2023 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 two weeks—until Tuesday October 31st at 11.59 pm Eastern Time—to find all the jack-o-lanterns hidden around the site and gather them all together into one troupe.

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

We will be awarding profile badges to anyone who finds at least two jack-o-lanterns, and anyone who finds all 12 will be entered into a drawing for a LibraryThing prize.

Helpful tips

Please, use the spoiler tag when posting hints or suggestions. Here's how:

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>

Neat!

Hooray!

Oooh--thank you!!

Love the hunts. Stuck however on 5 6 and 12 x happy Halloween

There should be a page showing all of conceptDawg's art for these hunts. I love it.

>6 tina1969:

#5: Every month, LT highlights a List of the Month, the latest of which should be visible in the news feed on your Homepage. The riddle straight-up tells you which particular one you need to click to get the jack-o-lantern.

#6: This is a riff on a line from a poem. Specifically, "Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker". You'll want the author.

#12: The riddle contains the location Copley Lawn, which is in Georgetown, Washington DC. Nearby is a set of stairs (also mentioned in the clue) that feature prominently in one of the most famous horror movies of all time.

>8 Petroglyph: I'm in the UK so thanks for the clue for 12.
Found the list page for clue 5 and have gone back 2 years but no luck x

#5 gave me the most trouble. I actually went to the correct page several times but didn't get a pumpkin until I refreshed the page...

Still, got them all in the end.

Okay, I am editing this post fully because the two I was having issues with seemed to have fixed themselves.

Still stuck on number 8, though. Not specific enough to help me search.

>10 Maddz: I was in the correct place, refreshed and pumpkin appeared x happy Halloween

Fun! I got them all, although I needed the hint from >8 Petroglyph: for #12.

Thanks to all the LT staffers who created the clues, and to conceptDawg for the cute illustration, and to all who share hints!

>11 Watry: For #8 you're looking for an author ; the clues hint at titles

>14 tardis: Ah thank you, I was looking for her most famous book , so at least I was on the right track, I guess.

>13 tardis: Same for me. I think it's the quickest I've complete a hunt. I do so enjoy them!

>16 Marissa_Doyle: I thought afterwards I should have saved the hunt for later, as I have to take my mother-in-law to the dentist and I need something for a reward afterwards :)

I don’t know how to navigate to old lists. Help!

>10 Maddz: Thanks for the refresh hint Maddz.

>18 2wonderY: You can either 1) go to Home > lists to browse (you can change any of the modules there to show up to 100 rows) or 2) search using the site search and then select "lists" from the left menu

>7 al.vick: Absolutely. These are wonderful illustrations.

The hunt has become buggy as of late. I went to the page that Lantern #5 leads to and nothing happened until I refreshed it. Then I got the lantern.

I'm pretty sure I'm on the right page for #5 (it's in the right sidebar on my home page), I've refreshed multiple times, but I still haven't gotten a lantern.

>9 tina1969:

I'm in Sweden, and I wouldn't have known either if I hadn't been to the location myself (quite by accident, actually).

>23 timepiece: It's the page for a thing that happened two years ago.

>25 anglemark:

Ah. I assumed the "monthly custom" was the "List of the Month" announcement, so I just looked at the most recent one (which was on-topic). I now have 12 lanterns (only one refresh needed).

>10 Maddz: Thanks for the reload hint, I was busily trying to approach that page from all directions and urls to get it to register!

For #5, I know what it is, but how do you discover which list was done in a particular month?
I can't even see all lists, there's only 'recent', 'active', 'popular' and those 'I might like'

>28 ScarletBea:

Look at the talk group for List of the Month. It provides an index via thread titles.

>29 paradoxosalpha:, thanks, I got there!!! I knew there was a way :)

A good hunt! I learned more about Lists and Legacy Libraries on the site, and how to play with the information.

Any hints on (what I think are) nonfiction answers? I am stuck on 2, 4, and 9. I have tried the history of..., fact-finding ideas, etc.

