It snowed yesterday in Detroit.
Seems like the sunny, summer days in Detroit are over for awhile. I'm glad TaGeez and I played hooky right before Halloween for Ally Financial's augmented reality game in downtown Detroit.
Ally created a full-size game of Monopoly using Detroit as it's game board!
Hosted in six cities overall, Ally offered daily and final prizes totaling over $1M!
Ah, I bet this is what geocaching.com had wished for when they created their AR cache series last year. (I did one! Have you done it? AR_Find It in Ferndale). This AR game was so realistic! Rich Uncle Pennybags jumping out of the pavement. And TaGeez and I definitely had an advantage in Detroit - we know the D, it's history & geography, and are very good finders.
Ok, so what is this all about. You go online and pull up the game piece, read the hints to determine the correct geographical location (kinda like a letterbox), and then "capture" the Monopoly square to be entered into daily and final drawings!
It was a beautiful blue day in the D.
First stop was Ally's headquarters and then the Spirit of Detroit.
Down to Hart Plaza and the Ford building (Oops! Wrong Ford building! There are so many in Detroit! But, hey! Did you know there's a Lincoln statue outside the Ford Building? Huh!)
Hart Plaza with Campus Martius behind us!
Can you believe there was a giant Monopoly piece downtown? SO FITTING it was the car in the Motor City!
We won $15 Uber gift cards!
So worth putting off adulting for an afternoon!
We rounded off our adventure with chocolate shakes from Shake Shack!
Did you get a chance to play?
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