Kevin: Created page with "'''Payphone Tag''' is a real-world territory capture game played on public payphones across Australia. Players register as agents, receive a unique PIN, then physically visit Telstra public payphones and call the game number to capture them. Captured payphones earn points, and forming triangles between adjacent captured phones earns bonus points. The game was created by Alex Allchin ([https://al3x.au al3x.au]) as a personal proj..."

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'''Payphone Tag''' is a real-world territory capture game played on public [[Payphone|payphones]] across Australia. Players register as [[Agent|agents]], receive a unique [[PIN]], then physically visit [[Telstra]] public payphones and call the game number to capture them. Captured payphones earn [[Points|points]], and forming triangles between adjacent captured phones earns bonus points.

The game was created by Alex Allchin ([https://al3x.au al3x.au]) as a personal project after acquiring a phone number and collecting a dataset of Australian payphone locations. It launched publicly and has since grown into an active community of agents competing for territory across every Australian state and territory.

== Key facts ==
* Free to play — Telstra payphone calls have been free since 2021
* Thousands of payphones are in play across Australia
* Players can form [[Cells]] (teams of up to 12 agents)
* A special [[Party line]] is accessible using PIN <code>72789</code> (PARTY)

== See also ==
* [[Gameplay]]
* [[Scoring]]
* [[Cells]]
* [[Badges]]

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