2025 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 Friday 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>

Ooooooh! Lovely vulture!

Yes! I'm a big vulture fan!

>3 MarthaJeanne: Hmm, and I was so fond of my 20 years LT t-shirt. Now I want one with the vulture as motif. :-) Thanks, @conceptDawg !
(BTW I think I already have a t-shirt with a vulture: https://www.facebook.com/kukuxumusu/photos/crisis-qu%C3%A9-crisism%C3%A1s-dibujo... )

Are the notification banners not working? I'm pretty sure I hit on the right answer, but maybe not. Just checking.

Well one showed up for a different entry so it's just me. as usual.

>5 Bookmarque: I've seen the notification banners on the four I've found so far.

I can't get Jack-o-Lantern five to register, I'm almost certain I have the right answer so I suspect there's an url variation issue, I've approached it from two different directions to try and trigger it, but they were both the same url.

>7 Aquila: Jack-o-Lantern five registered for me.

I've got 9 out of 12 (because I'd rather scavenger hunt than work) and was thinking I'm sooooooo smart but #1, #3 and #7 have me stumped! I thought I had #1 but I'm not sure I'm entering it right....

And I'm having the same problem with Jack-o-Lantern 7. Guess what they have in common!

>8 Taphophile13: Did you use search to get to it, or go via the home page or another way I haven't thought of?

>11 Aquila: #5 Clue It's a list from a couple of years ago that fits the category

>11 Aquila: >7 Aquila: That one worked for me albeit weirdly. Started from the Home page. Did not register initially, clicked on the category at the top and then just back into the page (browser back, nothing fancy) and it registered. Maybe a refresh would have worked...

>13 AnnieMod: Thank you! Yes the reload worked, I should have thought to try that!

Still trying to get #7 to register, maybe I'm on the wrong hiding there.

>14 Aquila: Registered just fine for me.
Tip: #7: Not a list even if it also exists as a list!

>15 AnnieMod: Aha! The other lists. Thank you.

I'm stuck on #1 and #8. Any hints welcome!

Thank you so much for the opportunity, it's been a blast! I'm about halfway through...anyone have any tips on #1-#4 or #6-#7?

I'm stuck on #1, #2, #7, and #8.

I thought #2 is The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories by H. P. Lovecraft, but couldn't get the pumpkin. Is it not registering or do I have the wrong book?

ETA: Thought #7 is NPR Reader Poll: 100 Best Horror Novels and Stories, but I guess not... Am I even close?

>19 alexyskwan: You're on the right track but you aren't looking for a book for #2.

>18 TheLOFT:

For #3, figure out the name you should use from the first line, then just search under that, Halloween, and the more common name of the creature from line 2. For #4, search under the older term for the genre and those three occupations. For #6, keywords such as "pig" and "spooky" are important.

For #8 I googled the phrase katydids dreaming - and I did have to google it, duck duck go had nothing - and eventually found something that led to it.

>20 Aquila:

Got it now. Thanks.

I'm still struggling with #1, 2, 3 and 5. Clues?

I was pretty sure #2 was The Call of Cthulhu and I tried the book, then and I tried the suggestion of looking for something that wasn't a book, but nothing I could think of worked, including the RPG

>22 Aquila: For this one I'll give Zeph major props for ingenuity.

Great , A Halloween Hunt! There is no banner that I can see on LT, I saw the post on Facebook.

Negative hint for #6: it's nothing to do with Peppa Pig.

>27 haydninvienna: I found that out, thanks .

I had to click on the answer for number 5 about 3 times, maybe 4 until the banner came up and I got the pumpkin. I hope that helps someone.

>29 vancouverdeb: I've had a couple where it was necessary to refresh the answer page.

>30 haydninvienna: Thanks!

>30 haydninvienna: Thank you! That was very helpful. One of mine #5 suddenly appeared but I didn't get a notification at the top. I'll try working with the other one I know and see if that will help.

Hopefully someone can help me out with 1-3 still :)

I'm wondering if #2 is the same issue I had where refreshing the page might help

And now I have all of them except number 1. Suggestions please?

>22 Aquila: Thank you. got my second one. Now I can quit.

Got stuck on #2 for ages and then realized I couldn't spell. Sigh.

