2022 Halloween Treasure Hunt

It's October, and the Halloween Hunt has returned!

The object of the game is to solve our clues (in verse!) and go to the LibraryThing page each clue is talking about.

Go HERE for the hunt.

You have about two and a half weeks—until Monday October 31st at 11.59 pm Eastern Time—to find all the ghosts hidden around the site and gather them all together into one hauntourage.

Use this thread to brag, ask for and give hints, etc.

We will be awarding profile badges to anyone who finds at least two ghosts, and anyone who finds all 15 will be entered into a drawing for a LibraryThing coaster set and sticker.

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To use the spoiler tag, type the following before whatever you'd like to hide:

<spoiler>

And this, at the end of what's hidden:

</spoiler>

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Yea!

Yay, so excited!

I found Ghost #4 where I expected it to be and received a notification that I found a ghost, but the corresponding clue wasn't crossed off my list. Possible bug?

>3 curioussquared: Did you refresh/reopen the clues page after you found it? the page does not get updated automatically - you need to reload or reopen it.

>4 AnnieMod: Yes, I refreshed. I've also found additional ghosts since then and those updated, but not #4.

I had the same interaction for #4 at ...
Edited: some URL or other

>5 curioussquared: Yep, confirmed, there is a problem with #4 not registering in the list even though it registers on the page itself.

>6 paradoxosalpha: Can we not post the answers within minutes of having the Hunt started? Or at least add a warning that your spoiler is actually an answer...

>8 AnnieMod: ok, edited.

Any hints on #2?

>10 amanda4242: Not that it is much of a spoiler but: #2: Google the first 2 lines.

>11 AnnieMod: Thank you!

I'm not sure if I'm having an issue with #5 or if I'm looking at the wrong thing. I thought the answer is the "Salem (MA) Public Library" but nothing pops up when I go to that page.

>13 coprime: Right city, wrong place.

>13 coprime: Nope, another one, part of the name is the same

>14 amanda4242: >15 SandraArdnas: Thank you for the help, got it now!

Let me just say I laughed so hard at the clue for 14. Haha. Still have no idea what the answer is, though

>13 coprime: #5: Look for other possibilities on the same street

>17 SandraArdnas: Look in the LT store.

>19 amanda4242: Thank you, would never have occurred to me.

>3 curioussquared: Yes, just experienced the problem with that clue.

Stumped at #7 and #9. Picture for 7 seems obvious, but no collection I tried with that story is it. I don't even know what is it in pic 9, some kind of jewelry box?

>22 SandraArdnas: For #9 look at the box shape

>23 Spunkypineapple: I tried heart attack (on top of all other heart related stuff), but no go, LOL

>22 SandraArdnas: For #9, I did a tagmash for the two nouns in the clue and found an obvious answer there.

>25 coprime: That worked, thanks. I was convinced it was a tag for starters, so no wonder I was on the wrong track

>22 SandraArdnas: For #7, guess which author is a "master of horror," then look for a short story collection by him with a title that might fit the image.

>27 Marissa_Doyle: Tell-Tale Heart? If so, I tried every collection I know

>28 SandraArdnas: Perhaps "modern American master of horror" might be more helpful.

>29 Marissa_Doyle: Yep, found it in the meantime Ended up searching the horror tag page for heart in the title, not on the first page either

Also to confirm, 4 is not registering for me either. You get the ghost on the correct page, but it's not added to your 'hauntourage of ghosts'

For #7 and #9 the authors are father and son.

>31 amanda4242:
Good clue.

What a fun hunt! It took me a few places that I don't usually go on LT :)

Like others, I'm not getting credit for finding #4. Hope that can be fixed soon!

I got everything except #14 in about 20 minutes, but it's still stumping me hours later.

Found all my ghosts! Thank you LT for another very fun hunt:)

Yay!

I love the vulture. That's yet another beautiful image by the artist.

Question: Is there no announcement banner? I'm not seeing one.

>34 paradoxosalpha: There's a good clue in >19 amanda4242: above.

>37 Marissa_Doyle:, >19 amanda4242:
Thanks! That made it pretty easy.

The #4 glitch is so strange. When I found #14, the header bar said I had found all fifteen ghosts, but on return to the main hunt page, it says only fourteen, with #4 unmarked.

Well, I've managed to find everything but #6.

>39 shadrach_anki: Go to the ER page, filter by genre (only genre, disable all other filters) and look at the list. The clue tells you which page to open once you identify the listing.

>7 AnnieMod: Regarding #4, could it have something to do with the '!' in the name and the '%21' in the URL?
(Hope I have not given too much away.)

