Throwback Thursday (Yellow -- McD's)

Check with your team before placing your bet,

As well all know, one guess is all that you get.

It takes a lot of practice to rhyme and riddle
We've been planning this since we were little.

Checking In! (Yellow -- Casa Blanca Motel)

Check twice when placing your bet,

One guess is all that you get.

In desperate need of a fright,

Thought we'd spend the night!

Most Clever Team Name

All contenders are in, 'twas hard to decide.
We loved the team spirit and Wanda Witch pride!

Between the two witches, a grand debate ensued,
They brooded and argued, discussed and then stewed,

But one clever name took them by surprise,
The Candy Coroners have won this coveted prize!

A 30-second head start to help on their race,
Congrats Candy Coroners - you're now in first place!



Response from Orange:
Thank you dear witches for honoring our name
we are giddy with twitches and in awe of your fame.

Our scalpels are ready, we won't disappoint,
The Candy Coroners are STOKED to spook up this joint!

Candy Anyone? (Costco -- Green Team)

Check twice before placing your bet,

One guess is all that you get.

Stocking up for our favorite season

But do we really need a reason?

Updates 9/27

Rule change for "Where's Wanda" pictures:

Check with your team before placing your bet,
From here on, one guess is all that you get.

Scarlet Fever -- 10 second head start (Hogwarts)
Maroney, Julie Smith, Simpson

The Candy Coroners - 50 second head start (Team Name, Rudy's)
Brande, Haymond, Jamie Smith, Jensen

Dear Wanda and Hilda,

We figure it's time we seriously get in this game,
For the orange team now has a name!

The Candy Coroners we shall be. . .
We've got team spirit, you will see!!

With much love,
The Candy Coroners

The Yellow Mother Truckers -- 40 second head start (Lowe's, Casa Blanca, McD's, DSW) 
Myers, Duclos, Ashton

Watch out fellow competitors, 

for we yellow mutha truckers are your biggest predators.

We rule the road and thus will win this race,

we'll try to use our manners and not rub it in your face.

Wanda, Hilda, your beauty and grace make you rulers supreme,

Make way all you playa's for the winning team!

Gruesome Green Guerillas -- 10 second head start (Costco)
Christensen, Fagrell, Mike and Dustin

Dearest Wanda and Hilda --

Thank you for allowing us to play your night of tricks once again. We are honored to be granted the color Green and feel we will represent it well.  We have chosen the name "Gruesome Green Guerillas" to represent us and hope this pleases you both.

Your faithful servants, 
"Gruesome Green Guerillas"

Blue LaGHOULS

Munroe, Farnsworth, Schouten

Wanda and Hilda, 
We come from the depths of the sea
The best team we shall be
We want to play your little game
And surely hope it's not lame
For coming to land
Can be very boring and bland
But we are putting our faith in you
And hope you find us fitting too
For any bonuses we pay with our sea jewels
Sincerely yours, the Blue LaGhouls

Black Eyed Peas

McKeown, Bradley, McWhorter, Conover

WHITEY TIGHTIES

Sager, Larsen, Rogers, Fish

Yellow Team has something to say to the rest of you:

Watch out fellow competitors, 

For we yellow mutha truckers are your biggest predators.

We rule the road and thus will win this race,

we'll try to use our manners and not rub it in your face.

Wanda, Hilda, your beauty and grace make you rulers supreme,

Make way all you playa's for the winning team!

We love a team that's ready to win,
Let the trash talking and rivalry begin!!

Wanda and Hilda

Orange Team Reporting!

Dear Wanda and Hilda, 

We figure it's time we seriously get in this game 
For the orange team now has a name! 

The Candy Coroners we shall be... 
We've got team spirit, you will see!! 

With much love, The Candy Coroners


It's true, having a team name is vital,
And we absolutely love your title!!

Spookily Yours, Wanda and Hilda

Just a little shopping. . . (Lowe's -- Yellow Team)

We guess these brooms will have to do,

Please note who is red and who is blue.

Another team name

Dearest Wanda & Hilda -

Thank you for allowing us to play your night of tricks once again.  We are honored to be granted the color Green and feel we will represent it well.  We have chosen the name"Gruesome Green Guerillas" to represent us and hope this pleases you both.

Your faithful servants,

Christiansens, Fagrells, Husbands
"Gruesome Green Guerillas"

Dearest Gruesome Green Guerillas,

It is always a pleasure to have you as guests,
We wish the guerillas the very best!

Love, Wanda & Hilda

Where are Wanda and Hilda #1?? (Hogwarts -- Red Team)

First person to correctly guess the scene, 

Earns a ten second head start for their team.

