Build
Monopoly Run 2023
A custom built web app to run a life-sized Monopoly challenge across London, with 686 photo submissions on the day.
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The situation
The Hertfordshire Monopoly Challenge is a life-sized version of the board game. Teams of Scouts, Explorers and Network members travel around London visiting places on the board, taking photos and answering questions to earn Monopoly money. Hertfordshire Scouts needed a way to run it from the teams' own phones.
What we did
We built a browser based web app in PHP and MySQL. Each team sees a board of tiles: properties to visit, grouped in colour sets with a bonus for a full set, and challenges to complete. Every tile takes a photo upload and a comment.
Teams check in at HQ and scan a QR code to start their five hour clock. Marshals carry chance cards as QR codes, which add money or send a team to jail, where the board locks until they visit the jail location. An HQ team marks each photo as accepted or rejected, and a live leaderboard follows the scores.
The event was planned for November 2022, postponed by rail strikes and held on Saturday 28 January 2023. A set-up film went to every team before the day.
The outcome
On the day 59 teams and 288 players took part and sent in 686 photos. The game went on to become the basis for Seoul Searching at the World Scout Jamboree later that year.
Year
2023
Made for
Hertfordshire Scouts
Our role
Web app design and build
What was delivered
Team web app with a board of 22 properties and 11 challenges
QR code check-in, finish and chance cards
An HQ portal for marking photos
Live leaderboard, map and messages from HQ
A set-up film for teams
A great event solution, that is highly scalable and gives the participants an interactive easy to use experience. Our young people got a great deal out of the event and the Hankin digital app totally supports this. As an event organise it also gives visibility and control of an event which by more manual means is far harder to achieve.
Nick Nieder