Day 103: Signal lost. Recalculating...

It’s Games and Puzzles Day!

Today’s Activity: Learn to navigate with a compass and a paper map.

Give yourself a destination, and try to reach it using only a paper map and a compass. Race a friend starting from another location — it’s a good socially distant activity. It’s also a valuable skill to pick up, in case you’re ever lost somewhere and your tech lets you down.

Here are good beginner guides to using a compass and reading topographical maps. Don’t have a compass? There are free apps that will turn your phone into one. (But don’t cheat and use the GPS.)

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Catch up on earlier Games and Puzzles days:

• Follow mystery puzzles across the web

• Attempt some very hard food-themed puzzles

• Try Haxball

• Play a board game online

• Solve a nonogram

• Hide something in your place for the next residents to find

• Play a game with friends (virtually)

• Invent your own sport

• Write a mad lib

• Solve some tricky puzzle sets

• Exchange coded messages

• Play some great old MS-DOS games on the Internet Archive

• Create an indoor scavenger hunt

• Design a board game

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Got ideas for things to do with the stuff you already have in your house? We’d love to hear your suggestions.

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