Saturday night of NOAC 2000 saw the debut of a great new wide game - Cube Puzzle Trading. Each participant was given a bag of nine identical cubes, with people from different parts of the country getting different pieces. The goal of the event was to find other Arrowmen with whom to trade pieces to obtain all nine cubes and complete the puzzle.
Think it is easy to find eight other cubes to complete the set? Thousands of conference participants spent a lot of time walking around the intramural field and Tom Black Track trying to trade for the pieces they needed. One technique was to yell out the number of the piece you had as loud as you could. Others just ran as fast as they could. What worked the best? Hard to tell, but it was lots of fun for everyone.
Some Arrowmen tried to trade other things besides
cubes - do you think a stuffed antelope is worth a number 6? Maybe these guys worked out a
deal that made them both happy. Who ended up with the antelope? We'll never
know. However everyone looked like they thought that this was a great wide game, a
good way to meet other people and a great souvenir of NOAC.
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This could have taken hours, but there were several things to spur the participants on to complete the puzzle. |
| Some were in a hurry to get to the other great events at NOAC, some wanted to see what the puzzle made when completed, but everyone hurried once the weather started to look ominous. Then it poured. |
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Arrowmen were quite happy when they completed the puzzle. This proud Arrowman, Dusty V., from Wa-Hi-Nasa Lodge 111, of Franklin, Tennessee, finished his cube in under fifteen minutes. |
This page revised 7/30/00.
