. No, I have read at least one Bunnicula book.

2 was a face-palm - needed the hint and then remembered the title
6 I understood completely (singing it in my head), and then spent forever searching for anagrams... bah.
7 I only got because of hints - I had no idea what a hodad was before I read >14 btuckertx:, and still don't know what the bomb line is about. But the Easter Island statues are made of volcanic rock (thus fire-born), and I know Thor - though trying to remember his last name was a pain!
14 I figured was Harry Potter - the "yer" was a hint for me. But I haven't read any but the first, and I just had to go down the list.
20 I got totally stuck on ham, and it wasn't until >130 Petroglyph:'s spoiler that I figured it out. Bah again.

Lots of fun, as usual!

I do celebrate both Easter and Christmas - but the religious and secular aspects are quite separate in my head. There is a Lenten link to all the eggs, but you have to think about it - and there's no reason for colored eggs there. So eggs and candy and rabbits have nothing to do with the Resurrection, as Santa and presents and reindeer and so on have nothing to do with the Birth. I hadn't realized how separate they were for me until I read this thread.

I can see the point about separating it further, though, or using (the secular sides of) other religion's holidays too. Egg hunt - maybe Spring hunt? Which (as someone pointed out) will only confuse those in the Southern hemisphere... And I hate to say it, but Halloween is also a Christian religious holiday (All Hallows Eve or All Saints Eve) - it's just not a very important one, so the secular aspect has taken over completely. Christianity has thoroughly infected modern Western culture, perhaps even more so for non-Christians who don't recognize off-hand where some things are coming from.

Don't care. Hunts are fun, themed hunts are fun, we can come up with some good ones without linking it to a religious thing. And the more hunts there are, the less the ones with any sort of religious link stand out.

I regret that this thread has turned into a should we have " religious holidays or not." I don't think there is a way where you can't offend someone . Really this is just an egg hunt.

For me in Canada, what is Arbor Day? We don't celebrate it in Canada. I take it is something to do with trees.

I don't think you can hold a hunt without someone getting their girdle in a knot about something. There are Christian's, non - Christians, - every kind of people here on LT. I'm fine with a Halloween Hunt, but by the same token, I know Christians who think Halloween is evil and do not celebrate it.

Or take what is" Remembrance Day" in Canada,. There are pacifists who disagree with it, and others who regard it as sacred .

Or Pirate's Day. No problem to me, but perhaps those have been badly affected by pirates as a refugees might be offended. My point is really, it's just a hunt for eggs for fun. Participate or not, as one sees fit.

>163 calm: Thanks for the hint; I was driving myself crazy because I kept going to the page and not getting anywhere! All 22/22 found! :)

Thanks for the fun egg hunt! And thanks for the helpful clues. I was able to get 16 on my own but I’m a bit of a completest so I liked finding them all.

Hopefully we’ll have more of these - no matter what they’re called or the occasion.

Thanks for all the clue help. I managed to get 19 of 22 without assistance, but needed clues for 3 of them. And one title I'd never heard of, so most of the clues didn't even help. But, in the end, 22 of 22. That was fun!

*groans* 20 out of 22 found now. Some of these seemed so much easier then the normal Pirate Day clues, but a few are totally stumping me. Took me an embarassingly long time to figure out #5. All I have left are #6 and #22... With #6 I saw somewhere in this thread that the last two words are an anagram, so I actually put them into an online anagram maker.... Still can't figure it out.

edit: The religion talk in this thread is interesting.... I would've never seen any sort of religious leaning with this Egg Hunt. In fact the only place 'easter' is even mentioned in connection to this hunt is clue #6, and it's just talking about a bonnet. I get that some people see something that takes place on a religious holiday and immediately think of religious connections, but it doesn't always have to be about that. Egg hunts (or present giving in December, or whatever) can happen completely separate of any religion. (I do totally love the idea of more hunts on more holidays though!)

>331 Heather19:
For 6: One word in the anagram is EASTER. And we're looking for a movie
For 22: This is a non-fiction book about pesticides that made a big impact in 1962. The season is in the title.

mary had a little ____

thats for #20

>332 divinenanny:
Thank you so much! With those clues I was able to get my final two, and this is the first LT hunt that I've actually been able to get them all. Awesome!

