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conductryesterday at 10:31 PM0 repliesview on HN

Possibly related/tangental, my friends and I in high school were pretty big into the car culture of the time (90s Houston = fast and furious). Anywho, as a complement of the normal (illegal) drag race and burnout meetups we used to organize and run full city scavenger hunts. We’d run around town collecting clues, solving puzzles, and driving pretty reckless. It usually involved at least 2 people per car to be competitive. Knowledge of the greater area was important for navigating because this was right around the transition where GPS became common. We usually did it around 2am-4am so the streets were open and we could drive fast. It wasn’t safe at all but luckily nobody I know of ever got in an accident. We had about 100 cars participating when I left for college in 98. I think about it as something that was very special and the last of the fun analog lifestyle before the internet took over.