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Event Management

EVENT UPDATES

Shown to the event's teams and anyone awaiting acceptance, in their "Event Updates" tab.

1. Download a Word rulebook written from this event's settings (the template is in Settings → Rulebook template). 2. Edit it, save it as PDF and upload it. 3. Send it: it is pinned at the top of every player's Event Updates and under More → Rulebook, and can also be emailed to accepted players as a link. Sending needs the event locked, so the rules can't change after players read them.

Rulebook

1GenerateA Word file written from this event's settings. Edit it, then save it as PDF.
2Upload your PDFPDF, up to 2 MB.Upload PDF
3Send to participantsAlso email accepted players a link

Type Title

Message

Posted updates

No updates posted yet. What you post here reaches every team.

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Winning message

Pops up on the winning team's phones when you declare the winner, and becomes the last chapter of their Story tab. Text only, no picture. Use {winner}, {team} and {event}: the app fills them in. Left empty, players see the standard message.

Winner's message

Pops up on every other team's phones when you declare the winner, and becomes the last chapter of their Story tab. Text only, no picture. Use {winner}, {team} and {event}: the app fills them in. Left empty, players see the standard message.

Everyone else's message

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How many Trials this event has. Challenges that already exist must fit within the total, and branched templates need enough Trials for every path to meet on a shared final stretch.

Total Trials

Teams play their own version of the first Trials, then converge. The number of paths is the number of Trial 1 versions. Create Trial Tree saves and locks it; Update Trial Tree unlocks it again (needs the word sphinx, and no teams mapped to paths).

Trial tree template

Trial Tree

Preview: press Create Trial Tree to lock it in.

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Configure Trials & challenges

🔒 Create the Trial Tree first (Trial Tree tab) to configure Trials.

Set the total Trials first.

Create Trial

1The challengewhat players see

Challenge textWhat the team sees on the Trial card.

Image 4:3Optional. JPG, PNG or WebP; large photos are shrunk automatically. Best at 4:3, e.g. 1200 × 900. Other shapes are trimmed at the edges; players tap to see the whole picture full screen.

Choose image Remove image

Video link 16:9 in a 4:3 boxOptional. A YouTube link plays inside the Trial card; any other link opens in a new tab.

Scene optionalOptional. A scene adds something players do with a backpack item. Unlock: a crate, padlocked hands or your own closed and open pictures; any teammate taps an item from their backpack on it; the right one opens it (a key turns, a crowbar or bolt cutter breaks it), and opening either shows what's inside (then players answer) or clears the Trial. A wrong item gets your reply. What's inside is sent only to a team that has opened it. Magnify reveal: a team holding the chosen item drags a magnifying lens over the challenge image and sees the hidden picture through it, enlarged 3 times. The hidden picture is the challenge image with the secret added (same size, nothing moved); it is sent only to teams holding the item, and the item is also needed to answer. The scene's item is ticked under Needs from the backpack automatically.

No scene

Revealed by

Hidden picture

Remove hidden picture

Opened with When it opens What's inside optional Reply to a wrong item optional

Inside picture optional

Remove picture

2Needs from the backpackThe answer and the tag are refused until the team holds every chosen item. Useful when the item carries the clue (a map piece, a cipher). A scene's item is added automatically.

Tell players up frontOn: players see “This Trial needs something from your backpack.” on the Trial page. Off: it stays secret until they answer; a right answer without the item still gets that reply (never counted as a wrong try).

Off: nothing from the backpack is needed.

3Answerchecked by the server

Typed answer: players type it and it is checked against the accepted answers. Tag: players tap the NFC tag or scan the QR code placed at the location; the tag itself is the answer.Typed answerTag

Tag type one or bothNFC: a sticker players tap with the phone. QR: the same link printed as a code to scan, useful as a backup for phones without NFC. With both, print the QR on the NFC sticker.

NFCtap with the phoneQRscan the printed code

Location of tagWhere the tag goes. It becomes this challenge's Tag prop note and goes to the Tags checklist, e.g. “Under the bench at the north gate”.

Accepted answers one per lineOne per line. Capitals, spaces and punctuation are ignored; add spelling variants, numbers as words and accented forms as their own lines. Guessing protection: after 3 wrong typed answers on a Trial, the team waits 1 minute.