Teams for 2013 (and more instructions)

Scarlet Fever -- 10 second head start
Maroney

Julie Smith
Simpson

The Candy Coroners
Brande
Haymond

Jamie Smith

Jensen

Yellow Mutha Truckers-- 10 second head start

Myers

Duclos

Ashton

Gruesome Green Guerillas

Christensen

Fagrell
Husbands

Blue LaGHOULS

Munroe
Farnsworth

Schouten

Black Eyed Peas

McKeown

Bradley

McWhorter
Conover

WHITE

Sager

Larsen

Rogers

Fish


Now that you know who’s on your team,
It's time to reveal your part in this scheme!
Before your team can compete,
Here’s some things you must complete.

The first requirement in our game,
You must invent a clever team name.
You’ll need the best label you can manage,
To be rewarded with time advantage.

We hope your team goes the extra mile,
With creative costumes, dressed up in style!

This year we're switching up the clues
And leaving one of them up to YOU!
Each team will pick a spot they think best,
For a place among our mysterious quest.

Write it in rhyme like the witches do,
Then secretly e-mail your spooky clue.
The favorite will appear on that night’s scurry,
Proving a way to help your team hurry.

Whose clue we pick, you won't know,
Until off on our Halloween journey we go.

We witches are a mischievous pair,
We’re hiding places - can you guess where?
We’ll post pictures to give you a clue.
Checking the blog, that’s up to you.

After each new adventure’s release,
First comment wins ten seconds apiece.
With riddles posted thrice a week,
Fail to guess, your future is bleak.

Finally, just one more small request,
Please bring a dish that you like best.
Sweet, savory, light or hearty,
We're having a potluck after-party!

Competition begins October Nineteen,
With a little pre-game- more ‘seconds’ to glean.
Show up that night at Hilda’s address,
Full of Halloween knowledge, ready to impress.

For a prize so gruesome; it makes grown men weep,
Come in first and it's your to keep!!

Due dates:
Team Name: Friday, September 27th
Clue: Friday, October 4th
Recommended reading: www.wandawitchaz.blogspot.com

Wanda Witch 2013

Wanda and Hilda are back for our fourth yearly game,
Hunting and hiking through howling wind and rain.
We found hiding spots among caverns, lights and dirt,
Then riddled and rhymed 'til our witchy brains hurt.

But now it's time to share some of our fun with all of you,

As we prepare to announce the members of each crew.

With challenges and puzzles straight through till the end,

Are you ready for the race that makes foe out of friend?

The Teams

The WINNERS -- The Gimp O'Lanterns!

1st team to arrive, Most delicious Dish, 1st to discover location

2nd place -- The Wicked White Trash of the West

3rd to arrive, Best Team Name, Best Team Uniform

3rd Place -- The Ghastly Green Goblins

2nd to Arrive, 1st to Name Team, Most Excited about Winning a Prize and Most Helpful Team

The Red Devils

The Would-Have-Won-If-They-Didn't-Overthink-the-Last-Clue Team

Purple Rain

Runner's Up in the Best Costume Department!

The Golden Ghouls

Most Creative and Creepiest Dish Winners and also the Bribe that Required the Most Effort

(Sam brought us a Kitty Katrina cake from my favorite place in UTAH!)

The Bribes

When we said bribes, we meant something small

We weren't expecting this grandeur at all!

We certainly don't feel at all deserving;

All your spoiling was kind of unnerving.

You truly must know us too well
All your gifts really rang our bell.

For sharing your crafty and culinary arts

We thank you from the bottom of our hearts!!

Wicked White Trash of the West stayed true to their name!

The left us brooms and capes wrapped in this very lovely packaging.

Red Devils left us a bag full of goodies -- Oreo Bark, necklaces and a cute Halloween Decorations

And WOWed us with their chocolatiering skills!

Purple Rain made us a cute craft and yummy snickerdoolde blondies

The Gimp O'Lanterns brought Orange Rolls and lots of other goodies to sweeten the pot.

The Ghastly Green Goblins know a Pizookie is the way to a Witch's heart.

The Golden Ghouls brought in my favorite cake all the way from Utah!  Although, the poor Kitty Cat in the picture did not have such a happy ending.

Some of the Food

The Clues

Each location

Shappel's Alfalfa Farm:

There's a legend told around Chandler Stake

That makes even grown men shiver and shake.

In a forsaken alfalfa field, among the rows

A lost Nut Farmer wanders, the story goes.


While he was out on a fun Halloween race,

Ghosts and goblins laid siege to his place.

Now he's forced to search high and low

To find a white pillar, all aglow.


While important to him, this pillar is vital to you

For buried beneath it, you'll find you next clue

Just before Lindsay heading East on Germann

Find the Southern house to continue this game.


A flag let's you know you're in the right spot

To begin your search of the Western Lot.

Up and down the fields you'll wander

But make sure it's not your lead you squander.


250 feet is the span between each mound

Just one out, your team's pipe can be found.

Find the color _(team color)_ round the column

Then dig low into ground most solemn.


Make sure it's your color at the top

And don't dig anywhere with a crop.

"Make haste" the Nut Farmer implores,

"I fear lest my fate become yours."


