Three rounds, over three hours, multiple miles on foot, and I went home with these:

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Granted, there were three players and Aaron and I were two of them, but the clues were good. The weather had a lot to do with this as several people wanting to play decided to stay home instead. Also, the ground that had to be covered added to the difficulty. The last stretch was particularly crazy. When we spotted him, the other player was just a few yards behind us. We grabbed our task notes and started running back to the Advanced Wireless booth, which had to have been 12 blocks away. Since she was a runner (even though she was also a smoker), I didn’t feel like my chances would be good, but somehow I made it back at least 6 minutes before she did, and a few minutes before Aaron did.

Midway through the crowd, I saw a friend and his girlfriend eating hotdogs. I slapped his shoulder on my way by, yelling out a hello, and was gone in a flash. He probably didn’t even see me. I laughed for 3 blocks, mostly out of exhaustion.

Inbetween finding Aric and getting back to the booth, there were some tasks that had to be completed. Round 1 was having 5 strangers text message your phone number to a particular number. Not knowing how the general public would react to such a request, we utilized our own address books and twitter. Hey, I don’t know everyone on my twitter. In his haste to send the text out, Aaron gave out the wrong number to send the text. Some poor guy got a half a dozen or so random text messages with Aaron’s phone number. Two thumbs up.

I have no idea if anyone actually sent the text out, but when we got back to the booth, they said we were good to go.

The Round 2 task was to bring 5 strangers back to the booth with us. Because there were only three of us playing, we were all so very tired, and the miles back to the booth hung in front of us, the tasks became less important to the completion of the game. I think if there were many participants, those tasks could be quite fun. Three random people running around Grand Ave trying to round up 15 strangers might prove almost impossible.

Now that I’ve been sitting on my couch for a couple of hours, and have laundry to do, my legs are strongly resisting any activity. I don’t blame them.

On a final note, here’s my favorite character from the whole day:

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See the rest of my photos here, and the few that Aaron took here.