Secret Santa 2012 - er du med?

[Brichs]

Jeg har fået arrangeret at min lokale spillegruppe laver deres egen secret santa i år, fremfor at deltage i den som boardgamegeek kører. Jeg deltog i BGGs sidste år, og havde en doven santa. Jeg fik mit spil, og der var som det skal være, men jeg savnede lidt tauntsne, og lidt "guf" i æsken af en eller anden sjov art.

Jeg synes det har været sjovere at have et target som jeg kender - vi er syv, som deltager, og vi kender alle hinanden, så vi kan mobbe lidt mere personligt.

[chr88]

Jeg er også med for første gang.

Hverken mit eget target eller min Secret Santa har skrevet, hvilket jeg synes, er lidt trist... Det er da netop det at skrive til hinanden, der gør det hele sjovt! Nu er der gået et par dage, så jeg forventer ikke, at de skriver. Ak ja, måske jeg er heldigere næste år... Håber dog stadig, mit target lige skriver en lille tak, når vedkommende har åbnet pakken! Og uanset hvad er det jo altid fedt selv at modtage en gave, man ikke ved, hvad er - glæder mig til at åbne den juleaften!

[digter]

Jeg synes det er meget forvirrende. Jeg forstår godt hele konceptet med at sende og modtage gaver osv. men alt det uformelle som "taunts" og løbende skriverier mellem sin SS og sit target er jeg ikke helt inde i endnu? Nogen der kan uddybe for os newbs?

[Mads321]

Jeg synes det er meget forvirrende. Jeg forstår godt hele konceptet med at sende og modtage gaver osv. men alt det uformelle som "taunts" og løbende skriverier mellem sin SS og sit target er jeg ikke helt inde i endnu? Nogen der kan uddybe for os newbs?

Det er helt valgfrit om man vil gøre alt det uformelle. På BGG regner man med, at ca. halvdelen af alle deltagere er de "stille" typer - dvs. ikke sender beskeder osv. til deres target, men "bare" nøjes med at sende dem deres gave.

Hvordan man vil kommunikere med sit target, hvis man altså har lyst til det, det er helt op til en selv. Og hvordan ens target reagerer, det er ikke til at vide.

Min Secret Santa har jeg ikke hørt fra, men mit taget har jeg skrevet hemmeligt til som Santa.

I stedet for at genskrive hvad jeg har skrevet, så får du den på copy/paste (jeg ved der er lidt meget så beklager for spam):

1) Mit target have kun 6 spil på sin ønskeliste, og de var møg dyre, ikke til at skaffe, og det ville koste en bondegård at sende det til Brasilien hvor han bor. Så jeg skrev:

North Pole, Office of Christmas.


Dear Rafael


Santa is quite busy this time of year half way around the globe.

Unfortunately, he needs his reindeer fit for Christmas eve, so he can't have them flying all the way to Brazil with a heavy package just for you, as it would mean that many, many other boys and girls will not get their gift.

Santa is not accustomed to buying toys or games, however on this rare occasion, it might be the best solution.

Could you be a good boy, and help Santa find the smartest place to buy your gift? Is there any shops in Brazil that might have something you want? Or should he look in other countries?

Also, you only have 6 games on your wish-list. This makes it very limited for Santa to get you what you want, as even Santa cannot give every good boy and girl exactly what they want for Christmas. Also, it's not really up to the boys and the girls to decide if they were good enough to get what they wished for - only Santa can decide..

You can either add some more games to your wish-list within the next 3 days (deadline Wednesday at 23:59), to make the odds of getting something from your wish-list better, or, Santa might have to look at your "Want In Trade" or "Want To Buy" lists for inspiration for your gift - or even just come up with what he thinks is good for you.

- it's up to you.

IMPORTANT: If you update your wish-list, please leave a note in your profile page saying: "Secret Santa - Wish-list updated" along with information on smartest places to buy games before the deadline of Wednesday at 23:59


Merry Christmas!


Santa's helper


2) Mit taget opdaterede så sin ønskeliste og sin profil, som jeg havde bedt om, og derefter skrev jeg så følgende til ham:

North Pole, Office of Christmas.


Dear Rafael


I can see you have updated your wish-list and you profile as I asked. Very good!

I had a chance to talk with Santa himself(!) today (not even I get to talk to him very often, even though I work in his office), and I mentioned for him, that you have been helpful.

As an immediate response, he made a manual check on his shipping list, and as it turns out, there is indeed a single reindeer headed in your direction. And lucky enough, there was just enough room left in the sack to put in a present for you!

Unfortunately though, the reindeer is only going as far as Ohio, USA.

From there, I will have to make arrangements with one of our secret elves that runs the machines inside the US Postal System.

I will keep you updated when I have more news.


Meanwhile, and this is important! If you get your present, you MUST OPEN IT right away, and if you take some pictures of the game in play and write about the game (just very short - and if it's difficult in English, then you can even do it in Portuguese - Santa knows all languages), and also upload the pictures in the "look what my Secret Santa sent me tread" here:

http://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/14933 ... ion-of-loo...

Then there might be a chance that Santa will maybe think you deserve another present - who knows?

It also seems like you have forgotten to post in the "look what my Secret Santa sent me tread" on both 2010 and 2011 - good for you that Santa only decides once a year if you have been good or bad! Otherwise forgetting to post in those treads would count as bad

Lastly, put a link on your profile page to the page in the "look what my Secret Santa sent me", so that I can confirm that you have been a good boy (that maybe deserves more presents from Santa)..


Merry Christmas to you, Rafael!