Thanks, LibraryThing!! These hunts are so much fun. :-)

I ended up staying online longer than I planned last night - just had to get those last few.
Yah! Got them all!

Even with all the hints, I still don't have 7. Help!

Nevermind, I found a hint I missed before and now I have all the eggs. yay!

*Edited* I now have all but one egg - 5 flat has me stumped. Still, I am trying to get them all!

type the author's name in with the Island name. Should pop up.

>341 ChinaMom64:
It's a tag page. As >76 MrsLee: said, it's in the plural. And the actual tag is mentioned in the riddle.

That was fun, found all eggs. A few with a little help of the spoilers above, so thank you all for those.

Thanks, Petroglyph - I saw those, too. I guess I am just particularly thick-headed today, but I finally found it. Not really sure how. :)

Finally found all of the eggs with some help above. That was both fun and a little difficult!

>332 divinenanny: And we're looking for a movie

Well, a song really, the lyrics are to a song. And googling the first line of the clue would have given it to you.

>327 vancouverdeb: My point is really, it's just a hunt for eggs for fun.

And, after all, the term "easter egg" now has wide currency in games and other media. Etymology notwithstanding, that usage really isn't religious in character.

>347 paradoxosalpha: A while back I had an internet argument with a Jew who was bothered by how much Christmas permeates our culture. I think it was specifically about Christmas trees and I was arguing that a Christmas tree had nothing to do with Christianity. But I finally had to concede that the lack of connection was only my perception and his perception was equally valid, or at least there wasn't anything I could do about it. The same thing applies to Easter egg hunts I imagine.

I had forgotten there was going to be an Egg Hunt until I got #12 completely by accident!

I guess my point was maybe a specialized hunt centered around the 1001 list or Jane Austenish type etc. That way no toes are stepped up on regarding religion and such. Or books into movies I don't know just a thought so everyone can enjoy the hunt.

>331 Heather19: For #6, the anagram generator spit out more results then I was willing to go through, but at the top I noticed A ESTER ...

I'm throwing in my vote for a Halloween hunt. That sounds like fun. Maybe there could be genre hunts, like Mystery, Sci-Fi, Travel... seems like no one could be offended by that. *She says warily*

>352 mstrust: I don’t think genre hunts would be a good idea because they would likely exclude people who don’t read that genre. I would suggest something more generic like colours or numbers as that would be inclusive.

I hadn't read several of the books in these clues, yet I was able to figure them out. Not having read the book wasn't a hindrance at all, as they're word puzzles. I like to think that members of a book site would enjoy a bit more of a challenge than colors.

That was so fun! I didn't know several of the books, but sleuthing it out was pretty neat.

I got 16 on my own and the rest with a little assistance from the always helpful LT community. Thanks all!

>354 mstrust:
Yup! There are *always* multiple books in these hunts I've never read, and that's actually half the fun, trying to figure out a clue when you have very limited knowledge of the books in question. This hunt, my reading limitations hampered me in clues 4, 7, 9, 11, 14, 17, 19, and 22, but that definitely didn't mean I didn't enjoy the hunt.

Stuck on Egg Number 17. Clues please! JUST FOUND IT!! WHOO-HOO, basket is filled. This was great, Thank You!!

>358 Cheryl-L-B: Ooh that's a hard one to think of clues for... Let me try: It's a work. The writer is a famous fantasy/fairy tale writer. He's written graphic novels, children's books and novels. This one and one other have been made into tv shows and radio plays. You're looking for a work.

>327 vancouverdeb: Thank you for that.

I also want to add, that as fun as the hunts are, I think too many would dull the joy. Keep them special treats.

Cannot find 2 and 17 for the life of me! Help?
*Just found 17 only need 2! :)

Just a reminder that the egg hunt ends today at 5pm ET (US)! I'll be hanging out here the rest of the day in case folks need hints. Thanks so much for joining in, everyone! And extra special thanks to those of you who submitted clues. :)

Thank you! #17 has been the bane of the hunt this week for me. I think I'll read the book it refers to now. :)

OK, I have all my eggs in one basket. 20 was the hardest for me.

I loved it! Thanks LT.

