Rings, Lorded Over

I went back to Princeton last weekend for The Game. Sandrine, Katy, Eric, Emily, and the rest of the design committee did a great job of putting the game on this year. Great job! I was on duty for Clue #7 which was at the Woodrow Wilson School fountain. The clue itself was a bunch of rings cut out of a special plastic. Each ring was numbered, and certain rings were weighted so that 3 of them floated and 3 of them sunk. The teams had to figure out to float the rings to get the combination to the locks on a box they'd been given earlier. Eric had actually hung this clue in the fountain so that after about 5 hours of working on The Game, people had to wade into the pool, go through the spray of the fountain and pick a set of rings off of the Fountain of Freedom. It was quite a sight to see. Hopefully, I'll get pictures and post them later. The kicker was that after several hours of running around campus which included paddling a canoe, the team had to climb to the top of Cleveland Tower only to find that The Game was complete and that the promised pizza was in the Old GC Common Room. Cruel.