>32 ballet7439:

Are you looking at the tag pages? When a clue seems to point to a topic, that's your best bet.

>33 paradoxosalpha: ok thanks, I will check that out!

>22 anglemark: That's still happening. I was sure I had the right page, went to it over and over, then came to this thread and saw your post. Refreshing the page did give me the jack-o-lantern. Thanks.

The AI search feature proved surprisingly useful for some of the ones I didn't know.

>35 laytonwoman3rd: Yep. Same for me. But now I'm at 12/12 :-) Nice hunt!

Reminding people that when you get to #5 you have to refresh the page to get your pumpkin

Got all twelve, though admittedly it took me forever to figure out #6;
And I was overthinking #12 (anti-hint: It's nothing to do with the words "Hoya Saxa" or the gargoyle drain spouts)
Figures they would be a "Tim clues"! 🎃

>22 anglemark: Still trying. I swear I have the right page.

>23 timepiece: also!!

>22 anglemark: Thank you for posting that refreshingly helpful comment!

I was sure I was in the right place for #5 and couldn't figure out why no lantern was coming up, but now I have it

..and I had to revisit the same page four times before #12 popped up as correct.

>8 Petroglyph: Thank you for the hints. They were a big help. I normally don't do the treasure hunt, so this was my first and I was able to get it done.

Consolidated hints are up; but so far, only for 5, 6, 8 and 12.

Please also have a look at the General Strategies thread for tips on hunting, collected over many hunts.

And done! That went quite quickly considering that I pay no attention to the now almost totally American holiday of Hallowe'en and even less attention to the genre of horror. Although I admit to having read the book for Tim's Pumpkin #12.

Such fun! I got them all pretty quickly, but did need a bit of help for 6 and 8.

Got them all, thanks! I needed the hints for 6 and 12 - and, of course, help for 5.

I love the scary flamingo!! Nice one, @conceptdawg.

Got them all! Thanks for the fun hunt!

Congrats to all who have found them all.

Could I have some help for #9 please

I have looked at tag pages for Pumpkin, pumpkins, carved pumpkins, Jack o'lantern. Refreshed the pages (as suggested above). I think I must be on the wrong track or that they are also known by another name that I don't know.

Edit - found it forgot to try the plural for Jack o'Lantern

Fun hunt

Yay, another hunt! 🥳

I need some more help with #12. I read the hints above and in the hints thread, but I still have no clue. The movie I googled doesn't seem to be on LT. 🤷‍♀️

>51 Ennas: The movie is cataloged here (basically all films are). It's a true classic and was released fifty years ago.

>52 anglemark: Then I must have googled the wrong movie. 🤷‍♀️ Help? 🙏

>53 Ennas: The movie starred Linda Blair. Was a much-talked movie at the time.

>54 perennialreader: Got it! Thanks!

Very fun!

Another great hunt (and I love the way that it always shows new parts of the LT site)! Thanks to everyone!

>50 calm: I had the same problem. What should have been the easiest one gave me the most trouble!

Still not getting #5. Went to October 2021 and refreshed but nothing.

Got all but one of them. #2 is driving me crazy. I tried tags as suggested in >33 paradoxosalpha: but can’t seem to get it right. ETA I got it, right after posting. 😂🎉

>60 Storeetllr: Ditto on #2 driving me insane.
The rest I breezed through.
Care to nudge me a direction?

>61 Nodecaf: For #2 What Halloween-related thing are spirits and specters synonyms for? And don't forget that spirits and specters are plural

Stuck on 5

>62 Watry: Thanks, just the nudge I needed! I was going too literal & doing tag mashes.

>59 hredwards: same for me

>63 DKnight0918:

#3 2023 horror film set in the mentioned city, based on a classic who-done-it

>65 DKnight0918: I keep trying and refreshing like everyone says but it's not working.

