It was a gorgeous spring day with the end of the school year a couple weeks away and you were planning what you would do during the summer. You didn't want to do the same thing you did every summer since that gets boring. Your parents were thinking about taking a cruise and that didn't sound so bad. However soon after your parents had told you what they were thinking fliers for a race started appearing in town. You picked one up and this is what it said.
Mystery Enterprises and TF Academics are proud to sponsor a race around the world. Participants will starts he race in Glenville, CA on __/__/__ at 7 A.M. and circle the globe to end in Glenville, CA once again. To participate you must be at least 16 years of and submit an entrance fee of $100. Participants are also expected to acquire their own means of transportation for the race. Participants will be in teams of two to six people, any single participants will be randomly placed with other single participants or teams. Mystery Enterprises will provide mysteries along the route that must be solved before anyone is allowed to continue with the race. Since this is a race there is a prize for finishing first in the amount of $100 million for each team member. If you would like to participate please fill out the form at the bottom with your name and the names of your team members, if any, and mail it to the address shown with the entrance fee for each team member. We can guarantee that this will be a transformative experience.
You looked at the date again and notice that it's just a week after school lets out. You try doing a bit of a quick calculation in your head. Depending on the route it could take the whole summer and it sounded interesting. There were bound to be overnight stops along the way so you would be able to see some of the world. You were pretty sure your parents would let you enter especially with $100 million going to each member of the winning team. Speaking of teams you were going to need to find people to be on your team. You had a few ideas about who to ask but first you would need to see if your parents would let you enter.
Of course you didn't know just how transformative of an experience this would be. You couldn't foresee that almost all the racers would be transformed into just about anything one could imagine.