What’s ‘whoop!’?
It’s an online scavenger hunt with rich mental rewards and cash prizes.
‘whoop!’ blends riddles with crosswords to create the perfect weekend escapade.
Compete from the comfort of your home or the buzz of your favorite Café.
Join solo or bring your crew to complete the heist!Why riddles?
They spark curiosity, flexible thinking, and new perspectives—ingredients that help you solve other problems in life and work.
Why crosswords?
It’s a familiar format with inherent letter, length, and semantic constraints that serve as additional clues for you.
PLUS: With interrelated answers that signal each other and connect to the accompanying riddle, the crossword becomes a scavenger hunt.Why ‘whoop!’?
Solving riddles and crosswords is far better for your brain than scrolling through the endless, toxic, brain-rotting social media feeds1.
PLUS: Each hunt connects you to thought-provoking, curious, and meaningful content on the web2.PLUS: You can join the hunt for free, reap the rich mental rewards, and win cash prizes.
PLUS: If YOU decide, you can upgrade to win bigger prizes!PLUS: With a paid subscription, you can join, shape, and chat with the budding whooper community.
PLUS: You get to attend Whoop Group Debriefs — gatherings where we discuss the hunts, the content they unlock, and how to use them!
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Yeah, it is! What’s the theme?
The only theme is getting those brain cells fired up instead of killing them on social media feeds.
Who decides the content?4
I’m currently handpicking it (someone’s got to plant the seeds). Soon, it will be curated with the community (because it takes a village).
Who’re you?
I am
. I was once a coal miner in Mozambique.
Weed (yeah, that kind) grew on my porch. An excavator fell into the ditch, boats capsized, people got kidnapped, a bug burrowed in my ear, I dangled a car off a cliff, and I tumbled down a hill. Oh, and there were blasts, too, a whole lot of them, every week.
I also worked (in case you were wondering ;)). You can find out more about me on LinkedIn.Why Substack?
Right now, I want to focus on the hunts and the community-building aspects of ‘whoop!’ instead of building yet another app or website.
Substack has everything we need to start tech-wise. Plus, great content, creators, and consumers are already here, simplifying distribution.Why’s there so much “I,” “me,” and “my” in this About page?
Well, I am the only one actively involved as I write this.
I am waiting for the moment, hopefully not very far from today, when I can finish a conversation with the ever-ominous :
“Now there’s two of us!"…5
Hell yeah! …and stroke Mr. Bigglesworth while I am at it.
Enough gifs. Just tell me how it works.
Everything you need to know is here.
Test the waters with the free subscription, and if you feel adventurous, upgrade to win bigger prizes!
Come, challenge your mind!
Love,
waveman
Also, every hunt unfolds over three days, from Friday to Sunday, and we take a week’s break after every two or three hunts.
By design, a mechanism for delayed gratification, a rare commodity in our feed-infested times, is baked into ‘whoop!’
Newsletters, podcasts, talks, essays, books, poems, stories, music, what-have-yous
This is an important question because if ‘whoop!’ peddles the same ass-shaking, finger-pointing, mind-numbing, heavin’-and-steamin’ pile of bull crap the social media feeds are subjecting you to, then what’s the point, right?
Therefore, who curates the content (and how) is extremely important.