Got 17/22 on my own and the rest with hints! This was fun.

I finally had time to sit down and do these! Fun, and LT members come up with some hard clues. I got them all without help except #2 (which I had never heard of the answer to) and #7 and #20 (which I got with clues, but I still have no idea how the answers related to the original riddles, even though I have read several books by the person in #7 and have helped tag #20 in RL...)

>367 melannen: You have my sympathy! got all of them at the beginning of the week - except #2, which I finally found this morning.

I find these hunts very Americo-centric in terms of which books are assumed to be "well-known classics"; this is particularly true with children's books. These make them a lot of fun, but quite challenging.

The problem with genre-themed hunts is that they would feel like that all the way through, for those who are not aficionados of the genre in question.

I understand why LT chose the themes that they did: those public holidays are known of, if not necessarily celebrated in most countries. But if this is thought to be problematic, how about making a virtue of particularity and using themes that ARE relevant to particular nations only?

I'd never heard of Arbor Day before, until it was mentioned above; it's interesting to learn about things like that. Then I invite you to "Remember the 5th November" (Guy Fawkes' Night -UK). Then how about Maslenitsa (Slavic) and the Dragon Boat Festival (China)...

Lots of potential in Guy Fawkes' night.

>368 Guanhumara: As long as they're things people would be able to find without too in-depth of searching (outside LT, I mean), I think that sounds like a great idea.

>368 Guanhumara: I'm totally up for something along the lines of what you've proposed, but we'd need a lot of help in writing clues! We are, as people, at least, somewhat limited by our own experiences.

And the First Annual LibraryThing Egg Hunt has ended! Thanks for joining in, everyone. I'll have stats and prize-winners on Monday, at the latest. For now, I've posted the clues (linked to their solutions) in >1 lorannen:.

>370 .Monkey.:

As long as they're things people would be able to find without too in-depth of searching (outside LT, I mean)

I had to do a fair bit of searching outside LT for this one. I'd say I needed google to figure out a good half-dozen or more.

Never would have gotten #7 without some hints. Still don't understand the clue.

#20 was also tough. Instead of "jam," a better clue would have been mint jelly ;)

>374 BookLizard:

But "mint jelly" doesn't rhyme!

>371 lorannen: Well, precisely because the festivals ARE each going to be unfamiliar to a majority of LT users, I wouldn't expect the clues to delve too deeply into the lore of the occasion.

For example, I've no idea what Americans actually do on Arbor Day, but I'd expect a hunt on that theme to involve a lot of trees...

And I am sure people would be willing to pitch in with clue-writing...

>376 Guanhumara: I've no idea what Americans actually do on Arbor Day

I think some people plant trees for it, but I think most just forget it exists.

I make sure I hug a few trees.

Thanks to everyone involved, lots of fun.

>373 lilithcat: I just mean like pasting part of the clue into a search engine would basically bring one to the answer, without having to go through tons of pages or other websites or such.

I'd love an explanation of the clue for #7. No idea what that was about.

I didn't get the first two lines of #7, but I knew that Thor Heyerdahl wrote Kon-Tiki, so that matched with the "kowabunga" and "epic". I checked his name and there was another book called Aku-Aku: The Secret of Easter Island and I knew that was what I was looking for.

>381 Petroglyph: >382 mstrust:

Fire born hodad horde.
Volcanic island people.

Tho seven look for a bomb,
The seven 'scout' statues. But 'looking for a bomb'? No idea.

Epic! Thor wrote;
Probably the most useful line. Yes; Thor wrote an epic.

Kowabunga!
Surfer dudes, beach culture, happy hour, Tiki mugs?

I know it's a bit of a stretch. So, if anyone has anything more relevant to add, I'd love to know.

>382 mstrust:

How does "Kowabunga" match with Kon-Tiki? I associate it with Howdy Doody!

>380 .Monkey.:

I just mean like pasting part of the clue into a search engine would basically bring one to the answer

Where's the fun in that?

>382 mstrust:
Kowabunga I associate with TMNT... Perhaps Bart Simpson. Surfer slang, perhaps, after some googling. A Western TV show, after googling. But Kon-Tiki? Easter Island?

