2025 Valentine Treasure Hunt

Happy Valentine's Day! It's February 14th, and the Valentine 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 Friday February 28th at 11:59pm EST—to find all of Cupid's arrows that we've hidden around the site and add them to your quiver.

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

We'll be awarding profile badges to anyone who finds at least two arrows, and anyone who finds all 14 will be entered into a drawing for some LibraryThing swag.

Helpful tips

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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>

Yay😁, thank you for a lovely surprise.

Well, that happily took up a good chunk of a 4 hour wait at an airport! 11 and 12 were the hardest for me and took the longest.

Thank you to the LT staff and I love the swan!

Drat! I spent so much time looking for the booktok one, I apparently didn't notice I had found it.

confirm my guess for me? i couldn't figure out the right keywords to search, so i was trying to come at it obliquely + some off-site searching. the hating game?

The booktok one is looking for the author page of a recent film adapted from her book

>4 keristars: Not that one. It is looking for the author of a book recently made into a film that has been in the news a *lot* due to controversy between its stars

Ah! I wonder if I found it even earlier than i thought, if that guess wasn't it. I suppose I'll never know, since I have very little contact with booktok communities, and don't pay attention to the other big clue. :)

but thank you for straightening me out. i definitely stumbled upon it at some point...

Can anyone provide a hint for #12?

Never mind, got it!

I would love a hint for #2 please as that’s stumped me (I thought I was searching via classification for a number but nothing I put in as a search term is working for me).

>9 spinsterrevival: You are definitely on the right track as the arrow is under classifications. I used the last word of the clue as a search term and picked the most relevant result under one of the classification systems.

>9 spinsterrevival: You were right! I finally found it by looking up a book with the right topic, then using the Classifications section to explore the numbers, when drilling down through MDS didn't get me there - i had been really close, too

Only missing #11 and #14 I can't figure them out, argh! Send help (hints) please... Thanks in advance

>10 Caramellunacy: Thank you that worked!

>11 keristars: Great plan and thanks for the hint, but I was so clueless to even find a book I thought would work; lol but I finally got it!

>12 sceawian: #11 is a long running publisher's series from the world's largest romance publisher.

>12 sceawian: For #11 just trust me and search for “tycoon bride” and you’ll figure out the series quickly

Stuck on #12 & #14. Any hints?

>15 amanda4242: thank you! That did it!

>16 spinsterrevival: thanks for the hint, got it!

>17 amanda4242: #12 is about a special kind of sweet that releases endorphins, serotonin, dopamine, and oxytocin when eating it...

>20 sceawian: I figured out that part, but I assume it's asking for a work and I can't find it.

>21 amanda4242: i'd say if you search for the word it would be most likely found among the first results as a book that contains instructions

>17 amanda4242: For number 14, I did a tagmash of picture book & romance and then looked down the list for a palindrome.

>22 sceawian: Ah, I hadn't scrolled down far enough! Thanks!

>23 Caramellunacy: Got it! Thanks!

>23 Caramellunacy: thank you so much for the hint and also you made me discover yet another cool feature on LibraryThing!

>25 sceawian: tagmash is one of my very favorite things about LT!

though i wish the search would stay put instead of reloading if I click on a title, then hit the back button. i keep forgetting to open in a new tab!

Had only intended on doing one or two tonight, but 45 minutes and DONE!
#1 probably took me the longest . . . I knew exactly where to go, but took a while to locate the correct title.
BTW, the first time I landed on the correct answer to #14, I didn't get my arrow. Searched again and went back to the same page and that time I got the arrow . . .

Thanks for brightening the day.
(Since my dad happened to die on Valentine's Day it isn't a holiday that I'm much in the mood for celebrating.)

Okay, I usually get these challenges on my own but I am absolutely stumped on:

#4: I believe I found the book, the author, and the fictional character's name but where do I find her name listed so I can click on it?
#8: I know the island chain mentioned but I've clicked on a dozen variations, tags, and books but still no arrow. there are 3 possibilities although only one has "26 atolls"
#11: I think I know the publisher but I've clicked on every series I can find (Greek tycoons galore!) with no luck.

Help!

>28 NurseBob: I think I have the correct islands too. I've clicked on tags and common knowledge and places etc and no arrow x

Stuck on #2, #4 and #11.

I'm guessing 2 is some kind of classification, but the other two have me stumped. I don't read mainstream romances or watch visual media.

Hi all. Need help with no 3. I've tried all the goddess I can think of.

