Road Rally puzzles?
Peter Sarrett
year and it went pretty well and was a good learning experience. This
one should be much better, now that I'm aware of what mistakes to avoid.
Has anyone else run or participated in a road rally, and if so, what were
some of the puzzles you used?
Last year, for example, I gave each team a bunch of sealed envelopes,
each labelled with an animal (mouse, pig, etc.). Each team was given a
set of directions to follow to get to the first stop. At each stop,
teams could find an animal matching one of their envelopes (a Macheezmo
Mouse restaurant, a bronze pig statue, etc.). Opening that envelope
revealed a puzzle to be solved. That puzzle usually involved something
nearby. For instance, letters along the correct path of the maze from
the PIG envelope directed players to count the number of bronze
hoofprints in the sidewalk near the bronze pig statue. At a supermarket,
players got a list of products. The answer they needed was the total
cost of all the items on the list (frenzied dashes down the aisles
searching for these items ensued).
Directions to the next location were usually given for free along with
the puzzle.
The final puzzle contained the key to the whole shebang, a code which
players cracked using the numeric answers from the other puzzles. When
decoded, it told players how to win the rally.
I'd love to hear details about other rallies, to help fuel ideas for my
next one.
- Peter
pe...@wolfenet.com
John J. Vriezen
>
>I'm planning a road rally for some friends for Halloween.
Just a thought... isn't a dangerous idea to have a road rally on a
night when there are numerous kids running around on the street? Or do
you run this during the day time?
John Vriezen
vri...@millcomm.com
Jane Pook
>In article <43384b$i...@ratty.wolfe.net>, pe...@WOLFENET.COM says...
>>
>>I'm planning a road rally for some friends for Halloween.
>
>Just a thought... isn't a dangerous idea to have a road rally on a
>night when there are numerous kids running around on the street? Or do
>you run this during the day time?
>
What? Obivously it's safer at night when you have the headlights to warn you
of oncoming traffic, etc. And children should be in bed if it's that late,
and they're unable to cross the road safely by themselves.
THEMAZEMAN
1. The answer to one puzzle would tell the party where to go next. Below
the puzzle on that sheet of paper was a question to be asked at the next
location. For example, the answer to the puzzle might be
"STTHOMASLUTHERANCHURCH". In English, a question asks, "How many windows
are on the west side of the building?"
2. When the solving-team gets to St Thomas Lutheran Church, someone would
count the windows on the west side, then they would open the envelope that
has the answer to that question on it, tearing the envelope open ON THAT
SIDE OF THE ENVELOPE ONLY.
3. Only then, do they know the next puzzle. The destination given by the
last puzzle gave the destination of the pot-luck dinner that was the end
of the rally. Scores were determined first by the number of CORRECTLY
OPENED ENVELOPES (without the panic envelope getting opened), then in case
of ties, by the time of arrival at the party.
Eventually, I might be able to dig up some of the puzzles we used, but it
was a long time ago. Please send me copies of what you use.
Oh, by the way, freqently, we didn't give directions to each puzzle, we'd
let them figure it out. One puzzle was a word search puzzle without a word
list. They had to realize that they had to circle all the colors, then
read the leftover letters bottom to top, right to left, to read the
destination.
John Knoderer
MAZE MAN PUZZLE SERVICES
P O Box 202
Sulphur Springs, AR(kansas) 72768-0202
If you want copies of some of the puzzles that I've created, mazes, very
hard word search puzzles, etc., that I have created, send me a SASE. After
you see them, if you want to send a donation to help with expenses, feel
free to do so.
In article <43384b$i...@ratty.wolfe.net>, pe...@WOLFENET.COM (Peter
Sarrett) writes:
>Subject: Road Rally puzzles?
>From: pe...@WOLFENET.COM (Peter Sarrett)
>Date: 12 Sep 1995 06:08:11 GMT