Day 237: Do you have friends in swing states?

It’s Games and Puzzles Day!

Today’s Activity: Maximize your XKCD election score by getting in touch with friends and family and encouraging them to vote.

XKCD author Randall Munroe has created a fun way to track your outreach efforts.

Here’s his own attempt so far:

Randall Munroe @xkcd

.@BadAstronomer I know you’ve literally posted photos of you dropping your ballot in the mail and confirming that it arrived, but can I still count this as me checking in with you so I can get a Colorado multiplier on my score sheet? xkcd.com/2380/

Can you beat his score?

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Catch up on earlier Games and Puzzles days:

• Group text scavenger hunt

• Brain games

• Hunt for a geocache

• Balderdash!

• Make some tangrams

• Try a variation on Boggle

• Learn a new language

• Play solitaire with real cards

• Clueless Crosswords

• Play Just a Minute

• Really Bad Chess

• Blaseball

• Sort an Only Connect-style wall

• Play Skribbl

• I’m the banana!

• Solve an acrostic

• Play a road trip game

• Learn to navigate the great outdoors

• 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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Share your ideas

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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