<story><title>Police Shut Down a 3k-Person Game of Hide-and-Seek at IKEA</title><url>https://www.housebeautiful.com/lifestyle/a28917427/ikea-hide-and-seek-glasgow-scotland/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ineedasername</author><text>That sounds awesome, but how does a 3k game of hide &amp;amp; seek actually work? I mean, by home rules growing up, one person was &amp;quot;it&amp;quot; and had to find everyone. That would suck. One person would have to find 2999 others, and most of them would just be stuck stuck under an Espevar, waiting.&lt;p&gt;This is an important problem to solve. I call on the engineers of this site to find a solution to the hide &amp;amp; seek scaling problem. Let&amp;#x27;s get to work!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rotexo</author><text>You might be interested in the hide-and-seek variant Sardines. One person hides, with a group of seekers. Seekers that find the one who hides have to hide with them, until one seeker is left. There is nothing like the feeling of looking around, encountering fewer and fewer other seekers, until you are alone with the knowledge that you just lost.</text></comment>
<story><title>Police Shut Down a 3k-Person Game of Hide-and-Seek at IKEA</title><url>https://www.housebeautiful.com/lifestyle/a28917427/ikea-hide-and-seek-glasgow-scotland/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ineedasername</author><text>That sounds awesome, but how does a 3k game of hide &amp;amp; seek actually work? I mean, by home rules growing up, one person was &amp;quot;it&amp;quot; and had to find everyone. That would suck. One person would have to find 2999 others, and most of them would just be stuck stuck under an Espevar, waiting.&lt;p&gt;This is an important problem to solve. I call on the engineers of this site to find a solution to the hide &amp;amp; seek scaling problem. Let&amp;#x27;s get to work!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hinkley</author><text>When the seeker gets pissed off enough about how well people are hiding, they take the people they found and go inside and watch a movie.&lt;p&gt;As grownups, maybe the bar, or just hang out in the Ikea food court?</text></comment>