Histonauts Results

We ran the second iteration of the campus QR code game yesterday evening at Contact. The night was hosted by Larkin’ About, Manchester’s only pervasive gaming collective.

It was loads of fun, and we had a really positive response to the game. Everyone learned a bit about the history of the campus, and hopefully made some new friends. It was raining a little bit but that didn’t seem to bother people.

Teams followed a basic map to 4 buildings on campus that are named after famous academics from the University’s past. At each location there was a challenge: a maths challenge, a drawing challenge, a limerick-writing challenge, and a kind of interpretive theatrical tableau photo challenge.

Check out the results below…

2nd – Kyle and Friends with 49 points

3rd – @IanHayles with 48 points

4th – @marisensy with 44 points

5th – @play_ARK with 41 points

6th – @_jennabee with 0 points :’(  <— minor BlackBerry technical issues

Limericks/comic poems written about Samuel Alexander in response to this anecdote

“An eccentric, bike-loving, Australian-born philosopher, and the first Jewish fellow of an Oxbridge college, who worked in aesthetics and metaphysics. Once Samuel Alexander arrived, after a long bike trip during which he was caught in a storm, wet and muddy at the home of his friends who had invited him to dinner. When the maid answered his knock, he asked if he might have a bath. Since he looked every inch a tramp, the maid curtly turned him down and shut him out.”

@leengayu
There once was an old man from Australia
Whose theories on God were a failure;
He wrote lots of books
But his roguish good looks
Were masked by his trampish regalia.

Kyle and Friends
There once was a man from down-under
Who thought he could ride through the thunder
Asked the maid for a bath
She said “you’re having a laugh”
And she threw him outside for his blunder

@IanHayles
There was an aesthete called Sam,
Who had an aversion to ham,
On his bike he got dirty,
For a date at 6:30,
And the maid turned him out with a slam

@marisensy
Dear Uncle Sam,
Who cycling down under
Got soaking wet
And looked like a rambler.
The maid of the place
With a strange face
Turned you down
When you asked for a dry gown.

@play_ARK
There was a nice chap called Sammy
He was always cleaning his bike with a chamois.
He wanted a bath,
The maid had to laugh,
Because he got himself a bit clammy.

Ellen Wilkinson Challenge

Ellen Wilkinson was the first female Minister for Education, she brought in the 1946 School Milk Act giving 1/3 pint a day to all school children in the UK under 18. In 1971 Margaret Thatcher changed the act to only provide milk for children under 7. Teams had to take a photo of themselves acting out the notorious moniker “Thatcher, Thatcher, Milk Snatcher”

Thanks to everyone who played, and to Contact and Larkin’ About who were great hosts.

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