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Safety Race

A safety race is a simple competition involving Selfies and a list of tokens in various locations or places.

A Selfie is a self image photo taken by the competitor of themselves at a particular place with a Token, which must be included in the same photo. The token, which is a unique part of a location, and which has 24/7 accessibility, is located on a common list of places that each competitor must visit. All competitors get the same common list of places listing the easily accessible 7/24 tokens. All competitors must visit all of the places on the list in ANY order they desire. The competitors in the race can play for points to win, or play for the fast win.

In either case, the competitor will play with location tokens, and will take a “selfie” at each location on the list with the token in the photo. Also, the selfie with the token is used to confirm that all locations have been visited.

If playing for the fast win, the first competitor to visit all of the locations on the official location racing list, wins. If playing for points, then a method of measuring the distances that each competitor covers, is needed and must be agreed upon by the competitors as part of the racing rules. GPS Distance Meter - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lampa.argus.gpsdistancemeter Measure Distance Map - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.map.distance

In its simplest and easiest form, anyone can play a version of the safety race. The race can be set around the house, the estate, the building, the neighborhood, or the campus; or you can go out and compete through the local traffic. In its more challenging form, it can be like a race through public traffic on the way to each location, in that you must obey all pedestrian courtesies, traffic speed limits and traffic signs, and traffic laws in general. Citations issued during the safety race for whatever reasons, will automatically disqualify the competitor – See ya next time!

Regardless of whether you are playing for the win or for points, a safety race starts by agreeing on a list of places where everyone who is competing must go. Depending on the size of the list, the game may be broken into rounds by creating parts of the common list for different days, or for different parts of the day, or for any agreed upon interval of time. The competitors, or competitor teams, decide on the locations and the token markers that are located at those locations. The location markers, or tokens are then placed on the list besides the location, and the list becomes the official list of places where each competitor must go.

The tokens themselves, should be items that are already at the site and should be accessible anytime, 24/7. The tokens should be a part of the location, and never move, like a big screen TV hung on the wall, or a public statue, like the shark in shark park (Alma Hoffman Park, Montclair, San Bernardino County, Ca.), or a particular star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Each competitor takes “selfies” at each place on the official list with the agreed upon token in the same photo. You and the token must be clearly recognizable in the selfie.

Once the list is in place, the competitors decide when and from where to start the race, and where to post the photos...

Playing For the Fastest Time

The places on the official list can be many or few, some may be close by, or at a good distance which will require walking or riding. Every competitor must go to all of the places on the list in ANY order that they choose. Once the competitor reaches the location, the competitor must post a selfie with the token to a predetermined web site. The first one to finish visiting all of the locations on the list and post all of the selfies with the tokens at each location, wins.

EG: In the Home based or family version, the official list might have, a stuffed bear as a token in the guest room as one location. Another location would be the towel rack in the bathroom downstairs; another could be a plant on the balcony, or a chair in the master bedroom, the grill by the patio, the garbage can by the garage, the lamppost by the curb, etc... The players in this version would decide what locations would be the best for the length of the game that they want. All of the competitors will take selfies at each place with the agreed upon “token”, and when all of the competitors finish, the time stamps on all of the last locations for each competitor are compared. The time stamps on the selfies make sure that everyone visited all the sites on the list, and the first to finish all of the locations wins. The prize might be for the first and second place to finish, and possibly the funniest selfie.

Playing For Points

If you play for points then distances and time stamps are required for each leg of the race, and a decreasing value is set for each token at each of the places on the list. Points are generated by multiplying the distance between each location times the token value at the destination of each leg of the race. Each competitor must go to these places in ANY order that each competitor chooses, but the competitor must go to all of the places on the list. Once there, the competitor must take a selfie of themselves and the location’s token. This insures that the competitor has gone to the site, and it tells what time each token was visited. With each visit, the value of the token goes down by one. The list could be a list of places in your house, your building, your neighborhood, points of interest around town, within a county or among counties. You must post your selfies with the agreed upon token. The time stamp from the post is recorded to confirm your visit and to devalue the token.

EG: In the Collegiate version, a central public posting site for selfies is needed, and distances between campus locations must be recorded on a fitbit app, or odometer reading, or GPS app. Everyone must agree on whatever method or device that is to be used to determine the distances between locations, as choosing the order of the visits is critical to point creation. Depending on the number of competitors, an official judge may

be needed to oversee the official list, and to track each competitor’s time stamp at each location with the token, and record the distance traveled by the competitor between locations. The maximum value for each token is the number of competitors in the race. Each token is at its maximum value when it is visited for the first time. On the second visit, the value goes down by one, the third visit the value goes down again by one, and the value continues to go down by one on each visit by a competitor, until a value of one is reached for the last competitor. Points are created by multiplying the distance from one location to another location by the value of the token where you arrived.

Remember that the competitors may choose the order in which they visit each location, and this affects the distances traveled and the value of the tokens.

EG: If you go from the first floor lobby bank of elevators, which are on the official list, to the outside fountain in the square, which is also on the official list, then this distance would calculate to be 70 steps/yards times a token value of say 7, which comes from the fountain token, for a point value of 490 for this leg of the race (70x7= 490). The token loses its value to the next official visitor/competitor by one, to a new value of 6. So if a second visitor goes from the building’s cafeteria to the same fountain, and this distance is 421 steps/yards, then the second visitor would earn 6x421 for 2526 points.

Public Release: Cacique Jones, April 17, 2019, Kahseekeh@yahoo.com This is a set of racing rules. No one is advised to do anything illegal to win this race, as this race is meant to create a common bond among the competitors and “want to be” competitors, so that they may have fun with selfies.