>41 mr.philistine: Yep - modifying the URL does the trick and registers properly in the list. The old issue with special characters in URLs strikes again. :)

>42 AnnieMod: I was confused by 'modifying', but I got it. Thanks!

I did the URL trick, and now the header ribbon credits me with "16 out of 15 ghosts"!

>44 paradoxosalpha: Ahh... I see what you mean! "You now have 16 out of 15 ghosts." :-)

>25 coprime: Tagmash is so much fun! I found a few more. 😈

Any hints for #12, #13 and #15?

ETA: It appears I accidentally found #12 and #13 :)
ETA 2: And I now 'have 16 out of 15 ghosts'!

>45 rodneyvc: Both the URL and the modified URL (>41 mr.philistine: ) gave me a ghost.

>47 FAMeulstee: Yes - >44 paradoxosalpha: and I posted at the same time. I was indicating that I too had got the message "You now have 16 out of 15 ghosts."

>40 AnnieMod: Yay! That got me my final ghost!

...Though I, like several others, am told I have 16 out of 15 ghosts in the banner.

Please bring back the website banners that announce this! I could have missed it!

>6 paradoxosalpha: Me too.

>18 AnnieMod: That is so funny.

As I'm on the site frequently enough to see events through the Talk, I typically use the hunt banners not to know about the hunts but for their links to reach the clues. Are we really not getting a banner this time?

To help people find this hunt, what about a post in the Top News section?

I am having trouble seeing any link to the Hunt except for going to the first message in this thread. Any suggestions are appreciated.

Loved the clues for #7,#8, and #9 with the pictures. Clever!

>3 curioussquared: this happened to me too! I think it is a bug

>43 mr.philistine: I'm not understanding how to modify the URL.

>55 krazy4katz: This is my first hunt so am unspoilt by earlier comforts. But looking at previous 'treasure hunt' pages there were pointers to start with; not so in this hunt...
I used the 'search' field on the top right corner of every(?) LT page, Tagmash! and the invaluable spoilers littered throughout this thread. Basically, you're on your own :)

>58 brewergirl: If you find the required group, you will note the group name in the URL in the address bar does not match the group name on the page. Make it match and hit Enter!

>3 curioussquared: Same.

I’ve managed to find all but #14 - any clues, please?

I'm stuck on #3 and #15.

>61 PawsforThought: There's a good clue in >19 amanda4242: amanda4242: above.

>62 cmbohn: The middle stanza offers good clues as to the author, especially the dystopian novel with books all aglow part.

Yay! 16 out 15 ghosts.

For #6: I was having trouble; in part identifying the genre, and then for some reason seeing the work. I will give a hint; if you find yourself looking at a lot of random books, you've probably not seen the right one; it obviously fits the clue.

How come I get all the easy ones but am stumped on #3? I even figured out 4 on my own... grrrrrr

Edited to add: sometimes it pays just to click around the site! More patience needed!

For clue number 4, if you go to the URL and erase the %21 and replace it with ! then you should get credit for finding that ghost

>19 amanda4242: Thank you for hint for #14.

>67 RachelBakke: I think that's also what gives us the "You found a ghost! You now have 16 out of 15 ghosts." How spooky :-)

For #4: If anyone, like me, already has a "!" in the URL for that page, erase the "!" and type it in again, then hit enter. That finally gave me my ghost icon. :)

>46 mr.philistine: Can you give me a clue for #12 and #13?
EDIT 1: Nevermind found #13.
EDIT 2: I know what #12 is supposed to be but I'm not sure how to go about looking for it

Still having problems with #4 and #5--I am sure I am putting the proper terms in, but nothing seems to work, even considering the hints that have gone before . . .

>72 vangogan: If you look at your URL for #4 you need to replace the "%21" at the end of the URL with "!"

>73 HannahBakke: That worked, HannahBakke! Thank you so much.

I have got them all - didn't have to come in here for any extra hints - and my top of page banners read "You found a ghost! You now have 15 out of 15 ghosts. Check on your hauntourage of ghosts." but the Treasure Hunt page still says "You have 14 ghosts." and shows number four as not guessed, even though I definitely got it - it was the 3rd clue I guessed. I've been back to that page it's the only Group in the answers several times and it shows as discovered there. Will it record me having completed the whole hunt?

EDIT:
Nevermind, I should have read the hints in here, I now have 16 our of 15 ghosts and it's showing as done :)

>64 Marissa_Doyle: Thanks Marissa! I was looking at the right author, wrong book.

For #4, if you use Firefox the URL displays correctly (so there's nothing to modify) but still doesn't register correctly, so you'll need to open Librarything in a different browser and modify the URL there.

