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ROK runs physical trails in Cambodia: small printed tokens hidden with host venues, and permanent puzzle trails at places worth spending an afternoon in. Four pieces on why it exists, how it works, what one costs to run, and an afternoon of getting it wrong.
Two bored daughters, half an hour of clam shells on a riverbank in Orléans, and five adults at a street sign.
Why it existsA code on swappable paper, a map that refuses to give you a pin, and a cloth that freezes the day a season ends.
How it worksA draft set of numbers for running a trail, priced on the venue and never on the player.
For a venueTwo different gates behind one endpoint, one status code answering for both, and an end-to-end test that had encoded the bug as the specification.
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