Greene Goosechase (Springfield-Greene, MO)
City-run interactive citywide scavenger hunt on the Goosechase platform. Missions are tied to local environmental themes (recycling drop-offs, native plant tours, river clean-ups). Participants submit photo/video proof and climb a public leaderboard.
Players are scattered across the city's neighbourhoods; the public leaderboard implicitly ranks neighbourhoods and teams by participation/points. Missions are geo-pinned, so coverage by neighbourhood becomes visible.
Players can form teams (families, neighbourhood groups) that pool submissions; missions like 'host a block clean-up' explicitly require local cooperation. The platform's activity feed creates social validation among players in the same area.
The brief flags GooseChase as 'covered' generically, but the *city-government-operated, environmental-themed* implementation is under-mentioned. It shows how a municipality can convert generic scavenger-hunt SaaS into an inter-neighbourhood civic engagement engine.
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