Sandpit #6
Brighton seagull by Mikelo.
Sandpit #6: Sandpit at the Lighthouse
For Sandpit #6 we ventured out of London for the first time, and headed to Brighton on the evening of Thursday 21 August. We were at the Lighthouse on 28 Kensington Street, BN1 4AJ.
It was a busy programme, including Festival favourites Checkpoint and the Lost Sport of Olympia, as well as a new game, City Blocks.
Lost Sport of Olympia
Create a maze with human walls, and then try to escape.
7pm-8pm. Unlimited players.
City Blocks
Add a block to the growing game board, trying to help your team and build a city at the same time.
7pm to 10pm, 5 minutes a turn. 50 players.
Checkpoint
Lie, sneak, run and smuggle in a desperate attempt to get your living room past the eager eyes of the border guards.
8pm-8.45pm. 30 players.
Texas Hold Me
A game of trust and honour among human cards.
8.15pm-9pm. 6 players.
The Comfort of Strangers
Wander the streets of Brighton with GPS-enable ipaqs, using audio cues to find your team-mates and avoid enemies.
9pm to 9.30pm. 30 players.
Standoff
Employ double-bluffs and finger-guns to get more than your fair share when the heist goes wrong.
9.15pm to 9.45pm. 8 players.
HipSync
Dance along to music from an ipaq, and try to work out who’s listening to the same tunes as you…
9.45 pm to 10.15pm, 10 minutes a game. 10 players.
Pick Up and Play games
Pick up one of our tested rulesets and settle in for a game of Foldover, Paper Telephone, Dadaist Pursuit or Werewolf.
7pm to 10.30pm. Unlimited players.
Previous events
Sandpit #1 was held on the 13th of February 2008, with a social gaming theme. Amongst other things, we played The Gossip Game and Mudlarking with Francis Barking.
Sandpit #2 was held on the 20th of March 2008 with a “Listening” theme. Games included Holla-Lulu, HipSync, Thoughtcrime, Freemasons and Francis Barking’s Crazy Golf, with a lot of Paper Telephone, Nomic and The Hat Game going on in the background.
Sandpit #3 was held on the 16th of April 2008, and was all about “Spying and Lying”. The night’s games included Trap Street, Dossier, Manila, Checkpoint and Make Your Own Moustache.
Sandpit #4 was held on the 10th of May 2008 as part of the Battersea Arts Centre’s Burst Festival. The night was themed around the works of G. K. Chesterton, who lived in Battersea and called it “most beautiful of human localities”. The games included The Man Who Was Thursday, Poets versus Policemen, Skipping Chesterton and Asparagus.
Sandpit #5 was held on the 30th of May 2008, as part of the Psycho Buildings exhibition at the Hayward Gallery. The evening included games of Comfort of Strangers and Small Freeze inside the gallery space, and Checkpoint, Be Part of My Drawing Machine, Lost Sport of Olympia and Skylarking on the terraces and staircases outside.
The Hide and Seek Festival itself ran at London’s Southbank Centre from the 27th to the 29th of June. It featured a lot of the best games we’ve hosted this year, along with the traditional range of pick up and play Sandpit games.
Sandpit Games at Duty Free was a smaller-scale Sandpit on the 26th of July, at Stoke Newington International Airport, and saw a new batch of games: Fishing for Compliments, Congestion Zone, Animal Mayhem, Hunt the Scavenger and Standoff.
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