GISHWHES 2016 Roundup: Supernaturally Fun Challenges

GISHWHES 2016 is over and a good time was had by all!

There were a total of 173 challenges. Fangirlquest.com published the entire challenge list. Nerds and Beyond listed their Favorite Submissions From GISHWHES 2016.

The cast and crew of Supernatural rose to the challenge.

Misha Collins issued a personal challenge: hold a surprise birthday flashmob for his Mom!

Thanks to the 100+ gishers who showed up for my mom’s surprise birthday flashmob! (including @ChadLindberg!) pic.twitter.com/RqUzDQ3qjW

— Misha Collins (@mishacollins) August 2, 2016

Ruth Connell issued a challenge to show support for her charity, My Hope Chest.

For this challenge, you must pen a message of hope in colored ink on a white bra. Channeling your inner supermodel and stage a public photo shoot of someone wearing this “support undergarment.”

More pictures here.

Members of the crew, like Adam W, VFX coordinator season 11, participated in the challenges.

Item 96 – https://t.co/q0iL0J3mSN #gishwhesBestest #TeamSewshigh

— Adam W. VFX (@adamwvfx) August 8, 2016

Celebrities added their ideas.

Actress Hillary Swank responded to Vice Presidential candidate Mike Pence’s assertion that smoking doesn’t kill with this challenge .

“Take a picture of yourself in front of the tombstone of someone who died from a smoking-related disease. Tweet the image with, ‘Hey @Mike_Pence #quitblowingsmokeabouttobacco.’ Screenshot the post.”

She got a good response including

See more pictures here.

Fansites fielded teams for the first time.

Nerds and Beyond described their experience in GISHWHES: Tales from a First Time Hunter they described

making panda bears from sanitary napkins, painting the likeness of Misha Collins in the style of Picasso, and creating a trailer park from sand

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Taylor from Nerds and Beyond described their participation in the hunt in A Very GISHWHES Experience: My First Hunt.

I had decided to attempt 14 tasks – they were some of the more sane of the list with three of which being far-fetched. My favorite task that I completed was probably #10: Find the coupon section from your most recent newspaper. Cut out at least five coupons. Go to the store and leave the coupons on the shelf taped next to the relevant items with a note “From the Coupon Fairy!”. – Elizabeth Fiedler…

Another task required us to obtain citizenship from a micronation, which was really fun to do! Surprisingly, I managed to gain citizenship from not one, but two micronations: Ruritania and the Grand Duchy of Flandrensis.

The Geekiary was represented in Team Subtext and they sent a Message Into Space. This challenge needed an extended deadline. The team was tasked to

Secure a legitimate contract with any public or private space exploration company (Space X, NASA, etc) to send a payload into space containing a drawing and a message written on a single 8 ½” X 11” sheet of paper. The message must be addressed to the universe and must be written by a child. Submit your signed and countersigned, legitimate contract by the end of the Hunt. THEN (and this is the only thing that you will be permitted to submit after the official end of the hunt on August 6th), you must submit evidence by email to gishpayload@gishwhes.com that your payload was successfully launched into orbit. Email proof must be received by 11:59 PM PST September 5th, 2016.

Individual fans from across the United States accepted challenges.

In Dowagica, Mich. Erin Miller and Amy Yeske took a Goat in a Boat and ate Green Eggs and Ham.

Teams held a full scale water balloon battle in San Francisco.

On Cape Cod, Tia Pogue and her mother Jennifer Letitia spelt out “Death To Normalcy” on the Woods Hole drawbridge in styrofoam orbs.

In Worcester, Massachusetts, Allison Racicot wrote

I had a dress to make out of CDs, mini-cassettes and videotapes, and I needed all the adhesives I could get.

In California, Wilmot teens get creative for wild global scavenger hunt. They participated in

Smashing vinyl. Dressing in costume. Prospecting for gold in the Baden fountain.

In Florida, Sarasota residents dressed up as storm trooper at Yoder’s for international scavenger hunt and tackled other challenges such as

Write a 250-word essay explaining how your team intendeds to use the extra second of the year that resulted from leap year.
Seven days of happiness! Each day of GISHWHES, do one thing to make someone else happy and document it.
The versatility of corn is amazing — it has so many uses! However, there’s no better use for corn than this year’s must-have fashion statement: the Corn Husk Bikini or Corn Husk Evening Wear!
Confront your boss or an employee about an issue in the workplace that has been irking you.
Cross something off your bucketlist while wearing a vintage zoot suit
Are you still jogging occasionally? Good. Be sure to try out this year’s latest fashion craze: pineapple shell shoes with matching pineapple caps to protect you from the sun. Let’s see you (carefully) jogging in public.