welp, since my last post I moved hosting from rackspace to digital ocean and due to extreme laziness haven’t went into the control panel to make the blog.dlam.me subdomain to make this work right

anyhoo recently this past week I did not one, but *two*, scavenger hunt things.  

1. http://realescapegame.com/category/real-escape-room/   – basically you’re trapped in a room and you have to get out by looking for clues,  scavenging for stuff and solving puzzles.  There was one particularly impressive clue that I remember:  imagine a 6×10 Japanese anime book with about 150 pages.  If you looked carefully at it, you’d notice one of the corners are creased a la a bookmark.  This brought you to a page in the comic in which the character is examining a black swiveling office chair and finds a tiny hole which he states one would never find unless they were meticulously looking for it.  Out of curiosity the character in the comic disassembles a pen to try to poke through it, and it revealed something.

Sure enough,  inside the room we were in was a black swiveling office chair, and the facilitator at the start of our game gave us each pens and paper to take notes on.  Realizing that this was  indeed a clue, we took apart one of the pens and poked it through a hole at the bottom of the chair ans sure enough it popped open a concealed part of the chair with a crossword puzzle to solve .

It was super hard haha.  My job was to look for and break stuff

2.  http://thegogame.com/team-building-san-francisco/   –   so this scavenger hunt was set around jefferson square park in north beach.  It was pretty high tech.  And it involved using your phone to get your next clue, and physically walking to certain street intersections or locations to solve them.  Sometimes, the clues involved interacting with actor game plants playing some sort of role,  and whom you had to do something silly or say the right thing to extract a clue for them.  For example, one game plant was a pretty girl sitting down in a specific bar, in which a clue on the phone was to give her a good pickup line.  If you walked in, it wasnt obvious who to talk too… until you realized there was only-one-girl-at-the-bar-sitting-down-at-11-am, haha.  I failed miserably as I didn’t know any pick up lines, but the rest of co-worker team did super good and were successful, yay.

Another actor-clue-scavenger-hunt-thing involved getting some sort of art to impress a lady sitting at the corner of some intersection.  And so, along the way we found a big thrown out white iMac box with a big picture of itself on the side.  Naturally, we thought it might be artistic to put a head through it, so using our car keys we carved out a hole big enought for a head and I got to walk around with that.  We even got some random people who were just walking about in North Beach to don the iMac box haha.  I thought it was sooooo funny for some reason.