I think I am seriously overthinking # 11. I have the author and the book, but those don't seem to be what I should be looking for to get the jack o'lantern. Any clues to put me on the right track?

>68 TsarinaTyna: #11 From the clue: "we’ll find what you’ve read" and "Legacy". An author's library?

>68 TsarinaTyna: The last line of the clue (and the stanza before) hints at what you're looking for Legacy Library which you should see a link to on the right of the relevant author page.

>67 hredwards: I swear I refreshed a dozen and a half times, and it didn’t work for me. I had to get there a different and, maybe, specific way. And then when I refreshed it worked.

@caramellunacy Thank you!! That's the only thing I hadn't tried! Lol. Now I have all my jack o'lanterns!!

Any help for #7? THANKS in advance!!

>73 iluvvideo: I did a tagmash (search tags with terms separated by commas) for terms from the clue picture book, witch, dragon and chose a likely looking result!

I finished and it was a pretty fun hunt!
Anyway, I hope you all have a good spooky month I guess.

Is there anyone else stuck on #1 ?
I have tried everything I can think of

>67 hredwards: and possibly others with refresh angst ...

Posts regarding this "refreshing" difficulty brings to mind that perhaps-maybe-possibly (?) what you're doing with your specific operating system is not clearing the cache and replacing the webpage with the latest version.

On a a Mac (Apple), to refresh (replace the webpage), you hold down the shift key while clicking the refresh symbol ↻ in the browser bar. I've had absolutely no trouble collecting the Jack O'Lanterns (except #4, which I have given up trying to solve).

Been too long since I used a Windows OS, but if this message might help you, there are lots of great people here to advise.

And sorry if I've spoken out of turn, and *everyone* was already replacing the webpage correctly. No intention of being a pedantic know-it-all.

>76 paulmdh: The best clue is Linus. He's a cartoon character.

>76 paulmdh: You might need to get a bit more Snoopy on this site by looking for a themed book from Linus' best friend from a well known comic strip.

Thanks to all who provided clues. I've got 12 / 12 now!

Thank you. That was so much fun!

>77 SandyAMcPherson:

#4: A big Halloween-esque celebration in Mexico is called el día de los muertos. What is that in English?

>69 perennialreader: >70 Caramellunacy: New to me. Thanks.

>82 Petroglyph: I know what it is in English, but sadly that hasn't helped. I am tired of clicking on works with that tag. Have you any suggestions that might help?

>84 2manybooksUK:

#4: It's not a specific work, but the same kind of thing that clue #2 pointed to.

>84 2manybooksUK: Same here, I messed around a lot with that phrase.
So thanks for trying to be subtle, >82 Petroglyph:, but I also explored tags, CK, and likely-looking authors as well as book titles, as apparently did "2manybooksUK"

>85 Petroglyph: #2 is the only other one on which I am absolutely stuck, even though I get the gist!

Update: And the first tag I thought of was correct. I kept trying to get there through lots of different routes, and finally found one that worked! I've now got all twelve.

My first time getting all the answers with out hints.

Got them all!! :D

Thank you for another fun hunt.

Updated Consolidated hints done to this point.

Please also have a look at the General Strategies thread for tips on hunting, collected over many hunts.

Thank you so much for this! It was fun, and I actually learned a bit about the lists. The flamingo is lovely, too!

Thank you >78 SandyAMcPherson: and >79 AHS-Wolfy:

I now know that I am looking in the right direction :)

>50 calm:

Ha! Thanks for that—I was really stuck on that one, going round in circles ...

>58 laytonwoman3rd: and >93 alaudacorax: At least I wasn't the only one :)

The clue asked for a plural and I just missed it until I asked for help ... a real "duh" moment!

>59 hredwards: I have the same problem.

By the way ... NO BANNER announcing the hunt. I know I clicked "ignore" some hunts ago after I had finished that hunt and no longer needed the reminder. Apparently I have not had a banner since then.

>96 BookConcierge: me too.

