GAME CONTROL
TEAM SNOUT
Upcoming Puzzle Hunt-ish Events
Press
- Wikipedia entry: "The Game (treasure hunt)"
- Semi-automatic daily feed: "Puzzle Hunts et cetera"
- "How to Solve Any Puzzle in Less Than 47 Minutes", Ignite Portland 7 (November 19, 2009)
- "The Game", Seattle Times (September 14, 2008)
- "Playing mind games", San Francisco Chronicle (March 5, 2004)
- "Clued In", Stanford Magazine (November/December 2003)
- "Jackpot: The Ultimate Puzzle Race", GAMES Magazine (September 2002)
Game Control HOWTO
- An Open Letter to Aspiring GCs from Curtis C. Chen
- Team Snout's All-Purpose Safety Flowchart
- Seven Deadly Sins of Puzzle Creation by Skott
- A Clue Design Primer by Curtis et al.
- Puzzle Theory by Jeff Kroll
- GC Summit 2016
- Let's Go Hollywood! Using movies' classic 3-act plot structure in puzzle hunts - Allen Cohn
- The Calvinball gadget - Dan Egnor
- The Impact of the Rising Escape Room Industry - Summer Stevens
- Hill Hunt BANG: Applying Advice from Past GC Summits - Larry Hosken
- Burning Man Puzzle Hunt Retrospective - Sean Gugler, Dan Egnor, and Glenn Willen
- GC Summit 2014
- Advice from (and for) a Puzzle Snob - Ian Tullis
- Caring for Ground Teams - Debbie Goldstein
- Puzzle Design: Surprises and Aha Moments - Greg Filpus
- 2014 MIT Mystery Hunt Q&A - Erin Rhode
- ClueKeeper Announcement - Rich Bragg
- Famine Game Postmortem - Todd Etter & Phil Dasler
- GC Summit 2013
- Doctor When - Allen Cohn
- 2013 MIT Mystery Hunt - Amos Eshel
- Elevate Tutoring's charity hunts - Bob Schaffer
- JoCo Cruise Crazy hunts - Curtis Chen & Sean Gugler
- GC Summit 2012: Simulcast!
- Running Someone Else's Game - Corey Anderson (Bay Area)
- WHO Re-Cast, Creator's Perspective - Jett Jones (Seattle)
- BAWHO Post-Mortem, Non-Creator's Perspective - Bob Schaffer (Bay Area)
- Puzzle Theory 3: Designing for Portability - Scott Blomquist (Seattle)
- Resurrected: Shinteki Aquarius, 7 Years Later - Linda Holman (Bay Area)
- MSPH14 Simulcast Post-Mortem - Andy Rich (Seattle)
- GC Summit 2011
- Rallye School - Bill Jonesi
- Everything I...Learned From Running The Game - Curtis C. Chen
- The 2-Tone Game - Larry Hosken
- Case Study of a Puzzle - Sean Gugler
- Doctor When - Allen Cohn
- My First Game (Panel Discussion) - Jan Chong, Dan Egnor, Justin Graham, Trisha Lantznester, Dann Webster
- GC Summit 2010
- Reflections on Puzzling with Ian
- DASH 1: One Game, Eight Cities with Debbie
- Puzzle Theory 102 with Scott
- Computer Tools for Puzzle Creation & Solving with Dan
- Metas I Have Known with John
- GC Summit 2009
- GC Transparency by Teresa
- Analyzing Puzzle Quality by Scott
- Being GC (Logistics) by DeeAnn
- Ghost Patrol Structure & Story by Greg & Brian
- Run More Games by Red
- GC Summit 2008
- "Game Variants and Related Events" by Rich
- "No More Secrets Post-Mortem" by Jan
- "Gadgets for Games" by Acorn
- GC Summit 2007
- "Game Logistics: Then and Now" by Linda
- "Immersion vs. Puzzles" by Rachel
- "Clues" by Curtis
Archives
Games in which members of Team Snout participated as players, volunteers, or GC.
- Puzzled Pint (ongoing, monthly; July 2010–present)
- CURTIS 50 TREK (2023)
- Miskatonic University Game (August 16-18, 2019)
- JoCo Cruise 5: Number Five Is Alive (January 31–February 7, 2015)
- JoCo Cruise Crazy 4: T.I.M.E. Quest (February 23–28, 2014)
- The Famine Game (September 27-29, 2013)
- Facebook group (login required)
- Curtis' photos
- Team Snout application video (and outtakes)
- Blog posts, mostly by Jasper the cat
- The Double Secret Project, a.k.a. "The Curtis Game" (September 21, 2013)
- JoCo Cruise Crazy 3: Star Quest (February 10–17, 2013)
- WarTron (August 3-5, 2012)
- Captain Picard Day (June 16, 2012)
- DASH 4 (April 28, 2012)
- Doctor When (March 31-April 1, 2012)
- World Henchmen Organization (WHO)
- Snoutliers! application video (Seattle: June 17-19, 2011)
- Snout's Serial Crime Lords application video (Bay Area: November 4-6, 2011)
- Facebook group (login required)
- JoCo Cruise Crazy 2: Dead Man's Quest? (February 19–26, 2012)
- DASH 3 (April 30, 2011)
- JoCo Cruise Crazy: Treasure Hunt? (January 4–8, 2011)
- DASH 2 (April 24, 2010)
- DASH 1 (September 13, 2009)
- Ghost Patrol (November 8–9, 2008)
- Midnight Madness: Back To Basics! (April 5–6, 2008)
- No More Secrets (May 19–20, 2007)
- Hogwarts and the Draconian Prophecy (September 9–10, 2006)
- Paparazzi (June 3–4, 2006)
- The Apprentice: Zorg (April 15, 2006)
- Mooncurser's Handbook (August 19–21, 2005, Seattle)
- McGuffin (July 9–10, 2005)
- Iron Puzzler (January 23, 2005)
- JUSTICE UNLIMITED (July 31, 2004)
- Genome (July 10, 2004)
- Overnightmare (November 1, 2003)
- Goonies (April 26, 2003)
- FoBiK (October 19, 2002)
- Eight Ball: The Blue Goo Adventure (May 18, 2002)
- Jackpot (April 19, 2002)
- Zelda: A Hidden Link (October 27, 2001)
- HLOTF (May 5, 2001)
- 420/Matrix (April 20, 2001)
- MegaHard (September 30, 2000)
- Wonka (September 25, 1999)
- Espionage (May 22, 1999)
- Amnesia (April 10, 1999)
- Dragonhunt (April 10, 1998)
- Star Wars (1997)
- Indiana Jones (1996)
- Stanford Games: 1991-1997
- BARF: the beginning, 1985-1994 (2008 web archive)
- Puzzalot's research: Don Luskin, Stephen Sondheim, and more...
Resources
- B&B's supplies list
- Snitch's Game site
- gamecontrol.com (2008 web archive)
SnoutCast (2009-2015):
An audio podcast in which Curtis and DeeAnn talked about running puzzle games and interviewed other creators.
Peruse our archived show notes!
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