>77 schnaucl: I didn't need to use a different browser, I just deleted the last character and replaced it with itself and now #4 shows as solved.

Thank you for the fun hunt!

Another wonderful hunt! Thank you for the fun and brain teasers. Love the vulture, conceptDawg!

Got all but #3.

>80 gilroy: title hinted in the clue

>80 gilroy: #3 was made into a movie directed by André Øvredal.

Took forever to get 6, mostly looking at various tagmashes and finding nothing. Got very hung up on the ER line and wracked my brain for all possible meanings of the acronym. As it turns out, a site-specific meaning was intended.

for #5, I've figured out what it IS, I'm struggling to find out how to find the page they want me to visit. I've done the tags, and there seems to be no common knowledge. help!!

>84 capenguin: #5 is a LibraryThing Local page.

>85 Gumpy_Ho: #12 is a tag page.

For the first time I've completed the hunt all in the one day, in fact over only a couple of hours.

Thanks to all the hint givers, the last one I managed to find required me to google


Three Witches and a Talking Cat


And that helped me

Cheers

>89 Macbeth: For #15, I googled 'halloween novel *2022-50=?*' :)

>71 RachelBakke: I could not figure out how I got #12 and #13 but I successfully replicated >87 amanda4242: for both.

Got them all!
That was fun, thank you, LT team, for putting this up for us!

Collated hints so far, by clue number, now posted in the Treasure Hunt group.

Found them all! 👻

Thanks, staff and fellow ghost hunters!

Hi guys. Help needed with 4. Not sure if I'm looking in the right place. Have put the word horror then gone to groups. There are only 4 so picked the one that ties in. Am I in the right place
Thanks
Happy Halloween

>94 tina1969: See https://www.librarything.com/topic/345173#n7955233 for some ideas.

I've found a ghost for #4, but it does not show up in my ghost haulage, as noted above. A glitch . Thanks .

>3 curioussquared:
The same thing happened to me. It would appear that there is definitely a problem.

>95 humouress: have read the hints and if I am in the right place the url doesn't have the %21. I will try again but not sure if I am on the correct page

I tried a different groupand now got the ghostie for no 4 x

>82 amanda4242: That got it. I'll wait for admin before I do the work around to get the 16 ghosts...

Thanks to a few of your hints!
I got them all, but like some of you, the contest isn't recording #4 - even though when I went to that page it told me I'd found it (twice!)

I found #4 also but it won't update. I tried refreshing. It isn't working. It won't show as found even though I got the banner.

ETA: My banners say I've found 15 of 15, but the page itself says only 14 because of the error with #4 updating.

@amanda4242 Thank you so much!!

I've got them all now, and my banner says I got 16 out of 15!

I can’t see what everyone is talking about to change the url for #4. Could it be because I’m using Safari?

>105 varielle: Maybe. Are you at 15 out of 15? (The problem seems to be that a webpage address can be written in many ways but the treasure count seems to require it to be written exactly as the programmer expected).
You can do similar stuff with the other urls to test this. I appended %20 to the url of #1 and I get the same page, but without the notice that I've found a ghost. I.e. it is not the page, but the address that is the answer. Which is a bit weird. But maybe Safari is the browser, that LT staff used when testing?

>106 bnielsen: I only have 11. Also stuck on 4, 6,7, and 14.

>106 bnielsen: Ah, I thought you had #4 figured out.

>105 varielle: It's the url for the answer, not the clue, so if you haven't figured #4 out, you can't fix it.

>3 curioussquared: same here

So much fun! (as usual - love all the hunts) 16/15 found!

>107 varielle: Here are the best hints on this thread so far...

#4 = After locating the group, >70 slimikin: >73 HannahBakke: >78 quondame: (browser contingent solutions)
#6 = >40 AnnieMod:
#7 = >27 Marissa_Doyle: >31 amanda4242:
#14 = >19 amanda4242:

Could someone help me with #10? It is the last one to solve. Right now I have all but #10.

>107 varielle: See the Treasure Hunt group for the consolidated hints for each clue.

>113 Yamanekotei: Unfortunately, no one has posted any hints for #10 and I haven't found it yet, either, so I can't help you :0)

ETA: I can't come up with any cartoon sitcoms.

>113 Yamanekotei: For #10, quoth James Earl Jones, "Nevermore."

>113 Yamanekotei: >114 humouress:
For #10 I googled James Earl Jones narrated which poem in a cartoon :P

>116 mr.philistine: >115 coprime: Ah; it's down to googling prowess. Thanks for the hints.

