VIRTUAL

TREASURE HUNT
BY HUNTMASTERS
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• A conventional drive hunt and walk hunt is where teams of 2 to 4
participants get together on a quest to find the answers to ‘Route
Questions’ by unravelling clues in the form of cryptic or picture clues
and general knowledge questions along a route guided by directional
‘tulips’. Answers are visible, seen on business signboards including
directional signages, large and small, and sometimes banners and
graffiti too.
• Along the way, teams will also attempt to decipher clues for treasures
which they will need to obtain the item in its physical form and
submit to the huntmasters at the Finish Control.
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• In a virtual hunt, the basic principles of a conventional drive hunt and
walk hunt is applied and is in all intents and purposes similar other
than having to get into a vehicle as a team to move from the Start
venue to the Finish station in the case of a drive hunt, and physically
walking the entire route in a walk hunt.
• For the virtual hunt, only the hands of the participants will be
required in order to navigate and move along a prescribed route i.e.
using the computer mouse or touch pad (if using a laptop/notebook).
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Basic items required:
1. A PC or laptop/notebook / tablet
2. Internet connection, better if it is a powerful connection and cable
connected vs wifi
3. An e-mail account
4. A Google account
5. Work applications eg. MS Powerpoint/Word/Excel with PDF / JPEG /GIF
file save format
6. Internet browser – preferably Google Chrome
7. Google map with Street View enabled
8. Virtual meeting platform – MS Teams / Zoom / Google Hangout
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1. For the Hospis Malaysia Virtual Hunt, participation will be in teams
of 2 to 4 persons. The registered team leader, appointed by his/her
team, shall be the focal point person to receive communication
from the organiser and the Huntmasters.
2. The virtual hunt is similarly time based e.g. 3.5 hours duration with
a predetermined start and finish time. However, do note there is no
allowance for penalty time for this virtual hunt.
3. On the day of the virtual hunt, the appointed team leaders will be
provided with a link to Google Forms for the Questions and Virtual
Route Hunt sectors and other pertinent information. It is then the
responsibility of the registered team leaders to disseminate the
same to his/her team mates.
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4. Navigation to virtual hunt sectors will be through using Google
Maps.
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5. Instructions in the Google Form will guide the participants to the
location of the Question sectors, e.g. Jalan Telawi 5, Bangsar, KL

Street View – Aug 2019 Street View – Aug 2019

MAYBANK (L); O2 CLINIC SIGNATURE (L);
MCDONALD’S (R) NASI KANDAR PELITA (R)
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6. Using the link provided for the starting point of the VRH sector

Street View – Aug 2019 Street View – Aug 2019

MAYBANK (L); O2 CLINIC SIGNATURE (L);
MCDONALD’S (R) NASI KANDAR PELITA (R)
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7. On a conventional drive hunt the hunt sector is from McDonald’s till
then end of Jalan Telawi 5 for 200m

200m
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8. FYI, you can change to “Browse Street View” by clicking on the “orange
man” icon…

200m
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9. You will then see this view with blue lines on the map. Move pointer to
start of sector and click for street view.

Move pointer here &

click for street view
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10. But we have made it easy for you by providing the Google Street View
link, which will take you directly to the starting point of the sector. This
is what you should see on your screen / monitor:
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11. Move the mouse pointer to navigate into Jalan Telawi 5, left click and
hold to get the orientation you will see as if you are driving through in
your vehicle. To move in any direction, ensure that your mouse pointer
is on the inversed “V” arrow on the screen and click on it to move to
that spot. If where you want to move to does not have the inversed
“V” arrow means that is not a place where you can move to.
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12. Move the pointer to the left and right, up and down, rotate to view all
the signboards and signages big and small, zoom in and out, along this
sector as you seek the answers to the Route Questions.
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13. Always check that you are viewing the latest version of the Street View
as the answers are based on this setting. Different virtual hunting
sectors will or may have different latest date. Sometimes within the
same street, a certain portion/stretch of the road may have a different
latest version or may auto change.

<- Check here, slide to right for latest always

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14. At this sector, read Question 1 and 2 to solve along Jalan Telawi 5.
Eg. Q1. Perhaps a place to dine with him?

Answer:

Ans: Restoran ROCKY

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15. Fill in the answer to the question in the response space provided in the
Google Form denoted as “Your answer”. If we receive your submitted
answer as blank i.e. either you do not have an answer to the question,
or left out filling in for whatever reason, we will take it as no answer
submitted and hence, no points awarded.
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16. A Treasures list will also be given to the participants to solve. Unlike
the conventional hunt whereby these items are to be obtained and
submitted in its physical form at the Finish Control, participants in a
virtual hunt will only need to solve the treasure clue and search for a
clear image of the item on the internet, either save the image (in JPEG
or GIF format) or “Snip” or “Print Screen” and paste onto an office
application like Powerpoint and thereafter save that file in PDF or JPEG
or GIF format.
17. You will need to both provide the answer to the Treasure and also
submit by uploading the saved PDF or Image (JPEG or GIF) file in the
Google Form in order to get your full points (if it is the correct answer
that is).
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18. Where either one or both of the Treasure answer or upload picture of
the treasure is/are not provided, no points shall be awarded.
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19. Participants are required to fill in all answers and upload picture files
as necessary in the provided Google Form. Only one submission per
team is allowed and shall be performed by the registered team leader
who shall click “Submit” to send his/her team’s answer scripts before
the expiry of the cut-off time i.e. the Finish time at 1.00pm.
NB. The first submission received from any team shall be deemed the official version accepted,
no changes are allowed be it intentionally or unintentionally/erroneously clicked to submit.
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19. Do factor in some time allowance when planning on the timing for
submission as there may be internet connection issues which shall not
be our responsibility and no time extension will be entertained.
20. As time will be required to mark the answers, the results
announcement will be held the next morning starting at 10:00am
thereafter followed by the announcement of results and prize
presentation held via MS Teams hosted by Hospis Malaysia.
21. Please refer to the Entry Form and Briefing Notes for all other
information, details and rules & regulations which shall govern and
apply for this Hospis Malaysia Virtual Treasure Hunt event.
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