Goldy Lost Their U Card! (Closed)

Goldy looking confused with their U Card floating next to them
Goldy Lost Their U Card! (Closed)

The mission is to find Goldy’s U Card! They lost it on 3 different occasions on each area of the Twin Cities campus. West Bank, St. Paul, and East Bank. Find it, and they'll reward you with $50 in your Gopher GOLD account to use all over campus!

REMINDER: Finding Goldy's U Card does not require digging, climbing, entering buildings, walking off of a marked path, and is not located in any lanes of travel (bike, car, bus, light rail, etc). All locations are fully accessible.

Timeframe

Goldy has 3 clues for each location they might have lost it. 

  • Clues for East Bank, West Bank, and St. Paul will be posted on October 7, 8, and 9.
  • Spoiler clues will be posted October 10 at 10am if Goldy's U Card has not been found by then.

Follow the U Card Office on Instagram to get the clues first - 10am on each day. 

Rules

  1. The search game is open to University of Minnesota Twin Cities undergraduate students only - faculty, staff, graduate & professional students, and auditing students are not eligible this time around.
  2. Goldy's U Card is hiding, but it does not require digging, climbing, or entering buildings, and is not located in any lanes of travel (bike, car, bus, light rail, etc).
  3. You must bring Goldy's U Card back to the Coffman U Card Office during business hours (8am-4pm M-F), present your U Card, and be following the U Card Office on Instagram @ucardumn.
  4. The same student may not win more than one prize. U Card student employees & their roommates are not eligible for the prize.
  5. Working with friends? The prize may be split by up to 5 people per location ($50 divided evenly amongst the group).

Have the cards been found?

We will post to our Instagram account and the table below as soon as cards have been found!

Card LocationStatus
West BankFound October 23 at 1 p.m.
St. PaulFound October 7 at 9:30 a.m.
East BankFound October 6 at 1:30 p.m.
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