Manhunt London - The Royal Albert Hall The Revenge!

We're back at the wonderful Royal Albert Hall for this evening's game, come along for fun, frolics, and Hide and Seek!

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ManHunt Friday 13th November 2009 - Tate Modern!

Lucky Friday 13th brings us into the fourth game of the season in front of the Tate Modern!

The terrain: Plenty of short trees between which to slalom while evading capture make for good temporary hiding spots, while tourists and passers-by will make for good camouflage. Floodlights provide excellent dazzling cover for quick dashes from danger. As you can see there's plenty to clamber on and under making this game spot ideal for good climbers and bench hiders.

Friday 1930hrs. At the foot of the Tate Modern chimney. Be there.

Manhunt Friday 6th November 2009 - Royal Opera House

This week's game we'll be meeting outside the front of the Royal Opera House at 7.30pm on Friday.

The terrain: By comparison to last week's game in Marble Arch, this week we have fewer opportunities to duck into grass, clamber around trees and other foliage. Avoiding buskers and tourists will be our main obstacles allowing plenty of opportunity to mingle in with passers by and to weave through bars and pubs. Seeing fast moving players dart in the periphery will be vital for any manhunter worth his or her salt in catching their quarry!

Manhunt Friday 30th October - Marble Arch

Manhunt London - 7.30pm - Marble Arch

Players meeting at the foot of the arch.

In this week's battle for the most highly coveted of all covetable items - the London Manhunt Trophy the Robot of Righteousness - takes place in the bustling area of Marble Arch!

The terrain: As the terrain borders on Hyde Park where play will be best, there's plenty of coverage from trees and close to the ground dense foliage. It does also give more enterprising players the opportunity to climb trees and to mingle in with tourists. We don't need to tread too carefully to avoid detection on account of the traffic, but it will make players difficult to spot. It could be quite muddy, wearing trainers is advisable.

Welcome!

Welcome to Manhunt London. We are a group of grown ups who enjoy playing 40-40 and Hide and Seek in Central London.

First Game: Meet outside the reception of the Gherkin Building at 7.30pm Friday 23rd October 2009

It’s essentially Hide and Seek for adults. Fancy a bit of fun on a Friday that doesn’t involve going to a pub? Then you can play a really big game of 40-40 that is played around city blocks in London. The next game is at the Gherkin building in the City.

The winner gets a trophy called ‘The Robot of Righteousness’ which is normally fashioned from a ‘sustainable resource’. Each game lasts about twenty minutes, and, weather permitting, they hope to get in a couple of rounds. The game is open to all and is completely free.

Meet outside the Gherkin building’s reception on the ground floor on Friday 23rd October at 19:30 and please tie something red around your arm when you get there to mark yourself as a player!

- Thanks very much for the plug Flashmob London!
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Keep an eye out on this page to see where we'll play next.


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What is Manhunt?

ManHunt is a game of hide and seek (think Kick the Can, It, 40-40, Sticks, etc) which is typically played by students in North America. A group of us decided to bring it over here to the UK. Oh, and it rocks!

This year we're running a ManHunt season that goes from 5th May 2010 through to Wednesday 16th June 2010. We play every Wednesday night and there's a new location every week. It's free to join, free to play and, provided that you are over 18 years of age, open to all.

BASIC MANHUNT RULES

-A new location every week.

-Everyone is welcome, bring as many friends as you want!!!

-Armbands are provided but you may bring your own if they are highly visible.

-Come for one or both of the games.

BASIC MANHUNT RULES:

Manhunt is a hide-and-seek variant. The game starts out with one person, known as the MANHUNTER, who is “it”. After the manhunter has been selected, the FUGITIVES have 120 seconds to hide.

If a FUGITIVE is tagged by a MANHUNTER, she or he is BRAINWASHED and forced to join the side of the MANHUNTERS. At the end of the designated time limit, all FUGITIVES who have not been arrested are declared the winners.

Play occurs within predetermined boundaries. If a FUGITIVE exits these boundaries for any reason, she/he joins the MANHUNTERS. Players are identified as being distinct from the general civilian population by means of a HIGHLY-VISIBLE ARMBAND.

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More details:

You must keep moving, and not hide in one place for too long.

1-2 people will begin as Manhunters, chosen at random

Everyone will have some time to escape

You become a manhunter once someone tags you

If you go out of the boundaries, you become a manhunter

Typically we play over a radius of one city block, the perimeter of which is made clear at the start of each game.

Over 18? - An apology

You must be over eighteen years old to play ManHunt. This is purely for Health and Safety reasons. While each game has a trained first aider on site in the extremely _extremely_ unlikely event of an injury, this is a game for 'grown-ups' who want to act like kids and run around free and happy for one night a week.

Sorry folks.

For other games in your area, and for people your own age, why not start your own group of ManHunt: Hide & Seek.