The Beat the Street East Kilbride game is set to enter its Go Explore week to encourage participants to find the area’s best heritage and cultural gems.
So far, more than 10,500 participants have signed up and have together walked, cycled, run, scooted and wheeled 77,000 miles across the game area.
Teams are in with a chance of winning vouchers for books or sports equipment simply by walking, cycling or rolling as far as possible between the Beat Boxes which are spaced approximately half a mile apart – hovering their cards over the Beat Boxes to score points.
The further players travel, the more points they score for their community or school team. The first Beat Box you hover your card over marks the start of your journey; walk, cycle or roll to the next one and you score 10 points. Then keep going.
This week is the game’s themed 'Go Explore' week and there are bonus points to be won this weekend on certain mystery Beat Boxes across the game – players need to tap as many as possible to find out which ones are giving out triple points.
There are leaderboards for schools, community teams and each is divided into total and average points to ensure that smaller teams are in with an equal chance of winning.
Currently, Crosshouse Primary School leads the total points leaderboard with St Kenneth’s Primary School in second place and Long Calderwood Primary School in third.
Beat the Street East Kilbride is being delivered by Intelligent Health on behalf of South Lanarkshire Council with support from South Lanarkshire Leisure and Culture, Smarter Choices, Smarter Places and the Scottish Government.
The Chair of South Lanarkshire Council’s community and enterprise resources committee, Councillor Robert Brown, said: “It’s great to see how people have embraced the Beat the Street game and have clocked up an impressive number of miles.
"There are bonus points on offer on some Beat Boxes to help you get out and about and to find new routes to school or work, plus other local areas you may not have known about.”
More information, including where to collect a free card is available on the website and on social media at @BTSEastkilbride.
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