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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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Post by irrational »

Scoundreller wrote: post #26
mongol wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think Ikea needs that kind of PR.

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

I think OP means IKEA doesn't need any advertisement. Who isn't aware of IKEA? And every IKEA I've ever been in has been so packed that I don't think encouraging more people to shop there is their primary worry.

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

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Post by Mathnerd314 »

xtagon wrote: post #32
michaelmior wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think whether or not it was started as a joke is somewhat irrelevant now that over 4K people have signed up. It seems likely that at least of few those people will actually try to show up. https://www.facebook.com/events/area-51-groom-lake/raid-area...

Actually, over 2 million people signed up. The original page was taken down.

And then put back up a few hours later.https://www.ktnv.com/news/storm-area-51-event-page-removed-b...

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

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Post by Retric »

swsieber wrote: post #57

If I were Ikea I'd try turning into a paid event. Collect the money ahead of time ($5 per person?) and you're golden.

Might be worth it outside of normal store hours, but 15k is not going to be enough to basically shut the place down for an a few hours. Worse their liability would likely be a significant issue.

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

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Post by rotexo »

ineedasername wrote: post #47

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…

You might be interested in the hide-and-seek variant Sardines. One person hides, with a group of seekers. Seekers that find the one who hides have to hide with them, until one seeker is left. There is nothing like the feeling of looking around, encountering fewer and fewer other seekers, until you are alone with the knowledge that you just lost.

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

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Post by lucidstack »

rotexo wrote: post #69
ineedasername wrote: post #47

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…

You might be interested in the hide-and-seek variant Sardines. One person hides, with a group of seekers. Seekers that find the one who hides have to hide with them, until one seeker is left. There is nothing like the feeling of looking around, encountering fewer and fewer other seekers, until you are alone with the knowledge that you just lost.

The first excellent episode of British TV series Inside No. 9 revolves around a game of Sardines. Wholeheartedly recommended, for pitch-perfect Brit dark humour
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