Just What Is Gimmick Rallying

Road rallying can best described as a board game on wheels. Just like in a board game, you get a set of rules, when you first register for the event. These rules govern the actual play of the event.

Instead of rolling dice, on a road rallye you get a set of route instructions which tell you how and where to turn. For example:

23. Right on Jones Street.

24. Left at Tee.

Simple? On the surface. But a road rallye is designed by a devious rallymaster, who has the personal job of trying to trick you into doing things wrongly.

For example, lets us say that the Rules of the Rallye (which we call General Instructions) define Tee as:

"An intersection in the general shape of the letter T".

Now try to perform route instructions 23 and 24 above. You of course perform 23 at Jones, but then you should have performed 24 at the sideroad to your left, NOT at the actual Tee intersection, because the definition stated that a Tee need only be in the general shape of the letter T, not that you had to actually be coming up the vertical stem of the T.

But don't worry, because Wheels Rallye Team rallyes, always figure a way for everyone to get back together and not miss a beat. You won't get lost. If the next instruction read:

25. Left on Smith.

You would then all get back together on Smith and never know that we tricked you. We love that.

The endpoint is usually at a restaurant in the area and awards and results are announced.

Note: Wheels Rallye Team offers a variety of rallyes besides traditional rallyes as described above. We have a photo rallye, and two puzzle rallyes that require NO rallye experience. Team.

See below, lower on this page, for a description of the less-technical, built solely for fun events produced by The Wheels Rallye Team.

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Come on out and enjoy the Wheels Rallye Team's integrated experience of challenge, fun and good times. But watch out, you may get

hooked on road rallying.

Most of The Wheels events begin in Schaumburg at Woodfield Mall, at light pole B-2, just west of the Firestone Tire Center. All are on Saturday nights. Registration opens at 6pm with cars off at 7:30pm. Length of rallyes

is approximately 2 1/2 hours.

Puzzle Rallyes

Wheels Rallye Team has two Puzzle events on our schedule. Both are similar but both have the same initial execution, and that is to solve a puzzle, which can be solved with a number. Then you look at the included map and drive to that spot on the map, and get the required information, or answer a question, to prove that you are there. No previous rallye experience is necessary. Here is a basic example, although each rallye may have its variations:

How many squares are in the diagram to the left?

The obvious answer is 16, but no you are far from the real answer. You have the large square that is surrounding the diagram, which makes 17; then you have the four squares caused by the cluster of four boxes in each corner, so you are up to 21; then you have the boxes along the center caused by four box clusters, 2 more to 23; can you find more boxes...you should be able to, and after you solved this problem you would get the following:

Answer: A. 16 - 210 B. 23 - 130

C. 30 or more - 450 D. Less than 30 but more than 23 - 222

Whatever answer you come up to you would go to a spot indicated on a map with that number, for example if you chose C, you would go to spot 450 on the map.

Photo Rallyes

A photo rallye is pretty much what it seems, you either look for specific photos for a certain amount of time and/or make turns using photographs.

For example you may have to look to find the statue at left on a stretch of road or you may have to turn toward this statue. It is uncomplicated but very exact. Lots of fun and our event is A Picture's Worth, and it is on a Sunday so you can see.

Cruise Rallyes

Our Summer Cruise rallye has been the most popular summer event in Chicago for the last few years. It is like a normal gimmick road rallye, but the emphasis is not on challenge but on the fun of visiting a good number of the best cruise drive-ins still hanging around, and in some cases viewing some great custom cars. You eat and snack along the way. Our Christmas cruise rallye, is designed to challenge, but it has a primary purpose of viewing the best Christmas lights displays in the suburbs. The highest attended gimmick road rallye of the past season.

Discovery Rallyes

This rallye is a more of a tour event where we take you places on more or less a sightseeing tour of interesting things. Better than a drive in the country, this event points out specific things (usually dealing with one subject) and allows the lowest pressure, fun driving of any rallye. New for this season.

Confusion Rallyes

In this form of a puzzle rallye, you have to solve various puzzles, absorb and put together clues and use you imagination to figure out how to get from one place to another, and then again go through the process to get to the next place. Don't worry we design these events so you will never get lost. Tricky events, designed for fun, this is another new form of rallye we will introduce this season.