I thought it’d be fun for people to share a few facts about their “hometown” (however you define that) and have people guess the town. It’d be a neat way to learn about places around the world from a local’s perspective rather than the typical tourist traps.
The game will proceed as follows:
The number of players will be the number of rounds.
For each round, the asker will post 10 clues about things/events that can be found in their hometown. They should be able to be found by an internet search, although they don’t have to be easily found. Things that can be found near the hometown are okay, as long as they are identified as such. The ten clues should be sufficient to narrow the hometown to the correct town. The clues should also allow players to identify each thing/event in the town by its name (the thing to be identified should be underlined).
After the clues are posted, the other players will have 48 hours to try to solve all the clues and guess the hometown; their answers should be PM’ed to the asker. At the end of the round, the asker will post the correct answers (in spoiler tags with links to details) and a tally of everyone’s points for the round (10 points for the correct hometown, and 1 point for each clue answered correctly). The highest-scoring contestant for the round (who has not already asked) will be the next asker, until everyone has had a turn asking.
If anyone has any questions for the asker, they must be posted on-thread (in spoiler tags). The asker may choose to answer or not, also on-thread and in spoiler tags.
At the end of all rounds, the player(s) with the highest total win(s).
Here’s a sample clue:
1) This city’s park had to shut down its famous fountain during a recent drought, and sustained damage during a recent tornado.
If you put “park fountain tornado” into a google search (without the quotes), Centennial Olympic Park (located in Atlanta) is the fourth entry.
So in your PM to the asker, you’d put:
City: Atlanta, GA, USA
1) Centennial Olympic Park
The same clue could be used for clue 2 if it were written “2) This city’s park had to shut down its famous fountain during a recent drought, and sustained damage during a recent tornado” (then the answer would be “2) Fountain of Rings").
When the asker posts the answers, they would put
Players (Scores as of Round 2):
DM 0
Mongrel 38.5
Miyu 37.5
Pipsqueeek 20
Pixa 0
Siniri 19
StuMan 3
Laq