>96 BookConcierge: Same here.

>96 BookConcierge: Same - I now regret ever telling it to ignore.

Is this something that should be in the Bug Collectors' group or one of the others?

>10 Maddz: Thanks for the hint to refresh the page.

Went back to check on #5 and apparently I got it somehow. Not sure what happened. I have them all. Thanks for the help!!

Have never done one of these before, and have no clue what to do or look for.
If anyone can give me an exact example of how to do this and what it looks like, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks to all for the hints. I could not have done it without your assistance!!!

>82 Petroglyph: Day of the Dead

>102 LC3library:

Certain pages on LT are currently special: if you land on them, you'll get a jack-o-lantern. These pages can be a specific Work, a tag, an item in the shop, a List, an Author or anything else. The riddles on the Hunt page provide clues as to the pages you're looking for. If you've found a certain jack-o-lantern, refresh the hunt page: the riddle you ticked off will now be greyed out.

In >104 LC3library: you've answered one clue -- go to that tag page to receive a jack-o-lantern. Then figure out some of the others.

In the end, every member who finds more than five or so items is entered into a raffle where they can win some items from the LT shop. Those members will also receive a badge (yours will appear here) for participating in this hunt -- although those badges can be several months late. They are not the priority anyway.

These hunts are semi-regular and are a way for letting members find out about areas of the site that are not directly relevant for fiddling with your catalogue and that they may not know about.

This was my first event since joining and this was awesome! Just got all 12! Had a blast figuring them out! Can't wait for the next one!! Good luck everyone! 🤞

>1 AbigailAdams26: I found two! :D

Thank you for a spooktacular diversion this afternoon! It was fun and informative.
Good luck to one and all!

Love this kind of game. Are there hints on this thread? I'm stuck on one but don't want to see the answer here.

>109 NWADEL: There are, but hidden as spoolers, so you want see unless you want to

>110 SandraArdnas: Thanks!

>10 Maddz: I also had this problem but eventually got the pumpkin.

By gum, I am stuck on #2. Got all the others.

>1 AbigailAdams26: Got all 12!

>113 tiffin: Think of the tag matching the description.

>73 iluvvideo: Note also that Google (or whichever engine) searches with relevant key words help.

Thanks for another fun Treasure Hunt! And thanks to conceptDawg once again for the cool illustration :)

I've been stuck on #3 since I started - I now have them all except for #3!

The riddle isn't helpful if you're not familiar with the book, and learning that it's now a movie with a different title, though similar characters, but not the same - yep, I'm stuck! :)

Any other clues?

>118 terriks: Search Agatha Christie's books with Hercule Poirot and the book title that fits the theme.

I kept trying and finally got all 12. I appreciate all the help and extra thanks to LT.

Yay and thanks for the Halloween fun! I finally found all of the jack-o-lanterns!

I just cannot get #5 and #11. I know WHO they want. I've clicked on dozens of links, names, tags, authors, works. Help, please?

>119 perennialreader: That did it! (Boy, was I off!) 😆

Thanks so much! I have all 12 now.

i only have 1 3 10 and 11 i rlly need help!!!!!

>124 ilike2read23: What have you tried so far for number 2?

>82 Petroglyph: day of the dead

>126 peggy416: There's instructions on how to put spoiler tags around answers in the first post.

>126 peggy416:

... and now you can go to that tag page to receive a jack-o-lantern.

I didn't know No. 5 yesterday, but someone mentioned the book coincidentally today at a book sale.

>115 JasonRiedy:: Thank you for the nudge, Jason! I had tried that but I must have been overthinking it because I got it this time.

Sorry, I meant #6 and #11. I know who they're talking about. I can't find the jack-o-lanterns.

gracias

Thank you, that was fun! I am almost certain I’ve found number 5, but I can’t get the jack-o-lantern to appear. I’ve found all the others. I’ll try again another day.

