Birthday Treasure Hunt + Chakarapongal

If you thought getting gifts on a Birthday was easy, think again.

On my 28th (read 16th) Birthday, I had to go on a treasure hunt to get my gifts. This treasure hunt was prepared by RS and Prad. Also, its not 1 clue per gift, I have to solve 2 clues per gift.

1. I have to solve the first clue to tell me what the gift is. (like baseball/cricket bats, ipods etc ;) )
2. The second clue leads me to the location of the gift (basement, pile of clothes, cupboards etc.)

I have very little time to solve these clues, because the party audience is waiting and all the pressure is on me. I did manage to solve some on my own and others with lots of prompting :)

Here are the clues if you want to take a shot.

I will update this place with answers and pictures in a couple of days.

Questions 1a, I have to guess my first gift using this question.

Answer to 1a - Start Higlighting here => The last line gives it away easily, Its all part of the "game". We've played a lot of board games before so, the clue says "we have done this before and it is loads of fun". So the gift as a board game called "Balderdash". It was awesome :)


Question 1b, This is where my first gift is located.
Answer to 1b - Start Higlighting here => "The Smelly cat" phrase indicates a sock, shoes, pig sty, trash can something nasty. Since I take it on a walk once a week, it most probably is something like a trash can, "the lid", confirms that :). The unscrambled word is "PRADNYA", she finds it amusing that I am @ home with filth :) . So, the board game was behind the "trash can"


Question 2a, I have to guess my second gift using this question.
Answer to 2a - Start Higlighting here => This is a bit complicated :), lets start with the signs first, The exclamation mark is "NOT", the second sign is a directional sign with "SOUTH" highlighted. The third sign is mountains, trees and the base is highlighted for "LAND". Which results in "Not South land Alley", this is a bowling alley that we frequent. The next sign is for "GOLF", !G but R means ROLF :) . The clue "Will your friday question change" means, I usually ask if we can go bowling each friday, so the gift is something that will distract me from asking this question :) ... which means its probably a game of some kind. "all your dreams bundled together" means its a collection of games. The gift was a 15 in 1 game, containing foosball, airhockey, table tennis, basketball, bowling etc.


Question 2b, This is the clue to the location of the second question.
Answer to 2b - Start Higlighting here => This one is a bit complicated too. The first sign is an "ENTER" key, the second is some kind of dots, but "Dont make a mountain out of a mole hill" points to ants living in them. So, ENTER + ANTS = ENTRANCE and cloes to the shoe rack. So the gift was near the entrance :)

Chakarapongal: My Ethiri, made awesome chakarapongal for all of us. I was thinking its a ploy to kill me? I tried it, anyway. I usually dont like chakarapongal its too rich in ghee, gooey etc .., this one was really awesome, I had a lot of it. I am still alive :)