How to Play the Game

The Basics

Click on your team name in the menu bar to go to your team page.
Click on the name of a puzzle or quest on your team page to see it
Click on the Play button to abandon it. Sorry, we know this is confusing.
Enter the "solution" to the puzzle or quest in the box under the name, or upload a photo/image when asked. Note that spaces and case (upper or lower) don't matter.
There is no limit to the number of "type in" answers you can submit, but you can only submit once when an image is requested. Make it count (and treat our reviewers kindly)!
You cannot go back to an old puzzle/quest once you've abandoned it!
More puzzles/quests will be released Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at noon Pacific Time.
To use an ability, select ALL the blocks to which you want to apply the ability first (turning them red), then click the red ability button.

You don't lose impact factor when you use an ability.
You start the game with 3 impact factor, earned after you occupy your first block.
You need at least one action point to occupy your first block and start the game.

Anything “removable” on the game board is a “block” that may be occupied by a team, except for Center Camp and the two smallest wedges near Center Camp (which are stuck and we don't have a screwdriver to pry them loose).
To “occupy” a block, a team draws their pattern on it, a.k.a “flag,” “tartan...”
The winner of the game is the team with the highest score, calculated as the sum of the points for each occupied block according to the following point schedule:

Completing a puzzle or quest allows a team to either gain an ability (see “Abilities”) or activate an existing ability once.
The Man and The Temple are adjacent to each other, but not adjacent to any other block on the map. The Man has the equivalent of three blocks between it and any Esplanade block.