>18 TheLOFT: For #2 It's not any type of media be it book, DVD, etc or the author. Try searching without the full book title, just the name and clicking around a bit

#3 took me a while but Think of the female characters in that book, and search for the name. Look closely at the book covers and you should see the common name for line 2

#4 Think British scholars who had a collection of stories.

Great hunt. Help please with 1 xx

Stuck on #1, #3, #6 and #7.

#3 I keep thinking of a famous book referenced in the first line, but I think that's a red herring (if not a scarlet eusuchian).

>36 midnightcat: Got # 2. Thanks.

Ok. #5 I found the witchy fiction list from two years ago, but no banner comes up. What the heck am I missing?

>40 Bookmarque:

Try reloading. :) The pumpkin didn't pop up until I reloaded.

>38 Maddz:

For #3, it's not a red herring per se, the name of the female protagonist in the classic book is part of the title of the book we're looking for.

>40 Bookmarque: two of us clicked into that multiple time before it triggered a result... definitely some spooky pumpkins out there causing trouble

Has anybody found #1 yet, haha!? Toughie, that one :-)

>44 JBD1: for #1 once I focused on 'Come enter to win' part of the clue and went to where you can actually win it, it was quick and easy I spent a lot of time before that going down other rabbit holes :D

>45 SandraArdnas: Hahahahah amazing, wow - I've been down so many rabbit holes! I had even guessed the title but since it doesn't come in site search, no dice. Thanks!

I hate it when they send us to Early Reviewers> because 99% of the time I have to reset my categories and it's too much of a PITA to bother with.

Hiya, got 11 now, but still have no clue what #7 could be...

I also tried Horror: The 100 Best Books by Jones and Newman, but still not getting the right one... What am I missing?

>42 alexyskwan:, >47 Bookmarque: Got them now.

Still drawing a blank on #6 & #7...

I'm stuck on #7 as well.

For #7, "list" may be leading you down the garden path. It certainly did me for a while.

>51 JBD1: No, wasn't even trying there. Trying titles and series, but perhaps 100 is throwing me off

>44 JBD1:, >45 SandraArdnas:, >46 JBD1:, >47 Bookmarque:,
#1
thanks for the help and I'm sure I've found it by looking at Early Reviewers but I am not getting the banner, even after refreshing.
I was on the right track searching for programs associated with Bram Stoker
It's my last one.

>52 SandraArdnas: Try another area that could be thought of as a list. I got it by searching for a well-known American public media initialism and then narrowing by category ...

>52 SandraArdnas: for #7 one might say that the station 'awarded' the books on the list

>54 JBD1: >55 raidergirl3: I was looking in the wrong place after all. Thank you, all done now

>54 JBD1: May be well known if you're American. For the rest of the world, who?

>55 raidergirl3:

That definitely helped. Thanks!

Yay, done!

>57 Maddz:

The group with the initials has the word "public" in it; it supposedly reaches the whole country; and the format of how the content is sent out started back in the 1900s. Can perhaps be seen as the BBC of the US.

>59 alexyskwan: Finally got #7...

11 down, 1 to go.

Stuck on #8. Any hints?

>53 raidergirl3: Thank you! That led me to getting #1. I was getting stuck and kept trying the Bram Stoker Awards and horror cons in all manner I could think, adding Early Reviewers really helped

>61 amanda4242: Look at line 5

>62 midnightcat: argh, but I haven’t got it yet. Did you go at it through ER?

Happy for you though 🙂

>64 raidergirl3: Yes, click on the Early Reviewer's for this month and just look at the titles of the books. It's still related to to Stoker

>61 amanda4242: I followed the clue in >22 Aquila: (and DDG brought it up on the first page of results today, yay)

>22 Aquila: Thanks! That got me where I needed to go.

>45 SandraArdnas: DOH! I never even considered looking there. Thanks!!

I'm done now, and thanks to LT for another great hunt. Love the vulture!

>66 karenb: All I'm getting is references to interpreting dreams of katydids.

>68 amanda4242: No, the exact phrase in 22. (I made that same mistake!)

I just need #4 and 6 - any more hints?
I have refreshed what I thought was the answer for 4 but I’m still not right. Is it an author page?

As for number 6 all search result lead to Peppa 😝

>69 karenb: I did use the exact phrase.