>105 Petroglyph: Nice description. I'm snaffling it for the General strategies.

2, 4, and 6 are eluding me and making me angry ugh *and 9 I feel like I should know at least 3 of these but can't quite seem to get to the right place. Especially 4 argh

Thanks to all who suggested the need for a refresh for #5.


I tried this month's, the one in question, my own list for each of them, various orders, everything I could think of before coming here.

Petroglyph (#82):

You don't need the English to get that one, but you do need the proper name for the day which omits 'los'.

>60 Storeetllr: Help us by giving a clue!

Somebody please give a helpful clue for #2!

>140 crabbyabbe: you're looking for a tag that would describe Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde.

Woohoo! A friend and I worked through them all together...it took two brains! :) Great hunt!

Yay, my hubby and I were able to work together and we found all of them!!

>131 BarbaraMcI:

For #6, you want the author page for the poet that the clue is riffing off.

For #11, you want the Legacy Library page for the author in question; there’s a link to it in the right-hand column of their author page.

>136 Terrell_Solano:

#2 is a tag that’s another term for restless spirits of the dead. Note that you want the plural form.

#4 is a tag for the holiday described in the clue. Either the English or Spanish name should work.

#6 is the author page for the poet who wrote a poem with the second line that’s the first line of the poem in the clue.

#9 is the tag page for a type of seasonal decoration. Again, you want the plural form.

Another fun hunt! Thanks LT!!!

>144 Gryphon-kl: I found #11. #6, I have been there and been there and clicked on everything over and over. I know very well who the person is. I'm just not clicking on the right link.

First time I've successfully completed a treasure hunt! That was a blast, thank you LibraryThing & Happy Halloween!

I didn't get a banner for this, *and* it got pushed down out of sight in my "top news feed" on the Home page by another item! I don't check the Home page every day. I found out about this hunt from Threads, today.

>139 crabbyabbe: Check out the hint in >62 Watry:.

>96 BookConcierge: Yeah same. I don't think I ever clicked "ignore" even.

I have really enjoyed this treasure hunt. I'm a relatively new user and it's been a fun way to learn more about all the treasure Library Thing has to offer. Thank you to all the coordinators.

Thank you. Fun was had.

The hunts are always a TREAT, this one was TRICKY... but fun! Thanks! Loved the art, conceptDawg... always a treat!

>74 Caramellunacy: carmellunacy
THANK YOU!!
Got all 12. GREAT search. Perfect mix of already known items and searches to figure out!!

Consolidated hints updated to this point. Thanks @Yamanekotei for pitching in to help!

Please also have a look at the General Strategies thread for tips on hunting, collected over many hunts.

Enjoyed this hunt. I stumbled with some as usual, but with the clues, and dumb luck I managed to get the clues.

Haven't looked at the hints yet, but this is the best I've ever done on a first go-round. I still need 3 more, but I'll try again tomorrow to see if I have fresh ideas before checking hints.

I do tend to do better with the Halloween hunts, though. :-)

Another hint for #2:Tag search what badge was awarded for the 2022 Halloween Treasure Hunt. If one doesn't work, try many :)

Since there were no hints for #10 yet, here's a walkthrough:
Do a Google search for 'story about + 2nd line of 2nd paragraph of Clue#10' to get the title. Since the 1st line of the 1st paragraph of Clue#10 mentions cinephiles, do a tagmash search with ONE of the nouns from the title plus the surname of the director of the film adaptation OR the surname of the author.

Another enjoyable Halloween hunt I cheated my way through! My thanks to the creators

Thanks for another great hunt
Happy Halloween

Got them all! I did need hints for 2 of them, in the end. I still used hints for the third one (#5), though I knew what I was looking for and went to the page a few times. A hint suggested refreshing the page once there. That worked.

Still the best I've done for any of the hunts so far!

>6 tina1969: Ha! Those were the same three I missed the first time through!

>96 BookConcierge: Yeah, I would have liked to see a banner notifying me, as well.

