Armchair Treasure Hunt 2017
| Title: | Another Fine Mess |
| Setter: | Bruce Hindsight |
| Themes: | Mess, Messy, Messier |
More teams entered this Hunt than in many previous years. There were many virgin teams (in which no team members have ATH experience), and the overall performance was excellent.
| Total | Virgin | |
|---|---|---|
| Registered Teams | 76 | 33 |
| Entries | 51 | 19 |
| Site Visits | 29 | 10 |
| Finds | 16* | 5 |
*: including one virtual find.
In two departures from past practice:
- Teams were asked to mark their own entries. Thanks to your co-operation this seems to have worked very well.
- A single mark was awarded for each correct answer, rather than a score depending on the number of teams not giving that answer. This simplified marking, and allowed teams to know their approximate score immediately, while still clearly distinguishing the best-performing teams.
The setters have re-marked all the leading entries, and a sample of points from all the other entries. Although this has resulted in some minor changes to total marks, it hasn't changed any of the prize positions. All the detailed marks and re-marking information is in this spreadsheet. In case Google Docs ever goes away, there's an OpenOffice version here.
Some of the top-scoring teams have given us permission to publish their solutions, for entertainment and guidance of future Hunt teams. Those solutions are linked from the scores in this table.
| Team Name | Captain | Box | Pts | Prize | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Pathfinders | Matt Hulbert | 14* | 429 | Best solution, Dave Harding Trophy | |
| 2 | Tweleve Pack | Noel Aitchison | 12 | 425 | Second best solution | |
| 3 | Beef Leamington | Angus Walker | V | 4 | 414 | Third best solution |
| 4 | The Psychologicals | TATHC | 1 | 411 | First to treasure, Pablo Memorial Trophy | |
| 5 | Apopheniacs Anonymous | Mark Abbott | 5 | 407 | ||
| 6 | The Rookies | Lauren Hillier | V | 10 | 379 | Best virgin solution |
| 7 | The OWLs | Jo Cooper | 7 | 372 | ||
| 8 | Strange Brotherhood | Simon Long | 6 | 370 | ||
| 9 | Alcoholus Lubricatum | Chris Andrews | 2 | 369 | Second to treasure | |
| 10 | The Cachew Nuts | Richard Roper | 3 | 358 | Third to treasure | |
| 11 | Daphne HQ | Seb Bacon | V | 16 | 345 | |
| 12 | Stragglers | Bart Bramley | 336 | Nearest Miss Award | ||
| 13 | Team Poirot | Anne Traynor | 328 | |||
| 14 | Les Messieurs | Andy Marr | 13 | 324 | ||
| 15 | Tim Tam Slammers | Jan Schneider | V | 15 | 323 | |
| 16 | Chiltern Fellowship | Jon Wallis | 319 | |||
| 17 | No Management Potential | Steve Hames | 8 | 313 | Best Hunter's Tale | |
| 18 | AftermATH | Graham Longbottom | 304 | |||
| 19 | Hendalls Hunters | Holly Douglas | V | 301 | ||
| 20 | The Eh? Team | Tony Newman | 9 | 291 | ||
| 21 | Lady Strange and the Earl of Yarborough | Paul Barden | 280 | |||
| 22 | Cavell Family | Jane Cavell | 264 | |||
| 23 | Dave Kee Team | Dave Kee | 254 | |||
| 24 | Roboogle Riddlers | Dan Lee | V | 249 | ||
| 25 | Team Norway | Tim North | 247 | |||
| 26 | The Puzzle Club | Kathy Hylott | V | 11 | 244 | |
| 27 | Not quite last again! | Gareth Hartwell | 237 | |||
| 28 | Famous Five | Brian Mills | 237 | |||
| 29 | f.ds | Wolfgang Leyrer | 227 | |||
| 30 | Johnny from Donny | John Felton | V | 217 | ||
| 31 | The Mullitovers | Jason McKay | 212 | |||
| 32 | Team Crazy | Colin Lu | 210 | |||
| 33 | Quinta Essentia | Bernhild | 204 | |||
| 34 | Team Sociometry | Adrian Rose | 202 | |||
| 35 | Rainbows and Unicorns | Richard Ellis | 202 | |||
| 36 | The Bruce Medal for Mess | Liz Colclough | 194 | |||
| 37 | 100pt Heading | Tom Lynn | V | 187 | ||
| 38 | Unstable Geniuses | Catherine | V | 163 | ||
| 39 | The Avengers | Mark Greenhalgh | V | 150 | ||
| 40 | Forge Ahead | James Cranch | V | 142 | ||
| 41 | Burghfield Burghers | Mike Wood | 119 | |||
| 42 | SWOT | Jayne Samuel-Walker | V | 115 | ||
| 43 | Friends and not David Stein | Jonah Nan | V | 111 | ||
| 44 | Ecclesall Eclairs | Alan Cantrell | V | 95 | ||
| 45 | I'm Spartacus | Adam Butler | 91 | |||
| 46 | David Williams | Dave Williams | 85 | |||
| 47 | Raiders Up the Wrong Bark | Margaret Cooper | 84 | |||
| 48 | Wild East Heroes | Chris Sparks | V | 81 | ||
| 49 | Levettiers | Robert Levett | V | 78 | ||
| 50 | The Distributed | Dominik Moritz | V | 33 | ||
| 51 | X Mas the Spot | Sami Kyöstilä | V | 24 |
Key:
V = ATH Virgin
Box = Treasure Box ticket number
*: virtual find.