>26 vancouverdeb: I was happy to see the banner for the last hunt, but nothing for this one, unfortunately. In another group here on LT it was mentioned that this started.

>71 amanda4242: Okay, revised hint for #8: search Common Knowledge for katydids dream.

>73 karenb: Thanks! I already got it by clicking on titles tagged horror until I found the right one, but that will no doubt help other people.

For #1 I found two identical answers next to each other but only one of them gives the pumpkin.

For #5 I had to refresh the page, when I found the answer, to get the pumpkin.

>65 midnightcat: okay, I finally got #1. I had to click on the 'horror' genre and then I could see the two books, one of which was not available in my country, which is the one that gave it to me. When I just looked at ER, I only saw one edition, available in my country, but that one did not give me the pumpkin. Perseverance!
It was >75 humouress: clue that made me look some more

still stuck on #7 and #6. Not Peppa?

>45 SandraArdnas: Nice, and thank you! I now have all 12.

Thanks for setting this up, LT staff! It took me years to start doing the treasure hunts, but now I’ve done and completed all of the last 3, and I really enjoy them.

>77 DebHudon: Doubt it as the protagonist is explicitly referred to as male. That's the one I'm stuck on as well.

ETA: Found it. You need to mash...

And done! Thanks for the hints with a couple of the hard ones. I think you all here master the art of giving hints without making it too easy!

>79 Maddz: thanks for the mash hint! found #6. Now just looking for #7... update! I found it, all done

>36 midnightcat: Thank you!

I went through the clues and found just one all by myself, but then with help from Google and the clues here I finally found all 12. Thanks for the hunts and the hints!

Am I the only one with incomplete strike through the clue when 🎃#1 is found? I still have “ When it comes to chills, their namesake is king. (Abigail)” part not stroke through.

>84 Yamanekotei: Yep, I'm seeing it the same way, it happened with two of the cues in a previous hunt, so I think it's just a coding issue.

It also feels like the scarcity of the announcement banner is impacting how many people have found the hunt so far.

That was a lot of fun, some tricky clues there! Thank you to all involved in setting up these treasure hunts.

That was fun. Got all 12 thanks to hints on the tough ones. Absolutely had a facepalm moment when it came to the World’s Fair clue. Figured it out and I own the book. I guess I need to read it soon.

Thank you for another enjoyable hunt. The AI embedded in search engines has also begun to decipher entire clues/ riddles!

I finally found all the pumpkins. Thank you very much for another fun treasure hunt. And a beautiful picture as always, @conceptDawg!

Wow, this is the 2nd hunt in a row I've found very difficult! I'll look again in the next few days without looking at hints first, but on my first go-through, only one. :-(

>92 LibraryCin: I found this hunt more difficult as well, but I did get all twelve. Good luck and have fun!

This was a hunt where I did not know a lot of the books referenced on first glance, but I don't read much horror. However, I had lots of luck doing online searches, and I only had 2 I was unable to find on a first pass. One of which was #1. On most treasure hunts, I can tell if a clue is referring to ER books, but not in this case. I needed the hints here to get that one.

Tag mash is your friend.

I've managed 11 pumpkins by myself (with a bit of googling on one or two and tag-mashing several) but haven't deciphered number 8 yet.

>84 Yamanekotei: Same here.

>90 mr.philistine: 😱👻

>95 humouress: Major spoiler for #8: No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality

Consolidated hints from this thread (up to this point) for clues 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 are now in the LT Treasure Hunts group.

If you're new to the Treasure Hunts or just need a refresher - because it's not always (in fact, more often than not these days, it isn't) a book/ work - have a look at the 'General Strategies' thread in that group.

And, speaking of 'refresher', some answers - especially the one to clue 5 - seem to need you to refresh/ reload the page to get your pumpkin.

>95 humouress: ...but haven't deciphered number 8 yet.

I found #8 quite by accident! I attempt to retrace my footsteps here... I found 'Lists' on the LT homepage or was it the LOTM in the right hand panel? The first title sorted by rank seems to be it. ;)

>96 amanda4242: I thought “whose hand were you holding” was a dead giveaway for #8!

Thank you for all the hints for number 8. I left it until I'd finished consolidating the hints for all the clues; and then >98 mr.philistine: intrigued me.

