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The Puzzles

Plots, puzzles and targetted curricula are presented in the form of tables below for each of the paths of the game. The meaning of abbraviations is:

  • B – task for children, who stay in the “base”,
  • T – task for children, who go the territory.

Path I: Blue Rickshaw

Part of the story Level Challenges Curricula targeted
Town Hall 1
  • Finding the location of the Town Hall using GPS coordinates
  • Make a photo of the Town Hall according to the sources given.
 Knowing places and people associated with regaining independence in 1920
Road Bridge 2
  • Finding the location of the Road Bridge using GPS coordinates
  • Make a movie clip showing the name of the Road Bridge and connections with the Polish history
 Learning about Józef Piłsudski and his role in Polish history especially his visits in our region
Koszary Racławickie (barracks) 3
  • Finding the location of the Memorial Plate situated on the wall of the barracks using GPS coordinates and send the answer to the question about the period of the school’s existence
 Discover the importance of the Torun’s naval school for the education, navy soldiers at the beginning of 20th century
The headquarters of the local government 4
  • Find the location of the garden entrance gate and the monument of the first local governor using GPS coordinates
  • Send the name of the first local governor
 Learning about the beginnings of local government in independent Poland
Town Theatre 5
  • Find the location of the Theatre according to the GPS coordinates
  • Show the architectural differences of the building between the beginnings of the 20th century and nowadays.
  • Take a photo and send description of the difference via MMS
 Learning conditions of the restoring of Polish culture after the period of partition
The memorial of Julian Nowicki 6
  • Find the location of the memorial according to the GPS coordinates.
  • Send the information who this person was and why he died
 Learning about the turbulences of the working class movements
Surgery 7
  • Find the location of the old main entrance.
  • Take a photo of the portal and send it to the desktop.
 Learning about the styles of the art.
Torun Scientific Association 8
  • Find the location of the Otton Steinborn memorial on the wall of the building.
  • Send the info about Otton Steinborn and why the memorial was founded.
 Learning about the role of the local outstanding authorities.
The Polish Radio Station in Toruń 9
  • Find the location of the old building of the station.
  • Send the full address of this place using SMS
 Learning about the development the role of Polish radio station in our region.
The Vistula River embankment 10
  • Find the location of the. historical river crane within the defence walls.
  • Send the present view of the defence walls and the panorama of Toruń from the riverside.
 Learning about how the town changes from the Prussian border stronghold into the seat of the independent local authorities.

Path II – Black Rickshaw

Part of the story Level Challenges Curricula targeted
Martyrdom 1
  • Word puzzle - T
  • Virtual map task - B
 Knowing places of Polish people martyrdom
Martyrdom 1
  • Finding the location of martyrs’ relic - T
  • Virtual map task - B
 Knowing local martyrs
Education 2
  • Word puzzle - T
  • Film puzzle - T
  • Deciphering a text - B
  • Virtual map task - B
 Learning about students’ every day life, showing how Polish people fought for their national identity
Education 2
  • Looking for a building -T
  • Solving mathematical problem B
  • Virtual map task B
 Showing the methods of fighting about keeping Polish culture, tradition, language alive
Conspiracy 3
  • Solving word-math puzzle - T
  • Word puzzle - B
  • Virtual map task - B
 Learning about conspiratorial organisations
Conspiracy 3
  • Tracing an escape path - T
  • Virtual map task – drawing an escape path - B
 Showing war cruelty – influence it has on humans’ characters, making difficult choices in war time
Heroes of the war 4
  • Finding out war couriers
    pseudonyms from an interview - T
  • Virtual map task - B
 Learning about functions and roles people held and their influence on warfare
Heroes of the war 4
  • Looking for a building - T
    Selecting information
  • from mixed sources -B
  • Virtual map task - B
 Showing tragic lot of Polish families
Sabotage 5
  • Matching names and symbols -B
  • Virtual map task - B
 Knowing the methods of fighting with the occupier
Sabotage 5
  • Making up acts of sabotage based on clues - T
 Knowing the methods of fighting with the occupier
Everyday life 6
  • Recording a video - singing a wartime song - T
  • Finding out the song’s author - B
 Learning patriotic songs
Everyday life 6
  • Interviewing people in the street - T
  • Virtual map task - B
 Showing ways of helping common people

Path 3: Red Rickshaw

Part of the story Level Challenges Curricula targeted

Demonstrations:

  • Bulwar Filadelfijski
  • Market square
 1

Task 1 :

  • Prepare a conspirational flyer according to a key (list a date and place of a meeting, conceal all the information)
  • take a picture of your work and send it to the base
  • T-B

Task 2 :

  • Finding the signs/gadgets for pin-ups
  • look for them in a territory (somebody with such a pin-up has more of them).
  • Take a picture and send to the base.
  • B-T

Task 3:

  • Find the Solidarity plate in the territory and send its photo and the coordinates to the base
  • Using the coordinates place the pin on the Virtual map
  • T- B

Local history:

  • Knowing ways and places of demonstrations during the Martial Law
  • Learning about the clandestine publications

Editorial skills

Alternative education:

  • Academic (Jesuits) Church
 2

Task 1:

  • Find who was Władysław Wołoszyn? What was he doing and where?
  • Find the coordinates of that place and send to the team in the territoryTake a photo of this place and send it to the base
  • T-B

Task 2:

  • Bring a lecturer visiting Klub Inteligencji Katolickiej to the event organized by the Academic Church. Be careful as a secret police wants to arrest him. You will have to find the location of Klub Inteligencji Katolickiej at eighties.
  • B-T
Learning about the ways of an alternative education at home and churches against formal school propaganda.

