So after figuring out the rules to my birthday challenge, I was ready to go and my driver turned out to be Liam after much confusion with me expecting Ti to turn up as she was the only one not mentioned on the previous video. But car trouble for Ti meant that Liam stepped in and despite some top notch acting skills, he finally revealed that he was in fact the driver.
So off we went and after my first clue was found under the door mat we were led to St Mary's Stadium with this riddle:
These heavenly people, eleven be
Play on the sixth day usually
With provident friends aiming for Championship best
Named after the church, the clue is under the crest
So Liam took control and took me to the stadium where our clue solving skills turned out to be spot on as under the big Saints logo was another red card containing another clue, plus our first clue letter of S. The letters on each clue would spell out the final meeting place later on. But first, riddle fans, we had to solve the next rhyme...
To waters edge your quest empower
Port number four near halls o' flowers
This triangular park, green lawn quality
The green grass fit for female royalty
At this point I must point out that we had a map of Southampton with several red dots spread around it, giving us a break down of all possible clue hiding places to make things a little easier. So having seen a dot near Queen's Park, we figured that was where the "grass fit for female royalty" came from and it's near my former halls of residence, the Lucia Foster Halls. Plus it's a triangular park. Great! Onwards to the monument in Queen's Park and I spotted two small figures running away from the scene of the clue. I thought nothing of it as Liam said "it's probably just kids" but it turned out later it was Dave and Kerry!
Anyway, the next clue was ready for collection and contained the letter A and the next riddle...
Party on this planet of free time
When the sun goes down it's in its prime
For the ex-employment of our Martha
This building puts the "i in vodka"
This one was a little trickier but I got it from the "ex-employment of our Martha" part having visited Leisure World a few times while Martha worked at the cinema. What I didn't see was the jumbled up "ikon diva" in the final sentence but we made it all the same, aparantly again narrowly missing some of the clue putter downers en route!
At Leisure World was the third red card of mystery, containing the letter I and the clue...
Back near to the start you now must race
A southwestern county in another place
Lucky for some the number resides
And old living space is set inside
This could be nowhere else but our old house at 7 Devonshire Road so a quick trip north was made for the final clue to be picked up. Picking the clue up outside our old place, one which contained the letter R, it read...
Now four clues you have, near is the end
The points of the compass will find your friends
Link North to South and then East to West
At find the bar to end your quest
Slightly confusing at first but this was where the letters on the back of the clues came in. Having drawn a line from all four points of clue pick-up, we found the point to be somewhere down the high street. But where?
Well...the four letters on the clues were...
S...A...I...R
Jumbled around and that makes....RISA!
So Bar Risa it was for the end of the quest and we arrived to find the gang around a table in the corner to welcome me with a round of applause and a drink, both very welcome!
The whole thing was superbly organised and set up and I loved every minute of the quest and the aftermath of pizza and wine at Dave and Martha's house!
I can't thank everyone enough for the whole evening and it really was a genius plan to start off the weekend with Bournemouth to come tomorrow and I feel priviledged to be a part of a group of so many awesome people (see group photo!).
So thanks to all involved and hopefully more fun times (and a Cobblers win!) tomorrow!
So off we went and after my first clue was found under the door mat we were led to St Mary's Stadium with this riddle:
These heavenly people, eleven be
Play on the sixth day usually
With provident friends aiming for Championship best
Named after the church, the clue is under the crest
So Liam took control and took me to the stadium where our clue solving skills turned out to be spot on as under the big Saints logo was another red card containing another clue, plus our first clue letter of S. The letters on each clue would spell out the final meeting place later on. But first, riddle fans, we had to solve the next rhyme...
To waters edge your quest empower
Port number four near halls o' flowers
This triangular park, green lawn quality
The green grass fit for female royalty
At this point I must point out that we had a map of Southampton with several red dots spread around it, giving us a break down of all possible clue hiding places to make things a little easier. So having seen a dot near Queen's Park, we figured that was where the "grass fit for female royalty" came from and it's near my former halls of residence, the Lucia Foster Halls. Plus it's a triangular park. Great! Onwards to the monument in Queen's Park and I spotted two small figures running away from the scene of the clue. I thought nothing of it as Liam said "it's probably just kids" but it turned out later it was Dave and Kerry!
Anyway, the next clue was ready for collection and contained the letter A and the next riddle...
Party on this planet of free time
When the sun goes down it's in its prime
For the ex-employment of our Martha
This building puts the "i in vodka"
This one was a little trickier but I got it from the "ex-employment of our Martha" part having visited Leisure World a few times while Martha worked at the cinema. What I didn't see was the jumbled up "ikon diva" in the final sentence but we made it all the same, aparantly again narrowly missing some of the clue putter downers en route!
At Leisure World was the third red card of mystery, containing the letter I and the clue...
Back near to the start you now must race
A southwestern county in another place
Lucky for some the number resides
And old living space is set inside
This could be nowhere else but our old house at 7 Devonshire Road so a quick trip north was made for the final clue to be picked up. Picking the clue up outside our old place, one which contained the letter R, it read...
Now four clues you have, near is the end
The points of the compass will find your friends
Link North to South and then East to West
At find the bar to end your quest
Slightly confusing at first but this was where the letters on the back of the clues came in. Having drawn a line from all four points of clue pick-up, we found the point to be somewhere down the high street. But where?
Well...the four letters on the clues were...
S...A...I...R
Jumbled around and that makes....RISA!
So Bar Risa it was for the end of the quest and we arrived to find the gang around a table in the corner to welcome me with a round of applause and a drink, both very welcome!
The whole thing was superbly organised and set up and I loved every minute of the quest and the aftermath of pizza and wine at Dave and Martha's house!
I can't thank everyone enough for the whole evening and it really was a genius plan to start off the weekend with Bournemouth to come tomorrow and I feel priviledged to be a part of a group of so many awesome people (see group photo!).
So thanks to all involved and hopefully more fun times (and a Cobblers win!) tomorrow!
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