Essex Crown: The Quest

Get a group together and take on the Essex Crown Quest to test your skills and strengthen your teamwork

Hidden across campus are challenges and tasks for heroes from Essex departments to take on and conquer to win points, bringing their department closer to triumph in the Essex Crown competition. There are different levels of quests to test all types of skills with different amounts of points up for grabs. Bronze challenges will be worth 25 points, Silver will earn you 50 points while Gold tasks will give teams 75 points.

The Quest will be found in TC.2.14, TC.2.15, EBS.2.1 and the Library.

The Quests

 Library Scavenger Hunt (Gold) - Explore the library on this supernatural scavenger hunt with Halloween themed clues and objects, riddles and puzzles. You'll test your library and literary knowledge to complete this challenge

Minefield (Silver) - Put trust in a team-mate who will guide the blindfolded participants across our minefield, avoiding obstacles along to way

Marshmallow Mania (Silver) - Test your team's planning and patience in building a free-standing marshmallow structure which stays up for at least 10 seconds

Story Telling Charades (Bronze) - Imagination and puzzle-breaking skills are needed in this exercise where teams create a visual story

Human Shapes (Bronze) - Spell your way to points, this task requires teamwork and improvisation as teams spell out 20 words using just their bodies

Blindfold Build (Bronze) - Battle against a rival team to see who can build the 4 foot tower of cups which stays upright for longest

Departments can send multiple teams up to battle for victory but each time a new team from one department attempts a challenge the number of points they can earn will be halved. For example, if a team from Economics beats the Minefield quest they will receive 50 points but if another team from Economics completes the Minefield they will only receive 25 points. If a third team from Economics was to take on the Minefield the points would halve again to 12.5 points as so on.