>383 Sylak: Fire born hodad horde -- Volcanic island people.

Yeah, no. That "clue" works if you already know the answer. From "fire-born" to "volcanic rock" is a pretty large leap to make unmotivated, and the rest of the riddle offers nothing to narrow it down to that pathway. And a horde of hodads (i.e. wannabe surfers) is supposed to lead me to "island people"? Come on! Expecting a large, international group of people to people to make both leaps successfully is unreasonable.

>386 Petroglyph: ROFL, I know right! I only found it through 'Thor wrote'. I was simply trying to reverse engineer the clues. I'd love to know the true meanings myself. :D

>384 lilithcat: >386 Petroglyph: Well, you learn something new everyday, because I thought everyone would immediately recognize the word "kowabunga" in association with surf culture. But I grew up in Southern California, so surf jargon was probably more at hand for me.
>386 Petroglyph: "Epic", "Thor", "Kowabunga". Yep, I was just showing how I came up with the answer. The last two lines were what I understood.

>383 Sylak: I wondered about Pacific nuclear testing, but that's most famously Bikini (which could tie in with surfer culture).

>386 Petroglyph: Volcanic island cultures would also fit Sicily, various Greek Islands, Hawaii, and Indonesia (Krakatoa, anyone?) . I don't associate Easter Island with volcanoes.

>386 Petroglyph:

The only part of that clue that I had any idea where to go from was "Thor wrote", but it was enough; the only author I know of named "Thor" was the right one, and seeing from his author page that one of his books was about Easter Island was enough to make that a logical first guess.

>388 mstrust:

"Surf culture" to me points to California first, then Hawaii, with Polynesia a distant third - they may have originated surfing, but not modern surf culture.

>388 mstrust: I fell into the TMNT rabbit-hole (or should that be sewer?) because of the way Kowabunga was spelt. This sent me in search of the Marvel Comics Thor (and by extension the Norse god - which would fit with the volcanic references).

Otherwise, my other thought was Silvio Berlusconi and his bunga-bunga parties... Bit of a stretch, I know.

>391 Maddz:

What's TMNT?

>392 lilithcat: The abbreviation for the Teenage Mutant Ninga Turtles, a children's cartoon and related media. If one was the demographic age during the 1990s (or were frequently around children of that demographic age), it was pretty inescapable common knowledge.

I didn't even realize for the longest time that 'Thor' was an actual legit author's name... I don't know much about the Thor from Marvel but I know how popular Marvel is, so I assumed *that* Thor must have written something in a movie or comic. I was sooooo off in my searches because of that, there was no way I would've gotten it without clues in this thread.

I would be very interested to see what people would come up with for clues surrounding Guy Fawkes' Night!

>393 MyriadBooks: Or, in my case, I was working in a comic shop during the 90s.

>394 Heather19:

Comics and movies didn't occur to me. I was thinking Norse gods.

I didn't catch "hodad" as slang at all, so I assumed it was some fantasy race, and then went right to Norse Thor from there - it's not like there's any shortage of books that reference Norse myth.

(And then someone said ___ Dahl and I was like "Oh, did I forget that Dahl wrote a book with Thor in it?")

Even after clues made me realize what hodad was, I associate that style of slang really specifically with Southern California, so it *still* got me nowhere!

It looks like nobody's figured out the "bomb" part though (unless that's also surfer slang? It means "really great wave", right? does it just mean the statues are looking toward the sea?)

Did they just write a basic description of Easter Island and translate it into surfer slang? The thing is, I still don't get the surfer connection - is Thor Heyerdahl part of surfer culture somehow? Or are we just supposed to go surfers=Polynesia?

>397 melannen: But if the seven are part of the hodad (non-surfer) horde then why would they be looking for a great wave?

Where's @btuckertx when you need him?

Were we supposed to get a badge for completing the egg hunt? I found all the eggs, but I just assumed the egg badge would appear after the event ended. I could've sworn I read that on the main egg page, but I can't find that page now.

>400 Kanst: We're still working on it. I'll announce once the badges have been awarded and winners picked. After our massive downtime (which lasted most of the weekend), we're a bit behind on normal operations.

Oh, okay! I hadn't even considered how the downtime would affect things; I only encountered the tail-end of the outage myself.

