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PLEASE NOTE: THE TREASURE HAS NOW BEEN FOUND. Congratulations to our winners, Vipra and Ambika Malik, from New Delhi!
Penguin and IndiaPlaza are giving away over 10,000 Rs worth of books in the Delhi Treasure Hunt!
To celebrate the release of Sam Miller’s riveting Delhi: Adventures in a Megacity, Penguin Books India has teamed up with IndiaPlaza to offer some fantastic prizes for taking part and winning the Delhi Treasure Hunt.
Over the coming weeks, solve the clues set by Sam Miller to find where in Delhi the treasure is hidden.
The clues, and answers, can be found by clicking on the map below, which will retrace Sam’s journey around Delhi and grow as the Delhi Treasure Hunt goes on.
The Prizes
1 winner – 5,000 Rs gift voucher to spend on books on IndiaPlaza plus a special Penguin Hamper of goodies.
5 runners-up – 1,000 Rs gift voucher each to spend on books on IndiaPlaza.
Solve 3 clues and get 100 Rs off Delhi: Adventures in a Megacity, on IndiaPlaza.
PLEASE NOTE: THE TREASURE HAS NOW BEEN FOUND.
There are also exciting photos, excerpts and other features that will appear on the map, so have a look at everything to give yourself the best chance of winning!
So, have a read of How to Play the Game, How to use Google Maps, and the Terms & Conditions, then click on the map below to begin!
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Delhi Treasure Hunt Map |
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PLEASE NOTE: THE TREASURE HAS NOW BEEN FOUND.
When you solve each clue, write down the first letter of your answer.
Clue One:
What is the name of the astrologer’s shop in Palika Bazaar, where Sam Miller gets a print-out of his digital horoscope, in which he is informed, quite correctly, that he is fond of cardamom?
Clue Two:
What is the common name for ‘lymphatic filiarisis’ which Sam Miller found in an unusual list of diseases at New Delhi Railway Station?
Clue Three:
What is the name of Sam Miller's favourite Delhi eyesore?
Clue Four:
There are two of Mahatma Gandhi’s teeth on display in the Gandhi Memorial Museum. In which central Indian city were they extracted?
Clue Five:
What animal parts did Sam Miller mistake for fir cones?
Clue Six:
What is the Greek version of the name Jerome, after whom a Dutch master was named, and who was the apparent inspiration of some cartoons on the wall of a house on New Rohtak Road?
Clue Seven:
What was the British name for the city, renamed after a Saudi prince and now the third largest urban centre of one of India’s neighbours, which was the birthplace of the Olympian who was impersonated by the author at Nehru stadium.
Clue Eight:
Taganrog’s most famous son, this mongoose-owning doctor’s second collection accompanied Sam Miller on his disastrous second visit to Delhi’s most controversial temple.
Clue Nine:
The Hindu Rao hospital in north Delhi offers the amputation of which body part, on its list of facilities and service available to the general public?
Clue Ten:
The leaf of which plant, conjoined with the name of an East Asian capital, is used to make the noose used to hang death row prisoners at Tihar Jail?
You should now have a single-letter answer to each of the first 10 clues. Rearrange the letters to make a Delhi place name – in preparation for the 11th clue which will help you locate the more precise whereabouts of the treasure.
Solve this cryptic clue to find the more precise whereabouts of the Treasure!
Clue Eleven:
Five conditions for Hindi speakers with a garden, or perhaps an instruction at the end of a driving test, in South Delhi.
Clue Twelve:
Five conditions for Hindi speakers with a garden, or perhaps an instruction at the end of a driving test, in South Delhi.
The treasure will be found in a park within a park; a park with four bandstands and a 1.6 km fitness trail.
If you need some help click here!
THE FINAL CLUE-LUCKY FOR SOME!
Clue Thirteen:
Follow the exercise trail for 300 metres, to an oddly appropriate signboard. The treasure is about 15 metres from the signboard, in the jungle behind. Climb the small slope to the left of the signboard. From the top, take five paces straight ahead and then take eight paces to the left. Turn 90° right and walk a further twenty-five paces (make sure you duck beneath the branch of the tree). Then turn 90° left and take another six paces. Look for the orange ribbons, and an ancient ruin. In that ruin, the Treasure awaits…
PLEASE NOTE: THE TREASURE HAS NOW BEEN FOUND.
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Play the Delhi Treasure Hunt by clicking here, or click on the map below |
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If you would like to be kept up to date on the progress of the Delhi Treasure Hunt, please email contest@in.penguingroup.com. We will then send you an email when the next clue is up on the Map.
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How to Play the Game |
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Once you have read the clue, click on the icons you can see on the map such as or  . This will display a feature such as an excerpt, or a photo. By reading the excerpts, or looking at the photos, you should be able to solve the clue.
When you solve each clue, write down the first letter of your answer.
Once you have all the letters use them to make another word which will tell you in which part of Delhi Sam has hidden the treasure.
For example, if the letters were L, D, H, O, I - the treasure would have been hidden in Lodhi.
We will then provide further clues on this site to enable you to work out the exact location of the treasure. The first person to successfully find it will be the winner! There will be detailed instructions within the treasure itself on how to contact Penguin.
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How to use Google Maps |
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When you are on the Treasure Hunt page on Google Maps, you can move around the map by using the navigation tool  to go left, right, up or down. Clicking on  in the centre returns you to the centre of the map. You can also move around the map by holding down the left mouse button on a part of the map, and dragging the mouse to where you want to go.
HINT: Press F11 when using Google Maps-it will give you a far bigger size of map to look at.
Clicking on the icons you can see on the map such as or will display a feature related to Delhi: Adventures in a Megacity. Make sure you read or look at the entire feature by scrolling down the page. If you wish to close the box you have opened, simply click on  in the right-hand corner of the box. If you cannot see the , click on the arrow to locate the , and click to close. You can then look at other features on the Map by clicking the in the centre of the navigation tool.
To zoom in and out of the map with the mouse, you can use the mouse wheel between the two mouse buttons. If you do not have a mouse wheel on your mouse, you can zoom in and out using the  on the left side of Google Maps.
For more help on how to use Google Maps, please click here
You can also join the Delhi Treasure Hunt without the Map, although it’s not half as fun! Simply click here to be taken to a text-only version of the Delhi Treasure Hunt.
Terms and Conditions
- No purchase is necessary to enter this Treasure Hunt.
- This is an online Treasure Hunt but the Treasure itself will be hidden somewhere in the city of Delhi. Therefore you will have to be in Delhi following the release of the final clue to enable you to hunt for the Treasure and win the prize.
- The Treasure Hunt is open to all, with the exception of employees of the promoter, their immediate families and anyone else connected with this promotion.
- The winners agree to take part in reasonable post event publicity and to the use of their names and photographs in such publicity.
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