Maybe nobody is on board, just cargo.
There might be a Runners II, Runners with new rules, and there might not. Move a runner to a new position that has a pawn, as long as it is on the same column or row. Move as far as you want
and don't worry about being blocked. No more borderless board! Decently stimulating, but early testing often shows zero pawns at the end, so you know who wins when the game starts. More testing and tinkering needed. 6 x 6, but I'll look at 7 x 7 too.
Muttering to myself:
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Does one person do one treasure hunt, or could there be multiperson involvement? I've gone back and forth over this. This refers to two different things: puzzle person vs. treasure placer, and also a treasure hunt that is a multi-author patchwork.
Someone may not be inclined to plop a treasure out there for wwhatever reason. A different person may not be built to make puzzles, but is mobile and otherwise built to place treasure. Of course these two could be in different provinces.
Having three distinct parts from three authors attached together to make one treasure hunt would be interesting, different.
Headed to the treasure hunt child site:
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Treasure placers do more tasks than you think.
You probably need to choose the location. The place needs to be integrated with the puzzle. You need to get the treasure. Heavy? Big? Certainly valuable.
You want to make sure you don't get caught placing the treasure, the nightmare of creators. Ideally placing a test treasure and seeing if it is discovered over time should be tried in advance.
Once the book is out, the treasure should periodically be checked to see if it is there (the finder is also encouraged to report that is was found).
The treaure placer might be roped into responding to e-mails. Somebody needs to have a documented (photo and video?) explanation for the place and how the clues lead to there. This is
both for when the hunt is evaluated before it is published, as well as revealing the explanation to searchers when it is over. And you have to keep everything secret.
Should THC treasure hunts be explicit about their region/province/city? That's complicated.
| Con: |
| Treasure hunts are fun games where you try to get a treasure. But the location of the treasure is secret; you have to figure it out. That's how treasure hunts work. |
| There's a commercial angle to this. If people in British Columbia know there are no active hunts in B.C., say goodbye to book sales in B.C. |
| A goal of this project is to link the country together, with communication, knowledge of the place, travel, language. Having people stuck in their regional bubbles would go against that. |
| Jane is explicit about the region, while John is not. But with the quotas, Jane has helped people to deduce John's region. |
| People could have fun doing the different puzzles. |
| Pro: |
| The prize might be so low it's not worth travelling across the country to pick it up. |
| Wouldn't you want to work on a treasure hunt that's actually in your area? |
| A puzzle might have clues for a city that only locals would get. It may not be fair to have an outsider struggling to figure this out. |
| There could be some regional pride involved. "The martitimes got the first one." Local pride for the creator too. |
| You could look into San Fransisco treasure hunts. For at least one, prizes are provided by local stores. |
| Policy: |
| It's up to the treasure hunt creator. |
| Q: Does a treasure hunt have to be complete when it is submitted for evaluation? |
| A: No |
The first level of evaluation is about separating the wheat from the chaff, and seeing if you do the work. Maybe some sections are not right/ready, art is not there, the place for the treasure is not nailed down.
The second level of evaluation is a thorough scrub, making sure all the details are looked at. But even there it is likely to be an incomplete, iterative, messy process.
Recent treasure hunts:
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Someone like me sees the prize, geography and type of hunt. Meanwhile the hunters, and certainly the creators, see the clever puzzles and the adventure.
Vancouver. ~ New to me.
This, as well as Silver Dragon, are examples of using a map. I can't see the map for either of these.
The treasure is classic, thematic, a treasure chest containing real coins with real value. Thirty grand, a great amount. A family won. It's nice to think of families doing these things, but
apparently it happened here. They have tough rules which probably come from experience.
"Evidence of working in online groups outside of official teams will disqualify you." Interesting, also hard to enforce. I suspect that's about getting people to pay.
Eight "cards", check them out. West Virginia area. Lower prize. Includes the solution to an earlier hunt.
Q: What is the most northerly country in Africa?
A: Tunisia
Q: What was the name of the cat in the film Pet Sematary?
There is a famous scene in Ferris Bueller's Day Off where Ben Stein is teaching an apathetic class.
Q: Which piece of legislation was he discussing?
Anyone?
It feels like something could be done with psychics, or people who claim to be pyschics. But I don't know what.
A pod/attached craft that is ferrying cattle through the galaxy to some outpost. Pigs in space!
Maybe nobody is on board, just cargo.
A group of people are going to a distant mining outpost. They go into hypersleep in their pod.
You kind of forget they are there. Late in the game somebody wakes up "Did I miss anything"?
This is what I want to do for Alouette. But what I should do is work on world building, science and technology.
These guys make it look so easy. Something you don't get from this still shot is the stars passing by, which must be a nice sight. Cosmic rays don't seem to be an issue. I wonder who works the night shift.
People sit and stand. They're not in zero gravity. They have oxygen. They have a conversation, not an exchange of texts. They speak in American English.
Aliens are humanoid, really human, they typically speak in American English,
and they are comfortable in the ship's environment. They should get to the destination planet by Wednesday. There are planets with civilisations. There is a Federation that is a
stable institution based on Earth.
The biggest issues are space, time and communication. I don't think humans will ever get much of anywhere in space. What if you hit a little particle going a zillion miles an hour? How long will it take? Wouldn't that be boring? Do you understand how big a tiny fraction of the galaxy is?
Going faster than the speed of light is not possible.
Going very fast messes with time. (I never get this straight in my mind) When you accelerate in your rocket ship, people in the planet you left behind will age much faster than you. This has worldbuilding implications.
When you go to the planet Zoonx, do they have the same level of technology as other places?
Zoonx is not known for its nightlife.
Communication across the stars would not work. Electromagnetic radiation, e.g. radio, moves at the speed of light. Did you really hear a distress call in space?
What will medical care be like in the future? Will viruses be identified and vaccines produced lickety split? Say goodbye to that virus story. And goodbye to that other virus story.
Something to ponder.
Maybe with medical care greatly improved, you'll have a whole bunch of 150-year-old people shluffing around. No thanks. Making people young is troublesome too.
Can quantum mechanics be used for communication? Distance doesn't matter. I had been wondering about tossing a communication device with entangled particles into a black hole.
That belongs in the science section. With entangled pairs you can share up/down spin information, but the spin is determined randomly, so it is not really useful for
communication (it is good for secretly sharing randomly-generated keys).
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As of writing, I think this is the best licorice. It pulls you to consume more and more. It's called liquorice in Britain, where this comes from (réglisse in France and Quebec). It seems more bitter than other licorice. Although
The taste, the quality of black licorice has a way of being hard to pin down. Life is simple for people who just don't like it. I've gone through cycles where I think Panda licorice is great, the next day I'll say
I won't ever have it again, and the next day I'll happily consume it.
CKRT Gravitic Flip knife / more
A couple of shorts for a knife that's been rattling around my brain.
I thought this was clunky metal, which was part of the appeal, but it is a light glass-reinforced nylon handle. Uses magnets.
How do you say "ask"? I asked you a question.
Ask was a verb. One day in recent times somebody decided it is a noun (like other European languages), and then everybody followed that.
Pulitzer is pronounced like pull, bull, not like Yule. I also found out it has one l.
I'll let you decide how much you care.
One minute. The musk ox(en?) seem be making a defensive line. As I understand it, this protects the young from predators.