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Video Wrap-Up – April 24, 2010

LDG — Fri, 14 May 2010 19:24:06 +0000

So I didn’t find a great editing tool, so the video isn’t the greatest thing you’ll ever see. But it will show you how and where the race went, along with who played. Enjoy and support those sponsors!

Least Dangerous Game – April 24, 2010 from Aric McKeown on Vimeo.

Thanks to our sponsors and a player’s wrapup

LDG — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:50:45 +0000

Right off the bat, I’d like to thank the great Minnesota businesses that helped make April 24th’s Least Dangerous Game possible. Of course you know the prize sponsors, AT&T Wireless, HUGE Improv Theater, and Adam Svec.

But then, there are the secret location sponsors that I couldn’t reveal before the game. But now I can! ROBOTlove, Sauce Spirits & Soundbar, and Galactic Pizza were all kind enough to let a bunch of strangers mill around their businesses. They even helped out with the puzzles and tasks the players of the game needed to complete. They were incredibly generous with their time, and Sauce Spirits & Soundbar offered free pizza and $3 tap beer to anyone playing! They were prepared to make 18 pizzas for players of the game! That’s pretty amazing!

More about the pizza, robots, and superheros when I edit together the video shot on Saturday. For now, you can read the game overview from @paulj. It’s a great read!

Thanks to all that played! And to everyone, spread the word. The more players, the more game. And signups for May’s game have already begun. No time like the present!

Least Dangerous Game Podcast: 5/24/08 Wrap-Up

LDG — Tue, 27 May 2008 14:00:19 +0000

Stories of architects, folk singers, and Tay Zonday can be found in the very first Least Dangerous Game podcast. Hear the unheard clues, their explanations, the winners, and the not winners.

A Day at the MCTC Book Festival – Wrap-Up

LDG — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:42:26 +0000

Another Saturday has come and gone, which means the latest round of Least Dangerous Game is in the bag. Winners were crowned, losers were probably sitting at home in their choice of pants or bare bottoms, and the weather was beautiful.

My hiding spot was the Rain Taxi Twin Cities Book Festival which was held at the Minneapolis Community and Technical College. There were readings by authors, men with tobacco stained mustaches, and ladies in upper class looking ponchos eating grilled cheese and wearing Crocs. It was an eclectic mix to say the least.

The pictures clues were mostly close ups of structural oddities around the MCTC. Stoops, street lights, skyways, and similar items starting with the letter “S” clued LDGers to my hiding location.

Actually, no one figured out where I was until the “Book Festival Today” picture popped up. That picture was sent right before the final picture. The final picture was big sign that says “Minneapolis Community and Technical College.” Steve Wyman finally picked up on my location, bringing along multi-super-winner Alan Wyman.

Steve won $15 to be spent at this one day festival of books. He decided to pick up Smax by the insane looking Alan Moore. Now Alan Moore can continue to buy the meds he certainly needs.

We’ll be back to riddles and such for the next round of Least Dangerous Game, so don’t expect another round of picture clues just yet. See you then, hopefully!

Mill Ruins Park – Wrap-Up

LDG — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:00:56 +0000

It was a perfectly beautiful day to play Least Dangerous Game on September 22nd. It was a sunny day, and many people were out enjoying the weather like myself. But, unlike myself, they were not hiding from technophiles.

My hiding spot this week was at Mill Ruins Park, which I didn’t even know existed. I was delighted to visit someplace with “ruins” in its name. Other blogs might make a joke about Britney Spears here. I am not those blogs. Let’s go through the clues that were given.

10101

The park officially opened on October 1st, 2001. And you thought it was binary code. I am not a computer! Yet.

Side note, I hate the Steve Miller Band

Mill is in the name, and I do hate the Steve Miller Band. Abracadabra is the worst song there ever was and ever will be.

Rumps kill rain

Here is your anagram for the day. This is the clue that solved it for the winners. But I guess they were lazy, as they didn’t find me for another hour and a half. What’s the deal?

Why Minneapolis was born like a phoenix

The mill industry along the Mississippi created the booming town of Minneapolis. But it was booming in other ways as well. Flour mills were very explosive. They would explode, taking other mills with them. And new mills would simply be put up over their ruins.

Ozymandias

Ozymandias is a poem about ruins found in an ancient land. While Minnesota isn’t exactly ancient, we have our ruins. And that bunk Kensington Runestone doesn’t count.

Another City Pages 2007 Best Of.

The Mill Ruins Park is the Best Place To Take Out-Of-Town Guests. According to the City Pages, at least. I’d have to agree, in so much that it’s better than showing them the spoon bridge.

Not the Khmer temples of Angkor Wat.

Straight from the City Pages article, Mill Ruins Park aren’t the greatest ruins left standing the world over. But they are impressive in their own way. A Google search should reveal everything pretty quickly at this point.

44.980358-93.257822

GPS coordinates of my exact locations. It can’t get much easier than that. Also, Mill Ruins Park doesn’t have much of an address.

At this point, my friend Joe Bozic and his wife found me after taking their damn time. They won a wonderful set of books from James Lileks.

Then, on my way back across the Stone Arch Bridge to my free parking, I met Graham Lampa who found me by the GPS coordinates.

It was a great day to relax in a park reading The Stand and waiting for people to find me. Let’s do it again in two days, yeah?