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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 JohnFen »

dwild wrote: post #130
JohnFen wrote: post #108

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> What is the crime? If you've been asked to leave, the crime would be trespassing.

> If you've been asked to leave, the crime would be trespassing. If you are asked to leave, it would means that you were found, doesn't it? > if you're found, you go to jail. If you are found, you lose, you don't go to jail.

> If you are asked to leave, it would means that you were found, doesn't it?

Not necessarily. You could be asked to leave with an announcement over the PA system.

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

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Post by nkrisc »

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…

Everyone person who is found becomes a seeker as well. That way at the end you have 2999 people seeking 1 person.

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

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Post by nkrisc »

philwelch wrote: post #116
XaspR8d wrote: post #52

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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.

But the poorly hidden players are exactly the ones who are worse at finding clever hiding spots!

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. They can simply cover more ground and brute force it.

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

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Post by droithomme »

jon-wood wrote: post #104
droithomme wrote: post #73

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Oh yes, Sardines was great fun! Very popular among teens when I was that age.

Which definitely had nothing to do with the possibility of finding yourself squeezed into a confined space with the person you had a crush on. Definitely.

That was precisely the aspect we enjoyed the most, though I hesitated to note that detail when posting earlier.

It wasn't the only fun part though. Someone would always start giggling and give away the hideout.

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Post by girvo »

coryfklein wrote: post #94
empath75 wrote: post #58

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

That SCP was both completely unexpected and completely appropriate. Also a very interesting mix of creepy and hilarious. I nearly lost it at the description of the humanoids SCP-3008-2. Edit: Working my way through the journal entry - my goodness this stuff is straight-up made for its own movie or Netflix series!

A game that seems very inspired by the SCP Foundation itself recently came out, Control by Remedy — if you enjoyed the site and play games at all, you should check it out!

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

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Post by aeorgnoieang »

swsieber wrote: post #79
onemoresoop wrote: post #71

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Yes, but that makes Ikea assume some responsibility. At the end of the day Ikea sells furniture, people playing a massive hide and seek game are not there to buy furniture.

They could use waiver forms, like any other place hosting moderately "dangerous" things (like trampolines, etc.). That said, you could still allow people who came to actually buy furniture. Though, I think it would require more preparation than just winging it.

Waivers aren't – just like anything else – perfect protection against (legal) liability. In the U.S. at least, everything can be litigated and even just defending one's self can be expensive.

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Post by throwaway5752 »

scbrg wrote: post #109
throwaway5752 wrote: post #90

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A bunch of childish young adults inconvenience a bunch of shoppers and employees at a big box store and the police for no good reason.

"To have fun" is a good reason.

Yes. Fun for the people playing. Fun, at the expense of the people I was talking about. Maybe I am too cranky, but it seems really frivolous and thoughtless. Given all the mass shootings at retailers, it seems like it could cause too many people anxiety or other distress to be worth it.

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

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Post by 8note »

JohnFen wrote: post #141
dwild wrote: post #130

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> If you've been asked to leave, the crime would be trespassing. If you are asked to leave, it would means that you were found, doesn't it? > if you're found, you go to jail. If you are found, you lose, you don't go to jail.

> If you are asked to leave, it would means that you were found, doesn't it? Not necessarily. You could be asked to leave with an announcement over the PA system.

but what if you are deaf?
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