>31 tina1969: Likely to be rather older than the ones you're thinking of! Funnily enough, I knew immediately which one was meant by the clue.

>31 tina1969: Do you know how something very old might be called the Ur-Thing, suggesting it is the oldest known? This goddess is in many ways an Ur-Goddess.

Perhaps that hint helps?

>28 NurseBob: for#8 you need to look in CK Locations.

for #11, you want the publisher series - it sounds like you were ĺooking at book series?

>30 Maddz: for#2, yes, look into the MDS section to drill down to the right call number

#4 is a specific book in the series - the first one was adapted to a hugely popular romcom movie in 2001

>33 keristars: Re #11, I was looking at publisher series but specific series not more generic ones. Told you I don't read romance...

Re #4, oh, that series. Haven't read the books nor seen the movie, and I don't particularly want to - far too fluffy for my taste and really, why do romance heroines only feel validated if they're in lurve? Urgh.

Well, as I don't look at classifications unless the genre is egregiously wrong, I reckon I'll spend the next few days trying to work out which it is.

>33 keristars: got it now thanks. Did try that one must not have clicked in the right place x

>32 Maddz: got it now. Was thinking of the very obvious ones. Thank you x

>33 keristars: Re #2, found it - nothing to do with romantic fiction then (except as being very tenuously connected to a medieval legend)! I'd call that one natural history myself...

Yay, a new hunt! Found them all on my own without hints, for the first time. 💪

Thanks for the hunt!

I cant find the list for #7 - or is it not a list??
And how many variations of Romeo and Juliet can I check?

>39 Seitenhain: no 2 I found by focusing on the very last word.
No 7 I found by putting the year, theme and our hosts in Google

>39 Seitenhain: For the last one, the original one is the one you seek

>10 Caramellunacy: That helped. Thanks.

>33 keristars: Finally got #3. I learned a lot. Thanks for the help.

>1 AbigailAdams26: Since Romance isn't my thing I can see needing a LOT of clues to find more than the three I have so far.

>11 keristars: Still not getting this - is it a Dewey number? Never mind - finally got it

I've got them all now except 2.
I've read all the comments but I'm just not getting it - any more hints please? Just to check the arrow is on a classification page and not a work right?

>46 crispychez: You're probably doing what I did. Someone else suggested searching the last word in the clue. But what I wasn't getting was, then look to the left and choose "classification". From there you'll find it.

So half of the riddles I actually knew, most of the others were easily researched, but #2 and 11 broke my brain in a way they still do not make sense to me even after I found the arrows using the spoilers. OMG.

>47 cataylor: Yep I tried this - not sure what I'm missing?!

I have all but #4 and #13. Any hints?

>50 perennialreader: Even romance genre clueless me is familiar with #4 so Rene Zellweger might be enough of a hint to get you one the right track. You'll want one of the books though, not the movie

For#13, I just googled the names from the hint

>51 SandraArdnas: Well, duh. Thanks! Never thought of that one! Got them all now.

>3 tardis: can you give me a hint for #11? It is the last one I need.

Never mind, found it. I don’t even know what a publisher series is as distinct from a series by an author, maybe multiple authors?

Found them all (with a little help from your hints for #2 and #12). ​🩷 ​Thanks a lot, and thanks to the LT team for this fun game. I simply adore these Treasure Hunts! 🤗​

#3 - Heck i have tired them all and even the oldest, are we to get the clue off the tag? Maybe i am not looking the correct place after i put the Goddess in? - Never mind I should have refreshed my screen! I got it...I was looking under tags, but clicked around and stumbled into it! :-)

>56 Test_AudioBook: #3 is a character page.

Hint: The character is a Mesopotamian goddess.

Hint: She appears in the Epic of Gilgamesh under a different name.

>57 amanda4242: Thank you! I agree with >33 keristars: keristars...I learned a lot!!!

>56 Test_AudioBook: I struggled with this one, too (I was using a different name for the goddess), but eventually found the right name. It isn't under tags, you are looking for a Common Knowledge character.

Well, I now have all 14. Thanks to @conceptDawg for the handsome swan.

The classification one is annoying, because I worked it out right away, but there are tons of categories which seem to overlap, and I have yet to hit on the exact right combination of numbers. Argh!

>61 AranelST: For #2, I used the method mentioned upthread: do a site search on the last word of the clue, then select Melvil Decimals under Classification from the menu on the left. You'll get it narrowed down to just three options.

