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Meltin Badley© Where’s Waldo’s Corner? ®

By: Carl R. C. de Baca, PLS
Graphics by: Joesph Bernardo
Photo from Waldo by: Trent Keenan (near Mt. Whitney)

Meltin Badley® introduces some new exciting board games for the
Surveyor in all of us! The Holiday Season is upon us – Hurry before
these are all sold out!

Engineer See-Surveyor Do ®

A picture search game with hours and hours of fun time searching
for the invisible corner! In 1880 Waldo set a modest scribed stone
on a hill side completely covered with rocks, boulders and thick
manzanita. Sorry Pardner, Waldo didn’t leave any field notes, just
this 24” square photo that looks like nothin’ but rocks! Can you
find that corner? Get you magnifying glass out, set the 30-minute
hour glass, and get to searching – yer burnin’ daylight, pilgrim!
Would You Rather ®

(Based on the popular Monkey See Monkey Do game) Players are
divided into either Engineers or Surveyors. Engineers draw cards
that outline tasks and Surveyors draw cards that dictate their
strategy. Here’s one: An Engineer draws a task card and calls out,
“Make 5 five-acres parcels out of a 24.5 acre parent parcel”. A
Surveyor draws a response card and has 30 seconds to outline the
solution like “Abandon the road right of way, pick up the missing
half an acre, and create a private road across the parcels.” How
much fun is that!

The Surveyor’s Game of Life ®

Pick your token (choices are beat up truck, rusty chaining pin,
SDR24, dented spray paint can) and place it in the Start Your Career
space, spin the wheel and move to the corresponding square. Uh-
oh! You landed on Forgot to File a Rezone Application – Lose a Turn. The exciting game of worst case scenarios! (not to be confused with
Next time around, spin the wheel and land on a red space. Draw Worst Case Scenario®) Player draw cards from the deck and score by
a card – Oh, too Bad! Contractor Back Charges. Keep going until getting the right answer to questions like, “Would you rather crawl
all players have reached the Poor House at the end of the game. down a Sturgis manhole the day after the biker rally, or submit a Re-
Winner is the player with the least total number of pending lawsuits cord of Survey to a County Surveyor in California (any county)?” Much
plus enforcement actions. hilarity ensues as the other players accept or reject your answer!

16 The Nevada Traverse Vol.50, No.4, 2023