LibraryThing’s 21st Birthday was on August 29th! In honor of the occasion, we’re hosting a special Maine-themed Birthday Treasure Hunt!

We’ve scattered an assortment of birthday cakes around the site, and it’s up to you to try and find them all.

• Decipher the clues and visit the corresponding LibraryThing pages to find a birthday cake. Each clue points to a specific page right here on LibraryThing. Remember, they are not necessarily work pages!
• If there’s a birthday cake on a page, you’ll see a banner at the top of the page.
• You have three weeks to find all the birthday cakes (until 11:59pm EDT, Wednesday September 30th).
• Come brag about your assortment of birthday cakes (and get hints) on Talk.

Win prizes:

• Any member who finds at least two birthday cakes will be awarded a birthday cake badge. Badge ().
• Members who find all 12 birthday cakes will be entered into a drawing for one of five sets of LibraryThing (or TinyCat) swag. We’ll announce winners at the end of the hunt.

P.S. Thanks to conceptDawg for the illustrations of a black-capped chickadee—the state bird of Maine!. ConceptDawg has made all of our treasure hunt graphics in the last couple of years. We like them, and hope you do, too!

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