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SUMMER GAME HAS BEGUN!

by eli

School is out! The weather is gorgeous! Summer Festival begins tonight! And on top, over, around and through all of it is your favorite thing to do ALL SUMMER LONG.... AADL'S SUMMER GAME at PLAY.AADL.ORG!

Get Started, Read Books, Watch Movies, Listen to Music, Go to Events, Find Codes, Solve Puzzles, Experience new things and get SUMMER GAME POINTS all along the way! And it's not just Online... you can also play the CLASSIC PAPER GAMES for Kids, Teens, or Adults, and win free new books, courtesy of the Friends of the Ann Arbor District Library and the Scott and Marcy Westerman Fund, plus Temporary Tattoo sheets, mini gardening sets, coupons for free Cookies, Burritos, Bowling or AADL Zoom Lends... AND THAT'S JUST THE BEGINNING!

On July 5th, the 2013 SUMMER GAME SHOP will open, filled with amazing new SUPER USEFUL products, including Picnic Blankets, Coolers, THE NICEST MESSENGER BAG WE'VE EVER OFFERED, and many more surprises throughout the summer! Earn points, climb the leaderboard, get stuff and have fun all summer AT YOUR LIBRARY!

The biggest new feature this year is RECRUITMENT BONUSES! On your Player Page, you can generate a Recruitment code you can give to friends and family who aren't summer game players! If a new player with a library card attached enters your code, YOU get a 500 point bonus, and THEY DO TOO! That's a big step up and it will surely be interesting to see as the summer goes on which players recruit the biggest networks! Just remember, to get the bonus, your recruit has to be a NEW PLAYER with an AADL LIBRARY CARD on their account!

We've also tweaked some other points values and will be rolling out changes during the day today. So hardcore players, stay tuned! And new players, dive in and just post a comment here for the expert players if you have any questions!

THANKS FOR PLAYING!

Comments

Submitted by kikipeacelove on Sat, 06/22/2013 - 7:40am

I'm so happy its summer!!!! I also don't know how the badge drop works...... could someone explain to me or on the website??

Submitted by Commander Taffy on Sat, 06/22/2013 - 2:55pm

After a badge drop everyone goes crazy and the peoples' ranks change drastically. Also chat areas like this fill up with people asking questions and giving answers.

Submitted by lifeisamuse on Sat, 06/29/2013 - 5:39pm

Hi! I've been playing the StreetsQuest, and so far have earned quite a few points there. For some reason though they are not adding up in my shop balance. Just to give the numbers I have around 31,000 in StreetsQuest points and only about 14,000 in the shop balance. Has anyone else had this problem? Is there something going on with the point system?

@lifeisamuse: No, StreetsQuest points do not add on to your shop balance, neither do the TreasureQuest and the Points-O-Matic.

@lifeisamuse, only Summer Game points count towards your shop balance. You can do previous years' summer game quests for a discounted amount to get shop points; I believe they give 10% of their original points when redeemed now. The over-winter games were only for fun and prestige, not for shop points. I learned a great deal about Ann Arbor history by playing Streets Quest, but what I really enjoyed were the cryptographic challenges from the previous winter's game, TreasureQuest.

Submitted by estermyer on Wed, 08/14/2013 - 12:29pm

yay!

Submitted by agthomas on Wed, 06/25/2014 - 9:48pm

I'm stuck on clue #2 of the "Jailbird Watching" badge. The answer appears to be a person's name (i.e., not a book, etc.), but no version of the person's name is the correct code. Any hints?

Submitted by Bolzmo999@gmail.com on Wed, 06/17/2015 - 3:32pm

Whoooooo!

Submitted by rgarciat on Sat, 07/09/2016 - 9:36pm

The summer game has been a fantastic summer incentive for my seven-year old son. He's been reading enthustically and looks forward to entering the books he reads every evening.

Submitted by diana_kimball@… on Wed, 08/30/2017 - 2:32pm

I hate to see the Summer Game end because that means fall is around the corner! I really enjoyed playing the game....

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