The Miami Herald’s signature event, The Herald Hunt, gets off to its zany start at noon on Sunday, October 21st on Miami Beach, Florida.

One of South Florida’s favorite annual events since its inception in 1984,
The Herald Hunt is a unique urban adventure in which, during one memorable afternoon, players attempt to solve a series of bizarre clues sprinkled around South Beach. The cost of admission? The Sunday, October 21st edition of The Miami Herald, featuring the essential Herald Hunt section, the “roadmap” to The Hunt.

The first three teams to finish The Herald Hunt win a trip for four to a fabulous destination. But as most seasoned Hunters know, you don’t go for the prize, you go for the thrill of actually solving the puzzles. The “Ah Ha” moment of coming up with a correct solution is a rush unlike any other.

With the event taking place on South Beach, this year’s Hunt has a distinctive “Pre- Deco” feel. Players will join emcee Dave “The Sting” Barry for an afternoon of games, thrills and plenty of laughs. “There’s really no community event quite like The Herald Hunt,” says Elaine Pasekoff, Hunt Executrix and Miami Herald Promotions Manager. “It brings together people who share a sense of humor, a spirit of adventure and thought patterns that defy description.”

The geniuses behind The Hunt are, as always, Dave Barry, The Herald’s Pulitzer prize-winning, nationally syndicated humor columnist and best-selling author, and Tom Shroder, formerly executive editor of The Herald’s Sunday magazine, Tropic, and now a renowned author and senior editor at The Washington Post. Together, Barry and Shroder have created and fostered an event that has become famous not just in Florida, but across the nation. They spend months conjuring up devious clues that inevitably confound players, some of whom fly in from all over the country just for the occasion.
Media interviews with Dave Barry will be available on a limited basis the week before The Herald Hunt, October 15th through 19th.

The Herald Hunt was born in 1984 as The Tropic Hunt, after The Miami Herald's late, great Sunday magazine, Tropic. (Back then, Tropic was home to Hunt Creators, Dave Barry and Tom Shroder. Dave's column appeared in Tropic, and Tom was Executive Editor.)