Each treasure hunt follows the same format and utilises the history of each particular city. The idea is for you to see more of the city and learn more about its history while completing the hunt. What you are looking for is not the actual object, monument, place or site but the plaque or information board associated with it. When you locate the plaque or information board you need to use the code cracker listed below to decipher the clues listed in the GOOT Passport.

For example in the Auckland treasure hunt the first clue is "the museum first opened somewhere else". When you have worked out what this means it will lead you somewhere where you will find a plaque or information board. Now you need to refer back to the second clue in the GOOT Passport and decipher the code. You will be given three words and a list of numbers.
 

	Each number refers to a word or a letter on the plaque or information board. 6(2) refers to the second letter in the sixth word. Find the sixth word in the text and then determine the second letter.   4(all) refers to the whole of the fourth word.   - means start a new word.   So if the code was 5(2)4(1)3(5)-2(all) your first word will be made up of three letters (the second letter of the fifth word, the first letter of the fourth word and the fifth letter of the third word). Your second word will be whatever the second word in the text is. All letters will spell out a word - you do not need to rearrange them. Therefore if the word does not make sense you have likely made a mistake. Note: sometimes words on the plaque will be numbers - you should treat these just like words. You will also need to ignore pictures and emblems - just use the text. Words such as neo-colonialism are treated as two separate words. Sometimes there may be more than one plaque or information board you will just have to apply the code to see which one makes sense.

Once you have spelt out all the code add it to the three words in the clue and try to work out where you need to go next.

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To give you an idea about how the clues work - here is something to get you started....

The first clue, "the museum first opened somewhere else" refers to the location of Auckland's first museum which was established in 1852.