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An excerpt from the 2015 Tombstone Trail Rules:
You will receive a map, some multiple-choice questions and a scorecard. The questions are organized in groups, each group to be answered at a single cemetery. Each cemetery is identified by a name and a number. The name is the name of a township and the number is the section number where you will find that cemetery. Cemeteries are marked on the map with a symbol and the section number. Usually, the cemetery can clearly be found on a road or at an intersection. However, some cemeteries in a city may not clearly be marked on any particular road. You'll have to do some dead reckoning from a known position to find them.
You can answer any, all or none of the questions at each cemetery. The winner will be the team who answers the most total questions correctly in less than 3 hours and 30 minutes.
Of course, we've set it up so that the most interesting cemeteries have the most questions. The questions at each cemetery are listed in order of expected difficulty. You'll find that a cemetery with only one question is often pretty easy. By the time you get to the third or fourth question at a cemetery, they will probably be getting harder. If you are answering the last question and it appears too easy, it's probably a trick question, maybe even a dirty trick question.
All questions are worth the same number (1) of points. It's up to you to decide whether to visit a lot of cemeteries for easy points, or to spend more time in fewer cemeteries. The course has been set up so you'll spend less time driving, and more time in the cemeteries. The challenge will be in determining which cemeteries will get you the most points. Some cemeteries you'll find surprisingly easy, yet time consuming, while others are tricky but quick, and some that have a question or two that will burn up lots of time.
You may use anything you find on the course - signs, phone books, newspapers, cemetery rosters, etc., if you think they will help. If information gathered by any other means conflicts with the information found at a cemetery, the cemetery prevails.
You may use GPS navigation in addition to the provided map. Computers, cell phones and other mobile devices are NOT allowed to be used for anything except GPS navigation. You may NOT use anything you've prepared in advance (pictures, cemetery rosters, Internet research, GPS waypoints from previous years, etc.). Classes G and 0 are exempt from this paragraph and may use anything prepared in advance.
Only two people may be out of the car at any one time. Extra people may work on the map and strategy in the car, but not outside. This rule applies to all classes.
Please close all gates behind you when you leave. We want to be welcomed back. .
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