>112 mr.philistine: >73 HannahBakke: Thanks, that worked! I think I'd missed Hannah's initial mail

This was fun, thanks for another wonderful hunt. Love the vulture!

>112 mr.philistine: Thanks also for the many hints on how to solve that glitch in #4.

Many thanks to the team for another enjoyable time! And of course the helpers with the hints!
It is weird (but actually it fits into the time 😉):
When I go to the book of #7 in my library, there is no ghost, when I go to the author site and then to the book, there is a message:
You found a ghost! You now have 15 out of 15 ghosts. Check on your hauntourage of ghosts.
When I go to the hunt site there are only 14 ghosts and and the clue for #7 is not crossed out.
I've tried Firefox, Chrome and Edge in librarything.de and librarything.com...

>120 SirThomas: Maybe it isn't ghost nr7 you found there. If you fixed nr4 you would have 16/15 ghosts.

Thanks for getting me on the right track - 16 now!

>115 coprime: >116 mr.philistine:

Thank you. Why didn’t I think of his work…he is one of the regulars on Halloween Hunt.

Now I got 16 out of 15 ghosts. Thank you for another fun haunt hunt.

Glad I stopped by here -- I think I've tried to add #4 about ten times now on different days. I do have the new style etcetera.

Back to add same problem with #5 I think. I know I have the right clue, pretty sure the right place here too.

for #4, I just went to https://www.librarything.com/ngroups/tags,
then I chose the more logical one and tried some of the results on the page.

>124 sibylline: No the same problem with #5 see >13 coprime: >14 amanda4242: >15 SandraArdnas: and >18 AnnieMod:

>124 sibylline:

There are two similar institutes on the same street. You may be visiting to the wrong one for #5 as I was for a while.

This was fun! I thought #14 would defeat me but I got there in the end

All done, only a couple (besides the technical difficulties with #4) that I struggled with. Really liked the AI image clues. Wasn't sure what they were at first, but the 2nd one clued me into it.

>19 amanda4242: Thank you.

I think I am the only one who cannot #1

>131 mnleona: He co-wrote a couple of books with Stephen King.

>131 mnleona: Also, SOTT = State of The Thing, the monthly newsletter.

>131 mnleona: For #1, google which horror novelist died in 2022 ;)

Boo, I did the trick with the URL for the fourth clue, but only have 15 ghosts, not 16 out of 15. No spookiness for me!

I would have liked a banner too, the only way I knew about this was the sidebar on the home page and that didn't really stand out.

>132 amanda4242:, >133 karenb:,>134 mr.philistine: Thank you.

Finished. Thanks to all who help and LT. Loved the vulture from ConceptDawg. I always learn so much on these challenges.

Thanks for another fun h~A~unt. Thanks, too, to those who gave tips on how to get #4 to register as found.

That was so much fun! (and the first time I didn't need at least a little nudge for any of them)

Hi All: apologies for the issue with clue #4, I believe that this should be resolved now.

>51 d_perlo: Yeah. I only noticed this hunt because someone mentioned it in a talk thread I follow.

Still can't get #6. have filtered and included genres I don't like and out of my country and still nothing.

>142 Bookmarque: Filter for Romance then click on the cover or title of the book.

Ok it finally worked. Not sure why the proper category didn't work before, but at last, I have collected all my Halloween candy!

>135 the_red_shoes: It announced I had 16/15, but back at the page it was straight 15.

>145 quondame: Aww. Well this year's hunt was truly haunted....

Gotta say I'm not loving the picture clues. #8 and 9 were at least recognizably referring to books I'd heard of, but #7? Um, okay, it's a horror collection where the title or maybe some of the stories have to do with hearts. Gee, thanks. Don't really feel like clicking through hundreds of titles. People who haven't heard of the books in #8 or #9 are probably in a similar boat, though at least searching for the city mentioned in #8 brings it up easily and the image obviously refers to the title once you have it.

Can anyone give an on-LT (I refuse to use Google for the hunt, since I personally regard it as cheating - it's a LT hunt, not a Google hunt) hint of something to search for, based only on what is in the clue? Like maybe what the picture is supposed to represent?

>147 lorax: It's important to note that the hearts appear to be in an underwater city.

>147 lorax: #7: It is supposed to be a certain sunken island

>147 lorax: Oh! I consider google totally fair play - I don't read horror at all, so really it's the only path. It's this page I avoid until I've done all the googling I can think of. And yes, googling image elements and clues did get me the answer on #7.

