i spy something with my little eye

i so want to play the go game. a while back, i saw hoardes of people at 10pm on a saturday convening upon the panhandle with flashlights, maps, and little computerized thingamabobs, and it looked like fun, sort of like clue and trivial pursuit combined into a real life game. but not how jumanji went from being a game to semi-real life terror. this is much safer- no vines to wrap their branchy arms around you and such. so i was hoping to participate in the next one (the go game, not jumanji), but it's the saturday right after my surgery, so no go for me. unless it's go to sleep. or go to the couch. or go back to the doctor.

if you're interested in a massively fun scavenger hunt that screams san francisco, this is for you:

Urban Scavenger Hunt

• An all-out urban adventure game with San Francisco as the board game, and you are the pieces.
• Saturday, February 4, 1-5p - $25 per person
• Where: All over Hayes Valley - sign up for exact meeting location

The Go Game is a technology-fueled, reality-based experience that encourages hard play and a keen eye for the weird, the beautiful, or the faintly out-of-the-ordinary. The "rule book" is reality, the "board" is San Francisco, and the "pieces" are the players -- you and your team. Through clues downloaded to a wireless device and hints planted in unlikely places, you'll be guided through a city you only think you're familiar with. Clues can appear at any time, anywhere. whether it's a note written under a park bench, a spur-of-the moment sidewalk bowling game, or the vision of your best friend going undercover as a fry-cook at KFC. It's one part brain teaser, one part performance art, one part double dare and one part hijinks. This edition's theme is "Wonder Twins."

"A new high-tech scavenger hunt sends players on a whacky whirlwind of a day"

- SF Chronicle