Wrong-answer messageShown when a team types a wrong answer. Players are also told how many tries are left: 3 wrong answers in a row on a Trial mean a 1-minute wait.

4HintAuto hint: free, shown to every team after the minutes you set. Hint shop: teams buy it in the Hint shop (Gameplay Elements → Shops), where you set its price. Choosing Hint shop turns Shops on and makes the Hint shop if there isn't one.

Auto hint min Hint shop

Off: this challenge has no hint.

5Rewardswhat clearing it gives

TokensWhat the team earns when it clears this challenge, in the event's currency (Gameplay Elements → Shops).

Tokens for clearing

Abilities

Boosters

Backpack items

GoodiesA physical prize handed out at this stop: the first N teams to clear it win it, and its picture and name pop up on their phones. It goes to Event Operations' Trial Goodies Checklist. Only on Trials every path plays.

Add picture

0 / 20 First how many get it:

None

Rewards save straight away. Items given here can't be given anywhere else: they show greyed in Gameplay Elements.

6Prop notesfor Event Operations · shown under this challenge in the Offline network check and the Props checklist

MID-EVENT CHALLENGES

A challenge you push live to every player, whatever Trial they are on. The first players to solve it (by typing the answer or by finding its hidden tag) win its prizes: any items, boosters or abilities from Gameplay Elements, Super abilities included. Each prize still passes its own checks (paths, Available from/until, first teams). Push them from Live event - Manage.

Mid-event challenges

Players see them called

DEMO VIEW

What a player sees on a phone, screen by screen, from the Prologue to the Epilogue. Nothing here can be answered or changed.

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One bar per team, worked out by the server. It falls only while the event is live (pauses stop it). Players can use boosters while they have energy left; at zero they are unconscious and only your desk boost (Live event - Manage) revives them.

Energy

Off

Bar Name

Bar Duration

min

Use Event Duration

Desk Boost Value

Desk Boost Threshold

Message when empty

Items teams collect into their backpack by tapping the NFC tag or scanning the QR code you place at a spot. The switch shows or hides the whole pocket for players, even mid-hunt; each item also has its own switch.

Backpack

Food and drink players collect by scanning a tag. Using one restores energy by its amount and uses it up. Not while stunned, and not at zero. The switch shows or hides the pocket for players, even mid-hunt.

Energy boosters

Switch the bar on to use boosters. Boosters you added are kept.

Attacks (Bleed, Stun, Steal, Spy; ranged or melee) and their matching defences, collected by tag and used up once used. A team hit by an attack becomes immune to that exact attack for the rest of the hunt; a defence blocks its attack for a while. Strengths are a % of HP or of the game duration: see Values. The switch shows or hides the pocket for players, even mid-hunt.

Abilities

Shops sell hints, abilities or boosters for the event's currency (the tokens teams earn by clearing Trials). Each shop sells one kind. A physical shop sells only for 2 minutes after a team taps its tag; a digital shop sells anywhere. The switch shows or hides every shop and the currency for players, even mid-hunt.

Shops

Currency · used in every shop

Name Icon Starting balance

Earned per TrialSet in Trial Crafting

GAME BALANCE CHECK

Models one average team: can it finish in time, how far energy and boosters carry it, how much stun and bleed it can suffer, and what is redundant. Runs only when you click. The minutes per Trial is your estimate (walking included); it isn't a game rule.

Expected minutes per Trialmin

Not checked yet.

CHECK RESULTS · LATEST TWO RUNSerror warning

No runs yet. Enter the expected minutes per Trial and run the check.

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Registrations Spot registrations Auto-emails

Pause registrations

Maximum registrations allowed	Accepted	Pending	Rejected
—	0	0	0

Map teams with paths

Deals every accepted team a path, balanced (sizes differ by at most one).

Entries arrive as Pending Verification. Accept to issue the registration code; reject to decline (with a reason). Sources: Website (players register themselves), Google form (added by you with +), Spot (Spot registration at the event).

Teams

No teams have registered.

Lock eventLock when Event details, Story Board, Gameplay Elements, Trial Crafting and Registrations are final, then run the network checks below.