>62 amanda4242: Thanks. I have looked at so many different ways of categorizing pretty much the exact same thing, argh!

>29 tina1969: Actually, try clicking on the name of the islands in the CK section again because it just worked for me!

>33 keristars: Thank-you Keristars! #11: I was over-thinking!
#4 : I had the wrong book altogether (stupid Google search!) I suck at romance... :)

I finally got them all, with help from the hints for 2 and 12!

>55 iggabod: Awarding of badges is done manually, so it could be awhile depending on what else is on staffs plate to do/get done

>16 spinsterrevival: I am sure I have the series but cannot find it. I tried your hint and it helped some. Thanks.

>68 mnleona: take a random book and look at the Series it is a part of

I'm down to 5 and 11. Tried the hints but still can't find the arrows.

ETA: Just found 11.

On #11 I clicked and clicked and finally got the arrow. I was not going to quit. Appreciate the help from everyone. One more left.

>71 mnleona: I got all of them and took notes, so just say the word if you need a hint :-)

need help on 7, 12. I remember the list, but can't seem to figure out how to search for a list in a way that returns what I needs

>73 al.vick: For #7, to search for a list, type your search terms in the search box, then click “Lists” in the left sidebar. Good search terms include the year in question and a word related to the relevant holiday.

>73 al.vick: For #12, to expand on the hint in >22 sceawian:, search for only the word for the key ingredient. Do not add “cookbook” or anything else that seems like it would be relevant. As an additional hint, there is nothing in the title or the work that is especially coquettish or Valentine-related that I can see.

from the world of letters....I thought they meant epistles!

Finished. I just re-clicked and got the answers Thanks for the help.
Beautiful drawing again.
Thanks LT for another fun challenge.

>59 Caramellunacy: I have clicked on every variation and other name for Ishtar that I can think of. Am I completely off base?

>79 rlwelt: Try searching Ishtar on Wikipedia; it will redirect you to the name needed here.

>79 rlwelt: Not at all off base, I did the exact same thing. We were using the Assyrian/Babylonian/Akkadian. If you are open to google, putting in the term we were using gets you to the wikipedia article for the name the clue wants (which I think is the Sumerian term).

>81 Caramellunacy: Thank you!

Hi. I'm stuck with 1 and 14.
I tried the tag mash but still couldn't find 14. Any help will be appreciated

>83 Bluewolf37: for #14, try.... never mind, I just tried what i suggested and it's not there. now i can't remember what i did to get it near the top!

For #1 did you go to the current ER page and filter the list to the genres mentioned? I couldn't find it, then realized I'd accidentally hidden one of the genres instead of showing it.

>84 keristars: Hi, I'm new to this site so I'm gonna sound a bit silly but how do I get to er page?

>85 Bluewolf37: It's a link on the bottom of every page :) https://www.librarything.com/ner

also, I remembered what I searched to find #14! gazelle - look through the books with the tag and you can't miss it

>86 keristars: thank you so much. I now have 14 arrows

>87 Bluewolf37: hooray! congrats on finding them all! :)

I have tried and tried to find #11 and I am still not getting it

>89 paulmdh: Take the hints from >16 spinsterrevival: and >69 bnielsen: and look for a series with the same initials as Harry Potter

>90 bnielsen: Thank you for the hint
I got it! As someone said earlier; I was overthinking

>91 paulmdh: Nice! Congratulations.

Is anyone else having a problem finding the right answer but not having it pop up with an arrow?

I have had three where I repeatedly tried what I was convinced was the right answer, gave up, went back tried the same thing again and then it popped up as correct?

Just found 12 on a tag mash, reloaded the page as convinced it was correct (how many palindromic titled picture books involving gazelles and bullocks can there be?), still no arrow, scanned chat to see if anyone else was mentioning a similar problem (couldn't see anything mentioned), went back and manually searched for the title I had found on tag match earlier to go back to the same page and then... all of a sudden... up popped the arrow?

Happened with clues #3, 13# and #14 all of which initialled triggered no response.

What is that about?

Ps. No banner heading in site announcing the hunt either? (nearly missed it until someone gave me the heads up)

Woo Hoo got them all

Thanks to the hints and some simple googling

Happy belated Valentine's day to all treasure hunters

Cheers

That was fun! Found most by myself, but I needed hints for the last few.

