How to play:
Remember that Michael Douglas movie where the game was all around him, all the time and he ended up being drugged and left for dead in Mexico? We’re going to make that look like a Muppet movie, man!! *fist bumps!* Ok, maybe it’s more like that gnome prank in that French movie with that chick who was in that horrible Dan Brown movie with that guy from that 80’s bachelor party movie?… (I know which movie those were, stop yelling them!).
So, the Penguin Hunt is a scavenger hunt you play with a digital camera/smartphone and your soon to be newly adopted and cherished Penguin (Players have been preselected, though if you really, really want to play after reading how to play, I may have some openings so email me). Those playing will be mailed a list of the possible point categories, and a list will be available here December 1st on the blog if you lose your sheet. The categories are like picture recipes; Example: “+15 points for a pic of your penguin sitting in a beauty salon/barber shop chair.” As the difficulty of getting a photo increases, so, too, will the point value. Some categories will have special instructions or limited usage, so read the fine print.
It’s not enough to just take hilarious photos and not share them with the world, so a crucial part of the game is getting me the photos starting December 1st. The preferred way right now is to email them to me at regan@reganjohnson.com from your phone or computer. Next preferred way would be to have them posted on my Facebook wall or in my Google+ stream. If all else fails and you don’t know how to do the previous, you can text me or mms me, but I don’t want to max out my phone limit, so get someone to show you how to email me if you need to. And, sorry, no printed/analog photos. I ain’t scanning photos all month, that’s actually worse than retail Christmas.
I will do weekly tallies on Sunday and list the top leaders for all to see. It would be wise to score yourself along with my scoring of your photos (I studied art, not math). I’ll be putting together some enviable gift baskets of some of my favorite things (no, no animals, I promise). There will be 3 grand prizes, and you are only eligible for one grand prize so if you win one, you’re out of the running for the other two (sorry, jeez, greedy much?!). The 3 prizes are for…
· The Top Points Earner: through whatever trickery and perseverance this penguin had the highest score.
· The Top Category Coverer: variety being the spice of life, this penguin covered the widest array of categories (not all categories, though, that “Flag on the surface of the moon” shot will be difficult).
· Best in Show: it’s the wildcard prize. While other penguins are out there knocking themselves out trying to win points or cross off categories, a randomly selected third party judge just ups and picks this one as the overall best.*
*best being defined in this case as “being better than all the rest.”
There will also be 3 hidden red envelope prizes that are like the Daily Double on Jeopardy. If your penguin is the first one I see with the mystery criteria met, you win the prize instantly! And by prize I mean an actual red envelope… ok, an envelope with a gift card and congratulatory letter inside. You can try to guess the mystery envelopes with random submittals, but most likely you’ll nail a red envelope prize while trying to earn points on the stated category lists.
That’s how you play! Point, click, send and check in on the blog and comment up a storm. Let’s have some fun!
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