Parking Garage on Rome (by Costco):

Last year's party made us too tired to haunt,

So Wanda and Hilda took a little jaunt.

While enjoy una margarita at a pizzeria

We came up with this clever idea!


We'd hide a clue reminiscent of vacation;

And driving down Pecos we found our location.

There happens to be un parcheggio out that way;
At a place "non fu fatta in un giorno," they say.


Looking up and around and around,

By the tromba delle scale, your clue will be found.

Stepping lightly, between four and five,

Grab the clue and rush to get out alive!



DUMP PARK (frisbee park):

There's a park built on land reclaimed;

A walk with a view, or so it is named.

A slithery serpent guards the path

Drive safely so not to incur her wrath.


While children might run around by day

At night, trolls and goblins come to play.

For this is where they make their home;

Where ghosts and flying saucers roam.


The creatures each claim different holes

And at an oddly eerie number live the trolls.

Unlucky or not, it's up for you to decide

But near by is where all the clues hide.


Those wicked trolls have a mean streak

And they hid the ingredients you seek.

Go ahead and search where you please,

But remember where trolls feel at ease.

Superstition Road

 A black cat walks t'ward you, breath a sigh of relief,

Surely defined as an irrational belief.

Break a mirror and have seven years bad luck,

A bird in the house means someone's soon struck.

The next location without debate,

Is a street where these fears culminate.

Next to Higley you'll start your trail,

Past the houses and signs of a rail.

Just before the road curves around,

A clue is burried 'hind a heaping mound

Lowe’s Chainsaw Clue

Though living here requires Lonestar Pride,

With cannabals loose, there's nowhere to hide.

Try to escape, flesh makes them drool,

Look LOW for their weapon

Don't choose the wrong TOOL.

Hurry to find this next location,

'Fore the hungry give in to temptation.

Look as far East as boundaries provide,

Inside the warehouse that is implied.

Bus Stop in Downtown Chandler

A place to wait, but not be late.

Be sure to arrive 'fore a quarter past eight.

One hundred fifty, then add a six.

Which one is it Wanda predicts?

The desired direction written in here,

Right lighting required for it to appear

FINISH LINE

A witchy brew is being stewed,

Where your journey's 'bout to conclude.

At a new place we'll meet,

For first place you will compete.

A certain type of association,

That's really great at fees and taxation.

This one's name involves singing stars,

Taylor Swift and Honkey Tonk Bars.

But remember "a new place we'll meet,"

In the Shadows, your journey's complete.

Remember the number Thirty-One Forty-Nine,

Though you won't find Miss Patsy Cline.

A man by the name of Mister Bing Crosby,

Sang of our street in "Christmas in Killarney."

Team Standings

Just four days until the challenge begins

Which will be the team that wins??

Gimp O'Lanterns -- 4 points
Ghastly Green Goblins -- 3 points
Red Devils -- 2 points
Wicked White Trash of the West -- 2 points
Purple Rain -- 2 points
Golden Ghouls

Click here to learn how to earn points

Address Clues

NUMBER:
First a number is what you will need
This equations will let you proceed.
To make sure you're on the right course,
You'll need to know the poem and its source

The stanzas echo one word again and again
Find it, count it, square it and then . . .
Add it to the year the poet "fed the fishes"
Plus the year when he joined the militias.

DIRECTION:
Next a direction, which way will it be?
Don't trust Broadway if you want to succeed.
In a novel that each Witch knows by heart
Maguire explains the root of Elphaba's dark art.
In the pages, three witches are plotting and cackling
But sadly, the direction you need seems to be lacking.

STREET NAME
This street pays homage to a famous Princess
Whose kidnapping caused Etheria great distress.
When just a babe, she was stolen by the evil Horde
Her brother too young to wield his mighty Sword.
Prince Adam, her twin, went on to great fame
Though you might not know him by his true name

Clue #1

CLUE #1 (of 4)    

The answer will be a general type of landmark.  E-mail us once you've figured it out and will send more clues for the actual address

Not too close, yet not far away

A deserted tower begins its decay.

In a poem so dark and dreary

Extolling each virtue eery,

a tortured soul proclaimed its curse

In haunting dipodic verse:

"In the silence of the night,

How we shiver with affright

At the melancholy menace of their tone!

For every sound that floats

From the rust within their throats

Is a groan."

To start the race, meet where it stands,

And here the peal from ghoulish hands.

But where exactly could it be?

That will be your mystery.

Solve our riddles and be in the know.

The address reveals where to go.

Starting Location

Are you wondering where we will meet?
Perhaps the address and name of a street?

After Friday you won't have to fret
For that's when you're first clue you will get.

Working with your team to ease your consternation
You'll solve our puzzle for a starting location.

We don't need anything too specific
Just a general landmark would be terrific!

Once we're assured you have the correct solution
We'll give you more clues to clear up confusion.

The second will reveal a number, and third a direction
Lastly, the street name and you've got the collection.

Put them together and what have you got?
The exact address of our beginning spot.