OK, I'm up to 13 found. Found some on my own, some with searching here and on Google, some from clues, but #5 is beyond me. I'd never heard of BookTok much less know what it is, and when it comes to movies all I know is what I may hear during the entertainment report while listening to the all news radio station and even then it doesn't really register unless it's something really "Big".

>96 rastaphrog: The book/movie #5 is talking about is It Ends With Us.

What a fun hunt! Really enjoyed this.

>97 amanda4242: oh my gosh you're kidding!!! i found that straight off and kept looking, thinking it was a miss. oh, my observation skills are not what they used to be.

Thanks to the group for the hints on how to search for some of these! Much appreciated.

>97 amanda4242: Thanks! You gave me more than I expected. I would have been happy with a clue to a good search term.

It was a very fun hunt! I can see that I know the website a lot better since last year, when I participated in my first hunt - I could better identify if I was supposed to look for a book, a series, a classification... But I discovered the character pages!
Thanks to the group here, I did use some of the clues :)

>31 tina1969: I also tried all kinds of goddesses but when none of them worked I googled goddess of war love fertility and then searched the first result that came up.

Well, thanks to the hints here for #2, #4 and #11 I got all of them. Thanks for the excellent diversion from the news.

Consolidated hints to this point are now in the Treasure Hunts group.

Please also check out the General Strategies thread for tips on hunting.

Goold luck!

Whew. Thank you Google. I haven't read a book in this hunt...including one likely one. Only bits in school.

How fun! I had to take some hints, but it was a good brain workout! #14 is tough if you don't know, but there's a word-puzzle hidden in the hint! Also, I now know we can search via Melvil Decimal. How long has that been there??

>107 Magus_Manders: https://blog.librarything.com/?s=angry+classification

>108 bnielsen: Oh, so since I've been a lifetime member! I guess I wasn't paying enough attention to the blog posts back then. :D Thanks!

Please don't tell me what the answers are, I'm looking to find out if I'm going in the right direction or not. Thank you

For Clue 3, I was sure it was Aphrodite, but I checked for CK character page, tag page, etc with no luck, so I looked for Venus, Hera, Juno, and Freyja/Freya (both spellings). Absolute nil on the character pages for all of these. Am I on the right track? Is CK character page the wrong thing to be looking at?

For Clue 12, I feel like there's a word I'm missing, maybe? I'm looking at chocolate cookbooks, I tried to find a 'flirty chocolate cookbook', 'date night chocolate cookbook', 'romance chocolate cookbook', or 'valentine chocolate cookbook' but got 0 results, so I just looked up 'chocolate cookbook' and tried any of the 'chocolate lovers' or 'I love chocolate' results, but no luck. It's definitely a chocolate cookbook, right? Am I just missing a word?

Thanks for any help.

>110 GraceCollection: For #3 it is a character page, but you're looking in the wrong pantheons.

You want a Mesopotamian goddess.

#12 is a cookbook. Search just the one key word and scroll down a bit.

>110 GraceCollection: You're going in more or less the right direction on both clues.

For Clue 3, You are looking for a CK character page, and you are on the right track. Think older, though.

For Clue 12, try fewer words in your search

>111 amanda4242: >112 shadrach_anki: Well! Every day you learn something new. I did not know anything about the Mesopotamian pantheon.

As for clue 12, searching 'chocolate' on its own did the trick.

Thank you both for your help! Another search complete.

This may be the first one I don't finish. There's just not enough to go on for people not familiar with the genre - okay, a book by a BookTok writer that got made into a movie? Nothing there to even start looking! A series that started in 1973 - well, if we could actually search that data I could get somewhere with that, but as it is, nah, unless I cheat by going to Google. One of a metric bazillion books about chocolate with no additional hint? No thanks.

That plus the fact that we get three movies and a book about animals but nothing that isn't heterosexual is just a big demotivator. (ESPECIALLY RIGHT NOW IN THE US). Glad to know those gazelles got representation, though.

I don't do this genre either, and I'd never even heard of BookTok, but a few Google searches and some of the well organized hints for help and I got the whole thing over two days. The classification ones threw me for a bit but I discovered some new ways to search.

>114 lorax:

I think the key is that it's not cheating to use an Internet search (at least, I don't think it is), because you still have to figure out what to search for. Both the booktok one and the romance series one are very doable with a search, but a search won't just give it away immediately, you still have to do some poking around the results. (As for the chocolate one, you are overthinking it. I know, I did the same thing. Just enter "chocolate" in the LT search, it's not that far down the results.)

