Golden Queenie Conundrum is go!
July 2, 2010 by Marineadmin
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Clues to to 2010 Golden Queenie Conundrum are now available from the Conundrum page.
The hunt is on yet again the solid gold Queenie shell worth £4,000 buried somewhere on the Isle of Man. As part of the 2010 Isle of Man Queenie Festival a Golden Queenie, moulded by Celtic Gold, has been hidden on the Island for intrepid treasure hunters to find.
What better way to spend a summer’s day than heading out on a real life treasure hunt?
The Golden Queenie will not be buried on any National Trust or private property.
When the golden queenie clues were published on Friday morning, I went out to 3 seperate locations before lunch but was unable to find any letters. I have been told that the letters were not put in their locations until later in the day. Are the letters up now, and is it worth re-visiting those places?
A fantastic Event!!!
Is it true that the golden queenie’s been found already?
I found the end of the trail and phoned the number to be told the queenie had been found on Sunday morning. So why has there not been any announcement about it? Can we have the full solution this year please as even though I solved it, there were parts of a couple of clues I didn’t understand.
I think its a shame that the treasure hunt is already completed and finished the day the paper comes out advertising it. Pointless really….
The Golden Queenie clues were released on the Morning of Friday 2 July. The Golden Queenie had been found by the Sunday 4th of July, amazing in such a short space of time. The clues were later released in the Examiner on Tuesday (because of Tynwald.) We have kept the Conundrum going as many people have told us that they still enjoy trying to solve it. It was a shame that this year a small minority of people spoilt it for others by removing some of the letter clues found at the locations. Come on people – honestly what is the point in ruining a fun event we organisers volunteer to put on for the people of the island! We will take all your comments on board and look to make the Golden Queenie Conundrum bigger and better for next year! Thanks for all your comments we hope you enjoyed it.
I think it is appaulling how it has only been announced this evening that the queenie has been found! I have been out looking for it many times since it had apparently been found, and it takes a long time to travel from the north all the way to the south. A complete waste of time (and petrol!)! Whoever had the idea to leave moveable letters in places must be stupid thinking that people would not move them, a ridiculous idea!!!
can someone explain a little better what happened here please. I solved all the locations and visited four of them on the first morning that the quiz was issued on website last week. There were no letters at the locations. Are you really saying that you were so niaive as to place actual letters at the locations and that these letters were capable of being removed by treasure hunters in order to prevent others from finding them? Are you saying that I solved the locations too quickly and that the letters had not been put there by then?
Having not found any letters at the locations I have since spent a subsequent 20 hours + on trying to solve the conundrum?
Please explain what has happened
Thank you
I thought the organisation of the Queenie Conundrum was a complete shambles this year. Letters stolen from their locations by the end of the very first day (you would have thought that in such circumstances the organisers would either replace them or just publish the letters on the website to be fair to everyone), and no communication until last night to confirm that the Queenie had been found nearly five days earlier so people may well have been wasting their time still looking. Quite honestly I found the whole thing a waste of time, if I had known that the clues had been taken I would not have bothered wasting all that petrol travelling to different locations in the south of the island. I think the organisers need to go back to the drawing board as both years’ searches have now been flawed in application, last year if you lived in Port Erin you had a higher chance of solving the final clue straight away (i.e. steps down to mortuary beach) than people from other locations. This year you had to be searching early on to find the clues before they were stolen.
Well done on, putting together another great treasure hunt!
It was fun to tackle it, despite the fact we later found out that we’d started out long after the Queenie had been found. Even though we’d only found two letters (and evidence of where at least one had been removed) we narrowed Number 6 to Laxey almost immediately.
I am sure that you already realise that a far more challenging format is needed for next time.
PS. Please publish names if you discover the identity of the low-life who removed any of the clue letters. You could put the culprit(s) in stocks at Paddy’s Market and invite the public to throw rotten fish at them.
Please will you publish the answers to the Golden Queenie Conundrum as we are some of the unfortunate people who arrived at locations only to find that there was no letter clue. We presumed at the time that we had arrived at the wrong location and that we had not solved the clues correctly – until we found one still in place. To save us feeling like total failures please let us know the answers so we can check with our “workings out”.
Thank you