Go4O Games

These super fun orienteering games are a great addition to any club orienteering event or training camp! Fun for kids and adults alike and a great training exercise for competitive athletes, this games kit offers challenges for all levels of orienteer. When you purchase this kit, you will receive a USB stick with many (MANY!) PDF files of orienteering game maps. There are 18 series of courses, each with its own control layout (13 to 42 SI controls) and style of game. Each series has from 36 to 96 maps (1106 different maps in total!) which range in difficulty from 1 star (beginner) to 6 stars (extreme). Contact us if you would like to discuss purchasing printed copies of the maps.
Manufacturers: Go 4 Orienteering , O-Store.ca
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$150.00

All exercises / games involve a matrix of orienteering controls in the sizes 4x4, 5x5 or 6x6.  They should be far enough apart so  that multiple players can be participating with their own maps.

Note that the purchase of the games is locked until the purchaser has signed a contractual promise to not share any games with other organizations.  Because the games are just PDF files it would be easy to pass them on to others, so the author "protects" against this by having the purchaser sign what is effectively an NDA.  It probably wouldn't hold water in court, but enforces a moral restriction.

GO-4 samples

The first image is an indication of the control numbers that should be placed.  The second image (map 4.14) is a easy exercise (as denoted by the 2 stars) within a 6x6 grid.  Exercise 4.53 is much tougher. Page 4.97 are the valid control numbers that should have been punched.

Some key points in random order

  • In addition to the games on the USB stick, more are added constantly on a google drive accessible to all purchasers.
  • A set of exercise maps need to be printed for the day's use.  They can be laminated for easier reuse.
  • The usb stick includes downloadable XML files so that results can be verified via software.  For this feature a SPORTident timing set needed.  Software such as o-store's O-Fun will do the verification and show success or to try again.