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Herts Scouts Monopoly Challenge 2020
A virtual edition of a London Monopoly challenge, played from home during lockdown.
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The situation
Each year Hertfordshire Scouts send teams around London for a life-sized game of Monopoly. In November 2020 nobody could travel, so the event went virtual.
What we did
We built a web app in PHP with an airline theme: Herts Scouts Airlines. Teams played from home on Saturday 28 November 2020 and had 5 hours to visit 22 virtual locations around the world, in 8 colour sets.
For each destination a team received a boarding pass, worked out the location from a clue, answered a question for a bonus and uploaded photo evidence. An HQ team marked each entry on two marking screens. A world map showed each team's plane, and a live leaderboard ran until it was hidden for the closing ceremony.
HQ could message every team at once, a help button opened a video call with HQ, and a tutorial film explained how to play.
The outcome
The virtual game let the event run in a lockdown year and brought in teams from outside Hertfordshire. Its code was the starting point for the live London game in 2023.
Year
2020
Made for
Hertfordshire Scouts
Our role
Web app design and build
What was delivered
Web app for teams, played in a desktop browser
22 locations in 8 sets, with clues, questions and photo upload
Two marking screens for the HQ team
Live leaderboard, world map and messages from HQ
A tutorial film