Passing Time: Casual Games for Hitchhikers

07: Treasure Hunt 

Pick a historic hitchhiker. This could be Princess Kasune, Kinga Freespirit, or someone you met yesterday. 

Create a treasure hunt about them for a future explorer to follow. Each point on your map should pay tribute to an issue that person brought to light, or a key moment in their life. 

Your installation must create as little damage as possible: a poem in a hollow in the woods is acceptable, carving words into the bark of a tree is not. The “quality” is not for you to pass judgment on, it is the remembering that is important. 

Send a map to the hitchhiking museum in Slovenia, the local youth club and a person of your choice. 

Points will find you when you least expect them. 

31: Fortunately, Unfortunately 

Set up camp in an unlikely place. You may have stopped hitchhiking early (see Risk) or are simply ready for a break. 

If at first you perceive the place as ugly, look for details in the cracks of things: moss fringing concrete and flowers craning their necks towards the light. 

Clean the space of rubbish, as if you are ushering folk into a music hall. Then entertain your pioneers for the evening. 

Ask your audience what used to live here before the paving, then act out what it will look like in a hundred years. Be as quiet as possible. 

Gender-neutral pronouns are encouraged.

42: Mortality 

Every time someone tells you that you are going to die while hitchhiking, take the opportunity to make up a new creation myth. 

Afterwards, write these down and tuck them behind salt shakers in cafes for others to find.