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Labyrinth is a night game usually for teams with two members. The labyrinth consists of several important positions chosen by orginazers in advance. Each team begins at a starting position and its task is to leave the labyrinth (to find the final position).
Positions are marked with letters. At every position you will find instructions that tell you where you can go next. Typically, there is also a question that should help you decide where to go. If you give the correct answer it leads you to the finish in the shortest possible way. Otherwise, the way will be probably longer.
Positions are located in an area of few square kilometers and the game usually takes 2-8 hours depenidng on teams abilities to give correct answers.
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Well, tonight was the night...
About 13 of us ended up playing, and while we originally laughed at the 8 hour estimate, i just spent nearly 6 hours out and about giving it a go, and i didn't finish in the most straightforward way.
Here's how it worked. Over a several square mile spread there were 40 different stations. Each station had a multiple choice question (about math, general science, world history, etc.) Each answer had a letter with it. And each letter corresponded to a new question. A right answer got you to finish quickly. A wrong answer took you a longer way. So for example, our first question was
Question B:
The 65th Numerous Ideonus is
W: 3.28
delta: 54
eta: 1644
U: 1848
(i made up all but the last answer), and U is the correct one so you then go to station U. Each team had a map of all the stations, but some of them were hard to find. In particular:
"A large rectangle-like bench off a rocky path" had us laughing and feeling like we were out of some spooky movie wandering through the woods at night in the rain shining 3 flashlights all over the place to try to find the next clue
and the last station (the one that says "congrats! you're done!" was on a gravel island in the middle of the (flooding) raritan river... you had to ford a cross stream of mud to get there, but it was worth it to see it!
the penultimate station (we found the last one just before it so we didn't have to go out again) was inside the dorm where they served you tea and cookies (a welcome source of relief from the rest of the stations!) and the multiple choice question was "what kind of tea did you just drink?"
the winners finished in about 3 hours and visited 12 stations to find a correct path to the finish. we collaborated with another team to each get a valid path, and ours ended up being 17 stations long. there was a LOT of back and forth across the playing area though.
to summarize: consider this satellite map (courtesy of google): the yellow ring is the playing area, the blue dots are roughly where the stations were, and the light reddish squiggle is the path my team took through it from 7:30pm until nearly 2am. it was fun, but it was crazy... according to my pedometer we went over 11 miles in that time. (in the rain).
.tomorrow is lazy american fun :)... no long walking, just stuffing our faces with thai food, and then board games at my house. my feet will thank me for the break. ;)
night y'all!
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