Bounties
Bounties gave teams an opportunity to bond with their team mates and do some something outside of the virtual world of the game.
- Total Number of Bounties: 42
- Secret Bounties: ~8
- Required Bounties: 4
- Approved Submissions: > 625
- Most Popular (non-required) Bounties: Trail Rations, Mixed Genre, Secret Treasure (30 approved submissions each!)
- Least Popular Bounties: Do-si-do, Fashion Show, Washington Trail (1 approved submission each)
- Team with Most Approved Bounties: Dramatic Empathy (40 Bounties)
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Call me Maybe | Send an audio (or video) clip of your best hog call or yodel. |
| Card Sharks | Take a photo of your team, each conspicuously "hiding" an ace on their person. |
| Dressed for Success | That unicorn onesie ain’t gonna do you much good in the wild. Get your group dressed up and ready for the trail. |
| Evening in the Wild (Required) | It’s a cold night, so dim the lights, set your backgrounds, and show us your team keeping warm around a campfire. |
| Fashion Show | Go for a walk (at least around a block) wearing an outfit or item requested by another bounty. |
| Get Minecraft Working | Take screenshots of each of your team members' Minecraft Avatars. |
| Hand Off | Send a video of everyone on your team "passing around" an item. |
| Howdy World | Set western themed backgrounds for everyone in teams and submit a screenshot. |
| Lights, Camera, Action | Recreate a scene from a western movie. |
| Millinery | Make and wear a do-it-yourself cowboy hat. |
| Mixed Genres | Edit a photo from an obviously non-western movie or tv show to bring it in theme. |
| Not so Silent Film | Make up dialogue and dub it over the attached video. |
| Prepare for an Attack (Required) | You’ve caught wind that a bandit attack is coming! Circle the wagons, and prepare your defenses. Build a fort for your team out of household items. |
| Prove your Riding Skill | Send a photo of a team member on horseback (past photo's accepted - photoshops not). |
| Ready for the Trail (Required) | You're going to need a lot of provisions for your journey. Have everyone stuff a backpack with "supplies" and send in a photo. |
| Reference Materials | Find an item with a cowpoke on it and take a photo with it. |
| Secret Treasure | Draw a treasure map. |
| Shoo! Go on! Git! (Required) | A wild animal has gotten in the way. Gonna have to deal with it. Show a team member wrangling a "wild beast". |
| Team Dinner | Have dinner as a team. Everyone is encouraged to cook their favorite meal or a family specialty. |
| Trail Rations | Eat some beans. |
| Worlds Apart | Send a video of your team doing something together… separately. |
Puzzle Specific Bounties
After completing each puzzle, teams were given a bounty themed after that puzzle.
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Big Farma | Record a sales pitch for something you stockpiled but haven't used yet. |
| Cactus | Draw a new cactus species that might be named after an animal. |
| Check, Please! | Design a western themed cocktail or mocktail for us to try. |
| Cow Facts | Send in a brand new cow meme. We will image search your submission to verify newness. |
| Crosstalk | Build a tin-can telephone to limit future crosstalk. (Substitutes for tin-cans accepted) |
| Dead or Alive | Send in wanted posters for everyone on your team, don't forget to give everyone a nickname, say what they're wanted for, and the reward for turning them in. |
| Do-Si-Do | Record everyone showing off their best dance moves. |
| Draw | Send in an IRL version of your final drawing. |
| Flowers | Your plants look thirsty, have you watered them recently? |
| Huntin' | You killed it, you monsters. As penance turn everyone on your team into unicorns IRL (unicorns at least have horns). |
| Lassos | Send a photo of every team member showing off a different knot from the puzzle. |
| Look at this Telegraph | Make us look at a graph. What graph? Up to you, but make us laugh. Make sure you label your axes and point out any important events that explain outliers in the data. |
| Now That's What I Call Moosic! | Record a cow themed parody of the song of your choice. |
| Rein or Shine | Write a dramatic letter home about your journey or new life in Blue Yonder. |
| $#!t Talkin' | Write a short newspaper article about your team. |
| Trapped | Take a photo of you discovering some "treasure" IRL. |
| Washington Trail | Congratulations, You've reached Blue Yonder! Design main street for the town. Everyone should contribute at least one building. |