Photos: 'All in' for 'Graveyard Games'

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  • Awarding Prizes

    Awarding Prizes

    "Graveyard Games" organizer Jane McGonigal hands out vintage decks of playing cards to the winners of the Tombstone Hold 'Em poker tournament Oct. 15, 2005, in Colma, Calif.

    Caption by: Bill Detwiler

  • Lots of Players

    Lots of Players

    Dozens of participants in the first "Graveyard Games" walk through rows of headstones toward the game's gathering point.

    Caption by: Bill Detwiler

  • Offering to Little Boy

    Offering to Little Boy

    The game's final instructions were for participants to gather around the grave of a little boy and pay homage by offering 500 or more "Last Call Poker" chips. The number donated turned out to be a fateful 666.

    Caption by: Bill Detwiler

  • Paying Homage

    Paying Homage

    In addition to calling for an offering of 500 or more chips at the grave of the little boy, the game's instruction also led participants to form a large circle.

    Caption by: Bill Detwiler

  • Reading out Clues

    Reading out Clues

    In the middle of the poker tournament, instructions arrived via the Internet that players were to set out on a hunt through the cemetery for a series of specific graves.

    Caption by: Bill Detwiler

  • Tombstone Poker

    Tombstone Poker

    "Graveyard Games" participants face a cold, hard reality in a California cemetery.

    Caption by: Bill Detwiler

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Dozens of gamers assembled at a graveyard to play the next installment of a larger game, "Last Call Poker."

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Awarding Prizes

"Graveyard Games" organizer Jane McGonigal hands out vintage decks of playing cards to the winners of the Tombstone Hold 'Em poker tournament Oct. 15, 2005, in Colma, Calif.

Caption by: Bill Detwiler

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