>401 lorannen: I'm sure the downtime happened because all your eggs was in one basket. :-)

The one I didn't get the reference for was for Anne of Green Gables. I found it by googling the Lake of Shining Waters (or similar), but for the life of me I can't think what connection it has to Easter.

Admittedly, what I managed to read of it was a while ago and I loathed the series, which I realize is practically sacrilege for some people.

It's funny because I enjoy the genre actually, but I swear the main character had Narcissistic Personality Disorder or something along those lines. She really bugged me.

Also felt like we were told she had skills but never really saw her working at them or got a sense of her effort to improve herself. Just, oh she's so talented. But then NPD kind of works that way so...

I always only hear praise for the series, so I wonder if anyone else ever noticed that?

Talk Like a Pirate Day seemed to work out well. Pirates are a popular theme, so maybe something along those lines. Dinosaurs, or Aliens spring to mind as something a lot of people find interesting in various ways.

I agree it's a good idea to keep the hunts to something more special, but I guess if there were more of them, one wouldn't necessarily have to participate in every one.

Something around other countries celebrations would be interesting and informative. Perhaps something a little different every year? It could get hard to find understandable connections after a while if a theme went on for too long. And the challenge of something new would keep it fresh and introduce new books, so more educational!

I second Dinosaurs or ancient extinct beasts, as a hunt topic.

Have to think about other possibilities.

>406 geohistnut: yay! a fossil hunt would be fun!

This was the first time I tried one of these and, even though I didn't get very many, it was fun. A couple of them, I felt like I knew the answer, but I couldn't figure out what page I needed. (Easter Island being one of them). Oh well - maybe I'll learn better with the next one.

Yikes to fossils, dinosaurs and pirates and extinct beings. I know more about children's books like Green Eggs and Ham or Anne of Green Gables :-)

>409 vancouverdeb: But but - so many children's books about dinosaurs and fossils! OK, not quite the same type as Anne of Green Gables...

>410 jjmcgaffey: but wait, wasn't there dinosaurs in Anne of Pellucidar - or was that just a dream I had once ? ;)

>411 Sylak: There is a file on my hard drive that starts like this:

When Matthew Cuthbert reached Bright River there was no sign of any train; he thought he was too early, so he tied his horse in the yard of the small Bright River hotel and went over to the station house. The long platform was almost deserted; the only living creature in sight being a dragon who was coiled on a pile of shingles at the extreme end. Matthew sidled past as quickly as possible without looking at the dragon. He was unaccustomed to dragons and not able to tell the males from the females, but if he had known she was female, he would have sidled even faster. She was coiled there waiting for something or somebody and, since waiting was the only thing to do just then, she sat and waited with all her might and main; which, being a dragon, was a quite dramatic amount.

Matthew encountered the stationmaster locking up the ticket office preparatory to going home for supper, and asked him if the five-thirty train would soon be along.

"The five-thirty train has been in and gone half an hour ago," answered that brisk official. "But there was a passenger dropped off for you—a young dragon. She's sitting out there on the shingles. I asked her if she'd like to go into the stables, but she informed me gravely that she preferred to stay outside. 'There was more scope for imagination,' she said, but I rather think she meant there was more room for her wings. She's a case, I should say."

"I'm not expecting a dragon," said Matthew blankly. "It's a boy I've come for. He should be here. Mrs. Alexander Spencer was to bring him over from Nova Scotia for me."

The stationmaster whistled.

"Guess there's some mistake," he said. "Mrs. Spencer came off the train with that dragon and gave her into my charge. Said you and your sister were adopting her from an asylum and that you would be along for her presently. That's all I know about it—and I haven't got any boy orphans concealed hereabouts."

...that's the book we're talking about, right?

>410 jjmcgaffey: I was never interested in fossils or dinosaurs as a kid. Surprisingly, neither were my two sons. But I did know Bunnicula and stuff like Goosebumps and Dr Seuss and Harry Potter via reading with my now adult sons :-) and I even knew who Thor Heyerdahl was! Ack! :-) lol

>407 Darth-Heather: Fossil hunt! Love it (even that title!)

