Favorite moments at our first set of public-welcome Scavenger Hunt Search Party games last week:

• Witnessing the vigor and enthusiasm of team members ranging in age from six to fifty-six confronting challenges, decoding clues and solving clever riddles.
• Seeing how neither pouring rain (during an outdoors game) nor amazing blue-sky sunshine (during an indoors game) could deter our participating teams from their mission and out-competing the other groups - people they'd never before met - smiling and laughing the whole time.
• Teams exceeding the maximum possible score by pursuing every last bonus point available.
• Challenging two teams whose final scores were tied to a tie-breaker:  demonstrating their favorite super-hero talents to all participants.
• Discovering that said talents were real!