>147 lorax: I like the other two AI images, but for that one I can't tell what anything is except the hearts. But I found it by doing a tag mash of "short stories" and "horror" and then looked on that page for the author I assumed it was and the word "hearts"

>147 lorax: If it helps, #7 is the Dad of #9. After I realized what they were doing #8 cinched it for me, they were easy for me as I'm a fan of the authors of #7 and #9

Stuck on #6 & #9

>153 toast_and_tea: On #6 - see >40 AnnieMod:
On #9 - describe the object and you have a title to look for

>154 AnnieMod: No idea what the ER page is >.

>155 toast_and_tea: You are looking for a specific LT page. Use Google if you’ve never heard the term on LT - part of the hunt is learning about LT and things you did not know exist on the site. :)

>155 toast_and_tea: If you look at the bottom of this page, there are several helpful site links, including one that might conceivably be shortened to ER.

>155 toast_and_tea: Google to the rescue... what is ER on LibraryThing

I am mystified by #7 although my first guess actually got me #9 which I hadn't really looked at yet.

From the hints I am convinced I have the right author and the right idea but having visited said author page and clicking on multiple titles I'm still not getting it.

Even after deploying >151 norabelle414:'s great suggestion and trying everything relevant on the first page of results - so I am baffled.

I guess I will just have click my way down every singly title!

Oh wait, that tip was for #9 maybe which I have...

>159 Littlemissbashful: For #7, Anthony Hopkins starred in a film adaptation named after this collection.

Aha! Thank you >27 Marissa_Doyle:

So obvious now and not one I had already clicked on!

>160 mr.philistine: Was not aware of that!

Anyone looking for #9 That is one of the most literal visual representations of a title possible, maybe it helps if you have heard of the book but really just think about what you are looking at!

>40 AnnieMod: I understand nothing. I go to the page of the book called ER, but no idea about what to do for filtering anything.

>163 Eucalafio: On LibraryThing ER generally refers to Early Reviewers

I am sorry. These kind of words do not work in other languages than English. I have LibraryThing in Spanish. "Early Reviewers" in Spanish is said "Primeros revisores" or, in the special case of writing reviews for books, "Primeros reseñadores", or "Reseñadores antiguos".

ER, as a title of a thriller or a horror book, usually means "Emergency Room". I could have been looking until the end of the world. Thank you.

>165 Eucalafio: Well, the clues themselves are in English only. The abbreviation was posted as a hint and once you said you don't know what it is, people posted further hints. Aside from being fun, hunts make us learn about the site

>165 Eucalafio: I understand. It took me quite a while to figure out too. (My first language is Dutch).

>163 Eucalafio: So look around the page, read its help page and figure out how it works? Part of the idea of the hunt is to learn about LT. It is not just clicking on things - sometimes it is about figuring out how the site works so you can click in the thing you need. :)

>156 AnnieMod: I agree. I now have more books to read.

I figured out what ER was. so many years on this site I should've known but I didn't even remember we have ER!

Er, it's Emergency Room, of course. I prefer the abbreviation LTER, which removes that ambiguity--but would have broken the meter of the clue!

>77 schnaucl: I used Microsoft Edge, Chrome and Firefox (replacing the correct !) but I still have just 15 of 15 ghosts. I never had a problem with #4. I got the ghost when I first found the answer to the clue. :(

>172 njcur: As with most of the encoding issues around LT, it only happens when you click on a link to the answer from a specific place. Search for it in the Groups list and click on the name from there

>173 AnnieMod:
No, the problem was there too. That's where I first encountered it. But it's fixed now.

>174 paradoxosalpha: Ah, I missed that. This is the place where I hit it and I still have 16 of 15. Apparently the counters got stuck even after the fix if you hit it earlier :)

>172 njcur: The issue has been fixed now. See >140 AbigailAdams26:

Collated hints have been updated: https://www.librarything.com/ngroups/23170/LT-Treasure-Hunts

Just found my last ghost (number 3) and got the banner with 16 out of 15 ghosts. Thanks for the h(a)unt!

So the glitch is not quite resolved?

yoyogod #148, AnnieMod #149:

Thank you, that's all I needed. Looked like a cloudy blue sky to me.

quondame (#150):

To be clear, I don't think any less of people who do choose to Google. I don't, and I'd like to have my choice respected as well.

This was a fun one, I found most of them fairly easily and only needed help with a few.
Thank you all for doing this!!

>173 AnnieMod: Thanks! I tried that again in Chrome and Edge, but I'm still stuck at 15 ghosts. :( Oh well, the hunt was fun! I'm disappointed to not find the extra ghost. But if that's the worst thing that ever happens to me I'll be extraordinarily lucky! Very much a first world problem. Thanks for trying to help!