It would be nice to see a more diverse set of relationships, though. It would be nice to see more of a nod to love that isn't strictly romantic, also. Perhaps they will be looking for ideas for next year?

I found #2 and #14 to be a particularly fun hunt, and #6 and #9 to be the easiest.

A good way to stretch my researching skills, and learn about features of the site!

>116 AranelST: >114 lorax:

I tackle each hunt in phases.

First sitting: What can I figure out all by myself using only searches within LT? I usually get at least four clues that way, and I have finished an entire hunt that way more than once.

Second sitting: I'll use general search engines and the 'net at large to research the resistant clues.

Third sitting: I'll avail myself of the hints offered by other LT users in the hunt thread in Talk.

Final resort of extreme desperation: I'll ask my Other Reader.

None of that is "cheating," but I sort of score myself on getting more done in earlier phases.

I read all the hints and I’m still stuck on #2 and #11. Thanks for further help!

>119 jeshakespeare: for #11, are you familiar with the major romance publishers, particularly the ones that have their books stocked in grocery stores, airport shops, etc? The answer belongs to one of their lines.

>119 jeshakespeare: What you are looking for in clue 2 is an MDS number, that is at librarything.com/MDS/ The way I found it was by clicking around in each category until I found one that fit the clue. There are actually a few that do, so as further hints the answer is to do with people, not animals, and it is earlier numerically than other, similar results (or 'far friends', as LT has termed them)

What you are looking for in clue 11 is a publisher's series, which you can search the site for and then narrow your results to only publisher's series. A hint about the answer itself is there's almost no way you haven't heard of this, at least in passing. I'm no lover (pun intended) of the genre, but I have heard of these books. There are multiple similar (at least to me, as someone unfamiliar with the genre) results when you search the correct term; I solved it by clicking a few different publisher's series until I got the arrow message. If you're familiar with the genre, maybe you understand the difference between the series, but I don't, and if you want a further hint, the only thing I can do is give away a word from the answer because again, I don't understand the difference. The word is 'presents'.

I can’t figure out #11 even with the hints no publisher series show up. I’m so confused.

Figured it out. I had the answer just was typing in wrong stuff in the wrong category’s and when I had the answer right the arrow didn’t show up until I wrote the right word

>116 AranelST:

I'll admit that my definition is idiosyncratic, but I limit myself to searching on LT, or sometimes looking at hints, and I've always been successful before. There's no challenge in using Google.

>123 lorax: Even using google, I usually find the Treasure Hunts plenty challenging! If I’m stuck, I’ll try Talpa Search first, then Google, and then hints thread as a last resort (some people aren’t careful about using the spoiler tag, and sometimes hints give away too much).

>123 lorax: There's no challenge in using Google.

...have you used Google lately??? It's like pulling teeth just to get results that are relevant to what you entered rather than what "AI" thinks you were asking about.

>125 AranelST:
Yeah. After decades of "googling," the pushy Algorithmic Incompetence has really gotten me interested in other search engines.

>126 paradoxosalpha: I have to say that DuckDuckGo isn't much better. Does anyone have any other suggestions? Just in passing, I often use Wikipedia as a kind of substitute google — it's more work thinking up searches, but you get less crap andno ads.

>125 AranelST:

>126 paradoxosalpha:

>127 haydninvienna:

You can reduce the AI garbage by always including the "Web" option from the list below the Google search box.

The "Web" option makes Google work the way that it used to.

>128 kleh:

Not too bad. Only one "Sponsored" hit at the top, and then actual results.

Edited to add: My Other Reader thanks you too!

>127 haydninvienna: I've been testing out the free version of Kagi, but haven't been using it long enough to have a good opinion. It's limited in the number of searches you can do before you pay, but I haven't hit the limit yet. I agree that Duck Duck Go is not much better than Google (but it is better enough that I'm still using it on my other devices for now).

Yes, I'm going to quibble.

I would argue that #10 is a misleading clue because one of the defining characteristics of the romance genre is a HEA, and this author's stories do NOT end happily. He writes love stories, yes. But romances? NO.

Woohoo, finished! Thank you LibraryThing for another fun hunt! ❤️

>30 Maddz: For number 2 think of the 3rd movie in a film series that was released not to long ago that the first book is loosely based on a Jane Austen classic that came out in the early 2000s.

>39 Seitenhain: click the first one you see that has a pink cover.

I'm still kind of new to this scavenger hunt but what do you mean by character page?