Got all 12 now, thank you.

Thanks to the LT staff for the hunt; I wonder if they have as much fun (and frustration) compiling the hunt as we do hunting. And thanks (I think?) to @conceptdawg for the spooky vulture (it's kinda formidable looking 😉).

Always appreciate the hints! Thank you all.

Also, I love the treasure hunts. They are a lovely treat. Thank you for pulling them together.

>99 Charon07: It's been years since I've read it, so I don't really remember many lines. And "journeys end in lovers meeting" threw me because that's from Twelfth Night!

I'm still stuck on # 4

I've tried looking at the author ... both spelling name out and using only the initials and last name; also tried clicking on several of his works. but still no jack-o-lantern.

>103 BookConcierge: Ah, it looks like the page you want may be a specific version of the author name.

Oof, #2 was not where I was expecting it. Not a category I use often, which is probably why I didn't try it until last. In hindsight it's not an unfair location, but again, not one I naturally went to. Still, got it in the end!

>105 Shadekeep: That is the point of the Treasure Hunts.

>106 humouress: Does seem to be, aye. Encouraging fresh eyes on the site and all that.

I seem to have a glitch - my banner says I found 8, but on the page it says stubbornly only 7?

>89 charlenemartel: I am completely stuck on the World's Fair clue. I've been circling around the shared surname of a fictional detective and a US serial killer but getting nowhere. I've even tried searching in your library!

>109 missizicks: You might say the Devil's in the details ... or perhaps he's someplace else? ...

>13 AnnieMod: Yes, the refresh was essential.

>110 JBD1: And indeed he was! Thank you for the redirection.

>40 Bookmarque: Refresh your page, that worked for me :)

I need help with #4 & #7

I have problems to register #8. On the page itself it says"You now have 9 out of 12 jack-o-lanterns." On my treasure hunt page I have only 8 and #8 is missing.

Still stumped by #2 Something to do with Cthulhu, yet not media? and #7 PBS, but not an actual list..? , but thank you for a great hunt! I think this is the most I have found of any I've tried. :-)

>117 EagleWolf:
It is not PBS, but try a station similar to that.

>117 EagleWolf: #2 Think about the different fields in Common Knowledge.
#7 Not TV but . . .; and think about another common form of list (but not a list) on LT.

I still cannot find #3.

I'm stuck on #9 and #11...and as soon as I post and re-read #9 it clicks

>27 haydninvienna: Thank you! Still stuck though.

>122 cmbohn: Don't remember now how I found it, unfortunately. IIRC, if you google something like "book pig halloween costume" you'll probably find it eventually, but bloody Peppa Pig has swamped everything else so it will be a long way down. In google you used to be able to exclude particular words, but it doesn't seem to be possible in DDG.

ETA: Here's a very broad hint: the "master of rhyme" also wrote a book about chocolate which includes a recipe for Hippo Pot de Mousse.

That is helpful! Got it!

>96 amanda4242: Finally got it!

Still stuck on #4 -- never mind,, Google is my friend! Got them all!

>19 alexyskwan: I notice that sometimes the pathway to the answer matters maybe try getting to the same list a different way.

Wow... #3 is something. FYI, it's utterly unrelated to the character you may consider.

>104 JBD1: So, I kept clicking on the various forms of the author's name and eventually got the jack-o-lantern.

12 of 12 found!

For anyone struggling with #5 it is being very temperamental, I had to refresh it like 5 times before I actually got the jack o'lantern

For anyone struggling with #5 it is being very temperamental, I had to refresh it like 5 times before I actually got the jack o'lantern

Anyone stuck on #5, you might have it, it was being very temperamental for me, I had to refresh like 5 times before I got the jack o'lantern

Thanks everyone for the tips, helped narrow down the clues. Still missing #3 and it seems to be a difficult one.

What I've got so far is the first and fourth line are for determining the "name" we should use then add in the mix the common name of the monster from the second and somehow arrive at the destination. Also, does the third line add someting to the mix?

>133 glosada: Try searching for the first name indicated by the first line, and look among the titles for the cover of a work that fits the rest of the clue.

>133 glosada: I used the words to 'Search books' on the 'Talpa Search' site

hardest search ever, even with all the hints, I have 3.

