Hanging out amid a flurry of tiny, colorful spheres used to be a pastime reserved for marble-wielding scamps named Alfalfa, Stymie, and Spank-Wheat. Defect from that rascally gang and get a real shooter in hand with today's Groupon to Giant Paintball, with locations in Alpine and Lakeside. Choose between the following options:
• For $25, you get a full day of paintball (up to a $55.50 total value), including all-day admission (up to a $20 value), equipment rental and unlimited compressed-air supply (up to a $26 value), and 200 paintballs (a $9.50 value).
• For $100, you get a VIP membership pass, good for one year of unlimited play and equipment rental at Giant’s Alpine and Lakeside locations (a $350 value).
Giant Paintball's fields are designed just for novice mercenary colorists, boasting close-quarters combat zones and several fields laced with bunkers and trenches. Whichever of the two convenient locations guests choose, each cadet will be decked out with all the necessary equipment to reenact video-game battles or upgrade from bland food fights. If 15 or more of your pals have Groupons, each location will open the park for your group on an off day. If you choose the large-group route, each person will have to pay an additional $10 referee fee and arrange a human pyramid.
Although Giant Paintball sometimes features a discounted price online, this Groupon still offers the best deal available.
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The Groupon Guide to: Scopes
Magnifiers and demagnifiers of all shapes and sizes use reality-warping lenses, allowing us to view everything from microscopic bacteria to macroscopic planet-size chunks of space bacteria. What do you need to know about these expensive and delicate sight enhancers?
• Microscopes: Essentially a small, downward-pointing telescope. Microscopes use powerful lenses that transmit light into energy, then beam that energy directly into the small object to make it rapidly grow bigger. When you are finished studying the frozen turkey-size bacterium on your desk, do not forget to kill it with a hammer.
• Telescopes: Essentially a large, upward-pointing microscope. Telescopes are so powerful they allow us to see all 75 stars with such clarity that if you were to point their magnifying lenses directly at Earth's nearby sun, your entire head would explode. Telescopes can also be used to protect your neighbors from their own morals.
• Kaleidoscopes: These optic novelty tubes contain a circular pattern of mirrors that create geometric patterns from tiny, colored beads contained within. Fun fact: If you use a kaleidoscope to commit a crime, you will spend eternity trapped inside one.
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