A game of territory control using the forgotten payphones of New York City.

You and your teammates must dash across the blocks around Washington Square Park in a bid control as many payphones as possible. You simply make a call from a payphone to the game system and enter your team number to capture a phone. For each minute your team controls that phone the team scores one point. Grab more phones for more points.

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Rules

1. Payphones produce points. Every minute a payphone produces one point; if a team controls a payphone, then the point goes into the team’s point pool.
2. A player captures a payphone by calling HQ & entering her team #.
3. After capturing a phone a player may guard the payphone so rival players cannot call from it. However, guarding players can be chased away if a greater number of rival team members arrive.
4. If two players arrive at a phone at the same time, the player to touch the phone bank first wins the right to make the first call.
5. Quarters are a scarce resource. Each player is alotted only 10 quarters. Quarters can be distributed amongst players however the team likes.
6. The team with the most points at the end of the game wins.

Map

Each player is given a map of the game area and all of the phones that can be used to score.

Press
CNET
‘Payphone Warriors’ call on New York streets
By Daniel Terdiman
September 24, 2006

CBS News Online

‘Big Game’ Safari In Manhattan: Cubicle Warriors Compete In Super-Sized Games Between Skyscrapers
by Christine Lagorio
Sept. 27, 2006
Includes Video

Gameplay

We ran the game a number of times last spring to great results. Here are some photos taken during play.

Created by Abe Burmeister, Andrew Chizhik, Hyung Jung Kim, Arielle Mason, Kenji Sawai, Ron Shely, Gregory Trefry

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