Nobody succeeded in the greatest challenge of the day, organizers said. Any team bringing a living, breathing Conan O’Brien to the FYSC’s base in the Straus Common Room by the 5 p.m. deadline would net themselves 10,000 points.

No famous late night hosts turned up, but the organizers still called the day a success.

“Everyone really got into it and had a good time, I think,” Glazer said.

The committee members said that one of the large attractions of the scavenger hunt were the prizes dangled before the participants.

Crimson editors Sean W. Coughlin ’06 and Timothy J. McGinn ’06, along with teammate Matthew D. Bellfy ’06, took first place in the contest, and with it a 32-inch TV, DVD player, VCR and surround sound speakers.

Combination prizes were the theme of the day, as the second place team received a 360-watt stereo system and printer/scanner/copy/fax machine and third place netted a futon. The prize for fourth place was a Red Dragon DVD.

In the final round at the Science Center, the top three teams and a wild card went through a round each of song-guessing and charades, followed by a Final Jeopardy-style event.

“One of the teams brought a cheering section of guys with their shirts off and chest painted screaming for them,” Glazer said.

“It was kind of like a day’s worth of effort was validated, along with my friend’s eyebrow not being there anymore,” Coughlin said.

—Staff writer Alexander J. Finerman can be reached at finerman@fas.harvard.edu.