Today’s quote: “None of us is as strong as all of us.”
Source: A sign in the high school study hall that we always made fun of because we couldn’t (and still can’t quite) understand it.
Travelers: A game invented by two young boys
The object of the game is to travel and go on adventures.
Rules:
- Choose your character(s)
- Each player gets 1-2 action figures or objects which they will animate throughout the game.
- Choose your abilities
- Each character is endowed with 3 abilities, powers, or skills.
- Choose your goal
- Travelers is a cooperative game. All players will come to an agreement on the goal they will accomplish together.
- The goal may have multiple parts. For example, the goal may be to “Follow the map to discover buried treasure. X marks the spot! On the way, we will encounter bad guys who fight us and try to stop us. After defeating our enemies, we will find something in the treasure which we can use to help them turn into good guys.”
- Travel
- Do what it takes to accomplish your goals, even if it means revising your strategy, taking a break for lunch, or altering your subgoals.

This is Snake Eyes.
A short list of several of his previous abilities as a Traveler includes invisibility, double jumping, and laser vision.
Snake Eyes lost his right hand in a magnificent battle of rock, paper, scissors.

This is Mighty Mouse.
Previous abilities include telekinesis, teleportation, and telepathy.
Mighty Mouse can reach Mach 5 on his motorcycle. Legend has it that Mighty Mouse is an excellent rock, paper, scissors player.
Riddle:
A traveler walks along a path. The traveler comes to a fork in the path. She knows that the left path leads to one village and the right path leads to a different village. The people in one village only tell the truth. In the other village, the people only tell lies. The woman wishes to conduct business in the village where only the truth is told. There is a woman from one of the villages standing at the fork in the path. The traveler knows that the stranger is from one of the villages, but there is no way to know by her appearance which village she’s from. The traveler may ask only one question to the villager. What does the traveler ask?
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