New: Puzzle Hunts are Everywhere, Even Sveden

Shinteki signups are happening. And that is awesome. But if you follow Bay Area treasure hunt stuff, that's probably not news to you. So instead I'll tell you that I sat next to Jonas from Sweden on the bus today. He was telling me that they had something like The Game where he went to school. This was back in the 80s. In Sweden. Only they didn't call it "The Game". They call it Rebusrally.

And the first puzzle is: can you understand the Rebusrally web page if you don't speak Swedish?

Rebusrally går ut på att man samlar ihop ett gäng glada människor och knökar in dem, karta, matsäck, uppslagsverk, miniräknare, formelsamling, linjal, systemkatalog, papper, penna med mera i en personbil eller minibuss.

Yes, you can understand it, because Swedish is just English pronounced with an ovtrageovs accent:

Rebusrally blah activity blah gang of geeks blah blah with a map, backpack, flugelhorn ensemble, martini glasses, a protractor, tongue, phone book, paper, pen, blah blah zip around town in vans.

So you see, as reported, it's just like the Game except that when you solve the word puzzles, some of the letters have circles or dots over them. But that doesn't mean that you overlooked some Braille and/or Morse. Those dots are really supposed to be there.

OK, I admit it. I can't understand Swedish. This looks like a job for Raymond Chen.

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Posted 2006-05-19