Not checked yet.

CHECK RESULTS · LATEST TWO RUNSerror warning

No runs yet. Lock the event and run the online network check.

Online network check completeTurn on once the latest run is green or orange.

Offline network checklist

Ticked by Event Operations (Pre Event Activity → Push to Event Design).

Offline network check completeTick every challenge first. Going live needs this.

A separate copy of this event for test runs, seen only by organisers. It gets new numbers and new tag links, so nothing done to it can touch this event. Needs the event locked and the online network check complete. One copy at a time: Refresh replaces it with a fresh copy.

Test copy

LIVE EVENT SETTINGS

From the event form; the Sphinx can switch it here. It saves at once. Spot registrations Event Operations can register people at the venue from the registration cut-off until the hunt ends.

Extra places beyond the maximum + 10%. Only spot registrations can use them, since website registration has closed by then. It can't go below the places already used. Enable additional registrations of

START THE HUNT

Needs both network checks.

Auto-Live

Once on, it stays on. Only Reset live event switches it off.

Manual-Live

Time played since the event went live, against the event duration. Pauses don't count, the same clock as HP and auto-timed challenges. Turns red past the duration; stops at End event.

Game time

00:00

/ 30:00

Not started

LEADERBOARD

Updates live. Desk boost works only below the level set in Gameplay Elements. Tap a team or ⋮ for access, players, tokens, Trials, pockets and the team's log.

Stops players leaving, removing teammates, handing over the captaincy and joining with a code. You can still change teams. Team changes locked

At the venue: type the registration code the player shows (from their email or My Team), check the name, then write the code on the wristband. Find by registration code

No teams are playing yet.

The desk boost works only while the play clock (pauses excluded) is within the event duration. Switch this on to give it after time is up. Allow desk boost after time is up

Extra time for everyone, e.g. when teams ask for more time at the end: every team still playing gets the same boost, and anyone unconscious is revived. Teams that have finished are skipped. Works while paused too. Boost all teams +%

MID-EVENT CHALLENGES

Set them up in Trial Crafting. Push one and it goes to every player as an Event Update and a card in their Hunt tab, whatever Trial they are on. Winners are announced automatically. Call off closes it; if nobody has won it yet, you can push it again later.

UPDATE ALL TEAMS

Same feed as Event Updates. Event Updates locks when the event goes live; from then until the event is completed, Event Operations and the Sphinx post here, and can delete what was posted here.

Type Title

Message

Posted during the event

GOODIES & SUBMISSIONS

Who qualified for goodies · every answer attempt.

Goodie winners and answer attempts appear here once the hunt starts.

On pauses play; off resumes it. Progress is kept. Pause event

Erases all play progress and returns the event to just before it started. Teams, registrations, paths, Trials and updates are kept.

Reset live event

On stops play for good (type sphinx); off resumes it while the event is still Published. End event

EVENT RESULTS

Mark the event as completed

POST EVENT MANAGEMENT

Duplicate event

Archive event

Delete event

Cancel eventFor an event that never ran (the client called it off): hides it, saves its data in Records → Deleted events and marks its event form Cancelled.

READ-ONLY · UPDATES EVERY 10 SECONDS

Live event - Display

Live rankings will appear here.

Updates from the organisers will appear here.

Your team details will appear here.

Your current Trial will appear here.

Leaderboard

Live team rankings will appear here.

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Event Management

EVENT UPDATES

Rulebook

Posted updates

Winning message

Winner's message

Everyone else's message

Total Trials

Trial tree template

Trial Tree

Configure Trials & challenges

Create Trial

MID-EVENT CHALLENGES

Mid-event challenges

DEMO VIEW

Energy

Backpack

Energy boosters

Abilities

Shops

GAME BALANCE CHECK

Teams

Offline network checklist

LIVE EVENT SETTINGS

START THE HUNT

Auto-Live

Manual-Live

Game time

LEADERBOARD

MID-EVENT CHALLENGES

UPDATE ALL TEAMS

Posted during the event

GOODIES & SUBMISSIONS

EVENT RESULTS

POST EVENT MANAGEMENT

Live event - Display

Leaderboard

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