Rarely lent to other institutions, the paintings and sculptures in "Scenes of American Life: Treasures From the Smithsonian American Art Museum," on view through May 28, are touring while their home in Washington undergoes renovation.
The Clock Without a Face, written with Mac Barnett, combined a mystery novel with a real-life treasure hunt.
The novel spawned a real-life treasure hunt, with an easter egg concealed in the paperback, a series of online gaming challenges, and a DeLorean as the grand prize.
This pocket rummaging was a real-life treasure hunt to an 8-year-old.
The story of the most famous problem in mathematics, Fermat's Last Theorem, has all the ingredients of a real-life treasure hunt: a cryptic note left behind by the French mathematician Pierre de Fermat; a sizable reward offered by a German physician in his 1906 will; finally, a solution found in 1994 by the reserved Princeton University mathematician, Andrew Wiles.
Mind Candy's signature game, Perplex City, is a combination of a story, a game, and a real-life treasure hunt that revolves around the search for a missing treasure, a valuable artefact, the Receda Cube, which has been stolen from Perplex City and buried somewhere on Earth.
But then, that comes with the territory – real-life treasure hunters have been known to attract trouble.
But then, that comes with the territory real-life territory real-lifeve been known treasurect trouble.
Alternate reality games or ARGs are designed to involve fans of video games or other media in a form of viral marketing which CNET described as encompassing "real-life treasure hunting, interactive storytelling, video games and online [communities]".
They are his life, his treasure.