>135 annaBethChase32: If you look in the common knowledge section of a work page, you can see a list of characters (if anyone has added any).

Another way to find the character page is to do a search and then, in the filters on the left, choose "common knowledge" and then "character".

>135 annaBethChase32: When a character is entered in Common Knowledge on a work page, a character page is created. The character page contains every CK entry for the character of that name. See https://www.librarything.com/character/Sherlock+Holmes for an example.

To find a specific page, enter the character's name in search, then click common knowledge in the menu on the left.

>136 AranelST: Okay, thank you!

Hi, I don't know what to do. I have been trying to find #11 and I found the publishing company but I don't know what to press to get the arrow.

>90 bnielsen: That was my last one and your clue totally helped. Thanks!

>139 annaBethChase32: When you search for the publisher's name, switch to "publisher series" (either on the left or in the drop-down menu, depending on your interface). That will get you to where you want to be.

I finally found them all. Thanks for all the hints everyone. Much appreciated.

>141 keristars: Okay, thank you so much!

Yeah, 12 had me stumped until I brute-forced it. I know quite a few relevant books that even include variations of words in the clue. To be more explicit, it's none of those. I've met and taken seminars from some of the authors of other ones. I had never heard of this one, and, well, I wouldn't have paid it any attention. Curious how it stands up to the classics. Drilling down from the specialized classification number gives you a very focused list to brute-force.

And of course now I'm listening to the Sex Pistols... Bullocks has, um, different slang meanings in different locations...

>124 Charon07: Actually, anyone have stats on how well Talpa Search does with only the search clue?

>144 JasonRiedy: I thought bullocks lacked bollocks.

This sounds ridiculous, but I can't get #9! I know what the answer is, but I just must be going about typing in and clicking on things the wrong way with this one. Any tips?

Wait, nevermind! I figured it out! :)

Consolidated hints updated to this point.

Phew! Finished. I had to use Talpa search for my last one (arrow 5).

Thanks for the hunt, the clues, the hints and the swan!

>121 GraceCollection: Thank you so much for your hint for #11! I had clicked on that one because I was looking for all from the same publisher but I never got an arrow! I am now done — thank goodness! I must confess that this was not my most successful hunt. Without everyone's hints I wouldn't have gotten more than half of them.

>144 JasonRiedy: Eh??

"And of course now I'm listening to the Sex Pistols... Bullocks has, um, different slang meanings in different locations..."

Wait, are we talking about clue 12 or 14?

I am not sure if I have misunderstood you here but the Pistols were not talking about 'bullocks' at all, (you are a letter out here surely?)...although bullocks may well have untold slang meanings I am unfamiliar with...

But perhaps I'm just talking talking b*llocks...

>144 JasonRiedy: >151 Littlemissbashful: autocorrect fail?

>152 haydninvienna:
Ahh the bain of modern life. I used to struggle with autocorrect at work, I kept misspelling warehouse with an extra H and having it replaced with whorehouse everytime. Most unfortunate.

>153 Littlemissbashful: Thanks for the laugh.

I only have #9 left. I cannot for the life of me find it. Any hints for someone who has zero knowledge of romantasy books?

>155 kymahi: #9 isn't a book. It's the tag for the genre.

>156 amanda4242: OH YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME 🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦

Thanks for helping this idiot

Got all 14 arrows! Was stuck on a couple of them...people here on Talk are always helpful! Thank you for your help! :)

And the winners are ..... ???

Hello Everyone! The 2025 Valentine Treasure Hunt has now ended. Thank you to all who participated!

We had 1,450 players for this hunt, and 885 players finding at least five clues. The average number of clues found was eight.

Our randomly selected winners for the hunt are:

bookforthought
R3dH00d
lillibrary
punkisntdead
maddiefrank

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 arrows: 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.

>153 Littlemissbashful: Back in the day when I worked in human resources I once saw an application with this job description:
Frocklift operator at whorehouse

I kid you not.

Spelling was obviously not the applicant's strong suit.

>161 BookConcierge:
Lol. I suspect a human-machine collaboration, in which the former typed "froklift operator at wharehouse."

>161 BookConcierge: That needs to go into the 'Bad Joke of the Day' thread.

>161 BookConcierge:

Probably the best place for 'frocklifter'!

Congrats to the winners.

>162 paradoxosalpha: "Back in the day" meant the application was handwritten ... no machine involved.

>166 BookConcierge:
Wow.

Congratulations to the winners and thank you for another entertaining treasure hunt