The 2 Tone Game consists of some activities. These activities are puzzles, codes, or stranger things. If you're used to the Bay Area Night Game; this will feel quite familiar. If you're not used to B.A.N.G., you might start with Octothorpean. You "solve" each activity to find a solution: a word, name, or phrase. When you enter that activity's solution word, you "unlock" more activities.
Some of these activities, you can solve wherever you are.
Some of these activities only make sense at certain places in
San Francisco.
Altogether, there are about a dozen activities.
This game is inspired by the 2 Tone Records record label, especially its checkered logo. 2 Tone Records does not endorse this game, nor is it associated with this game. The only connection between this game and 2 Tone Records is that one of the game's authors is a fan. You don't need to know about 2 Tone Records to complete this game, but you're missing out if you've never heard anything by, say, The Beat.
Know some codes:
- Morse Code, specifically, the International Morse Code alphabet.
- Braille alphabet.
- NATO phonetic alphabet Alfa, Bravo, Charlie, ...
- Numbers from 1-26. 1 = A, 2 = B, 3 = C, etc.
- "5 bit binary": 5-digit Binary numbers from 1-26, then into letters. 00001 = 1 = A, 00010 = 2 = B, 00011 = 3 = C, etc.
- Flag semaphore alphabet, in which the angles of two flags indicates a letter.
- Indexing: Take the Nth letter of a word. E.g., Amsterdam (7) would be D.
Know some puzzles:
As you play the game...
- If you think you know the answer, enter it in the web form.
- If you notice a word or phrase "on the way" to the answer, enter that, too. Maybe you'll see a message saying that you're making progress. (Or maybe not.)
- You can buy hints for points. If you wait, hints cost fewer points.
- Hang on to your notes. At the end, there is a "meta-puzzle", a puzzle that re-uses things you have seen.
- Stay safe!
- Have fun!
If you enjoy this game, you might also like...
- Shinteki, a company that runs live events kinda like this.
- Bay Area Night Game, a community of like-minded folks. There's a mailing list where you can find out about other things like this, too.
- Puzzle Hunt Calendar Even more puzzling events.
- Octothorpean An introduction to puzzlehunts.
- Other puzzly-huntish thingies