scavenger hunt

game

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invention by Maxwell

  • Elsa Maxwell, c. 1935.
    In Elsa Maxwell

    …credited with inventing the “scavenger hunt” that became a popular party game in the 1930s. Maxwell returned to New York City in the early 1930s, but the Depression prompted her to move to Hollywood in 1938, where she appeared in several not very successful movie shorts, including Elsa Maxwell’s…

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