AMAZING RACE MELBOURNE

Locations

Transport

• Melbourne Central • Movie Theater• Victoria markets • Federation square • St Kilda• Lygon street• Botanical gardens • Melbourne Zoo • Luna park • Science works

The Amazing Race Melbourne will take contestants all across the Melbourne CBD. But this race is not just for a select few, anyone can get involved, which means you will never know just who you are competing against.

Locations

Activities

Challenges

Federation Square = Free

Lygon Street = Free

Melbourne Central = Free

Old Melbourne Jail = Free

Science Works = Adult $8

Luna Park = $9.50 per ride

Bowling

There will be a series of activities that will take place at a number of locations in the race. These activities will be need to be completed in order to move on to the next clue. Proposed activities include:

A number of locations have been selected around the Melbourne CBD, these locations are recog-nized landmarks and should be easy to find. All will be accessible via public transport. The loca-tions were selected to give a good mix of different places as well as create the opportunity for ac-tivities and challenges

For Each of the stages there will be a clue in order to find the next location on the race. These clues will be cryptic in nature.

Once the clues are solved it will give a location, and a indications as to where the next clue is hidden. the exact location of the clue will never be revealed in the clue. Rather just enough informa-tion will be given to allow to clue to be found.

The Clues in some case will require an activity or challenge in or-der to be completed

There will also be a series of challenges during the race, these will not be as easy to complete as the activities and will actually challenge the participant.

Proposed challenges include:

Rock climbing = $30 adults, kids = $12.40

Movies

Rides

Eating

Solving clues

Botanical Gardens = Free

Melbourne Zoo = $24.80 max

Vic Markets = Free

St Kilda = Free

AMAZING RACEMELBOURNE

Cryptic Clues

AMAZING RACEMELBOURNE

Documentation

Web site

QR codes A QR code is a 2 dimensional code, a barcode. it can be used for a wide range of different application. With software a picture of such a code can send someone to a website, unlock information, and provide access to a network. In this way it can provide a link from the real world to the virtual world. Generators for this type of code can reveal • URL’s• Text• Phone numbers • SMS

Using a website such as word press clues would be able to be given on entering a certain clue. Then the next cryptic clue could be displayed.

the website would allow for the clues to be given to as many people as required. this would solve issues such as running out of clue copies.

The website would also allows us to track the level of interest in the race.

The cost of each part of this race is something that will need to be carefully looked at. Most people will not want to spend a large amount of money.

However some of the activities and challenges will require money. This will need to be kept to a minimum, so as to ensure that everybody can take part.

All of the locations will be accessible by public transport, so the cost of a myki fare of met card fare is unavoidable

Every one of the clues will needed to be added together for solving the location of the final site that will be need to visited in order to finish the race.

the final clue will be a puzzle that will have have to be solved before the racer has set of. in this case a location will not be given, rather the racer will need to use there knowlage of the places and routes that they used in order to locate the finish line.

The race its self will be run over the course of two weekends as well as during the week.

This will give those participating a good chance to get to all the required locations regardless of their schedule.

the clues can also be with held until a certain time, this would allow the race to be spaced out and controlled. with the final clue being released at a time that allows the largest amount of people a good chance of succeeding

Budgets

Final Clue

Race Time Frame

One of the major challenges of this project will be documenting how the race unfolds. as the race is happening over a huge aera and potentially 9 days there will be a lot of activity.

The goals for documenting the race will be:• Getting footage of people doing that activities • Footage of the challenges in action • General race footage

• Interacting with the clues

Using digital cameras and video recorder we hope to follow people and record their participa-tion in the race. Camping out route and clues will be the main method which we will record the race, waiting for people to interact and then following their progress.

we will also hopefully get access to security footage from the buildings in which challenges and activities take place. Tracking people using the web site could also be used as a way of gauging how many people are playing the game.