You must be wondering what Truffle hunt adventure race actually is?

Well, this one is anything but an ordinary race. It is a mini-adventure race in which teams of two find their way to a hidden metaphorical truffle through orientation, running and mountain biking. It is one of the variants of the treasure hunt, because the contestants do not know until the very start how long the race will last, what its length is, or what theywould be exactly doing. Along the way, they will have to overcome the language barrier because most of the tasks involve the Glagolitic alphabet, which has been the leitmotif of the race since the beginning. Given that the race is held during the Weekend Festival of Istrian Truffles, there are some specific rules, such as mandatory truffle-finding equipment – a spatula and a dog. Or pig. The dog does not have to be alive, but it has to be three-dimensional, so the teams can bring everything, from small plastic to huge stuffed dogs.

Finding the symbolic truffle requires not only physical fitness but also ingenuity and intellectual effort. You have to translate from Glagolitic to Latin on a math quiz, answer trick questions like what time is it in Hum, where the old clock on the bell tower is stopped at exactly 2:30 or multiply the number of steps from Fontana square in Buzet to the old town Buzet by the cosine of 90, with the fact that is the cosine of 90 equals – zero. We hope you are fond in trigonometry :).

This would be 12th edition!

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