>412 melannen: very tempting. ;)
Anne the Green Dragon sounds like the type of story that could easily suck me right in if I'm not careful. I once made the same mistake by picking up that Seth Grahame-Smith book which sent me down the Jane Austen rabbit hole for a while.

>412 melannen: I am not a fan of Anne of Green Gables, but I would pay good money to read your Anne the Green Dragon.

>405 ReadSonja: "one wouldn't necessarily have to participate in every one. "

You forget that this site is filled with people who have Completest Personality Disorder. ;)

>417 MrsLee: "Completest Personality Disorder"
So very true :D
(I like that better than 'perfectionism' ;) )

We dinosaurs (aka old people) missed the surge in dinosaur culture.

Way back when I was in school, when Pluto was a planet and the USSR existed, we had pterodactyls, brontosaurus, T-Rex, and that thing with dinner plates on its back. Now there are so many more that I can't keep track!

Maybe my son or grandson could help me, we had a book about trilobites once...

Love the idea of a Fossil Hunt! A virtual prospecting trip would be so much fun, and there are children's books, novels, scientific and historical works - something for everyone.

Let me tell you, as someone with a five-year-old, that dinosaurs are SO MUCH COOLER than they were 30 years ago. Tons of them had feathers. Lots of carnivores were fast - no tail-dragging here. Brontosaurus wasn't a thing for a while, but now it is again. The longest claws on any animal ever known belong to an herbivore, or at least a mostly-herbivore.

Oh, and you'll probably see one if you go out in the yard. Modern birds are more closely related to T. rex than T. rex is to Triceratops - so if "dinosaur" is meaningful at all, it has to include modern birds.

I love the title Fossil Hunt! Great thinking. And although I honestly wasn't all that into dinosaurs when I was younger I know a ton of people who were and are. I've always thought dragons were much cooler. (Though that argues the question of whether they would be included.) How about a Dragon Hunt? There are probably enough books about those alone to warrant a separate hunt and they may rival dinosaurs in popularity.

That Anne the Green Dragon book does sound very interesting. I like the style. Glad to know I'm not the only one not a fan of Green Gables.

"Completest Personality Disorder"
Love it!
Glad to know I'm not the only one too, guess I'm in the right place. ^_^
It's why I mentioned it though. Some of us actually need to hear it to remember it is an option, though whether we can follow through is another thing entirely.

Ah, Jane Austen, another favorite author. The next Shakespeare IMHO. Any interested parties might try the Stephanie Barron Jane Austen Mystery series. Lots of historical details, a believable representation of Our Author as Heroine, and fun stories all round.
Also recommend Sarah J. Waldock if you like the JA spin offs. (Personally I think it is fascinating that fanfiction has become an actual lucrative genre for JA.) Anyway, her works are more for Emma sequels and an interesting series following the brother of Fanny from Mansfield Park in his somewhat Horatio Hornblower style adventures. At least, I think she published those also. I know her personally though so I may be biased, but I like her dry sense of humor. Suits JA; I think she'd approve.

Children's books might be a genre option for a hunt, but it is a bit too broad perhaps. Maybe a Children's/sub-genre hunt.

Looking forward to getting my badge when the PTB are able to get around to it! I do the hunts partly just for those little goodies. =P

Well, if you want a grown-up Anne the Green Dragon book try Jo Walton's Tooth and Claw...

>423 Maddz: I always thought that book was more Anthony Trollope with dragons. ;)

>424 Marissa_Doyle: Oh yes, it is and Jo Walton admits that. But it’s the same sort of conceit - take a well-known book, and replace the characters with dragons.

Dragons! I knew something was missing from Lord of the Rings.

>426 Sylak: Only if you skipped the prequels! :-p

>417 MrsLee: Oh... that’s why I’m on LT.

Ooh; Anne of Green Dragons. Like.

>426 Sylak: Eh?

Not seeing any badges.

>429 Micheller7:

I expect they are still dealing with fallout from the downtime, such as fixing search updates, etc. I assume that has to take priority.

Perhaps a wild animal hunt (without danger of the bloodshed of anyone)

Try this:

No feline me.

I stand tall surveying my African desmesne. Member of a proud family. A cinematographer’s favorite companion.

Admired star of a beloved soap opera, rapture merely justified.