Sincerely, Santa's helper


3) I dag har jeg så sendt følgende gåde til ham, hvor han, hvis han løser den (finder et sted online, hvor han kan konvertere den binære kode til alm. tekst), så finder han tracking nummeret på den gave jeg har sendt, så han kan gælde sig til at få den, og følge med i hvor langt den er kommet:

North Pole, Office of Christmas.


Dear Rafael


As I promised earlier, here is a shipping update:

The reindeer carrying your package has now returned from Ohio, USA. The elves at the US Postal Service should have received it, but unfortunately the reindeer got caught in a thunderstorm on the way home, with the result of a complete meltdown of his on board computer

On the computer is all the updates of all the packages the reindeer was carrying, including yours, so I am unfortunately unable to confirm if the elves got the package or not. I'm also unable to track the package, so there is no way for me to know when and if you received it, or if it got lost..

The computer has been sent to our technical department, and I have asked them to send me any information they might be able to salvage..

..I've just got this cryptic message of ones ans zeros from them without any explanation:

010110100010011110101000010110100010011101011010101010001010100001000001
010100111011010000101011010001000101001101000001101101000100010010110100
001100000011000001000100010100110100000101010111010001010101001001010111
001100110000110100001010001011110011100000111000010100110011011101000100
001101000011010101000110001101010101001101000100101101000110000000110000
001010110100010001000110001110000100011001000100011001101010010001100110
001101000011010100110010010001100000110100001010010011110100100000100000
001101000011010100110001001100000011001000101101001100010011001000110011
001110010000100101010010010000010100011001000001010001010100110000100000
010101100100010101010010010100100100100100001101000010100101001001010101
010000010010000001000001010110100100100101010010001000000100000101001110
010101000100111101001110010010010100111100100000010100110100000101001100
010101000100111101001110001011000010000000110001001100000011011000001101
000010100101000001000001010100100100000101000100010000010010000001001001
010011100100011101001100010001010101001101000001000011010000101001010011
010000010100111100100000010100000100000101010101010011000100111100101100
001000000101001101000001010011110010000001010000010000010101010101001100
010011110000110100001010010000100101001001000001010110100100100101001100
001000000011000000110010001100000011010000110110001100000011000100110000
000011010000101001010100010100100100000101000011010010110100100101001110
010001110011101000100000010000110100101000110001001101100011011100110001
001101100011001100111000001101000011001001010101010100110000110100001010
001011110011011101010011010001000011100001000110001110000011011101000100
010001100011100000101111001001100010111100100110001100110011010100110110
001001010010011000100010001100100011001100110100010001100011001001100110
001110010000110100001010001010000010111100110110010001100011100001010011
001100000010101101010011001100000100010001000110001100000010101000101111
010001000010101000101111010001110100011001000100010100110010101000101111
01010011010001100011100100110110


Now I open and sort letters to Santa from all countries in the world, so I know all spoken languages there is, but this language I don't know (if it is indeed a language at all?), but I think I've overhead some of our technical staff speaking of something called [geekurl= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary]binary[/geekurl] - maybe that is a language? I don't know..

In any case, if you do manage to solve this mystery, and actually salvage a tracking number, then you can use that tracking number to track your package at the [geekurl= https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction_input]US Postal ServiceUS Postal Service[/geekurl]

Oh, and if you do manage to solve the mystery, please update your profile with the following:

*Mystery solved*

Good luck!


Sincerely, Santa's helper



Håber det var svar nok

[Affenberg]

Mit target er medlem af London On Board - http://www.meetup.com/LondonOnBoard/

Så jeg har lavet et indlæg på deres forum på BGG.
Nu har administratorerne en ret striks politik mht. hvad man må poste på BGG, så jeg ved ikke om mit indlæg bliver slettet. Sandsynligheden er ret høj går jeg ud fra. Det er ikke tilladt med sexisme osv. i den dur.

Da jeg havde lavet indlægget, slog det mig, at det nok ville blive slettet, så jeg sendte det kun til mit target i en mail til ham. Han skrev så tilbage at han kunne lide det, og at han synes at jeg skulle smide det på LoBs forum på BGG.

Det er hermed gjort. Nu får vi se, hvor lang tid det får lov til at eksistere.

http://boardgamegeek.com/article/10536171


PS. I er meget velkommen til at stemme derinde.

[Brichs]

Mit target er medlem af London On Board - http://www.meetup.com/LondonOnBoard/

Så jeg har lavet et indlæg på deres forum på BGG.
Nu har administratorerne en ret striks politik mht. hvad man må poste på BGG, så jeg ved ikke om mit indlæg bliver slettet. Sandsynligheden er ret høj går jeg ud fra. Det er ikke tilladt med sexisme osv. i den dur.

Da jeg havde lavet indlægget, slog det mig, at det nok ville blive slettet, så jeg sendte det kun til mit target i en mail til ham. Han skrev så tilbage at han kunne lide det, og at han synes at jeg skulle smide det på LoBs forum på BGG.

Det er hermed gjort. Nu får vi se, hvor lang tid det får lov til at eksistere.

http://boardgamegeek.com/article/10536171


PS. I er meget velkommen til at stemme derinde.

Uh, hvem er det? Kender nogle stykker derovrefra, og har været med nede i deres hyggelige pub-kælder.

[Oseali]

Hvis man har et US target som gerne vil have krigsspil så har MMP black friday sales i dag, og der er nogle rigtig fine titler til ok pris, eksempelvis Guderians Blitzkrieg, Where eagles dare og Baltic gap.

[Larsine]

Mit RPG Target og jeg har det sjovt, så sjovt at han har lavet en geek list http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/1 ... fford-2012

[Robert]

Mit RPG Target og jeg har det sjovt, så sjovt at han har lavet en geek list http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/1 ... fford-2012

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