>181 njcur: there are only 15 ghosts, I believe ...

>182 dougb56586: Yes but due to a bit of a bug in the first few days of the hunt, you could pick up a 16th and end up with 16 out of 15 :)

>11 AnnieMod: Not that it is much of a spoiler but:
I did. I still have no idea.

>184 BarbaraMcI: No book titles jump at you from the first page of results when you google that? Then try witches sleeping in hammocks in trees picture book or just witches hammock picture book and see if that will make it more visible.

>184 BarbaraMcI: It's a book by Adrienne Adams. It was the first result when I used Google, but not when I used a different search engine.

My hauntourage of ghosts and I say, "Thank you so much for the haunted hunt!" Happy Halloween 🍁 🎃

15/15! That was fun!

I am not a fan of the picture clues. There's no alternative text, as far as I can tell?

>189 Faranae: No, there's no text alternative.

#7 It's a Stephen King book. Look for a title with hearts.

#8 Do a tagmash of New Orleans and vampires.

#9 Do a site search for heart box and it will be the first title that comes up.

>1 AbigailAdams26: My first, incorrect, guess for #14 was something by Edward Gorey. If that was your red herring, nicely done!

Is anything needed for the coaster entry when u have all the ghosts or is it automatic?

>191 JalenV: That was not my intention, writing that clue, but interesting guess! :)

>192 JadeElm: It's all automatic. You're in the drawing if you have all the ghosts!

Stuck on 4 and 6

All Done!

Got all 15! Thanks for your help guys!

I felt pretty smug about getting #9, a book I had never heard, very quickly just from using LT. Did a tagmash for Internet, ghost based on the clue, and the answer was the second result. Always feel a little dirty if I google, which I did resort to for #2.

>27 Marissa_Doyle: This was super helpful! Thanks.

Re: #5
Based on the clue and spoilers here, I have gone to every library in Salem on Essex via the LT Local page and get nothing. Should I just try later (it has been my experience that sometimes banners on some pages don't show up when they should, even when I've already gotten several others)?

>200 ferness: You missed it - it is hiding in plain sight. Look again for something around the same address and consider that parts of libraries may not have the word library in their name...

>201 AnnieMod: Thank you AnnieMod - I can confirm that the location does NOT come up when using the search term Essex (when many, many others do), but does come up when using the search term Salem. In fact, multiple results came up with that alternative to the word library (in capitalization, primarily), but not the one needed!

>202 ferness: One of them is too generic. :) Search for "Essex Street, Salem" in the "Find Venues" search (by location, not by name) (not the general search for the site) and it comes up just fine in the result list.

>14 amanda4242: I thought the Salem Athenaeum but still not right

>204 Shookie: If you look for it spelled like that, it won't be

>82 amanda4242: this helped so much! I was wracking my brain thinking of something like ghostbusters lol

>198 Stevil2001: Yes, I felt good about getting that one quickly, as well as some others but I am still stuck on six clues! #5,6,7, 12, 13, 14!

>90 mr.philistine: thanks! this helped for #15! I haven't read any yet, so I didn't get the "glowing" part of the clue.

>190 amanda4242: amanda4242 - got #7! Thank you!

HELP! I'm Stuck on #12 & 13. I can guess the clues, but am having a really hard time finding the right pages. Tried many tags for #12 but had no luck and the rhyming word for 13 has so many options, I don't know how to narrow it down.

>210 Arafyn: You are probably overthinking both. The clues are literally telling you what to look for - use the first thing that comes to mind in the tags.

>55 krazy4katz: In Upper Right Hand Corner of Home Page
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Halloween Treasure Hunt Returns!
LibraryThing's annual Halloween Hunt is on! Come join the fun, and gather your hauntourage of ghosts! Find hints and help on Talk.
Community | AbigailAdams26 | Oct 15

It figures the three I was stuck on the longest were actually pretty obvious once I stepped back for a second and stopped thinking so hard.

I was focusing way too much on the idea that a few of them were supposed to be puns, which they were not.

Was there a banner for this hunt? Usually that's what gets my attention that there is a new hunt, but it was only because someone mentioned it in a group I'm in that I knew it was happening. (I know - there's a post, but don't usually notice those.)

>3 curioussquared: It happened to me too.

>155 toast_and_tea: I blanked on that too and I have been an ER!

Better late than never. And I'm in love with the challenge. Found a few but looking for more... 🔎

Consolidated hints updated: https://www.librarything.com/ngroups/23170/LT-Treasure-Hunts

I finally have all 15. Thanks all. Much fun was had.

