The Great Duck Hunt

In cracks, holes, or just in random places, students of Silver Creek High School are being watched by mysterious objects: ducks! Students have been finding the 3D printed ducks scattered all over the school campus.

These are tiny ducks that have been found in different colors including purple, orange, glow in the dark, red, green, shiny blue, white, light blue, black, and tan. All the ducks also don a top hat.

Some teachers are rewarding students with candy if they give them a duck. The duck-hiding game has been named The Great Duck Hunt.

“I heard that they were multi-colored, and I heard that students were trying to hide the ducks [in] places,” Mathematics teacher Vincent Redding said. “This is cool, I want to collect them all.”

Redding is giving out one Jolly Rancher for every new duck you give him. He currently has a duck in just about every color.

It seems that not a lot of people know who is behind The Great Duck Hunt. Is it a team effort or just a single person placing the ducks. Will we ever find out? Probably not

“It would be so fun if The Great Duck Hunt was a yearly tradition, but with different animals instead of ducks,” sophomore Sophia Hatfield said. “I like The Duck Hunt because everywhere you go there’s a chance of finding a duck.”

Even though it might be hard to make The Great Duck Hunt a yearly tradition, students would be able to take the opportunity to help out.

Hatfield has experience making 3D-printed frogs. She is planning to paint the frogs different colors or different types of frogs with different rarities. She is going to hide them around the school, and it would be called The Great Frog Leap.

Students would also like to see changes to The Great Duck Hunt to make it even more fun.

“Make the ducks a little bit bigger so you don’t have to be looking in really specific places,” sophomore Lance Gamboa said.

For students hiding ducks around the school, there are some basic courtesies to follow. You are allowed to use all kinds of fake ducks like glass or 3D printed. Redding has even received some glass ducks. Redding also encourages students to use respect in this fun game.

“It’s a harmless thing, as long as it doesn’t turn into hateful images or hateful speech, it’s fine,” Redding said.

The ducks also have to be relatively small in size and have to be somewhat challenging to find. Don’t hide ducks inside classrooms without the teachers’ permission and have fun with The Great Duck Hunt!