🎃 Think you got what it takes to crack the new Mini Voyage? 🎃 Down: 1. Often made with gold foil and ritualistic seals, this paper money is offered to the dead, through burning, in many Chinese cultures. 2. Children disguised in costumes, visiting the neighborhood from door to door for food or coins. 4. In 2014, this hamlet (a human settlement that is smaller than a town or village) in Canada moved trick-or-treat indoors to the community hall due to the risk of encountering polar bears....
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
🔠 Think you got what it takes to crack the new Mini Voyage? 🔠 This Wordsearch puzzle features names of popular Icelandic authors whose works are available in English, either originally written or translated. But here’s a twist! Of the clues listed below the Wordsearch grid, only four names belong to real Icelandic writers—two are impostors that cannot be found in the puzzle! Can you weed out the fakes and solve the puzzle? *As per our Vegout Voyage tradition, all Icelandic-specific letters...
3 months ago • 2 min read
🎵 Think you got what it takes to crack the new Mini Voyage? 🎵 You are presented with three audio recordings. Each of them showcases a type of traditional folk music. Take a listen and see if you can pair them with the correct description below! Audio recording 1 Audio recording 2 Audio recording 3 Music description A: Peyote music, practiced by people of various Native American indigenous groups Music description B: Icelandic rimur, with music accompaniment Music description C: Joik,...
4 months ago • 1 min read
🌎 Think you got what it takes to crack the new Mini Voyage? 🌎 Happy belated Fourth of July to everyone who celebrates in the United States! Many countries around the world mark their own National or Independence Day with unique traditions that reflect their identity. Your challenge is to identify which country each of the four photos comes from, and determine the month of that country's National or Independence Day. Then, add the numeric value of each of those months together to get your...
5 months ago • 1 min read
🎶 Think you got what it takes to crack the new Mini Voyage? 🎶 Who here follows Eurovision!! Eurovision is an international song competition occurring annually around May across Europe and beyond, often with dazzling live spectacles. Many entries this year carry uplifting messages—likely in response to how heavy the world feels lately. Below are images of four contestants. Can you pair each artist with the country they represent? Country #1: In 2025, this country shut down its golden passport...
6 months ago • 1 min read
❤️ Think you got what it takes to crack the new Mini Voyage? 💙 History is a mirror that reflects the light of the past onto our present. Tariffs have long played a key role in trade policy around the world, often resulting in a complex web of tradeoffs. The EU imposed anti-dumping and anti-subsidy measures on solar panels from China, enforced from December 2013 until their cancellation in March 2017. While these measures protected the interests of EU manufacturers, the cancellation cited that...
7 months ago • 1 min read
🇵🇪 Think you got what it takes to crack the new Mini Voyage? 🇵🇪 Peru has more than 2,800 varieties of potato, more than any other country in the world. Which of the three Peruvian potato dishes is correctly paired with its name? A: Causa B: Papas Rellenas C: Arroz Chaufa 🖤 Answers to the previous Mini Voyage 🖤 The lie was A: Idris Elba is English, not American! He holds citizenship in both the United Kingdom and Sierra Leone. That said, his Spotify playlist of African music is factually...
9 months ago • 1 min read
Greetings, Voyager Reader! This is your February 2025 debrief from the Vegout Voyage HQ, handcrafted with care by Voyager Katie. Materials henceforth are for your eyes only. 🇹🇼 Answers to the previous mini voyage 🇹🇼 The answer is A: the Formosan Rock Macaque is the primate species native exclusively to Taiwan. Did you get it right? Hint: Google Lens can be super helpful for image searches! 🖤 Complete this mini voyage to nurture our proverbial Vegout creed 🖤 In honor of Black History Month,...
9 months ago • 1 min read
Greetings, Voyager Reader! This is your January 2025 debrief from the Vegout Voyage HQ, handcrafted with care by Voyager Katie. Materials henceforth are for your eyes only. 🇩🇪 Answers to the previous mini voyage 🇩🇪 Yes! We experienced some wet snow during our family vacation in Berlin when the temperature hovered around freezing during the first week of January. We joined a five-hour (!!) city history walking tour on the 3rd. Paul, our knowledgeable tour guide, was amazed by our ability to...
10 months ago • 1 min read