New York City

This puzzle is a scavenger hunt to test your skills at gathering evidence. Please bring us items that can be described by these adjectives:

adjustable alliterative alphabetical antique banned bifurcated black-and-white bleached broken certified chocolate* classified complete concave convex cordless crustaceous crystalline

custom-made distilled electronic expired extinct flammable flat folding free hollow home-cooked* igneous inflammable inflatable infrared inside-out knotted lenticular

mechanical microwave molded mucilaginous obsolete octagonal onomatopoetic ovoid patented perforated phosphorescent plaid platonic polka-dotted postmarked prefabricated radioactive red-white-and-blue

reversed romantic sealed short silk-screened slimy smooth spherical sterile striped symmetrical tall thixotropic three-dimensional toroidal transparent ultraviolet upside-down

Here are the rules:

1. For each object, you will receive 7 points if the object can be described by one adjective, 20 points if it can be described by two adjectives, 35 for three, 196 for ten, etc., i.e., (10N+N^2-4) for N.
2. You must bring us objects totalling 750 points. If you can find a single object that can be described by 27 of the adjectives (and therefore worth 752 points), you only need to bring us that one object.
3. You will get 10 extra points for the adjectives marked with *s; any such items will be kept by the judges.
4. The standard for each adjective/object is whether or not the answer to the question "Is that <object> <adjective>?" would be yes. E.g., if one of the adjectives was "purple" and you brought us a Barney doll, the question would be "Is that doll purple?". Interpretation of the question is in the opinion of the judges although you are welcome to offer suggestions.
5. The teams bringing us (1) the highest point object and (2) the fewest objects totalling 750 points will each receive a bonus. If this is the same team, they will get two bonuses.

Some restrictions:

1. You may only count each adjective once.
2. You must bring us actual objects. We will not accept the following: photographs, drawings or written depictions of objects. Objects must be portable -- you must actually bring them to us.
3. We will not accept: anything created, fabricated or modified for this scavenger hunt, anything illegal, living animals or anything containing living animals (including humans).

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