Luckily, I had commented on a broader thread in the consolodated hints group that someone else commented on a few days ago, making we wonder if there was a new hunt happening!

I actually got all twelve jack-o-lanterns!! (Imagine a happy skeleton dancing on the lawn...) I have never before gotten all the way through a hunt before the deadline. This was fun.

I was able to get 10 all on my own which I think is a new record for me but I was stuck on #2 and #6 so thanks for the hints for those. Now I can get back to doing book reviews as I am way behind.

>70 Caramellunacy: Thank you! I never knew about this feature. Very cool!

>1 AbigailAdams26: having trouble with #5. I believe it’s Witchy Fiction , but I’m not getting a jack-o-lantern even when I refresh.

>168 bearette24: "Two years ago we made this list"
So it's the list 2 years ago.

>168 bearette24: Per >29 paradoxosalpha:, search for the Group named 'List of the Month'. The first pinned thread titled 'Welcome' has links to every LOTM page. Check for the current month but 2 years back and refresh the page if it doesn't register your find.

I believe I have the answer to #11 but I am having trouble finding them in the Legacy Library page.

>171 foof2you: Try the author page; there is a link to their legacy library in the box at the top right

Consolidated hints updated.

>147 BarbaraMcI:

#6: All I did was search for the name and click on it for the first work that showed up. Just checking, but the person you’re trying has the initials O.N.? I assume so, but it’s the only possibility I can think of.

This was so fun, Thanks everyone for the hints needed some to finish!

Wow! I think this is the first time I got all 12 without pleading for help.

>10 Maddz: Thank you! I was sure I had found the correct page--several times--but no pumpkin. Your hint about refreshing the page resolved it for me.

Got them all, no hints needed!

>10 Maddz: Thanks for the heads up Maddz. #5 gave me trouble too until I saw your post. Refreshing the page did the trick.

Thank you Calm, had wrong answer but found the right one.

>8 Petroglyph: #5 I've clicked that page several times and for whatever reason, it's not counting for me

Also reporting that I know I was on the right page for #5 at some point, and can see that Jack o Lantern 5 has been awarded, but never saw the banner on whatever page was the correct one . . . but will just take whatever "stumbled upon" pumpkins I get. :)

I tried to refresh for #5, but when nothing happened, I logged out of my account and logged back in. At that point, when I went back to #5, the treasure hunt banner was no longer at the top of the page, and I couldn't continue with the game. So, I guess I'm stuck at 11 out of 12! It was great while it lasted, though!

>183 adprice22: You don’t need the banner to be present to be able to do the hunt.

>183 adprice22: You can click the link in >1 AbigailAdams26: to get back to the hunt page

Another fun one! If not for the need to refresh the one page, it would have been the easiest for me. Now I need to ponder why I know so much about Halloween....

I don’t think #5 is working. I have gone to the list in every way I can come up with. No pumpkin.

Never mind. Thetitle of the correct list isn’t the same as the title on the home page. I clicked them all and got it.

>188 AliciaR60: It took me a long time also.

Thanks to everyone for helpful hints, this was fun!

Thank you for another great treasure hunt! I have really enjoyed it and it gave me a chance to learn some of the features that I didn't know were here.

Another fun Treasure Hunt!
These ALWAYS improve my mood . . . and today I really needed a mood/attitude adjustment! So Thanks!!

Also, if anyone hasn't read the answer to #7, it's one of my favorites. I think there was also a video made of it that sometimes shows up on Netflix at this time of year (but is probably also available elsewhere). I hope that isn't considered a spoiler . . . because I doubt it will help if you don't already know the title. :)

Update: Sorry, apparently no longer on Netflix. :( . . . now on AppleTV.

Just to note: I do still see the banner on the sign in page (if I'm signed out).

LucindaLibri (#193):

Please do put that "I hope that isn't a spoiler" behind spoiler tags. Any information that could help someone should be hidden - no downside in being overcautious.

