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Great Urban Race Minneapolis – Online Deal

$60 for Great Urban Race Entry for Team of Two on September 22 ($120 Value)

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In a Nutshell

Scavenger-hunt-style race sends teams of two to four through downtown Minneapolis to compete for cash prizes and raise funds for St. Jude

The Fine Print

  • Expires Sep 22, 2012
  • Online registration required by 5pm on 9/21/12. Must sign waiver. Subject to weather.
  • See the rules that apply to all deals.

Adventure races combine speed and clue solving better than a fast-talking detective or a highlight reel from Columbo on Ice. Emulate a speed-skating sleuth with this Groupon.

$60 for Entry for Team of Two ($120 Value)

Starting at noon on Saturday, September 22 at Huberts Sports Bar and Grill, duos follow a course of 12 clues that pepper downtown Minneapolis, competing in mental and physical challenges during a race that benefits St. Jude and awards a $300 grand prize.

Great Urban Race Presented by Red Frog Events

Great Urban Race sends teams of two or four on adventure courses that zigzag through major metro areas. Following the trail left by 12 clues or the scent of other, pot-roast-bearing racers, the 4- to 8-mile trek takes anywhere between one and a half to five hours to complete. Along the way, pairs will be called to complete brawn- or brain-based feats that may include everything from solving cryptograms and riddles to taking taekwondo lessons. Race organizers invite teams to dress up, and they hand out an award for best costume after teams cross the finish line. Top race finishers take home a $300 prize and free entry into the national championship race, which rewards winners with their choice of $10,000 or a lifetime supply of thimbles. All racers take home a T-shirt, munch on post-finish refreshments, and can imbibe a free beer if they’re of age.

Red Frog Events, the organizers of Great Urban Race, encourage participants to raise funds for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital by donating $10 to each participant that registers as a St. Jude Hero. Only teams that raise the suggested $250 will be eligible for special race-day awards, which are given out to the first Heroes team to cross the finish line as well as the team with the highest fundraising total.

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Groupon Says

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The Groupon Guide to: Lifting Things with Balloons

Anyone who has seen the beloved animated film Balloon House knows that enough helium-filled balloons can make almost any object whimsically float without care across verdant fields strewn with uncomprehending cattle or directly through the extremely toxic particles that make up rainbows. What common items will you be able to lift with these quantities of balloons?

  • A Single Balloon: Common house toad
  • Two Dozen Balloons: A VCR containing a video-cassette birthday greeting to your bedridden sweetie, who cannot answer the door lest their measles leap from their face to yours
  • 500 Balloons: A couch, piano, or wrought-iron garden door affixed with decorative hen
  • Three Trillion Balloons: Titan, moon of Saturn, no longer on a deadly collision course with Earth
  • Infinity Balloons: Helios, the balloon god who—some argue—could make a balloon so floatsy that he himself would be carried away
  • -1 Balloon: These are just called rocks, and they help things float back down to the ground or to the bottom of ponds.

How many balloons would it take to move a planet out of orbit, and will there be time?

Great Urban Race Minneapolis

  • Hubert's Sports Bar and Grill
    600 N 1st Ave.
    Minneapolis, MN 55403

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