>136 al.vick: I agree! I lack #1 and #7 and I feel like I have looked everywhere! I've never given up but ....

>1 AbigailAdams26: All 12 Jack-o-lanterns revealed themselves at last. Not through luck, but through patience. In stories, as in life, the light is never lost; it only waits for the reader who

>70 crispychez: yes

>137 ddlambert: #1 Have you tried searching under the Early Reviewers and then authors? You should see a list of anthologies *7 I used a search first by using the number in the first line of the clue, along with the second noun in line two, along with the adjective that describes books that 'bring forth your fears'. That brought me to a page of lists. In the left-hand column, I scrolled down and clicked on awards. That narrowed the lists to four for me. Only two in that list were the best fit for the clue. I clicked on one that fit the clue. Once that opened, I looked to the far right column and scrolled down to find the type of media organization.

>103 BookConcierge: I had to click through several of the associated names on the page.

>17 tardis: I think 1 is refering to stephen king

what does the banner look like? I keep thinking I have the right answer and I don't see a banner

>143 PathwaysAcademyELC: On the top of the page, under the navigation, you see "You found a jack-o-lantern! You now have X out of 12 jack-o-lanterns. Check on your troupe of jack-o-lanterns." If you do not see it, you are probably not at the correct page even if you have the correct answer :)

>142 PathwaysAcademyELC: Nope.

Updated consolidated hints from this thread (up to this point) for clues 1 - 8 and 11 are now in the LT Treasure Hunts group.

If you're new to the Treasure Hunts or just need a refresher - because it's not always (in fact, more often than not these days, it isn't) a book/ work - have a look at the 'General Strategies' thread in that group.

For anyone else having trouble with number 12:

The name is close to, but not the same, as the book.

I have all of them. I was so close on #3 and finally got it. I appreciate all the hints. A special thanks to the team of LibraryThing.

Finished at last!
Thank you for another great hunt
Happy Halloween! 🎃

My oh my. Thanks everyone for the hints. #3 proved to be the most difficult. Until >146 humouress: consolitdation, and a strayed line there, wasn't able to do it.

VERY naughty the first line of the clue. It had me discarding the name of "the one that DID have the scarlet letter", and trying with the other two female characters of the book

Anyway, really nice hunt, as always. Happy Halloween!

12/12! What a fun treasure hunt :) thanks for putting this together and thank you to everyone who provided clues!

>140 closer: Thanks! I have all my pumpkins now.

Love the vulture and the hunt. Thanks to all for the challenge!

Thank you. I always love these hunts. While I consider myself neither a lectiophile or a bibliophile, I still manage to blunder through 6-8 of the questions on most hunts without any spoilers or prompts. Always grateful to the team to the hunt team for challenging my grey matter. Also much appreciate those that post hints via a spoiler that gives me the tap I need to always get all twelve.

Blessed Fall.
Nodecaf

>142 PathwaysAcademyELC: Wrong .... MUCH older author ... long dead ... But, like King, also wrote about vampire

>84 Yamanekotei: no, I have that too.

>134 JBD1: I've been looking at absolutely everything I can think of associated with the name for no. 2. No joy. I've got all the rest!

>157 kicking_k: You missed one place. Think books.Where will you look if you want to see if someone is in a book? Is there something in LT that shows you who is in a book?

Got them all. Toughest hunt yet. Thanks for creating it and thanks to all for the hints.

>158 AnnieMod: Common Knowledge? I went there...

>158 AnnieMod: Thank you Annie! I had a typo, but because the version with the typo also has a Common Knowledge page, I didn't realise I was in the wrong place. Thanks for encouraging me to persist!

Anyone else who is struggling with this: you may need an extra letter H!

Totally stuck on 4 and 11. Though I admit if people say there is a special version of the name for 4, I may have missed it.
but finally got them all!!! Some extensive google searching helped.

>161 kicking_k: I did EXACTLY the same thing.

>163 Watry: it's nice to have company. I am not usually prone to making spelling errors so I never thought of it! But I would have to admit I haven't read much in this particular mythos, so the name is not that familiar to type.

>161 kicking_k: It's a few days ago now but I think I did the same thing - but my system autocorrected my spelling. Who'da thunk?

