Hello! I am a new user who found this forum after watching the very entertaining film "Piece by Piece" by West Side Filmworks. I am not a cuber (yet) and I hope this thread isn't off-topic; I do not wish to be disrespectful.
I am posting to pool the brain trust of speedcubers. I am looking to create a game for a "Survivor" style challenge inspired by blindfolded cubing, but for novices.
The idea I'm currently working on is this: one member only of each team can see, the others are all blindfolded. The seeing member hollers directions at the other members of the team. Their challenge is to arrange a 2x2 stack of large blocks (think like big shipping boxes) so that one side (the side facing the caller) is all the same color. It's obviously an immensely reduced version of a Rubik's cube, one where each square can rotate independently in 360 degrees rather than being on a plane with 2 others. It may be there's an additional catch, such as there is 1 cube that doesn't have a red face and 1 that doesn't have a yellow, for instance, so if the caller tries to get them all red or yellow he cannot succeed and would have to start again with a new set of directions to get them all to be some other color.
The challenge has to be good TV too, so maybe there are 2 identical sets of these 4 blocks, and after they complete the first one they have to go do the second one, still blindfolded, giving the second place team a chance to catch up and overtake them.
Can you improve on this idea? I know you can. The qualities of this challenge I'm looking to capitalize on are:
- one seeing member having to rely on communication and listening skills to get the others to perform the challenge
- blindfolded people manipulating big squares, lots of opportunity for clumsiness and goofs
- colored faces of squares are very readable to the viewers at home, they can tell when a team has it right or is not close
- it's a puzzle without interlocking pieces
What variations on this game might you give to a group of malnourished, sleep deprived, non-cube pros for your entertainment? I don't know if there are reality TV haters out there but I'm sure we can all agree to talk in a civil manner about games, solving, etc.
Many thanks for your responses!
By the way, any Krypton Factor viewers out there?
I am posting to pool the brain trust of speedcubers. I am looking to create a game for a "Survivor" style challenge inspired by blindfolded cubing, but for novices.
The idea I'm currently working on is this: one member only of each team can see, the others are all blindfolded. The seeing member hollers directions at the other members of the team. Their challenge is to arrange a 2x2 stack of large blocks (think like big shipping boxes) so that one side (the side facing the caller) is all the same color. It's obviously an immensely reduced version of a Rubik's cube, one where each square can rotate independently in 360 degrees rather than being on a plane with 2 others. It may be there's an additional catch, such as there is 1 cube that doesn't have a red face and 1 that doesn't have a yellow, for instance, so if the caller tries to get them all red or yellow he cannot succeed and would have to start again with a new set of directions to get them all to be some other color.
The challenge has to be good TV too, so maybe there are 2 identical sets of these 4 blocks, and after they complete the first one they have to go do the second one, still blindfolded, giving the second place team a chance to catch up and overtake them.
Can you improve on this idea? I know you can. The qualities of this challenge I'm looking to capitalize on are:
- one seeing member having to rely on communication and listening skills to get the others to perform the challenge
- blindfolded people manipulating big squares, lots of opportunity for clumsiness and goofs
- colored faces of squares are very readable to the viewers at home, they can tell when a team has it right or is not close
- it's a puzzle without interlocking pieces
What variations on this game might you give to a group of malnourished, sleep deprived, non-cube pros for your entertainment? I don't know if there are reality TV haters out there but I'm sure we can all agree to talk in a civil manner about games, solving, etc.
Many thanks for your responses!
By the way, any Krypton Factor viewers out there?
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