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Ran Some Ransom
Collaboration with
Lynn Maharas
June 2009
Times Square, NYC
Big Urban Game
project blog
Awarded the Best Use of Space Award at the
Come Out & Play Festival 2009, Ran Some
Ransom is a Big Urban Game(BUG) played in Times Square. Teams are given a file with transparent
maps and photos which they use to solve a ransom note and free the hostage. Teams use their
transparent maps to reveal clues by aligning them with existing street signs in Time Square.
When the map is perfectly aligned, certain letters are revealed as key clues in solving the
mystery ransom note. These clues reveal the location where the hostage is being kept. The team
that releases the hostage fastest wins.
UPDATE // Dec. 16, 2009
Ran Some Ransom was recently played at the
Winter Games in Berlin as part of
Invisible Playground. Thanks to the amazing
Sebastian Quack
for expanding the life of our game. Here's a
video of all the games and watch for a new Berlin version in the spring os 2010.
Being played at Winter Games, Berlin
