Today my wife and I took part in the Chevy Sonic Adventure in St. Louis.

It was a very fun and sadly I did not win.

Let me describe the experience, the clues and how to win the Chevy Sonic Adventure challenge.

We arrived at registration around 8:40 am and registration began at 9am.  We just gave them our name, they checked us off the list, gave us an instruction card and sent us to get our Chevy Sonic Adventure T-Shirts.  We waited until about 10 minutes to 10 and then they started telling us how the contest would go, what to do if we have a problem and cheered for the sponsors.

You can either receive text clues and answer by text or if you have an iphone or Android OS you can download the SCVNGR app to play, which is much better because there is a map showing you where each clue is relative to your location.  *USE the SCVNGR app!!!

The way to win is to be quick!  Hit as many challenges as possible !  You get 3 chances to answer each clue so if you think you know the answer,  quickly give it a try so you can be off to the next if you’re right.  If you aren’t right that first time take a bit of time to READ the clue Carefully and then answer.  (HINT) the harder the clue/question the more points it is worth.

Here are some examples of the challenges/clues/questions:

“Go to Christ Church Cathedral and find a red information sign and find the reverend who is listed last and send back his last name as a seven digit phone number.   So the reverends last name on the sign was KILGORE so the answer was 545 4673.”

“Go to Busch Stadium and find the player statues outside of the Team Shop, add the number of players with one foot on the ground to the number of players with two feet on the ground and divide by the number of players with no feet on the ground.  There were 5 players with one foot on the ground, 4 players with two feet on the ground and 1 player with no feet on the ground. 5 + 4 = 9  /1 = 9″

“Go to Flamingo Bowl and count the number of bowling pins and martini glasses dancing on the edge of the marquee/sign then text back as a roman numeral.  there were 35 pins and glasses so the answer was XXXV.”

“Go to the Statue of a pink suit in the city garden and count the number of visible buttons then add that to the birth year of the artist.  There were 13 buttons and there was a small round plaque on the ground that showed the artist was born in 1964, so the answer was 1977.”

“Go to the wainright building and look across the street at the production posters and text back the number of syllables of the longest title in production.  The longest title was Joseph and and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.  The answer was 13.”

!!!VERY IMPORTANT!!!

Some of these challenges that involved the chevy sonic cars didn’t require you to be there.  For example one question was on 6th and Pine there is a silver Chevy Sonic with its smooth lines and angled tire stance what kind of animal does this remind you of?  There was no wrong answer, you could have said anything and it would have been right.”

So my advice to you is use the SCVNGR App, work off the map and do each challenge by location – move to each one as quickly and as efficiently as possible, if you aren’t as familiar with the city look where others are going / at and jump on it.  See what they are doing to gain a quick edge at that challenge, don’t stop moving, run as much as possible (this thing is two hours long so it is a workout).

The prizes are a Chevy Sonic Car for first place – two Ipads for second and 3rd through 10th get one Ipad per team.

In St. Louis there were around 150 teams.