Every day life:

  • Shopping at Mis bar
 3

Task 1 :

  • Find out what should you have (besides money) to buy meat at a shop?
  • Get a ticket for meat to buy in the shop
  • B

Task 2:

  • Use the coordinates provided by the base in order to find a place where you can find five artefacts from the communist period of our history.
  • Take five pictures of these artefacts and send them to the base
  • T
 Learning about the every day life, ways of shopping in the time of rationalized goods.

Media and communication:

  • Official propaganda and censorship against clandestine books,
  • press and fliers
4

Task 1 :

  • List the Polish clandestine press titles (at least 3 and 1 from Torun)
  • B

Task 2 :

  • use the coordinates provided by the base in order to find a place of a local radio.
  • Record a short message for the listeners and send it to the base.
  • T

Task 3:

  • Find out how people from Torun’s Solidarity had jammed an official TV signal during the main News “Dziennik” and a popular serial “07 Zgłoś się”.
  • B

Task 4 :

  • use the coordinates provided by the Game Master. You will find there a tool which allows you to distribute your leaflet (prepared on Level 1). Use this tool in the same way as the Solidarity members did when jamming the TV signal.
  • Make a short movie documenting your work and send it to the base.
  • T
 Showing the methods of fighting for free and true information
Editorial skills

Economy:

  • Factories and block of flats
 5

Task 1 :

  • Find out how could you get a flat at seventies and eighties and when was established the first Spoldzielnia Mieszkaniowa in Torun.
  • B

Task 2 :

  • Find out what was the biggest factory in Torun at eighties and when it was built. Find in the territory a club that the factory run.
  • B -T

Task 3 :

  • to get the missing part of coordinate solve the mathematic riddle.
  • B-T
 Learning about the basic conditions of life, and economy

Culture and entertainment:

  • Songs, books, parties
 6

Task 1 :

  • find out what was an unofficial Solidarity anthem. Sing it, record, and send to the base
  • T-B

Task 2 :

  • Find out the best song of 70’ties. Play it and dance at the place used for the public concerts, record and send to the base.
  • B-T

Task 3 :

  • Find out who got a Nobel Prize in 1982 and point out the place in Toruń he visited in 6-9 June 1995
  • B-T

Task 4 :

  • Find out the place where an another Nobel Prize Wisława Szymborska lived in 1926-1929, and visited on her visit to Torun
  • B-T
 Showing the culture and entertainment, Rolling stones concert as an exceptional event in Warsaw.
Singing, playing instruments and dancing
Arresting and Kidnapping of the Solidarity people (Antoni Mężydło, Zofia Jastrzębska-Mężydło) as well as the Priest Popiełuszko 7

Task 1 :

  • List at least 5 names of people interned after December 13, 1981
  • B

Task 2 :

  • Use the coordinates provided by the base and find out what happened in the given place and give a name of the hero that place commemorates.
  • Prepare a short history of this hero and send to the base.
  • Point out the place on the virtual map [Priest Popiełuszko plate]
  • T-B

Task 3 :

  • Find out the MP Antoni Mężydło office address.
  • Prepare a short card for him, telling about the game you play, and deliver to his office.
  • Take a photo/film and send to the base.
  • B-T

Task 4 :

  • In March 1984 Wojciech Dembek and a couple of other school students were arrested at one of the school in Torun. Find out what was the reason for that?
  • Find this school, take a photo and send to the base
  • T-B
 Learning about the victims and survivals of the regime
Hospitals and illness 8

Task 1 :

  • Find out the place you could get a medicine for your ill mother during the Martial Law not available neither in pharmacy nor at the hospital.
  • Take a picture and send to the base
  • B-T

Task 2 :

  • Find out the name of influenza epidemy in 1968-1970
  • B

Task 3 :

  • Find out what was a pill with a cross for?

B
Task 4:

  • Find out if the pharmacy “Apteka radziecka” is named after the Russians or has different meaning. Get the coordinates from the base and locate it in the territory.
  • Take a picture of the figure above the pharmacy and send to the base.
  • B-T
 To show the poor condition of medicine and support from abroad through church mediation
Solidarity People 9

Task 1 :

  • Give the names of the first Solidarity Chairman in Poland and in Torun. Find out the place of work of the Toruń Solidarity Chairman.
  • Take the photo and send it to the base
  • B-T

Task 2 :

  • Give the name of the first Senators elected from Torun to the Polish Senate in 1989
  • B

Task 3 :

  • How many members had the Solidarity Union at eighties.
  • B

Task 4:

  • How was called the table where the Solidarity people made an agreement with the Government in 1989.
  • B
 Knowing about people who had an impact on changes

Foreign relations:

  • Trips abroad, phone calls
 10

Task 1 :

  • Find out where could you get a passport
  • B

Task 2 :

  • What was a Visa for and how it looked like?
  • B

Task 3 :

  • Find out the place you could call abroad at eighties.
  • Take a picture and send it to the base.
  • B-T
 Learning about Polish relationship with other citizens of the world