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Go Game for La Brea Tar Pits Museum

Over the span of three adventure-filled days, sixty five fleet-footed, nimble-witted teams of donor families to Los Angeles's Natural History Museum overcame quite the sticky situation as they raced to unravel the mysteries of the La Brea Tar Pits at the Page Museum. Moms and pops and kids alike raced, laughed, and learned together as they discovered clues embedded inside the museum's exhibits and atrium and scattered about the very grounds of the tar pits themselves. For 40,000 years these bubbling, stinking pools have disgorged clues and artifacts about the plants, animals, and humans who lived in Los Angeles long ago (even before the Raiders), and this April they yielded even more: the answers to the world's first Ice Age Urban Adventure.

The Ice Age Urban Adventure put the logical in "archaeological." A team with a shrewd understanding of the clue map would quickly unearth the information necessary to win the game. But there were challenges at every turn: blind obstacle courses, mammoth races, tar pull relays, fan-kicking vultures, and who could forget the much sought-after bonus faerie? Players on the lookout for clues scrutinized fragile eagle bones, wolf skull bones, and mouse toe bones but most of all this game rewarded the funny bones. The air above Hancock Park was filled with shrieks of surprise and the mournful cries of ersatz mastodons pretending to be sinking in the goo. So if you missed out on the fun, it's not our asphalt!

SAMPLE MISSION
Soda manding: Who wants a nice, cold Shasta? We're not talking about the cola, we're talking about the ground sloth! (Doesn't ground sloth sound like something a school cafeteria would try to put in your Sloppy Joe when they run out of ground beef?) Go look at the exhibit and then tell us what part of a computer the ground sloth is.
1. mouse
2. browser
3. firewall
4. server
5. touchpad

ANS: 2 - Browser
A browser is a type of herbivore whose nutrition generally comes from high growing plants, like trees, rather than a grazer that eats from the ground. It can also refer to somebody who goes "YAHOO!"