Look Up!: A Game
Monday February 28, 2005 - Permanent link to this post -
Years ago when I was living with my folks in Bradford, I read the local paper, the Telegraph & Argus. In the T&A's centre pages were a number of quizes and games including a Dingbat and a Crossword amongst other things. Once a week there would be a feature called “Look Up!”. The quiz would involve a photograph; a fairly tight close-up of a gargoyle, an archway, clocktower or similar from around the city. Readers were asked to give the name of the location in the photograph.
As simple as this game seemed at the time, I soon realised that it was designed to make the players more aware of their surroundings. Beautiful architechtural features that, because of their above-eye-level positioning would usually be overlooked, were suddenly brought into view.
I was walking around York at lunchtime today and was reminded of the game when I noticed an old sign above a shop doorway that I'd not seen before. A weird train of thought ensued and I eventually decided to do a Pixelicious version of Look Up!, not with buildings but with websites.
So here's the game. Each week I'll post a 100px square cropped screenshot of part of a website. The site will usually be one from my Linky page; something that I read regularly, although if it's not working out, I might start using some of the big, more widely used sites (Yahoo, BBC etc.).
Here's the first one:
The first correct answer in the Comments section of this post will win a Gold Membership to this site, which entitles you to a big smile from me, and a firm handshake if we ever were to meet. Look around the Linky section of the site, and the web in general and pop your answer in the comments.
Update: Alex got it within 15 minutes of the game beginning. Well done Alex for guessing Stopdesign correctly. A Gold Membership to Pixelicious is yours. I think I'm going to need more than one a week to make this work if there's going to be smart-alecs (smart-Alex?) spoiling it for everyone else.