YAY! I get em all!

>9 tina1969: Same

I was able to get 11 out of the 12 and I am stuck on #5. I found the site/page/list whatever but it still didn't show up for me at all.

I did it...I found ALL 12 pumpkins! It was fun :)

Finally got them all, but this was the most difficult Hunt for me. I only got 6 by myself. And #5 was so frustrating because I thought it was the list for this month. Then, after a hint, I couldn't figure out how to get to the correct page, but another hint gave me help doing that. THEN I refreshed my page and got it! Thank you everyone!! And thank you to LT for all the interesting hints.

Found them all! And yes, #5 is a little monster ;)

I’m distressed trying to find #5! I’ve tried everything!! What am I doing wrong? Help please! I’ve read all the comments on how to do it but I’m still struggling..

>202 Some1LikeYou: Go to the page you think it should be and then refresh the page.

Thanks for all the help! Finally got them all!

>203 PawsforThought: I believe it is Whichy Fiction and I’ve tried refreshing it and still nothing. I went into several other lists as well and still can’t find my pumpkin 🎃
Thank you for the response 😊

>205 Some1LikeYou: That is NOT the right one. But you are in the neighborhood. Search for a list that has key phrases from the clue in the title "scary"

>205 Some1LikeYou: I thought that too, but it was the one exactly 2 years ago instead

Consolidated hints updated to this point.

Thank you to everyone who helped me get my last pumpkin! 🎃 I really appreciate it! It took me a long time to figure it out but I finally completed the Hunt 😊🥳 💕

>194 humouress: I just checked and I do too.

Finally got them all! #5 seems to have been buggy for everyone, so now I feel a little better about my guess not seeming to be correct. (Persevere! Refresh a lot!)

#12 was just eeeeeevil.

I finally found them all! Thanks for the help everyone and Happy Halloween!!

Yay, got them all! 🎃 A big Thank you to the LT team for this fun treasure hunt, and to y'all for the helpful hints 👏

>195 lorax:
Done . . . though I think my original post was the opposite of a spoiler (because it led people in the wrong direction :) but you're right, better to be overcautious.

Thx for the hints everyone, just tried to get 'em all but got stuck in a couple, congrats to all who got all the jack's!!!

Thank you to our LT Team and to everyone for the hints. I loved the hunt. Congrats to all!

Hello Everyone! The 2023 Halloween Treasure Hunt has now ended. Thank you to all who participated!

We had 2,183 players for this hunt, and 1,304 players finding at least five clues. The average number of clues found was seven.

Our randomly selected winners for the hunt are:

EAMesa
grumpydan
kellyslist
aeww
djryan

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

Participants who found at least two jack-o-lanterns: Please be aware that badges are awarded manually, and may not appear in your badges for some time.

Regarding the banner: the developers are still aware of the ongoing problems with the banner's appearance, and the fact that dismissing it once sometimes seems to dismiss it forever, despite the member's wishes/preferences. The issue is on the list of things to be looked at, although I have no timeline to give on a resolution.

Thank you all so much for the smashing treasure hunt and all the helpful clues!

Anyone get their badge yet?

>219 mr.philistine:

Nope. The process is largely manual, and it may take months.

(Badges for two hunts have been handed out at the same time, months after the second hunt took place. Not saying it's gonna take months this time. But it might.)

>220 Petroglyph: I got the 2022 Halloween badge on 17 Nov, 2022.

>221 mr.philistine: Everyone got it at that date. The badges for the 2023 valentine's hunt, poetry month hunt and pride hunt were all awarded on 26 July, and the badge for the 2022 pride hunt was awarded on 17 November (2022). It varies greatly.

I have always been impressed with the work done first in developing the clues and subsequently in adding the badges. I know so many LT'ers who get excited about participation!

2023 Halloween Hunt badge awarded!

>224 mr.philistine: Yes!!!!