A new game will start up this summer!

Nathan and I have been brainstorming a bit on how to make the game a) involve more people and b) involve those people for a longer period of time and with more enjoyment.

We’re going to change the game around a bit to center on the collection of cards or tokens worth varying numbers of points, but the locations will still be cryptically given as HaiClues(TM).  There will likely be more clues over a longer time—we’re thinking the two months of July and August—with some of the lesser valued, “starter” cards at local businesses.

We would like to involve the local business community if for no other reason than $50 out of our pocket is not the most enticing of pay-offs for playing a game for a couple months.  The players in games past did it mostly for the joy of playing and took the time to try hard.  We know most people don’t have the time to devote to tracking down the clues as soon as they emerge, so we would like to make the game more enticing by offering more prizes and accomplishments—hence, local business involvement.

Now to the meat of this particular post: If you are associated with a local business and want to participate, please let us know by sending a direct message to @hsvsh on twitter or emailing us at admin@hsvsh.org And by “participate,” we mean display a card or small box of cards for patrons we will lead to your door, and hopefully offer a small reward or two for the prize pool.

Clues to cards placed at businesses will generally be easier to solve and will be the lowest point values, so if you’re a non-commercial purist, you can still play and compete by beating other players to the limited-number higher-point cards placed elsewhere.  There will likely be achievements for certain collections (i.e. collecting all restaurant cards), so there will be multiple goals to reach apart from being the overall winner.

If you have any comments, we would like to hear them!