Landmark Games 2007

Page links:
Primary Players | Primary Clues, Answers, and Scores
Challenge Players | Challenge Clues, Answers, and Scores

Welcome to all teams! I'm your moderator, Terry Smith. By popular demand, we'll have two levels of play again this year: Landmark Primary and Landmark Challenge. School teams may choose to participate in one of these levels. The games will be carried out separately, but on the same timeline.

Landmark Challenge:
Challenge Clues are open-ended as in our past Landmark projects. Our advanced players should keep in mind that the game is more rewarding and fun when others have enough information to make some progress. Remember that students from around the world are reading your clues. This means that some "local" clues might be impossible to figure out. Please think globally.

To Participate

To participate, students must answer Kidlink's Four Response Questions. Do this on the web: www.kidlink.org/response/ Participating teachers subscribe to the Kidproj listserv to receive clues, announcements, updates, and results during the project. To subscribe to Kidproj send an email to the listserv as follows:

Address: listserv@listserv.nodak.edu
Subject: Blank
Body: subscribe kidproj (your name)

Timeline

Phase I: Registering Teams and Sending Clues - Jan 22 to Feb 1, 2007

1. Send registration to tsmith@hannibal.k12.mo.us by the deadline of February 1, 2007. I will confirm registrations by email.

<> Say which level: Primary or Challenge Level
<> School name, address, and phone
<> Email address for playing the game
<> Contact person name and email
<> Number of students, age/grade level
<> School web address

2. Send nine clues and your answer to tsmith@hannibal.k12.mo.us by February 1, 2007. Important: Do not send your nine clues and answer to the listserv.

3. To the KIDPROJ listserv (kidproj@listserv.nodak.edu), send an introduction of your team and school. Teams must submit the introduction and the clues by February 1 in order to participate.

Phase II - Playing the Game - Feb 5 to Feb 23, 2007

On the following Mondays, a set of 3 clues from each team will be sent to participants via the listserv and also posted at the project site under Landmark Clues.

Monday February 5
Monday February 12
Monday February 19

During Phase II, students study the clues, and develop yes/no questions that will lead to the unknown landmarks of other teams in their playing level. ONE yes/no question may be asked by teams during each of the three weeks. A total of 3 yes/no questions can be asked of each site, but only one question per week.

Questions must be constructed to be answered with yes or no. These questions are to be sent DIRECTLY TO THE TEAM'S EMAIL ADDRESS, not to the listserv.

Reply with a yes or no when receiving a question from another team. It is very helpful if you will send the original question back with your reply to help teams organize and track information.

Phase III - Make Your Guesses- Feb 26 to March 2, 2007

Send one email message to the moderator with the name of each participating team and your guess for their landmark. This message must be in the hands of the moderator by midnight March 4th.

The game is officially over midnight March 4, 2007 and a winner will be announced on March 5th or 6th. The moderator will post the winners of Primary and Challenge levels, and all schools and landmark answers.

"Wherever you go, there you are!" -- Sometimes attributed to Buckaroo Banzai.

 It's a big world out there. Good luck to all teams!
Regards,

Terry Smith
Moderator of Landmark 2007
Eugene Field Elementary
Hannibal, MO USA