THE HUNT (Season 2)

HUNT #8:

HINT: A.H. = Philanthropist, A.?. = Philanthropist.

CLICK HERE TO SEE ORIGINAL CLUE

SOLUTION:

1) First, you had to figure out what those funny symbols at the bottom of the clue were. Even if you didn't figure out they were ancient egyptian numbers, it should have taken only a little work to figure out that the single lines stand for a value of one each, and that the horseshoe shaped figure was probably for some higher value such as 5, 10, 100 etc. It turns out that it is 10. So 1 horeshoe and 5 lines = 15. 2 horseshoes and 7 lines would be 27. Using this system, each of the group of sybmols can be converted to a number.

2) The second step was to use the numbers as alpha designations - so that 1=A, 2=B, 3=C etc. A bit of decoding, and you'll find the text at the bottom says Frappr.com

3) So, what to do at Frappr.com? Well, Dave said he created a place for everyone to hang out, and that was on a SRMHI letterhead - maybe you could try searching for a SRMHI frappr group? Bingo!

4) Then, you had to click on people on the SRMHI frappr map until you found Alvar Hanso. His message indicated something about following in the footsteps of a predecessor, Andrew. It also talked about finding the Dir. of Finance, RJS, of Andrew's legacy.

5) The hint indicates that whoever Andrew is, he shares the same philanthropic spirit as Alvar Hanso.

6) The last step was to conclude that Andrew is the famous philanthropist, Andrew Carnegie. Once you know that, it's simply a matter of googling the Carnegie Corporation and looking up the director of finance:

FINAL ANSWER: ROBERT J. SEMAN

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SEASON 2 STANDINGS:

	This Week		Over All		Series Leaders (Just for fun)
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0	CaseyMac chadley420 PandoraX diana keatintb Barrdelli lauren27 AstroJones abbiegail444 gringo Ladybug	54 52 32 31 30 24 21 19 16 16 14 12 11 11 10 10 10 9 9 9 9 8 7 7 6 6 5 4 4 4 4 3 3 3 1	CaseyMac laomaktk abbiegail444 AstroJones bUngtUnger Barrdelli chadley420 Evilrabbit warproom diana MBJ Hobbes Grandpa Tito lauren27 Katefreak chrisadams888 scavenger81 dlost keatintb gringo RojManVB PandoraX scottmhoward headee BucklerBri Wraith883 DevilishinVA DirtyEarl mel801 versed4every1 dymonaz bman_numero_uno scullyag apollo yummy Cardacct	112 97 68 59 41 39 34 33 32 30	CaseyMac abbiegail444 laomaktk AstroJones DevilishinVA Tendera Coryj MBJ Hobbes bUngtUnger

STATISTICS:

First correct answer submitted 3:05 after start (3 hours 5 minutes)
At that time, 2 incorrect answers already submitted
Second correct answer submitted 24:04 after start
At that time, 2 incorrect answers already submitted
Third correct answer submitted 24:06 after start
At that time, 2 incorrect answers already submitted
Fifth correct answer submitted 24:18 after start
At that time, 2 incorrect answers already submitted
Tenth correct answer submitted 26:24 after start
At that time, 4 incorrect answers already submitted
Last correct answer submitted 43:45 after start
At that time, 4 incorrect answers already submitted

Total answers submitted: 20 (11 correct, 9 incorrect)

Some incorrect answers:
FAILSAFE KEY
HANSO
RUTHERFORD
7418880
KELLY
ROSE
KEN HALPERIN
WIDMORE

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