>19 amanda4242: I was also stuck on #14. Thanks for the great hint.

The only reason I took as long as I did with #6 was I forgot that I have ER set to Paper Books Only and the clue was to an ebook

Wow! I found this one more difficult than the last one I did (June Pride), but I finally got them all. This one did seem to call for extra sleuthing, and #5 in particular was a head scratcher!

It has just occurred to me that I never got the badge for the Pride hunt. ?? I don't recall waiting this long for them to pop up. Anyone else still waiting?

>222 terriks: I'm still waiting, too. But this is also my first year at LT, so I wasn't sure what the typical wait time was to get the badge.

>223 slimikin: Two weeks. From now. Or the next time you ask. Or the next time ...

More seriously though, we often get them in batches after one or two hunts.

>224 humouress: LOL. That's good to know. :) Thanks, humouress!

>222 terriks: All of the hunt badges are given manually, unlike many of the other helper badges. So they tend to like to get a batch together before Tim does the code to push them out. You definitely have to wait until after this hunt ends before he'll even look at that part of the code.

>223 slimikin: >224 humouress: A batch of badges will surely be batched soon. I'll try to remember to remind @timspalding after this Hunt—they are awarded manually which is why they usually take awhile to be sent out. (And, I just read >226 gilroy: which already explains this, thanks. :) )

Another fun quiz, and cool clues to whet the curiosity. Well done to conceptDawg too for the scary vulture painting. Thanks for organising it LT!

OMG thank you so much for another Treasure Hunt! I had forgotten how much I absolutely love these things. Yes, I got them all. I only needed to read clues on two, and immediately had well "duh" moments. Many thanks to the Treasure Hunt team for an excellent game.

>227 kristilabrie: I always prefer to have the back up confirmation of staff. :)

>223 slimikin:
>226 gilroy:
Et al, thanks for the info on badges! I never thought about it being done manually, and that does seem like a huge task.

>46 mr.philistine: Congrats on finding all. I am still stuck on #12 & #13. I know the words and have gone through page after page but still have not found. Any additional help? Thank you.

>232 SEL1891: are you checking tag pages for the words?

>190 amanda4242: thank you for the clues! Though by "alternative text", I meant the accessibility feature where a description of images is provided for those using screen-readers (or who have simply disabled images on their browser). It's been a standard since HTML 2 in 1995, and yet still many sites neglect it...

>232 SEL1891: For #12 it's the tag for a certain unlucky number, you can search for either the number spelled out or as a number and it should work. It'll be at the top of the tag search page if you're searching the correct thing.

For #13, it's a tag that rhymes with "ditches" and is associated with Halloween. If you've searched the correct word, it'll be at the top of the tag search page.

I’m so stuck on 15. I’ve read through all the hints here and done multiple Google searches and I still can’t figure it out.

Can someone please help me? It’s the last ghost I need to find!

>236 LTempest: you are looking for halloween novel 1972 from a very popular author.

>237 AnnieMod: Thank you. I tried that in Google and got nothing. Just tried it again and got it! Treasure Hunt complete!!!!

This was a lot of fun, way more challenging than I thought it would be.

>232 SEL1891: If you have the words, >87 amanda4242: applies to both #12 and #13 - it is one word for each ghost.

Finally got #7! Thank you for the clue >31 amanda4242:.

Thanks for all the hints from folks here - I got them all! YAY! Some were harder than others. One, I got it but kept looking as I didn't realize I had it...oh my...

Yay!!!! The hings were so helpful!!! Thank you all so much! :)

I’m in despair. Still stuck on 6 and 14. Clueless on 14 and have followed all the hints on 6 to no avail. Help!

>244 varielle: General reminder: LT is not just books, authors, tags and CK :)

On 6: Go to the LTER page, remove ALL filters except for genre (romance) and look at the list of books). If you do not see anything that makes sense (it is pretty obvious IMO), just start clicking on them until you get it. It won't take that long.

On 14: Head to the LT store and see if you won't find something there

>244 varielle: Sent you a profile message!

Whoo! *blows steam off the end of her proton pack's particle thrower*

Done and dusted. (Spectrally speaking.)

14 took me a bit, but that was more about not knowing my way around the Thing that well. (This hunt is DEFINITELY good for that!)

>245 AnnieMod: and >246 lesmel: I believe I found them. I got a message that I had all 15 but when I look #6 didn’t clear. I keep reading about a glitch. Is there something special I need to do to it? ETA - never mind. It now says I have 16 of 15. Must be a poltergeist. Clearly haunted. 👻

That was fun, but i am at a loss about those getting 16 out of 15 ghosts! What the heck? i have 15 now. Am i missing something?
Thanks!