Just popping in to say that we're working on the refresh issue. Sorry that folks have been having to refresh to get their jack-o-lanterns from time to time. Thanks for your patience!

Thanks everyone for the hints, I could not have finished without your help :)

>166 ZephCraven: thank you all for all your work, I just landed year after 16 years of aNobii and Goodreads and it feels so much more like home!

>168 Elanna76: I'm so glad you feel at home here! Couldn't agree more. :)

Holy heck did #3 take a blummin' age to work out, I was over-complicating it at every stage and now I feel really stupid!

Finally have 12 from 12 though, huge thanks to everyone who left hints for #7 and #3, I don't think I would have gotten those otherwise.

I accidentally clicked out of the banner and cannot get it back. Can anyone help?

https://www.librarything.com/hunt/39

That should be a direct link

Links are also in the Treasure Hunts group

>170 Gnomeball: I did the same thing on #3.

>142 PathwaysAcademyELC: nope

Hopelessly stuck on #1, #3, #5 and #7.

Okay, now all that's left is #3. Driving me nuts.

>177 toast_and_tea: For #3 do a tagmash of alligator and witches.

>99 Charon07: Same here. It was one of the few I knew without having to do an online search. That quote was one of the lines from the 1963 movie version that really stuck with me.

>134 JBD1: Thank you! That was my last holdout.

That no.1 is stubborn! Even with the clues!

>183 Elanna76:

It was the last one that I solved, and I did so after the first clue was posted. I kicked myself for not getting it earlier, because there is typically one riddle of that type in each hunt.

Thanks for the help! First time I've been able to do, let alone finish one of these Treasure Hunts

>184 paradoxosalpha: I am ashamed to admit that even with the clue it keeps eluding me but I won't give in... to the chase!

Thank you, great fun, and thanks for all those who added the hints that helped me find #1 and #7 (I was on the right track but in the wrong place for both)

Just a reminder: consolidated hints from this thread (up to this point) for clues 1 - 8 and 11 are in the LT Treasure Hunts group.

If you're new to the Treasure Hunts or just need a refresher - because it's not always (in fact, more often than not these days, it isn't) a book/ work - have a look at the 'General Strategies' thread in that group.

>13 AnnieMod: i haven't been on this website in a while. (The following bit is a question regarding your hint that I'm tagging as a spoiler, just to be safe).

how/where do I find lists?

I have another question, of sorts. I'm pretty sure number 9 is goosebumps but I was thinking it was the show rather than the book series and don't see a page for that. I tried going to the book series but didn't get a pumpkin.

Am I at least on the right track?

>189 HarleyC13: from your home page, look at the list of links on the left hand side. You should find it there

>190 HarleyC13: you are on the right track. Keep looking around the book series. I found it there

>177 toast_and_tea: For # 3 ... Just search for the name of the character referenced at the beginning of the club ... the one with the scarlet letter .... then look through the cover images of the books that pop up. You should find one that matches the rest of the clues.

I thought I got #7 but I'm stuck. My last one.

>1 AbigailAdams26: I would like to play this but dont really know how can someone tell me in simple terms how to play this .

>194 phonelady61: Click the link in the first post and you'll see a list of 12 clues. The answer to each clue is a page on the LibraryThing website. All you need to do to solve each clue is navigate to the correct page. When you are on the correct page, there will be a banner at the top of the page that says you've solved a clue, and that clue will be crossed out on the list of clues.

I'll keep it simple :-)

Among the millions of web pages under the www.librarything.com umbrella LT staff has chosen 12.
Your goal is to find them. When you happen to find one, a little banner will emerge and tell you so.

The riddles to solve are given here:
https://www.librarything.com/hunt/39

You come to this group to get help and hints (and brag, when you have found them all).

The 12 pages can be anything. I.e. some character from Common Knowledge, LT's webshop, a tag page, a work page, an author, a Melville decimal number 514.3383883 et cetera. Because the idea of the hunt is to get you to search all corners of the site.

>194 phonelady61: In addition to the helpful replies from norabelle414 and bnielsen, I'll add that there is also a dedicated group here on the site to help with our treasure hunts.

