On Sunday 14th October I participated in the Melbourne City Romp. It’s described as part tressure hunt, part amazing race and part puzzle. In teams of 2 – 6 people you walk or public transport it (no running) around the city. When you find the checkpoint you receive a random question/challenge. The challenge is described as using a mix of “observation, brain power and teamwork”. The tag line for the event is “think you know Melbourne…?” It was put together by the City of Melbourne in conjunction with the Victorian government and Yarra Trams Melbourne. The money raised going towards the Burnet Institute. The Burnet Institute is the leading infectious diseases, immunology, cancer and public health institute in Australia.
I was interested in doing this and put together a team of myself and 4 other people. I was the team captain and our team name was Navman’s Navigators.
To answer questions and challenges you have to use your mobile phone to text the question code and answer. You are given a choice of 5 possible answers.
For 4 hours we went all over the city using our feet and the trams. For a lot of the challenges we had to use our eyes and find things like pictures, patterns, number of steps, number of wheels, number of lions in statues, reading plagues and finding the right answer.
It was a lot of fun, the weather was perfect temperature and at the end of the 4 hours our bodies and especially feet were very tired.
Looking back at my motives yesterday it was for points and to win. But maybe I should have slowed down and enjoyed it some more. See some of the iconic places in Melbourne that were open to us, such as the MCG (Melbourne Cricket Ground). It was a team effort/game and all of us were very excited and competitive.
Maybe next year if we all play again we will take a different approach. Or maybe not, because it is so much fun and the competitive nature takes over.
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