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Rules

A note on terminology: The term ‘The Freaks’ is sometimes employed by the contributors to refer to those who post the announcements and send the e-mails/packages to Bryan; this is meant to be in no way derogative – it is intended merely in jest, and the Orphanage does seem to have taken it in the manner intended.

A second note on terminology: when referring to the Orphanage’s information posted in the Arizona Daily Wildcat, the terms preferred by the Orphanage are ‘Announcements’ or ‘Transmissions’; they are affronted if you call them ‘advertisements’, etc.

A third note on terminology: From the point of view of the Orphanage, this is not a game or prank; however, reference to it as a ‘Great Game’, in the context of Rudyard Kipling’s Kim, appears to be acceptable. This is the manner in which I state these "Rules".

A note on the announcements: Some of the pages have annotations and hand-drawn markings along their edges (they look like they were made with a pencil) – the majority of these were made by Bryan himself; however, Bryan did receive one announcement in the mail, Dec. 5, 1990, that had annotations made on it by a member of the Orphanage.

A Note on a Certain Unnamed Individual

Bryan does know who posts the announcements in the ADW; he has also met him. However, Bryan, like many of the contributors, would prefer not to pursue the angle of who posts the announcements and thus brute force the Mystery; although tempting, particularly after having grappled with the Mystery after so many years, it would probably be more psychologically and intellectually beneficial to pursue the Mystery for its own sake and solve it on its own terms. If, however, you are amongst those who would like to brute force the Mystery, you can try, but please do not attempt to involve the rest of us. A good place to start would be this article (external link). A word of warning though: stay within the law; the individual in question may or may not be opening himself up to public scrutiny by posting these announcements (and being involved with the Orphanage), but he still has a right to privacy, etc. We don’t want anyone getting arrested.