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

The LT Treasure Hunts group has threads with hints for specific clues, as well as one dedicated to general strategies that might help:

https://www.librarything.com/topic/353338

I have found all the clues and banners, but it is saying I only found 11. My last one won't register! :(

>198 jeannemsanchez: Hint for #12 The keywords are the 2nd words of the 1st and second-last lines.

Only got 6 on my own. Was ready to give up.
Turns out several of the pages I had gone to previously WERE correct, only didn't show the banner until the 2nd, 3rd, or 4th time I went there.
So got them all, but this one was too frustrating to say I enjoyed it.

As usual, this was lots of fun. I got 8 without help, but needed a hand with the last 4. Thanks to the clue makers, the artist (lovely vulture!), and all the helpers!

In spite of all the hints shared, I am still hopelessly struggling with #7. It's the last one I have left.

>202 Dewdropmon: #7 search for NPR and then filter awards on the left

>203 SandraArdnas: Thank you. Not familiar with that station.

Thanks, LT! Learned a lot about a genre that's new to me. Yikes, nightmares. And an adorable little piglet 🐷

Can someone help and old lady with 5? l'm going around and around. l've managed to work out the rest just stuck on 5. Thank you.

>206 hepzibah59: Have you looked through the hints in https://www.librarything.com/topic/374789#n8984865?

>206 hepzibah59: go to Zeitgeist on the top bar, then to "lists' found in the left column, then you should 'Lists of the Month' in the middle column. Find the year noted in the clue, then find that year in the Lists of the month. You should see the category that names 'magic makers that like to fly on their brooms'

#6 was driving me crazy! Finally I figured it out. "from a master of rhyme" think Moo, Baa, La La La

I am confused... I looked for #8, found Haunted Hill House clicked on the book, and found a Lantern. But it's still not crossed out? Is that for a different clue?

>210 Seitenhain: Make sure to refresh the page with the clues.

Hey you all, I joined Library Thing two weeks ago. I got all of the hints except #1 and #3. Totally lost on #1. Clueless to even begin to know where to look. I first thought that #3 referenced Marvel's Scarlet Witch. I don't think so anymore. Please correct me if I'm wrong. I've tried Hester Prynne, Witch, Halloween, crocodile in various permutations. But I've found nothing. Good news, I've learned about tag mash, by playing this hunt.

>212 StarryRiver: search under "More" in the top banner, Find "Talpa Search", once the Talpa search page opens, search for a book using the words Hester, alligator, witch, Halloween. You'll see a list of books, so pick the book and click on the Big Brown L for Librarything in the column on the right side of the page to return to the Librarything site

>212 StarryRiver: For #1 there's a section of LT where you can get free books for a review, that's where you'll find it. There's a link to that section at the bottom of every page.

>213 closer: Well, Cool! Thank you! I never would have gotten that one. Also, thank you for showing me Talpa Search.

>214 SandraArdnas: Thanks, I now have all twelve pumpkins. And I've learned about early reviews. I'm cataloging my equine science books, so I don't accidentally buy more than one copy. I'm going for my L dressage judge certification, with the plan to become an S judge and then move on to FEI judging. This treasure hunt has taught me a lot about using LT.

Since I have not had time before (yikes, the last fourteen days rushed by) but Halloween kinda holds a special place in my heart and I looked forward to this hunt as well, I am gonna try and see if I can find some banners before the challenge is over... Another cool illustration @conceptDawg !

So far I found six. Halfway through.

Looking for the last three…

>216 StarryRiver: Off topic for this thread, but that's exciting!

Could someone help me out with 2 and 3? They would be my last ones.

Updated consolidated hints from this thread (up to this point) for clues 1 - 8 and 11 are in the LT Treasure Hunts group.

If you're new to the Treasure Hunts or just need a refresher - because it's not always (in fact, more often than not these days, it isn't) a book/ work - have a look at the 'General Strategies' thread in that group.

>216 StarryRiver: That's the point of the treasure hunts ;0)

How exciting! I would love to learn dressage.

>208 closer: That worked. Thank you so much.

I don't want to be a spoilsport, but I don't want to learn any more about serial killers than I already know. The answer to 11 isn't apparent to me without looking up more information than I want to learn about some apparently horrendous crimes. Would someone mind just linking me to the answer so I can complete this hunt? Much appreciated.