>249 clamato: The "16 out of 15" was due to a bug, so maybe they have fixed it or maybe you were lucky to have a browser that didn't trigger the bug.

https://www.librarything.com/topic/345140 and https://www.librarything.com/topic/34514%30 is the same address just spelled a bit different. In the same way one of the web addresses used for the ghost hunt could be spelled in different ways and the LT program doing the counting was confused by this.
You are not missing something if you got 15/15.

>249 clamato: Check your hauntourage page: https://www.librarything.com/hunt.php
If all the the ghosts are crossed out, you have completed the hunt.

Still stuck on 6. But I'm slowly getting better with looking in LT's corners!

Have tried the hints, but I'm still stuck on #s 14 and 15. Not sure I'll be able to find them before things end tomorrow (will depend when I can get back online for personal stuff!).

>253 LibraryCin:
#14 = >19 amanda4242:, if still in doubt https://www.librarything.com/more/store/tcpins
#15 = google halloween novel 1972, if still in doubt https://www.librarything.com/work/32425

>13 coprime: When you search up the address for the Salem Public Library it's located on Liberty Street. Try looking for libraries on Essex street. I've still had no luck.

>255 Mariasatterley: For #5, search for Northeastern Massachusetts, Essex Street, Library
under Local --> Find Venues. The ghost resides among the first ten hits.

>251 mr.philistine: Yup all crossed out! Yay!!

>257 clamato: Your hauntourage page: https://www.librarything.com/hunt.php should have the first banner in the image below.



Now, revisit any of the pages hiding a ghost; does the second banner in the above image mention '16 out of 15 ghosts'?

OMG, that last one...#6 had me clicking all over the place! Whew, DONE.

>254 mr.philistine: Thank you!

>256 mr.philistine: mr.phillstine: thanks. This has been driving me crazy.

Still can't find #6, despite all the hints.

Edit: Says I have 15, so I guess it just glitched.

Anybody get their 2022 Halloween Treasure Hunt badges yet? :)

>263 mr.philistine: The Hunt wasn't even closed until this morning, so, no! :) I'll ask @timspalding if he can award badges for this Hunt and the Pride Hunt.

>264 kristilabrie:: Thank you!

Hi All! Well, Halloween has come and gone, and the 2022 Halloween Hunt has now ended. Thank you to everyone who participated this year!

This year we had 1,938 players, and 1,316 players finding at least five clues. The average number of clues found was nine.

Our randomly selected winners this year are:

mojobee
Charon07
Cariola
drneutron
nightbyrd7

Winners, I will be messaging you about your mailing addresses, so we can get your prizes sent out to you!

Thank you, LT, for a fun hunt, a well-moderated chat, and quite a few facepalms now that I see what I missed! Definitely kept me engaged and on various pages and challenges and stuff.

Just curious if the badges have come out yet, I haven't seen them.

>268 jamesjarrett00: No.

>269 rgurskey: Thanks, was just wondering.

>270 jamesjarrett00: It usually takes a while. LT has a pretty small staff.

Just received my Ghost Badge with a message from Tim.

Yes, both pride and Halloween should be out. I messed up, so they went out in two different profile comments.

Also, we just have a FANTASTIC idea for the next treasure hunt. Not gonna spoil it by telling you.

>274 timspalding: OOooH!

>273 timspalding: Thank you!

>274 timspalding: Tim! That is just mean! 👹

And thanks for the badges!

Thank you LibraryThing for all your hard work.

>274 timspalding: OHHHHH!!!!! I am so excited I can't wait!!

>274 timspalding: When will the next one be? I need to clear my calendar!!!!!! They are so much fun; I wouldn't miss one. :)

If only there were a large version of the badge, so we could see what it actually looks like.

Where have you looked for them?
If you go to your profile page, and choose Charts&Graphs at the top, THEN click Social on the left, THEN click Badges under Social (I know, I know…), you will at least see them a bit larger, labeled and as a list. I don't know how to make them any larger than that.

>281 krazy4katz: You can get there straight on, by clicking on the small badges on your profile page.

>282 FAMeulstee: Thank you! I thought I had tried that. I will try again.

PS. It worked this time!

>281 krazy4katz: THEN click Badges under Social...

..THEN right-click badge and open image in new tab to get another size up :)

>284 mr.philistine: Oh, thank you! 🙏🏻🙃

>114 humouress: There's one that is set down South. Perhaps that could help.

>286 Mariasatterley: You're a bit late. This is the 2022 hunt.