Playa Playing Cards

Playa Playing Cards Are Ready

To print out your very own set of Playa Playing Cards, follow the instructions below.

1. Click here to open and download the pdf. playacards.pdf
2. Print them out at home in color and double-sided. They have been created for 11x17 but can be printed at 8.5x11 (click "fit to page" on your printer options)
3. To get the backs to line up perfectly with the front, take care to set the page in the printer in as close to the same position as possible with each print.
4. Drop them off at your local copy center to have them laminated
5. Cut them into a deck of 54 playa playing cards

You can also have them printed and laminated at Kinkos or Staples by simply uploading the .pdf onto their online print shops. Even Staples and Kinkos will have some problems getting the front and the back to line up exactly, so be real nice to the person helping you out.

If you have any problems or questions, email me at elikent@gmail.com
I'd like to thank Tracy, Playa Playing Cards' graphic guru.
I'd also like to thank everyone who submitted their great ideas. PPC will be done each year with different tasks, so keep your mind open to new possibilities while on the playa.

Have a great time this year!!! Come by to see Tracy and me. We'll be camping with pre-dawn (your 5am fix for great music) at 9 o'clock and the outer rim.

PPC is an annual collaborative and interactive project for Burning Man. We invite you to be part by:

Contributing ideas below (Brainstorming)
Printing and bringing a set to share on the playa

The Concept

Playa Playing Cards is a set of 54 playing cards that uses the Playa as its playground. Each card will have a task, dare, or question on it. Here's how it works: You have a Playa Playing Card in your hand, which says , for example, "Let's organize a game of freeze tag". You hand the card off to a stranger, and you and he or she have to complete the task. Afterwards, s/he holds on to the card and passes it on to a stranger of his/her choosing. If the average card changes hands 10 times over the 8-day festival, each deck will create at least 540 unique and spontaneous interactions that would not have happened otherwise.

We are incorporating 2008's theme by lifting our back image from Jean Baudrillard's America.

Brainstorming

We want your creative and interactive ideas for tasks and dares to put on the cards. To add your ideas, click on the 'edit' button above (to the right of "Front Page")

And the winners are

Show me the coolest thing you've seen thus far.
Let's get people to make a 3-tier human pyramid.
Let's organize a game of freeze-tag.
Tell me what your idea of the "American Dream" is.
Can I give you a massage?
What are you contributing to the playa this year?
What do you think the theme should be for next year?
Let's convince 5 people to get naked.
Let's get 5 people to sing "You Are My Heart You Are My Soul" with us.
Show me your favorite piece of art on the playa.
Race you to the Man.
Let's bike once around the esplanade.
Take me to your leaders.
Let's go dancing.
Could you live with me on the moon?
What are the three most interesting things about you?
Tell me the story of your first day of kindergarten.
what are the 5 most special things about you?
Let's go battle in the Thunderdome
Trade something pretty with somebody
Give me a pretend object and I'll mime using it with you.
Show me your weirdest face.
Show me a silly walk.
Move your body in a strange way.
Hold hands with a complete stranger for five minutes
Tell a joke to someone you do not know
Let's have a hug race - first person to hug five people (they don't already know) wins!
Let's get three people we don't know yet and take a ride on an art car together.
Please give someone the name of an album that you love that no one has ever heard of.
Find someone who has very dirty hands and offer to wash them off with the water from your bottle.
Find a place where you can watch a dance floor. Watch until you spot the person who is trying the hardest to stand out. Approach that person and tell them you really love the way they dance.
Approach a stranger of the same sex and offer to give them a butterfly kiss. (Butterfly kiss: blink your eyelashes against the skin of someone's palm.
Find an anonymous stranger and expose to each other the one part of your bodies that you dislike the most, and then tell each other why they are beautiful.
Let's go make a piece of art
Let's find someone with stilts and get a lesson
Let's find three couples and ask them to kiss in front of us
Let's go to Disorient and lounge in the zero-g chairs
Eat some playa dust
Show me your best Larry Harvey impression
start a game of Red light - Green Light
tell me a story from your childhood
Exchange clothes with the person next to you
Give me a hug
Yell " the man is on fire" as loud as you can
start a philosophical conversation
start a game of charades
Have a conversation with me in gibberish. Let's try to get other people to join us.
With people around who will see it, let's pretend to get in a big fight with each other, resolve our differences, give each other a hug, and walk away.
Sing a song in round
Massage a stranger at the same time starting with finger tips
Interview someone starting with the question "When was the last time you cried"
Share a nursery rhyme
Fly me to the moon.
You: Marshmellow. Me: Campfire. Let's go find a stick.
I am on a quest for one clove of garlic. Will you join me?
Tell me a secret.
Would you like to be my guest for dinner at my camp tonight?
Pancakes. Where can we get some pancakes?
If you give me an apple, I will give you this card.
Sing me a song that your grandmother sung.
Hello again, stranger. Where have we met before? lol
Moon Contest: Show moon at various location, study response.
Tour Guide - Station yourself as a guide at a piece of art. Give "tour" to passersby
Listening service - listen with out talking for 5 minutes
Rude Noise Contest - who can make the best rude noise - seek out contestants & judges
Pose off - Stand on esplanade - strut, strike a pose, comment, repeat
Find the nearest large piece of metal and have a telephone conversation by speaking through it.
Let's play "Who has more moop in their pocket?"
Show me your tattoo.
let's kiss and film it.
arrange a game of leapfrog
give or receive a spanking.
make a backrub daisy chain.

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