If you don't want to spoil the game posting the link here, I'm also O.K. with an instant message. Thank you.

>224 GraceCollection: #11 clue 1 Chicago World's Fair is in the book's CK among important events clue 2 Devil is in the title

>225 SandraArdnas: Thank you so much!

>219 MsMixte: Sorry 'bout that. I'm learning about TL etiquette.

>227 StarryRiver: Oh, that wasn't a criticism, that was me being excited that there's a fellow horse lover here.

Perhaps we could have LT do a Horse Treasure Hunt?

>211 PawsforThought: I did, 3 days in a row...

>228 MsMixte: >227 StarryRiver:

A Horse Treasure Hunt! That sounds fun! I love the idea! 🐎🏇🐴🫏

>36 midnightcat: #2 I have spelled it every which way and it doesn't work.

#3 I haven't the foggiest idea of where to begin looking. Help!

>220 Eva_Isabella: Same for me

>231 athometarheel: For #2, you're not looking for a work. Try checking Common Knowledge.

>232 athometarheel: :) Those two were kinda tricky, even though I had ideas what each one could refer to, unfortunately no luck with the banners...

Just found one of the two missing ones. If you have not figured it out yet, you might wanna check the LT Treasure Hunt page and look on each hint page closely...

Even though I did not get all the banners, 10 out of 12 jack o´ lanterns are not bad. I am curious for the answers and figuring out if I might have been on the right path or not. Anyways thank you for a marvellous time/another joyful treasure hunt. Happy Halloween!
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Since I figured out I still have time to get jack o´lanters (check the time zones more frequently lol) I am gonna try my luck.
Just found one of the two that I am missing. Thanks for helping out guys ;) . One left.
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None left. Found the last one. Turns out I was on the right path. Got all 12 of those jack o´lanterns. Yay! Pretty satisfied. Getting to know/figuring this site out one treasure hunt at a time. :)
If you excuse me I have to read a Halloween book.

>228 MsMixte: heart emoji

>230 Yamanekotei: Oh, boy, I'm in.

Thank you for the fun hunt LT! Happy Halloween:).

I got every one of them except #2 with lots of help from all of you! This was a tough Treasure Hunt for me. I looked at consolidated hints but still cannot get #2. Thank you everyone! Especially conceptDawg for the vulture!

Please help with #3. None of hints have helped. I've looked at every cover. Thanks.

Update: Got all 12 pumpkins! Thanks!!

Nothing like waiting until the last minute to finish this hunt. It was fun and I thougth I was not going to finish when I still had about 6 to get. Thanks again for a wonderful hunt!

Wow. This is the third treasure hunt I’ve participated in, and I can’t figure any of clues out! The other times I answered all twelve clues. Hmm. Oh well.

>242 crazy4reading: Good job! 👍🏻

>243 andbirds: Every hunt might be different. You might have better luck/a better time at the next one. It takes a little time to get back into the spirit of things… You tried/participated and that’s something! 🙂

Now that the halloween treasure hunt is over I should have a badge because I solve all 12 hints but I don't. Message says you missed it.

>246 Ros902E: Hunt badges are awarded manually and is (understandably) not a top priority by the staff. It might take months before you see it.

>246 Ros902E: Hunt badges are awarded manually, not automatically.

Please see https://www.librarything.com/topic/374864#8981209

Hi All! The 2025 Halloween Treasure Hunt has now ended. Thank you to all who participated!

We had 1,750 players for this hunt, and 912 players finding at least five clues. The average number of clues found was six.

Our randomly selected winners for the hunt are:

@divinenanny
@cipeciop
@Lauranthalas
@DemetriosX
@Newtzi

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.

Congrats to the winners.

...and we have our badge :)

>251 mr.philistine: 🎉🙂👍🏻

>246 Ros902E: I see a badge now. 🎉🙂👍🏻

I have more badges and medals than Castro used to pin on himself :D

I got mine also.

>254 SandraArdnas: 🙂👍🏻🎉

>255 mnleona: 🙂👍🏻🎉

>109 missizicks: Glad you got it. Sorry for the absence, I’ve been so sick.

>110 JBD1: haha. I see what you did there.

>258 charlenemartel: I hope you are fully well again and have a restful festive break.

>259 charlenemartel: :-)