a game idea: need your brains
fucci - from the goldteam writes:
“Hey Ze…just had a thought about a game idea for color wars…
How about a “relay” race..where we somehow pass the baton from player to player in Twitter…???….we could have a series of heats leading up to the final race…if you think it is doable please post to the color wars community for further perusing….”
any ideas on how we would implement this specifically?
A humble suggestion that could possibly be crap: you could work it such that the “baton” you’re passing is some sort of collaborative work like a poem/song/story/photo/video that you could pass on for another person to add/write/edit. Although, conceivably two people could just shuttle it back and forth between each other quickly. And you run into the issue of large teams if you do it based on unique posts…
You could work it on the “hot potato” model where you can pass it on to another team, and if they don’t add on in a given amount of time, it gets passed on to another team and then they’re out. Points for the final three teams could be based on quality as judged by members of the knocked out teams…
Hopefully that was just good enough to get people with decent ideas thinking.
I think that is an amazing idea and great one for using Twitter. It also has the potential to put the groups with small numbers in the advantage position over those with more. I’d be happy to help think through the logistics of this one!
Love the relay race idea. We could make the baton something fun like a rubber chicken. And all photos (videos?) would have to be taken of the team member moving - in some way other than walking - on a track. (like crabwalking, handwalking, cartwheeling, etc.)
Maybe have some hurdles in the relay, i.e. team member has to be photographed jumping over something (fence, hay bales, other people, bushes…)
Sounds like a good idear. Perhaps the “baton” could be a message or puzzle. Like the old telephone game, as the message is passed around the group with goal to not have it distorted or corrupted. Or if it was a calculation based puzzle, each team member has to make an addition or morph the puzzled and pass it on. For a privative example, first user multiplies X + 1, and passes, the message X+their count, next user has to multiply by 2, and so on.
Or the baton could be a series of images, like an animal that begins with a letter. So this would involve 26 passes, perhaps using duplicate team members for those teams that dont have that many players.
Each group would have a baton (an obscure keyword) they’d have to pass around a ring or list of ## people on their relay team. The group with the shortest time through, and legitimate @passes (@1 to @2, @2 to @3, @3 to @4, etc,) as judged using http://www.tweetscan.com search for their distinct word, wins.
To randomize it, so that Twitter’s serendipity could shine through:
-The team does not get to know what time the word is being released to them. (Otherwise the entire team would be on alert at that exact moment.)
-The words are not released all at once (again, so you really can’t jump in until you notice the @reply to you). Teams are racing the clock, not each other.
-## sign up for the relay teams, and each is only told the PREVIOUS & NEXT person in line to receive the baton. (you will get the baton from @random1 and you will pass it to @random2
To make it funnier, they would have to construct a coherent Tweet around the obscure word.
To make it really hard, they could not denote in the Tweet which word was the baton. Tho, this rule turns it into “operator” more than a relay race.
That’s all I have so far. Would it work? Hrrmmmm…
I recommend starting this really simple, to help us simply speak in the idiom.
I’d recommend each team caption ask theirs teams if they want to participate, saying the time and date of the relay. The first ten for each team who respond get to run the first relay. Teams with less than ten need to join other teams. The team captain determines the order of the relay and communicates that to their team any way they like (twitter, wiki, blog entry, etc.) and tells them to Ze.
At the appointed time and date, Ze will blow the whistle with a tweet - the tweet heard round the world - instructing all first racers to run. Ze will have created a sort of scavenger hunt - each question when searched online returns an answer as a word or number. That answer has to be submitted to Ze by the proper runner to get the second question passed to the next runner. Etc. The groups can ask ALL members to help with their questions. However, only the proper runner can submit the answer to Ze.
So it might look like this.
Tweet to all from Ze: Runners. Take your mark. Get Set. Go!
Tweet to ONLY the first runners from Ze: The first question is “The address of Ze’s mom’s restaurant” (or something related to previous content shared by other members in color war.
The first runners tweet the question to their teamleader who then sends it to all of the team. When the answer is determined, however it is determined, that runner tweets it to Ze.
If it is incorrect, Ze will tweet back that it is wrong. If correct, he will Tweet back that it is correct and then tweet the second question to the second runner, passing the baton. Ze will then tweet to all: Baton pass: redteam runner 1 to runner 2.
The first three to pass the finish line win something. But all who cross the line are considered winners. The questions for baton passes should be possible to be completed, in all, within one hour.
Something like quotably.com can walk the mesh of replies etc. and hashtags can track the relay ?
goldteam: @member1 #colorwarrelaygold
member1: @member2 #colorwarrelaygold
member2: @member3 #colorwarrelaygold
quotably would provide ‘evidence’ that the chain did go serially and folks didn’t tweet until they had been passed the baton.
hashtags would tell you who was all involved in passing the baton ?
yes - i think it would be easy to track the baton (lets call it the “bacon” instead)
maybe there is a way of intercepting it? one baton among all the teams and it can be stolen somehow?