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Police Shut Down a 3k-Person Game of Hide-and-Seek at IKEA

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Re: Police Shut Down a 3k-Person Game of Hide-and-Seek at IKEA

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably cheaper than TV/mail advertising per-customer-acquisition or per-additional-dollar-o-profit.

Until someone injures themselves climbing up a storage rack, or someone hides in a refrigerator and suffocates. The liability is massive.

Refrigerators are safer now

Re: Police Shut Down a 3k-Person Game of Hide-and-Seek at IKEA

#52

That sounds awesome, but how does a 3k game of hide & seek actually work? I mean, by home rules growing up, one person was "it" and had to find everyone. That would suck. One person would have to find 2999 others, and most of them would just be stuck stuck under an Espevar, waiting. This is an important problem to solve. I call on the engineers of this site to find a solution to the hide & seek scaling problem. Let's…

I had assumed it was one of those where the players who are found join the seeking team. I think that tends to scale because the seekers usually have explosive growth as the poorly-hidden players are rapidly converted.

Re: Police Shut Down a 3k-Person Game of Hide-and-Seek at IKEA

#53

That sounds awesome, but how does a 3k game of hide & seek actually work? I mean, by home rules growing up, one person was "it" and had to find everyone. That would suck. One person would have to find 2999 others, and most of them would just be stuck stuck under an Espevar, waiting. This is an important problem to solve. I call on the engineers of this site to find a solution to the hide & seek scaling problem. Let's…

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Re: Police Shut Down a 3k-Person Game of Hide-and-Seek at IKEA

#55
“People are stopping everyone who ‘looks like they are here for a game of hide and seek.”

Deep down, everyone who walks into the great snaking corridors of IKEA is playing a game of hide and seek.

But what does a person who goes there to play the game on purpose look like? What are the tells? Are they wearing IKEA bedlinen?

I love the idea of a stop and search on that scale and basis. “Hide and seek, officer? I just came to buy a Prickig and a couple of Pysslingars.”

Re: Police Shut Down a 3k-Person Game of Hide-and-Seek at IKEA

#58

“People are stopping everyone who ‘looks like they are here for a game of hide and seek.” Deep down, everyone who walks into the great snaking corridors of IKEA is playing a game of hide and seek. But what does a person who goes there to play the game on purpose look like? What are the tells? Are they wearing IKEA bedlinen? I love the idea of a stop and search on that scale and basis. “Hide and seek, officer? I just…

http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-3008

Re: Police Shut Down a 3k-Person Game of Hide-and-Seek at IKEA

#59
Ikea should stop 'banning' them and embracing these. They should build a ticket platform so you can only get into the game w/a ticket. You'd put an armband on signifying you're a 'player'. That way they could maybe limit it to a smaller number per game.. 3000 seems like a lot. Maybe 500 or less. How many of these people would shop while there are go to the cafeteria?
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