Meerkat Manor

Cool! I've got a Golden Egg. :)

Thanks.

>432 Sylak: Hear, hear! Thank you for the egg.

Yay for badges!

But could you change either the name or the colour? :/

>434 _Zoe_: Haha. I thought the same thing but I'll take any badge I can get!

Same here. I love my golden egg. Thanks LT!

How about something that isn't a treasure hunt, which is along the lines we've been pursuing, but instead a clue search? (Can't think of a better way to put it. But the game Clue is fun, so maybe something like that without the mystery quotient. Or with...)
I think that Food is an excellent topic everyone can relate to. Maybe International Cuisine, or Food Fiction. Something for the cookbook fans even. Could be very educational. There are some fascinating books written on the history of food, even outside of the popular diet trend stuff. But I'm betting everyone has a favorite, or can think of a book that features food as a strong part of the narrative. Psst, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory doesn't count (but only because it is obvious.) International Cuisine could lead to books that either feature recipes, history, or other topics related to cuisines of the world. Or a combination. Just some more thoughts on fun topics.

Oh, and love my golden egg. Thank you!

Oh never mind, found the answer.

When will the winners be announced?

The golden egg is a literary reference, so I don't see them changing that.
And I'm sure there are no icon sized egg shapes that are colored gold. Doubt they are going to waste time trying to colorize a badge when they are still trying to finish the whole downtime debacle.

Geez.

>442 amanda4242: Winners will be announced very soon (likely in the next day or so)!

I'm sure that if people who are disgruntled that the icon color doesn't match the description, staff can remove their badges, just as soon as they finish all the rest of the site improvements that have been requested.

Sheesh.

The badges were handed out on the 20th. At least that's when I got mine. What does it say for you on this page, https://www.librarything.com/egghunt2018.php?

>446 Collectorator: Did you get a message saying that your badge would be on your page? The egg is not necessarily the last one in the line, so if you have a lot of badges you might not see it right away.

Like Collectorator, I don't seem to have received a badge either.

I don't see the egg on either @Collectorator or @aeclark's profile It is on mine.

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I got eggs,
They're multiplyin'
And I'm losin' control ...

I'm sorry, what? *blush*

Fabergé egg? Yes, please!

The eggs seem to be coming through slowly. One of my sons' accounts has got an egg, but not the other, yet.

>453 humouress: Yes indeed. Those eggs that Loranne's supplying, are electrifying! (Now look what you've done). ;)

Does anyone who found exactly one egg have the badge?

Is anyone who found more than one egg missing the badge?

I wonder if it's as simple as someone using a "greater than" when they should have used "greater than or equal to" in the query to determine who should get the badge.

This was a thoroughly egg-cellent thread to come back to after being out last week. I'm sorry I didn't get winners announced prior to my departure—as some of you might be aware, things were a little hectic!

I'm pleased now to announce (finally) our egg-ceptional winners! This hunt wasn't eggs-actly over-easy, and these folks all found at least 15 eggs! Congratulations to (in no particular order):

alieceey
pfeaster
LadyBookHermit
TempleCat
Narilka
karenb
a-squared
LibraryPerilous
Maudee
olegalCA

Stats coming shortly! And I'm checking on the missing badge issue—need to circle up with Tim about that.

>456 lorannen:

Those people were not the only ones who found all the eggs. Congratulations to them for being selected for the prizes, for sure, but it's very misleading to imply that they're the only ones who found 15 or more.

>457 lorax: I'm sorry, that certainly wasn't what I meant. I thought it was pretty clear from the original post that anyone who found 15 eggs or more would be entered into a drawing for one of our 10 prizes. These are the prize-winners!

In any case, I'm waiting for Tim to get me some stats on total participants, how many found 15 or more, etc. Hope to have those shortly!

Congrats to the winners!

>458 lorannen:

It was very clear from the original post, yes. That was a month and 450 posts ago. People who don't remember the details could clearly have assumed from your post that the prize-winners were the *only* ones to find 15 eggs. At any rate, I'm looking forward to the stats, and congratulations to the lucky randomly-selected winners!

Stats posted in the continuation of the topic, here: https://www.librarything.com/topic/290586 !