Thank you for the link, I’ll link you on my next blog post (coming very soon).

We are pushing photos to flickr with the tag “pacmanhattan”, and have posted code to drop.io/wherecamp

I don’t know how we didn’t find you when we were setting this up!

We are also organizing Pac-Manhattan games in Lyon, France. But we thought we were alone. It’s fantastic to learn that we are not alone !
It would be great to exchange some Pac Man experiences (we are eager to improve the game, and why not to play in other cities). Do not hesitate to contact me !

In the Stumptown Challenge, my team of two runners plus five or so online operators were given a sheet of five clues that had to be solved for locations in Portland which were waypoints in the race. At one point, a member of our operating team offered to check bus schedules (yes, running and buses were allowed) for connections and best order of traversing the waypoints. It was due to the effectiveness of our operators that my team finished 8th against teams of much more fit runners.

In mobile O, teams of two consist of a navigator, who stays at the start/finish area with a map, and a runner, who goes out into urban, park or forest terrain and finds a series of checkpoints by following instructions given over the phone by the navigator. Mobile O puts a premium on simplifying/structuring spatial information and on clear, effective communication under pressure.

Pac-Manhattan has the added challenge of locating a moving target and coordinating between the ghosts, which sounds hard but fun.