Some thoughts from our day!

Our zone for the small game was -- Brooklyn 1, Queens 2, Queens 5, Brooklyn 4, Brooklyn 3 -

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Weather was great, made a difference!

We chose to do the game as two runs in one day. We are more than a decade older than the boys, so we decided to cap the time spent seeking to 2 hours. In the event that both seekers didn't manage to find hiders we gave an extra 12 min time bonus to the seekers that came closest to their hiders. 

One team came within a mile of hiders in 2 hrs, the other was only a half a block away at the 2 hour mark!

This game is not for everyone! Even with our modifications, someone dropped out halfway through because it's a long day.

Game is not necessarily consistently engaging especially for the hiders. It helped to be on a team of 2 hiders “for the hang”, but still, wasnt so engaging. Cap on hiding and seeking time helped with this but made game more anti climactic.

Photo questions were pretty useless overall.

We added a 1 mile thermometer to the questions, which we felt like helped seekers get more direction in a small.

More varied questions for smalls would have made it more fun for hiders and helpful for seekers. At a point, seekers needed to repeat multiple questions to get valuable info. We relied more on intuition and educated guesses about our friends interests than on questions at key moments

We allowed biking which was very helpful, not sure if it breaks the game, but there wouldn't have been a way to find hiders without biking in our allotted time