Let the games begin....

Reality shows that involve singing and dancing are so passé. There is a new game in town. The aim of the game is simple - complete the course in a given time and you get a clean chit. If not you will end up paying money. But remember, one you start you have to go through the game fully, there is no quitting halfway. Sounds risky? Yet, thousands play the game everyday. 

The course is approximately a kilometer and a half in length. Your time starts when you get your timesheet from the time keeper. You drive through a curved slope for around 300 meters before you enter the scene of action. Your way is paved with various hazards - other players would have parked their vehicles in your way, there will be others who would be slithering slowly, there would be a horde of people standing on, walking by or crossing your road. You would have other things left at strategic places on the road.

You would need to maneuver your vehicle through and either pick up or drop characters and boxes on your way out.  If you are dropping off, you need to find a location where you can park your car and help your characters out. If you are picking them up, you still need to park and scan the arena for them. If you happen to be stuck with characters with limited mobility, tough luck, you are not going to complete the game on time.

You would also be expected to drop off or pick up boxes. If you have boxes that you have to unload, you would need to scan the area for a trolley.  They will not be readily available. You should have sharp eyes to locate them and the ability to grab it quickly and beat the other players from snatching it away. A good idea here would be to park your car where possible and follow another player who might have the assignment to load boxes, in which case he would leave a trolley empty. 

When you complete the drop or the pick up, you would then need to drive around the other participants and their cars and other hazards towards the exit. You would encounter other challenges such as the super sized speed breakers. Go too slow over them and you may be hit from behind by others, go too fast and you may end up damaging your vehicle. Either ways you are cooked. You would need special skills to navigate these. 

Finally, you will see three exit points each with its own time keeper. You need to choose the lane that would bring you the fastest to the exit point. But you would never make the right choice. Thank Mr.Murphy for that. When you reach the exit point, you hand off your time sheet to the time keeper and wait with baited breath. If you are lucky, you would have made it in time and get to go scot free. But the probability of you being the loser is high and you end up shelling out money based on how delayed you were. 

Sounds like an interesting challenge, right?! If you are the gaming kind, volunteer to drop off or pick people from Chennai Airport and have all this fun!

PS : Beware of falling ceiling panels.