My new trackable - "Jack's Travel Bug Game"

I picked up a few trackables way back around my birthday, and have been slowly getting them out into the world.  I knew that I wanted to do something different for our newest Travel Bug, and came up with the idea of making some sort of simple game.  My original thought was that you would have to roll an 8 side die, each number of which was assigned a cardinal or intermediate direction, i.e. 1 = North, 2 = North East, 3 = East, etc...

I kept this idea in the back of my mind and started talking it over with Jack, and he really wanted another trackable named after him (he's so humble, isn't he?) like the original Traveling Purple Dice.  He wanted to make the game a bit fancier, so I started jotting down ideas as they hit me.

The final result is shown below.  It's 2 sided, so I just combined both sides into one image. If the image below isn't clear enough to read, you can see a better version here.

Feb. 19, 2013 EDIT - I'm finally sending the bug out, so created a page with the instructions here in case the original copy goes missing or anything.

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This will be laminated (with packing tape - cheesy, but effective) and rolled up as a scroll.  I have a large bison tube with an attached key ring that's big enough to hold this scroll and the 8 sided die. I'm still working out how to decorate the tube so that people actually open it, and don't just assume that the tube itself is the Travel Bug.

Bison tube, die, and game scroll.

I think that this strikes a nice balance - the original, easy, no-need-to-think game is still here, and the newer rules make up the "full" game.  I think my favorite part of this is Step 3 of the full game, where you have to sneak an odd word into your next cache log.  I actually made the list out of words that were all visible from my desk at work, so yeah, it's an interesting place to try to be productive.

I think I'm going to try etching The Game or Jack's Game on the bison tube with my Dremel, and then using crayons to really get a bunch of wax in the etched grooves.  Even if the wax eventually wears away, it will still be visible.  I'll post a picture when I figure it out.