Hogmanay Handicap Take 2 Hazlehead – Sunday 1st Feb 2026

No, we haven’t got our dates mixed up – this was supposed to happen on 2nd Feb but the mega snow dump stopped play. Hope you can make it along to this re-run as looks like a real brain teaser in true Hogmanay Handicap fashion. (Staying up ’til gone midnight two nights before to recreate the post-Ne-erday feeling is not obligatory.)

Organisers 
Samantha & Fiona McDonald

Timing and Location 
Registration at the Hazlehead Park Cafe car park (merit.firmly.words) at 10.30-10:40am. 
Mass briefing at 10.45am
Mass Clued’O Game start at 11am.

Objective
Your mission is to deduce 
– who murdered the Club Secretary?
– where the crime took place?
– and what weapon was used?

To do this, you must visit various ‘Game Card’ locations across Hazlehead Park. 
Each ‘room’ will eliminate one suspect, one location, and one murder weapon (3 controls in each room).

Game Play
– Participants can play individually or in pairs, if preferred.
– Time limit: you have 45 minutes to visit as many ‘Game Card’ locations as possible. 
– Game Cards: at each control, you will find a clue that eliminates one possibility from your list of suspects, locations, and weapons.
– Everyone starts at the same time and may choose to visit any of the ‘rooms’ on the map. Once you have finished finding the clues in that ‘room’ you must return to the start/finish where you will ‘roll the dice’ by punching the ‘dice control’ (#204) marked on the map.
– Secret Passages: there are also 2 secret passages marked on the map (control #192 and #198) which allow you to move from one ‘room’ to another ‘room’ without needing to visit the dice control. The secret passages are non-scoring and can only be visited once each.

Scoring:
– 10 points for each Game Card visited
– 30 bonus points for correctly solving the mystery
– 10 points will be deducted for every minute not back after 45mins

– The winner is the first person back to correctly solve the mystery.

Handicap: some of the players will inherit work completed by the local police force, so will not need to visit all rooms to achieve maximum points. 

Estimated distance if all controls visited is approx 5km but handicapping will reduce distance to approx 2.5km or approx 1.5km.

Good luck Investigators! 

Senior £6 Junior/Student £3 (Cash or card)

All welcome!